COMPLICATION COMPLICATION

08 07
You must drop clues that you act If anyone dies (besides specific targets if an
on a rival faction’s behalf. assassination) you don’t get paid at all.
Switch a financial ledger with a doctored version. Plant evidence of murder.
08 07
HEIST HEIST
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
06 05
Must happen in the fog of the Blind Hour at dusk. The target has extra security for some
unrelated reason.
without anyone detecting it. The target is attracted to a “type” in your crew.
Get a message to someone in isolation Arrange for a target to be seduced.
06 05
HEIST HEIST
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
04 03
If you’re going to do it, you have to do it now, The target is connected to one of your allies, so be
in the next couple of hours. careful (and/or conceal your involvement).
Intercept a messenger and swap sealed pouches. Socially humiliate the target in a social gathering.
04 03
HEIST HEIST
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
02 01
The target knows something is afoot The target is running ahead of schedule.
and will be vigilant.
the target sold an ally’s secrets. separate them from bodyguards.
Plant evidence suggesting that Snatch someone off the street,
02 01
HEIST HEIST
CARRYANDER WILDTHORN
CHARMING RAKE
Social climber, threadbare
aristocrat, carouser.
Connected to gossip.
Petty and vengeful towards
former lovers.
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Six Towers,
Aristocracy
Enemies: Cyphers
DREBBISHA SLEUN
ISOLATED SPECIALIST
Mystic, forger, chemist.
Specializes in countering
identification rituals and
government documents.
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: +1.
Allies: Hive
Enemies: Ministry of
Preservation
PROFESSOR ENTE SALIA
SUBVERSIVE ASSASSIN
Leech, professor, deviant.
Uses her academic prestige
and budget to experiment
with untraceable poisons.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Red Sashes, Hive
Enemies: Wraiths
MAUDE SELVERICUS
VICIOUS BUREAUCRAT
Her household servants are
spirits of her enemies torn
out and planted in hollows.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Ministry, Church
Enemies: Lost, Wraiths
“INK SLUICE”
LUXURY YACHT
Seldom sails out of port, the
owner allows friends to host
meetings and parties aboard.
+ Contract to keep Bluecoat
Lots of secretive business and
meets there.
-
Really decent ritual
protections.
02
PINCER POT FINE DINING
UPSCALE RESTAURANT
Catering to people with
more money than class. A
neutral protected meeting
area for local factions.
+
Open to the public.
-
Restaurant has security
connected to local factions.
04
THE LIGHT AND TIMES
BEACON AND TEA SHOP
Sparkcraft tower beaming
light, a workshop and testing
site for sparkcrafters. Tea
shop below.
+ Lots of information for sale
Public, high profile, good
security.
- Your business is their
Expensive components require
high-tech security.
06
INNOCENCE POINT
HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE
Outside the walls, an
electroplasmic beam
sweeping the sky.
+
Probably won’t generate Heat
for killing outside the city,
isolated.
- Allies: New money nobles
Outside the city. Surrounded
by clouds of ghosts. Protected
electroplasmic supply.
08
ADRIC VANS
SUBVERSIVE SCHOLAR
Famous musician, ephemeral
advocate, medium.
Socializes with ghosts.
Insufficiently respectful to
authorities.
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Reconciled
Enemies: Spirit Wardens
BASRIC LEELAL
RUTHLESS DANDY
Gambler, assassin, fancy
man.
Solves problems around big
deaths and little deaths for
the wealthy.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Whitecrown
Aristocracy
Enemies: Red Sashes
DEEN FRAYBORN
CORRUPT BLUECOAT
Captain, drug dealer,
mercenary.
He persuades people with
law, vice, or violence—for a
price.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Bluecoats,
Leviathan Hunters
Enemies: Inspectors, Lost
GORLAND COLSARCH
NOBLE MAGNATE
Rake, investor, slumlord.
Takes a hands-on approach,
forcing his investments to
succeed.
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1.
Enemies: Aristocracy,
victims
CORMORANT STORAGE
FORTIFIED TOWER
Grimy secure storage tower,
six stories tall, guarded.
+
evidence.
-
Lots of deferred maintenance.
01
THICKWRIST PATTERNS
TATTOO SHOP
Sprawling interconnected
basements frequented by
cultists to the Forgotten
Gods, specializing in custom
tats often incorporating
supernatural elements.
+
Low security, low profile.
-
Stuffed with connected cultists
who hold grudges.
03
SCRIBBLE COVE
UNDERGROUND TAVERN
Seedy hangout for ink rakes
(reporters) networking for
leads, quotes, and bribes.
+
cheap.
-
business.
05
CARROW
LIMMER VILLAGE
Village 2.5 miles outside
the walls, connected
underground. Albinos,
Whispers, and birth defects.
Speak ancient Iruvian.
+
Protected by standing stones
powered by human sacrifice to
keep ghosts out.
-
Full of inbred limmers.
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09 10

Confront the target as a jilted lover Sabotage a bridge or portal to cut off access
to damage their romantic situation. at a key moment.

