Tag: Zachary Miller

The hawker crew that I run are starting to come into the truth of the drug that they sell. One of them has been contacted by the demon Setarra, (in a dream which was almost entirely a reference to the Talking Heads ‘Once in a Lifetime’) to replace Lord Scurlock and hatch the three demon eggs deep beneath the city. Another has been taken to a laboratory run by a crew that they deal to (secretly run by Scurlock) who are investigating the effects of their product upon ghosts.

I run a duo of Hawkers known as the Rabbits (not their choice of name) who are trying to get rich quick and finding themselves in over their heads. Our game has been running for a few months, so here’s a relatively brief summary:

Corro Vale is a Leech and former academic who dropped out of school after creating a new drug out of leviathan blood called Rabbit’s Fury. Hoxley the smuggler introduces him to Vross Nexim, a Slide who has decided to leave the life of a courtesan and is much more suited to handling the sales aspect of drug dealing. The two of them operate out of a dilapidated warehouse in the Docks that’s been outfitted with a workshop and rather than making one-off deals they focus on establishing recurring clients who pay them per month for large batches of their product.

Their first client was Vestine Daava, proprietress of “The World,” what could best be described as a mini mall of vice, housing a bar, brothel, drug den, gambling hall, and inn. Vestine was sold on Rabbit’s Fury after the players were able to demonstrate that it would be able to drastically increase one’s stamina, and keep them in the World for longer.

After their initial success Vross and Corro learn of a stash of leviathan blood owned by the Fog Hounds and decided to steal it. Deep in the labyrinth of tunnels beneath Doskvol they find they find the stash…which Ulf Ironborn is currently trying to break into. Vross is wounded and traumatized after Ulf catches him telling a half-truth and trying the old “not-technically lying” gambit. However, they end up as allies when Corro picks the iron door to the contraband and agreeing to pay Ulf back for the leviathan bod they take from them room. Ulf carries Vross back to their boat himself.

Soon after Corro is approached by a man calling himself “The Gentleman Rivers” who’s master is interested in their product. Vross, meanwhile has learned that corpses have started showing up with their fingernails stained green–the one constant side effect of Rabbit’s Fury–after a quick debate money win’s out and they race a sample delivery to The Gentleman River’s associate The Kindlady Fields rather than investigate the deaths. Fields studies the Rabbits Fury for a moment and offers them a contract on behalf of her crew: The Humble Servants. Unbeknownst to the Rabbits they are now working for Lord Scurlock.

Now that business is out of the way the Rabbits try to get to the bottom of the whole green-nailed-corpse thing, their product is more of an unlicensed supplement than proper drug, and should be safe to consume. They reach out to a Spider named Larch who offer to find the truth if they can get some illegally imported meats and cheeses off of his hands. Finding a potential buyer they go in for a meeting, only to discover that the Buyer’s assistant is Vross’ brother who is pissed of by Vross’ pursuit of the criminal life. Thankfully, the buyer is oblivious to any drama going on and takes everything to ensure a fantastic Grand opening to the brothel he’s always wanted to open. After taking the coin back to Larch the Rabbits learn that the deaths were caused by a knockoff version of Rabbit’s Fury manufactured by a figured believed to be Corro’s former teacher who tried to steal his formulas.

Meanwhile, during downtime, Corro has sought to gain as much knowledge as he can and–after learning to attune–finds himself drawn to an abandoned mansion in Six Towers where he finds a long staircase to a shrine to The Closed Eye. Following graffitied instructions, he returns when the moon is absent from the sky and discovers the H’Ivayaset, worshipers of the forgotten god of knowledge. After drinking a psychedelic mushroom tea Corro comes face-to-face with the god who’s eyes were the sun and moon which allowed them to see everything in the world. Since the cataclysm The Closed Eye has entrusted mortals to become their missing eye, and find what has been hidden from their sight. Corro accepts their offer and becomes a cultist.

Vross has a dream where he is a lord. As he lays down to sleep one of his masked servants bottles his silver tears.

Then, finally, in our latest session the Rabbit’s lair is invaded by a horde of ghosts, and they race through the city trying to find someone who will help them before the Spirit Wardens discover their base and the drug lab within it. Despite a couple false starts and a falling out with Larch, the Rabbits manage to borrow some ghost-fighting gear from Corro’s fellow cult member Roethe Skora, and equip some of Ulf’s crew, who join them in the ensuing fight. They return to their lair to find fourteen ghosts tearing up Corro’s lab and launch into a mad attack in which the Rabbits are both nearly killed. One spirit ignores the fight and searches beneath a desk until it finds a vial of Rabbit’s Fury which it absorbs into its electroplasm, and starts to become corporeal once more and tries to make a deal, before it is killed mid sentence by one of Ulf’s overzealous lieutenants. The death bells ring for it and the non-injured fighters rush to dump its strange decaying matter into a canal a few blocks away.