Act I: Starting Out, Spirit Wardens, and Scurlock
In which the Nameless steal a clockwork head, survive a bespoke house of horrors, accidentally kill an important man, and pick a fight with some ex-cops.
The First Heist
The Nameless first made their presence known by interrupting a covert handoff between a group of Deathlands Scavengers and a Spirit Warden.
The artifact, a clockwork head, was also the target of the Wraiths, another notable gang of thieves with a penchant for hand signals and perfect coordination. The Nameless returned the head to their contact, Lord Scurlock, who received it gratefully.
In the process of stealing the head, the Nameless managed to reveal the Spirit Warden’s identity as Cassiopeia Beasby, a moderately-notorious socialite. As anonymity is a major calling card of the Spirit Wardens, Ms. Beasby was dismissed in short order.
Beasby’s Revenge
The Nameless’s next job was given to them by Lady Claddage, wife of private banker (and alleged embezzler) Lord Claddage. The lady had decided that the social fallout of her husbands crimes was too extensive for her to wish to remain married to him, and so asked the Nameless to help her fake her own death.
Upon arrival at Claddage Manor, the Nameless quickly found themselves in a bespoke house of horrors, as the entire mission was revealed to be pretext for a deranged Cassiopeia Beasby to take bloody revenge upon those who had wronged her. The Nameless slew Beasby and just barely escaped with their lives.
Dunleavy Down
The Nameless made enough of a mess to attract the ire of the Spirit Wardens. Rather than wishing to go to war against an influential and elusive organization of government ghost-hunters, the Nameless agreed to frame Captain Winslow Dunleavy (of the Leviathan Hunter Lightning) as a Spirit Warden himself.
A plan was hatched to drug the debaucherous captain, place him in the midst of a faked supernatural incident, and allow him to be seen by whatever interested parties were out for the Spirit Wardens.
This plan immediately fell through when the drugs administered to Dunleavy slew him nigh-instantaneously. Undeterred, the Nameless changed the narrative to imply (successfully, it would seem) that Winslow Dunleavy had given his life as a Spirit Warden fighting against an unspecified demonic threat. Thus, war between the Spirit Wardens and the Nameless was averted.
Katya & Arkin’s Wild Ride
Arkin and Katya team up with Lugos and inadvertently start a war.