I'm running a campaign set primarily in Portland, but that crawls into the Seattle area from time to time. I have devised a scenario for my players where the Baroness of Seattle (the leader of the Red Court) is sending out a message to her enemies to back off. At the same time, I want this "message" to be a distraction for some other thing that is going on.
Essentially, while she is sending out spectres (she's also a necromancer) and having houses firebombed, I want there to be an alternate motive to for which all this mayhem is a distraction. But for the life of me, I can't figure out what that should be.
So, here I am fishing for plot hooks
Any insights/ideas will be highly appreciated. Bring on the dastardly!