Helping Hands Home

Both children and adults leave their home in search for better opportunities — for adventure — and find theirselves with no way back. What little coin they have is gone and they have no way to fund travel home. Or perhaps they’ve become indebted. Others may have lost their parents. Or their parents abandoned them for perceived deformities or unfounded fears of their Tiefling or half-troll child.
Sometimes, the only place they can survive is the abandoned district of Tifwado City: Orphans’ Alley. It is here that these abandoned Folk can find a modicum of comfort at Helping Hands Home. Overseen by Mother Mymma Heathertoes, Helping Hands Home offers clean beds for orphans and other folks in poverty. They provide daily hot meals, as well as simple clothing and minor medical care.
If Helping Hands seems too good to be true, then you are already quite wise, Young Adventurer. To offer such care and expect nothing in return is not how the world works. At least not the world of Tifwado City. Helping Hands Home has been connected with a prominent thieves guild known as Crooked Fingers. See the blatant connection. It’s like they’re not even trying to hide it! Crooked Fingers members are perceived as a minor nuisance to most wealthy Folk, as they are expert pickpocketers. These pickpocketers are typically children. However, at higher levels, Crooked Fingers have been involved in kidnapping children of high-ranking officials. And in some cases, even assassinations.
People who stay at Helping Hands Homes are offered beds. They have the option of a temporary bed or a permanent one, which includes a small locked drawer. Twice a day, a modest meal is served and even those who prefer to stay on the streets, rather than in the beds, is invited to partake. There are no rules at Helping Hands, other than to treat Folk with kindness and to not act violently within the walls.
Adventuring children who have posed as orphans to infiltrate Helping Hands have never been approached by one of the staff with offers of crime. However, some of the orphans have spoken with other adventuring children about receiving perks and privileges for delivering gold and items they’ve pickpocketed.
The true motivation behind Helping Hands Home is still uncertain. Although they are clear in their anti-adventuring views and demands for more wealth distribution to go towards the abandoned or stranded children. However, some folk believe that these political stances are just covers to garner more support. It is supposed that their actual motivate is to control Tifwado City, and thus, control the whole of Westerly Union.

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Alternative Names

Crooked Fingers Thieves Guild

Type

Orphanage

Owner

Mother Mymma Heathertoes