Nothing stays quiet for long in Doskvol. Within days of escaping the Ulst Manor with the spirit of the Crows, delivering it to the spirit-trader/wandering demon Bale, all the districts are a flutter with the news. Crews rush to pull out whatever isn't nailed down but are rebuffed by the Sparkwright Guild who arrive in force to do maintenance on the great Spark Spire that is impaled in the manor's centre. How long will it take? Just as long as it takes to strip everything of value off the old place.
Still, the manor is large and the Sparkwrights can't be everywhere. The crew decides to make a run for it and see what they can dig up. They need a plan, though. What's worth taking, where things might be left. They come away with three leads. Lady Isidor, the last and long thought to be dead member of the Isidor Estate appears requesting that the crew get her engagement ring. Her dowry was delivered to the Ulsts and she was about to receive her ring from the youngest scion Daniel when the lightning barriers failed and the districts were lost to the flood of spirits. The crew may have her dowry if they bring her ring. Benjin Ulst is known to have been a sorceror and a cultist and will have important books and magical devices if his secret lab can be found. Unfortunately all that is known is that he belonged to a cult that worked with some sort of 'sound magic. Lastly, Aldo's friend Grace puts him touch with a job. An Iruvian ambassador wants a matching pair of dueling blades from the Ulst family crypt. While it is illegal in Duskvol to bury a body for fear of attracting and producing spirits, it has always been an open secret that the Ulsts never burned their dead.
The crew make their way through the sewers during low tide using Grace's map, breaking into the catacombs. There they encounter strange holes in the walls and in some of the bones of the dead. Unplugging some of the holes in the stonework air begins to circulate and it moves across and through the holes to produce music. The crew encounters the collective spirits of the Ulst family who answer their questions about the house and warn of a great explosion coming to Duskvol. Deciphering the notes on the wall, they find a secret passage that leads to the sorceror's lab where they steal relics of his god as well as magical tomes. Last but not least, the crew manages to sneak past the Sparkwrights using the interconnected secret passageways that take them through to the far side of the manse. The stairs broken, Aldo climbs up and lowers a rope for the others. Right where Lady Isidor said it would be, they find the ring and the dowry.
On the way back they find the boats swarming with Sparkwrights. Atreus calls on the Hungry Mother to devours them from the water and they are dragged screaming into the water. They never resurface.
Upon receiving her Daniel's ring, Lady Isidor sheds tears and retreats back into her house. Her men servants escort the crew away while the lights of the great manor fade away to blackness once again. Grace, thrilled with Aldo's ability to deliver the swords he found in the crypt, promises him work whenever he needs it. Nor drowns the sound god's relic and the hungry mother receives it. At the clock tower, Atreus continues his work when the sound of a crowd outside stirs his attention...
Monday, May 25, 2020
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Season of Ghosts: The Missing Piece
The War for Crow's Foot began with a murder. Or a suspected one, at least.
Lyssa, long-time second-in-command of the Crows rose to claim leadership after Roric disappeared. He was dead - everyone knew that he was dead - but nobody knew how. In the middle of the district there was a Roric-sized hole and while Lyssa thought she should fill it, many in the organization weren't so sure. Which caused the internal strife. Which gave ground to the Lampblacks to finally challenge their long rivals and eventually make the push towards overthrowing the Crows.
All because of a little murder. A murder that was a mystery. Until now.
A great spectral scream has ripped throughout Doskvol. Whispers, ghosts and demons have all heard its call. Fragments and echoes of the last few hours of Roric's life as he was betrayed and finally murdered by Lyssa. Many take this as proof that Roric's ghost is still out there, and with that possibility present the hunt is on. Many would give great sums to possess the knowledge of that spirit.
