Category: Blades in the Dark: Art

The Bazso I created in my campaign was a bit different than the one I think John had in mind, but I can easily say he is the most entertaining and fun to play NPC iv’e made. To give a sense of his personality the players met him in the first session of the campaign, they made the Lampblacks their allies and so I figured their first score would be securing and transporting some drugs for Bazso (they are a crew of smugglers). But the way that they actually meet him was such a fun scene. They arrived at Bazso’s lair (a coal warehouse). From the outside they can hear this monotonous thudding sound coming from within the warehouse. They enter through the front door and they are greeted by the typical lampblack members who all give a quick wave in-between stacking various crates of drugs and other illicit goods. They climb the metal stairs up to Bazso’s office, all the while this thudding sound persists, and as a matter of fact gets louder as they near Bazso’s office. Once they get to the top they upon the metal door to his office and we are presented with a gruesome scene. We see a man tied to a chair. Standing in front of the man we see an average sized gentleman wearing nice dress pants, a black vest with golden buttons, curled up white sleeves, slicked back black hair and most notably we see the mans wicked smile as he makes eye contact with our crew. He apologizes profusely as the crew walks in “I am so sorry to greet you like this please give me a moment to clean up” After each sentence Bazso always flashes his toothy grin. Bazso unwraps the chains wrapped around his knuckles and they drop to the floor in the pool of blood and flesh at the base of the man tied to the chair. “Please, come take a seat. I just need to say that I am so HAPPY to see you all. I am looking SO forward to what comes of our future business deals and I am just SO happy to be friends with you all”. Again Bazso flashes his toothy grin and he takes a seat in the chair behind his desk. “Would you all care for a cup of tea?” Anyways I think this should give a decent idea of what kind of man Bazso is. He is a high functioning sociopath. I love him as a character so much and my day was made when one of my players sent me a picture of some fan art she made of Bazso when he is taking a break from work. As a GM, to have one of my players make fan/concept art of one my NPC’s is one of the most satisfying things I have experienced in my couple years of GM’ing. I just had to share it because it made my day!