I have an idea for using Blades in the Dark in a way that it has never (to my knowledge) been used before.

I have an idea for using Blades in the Dark in a way that it has never (to my knowledge) been used before.

I’m going to use the gangs structure, so all the characters work for the Crows. I’m going to host four open table online Blades sessions; repeats are welcome, but not needed, since I’ve got the gang structure instead of a crew.

I will have a big “event” happen in Doskvol that requires the Crows to respond, if they want to prevent disaster from sweeping the city, perhaps gutting it past the point of recovery. Each of the four sessions will be a crisis point inspired by what came before it.

As it begins, the city is in the crushing grip of summer heat. Water recedes, leaving stinking gummy clay and mud exposed to the swarms of flies that lay eggs in it. Shrooms are shriveling, and their spores and dander are thick in the air, dusting the world and fogging the lights, turning sweat to mud, as though the people breathe ashes. Even the elderly cannot remember a summer so hot.

The heat, and related deaths, must be what’s making the winds of the Ghost Field so erratic and peculiar.

Pay no mind to the fortunetellers. It’s their business to be convincingly spooked by bad omens, after all; that’s what sells the protective charms. Only a fool is spooked by weather, on either side of the Mirror.

Still, they whisper; “Something is coming. Something in the dark. Something hungry.”