The One With That Crazy Egg

Tempers are up in the district of Crow's Foot. While Lyssa, new leader of the Crows, secures her position in that organization, the Lampblacks and the Red Sashes take the opportunity to move against each other. They reach out to all the crews they know of to get as much support as possible.

Aitrus, Aldo and Nor take meetings with both Baz and Mylera about working for them before deciding ultimately to go with Baz's offer. Baz presents them with a wooden box with a strange bone egg inside. The job is simple: take the egg and put it inside the walls of the Second Step, an upscale brothel run by the Red Sashes in the Docks district. 

Aitrus and Nor investigate the egg which gives off powerful waves of ghostly energy and discover that it antagonizes and distorts ectoplasmic resonances in a localized area. The three go into the Docks and case the area, looking for information about how best to assault the brothel. Nor and Aldo meet the ghost of a nameless murdered girl on a bridge and discover that the bottom floor of the second step is connected to a very powerful network of ghost-ways, echoes of previous incarnations of Doskvol. The unnamed girl shows them the entrance to the ghost-way. Meanwhile, Aitrus surveys the outside of the brothel and notices that disguised wealthy patrons are coming in with servants carrying spirit vessels.

For the score, the trio decide to split up, with Aldo going through the front door using the name of a former employer who Aitrus saw included among the select wealthy patrons. This works, and Aldo is escorted inside. At the same time, using a ghost key, Nor and Aitrus brave the ghost door along with the unnamed ghost. Inside they see a ghost-way of the like they've never seen before.

Ghost-ways are echoes of previous architecture in Doskvol. For a Whisper, the ghost of a door to a room that has since been walled up is still accessible as an echo for them to traverse through. But this is different. Instead of an echo of something once built, this was a structure built by something that never was. Ghosts and spirits that were never born. These only exist in fairy tales for the strange and broken Whispers. They encounter masked, uniformed ghosts who ignored the masked Whispers but see the unnamed ghost as an intruder. Nor compels them to ignore the ghost and is successful. The unnamed ghost flees, returning to the crew's lair where she still resides.

Aldo, Aitrus and Nor meet up in the basement of the brothel and find themselves in the middle of a debauched, blasphemous orgy. Wealthy patrons couple soundlessly with the bodies of their now possessed servants. With discovery imminent, the crew secures the egg through a loose wall which enrages the possessed bodies. The profane orgy turns into a massacre and they flee through the ghost-ways which crumble behind them. As they stalk back to their lair, they hear the sounds of screams and commotions die out behind them.

A clean crime, the crew gains no reputation for this other than the thanks of Baz and the promised reward. They will need to decide how to proceed going forward. Do they want to keep working for Baz or another faction? Do they want to take advantage of this chaos and claim more turf or maybe run their own scores?