A Little Anarchy
With all of the executions of various nobles (Clelland and Bowmore being foremost among them), there are a bunch of ownerless Leviathan Hunters sitting around with no ultimate paymaster. Business as usual is cautiously continuing, as the Ministry of Preservation is working on locking these down as belonging to the municipal government of Duskwall. HOWEVER, there is currently a lot of legal limbo. Inventories are not complete, or have not yet been seized by the relevant authorities. Nobody’s sure what’s owned by who, or where anything is headed.
All of that is to say, a LOT of the criminal underworld would be interested in getting their hands on some or all of these assets before the Ministry moves in. Logs, inventories, deeds of ownership, cargo . . . even the ships themselves.
Session Recap
The Nameless successfully saved the city from an attack by Chuck Morgenstern aka the Croaker, who was planning on blowing up the Bellweather Crematorium via hijacked Leviathan Hunter!
Wow! They’re heroes!
Don’t be stupid, they were in it for the money. In fact, they only got wind of the plot in the first place because they were planning on hijacking the same Leviathan Hunter (the Oriad’s Wake, formerly owned by the extinct Clelland family).
Oh . . . So, they got the money?
Kinda! Linmer took the Leviathan Hunter and sailed off to sea with a crew and an airship, for a semi-retirement of privateering on the high seas! This was with the tacit blessing of Nat Marseilles, half of whose face got burned off during the attempts to stop the Croaker.
One assumes this is a reference?
I mean, maybe. Sandro’s also just blown a fuse or two in the process of this fight, having invested some of the strange green liquid that the Croaker was providing his minions. Might wanna keep an eye on that. At least he and Nat might be friends again now!
Friendship! Yay!
Yay!
Quick Hits
-As part of his plan, the Croaker intended to blow up Ironhook Bridge (between Dunslough and Coalridge). Arkin thwarted this, but discovered that the bombs had been built by none other than the Clockmaker (who seems to be developing a bit of a rep as a bomb-maker for hire).
-As previously mentioned, Nat’s face was partially blown off in an explosion that also took out close to 20 Bluecoats. They’d been dispatched there by the Nameless’ warning. Nat appears to have gained a new, more fluid outlook on law and order as a result of this.
-Chuck Morgenstern/the Croaker had a small group of henchmen, who were willing to die for this mission on the basis that it would destroy the Bellweather Crematorium and gunk up the city’s major center for stopping ghosts from arising. This included Chuck’s estranged daughter, whom the Croaker redubbed “Charlie’s Sin” (say it fast and remember that she has a squeaky New Jersey accent).
-Sandro debuted the persona of Charon, a death-themed vigilante, for cover and general chicanery on this job. It started as a bit. After significant harm and trauma from his chemical mishaps and Croaker fight, it may not be a bit anymore.