Church of Ecstasy.
There’s a bonus if you embarrass the Two heists have to go down simultaneously.
09 10
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION

HEIST HEIST
11 12

Kill an uninvolved target who is with the target of Overhear a critical scheduled conversation
the message, while they are together. without being observed.

and vengeful Inspector.

The target is related to a famously petty You will need the help of an estranged ally.
11 12
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION

HEIST HEIST
13 14

The client is going to be ambushed. Delay a fugitive long enough for the Bluecoats to
Be ready to counter-attack. capture them.

Forgotten God. to do this job.

Succeeding here will infuriate a cult to a One of the characters will have to break a promise
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HEIST HEIST
15 16

Cozy up to the target at a social event Steal the blueprints for a new machine.
and get some kind of leverage.

The client is micromanaging this one. The target is related to a connected faction leader.
15 16
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
 HEADMAN VALIN
UNSETTLING SMUGGLER
Mayor, limmer, trader.
Antlered helm, staff, fur
coat. Runs Carrow, a limmer
village. Sells illegal Leviathan
blood.
Generosity: x. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Unrecommendables,
Limmers
Enemies: Spirit Wardens
LYANTI KIVA
CRUSADING SLEUTH
Inspector, fanatic, underdog.
Determined to root out
Leviathan blood smuggling
and limmer activity.
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Inspectors,
Spirit Wardens
Enemies: Bluecoats,
Limmers
MASTER SILVERCRANE
CORRUPT SOLICITOR
Fixer, agent, investigator.
Assures that guilty
aristocrats face few
consequences. Connected,
able to erase problems.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Aristocracy,
Bluecoats
Enemies: Inspectors
GALLERY SMITHWYLDE
ARISTOCRATIC COLLECTOR
Lord, sportsman, hobbyist.
Renowned radiant garden at
his estate. Arranges exclusive
contracts with smugglers,
kills traitors.
Generosity: +2. Loyalty: +1.
Allies: Ministry, Hive
Enemies: Lost
LOTUS VERICAE SHANDRA CATFISH BAIT
RED SASH DRUG DEN MURDEROUS OCCULTIST SKOV TAVERN
Posh restaurant club with Harpooner, assassin, zealot. Converted auction house
an Iruvian theme and extra and barn, hotspot of Skov
services. Hosts swordplay Prosthetic bone arm, carved intrigue and political
demonstrations and illegal teeth. Savors fear. Pursuing a agitation.
honor duels. secret agenda.
+
+ Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1. Sympathetic to Skov interests.
Luxurious, well-armed, -
decadent privacy. Allies: Leviathan hunters, Close knit; friends and
- Forgotten Gods enemies of Skov culture are
Touchy duelists protecting known.
secrets and honor. Enemies: Hive
10 09
FEMORAL COURT DR. KAM EVERECHT WAXMELT THEATER
CHURCH SAFEHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL CHEMIST TROPHY SHOWCASE
Walled apartment block Drug dealer, lecher, Prestige cultural center in
in Fogcrest with Church loan shark. Brightstone helps socialites
security to protect or restrain bolster status by performing
persons involved in Church Locks clients into exclusive charity and supporting the
problems. contracts enforced by arts.
prostitute legbreakers.
+ +
Many secrets, vulnerable Generosity: +1. Loyalty: +1. Easier to get access to the
to bluffing. upper crust here.
- Allies: Red Sashes -
The Church will take offense So very expensive.
to trespass here. Enemies: Wraiths
12 11
SIDEARM PUBLIC HOUSE MADAME STARSHINE THE LUMBEROUS
MULTI-LEVEL RESTAURANT CELEBRITY MEDIUM DRYDOCKED LEVIATHAN HUNTER
Connected buildings include Entertainer, advisor, mystic. Hulking metal ship stalled in
basements, secret doors, refitting because of funding,
and catwalks so privacy and Theatrical, but serves as a popular neutral meet site.
eluding pursuit are easy. confidant for several noble
+
families. Prestigious.
+ Local factions and law are
Hosts a famous (and illegal) Generosity: -1. Loyalty: +1. paid to ignore what happens
hagfish fighting tournament. there.
- Allies: Aristocracy -
Easy to get trapped. Undying Leviathan blood
Enemies: Limmers attracts and reinforces ghosts.
14 13
CLASHENDO LYSANDER NINE AND NINE TAVERN
OPERATIC AUDITORIUM CONNECTED PERFORMER SHUTTERED RENDEZVOUS
Bombastic, over the top, Dandy, bard, pimp. Overlooks the Spark
entirely extra decoration and Grounds. Closed, contested
services. Everything that Popular with a fancy in court. Criminals
happens in this Charterhall lads and ladies network. sometimes meet in its
venue is super dramatic. Composer, actor, fixer. shadowy hall.
+ Generosity: +1. Loyalty: +1. +
Excuse to chew the scenery. Brash hosts still use the
- Allies: Unrecommendables, kitchen and serve meals.
Always seems to escalate here. Fancy League -
Schedules may overlap with
Enemies: Inspectors, dangerous (and private)
Red Sashes people.
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24 23
As an extra, you can talk to the ghost This job touches on a demon’s plans somehow,
of a loved one. may get the demon’s attention.
