One of my PCs has come down with Mono, and the original plan was to do a regular board game night because the group didn’t want to play without Shiv the Lurk. However, the idea of not playing blades for more than a month didn’t sit well with me. So instead I asked the remaining 3 players if they’d be interested in taking on the mantle of the gang of rooks that their cult acquired and never uses. I’m hoping that if they give names and personalities to these nameless NPCs that they’ll seem some actual use in game. I don’t have John’s knack for creating great crew NPCs like Roathe and Cyclops on the fly, so I’m going to make my players do it for me.
I’m trying to decide if these rooks should use the cult crew sheet still, or be shadows instead. I guess it depends on how integrated into the cult they are, and that’s a question for the players.