One of those persons is the demon Bale, who approaches the crew to bring back Roric's spirit in a containing vessel. A collector of stories and intrigues, he wants to know the old man turned new ghost's secrets. The crew tracks the spirit of one of the Crows who was betrayed along with Roric, an infamous cutter by the name of Gustav. The Bloody Crow of Crow's Foot. Known for his viciousness, he disappeared along with Roric. The only one who knows anything about where they may have gone is Gustav's sister, Maria, who points them in the direction of Ulst Manor, a house impaled by one of the great lightning towers of Doskvol.
Once upon a time there used to be another district in Doskvol. But one day the Deathlands rolled in a stronger tide than ever before and swallowed it whole, pulling every spirit and person back into the great black with them. It was the beginning of the end for Doskvol, but it coincided with the creation of the lightning wall. Some say coincidence but others say plan. Regardless, the wall went up and one of the towers, those great black spires that are the half-magic, half-mechanic products of the Sparkwright's Guild, was placed in the middle of the Ulst Manor, a blocks-spanning estate right on the river's edge of the Lost District and what's become Six Towers.
Many go into the Lost District and the Deathlands beyond looking for lost treasure. Things abandoned and forgotten when the walls fell. Many of those people never return. Lyssa promised Roric an easy score just inside the lightning wall. A secret stash. An embarrassment of riches. And there, far from anywhere, she murdered the man and his compatriots. She left the bodies. She'd heard about the particular effect of the Ulst house, how the reason that it had never been looted was because the looters who had tried and died remained there, their spirits trapped inside the mansion as if in a little Doskvol of their own, the lightning tower piercing the mansion's middle creating a ghost trap nothing could leave and nothing could enter.
The crew cross to the edge of Doskvol and bind the spirits they find their after much struggle. Aldo is momentarily possessed as two of Roric's fellow spirits force themselves into his bones. Deeply shaken by the encounter, he attempts to make sense of what to do next after they deliver the spirit of Roric to Bale.
Lyssa, long-time second-in-command of the Crows rose to claim leadership after Roric disappeared. He was dead - everyone knew that he was dead - but nobody knew how. In the middle of the district there was a Roric-sized hole and while Lyssa thought she should fill it, many in the organization weren't so sure. Which caused the internal strife. Which gave ground to the Lampblacks to finally challenge their long rivals and eventually make the push towards overthrowing the Crows.
All because of a little murder. A murder that was a mystery. Until now.
A great spectral scream has ripped throughout Doskvol. Whispers, ghosts and demons have all heard its call. Fragments and echoes of the last few hours of Roric's life as he was betrayed and finally murdered by Lyssa. Many take this as proof that Roric's ghost is still out there, and with that possibility present the hunt is on. Many would give great sums to possess the knowledge of that spirit.
One of those persons is the demon Bale, who approaches the crew to bring back Roric's spirit in a containing vessel. A collector of stories and intrigues, he wants to know the old man turned new ghost's secrets. The crew tracks the spirit of one of the Crows who was betrayed along with Roric, an infamous cutter by the name of Gustav. The Bloody Crow of Crow's Foot. Known for his viciousness, he disappeared along with Roric. The only one who knows anything about where they may have gone is Gustav's sister, Maria, who points them in the direction of Ulst Manor, a house impaled by one of the great lightning towers of Doskvol.
Once upon a time there used to be another district in Doskvol. But one day the Deathlands rolled in a stronger tide than ever before and swallowed it whole, pulling every spirit and person back into the great black with them. It was the beginning of the end for Doskvol, but it coincided with the creation of the lightning wall. Some say coincidence but others say plan. Regardless, the wall went up and one of the towers, those great black spires that are the half-magic, half-mechanic products of the Sparkwright's Guild, was placed in the middle of the Ulst Manor, a blocks-spanning estate right on the river's edge of the Lost District and what's become Six Towers.
Many go into the Lost District and the Deathlands beyond looking for lost treasure. Things abandoned and forgotten when the walls fell. Many of those people never return. Lyssa promised Roric an easy score just inside the lightning wall. A secret stash. An embarrassment of riches. And there, far from anywhere, she murdered the man and his compatriots. She left the bodies. She'd heard about the particular effect of the Ulst house, how the reason that it had never been looted was because the looters who had tried and died remained there, their spirits trapped inside the mansion as if in a little Doskvol of their own, the lightning tower piercing the mansion's middle creating a ghost trap nothing could leave and nothing could enter.