target survival optional.
Manage a kidnapping and ransom operation, Kill the target, but it has to look like an accident.
24 23
HEIST HEIST
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
22 21
Doing this job will disappoint Instead of being paid by the client, keep the Coin
one of the crew’s allies. expected to be present at the job site.
is the key for a book code. to the client.
Persuade the target to reveal which book Convince the target to sell a prized property
22 21
HEIST HEIST
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
20 19
The target is admired by one of your crew. The client wants to pay double rep, no coin.
gambling debts.
Persuade a loan shark to let go of the client’s Acquire top secret floorplans of a Ministry building.
20 19
HEIST HEIST
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
18 17
Succeeding here will infuriate the The indecisive client keeps changing the rules.
Church of Ecstasy. (Switch a complication mid-heist.)
out of an embassy’s custody. gut-wrenching mess of it.
Smuggle bootleg electroplasm Kill the target, and make a spectacular
18 17
HEIST HEIST
 CORNELIUS BOWMORE
ARISTOCRAT NECROMANCER
Researcher, deviant,
sociopath.
Doskvol’s founding aristocracy,
conducting horrific research in
his moldering castle.
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Ironhook Prison,
aristocracy
Enemies: Wraiths, Lost
RAZOR WIND
DEMONIC WHISPER
Avenger, torturer, mercenary.
Single-mindedly pursuing
destruction of a bloodline,
but revenge doesn’t pay the
bills.
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Deathlands scavengers
Enemies: Reconciled
CACOPHONY SIDEWAYS
OCCULTIST SMUGGLER
Thief, outlaw, legend.
High turnover for crew and
supporters; she isn’t caught,
they are.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Deathlands scavengers
Enemies: Ministry, Hive
MORDIS
WEALTHY OCCULTIST
Collector, researcher, cultist.
Imposing and masked
Tycherosian known for
ruthless response to insults.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: x.
Allies: Cults,
Path of Echoes
Enemies: Spirit Wardens,
Church
WORLDSEDGE THEATER
SMUGGLER’S FRONT
New theater featuring plays,
operas, and concerts catering
to new money and middle
class.
+
Criminals with legal
businesses run the theater.
-
If double-crossed you are in
deep with little reaction time.
18
ADRIFT IN DREAMS
UNMOORED CONSCIOUSNESS
Potions, rituals, and
accidents can project
awareness outside waking
reality for meetings, attacks,
or rescues.
+ +
Alibis are easier than
investigations.
- -
It’s all so weird and uncertain.
20
TEN FRINGE CORRIDORS
BLIGHT MAZE
After a legal battle, buildings
were leveled and removed.
Exposed foundations are a
haunted and lawless maze in
Nightmarket.
+
Low risk of collateral damage
in a fight here.
- Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1.
Confusing, deep, infested with
dangerous squatters.
22
RUNWATER CORNERS
SPIRIT WELL
Abandoned square in
Silkshore. A crumbling
basement hosts a crude altar
for communing with the
Forgotten Gods.
+ Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
Whisper powers are amplified.
- Allies: Clients everywhere
Cults tend to squat here.
24
EMPRESS OF GULLS
ENIGMATIC WHISPER
Scholar, authority, regulator.
Settles disputes and
mysteries among occultists
and Whispers.
Generosity and Loyalty:
unpredictable.
Allies: Whispers, cultists,
adepts
Enemies: Spirit Wardens,
Church
FALIQ LUDELLEM
GONDOLIER BARD
Musician, loremaster,
organizer.
Nobility on the canals,
steeped in the old stories and
mysteries. Protects gondolier
traditions.
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: +1.
Allies: Gondoliers
Enemies: Hive
DIRECTOR NALAYA
SECRETIVE BUREAUCRAT
Reviewer, politician,
priestess.
Publicly known as Ministry
Director of Structures.
Privately, Master of Stone for
the Silkshore Foundation. She
curates mysteries.
Allies: Reconciled
Enemies: Church, Whispers
DRISCOM ELLIOTT
BLACKMAILING SCHEMER
Art critic, lawyer, spider.
Architect and a puppeteer,
manipulating people to
shape his city.
Enemies: Clients everywhere
TIRIAL RESERVE CANALWAY
CANAL ALLEYWAY
Narrow waterway in
Silkshore, in the Ease, opens
to prevent flooding. Many
walkways overhead, close
quarters, cuts across major
access routes.
+
Easy to approach unseen.
-
Little room to maneuver.
17
TENPENNY COURT
PROSTITUTION COMPLEX
Upper levels added to
buildings, limited interior
access, a secret extended
suite for dalliances and
rendezvouses.
Invitation only, out of easy
view.
Connected patrons are very
private.
19
NORTH HOOK ANNEX
TEST SITE
Dock warehouse hosts a
prototype of ambient defense
technology that disables
Whisper and ghost energies.
Sample security environments
for demonstrations.
+
Not in use, guards focus on
perimeter.
-
Expensive technology is well
guarded.
21
INKWINE CENTER FOR REFOCUSING
BLIGHT MAZE
Facility for humane
treatment of the insane
(or inconvenient) family
members or agents of the
wealthy.
+
Extremely discreet and secure
setting.
-
If you disappear here, no one
will find you.
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25 26

