# Bandits Who Want to Be Guards

Valmora · Year 412 of the Lantern Calendar · a dilemma from [Be a CEO](https://mantar.io/beaceo)

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**The dilemma.** Six men who robbed the Stonebreak road for years have walked into your yard, laid down their knives and asked for work as caravan guards. Your drivers say they will quit first. The Guild calls it madness.

## Options and what happens

- **Hire them and put them on the lead wagons.** (bold: d20 + adviser skill against 14)
  - Succeeds: No gang will touch a wagon guarded by men who know every one of their tricks.
  - Fails: Two of them vanish with a strongbox on the second trip. Your drivers say nothing, loudly.
- **Turn them over to the Crown's watch.** (certain): The watch hangs no one, but the men are sent to the salt pans. Your drivers buy you a drink.
- **Send them away with bread.** (certain): They walk off toward the hills. You wonder which road they will choose.

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