The crew cross to the edge of Doskvol and bind the spirits they find their after much struggle. Aldo is momentarily possessed as two of Roric's fellow spirits force themselves into his bones. Deeply shaken by the encounter, he attempts to make sense of what to do next after they deliver the spirit of Roric to Bale.
Friday, April 17, 2020
Season of Ghosts: The Box
Due to the Crowfather's crows making it impossible for the deathseeker crows to find the bodies of the recently perished, Crow's Foot has been awash in two currencies: angry spirits and dead bodies. It's a hard thing to come across dead bodies in Doskvol. In the supernatural wet markets where witches and Whispers barter for the best cuts that can be kept from the Spirt Warden, Aldo does his shopping. Filling up on bone shards and teeth, he has enough to fight spirits. He's feeling pretty good as he heads back to the lair. Not even the three sailors following him can bring him down.
They want something. Something he's taken. Or something. It's hard to understand them through broken jaws. The go down easy and the only thing that he finds on them is a picture of his own self - not a very good one, mind - and some directions on where to find him. Which is...curious, but he's pissed off people before. Maybe it means something. Who knows?
Meanwhile in the docks, Kali loots a haunted house for spirit glass when he is surprised by the Nameless Spirit. He's looking for the final materials that will get him his spirit lenses and put him on the same playing field as the Whispers in the cult. On his way back he notices he's being followed and winds up following the followers, trailing them back to their meeting place. Something about them seems familiar - wait! that's right - they're The Fog Hounds, the sailors that he incriminated a couple weeks back. They were sent to Ironhook Prison. Two weeks isn't a sentence, but there was news recently of a breakout. Still, that job went off without a snag. How would they know?
Aldo and Kali meet up with Nor at the crumbling watchtower where she is puzzling over the spirit-box that almost swallowed her own spirit at Isidor Manor. There's surprise when they discover that the same people are looking for them and alarm when someone comes banging at the door. Prepared for trouble, they're shocked to find a brutally beaten Basker at their feet, a note pinned to his chest. The box for Aitrus. That's the trade. There's an abandoned warehouse in the district that they're to meet at. Only one of them, though.
Aldo's the one with the box. He's going to go in, make the trade, and if there's trouble Kali and Nor are up in the rafters waiting to assist. The sailors from before are there. Except for the one whose knee Aldo busted. Yeah, Aldo figures he won't be doing much for a good long while. Along with a trussed up Aitrus is the Whisper from the Isidor Manor, the one who used the Oslo boy as bait. Vincent. That's the name that Oslo gave, but it's the only information he had.
The exchange goes well but that's the end of it. Vincent takes the box and leaves Aldo to the sailors. It's fine by him. More meat for the grinder. The first two go down easy. Blood on his face and he's seeing red. It's a happy place.
Kali and and Nor descend to help, with Nor looking on with simultaneous horror and admiration as the usually reserved Whisper carves through two of the sailors without breathing hard. Kali gets Aitrus up and out, and Aldo busts the face of the last one, leaving a skin bag full of broken bones. A good night, all in all. A very good night.
Crows watch them go. Crowfather crows. They were there with Vincent. Were they watching for him or for you? Or both? Questions for later. You're out a box but up a friend. Better luck next time.
They want something. Something he's taken. Or something. It's hard to understand them through broken jaws. The go down easy and the only thing that he finds on them is a picture of his own self - not a very good one, mind - and some directions on where to find him. Which is...curious, but he's pissed off people before. Maybe it means something. Who knows?
