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Briefing

"A Lord Rumsworth contacted me about a family heirloom, called the Foreseer, which got stolen when he was just an infant. He wanted me to find it and told me he had tracked it down to a remote pair of islands known as the Heartcliff Islands, where the current owner, a Lord Edwards, was now running a prison.

The islands have tough security and the only way in is as a prisoner, so I pretend to break in at my employer's mansion, get caught, and he handles the rest. Lord Edwards is running a side-operation where he sells prisoners to anyone who is willing to pay, so, once I'm inside, my employer will send someone to act as a potential customer and at the same time smuggle in an extra loaf of bread.

Lord Rumsworth offered to pay me half in advance if I accepted, and the rest when I delivered. The only snag was that I would have to trust him to do his part, but that's a risk I was willing to take to get something to do other than simple pickpocketing, so I accepted.

I would no doubt be robbed of any personal belongings, so I didn't bother bringing much equipment, just the basics for show - except the maps provided by a former employee, which I hid in my shoe."