Where do you think Shank and Carbos ended up after their failed assassinations?
TethorilofLathander
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Thrown over the walls of Candlekeep? Burned? Fed to the dogs? Destroyed by some wizardly spell? Ressurected and turned to stone?
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Nessie was sold for animal feed and taken south to Nashkell at a fair rate of knots due to bandits in the area... Luckily, the bandits were not interested in cattle rustlin...
As you know, the crops pretty much failed in Nashkell, even with the help of a generous spreading of manure, they failed.
Luckily a Druid cast a resurrection spell on the crops and was quite surprised to see Shank and Carbos spring out of the ground...
This strange event was heard in Amn. The cowled wizards fearing unlicensed wizardry forcibly escorted the duo to stand trial for practicing necromantic heresy... Who then finally worked out what a sorry state they ended up in to get there... They repeated the experiment a few times... Feeding them to animals and resurrecting the excrement... The espionage potential was interesting, but was flawed in that no spy would willingly submit to it...
Finally, an aunty of one of the Cowled wizards, Bubbles, took pity on the pair and ate them, cunningly disguised as a Cornish pasty.
After re-emerging into the world, they felt reborn, and have fallen in love with their erstwhile saviour...
However, the manner and method of their saving is a taboo subject, and never, ever discussed.
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Shank and Carbos to this day cannot look a Cornish pasty in the eye...
Usually, when I am a good guy, I knock them unconscious and pretend to tell Fuller about it so he can lock them up and have them stand trial. Since I wont be there to state my case against them, they will be allowed to go free pending a subsequent investigation on how two impoverished rogues managed to present 10,000 gold pieces in entry fees. Of which they would likely be found guilty, seeing as how they likely scaled the keeps walls and did not sign the log in book. For that, they would be put down with sword thrusts to the spine.
Carbos's dialogue, however, makes it clear he's not from Candlekeep: "Someone seems to think you're trouble, so I'm gonna use your head for a ticket out o' the gutter! I'm just a little street trash hood they say, but I'll show 'em!"
Carbos also gives this bit of foreshadowing:
Personally, I think they're from Baldur's Gate.
But very well, I don't mind elaborating. I speculate that they arrived as part of the entourages of any of the visitors - particularly the nobles, which there are several in the inn. Even if they are too unrefined to serve as manservants, they could have been hired as coaches, stable boys (men?), or just a general helping hand.
It is also possible they got in as part of a merchant's party. Candlekeep does have to let merchants in rather often, after all, to provide food and drink for the monks (and the Inn and it's guests, too), not to mention equipment for the guards and whatever scholar-related products they cannot produce themselves.
A third possibility is that they were hired to work in Candlekeep by the monks themselves. A giant keep doesn't keep itself, you know, and Winthrop certainly doesn't clean the inn himself regardless of his experience with elven arses. And besides direct servants they need guard recruits, craftsmen and workers of both skilled and unskilled labour. Carpenters, masons, builders in general, animal keepers, cooks and I don't know what but running a place like Candlekeep takes a lot of people. Carbos and Shank could have posed as basically any of the unskilled labours or entry/apprentice level positions in order to have gotten a free pass in.
Especially since a "Speak With Dead" (or whatever the name is) spell would be much, much cheaper in addition to them not being able to lie when questioned about what had happened.
Either way, Gorion does saying something to the effect that, "No matter how tight a net is, there's always one or two mosquitoes that manage to slip through" - so he acknowledges that it's possible for people to sneak into Candlekeep in some form or another.