I‘m currently listening to the RollPlay Blades series and just reached week 9 part 3, where Mrs Catterby considers to use a faked ringing of the death bells in order to create a distraction.
This made me wonder: how often do the death bells ring anyways?
Depending on the scale of the city, I suppose they should ring quite regularly. In a Paris-sized town, death might be a common occurrence.
What do you think about this? Might there be individual bells in each district in order to „share“ the ringing? Or do you just ignore any deaths not caused by the crew? How does massed death sound (as a result of an explosion for example)?
PS.: Maybe they talk about this later in the video, so please be patient with me if they do…
They are “magical” so only people in the vicinity of a death hear bells for that exact death.
There are only one set of spirit bells described in the book (at Bellweather Crematorium) and their range appears to be the entire city.
Mh. But then, the faked bell wouldn‘t work at all. Who would hear the bell of it is rung manually without a death actually occurring, like in the show?