GM: Judd Karlman
Player: Sean Nittner
System: Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts
The pitch:
You walk out of Ironhook in the suit you got arrested in, your old crew is spread hither and yon all over Doskvol’s factions. Your starting situation is a Crew sheet. The thing you know walking out alone is that you cannot survive alone in Doskvol.
Notes from the game:
Jeren, Bluecoat Archivist. A contact I hadn’t talked to in 10 years. Means of communication. All of the Imperial offices are connected through pneumatic tubes. An old building had been torn down to make a Unity War Statue, but the tube was still accessible. Temple had hacked into it and we used it back in the day. It still worked. I told Jere I was looking into the station chief.
Visitng the Two Crows on Church Day in Ellisar, though the Unity Calendar said otherwise.
On the roof of two crows church, confessing to Chancellor Odrienne. She send me up ghost steps. Interacting with them on account of Ghost Fighter.
At the top I briefly saw face of the Spirit Warden in the the ghost field tower. Cold in here.
How did I learn Ghost Fighter. When the Void Storms blew in the Lost District we hid inside a church protected by a lightning barrier. The chancellor there taught me how to do it. Perfection of the spirt or allowing it to take control? Crown didn’t know.
As a trial I was sent to find Cobb, who got out of Ironhook two weeks before I did. He was a good kid that was handy with tools and worked inside the mire with me. The warden though he had gone wrong and she wanted to know where he was.
Crown with through Milos to make the connect. Cobb was happy to see a familiar face. “Look at us, Out of the mines and into the Dusk,” He worked at a pub in a basement of Barrowcleft. He looked bad. Crown had dressed the part to match.
Cobb told her about the calling, the dreams he had. Called back to the Mire. Crown knew was she was supposed to do. Find is location and report back. But she also knew what the Spirit Wardens did to people like this. They didn’t make it out.
Instead she took Cobb to the Two Crows, banged on the door in the middle of the night and begged Odrienne to exorcise it. Odrienne was not happy about any of this, but she didn’t say no. She took Crown through a secret door to a basement she didn’t know existed showed her a giant tree growing there. Cobb was hung upside down and the tattoo that turned from a hook to a leviathan tentacle was removed. Painfully.
When the Spirit Wardens closed in, Cobb kept his mouth shut. That tattoo got infected so he cut it off, that’s all he knew. He stuck to his story and he got out okay. Good job kid.
Payout
Coin: 6
-1 Imperial taxes (Fuckers)
-1 to ward boss (Unseen
-1 vice (Chruch)
Faction Status
+1 with Spirit Wardens
+1 with Unseen
No Heat, No Rep (Thanks Spirit Wardens)
Downtime
Jeven’s report on Aldo Lamond the Station Chief. He’s been copying reports and sending them to destinations unknown, but we all know it’s Major Rowan. He likes to go to high end seances. That’s where we’ll get him.
Grol mentions that Crowns cover for the money is that she’s offering consultancy for other scoundrels. So that’s an option on the table as well.
Downtime actions:
- Acquire a Whisper (Tier 3) named Helles Helles
- Dirt on Major Rowan (8 part clock) from the paper trail left by Aldo Lamond (1 tick added)
- Training (1 coin spent to do it). Gained special ability Weaving the Web.
