Criminals in King's Lake

Fumaya's capital city, King's Lake is/was riddled with crime.   Organized crime was so severely entrenched that they could either outwit the constabulary or were able to thoroughly buy them off.   The two crime syndicates were the Guild of Shadows led by an outcast dwarf named Kroket Caskfoot and the Black Hand led by an expatriated Swynfaredian squib named Bledig.   The player characters Neshik the gnome, Aranil the elf, and Svetlana the Half-orc were able to take a bite out of crime.   After putting pressure on lower and mid level operatives they were able to force the crime syndicates to respond. They found who that they thought was a weak link in the organization and were able to set up a sting operation.   The criminals figured out what was going and tried to make the sting operation into a trap, but the trap failed, the PCs prevailed and captured or killed many criminals.   They captured a Metamorph named Etch.  Etch was in fact both Kroket Caskfoot and Bledig.  He created a fiction of competing crime lords because he figured a consolidated crime lord would attract more hostile attention.   Etch's death (and the execution of many of his minions) broke the spine of organized crime in King's Lake and Fumaya but there is some fall out.  Vusnitt the gnome cirminal remains at large and is believed to have a left with a lot of gold and maybe a few secrets from the criminals' former spy network.