Underworld Adventure Hooks

By Jack of Tears, in Dark Heresy Gamemasters

My party recently got discredited and needs to keep its head down on a Pleasure Planet. To make some dough and look for some dirt that will allow them to get back in good standing they are infiltrating/working in the city's criminal underground. I want to put a bunch of hooks out for my players to grab, so they have plenty of directions and opportunities, but I'm drawing a lot of blanks, so I was hoping I could get some "underworld in the 40k" styled adventure hooks from all of you. (keep in mind, again, that they're in a corrupt resort city where the criminal underground tries to keep a low public profile)

Off the top of my head:

  • They could be hired to make a delivery of a prohibited substance. Secretly, the reason their employers went with Offworlders making the delivery rather than his loyal cronies is that he heard a rumor that the guy on the other end of the deal was planning to betray him; therefore, is using the party as "expendables"...
  • The assassination of a rival crimeboss would also be a good mission for a group of outsiders: if they get caught, they can't be linked to anyone on the planet.
  • A crime boss who's power is in decline and is loosing men (to either hits or just being hired away) might be desperate enough to hire on the party for "muscle", and take them into his confidence if they perform well.

I'll try to come up with some more and post them later.

Low-profile crimes on a pleasure planet, huh?

Skin trade
A certain bordello has grown far to popular among the cream of the clients and other establishment would like to put an end to this. Infecting the ladies of the rival bordello with some disease that can be acquiered by skin contact is the idea of the rival establishment. So the pc get some dispensers (like little perfume dispenser) and are ordered to get the stuff somehow onto the skin of the working girls. Either by directly applying them to their skin or onto something they are going to have prolounged skin-contact with during the next one or two hours (like their cloting). They are given robber gloves as well, since the smallest contact with the cloud the dispenser produces will get them an ugly skin disease.

Throwing dirt
The pc are to place some heretical item within the privat quarters of some noble (who resides in small cháteau he had "rent" for his stay). And later on, they are to somehow provoke an inccident where said item will be discovered.

I want you to rescue her!
A young noble fell in love with a certain courtesan of one of the fine establishments. Said young fop hires the pc to "rescue this woman from the bordello she lives in and bring her to my private so I can leave with her. Do so in the third night from now on". What the young noble does not tell (and does not WANT to believe... and will not even care about) is the fact the object of his desire is -not- working against her will and only faked all this love as part of her professional strategy to satisfy her customer. This time, she player her part a little to perfect.