Act IV: The Ironworks Debacle
In which the Nameless cause a looming energy shortage, lose track of a certain ancient vampire, and kill a demon.
Highly Exothermic
The Nameless indirectly cause the destruction of a business vital to the economic and literal survival of Duskvol, and Arkin’s conscience is now trapped in a bottle.
The Duskvol Ironworks is/was a substantial part of the industrial and civic apparatus that allows Leviathan hunting (and thus, the electricity that powers Duskvol and keeps it safe from the Deathlands). Its destruction is a BIG DEAL.
We have a perfect corpse facsimile of Katya lying around now.
And Arcade is now known to university workers (and the university President) as a man of extremely cool understated hypercompetence, like how Vin Diesel wishes everyone thought of him.
COMPLETELY UNRELATED: The V-Sea-W locker room is full of dissent and irritability, doubtless compounded by poor gate numbers and a lackluster response to the Dwayne’s championship run. While there are a few factors at play, one Christopher Canaan is smugly stoking the fires of revolt. The Dwayne is done with V-Sea-W.
The Madman’s Assault
To distance the gang from culpability in the Duskvol Ironworks explosion, Arkin goes on a rampage at Charterhall University. Scurlock and Lugos have an unfortunate encounter with the Cult of Vazara.
To exonerate Katya from her potential loss of position and to distance the gang from culpability in the Duskvol Ironworks explosion, Arkin pretended to go after the President of Charterhall University so that Katya could “kill” him. Arcade and Katya emerged as heroes of the hour, and Arkin implied that he was solely responsible for the Ironworks explosion before being “slain”.
The group also discovered that University President Vinculus Swing AND University trustee Arthur Pendryn are part of a secretive Cult to Vazara (a centuries-forgotten sky goddess). Upon informing Scurlock of this fact, the vampire reacted with cold rage and a desire to exact bloody revenge. Scurlock and Lugos went off to permanently deal with this cult and their members. Scurlock did not return, and the cult remains active. Lugos DID return with significant damage, and has refused to communicate what happened.
Salted Wickham
Saltford’s bank has crumbled, its ghostly infrastructure and strange semi-possessed tellers destroyed.
-Young Hamwick, the demonic ragamuffin, is in possession of a safety deposit box belonging to “a bully”.
-Saltford’s stands on the site of an ancient fort called Skydagger Keep, where a legion of some kind once held out against something called The Cinder King. The legion was bolstered by someone called a Chosen of Vazara, and faced down undead forces captained by someone named Breaker and someone else named Blighter.
A 9’ ghost wolf-man is free.
Sean McMichaels has a Glasgow smile and was beaten half to death by Ben Heart.
Thrice Again
Scurlock is recovered from the Dimmer Sisters thanks to a team-up of the Nameless and Casta. Complications arise when some new law enforcement arrives on the scene. Claire Strangford has an unfortunate experience at Makeout Mine.
“-would be irresponsible-“
“-Containment would be-“
“-Blighter, my lady-“
“-LUGOS NO-“
Broken
The Nameless kill Breaker with the help of some supernatural allies.
- Fake-heist the book and banner. Coat the banner with flubber. Ready a fake book.
- Plan to ambush Breaker while ALSO stumbling into Casta and Scurlock’s planned ambush of Breaker.
- Having distracted Breaker with a lightning duel, unleash an ancient demigod. Bounce the flubber banner.
- Let off a bunch of electroplasmic grenades.
- Replace the book with a fake.
- Get Mousely to pilot Rahz and take back Arkin’s soul juice.
- Escape!