Actual Play Report
The Legion of Iquanis returns once again to further their influence in society before beginning the real process to convert.
Knowing that contending with the Lampblacks would be near suicide, they let them keep the seized turf and press on by finding another area to claim. THey do find that there is a nearby Church of the Ecstacy of the Flesh that could be taken. During a reconnaissance mission by Flick, the Tongue of Iguanis, he talks to a brother there. During a long an uncomfortable embrace, he manages to survey the area and spots the glimpse of a bronze mask mask through the crack of a door, leading into some sort of cellar under the church.
After letting Pockets, the Bite of Iguanis and Books, the Heart of Iguanis, they discuss how they can verify whether the church is actually a front for something being done by the Spirit Wardens. What does any group of religious maniacs do in this kind of situation? They murder an innocent of course.
Flick visits a Nightmarket bar to find someone and spots a tall and muscular woman who had already been drinking for some time. Flick’s social skills prove useful and he makes a display of affectionate force and convinces her to come “back to his place” with him. Once down an alley, they are met by a member of the crew. Pockets puts a dagger into her before she realizes what’s happening. Not one to go down easily, this woman tries to get one last blow in, only to be stopped by Pocket’s brute force. He stares the woman in the eyes and bites a chunk of flesh out of her neck, finishing her off.
The the tolling of the bell and the flight of a crow, the Legion sets a trap for a Spirit Warden. Books has been keeping an eye on the Church to see if a Spirit Warden comes out and gets his suspicions confirmed. Books compels a spirit to send a signal to his crew. The trap is set.
The Spirit warden arrives only to have Flick play the innocent, running away from the scene screaming about a dead body. Pockets and their gang of thugs spring into action and surround the Spirit Warden. Flick comes back reveals that all they want to know are the numbers of Wardens in the church and what the layout is. They extract the information from him easily and even manage to convince him to drop his mask, quit his job and never tell anyone what happened here – with the aid of a Spirit Contract made by Flick. Despite all of the risks, they succeed and soon infiltrate the Church with the aid of Books attuning to shut off the power cables that are going into the church.
What the Crew finds downstairs is an odd sight. Wires and electroplasmic arcs shoot everywhere and in the center of the room stands a glass pod with an embryonic creature growing inside. The Wardens are taken aback, but with the threats of breaking the experiment, they agree to clear out within the next few days.
The Legion successfully takes turf and puts themselves at -2 with the Spirit wardens. Flick has a plan though.
After recovering and working on the long term project of finishing the Holy Book of Iguanis, the Legion decides they want to at least show that they wanted to make some type of amends by doing a job as a favor to them. A warden tells them after to long discussion that they will accept if they go and put the Lost out of commission long enough for them to get some important work done in Dunslough. With the help of the recently released from Prsion, Stranger the spider, they find out exactly where they have a good amount of valuables stashed.
The job is simple enough. They sneak into a warehouse where they keep valuables in the early morning. Unfortunately it seems as if they keep their valuables in a glass terrarium filled with venomous snakes (Thanks BitD Heist Deck). The group skulks around and finds the two guards that are still unaware. They knock out one quickly and tie up the other and make him take the valuables out. Flick, not a fan of both the people of Dunslough and the poor in general, kills the sleeping one in a fit of sadistic rage while this is going on. The other guard attempts to scream for people outside to heard, only to be silenced by Books, who puts a black scale of Iguanis on his throat. his veins around the area go black and his speech is silenced. The takes the valuables and takes the last man back to their base for a ritual.
The ritual sacrifice involves Books writing the symbol of Iguanis in his own blood on both of their foreheads. Should the Bite of Iguanis be slain in this ritual, the title is passed onto the victor, their mind forever enslaved to serve Iguanis as the Bite.
With that job complete, they bring the Spirit Wardens to a -1, at the expense of the Lost. Gotta makes some enemies to make someone happy.
(As a side note. the The Black Scale Brandy they made last time has a label now.) See picture.