Stage a protest that provokes the target The target is meeting enemies under a truce.
to respond violently. Attack the negotiation, frame the target.

long-sought revenge on this job.

One of your crew may be able to get You know it is a trap going in.
25 26
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION

HEIST HEIST
27 28

Kill the target in a specific and unlikely way Convince the target that loyal supporters
to match the client’s public prediction. have betrayed them, fuel paranoia.

The target contacts you with a counter-offer. A buddy from way back will suffer if you succeed.
27 28
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION

HEIST HEIST
29 30

Infiltrate a lockdown, help the target Feed the target to the target’s own pets.
fake their death, and smuggle them out.

love at first sight. (Flooding, storms, too clear, etc.)

During the heist a character is struck by Weather is causing problems.
29 30
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION

HEIST HEIST
31 32

Join the client for an outing and identify the traitor Manage a kidnapping and ransom operation,
in the client’s entourage. target survival required.

and could easily disappear.

If this job is connected to you, you could lose a claim. Your client already faked dying
31 32
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
 SHIMMER
OCCULT INTELLIGENCIER
Spy, agent, fixer.
Discreet and beautiful
Tycherosian with scales,
serving the oldest powers in
the city.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Aristocracy
Enemies: Skovs
HUNTER OF THE FALLOWS
CULT FIXER
Seer, herald, carpenter.
Connects seekers to cults,
instinctively checking occult
credentials.
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: +1.
Allies: Forgotten Gods cults
Enemies: Inspectors
MOTHER GRINE
FIXER ASSASSIN
Bodyguard, spy, zealot.
Serves the Church, solving
problems with blood and
silence. Experienced and
pitiless.
Generosity: +2. Loyalty: +1.
Allies: Church, Ministry,
Spirit Wardens
Enemies: Foundation,
Forgotten Gods
SKANNON CLELLAND
GUARDIAN VAMPIRE
Degenerate, predator, artist.
Lairing in a Six Towers
manse, she has victims
delivered so she never leaves
the Clellan family treasures
she guards.
Generosity: +2. Loyalty: -2.
Allies: Aristocrats
Enemies: Aristocrats
GATHWRAY LIBRARY CAPTAIN RIKARD SORTING POINT
RESEARCH NEXUS PIRATE REFUGEE IMMIGRANT TAVERN
Doskvol Academy in Raider, drunk, rebel. Skovs leave ships and come
Whitecrown hosts the here first to get oriented
College of Immortal Studies; He lost his ship and crew. to Doskvol and meet
it overflows with occultists, Inexplicably popular with representatives of local Skov
doctors, and theologians. Skovs, who fund him. organizations.
+ Generosity: -2. Loyalty: -2. +
Academic gowns blend in. Always lots of new faces.
- Allies: Skovs, Lost -
Ghost staff defend the library Almost an embassy; trouble
with crippling punishments. Enemies: Bluecoats here can anger a lot of Skovs.
26 25
MARKER 36 THORN SAROOL’S HOUSE CUISINE
LEECH LABORATORY CULT PRIESTESS IRUVIAN CUISINE
Underground, concealed, Oracle, assassin, vigilante. Decorated by radiant
guarded, warded, and fishtanks and frequented by
equipped. Features a collection Rules the Wire Thicket cult, Ministry bureaucrats. Unity
of Workshop’s taxidermied all women, wears a golden Park, Brightstone.
victims and reanimated stag mask.
+
compilations of people. Open secret, list of
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: +1.
+ reservations is for sale.
Excellent supplies. Physical Allies: Gondoliers -
and occult defenses. Spies report all patrons to the
- Enemies: Spirit Wardens Ministry.
Rebuilt servants are
disturbing.
28 27
CENTRAL LANDING NYLATHIA BEL CANTER’S LOWLAND
GONDOLIER HQ RETIRED PRIESTESS URBAN BOG
Bustling permit and dispatch Consultant, insider, fixer. Canal runoff, a dump behind
offices for gondola traffic. rows of buildings. Rotten
Vendors and public seating Once was the Codex of algae, busted furniture.
at a major intersection of the Radiant Word, mystic Popular corpse dumping
Silkshore canals in the Ease. alter ego. Retired Ministry ground.
bureaucrat.
+ +
Warded against ghosts. Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1. Even if spies know you’ll meet
- there, it’s a jumbled mess.
Every direction is an exit. Allies: Gondoliers, Ministry -
Distressing stench.
Enemies: Hive
30 29
GRINDER HALL CLEF ROWAN MANSE
SKOV FORTIFICATION IMMIGRANT LIAISON RECLAIMED GREAT HOUSE
Overturned barge forms a Brute, spokesman, carouser. Six Towers landmark. Fell
raftered hall, surrounded to ruin, undergoing massive
by a palisade of salvaged Newcomer Skov with a (but incremental) renovation.
lumber. Ministry appointment to
+
speak for Skov immigrants.
+ Offers both refurbished spaces
Insecure, with a mean streak.
Defensible with guards and (to meet) and cluttered ruins
lookouts. Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1. (to hide).
- -
Outlaw eyesore, resented by Allies: Skovs, Gondoliers Domain of a family with a
authorities. Council seat.
Enemies: Ministry
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40 39
Your success on this job will Inspectors are closely monitoring the target.
cause problems for an ally.
