Author: Sean Young

My second game of Blades in the Dark. Next game I should have all 3 of my players showing up. Then they could decided on a crew name too!

The PC’s

* Thread – A Tycheros doctor w/ raven feathers for hair (Leech)

* Smudge – An Akorosi scion of a fallen noble house (Slide)

The Crew

* Professional Shadows who lair is an abandoned house, down an alley in Six Towers

The Hunting Grounds

* Espionage in the Nightmarket

Celebrating the release of Smudge from the Ironhook Prison, the crew enjoy some drugs at The Devil’s Tooth (which is in their hunting grounds area). While they enjoy themselves, a servant of Mistress Kember request that they follow them in the back area of the club. They do and they find Mistress Kember has a problem; A dead nobleman seems to have OD’d in her establishment. Thread takes a look at the body while Smudge recognizes the young nobleman as Edlun Bowmore. A young nephew of the main Bowmore family. Thread successed on figuring out the young Bowmore death was not accidental, as his Black Lotus was laced with something else. As the young nobleman’s name alone would be a problem for Mistress Kember’s establishment, and with the death bell already tolling, she asks the crew to move and get rid of the body. They agree to do so.

Thread and Smudge decide to move and leave Edlun Bowmore’s body somewhere with the Gaddoc Rail Station, since it is only a few blocks away. They roll him up in a carpet and carry him out the back door since they believe stealth is the best option here. On their way to rail station’s grounds they notice that the Spirit Wardens are alright in the Nightmarket area, looking for the new soul. Smudge decides to chat with one of the Spirit Wardens to distract them from noticing Thread carrying the body through the streets. The crows circle becomes smaller but they managed to get passed the Spirit Wardens.

They sneak onto the rail station’s grounds and find a railcar that could be good spot to dump the body. Unfortunately, a gang of Rail Jack’s are prepping the trains for the next run nearby. (The crew has a -1 with the Rail Jack) Thread manages to sneak over to a railcar and place a smoke device to go off on a timer and most of the Rail Jacks respond to it. Smudge chats up the rest of the Rail Jacks as a lost gentleman looking for the platform. It succeeds and gives Thread enough time to dump the body in a railcar. They leave the scene to head back to The Devil’s Tooth to let Mistress Kember know that everything is taken care of. She pays them for the job and lets them know the the young Edlun Bowmore was with a very attractive young woman, but she doesn’t know who she was. Thread remembers seeing an attractive young woman following her for a few blocks while she was carrying the body to the rail station.

Entanglements: While Thread is enjoying her vice of drugs, she is visited by young Edlun Bowmore! Now a ghost, he wants to know what happened to him. Thread is too blissed out to really care about his problems and shoos he away. Smudge overindulges on his vice of buying stylish clothes and is asked to please come back to the tailor, once his family affairs are back in order. But not until then.

Ran my first game tonight of Blades, for 2 of my 3 players

The PC’s

* Thread – A Tycheros doctor w/ raven feathers for hair (Leech)

* Map – A disgraced Imperial soldier from The Dagger Isles (Cutter)

The Crew – Professional Shadows who lair is an abandoned house, down an alley in Six Towers

The Hunting Grounds – Espionage in the Nightmarket

They were approached by a Skovlander tattooist that goes by “Jerry” that is feed up with Ulf Ironborn’s rampages making it hard for her and other honest Skovlanders just trying to work and live in the city. “His actions are hurting us!” So, she tells the crew how Ironborn has been bragging about “acquiring” some of Red Sashes drugs he has stashed at his gambling den. The crew decided to buy some of the drugs from Ironborn and then take it back to Red Sashes.

Sadly, the Engagement Roll was not good. They are at the right place but if they wanted to see Ironborn, they will have to beat his second, Havid in a fight! They walk in and Map calls out Havid. As soon as Havid rises up from the bar, Map pulls out a gun and shoots him…with Success! Havid flies over the bar and now the rest of Ironborn’s men (4) try to put the beatdown on Map. Meanwhile, Thread tries to cross the bar to heal Havid.

Map has a hard time with the fight but with a Devil’s Bargain, (Skovlander ruffians will occasionally call him out in the future to test their mettle against him) he shows he is worthy of an audience with Ulf Ironborn. Thread does a quick patch-up job of Havid and talks with Ironborn about buying a box of the drugs. Since neither Thread or Map are Akorosi, he is willing to sell a box to them. Transaction are made and the two of them leave with a box half filled with 4 Black Lotus vials.

Thread & Map make a dash to the Red Sashes headquarters, but they have to convince a Gondolier to get them across (which they do). They get to the dock and Thread has a meeting with Mylera Klev while Map waits dockside (he looks like a bloody wreck). Mylera Klev thanks Thread for the information, pays her for her hard work, and tells Thread she might have use of this crew’s skill in the future. After her people deal with Ulf Ironborn’s meddling. Thread & Map head back to their lair in Six Towers.

Entanglements: Map gets questioned by the Bluecoats about the reports of a shooting in a certain bar. Map pays off the Bluecoats with most of the money they got from the Red Sashes and ponders when will their third partner will get out of Ironhook Prison so they can set up a bigger score.