Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20160510171926/@comment-5543592-20160510201300

"Well if ya want to know so badly." Crimson relented, leaning forwards. And then he told them the tale of how he went through the process of acquiring the scroll, except with some exagerated details: the guards were all very dull except for one who had a keen eye and sharp mind, and almost figured Crimson out, but he barely outsmarted the guard with his wit and won the man over with his sheer awesomeness. He protrayed the Captain as a competant man who was no match for Crimson's skills in impersonation, and ate up Crimson's false identity. He hadn't had the chance to give the Captain the whole backstory while at the guard tower without it looking suspiscious, so he pretended he had indeed told the Captain all about Drake Finnegan in order to relate all the details of Drake Finnegan's personna to Adder and Elis.

"Drake Finnegan!" Crimson had declared to the Captain, "Phantom of the Alik'r!"

"Phantom of the Alik'r?" The Captain had asked, skeptical. "I've never heard of you."

Crimson just laughed heartily in response. "Well of course you haven't- I wouldn't be much of a Phantom if you had!  In all my tours of the Alik'r, my enemies never saw me.  In fact, I never even fought them!"

Crimson then said at this point he was working the captain like a puppet. The Captain had handed over the scroll in a heartbeat, buying Crimson's identity completely, and on the way out Crimson had the first suspicious guard shine his boots. No, he didn't have the guard shine his boots, the guard had asked to shine his boots and Crimson had allowed it.

"And that," Crimson summed up, "is how I got this map."