Rig the outcome of a hagfish fight. Deflect attention from the client’s embezzlement.
40 39
HEIST HEIST
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
38 37
The client requires the crew to take along his ally If you succeed here, a complication vexing your
as an observer. rival will be resolved.
but one piece is crucially important; steal that one.
Most of the client’s jewelry is decoy, Negotiate a truce on the nervous client’s behalf.
38 37
HEIST HEIST
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
36 35
The venue switches at the last minute. Someone calls in a favor your crew owes in the
same time frame as this job.
Make the target feel helpless. location. Retrieve the child.
Cripple the target for defying the client. The client’s child is with the other parent in a secure
36 35
HEIST HEIST
COMPLICATION COMPLICATION
34 33
If you succeed here, you may be able Your target’s allies use bounty hunters to
to get an off-limits claim. investigate and avenge.
and getting caught at it. Make sure they won’t return.
Lure the target into committing an illegal act Clear out squatters on the client’s turf.
34 33
HEIST HEIST
 DR. REDMES STANSBY
BLACKMAILING PROFESSOR
Noble, researcher, alchemist.
Chooses wealthy or useful
students to be partners or
targets as he schemes.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Ministry,
Aristocrats
Enemies: Inspectors
SIR VELL DRAMACH
NOBLE ADMINISTRATOR
Leader, investor, priest.
Career bureaucrat in the
cabinet of the Ministry of
Preservation for Silkshore,
protecting the aristocracy.
Generosity: +2. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Aristocrats,
Ministry
Enemies: Masses
RIPOSTE
MYSTIC DUELIST
Diplomat, dancer, assassin.
Accomplished Whisper and
Red Sash swordsman. He
handles sensitive work for
the Sashes.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: +1.
Allies: Path of Echoes
Enemies: Lampblacks
DAME MARODAN
WICKED BOSS
Businesswoman, madame,
fixer.
Organized crime middle
management in Silkshore.
Coordinates troubleshooters
and keeps the peace. Frames
competitors so they’re arrested.
Generosity: x. Loyalty: x.
Allies: Bluecoats
Enemies: Inspectors
THE MISTYARD ELZIRAAN TICK TOCK TEA HOUSE
GONDOLIER CAVERN BONE DEMON CRIMINAL HANGOUT
Canal locks allow boat Spy, scholar, tempter. Silkshore landmark,
access to an underground windmill turns bar seating.
lake fortified with gondolier Pacts with the desperate to Popular tea house, base for
construction and wards. corrupt them, offering power organized crime.
A traditional and sacred over bones and savoring
+
meeting ground. their kills and madness.
They keep current on
+ Generosity: +1. Loyalty: +1. kickbacks and bribes so they’re
Private and solemn. undisturbed by the law.
- Allies: Limmers -
Trespassing infuriates Troublemakers attracting
gondoliers. Enemies: Lost attention aren’t tolerated.
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GADDOC STATION WORKSHOP CLAVALIAN SEAT
IMPERIAL RAILWAY TAXIDERMIST LEECH HAUNTED RUIN
Electro-rails connect Healer, sociopath, anarchist. Six Towers Great House, site
Doskvol with the Imperium of a wealthy family’s horrific
by land. The giant labyrinth Heals and equips those experiments on Skov victims.
of platforms, warehousing, without safer options. The manse ( including labs
and engines is a travel hub. Servant of entropy, but his and prisons) is sealed.
research and experimentation
+ +
are meticulous.
Too crowded to properly Great wealth is hidden inside.
secure without lockdown. Generosity: -1. Loyalty: +1. -
- Clouds of murderous ghosts.
Heavily guarded, mechanical Allies: None
defenses.
Enemies: Ministry, Church
36 35
THE SILVER STAG FORDYCE SOAPSTONE MISTSHORE PARK
ELEGANT CASINO CROOKED LAWYER RUINED PROMENADE
Once a mansion, this Agent, purchaser, messenger. The columns of this roofless
Silkshore gambling den space provide cover in the
drapes silks over crumbling Always near power, never paved courtyard, illuminated
walls and dims lights to hide owning it. Runs corrupt by a lightning wall.
stains. schemes for nobles, gets
+
scraps of wealth.
+ It’s usually empty.
Caters to all kinds, Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -2. -
easy to blend. Parties sometimes fill the
- Allies: Aristocracy space with little notice.
Severosian spy nest.
Enemies: Skovs
38 37
SLOOP WRECK TRAJAN HIGH SIX
WHISPER THRONEROOM GONDOLIER MANAGEMENT RADIANT GARDEN
Wedged mid-river in Spokesman, boss, Pride of Silkshore, a
Tangletown, the interior is investigator. spacious park glowing with
profoundly warded. The hold radiant plants and dotted
audience chamber attaches He serves The Fairpole with statues dedicated to
to libraries and labs guarded Gondolier Council of philanthropists.
by adepts. Silkshore, coordinating legal
and illegal activity. +
+ Lightly guarded. Security
Only Whispers or idiots go here. Generosity: +1. Loyalty: +1. will witness and report, not
- intercept.
Uninvited guests risk death. Allies: Path of Echoes, -
Reconciled Damaging plants carries steep
penalties.
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Convince the target to do exclusive business Clear out a haunting that targets the client.
with the client and drop another partner.

