The Dead Setters: The Road So Far

The Dead Setters: The Road So Far

February to October 2016

Started with v5, now on v7.1

Wars: 3

Tier: 3

Weekly games missed: 2.

I fell off the update wagon, so I’m getting back to it with this recap post of my group’s shenanigans. We’ve been playing weekly since February! That is some kind of record for us. I’ll have some feedback about longterm play with Blades, but that’ll be another post. This one’s long enough!

U’Duashan Moon Pool Ruby Caper

The Dead Setters robbed 4 Coin of Mylera Klev’s lesser objects d’art (and threw her off a balcony), plus retrieved the Moon Pool Ruby contained within the idol of a Forgotten God. The ruby is said to bring good fortune if the proper sacrifices of willing blood from a possessed person are made. They fenced it for extra cash, however.

Spirit Well Twinkie Caper, aka I Have a Victrola For a Mouth and I Must Scream

The crew, working for the Dimmer Sisters, takes a spirit well claim from the Eels.

And You Will Know Us By the Campaign Trail of Dead Caper

The Dead Setters entered into a Ghost Contract with Ava Dimmer to take over security and transport for the spirit well in Coalridge. The first problem to be dealt with was the small matter of the Spirit Wardens being called in to investigate and potentially exorcise the location.

I’m Getting Too Old For This Shit Caper

The Dead Setters battered the skeleton crew of Bluecoats guarding the Coalridge spirit well with sewage, constant malice, and pinpoint birdshit. They reclaimed the location after killing the two loose cannon Spirit Wardens inside the manor house.

Too Much Planning Caper

The Dead Setters took a bunch of downtime and leveled up!

Opulence I Has It Caper

The Dead Setters overplan and then steal a faberge giraffe hull off a train, put a ghost inside it to drive the thing, and burn a Lampblacks base all while impersonating Bluecoats.

Oh God Not Another Sewer Level Caper

You helped Father Yorren retrieve an urn that his supplier, Lucia Eastlake, failed to deliver on account of her being captured, tortured, and left for dead by the Eels.

There Is Only War Caper

The Dead Setters laid an ambush, then countered an ambush by the Eels in the catacombs.

To Survive a War You Gotta Become War Caper

The Eels were scattered and broken against the submaritime ingenuity of the Dead Setters, ending their war.

Strangford Files Caper

They infiltrated a masquerade ball in Brightstone. With Richter still in Ironhook Prison (and with Inspector Jennah sending corrupt guards to beat him down every week or so), the social heist fell to Teatime, Deemo, and Raven, with a special guest appearance by Roethe Kinclaith.

The Price is Wrong Caper

The Dead Setters find that Belden of the Crows had infiltrated their base. His attempt to extort 8 Coin from them was less successful than he’d like, and now the Setters aim to strike at the Crows’ headquarters before Lyssa realizes Belden’s a defiled corpse and his soul sits in a bottle, ready to be used for future taunting.

Feast For Crows Caper

They tortured, interrogated, and vivisected Belden (not necessarily in any order) and learned the former Crows leader, Roric, was still in Duskwall somewhere as a spirit. Teatime tracked him down and the Dead Setters allied with now-vampire Roric’s new gang, the Buzzards. Teatime and Raven sent Roric and his Buzzards into the underground tunnels to stage a distraction/assault on the Crows’ watchtower HQ. The duo then snuck in across the rooftops and climbed to the tower roof to assassinate Lyssa.

Fuck Tha Police Caper

Rook does combat drugs and murders a squad of Bluecoats to cover the Setters’ escape from the Crows’ nest. The gang takes a gambling den as a claim while the iron is hot.

Strangford Mausoleum Caper

Teatime, Richter, and Deemo lured the Crows remnants into Lord Strangford’s mausoleum with rumors of valuables, with Richter posing as Strangford’s groundskeeper as their “in”. The demon Ahazu is released from Strangford’s crypts and escapes into Duskwall after wiping out the Crows, ending their war with the Dead Setters. The Burned King is summoned by clued-in nobles to destroy it but breaks free and also escapes.

Let’s Go To Prison Caper

The Dead Setters framed Jennah the Inspector for releasing Ahazu (plus a bunch of ghost chicanery).

Bustin’ Makes Me Feel Good Caper

A strike force from the Reconciled, led by their hired man on the ground Flint (who was “comin’ for Teatime”), assaulted the wrong spirit well and were driven off by OH SO MANY SIXES, culminating in a timely crit by Deemo who commanded the Reconciled to capture their own hirelings.

You’re Cutting Out Caper

The Dead Setters survived a downtime phase plagued with spotty connectivity and a slow mobile hotspot.

The Winchester Brothers Caper

The Dead Setters, at least partially masquerading as sculptor Orlan Uno’s house staff, banished the demon The Burned King from Duskwall.

It’s Quantum Entanglement, Not Teleportation Caper

The Dead Setters broke ten-er, nine Lampblacks out of jail to make good with Bazso Baz (and for the cash). They escape using a ghost-field stargate, which promptly explodes.

The Ghost of Toko Jobler Caper

The gang starts a fight between Roethe Kinclaith and his dandies and a bunch of Iruvian brats in order to lay claim to a Red Sash bridge-side gambling den. They spike Roethe’s drink with rage essence, whereupon he quickly earns the new moniker Red Roethe. They also learn that the life essence of those ingesting refined leviathan blood is how the Reconciled retain their “humanity” after death, and may actually link into the secret of the Emperor’s immortality.

The Deadliest Catch Caper

The crew goes pirate, hijacking one of Lord Strangford’s leviathan hunting vessels for the raw blood it carries. They barely escape one of the colossal beasts and part on shaky but non-lethal terms with Captain Minos and his crew.

The Kitchen Nightmares Caper

Unable to break free of reality show-named capers, the Dead Setters lay claim to one of Strangford’s restaurants used for distributing refined leviathan blood and other luxury goods. They actually bribe the Bluecoats instead of simply murdering them. The Dead Setters are now at war with Lord Strangford’s leviathan hunters. When rumors of their exploits spread, Ahazu the demon approaches the Dead Setters and they enter into a ghost contract: The Setters will get Strangford’s spirit so Ahazu may have its vengeance for centuries of imprisonment, and in return they may keep what they kill. The demon will not doublecross or otherwise muck with the Dead Setters, despite its predilection for possession.

#heestcomplete