Meanwhile in the docks, Kali loots a haunted house for spirit glass when he is surprised by the Nameless Spirit. He's looking for the final materials that will get him his spirit lenses and put him on the same playing field as the Whispers in the cult. On his way back he notices he's being followed and winds up following the followers, trailing them back to their meeting place. Something about them seems familiar - wait! that's right - they're The Fog Hounds, the sailors that he incriminated a couple weeks back. They were sent to Ironhook Prison. Two weeks isn't a sentence, but there was news recently of a breakout. Still, that job went off without a snag. How would they know?
Aldo and Kali meet up with Nor at the crumbling watchtower where she is puzzling over the spirit-box that almost swallowed her own spirit at Isidor Manor. There's surprise when they discover that the same people are looking for them and alarm when someone comes banging at the door. Prepared for trouble, they're shocked to find a brutally beaten Basker at their feet, a note pinned to his chest. The box for Aitrus. That's the trade. There's an abandoned warehouse in the district that they're to meet at. Only one of them, though.
Aldo's the one with the box. He's going to go in, make the trade, and if there's trouble Kali and Nor are up in the rafters waiting to assist. The sailors from before are there. Except for the one whose knee Aldo busted. Yeah, Aldo figures he won't be doing much for a good long while. Along with a trussed up Aitrus is the Whisper from the Isidor Manor, the one who used the Oslo boy as bait. Vincent. That's the name that Oslo gave, but it's the only information he had.
The exchange goes well but that's the end of it. Vincent takes the box and leaves Aldo to the sailors. It's fine by him. More meat for the grinder. The first two go down easy. Blood on his face and he's seeing red. It's a happy place.
Kali and and Nor descend to help, with Nor looking on with simultaneous horror and admiration as the usually reserved Whisper carves through two of the sailors without breathing hard. Kali gets Aitrus up and out, and Aldo busts the face of the last one, leaving a skin bag full of broken bones. A good night, all in all. A very good night.
Crows watch them go. Crowfather crows. They were there with Vincent. Were they watching for him or for you? Or both? Questions for later. You're out a box but up a friend. Better luck next time.
Season of Ghosts: Silence and Spirits
Between scores, Nor and Aitrus pursue their own ends. For Nor, that means tracking down the young Whisper-to-be, Oslo. On the street after surviving the massacre of The Red Sashes, the boy is at great risk. Untrained Whispers call out to the spirits around them without knowing it and with Crow's Foot being in the state it is, it's not a matter of if but when something ugly finds him.
Meanwhile, Aitrus continues his study of the ghost-roads at the clock tower. His first tentative investigations have come to little. The roads are either broken or incomplete. The latest one opens up into an alley of pure spiritual silence, and this isn't the first time that Aitrus has felt this. Something is happening in Crow's Foot that is draining small sections of the district of all its spiritual energy.
Both Whispers seek answers in the counsel of the demon, Setarra, who is currently giving advice to many other Whispers working for Bosk, the Spirit Warden in charge of clearing out the surge of hungry spirits in Crow's Foot. Setarra tells Nor that she knows that Oslo is working with another Whisper, probably one of the many hired by the Wardens, but she does not know which one. For Aitrus, she has more information to give. She points him in the direction of the hooded proprietor and offers him help in his continued study of the clock tower. Before leaving to meet with the proprietor, Setarra asks the pair to investigate a brothel called The Leg Up in the docks. It's another possible point of silence. The pair agree to look.
At the hooded proprietor's, located in a half-sunken building in a grotto close to the docks, Aitrus learns of a spark-engineer named Breen who works in Six Towers. The points of silence, he surmises, could be the result of a device, but he knows not what kind of device. Breen might know, and Aitrus should seek her out.
On their way back, they stop by The Leg Up and discover that the whole brothel is devoid of spiritual energy even though it's occupied. A whole building of hollows, something neither have ever heard of. They flee the area before they are discovered.
Shortly after, Nor runs into Gen, one of his wastrels, who tells him that Oslo is working with a Whisper and is going into the Isidor Manor to help ensnare spirits. The Whisper is using him as bait, Nor realizes.