acting ability. with one or more corpses.

At least one of your crew must demonstrate The plan involves being in close quarters
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Switch out a load of expensive luxury items Kill the client’s spouse, injure the client,
with fakes without anyone finding out. frame the client’s spouse’s lover.

Payment will be in a difficult-to-fence form. A past lover is sure to be on site.

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Break up a feud between two factions Find out what the target is planning—it’s big.
by destroying the contested asset.

There is a decent chance the crew could be cursed. The heist must happen on enemy turf.
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Discredit the client’s rival in the faction, sabotaging Find and destroy a vengeful spirit
a promotion. disrupting operations.

a faction will declare war.

The plan involves working with animals. If your involvement is known,
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 BERTRAM CLELLAND
AMBITIOUS INSPECTOR
Noble, hero, protege.
Leveraging his famous
family and good looks to
carve out his own wealth
and prestige.
Generosity: x. Loyalty: x.
Allies: Bluecoats,
Aristocracy
Enemies: Academics
THE WAX MASK
MYSTIC ENIGMA
Slaver, thief, priest.
Costumed Iruvian
practitioner of secret arts for
hollowing victims, covertly
scheming.
Generosity: -2. Loyalty: -2.
Allies: Iruvians
Enemies: Reconciled
EVAN SHANDLAY
ADVENTURING WRITER
Scholar, duelist, chef.
Famous for writing
Akorosian travel guides.
Infamous for high-profile
dalliances.
Generosity: x. Loyalty: +2.
Allies: Silver Nails,
Scavengers
Enemies: Ministry
MYLES STRANK
BITTER CAPTAIN
Recruiter, writer, socialite.
Administrator for the North
Hook House Guard. He is
proactive in defending noble
residences.
Generosity: x. Loyalty: x.
Allies: Bluecoats, Aristocracy
Enemies: Hive, Cults
THE VEIL
OCCULT CLUB
Opulent and mysterious,
expensive common areas
connect custom chambers
owned by powerful patrons.
+
Patrons are usually masked or
disguised.
- guards totally corrupt.
Unpredictable complications
depending on who is
attending.
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DOOMSDAY
OBSERVATION DECK
Front and back thirds of the
Leviathan Hunter Doomsday
embedded in the shoreline of
Ankhayat Park.
+ +
Clear view of all approaches.
Dramatic.
- May have to prove ability
Easy to get cornered.
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QUALITY DRYDOCK
SMUGGLING HIDEOUT
The Hive stores contraband,
secured where a ship would fit.
+
Does anonymous business
with many clients.
- Rare goods, no Bluecoats.
You don’t know whose secrets
you might be disturbing.
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SUNKEN GARDEN
LABOR CAMP
Penal serfs wade in the
terraced rice fields, fending
off eels and worse while
guards watch.
+
Nice restaurants overlook the
“garden.”
-
Influential enemies can make
you a penal serf.
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BANCY HAMSTEAD
CORRUPT WARDEN
Sportsman, collector,
investor.
Bluecoat administrator for
Iron Hook prison, sells safety
or accidents for prisoners.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: x.
Allies: Bluecoats, Unseen
Enemies: Ministry,
Iruvians
STYLER BARNESS
SUBTLE FENCE
Accountant, spy, fixer.
Tracks Hive operations in
Silkshore from behind the
scenes, directing work and
trading in secrets.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: +1.
Allies: Ministry
Enemies: Gondoliers
KARTH ORRIS
SECRET AGENTS
Management in the Hive,
focused on smuggling.
Hidden moves and extended
plans.
Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1.
Allies: Ministry
Enemies: Gondoliers
HELENE
ELEGANT GAMBLER
Socialite, entrepreneur,
musician.
Owns the Silver Stag Casino
in Silkshore. Mysterious,
may be descended from
Severosian royalty.
Generosity: +1. Loyalty: +1.
Allies: Red Sashes
Enemies: Lampblacks
WHIPWATER POINT
