In the upcoming my sessions my PC's are going to have to help rig an election by finding dirt on the other opponents. The thing is that I'm kinda lost for ideas other than one of them secretly being a doppelganger. I'm only running for 2 PC's and they are both only going to be level 3.
Anyone got any good ideas?
The mayor is secretly the Grey Hood, a dashing thief who in response to the mayor's outrageous and corrupt tax hikes took to robbing the tax men and giving to the poor
WHAT DOES HE WANT
The Mayor was a deformed mutant retard baby spawned out of his mother's ass. He has undergone considerable cosmetic surgery/magical alteration to hide his consequential deformities.
Assuming he was already in some sort of power, he secretly hired Lizardmen to build a major addition to the city. Instead of paying them in money, whenever townsfolk die he gives the lizardmen every 1 in 5 bodies to eat.
The mayor is actually the dead mayor's twin brother who took over as mayor to fulfill his brother's dying wish. Unfortunately he lacks the skill in politics and management to be actually good at it and people around town are starting to act suspicious. He's not a bad person, but compounding bad choices have started to pile up, leaving him no choice but to work with some unsavory types to stop his house of cards from falling.
He's actually two goblins, one standing on the other's shoulders, in an oversized coat pretending to be a human.
He has a mistress and an illegitimate child. The mistress is the evil dragon who terrorizes the town.
Well if one person is fantastical, being a doppleganger, lets go more down to earth with the other candidate.
>The mayor has been taking a cut from a local bandit's earnings in exchange for being lax on routing them out
>He has several illegitimate children (sort of boring, but you can spice it up by having multiple species)
>He was a big time crime boss in a city far away, he had to change his name and appearance after being found out, he's been trying to go straight ever since
>He's made a deal with a petty demon, an imp or lower, it simply made him charismatic enough to be mayor in exchange for the blood of some livestock or housepet every few weeks. He doesn't appear to have done anything more serious than this
>He's actually quite incompetent and his success is entirely due to a strikingly ugly person he consults with regularly (the ugly dude is just a dude, or worse if you want)
>Actually a woman
The Mayor is secretly a Baron in disguise
TO BE LOVED, BUT NOT FOR WHO HE IS. HE IS FULL OF SELF LOATHING AND LICENTIOUSNESS, WILINESS, AND GUILE, AND WISHES TO BE LOVED FOR THOSE TRAITS, NOT HIS FEIGNED VIRTUES.
begone, turd elemental. Normalcy, let alone public office, is forever beyond your reach.
So, the mayor instituted outrageous and corrupt tax hikes but also steals from his own tax men to give back to the poor? Is this some complex scheme to just steal from rich people?
presumably they've come to an agreement in which the dragon only eats undesirables and semi-desirables, and is left to her own wicked, naughty devices
The local orphanage rents the kids out as prostitutes, and the mayor is their biggest client.
He really just wanted to raise tax rates on higher earners and lower them on the poor but the Council wasn't having it
The mayor stole his famous fish stew recipe from an inn down the river.
The Council is in the pocket of Big Mutton. The village's sheep are prized, so the meat fetches high prices and attracts merchants. The Mayor wanted to tax those merchants but the Shepherds used the Council to shut him down.
Of course the Baron is of no help whatsoever as usual because he has to pray to as many gods as possible so he can secure an afterlife. It's a sickness.
The mayor is infertile, his children were stolen from others / he brought them from others.
He is evil, and does not wish to have his evil uncovered.
The mayor is a swarm of rats controlling a hollowed out body like a marionette
The mayor is being controlled by his catamite, who is a scheming mastermind, but plays the fool.
The Mayor's false leg is housing a lich's phylactery. The lich is what is funding the Mayor's Sunday Night Elven Mud-wrestling events
The mayor is actually a burgomaster in disguise.