It's been a long time since the pair have been to the Isidor Manor. For all undesireables in Crow's Foot, stepping foot in Isidor's Manor is a rite of passage. Whether you're hiding from the law, experimenting with the unnatural, needing a place to sleep or steal, Isidor's Manor has always been a somewhat more safe place for the young criminals in Crow's Foot to get their feet wet. Scaling the walls outside the manor and making their way through the wild, overgrown and dark gardens, they hear Oslo scream deep inside the building. Nor dashes inside while Aitrus takes in the area, seeing a strange well-dressed figure in an ornate wooden mask staring back at him from across the lawn. Before he can react, the well-dressed Whisper takes his leave and Aitrus rushes in to help Nor.
Inside, Oslo is chased by a roiling tide of corrupted, deranged spirits. Nor catches up to him on the second floor landing and barely gets his shield up in time. While the ghosts tear and gnash at his defenses, Aitrus arrives and finds a ticking sound coming off the boy. A box is attached to Oslo and it's ticking faster. Managing to remove the box, Aitrus tosses it through the shield and into the mass of ghosts just before opens.
It's an explosion in reverse, a sudden void that pulls in all spiritual energy around it, including the kind that lives within the three Whispers. Managing to hold onto their own spirits, the box closes and they collapse onto the ground, completely overwhelmed by the sudden silence around them.
Nor offers Oslo a home. The boy takes it.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Season of Ghosts: Beyond Duskvol
Outside the walls of Duskvol, beyond the safety of the electric tower, the Deathlands stretch out in every direction. Most city-dwellers don't think about the world past the walls and the railways that connect them. If they do it's simply to shrug and consider it lost. A wasteland of demons, ghosts and worse. But there is still life out there. Small communities. Mining consortiums. It's not just the Void Sea that needs to be scraped to feed the city's appetite.
It's been a few days since the massacre of the Red Sashes. The skies are choked with ravens. Every death that happens in Duskvol is accompanied by two things: the bell and the crow. Every time a body dies in Duskvol a bell rings and a magically imbued crow, a death-raven, is loosed from the citadel to help the Spirit Wardens - Duskvol's spiritual defenders - find and dispose of the body before its spirit rises and haunts the city. But there is chaos in the skies. Harrying the death-ravens, distracting them from their duty, are whole murders of crows. Bodies that were meant for the fire have gone unclaimed and blossomed into restless spirits that now haunt Crow's Foot.
To combat this rise of restless spirits, the Spirit Wardens have empowered one of their order to set up shop in Crow's Foot. In the ruins of the Red Sashes, the bronze-masked Bosk hires out Whispers and other crews to try and contain the spectral threat. The smell of burning bodies permeates the air, but it never seems to be enough. Ghosts and horrors are getting their hooks into Crow's Foot and it's no sure thing that the Spirit Wardens will be enough to hold back the tide.
Amidst all this, the cult receives an invitation to consort with the Crows. Meeting the Crows second-in-command, Bell, they are hired to retrieve a package that was coming into Duskvol from outside the walls. A mining consortium was using an abandoned railway to get three crates to the Crows but they haven't been heard from in days. The Crows want the cult to go out and investigate, especially since taking the Clocktower in the purge they now have an easy way through to the Deathlands.
The crew does their research. Aitrus continues his research on the Clocktower and discovers where the other end of the portal from the tower leads. Nor consults with a wandering demon named Bale, trading the captured spirits of the working class for information about Folly's Line, the abandoned railway and the horror that makes its home where the tracks break. Armed with this information, the crew gear up and step through the tuning fork gate.
They arrive in a church tower of an empty town. The wind howls around them and there is no light in any direction. They make their way as best they can across the wasted hills, trailed by lion-like beasts that can smell their essence on the wind. Aldo does the tracking and Kali keeps them hidden. Aided by the supernatural sight of Nor and Aitrus, they prove able to keep ahead of the beasts. Losing them in river crossings, they come across Folly's Line and travel to where Bale said the horror made its lair.