SEAWALL IMPOUND
Built against the seawall on
platforms over water, fenced
and guarded. Impounded
goods are indifferently
catalogued.
+
Lots of shady business on site,
-
Trespassing is illegal.
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MASTER MARKET
OCCULT UNDERBRIDGE
Tucked out of sight, catering
to the esoteric needs of
mystics and cults across
Silkshore.
No questions.
-
with attuning tests to get
service.
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SAILS ALLY
STREET MARKET
Most haunted corner of
Crow’s Foot. Half-burned
market for exotics and
services.
+
-
Ghosts may latch on
to visitors, manifesting
occasionally until destroyed.
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SEDEESY WARREN
MUSHROOM TUNNELS
Tidy showcase tunnel
market near the entrance,
unfortunates toil for
subsistence and shelter deeper
in the nightmare maze. Deadly
centipedes, spiders, toxins.
+
Many secret entrances.
-
Smelly. Depressingly cruel.
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This deck focuses on mid-level contracts. (More tv
episodes than movies.) Quickly generate potential
work. A little thought ahead of time or some fast
improvisation prepares you to offer them options.
You don’t waste time detailing a job they don’t
take. (If they turn down a heist, you can still
decide what happens in the background, and the
city has a life of its own. Fill some clocks!)
GENEROSITY & LOYALTY
♦ People have a rating for generosity and loyalty
(towards contractors, not allies.) Adjust these
baselines to taste.
♦ Generosity: Earn 2 Coin, x2 with a
HEIST

complication, and x3 with 2 complications.

Modify total with Generosity rating.
♦ Loyalty: Roll a Fortune die (1d6) for the employer’s
true intentions. Modify with Loyalty rating.
those who tried to kill them.

1: Plans to kill the crew.

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2: Plans to cheat the crew.

The client is in hiding and wants to punish

3: Withholds critical information.

4-5: Professional, straightforward.
The Ministry is sure to investigate after the fact.
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6+: Offers additional opportunity.

ALTERNATE USES
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Use the cards to spice up your game any time.

You don’t need to use the heist structure to get
ideas.
♦ People. Who is at a party, who framed you,
who did your brother marry?
♦ Places. Meeting sites, new turf, rival crew
bases, lovers’ rendezvous.
♦ Complications. Devil’s bargains, complicating
a success, disastrous outcomes, escalating a
heist’s stakes.
alive.

♦ Heists. What might they do? What are their

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rivals and allies doing? How are enemies

targeting them?

SOURCES AND INTERPRETATION

This deck is inspired by Doskvol portrayed in the
games and fiction of Andrew Shields. You can
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contradict other interpretations. Reinvent and

remix freely to make your own unique Doskvol.
This work is based on Blades in the Dark by John Harper,
The plan involves working with children.

used with permission. No ownership of the Blades in the

Locate a fugitive and bring them back to the client—

Dark material is granted or implied. Characters, events, and

locations herein are creations of the author and should not
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be considered canonical.
COIN
HEAT
Allies: Cults
of Selwythe.

1–3 Bad
Enemies: Ministry

6 Good
4–5 Mixed
ENGAGEMENT
A leader in the Circle of

(Highest of 1 to 3 d6)
LORD FENECK MORA

Cultist, manager, socialite.

Generosity: +1. Loyalty: x.

Flame, represents the House

COIN EARNED
HEAT GENERATED
ancestral hall.

-
+

ghosts.

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Adjacent to Nymaska

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4
3
NYMASKA SCENICS
AQUARIUM GREENHOUSE

rare fruit and vegetables.

