Act V: Rapid Development
In which the Nameless make shady business deals, stage a power failure, re-decapitate a robot, and fulfill a fake child’s dying wish.
Ghostly Acquisitions
The Nameless convince Caleb Hollow to possess Eckherd “Deckerd”, long-lost “noble”, as a means to facilitate the sale of Deckherd Hall to one Studebaker Spud. Lugos commits a massacre as a housewarming gift.
Mend Fences, Swing Clubs
The Nameless faked a lightning wall incident and made Captain Clelland and Erin of the Billhooks look like heroes of the hour WHILE ALSO doing an Inconvenient Truth.
The Billhooks are financially embedded into the fabric of V-Sea-W and their civil war is over, with Erin as acting leader. Coran of the Billhooks has encountered Super Saiyan Goose and subsequently suffered ego death.
As a bonus, the Nameless struck up a financial relationship with the Fog Hounds smugglers, and the Lampblacks are now under increased police scrutiny.
The Ironworks has been rebuilt with HEFTY controlling finance from the Ministry of Preservation.
Meanwhile in Six Towers… (mumble mumble Strauss X7 nightclub)
- Olga, community leader in Six Towers
- Puerto Rico Strauss, enigmatic and strangely charismatic restauranteur with a string of failures and several low-end goons to his name
- Boris Volkov, techno Viking and former Cloudspire architect. Also Katya’s brother.
- Doctor Heinrich the Crow, now trapped in Ghost Box
- Charity, sibling to the dead Mercy
- Bhed the Wolf feeds on the ego
- The electroplasmic guitar has been invented
- Hungry Steve
Pawns & Needles
Deckherd Hall, recently renovated into a luxurious gambling establishment, has received a (beautifully embroidered) threat from Lugos. In response, Bluecoat Captain Morgan Clelland hires the Nameless to quell the possibility of a second Deckherd Hall Massacre.
After some initial investigation (which reveals the renovation’s financial backers as the Seventh Tower Consortium), the Nameless decide to intercept Lugos before he can interfere with the grand opening.
The Nameless track Lugos to the abandoned Claddage Manor and begin their infiltration. Flan and Sizzle uncover (and behead) the partially flayed corpse of former Spirit Warden Cassiopeia Beasby, learning that her metal Spirit Warden skeleton has been augmented with sharp, needle-like claws. Arkin discovers a clockwork spider in the manor’s vents just before Sizzle’s hawk alerts the Nameless to Lugos’s return.
As Lugos descends into the manor, the ghost of Cassiopeia Beasby re-possesses her decapitated corpse and, head in hands, attacks Flan and Cruncho. Arkin and Lugos confront each other, revealing that Arkin’s “kill switch” had been removed by the Clockmaker. After a brief but desperate battle involving an inventive booby trap, clever use of electroplasmic current, and a well-placed railing, the Nameless just barely manage to behead Lugos and destroy the reanimated Cassiopeia.
In the aftermath, Flan loots the art gallery while Cruncho confiscates Cassiopeia’s metal skeleton and persuades a gravely injured Arkin not to destroy what remains of Lugos. Casta appears at the door of the manor, demanding Lugos’s head, but Sizzle convinces her to back off in exchange for owing a favor.
The opening night of Deckherd Hall goes off without a hitch, and Flan throws a successful pizza party.
Alduaria, by François
Upon learning that the newly opened Deckherd Hall was to feature Chef François, his rival Giancarlo asked the Nameless to intervene.
In order to discredit and humiliate François, the Nameless, led by Sandro and Flan, presided over a takeover of the restaurant by the wrestlers of V-Sea-W with the intent of staging a widespread incident of food poisoning. Sizzle helped Cruncho distract Bea, François’s sous chef, while Linmer confronted François. The discovery and subsequent destruction of François’s haunted meat grinder (not a euphemism) and an explosion of hagfish slime ultimately resulted in the deaths of François and Bea, with Bea’s ghost posessing François’ corpse.
Contract Work
Seventh Tower Consortium is gentrifying Six Towers out from under you
There are Imperial weapons involved
And a spooky man in a hat
Roslyn of the Dimmer Sisters is dead, but you’ve framed it on Seventh Tower Consortium!
Grace the assassin is here to:
- Kill Eckherd Deckherd
- Kill Myleria Klev of the Red Sashes
- Frame someone (the Nameless) for both of these deaths.
- Cause a brief lightning wall failure to the west
Realizing that she has overextended herself (it happens in this capitalist grindset society!), she has contacted her friend Sizzle and her divinely(?)-ordained ally Cruncho to help her out with these two jobs!
Eckherd is dead and framed in a way that will NEVER STICK IN COURT
the Crows and Black Knights are IN the city!
Valanthe has a date with Sizzle over firearms
Render is 6-8 weeks away
The Nameless are at War with Seventh Tower Consortium and sort of also the Billhooks!
The Red Sash’s leader survived an assassination attempt through an untraceable anonymous tip so you’re going into this shit with your allies intact!