When they arrive at the sinkhole Aldo tracks to where the shipment went down instead of around the shipment. Unable to make sense of this strange decision, Nor notices that the trees are filled with stone spidery ghost things that whisper encouragements to go down into the hole. Nor banishes the little beasts and Kali descends into the hole where the horror is revealed.
The horror is a white, strange, tumorous spider sac that hangs in the air. Out from its deformed body trail thin jellyfish-like tendrils that connected with twelve bodies, some living, some dead, lying around the shipment. Upon hearing a shift of rock, two of the bodies jerk up, as if pulled up on the string that goes through their body.
The cult descends to negotiate with the horror. To prove their ability, Aldo demolishes the first one that crosses their path with his bone gauntlets. Aitrus steps forward to negotiate. He offers the horror a continual food supply of people in return for the boxes. The horror agrees, tying a tendril around his finger. If he fails to provide the horror with food, the finger will be lost. With that, the crew carries the crate back to the church and through back into Duskvol.
They do not notice the woman who tracks them.
At Duskvol, the cult investigates the contents of the box and discover that each box carries twenty specialty firearms, capable of multiple ammunition that could attack the living and the dead. They argue over what to do with the box and ultimately decide to keep four back and give the rest to Bell. Bell arrives and buys their story about the missing rifles. He doesn't seem to care much that the mining consortium members are dead or know anything about the Ironhook prison escapees who held them up in the sink hole who were also caught up by the horror.
A job well done, the crew splits up again to go about their individual pursuits. Business is booming in Crow's Foot right now. It's a season of ghosts, and plenty of opportunity to get into scrapes before the big battle of the Crows and Lampblacks kicks off in full.
It's been a few days since the massacre of the Red Sashes. The skies are choked with ravens. Every death that happens in Duskvol is accompanied by two things: the bell and the crow. Every time a body dies in Duskvol a bell rings and a magically imbued crow, a death-raven, is loosed from the citadel to help the Spirit Wardens - Duskvol's spiritual defenders - find and dispose of the body before its spirit rises and haunts the city. But there is chaos in the skies. Harrying the death-ravens, distracting them from their duty, are whole murders of crows. Bodies that were meant for the fire have gone unclaimed and blossomed into restless spirits that now haunt Crow's Foot.
To combat this rise of restless spirits, the Spirit Wardens have empowered one of their order to set up shop in Crow's Foot. In the ruins of the Red Sashes, the bronze-masked Bosk hires out Whispers and other crews to try and contain the spectral threat. The smell of burning bodies permeates the air, but it never seems to be enough. Ghosts and horrors are getting their hooks into Crow's Foot and it's no sure thing that the Spirit Wardens will be enough to hold back the tide.
Amidst all this, the cult receives an invitation to consort with the Crows. Meeting the Crows second-in-command, Bell, they are hired to retrieve a package that was coming into Duskvol from outside the walls. A mining consortium was using an abandoned railway to get three crates to the Crows but they haven't been heard from in days. The Crows want the cult to go out and investigate, especially since taking the Clocktower in the purge they now have an easy way through to the Deathlands.
The crew does their research. Aitrus continues his research on the Clocktower and discovers where the other end of the portal from the tower leads. Nor consults with a wandering demon named Bale, trading the captured spirits of the working class for information about Folly's Line, the abandoned railway and the horror that makes its home where the tracks break. Armed with this information, the crew gear up and step through the tuning fork gate.
They arrive in a church tower of an empty town. The wind howls around them and there is no light in any direction. They make their way as best they can across the wasted hills, trailed by lion-like beasts that can smell their essence on the wind. Aldo does the tracking and Kali keeps them hidden. Aided by the supernatural sight of Nor and Aitrus, they prove able to keep ahead of the beasts. Losing them in river crossings, they come across Folly's Line and travel to where Bale said the horror made its lair.