WANTED LEVEL
Famously lethal dynastic
in overhead and wall tanks
bounding the greenhouse’s

Exclusive. Stunning beauty.

Radiant fish and plants glow

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MAUDE SELVERICUS INNOCENCE POINT BASRIC LEELAL THICKWRIST PATTERNS

VICIOUS BUREAUCRAT
♦ Her household servants
are spirits of her enemies
torn out and planted in
hollows.
CLI
♦ Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
EN
T the city, isolated.
♦ Allies: Ministry, Church
♦ Enemies: Lost, Wraiths
BANCY HAMSTEAD
CORRUPT WARDEN
♦ Sportsman, collector,
investor.
HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE HEIST RUTHLESS DANDY TATTOO SHOP
01
Outside the walls, an Gambler, assassin, fancy Sprawling interconnected
Snatch someone off♦the street,
electroplasmic beam man. basements frequented by
sweeping the separate
sky. them from bodyguards. cultists to the Forgotten
♦ Solves problems around Gods, specializing in custom
+ Probably won’t generate big deaths and little deaths tats often incorporating
ME
Heat for killing outside
COMPLICATION for the wealthy. supernatural elements.
ET
04
♦ Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1. + Low security, low profile.
If you’rethegoing
- Outside city. to do it, you have to do it now,
Surrounded inby
theclouds
next couple of♦ Allies:
hours.Whitecrown
The target is running ahead of schedule. - Stuffed with connected
of ghosts. Protected Aristocracy cultists who hold grudges.
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electroplasmic supply.
WHIPWATER POINT ♦CARRYANDER Sashes
Enemies: RedWILDTHORN “INK SLUICE”
SEAWALL IMPOUND CHARMING RAKE
COMPLICATION LUXURY YACHT
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08 03
07
Built against the seawall on ♦ Social climber, threadbare Seldom sails out of port, the
If anyone
platforms over dies
water,(besides
fenced specific
aristocrat, if an
targets carouser. owner allows friends to host
and their families.

♦ Bluecoat administrator
for Iron Hook prison, sells
assassination)
and guarded. Impounded you don’t get paid at all.
Intercept a messenger and swap sealed pouches.
meetings and parties aboard.
goods are indifferently
04 ♦ Connected to gossip.
catalogued. Petty and vengeful + Lots of secretive business
Enemies: Inspectors

CLA
Convict, sadist, fixer.

safety or accidents for COMPLICATION towards former lovers. and meets there.
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S
KRU DORNAS

TA
Famous for creatively

prisoners. + Lots of shady business 05

H
RUTHLESS LENDER

on site, guards totally ♦ Generosity: -1. Loyalty: -1. - Really decent ritual
RG SEC
♦ Generosity: +1. Loyalty: x.
ET The target has extra security for some
corrupt. RE protections.
♦ Allies: Six Towers
Allies: Cults, Academics

♦ Allies: Bluecoats, Unseen
♦ Enemies: Ministry,
Iruvians
unrelated reason.
Plant evidence of murder. T!
- Trespassing is illegal. Aristocracy
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Enemies: Cyphers
♦ PROFESSOR ENTE SALIA THE LIGHT AND TIMES
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SUBVERSIVE ASSASSIN BEACON AND TEA SHOP 02
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Generosity: -1. Loyalty: +1.
executing defaulting debtors

♦ Leech, professor,3deviant.
The target is attracted to a “type” in your crew. Sparkcraft tower beaming
light, a workshop and testing
Loyalty Roll: ENGAGEMENT ♦ Uses her academic site for sparkcrafters. Tea
Arrange for a target to be seduced.
05 (Highest of 1 to 3 d6) 4
prestige and budget shop below.
3-1=Loyalty 2 6 Good to experiment with
4–5 Mixed
DR
1–3 Bad 8
untraceable poisons. + Public, high profile, good
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Plans to cheat security.
PO OP
HEAT GENERATED
♦ Generosity: +1. Loyalty: -1.
the crew. HEAT WANTED LEVEL - Expensive components
INT
♦ Allies: Red Sashes, Hive require high-tech security.
Pay:
♦ Enemies: Wraiths
2 Coin x3=6 COIN EARNED
COIN 06
+1 Generosity=7

♦ Draw 2 people, one to hire and one as the target. Add

more to complicate the heist if you like.
noble family.

♦ Draw 1 location for the heist’s focus. You can add

-
+

an initial meet, drop off point, locations for a multi-

Glowing trees fuel

stage heist, etc.

debts, secrets.

♦ Draw 1 heist objective. Adding more objectives or

RADIANT VINEYARD

complications increases complexity.

BROCHALLA FIELDS

Family has nasty habits,

grapevines, on-site winery

You are not bound by the results. The cards serve you.
Luxury and tight security.
and restaurant. Owned by a

They inspire, they don’t limit.

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