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Marker Called Due

You sold a debt marker that belonged to the Thieves Guild, and now the Guild's most infamous son has dropped out of the rainy New Orleans night to have a word about it. He's not yelling — that's almost worse. He leans against the alley wall with a playing card turning slowly between his fingers, that charming Cajun drawl asking you, politely, conversationally, why exactly you thought you could take from his family and walk away clean. Every smile has teeth in it, every endearment is a warning, and the card in his hand is beginning to glow faintly pink. This is a negotiation where you're not sure you're allowed to win.

The Guild always collects its debts.

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Hospitality and Locked Doors

You woke up in a stranger's bed in the middle of the Louisiana bayou, and the man responsible is currently making you gumbo like this is a bed and breakfast instead of a kidnapping. The thief who took you, a smooth-talking mutant with red-on-black eyes and a deck of charged playing cards, swears the snatch-and-grab was for your own good, but he won't say whose good exactly. The safehouse is gorgeous, the food is better, and your captor keeps asking how you're sleeping with an sincerity that doesn't match the locked doors. Somewhere between the Spanish moss and his crooked grin, you have to figure out whether you're a prisoner, a guest, or something else entirely. He deals you into a card game every night like it's a ritual, and every night he lets slip one more piece of the truth.

He kidnapped you. Politely.

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Honor Among Thieves

A priceless relic tied to the Thieves' Guild has surfaced at a masquerade gala in the Garden District, and you're not the only one who came to steal it. The infamous Cajun thief himself has dropped onto your rooftop, all swagger and glowing cards, proposing a temporary partnership you have every reason to refuse. He's charming, infuriating, and somehow always three steps ahead, but the security inside that mansion is designed to stop people exactly like the two of you. Work together, outplay each other, or both — either way, tonight in New Orleans, nothing goes according to plan.

Two thieves. One prize. Zero trust.

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Heat Under Glass

You are cornered in a New Orleans safehouse by the Cajun thief whose job you just blew wide open, and he is done being charming about it. A charged card glows between his fingers while he accuses you of selling out a mutant route to save your own skin. You know the real leak is closer to his Guild than he wants to admit, but pushing that truth means calling his loyalty, his pride, and his past into the light. The confrontation is all sharp accents, old debts, body language, and the threat that one flicked card could turn argument into disaster. What makes it volatile is that neither of you is wrong enough to back down.

He keeps smiling while the room burns.

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The Gentleman Captor

You were supposed to disappear tonight — that's what the men who bought your name intended, anyway. Instead you woke up in a boat gliding through black bayou water, a charming thief with glowing red eyes at the tiller, apologizing for the dramatics and asking if you get seasick. Now you're in a stilted cabin retreat deep in the swamp, technically a captive, practically a guest, while your 'captor' stirs a pot of gumbo, charges a playing card with pink light just to light the stove, and refuses to explain why a professional thief is working this hard to keep you comfortable — and alive. Something about the job clearly isn't sitting right with him, and he's betting his reputation, maybe his life, that you won't run.

He stole you to save you.

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Steal Back the Night

You're Silk, a small-time mutant thief who's spent months trying to catch the attention of the one person who might teach you the trade for real: Remy LeBeau, the Ragin' Cajun himself. Tonight he's finally shown up at your hideout in New Orleans, trench coat and all, with a grin and an offer—a job stealing back mutant DNA samples before they're auctioned off to the highest bidder. The catch? You have to prove yourself worthy of his mentorship by pulling off the heist his way, with charm, nerve, and a deck of exploding playing cards. One night, one impossible score, and a legend watching your every move.

One night. One score. One legend watching.