When they arrive at the sinkhole Aldo tracks to where the shipment went down instead of around the shipment. Unable to make sense of this strange decision, Nor notices that the trees are filled with stone spidery ghost things that whisper encouragements to go down into the hole. Nor banishes the little beasts and Kali descends into the hole where the horror is revealed.
The horror is a white, strange, tumorous spider sac that hangs in the air. Out from its deformed body trail thin jellyfish-like tendrils that connected with twelve bodies, some living, some dead, lying around the shipment. Upon hearing a shift of rock, two of the bodies jerk up, as if pulled up on the string that goes through their body.
The cult descends to negotiate with the horror. To prove their ability, Aldo demolishes the first one that crosses their path with his bone gauntlets. Aitrus steps forward to negotiate. He offers the horror a continual food supply of people in return for the boxes. The horror agrees, tying a tendril around his finger. If he fails to provide the horror with food, the finger will be lost. With that, the crew carries the crate back to the church and through back into Duskvol.
They do not notice the woman who tracks them.
At Duskvol, the cult investigates the contents of the box and discover that each box carries twenty specialty firearms, capable of multiple ammunition that could attack the living and the dead. They argue over what to do with the box and ultimately decide to keep four back and give the rest to Bell. Bell arrives and buys their story about the missing rifles. He doesn't seem to care much that the mining consortium members are dead or know anything about the Ironhook prison escapees who held them up in the sink hole who were also caught up by the horror.
A job well done, the crew splits up again to go about their individual pursuits. Business is booming in Crow's Foot right now. It's a season of ghosts, and plenty of opportunity to get into scrapes before the big battle of the Crows and Lampblacks kicks off in full.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
The One Where Everything Changed
Mylera Klev is dead, butchered in the streets with other high-ranking Red Sashes by Baz and the other Lampblacks. The war is over. The war has just started. After parading Mylera's broken body through the district and declaring his intention to take control over Crow's Foot from Lyssa and the other Crows, the Lampblacks go on a murderous spree. Any remaining Red Sashes are hunted down and killed. Turf is taken. Scores are settled.
The Bluecoats withdraw their support from the Crows. Now that the battle lines are drawn they pull back, sealing off the bridges so that this terrible night of revenge and murder doesn't spill out into the rest of Duskvol. It's a long night. One with grim implications...and opportunities.
When the crew returns to their lair they find a servant girl from the Red Sashes protecting several children. She needs help escaping the district and she's willing to pay. The crew decides to help and in return they'll pick up two pieces of turf, a vice den called A Hole in the World and an ancient gate that allows them safe passage through the Deathlands which lies at the top of the Old Clock Tower.
The crew splits up, with Nor and Aitrus managing the crazed spirits of the Clock Tower to evacuate the remaining Sashes through the spirit doors contained within. Kali and Twelves sneak their way through Baz's marauders to the Hole in the World where they transport the remaining Sashes in a death cart across the district.
By the end of the night the Sashes are gone and the crew's influence has spread. But what awaits them in the future, where winner takes all in the battle for the heart of the district?
The Bluecoats withdraw their support from the Crows. Now that the battle lines are drawn they pull back, sealing off the bridges so that this terrible night of revenge and murder doesn't spill out into the rest of Duskvol. It's a long night. One with grim implications...and opportunities.
When the crew returns to their lair they find a servant girl from the Red Sashes protecting several children. She needs help escaping the district and she's willing to pay. The crew decides to help and in return they'll pick up two pieces of turf, a vice den called A Hole in the World and an ancient gate that allows them safe passage through the Deathlands which lies at the top of the Old Clock Tower.
The crew splits up, with Nor and Aitrus managing the crazed spirits of the Clock Tower to evacuate the remaining Sashes through the spirit doors contained within. Kali and Twelves sneak their way through Baz's marauders to the Hole in the World where they transport the remaining Sashes in a death cart across the district.
By the end of the night the Sashes are gone and the crew's influence has spread. But what awaits them in the future, where winner takes all in the battle for the heart of the district?
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