Editing A Dark Cloud Over London (section)

==Status Quo==
*'''A Hairline Fracture (Legacy)'''
''Crow’s prophecy of a final battle between the Kerberos Club and a world-destroying Queen Victoria and his actions to prevent this future have started to curdle in the minds of the club-goers. Usual rules of diplomacy – avoiding religion and politics – are becoming increasingly honoured in the breach, and discussions of patriotism vs. class loyalty, mysticism vs. mechanisation, Queen and Country vs. abolitionist principles and predetermination vs. free can be heard in the clubrooms at all hours. So far, it is all talk. So far, believers trust Crow is the answer and skeptics think the fad will blow over.'' 
*'''Challengers of the Unknown (Legacy)'''
''From its very formation, the Club has strived to create a haven for the Strangers within; one way to show their usefuness to Queen and country was to step in to handle crises of the odd and otherworldy persuasion. With time, this pro bono work with an eye for legitimacy has become more than this; a sizeable tradition of Kerbereans have come to see this as a most noble duty. When innocents are threatened by forces of oddity and Strangeness, they will stand in the way.''
*'''Nights of the Ninja (Legacy)'''
''The Art of the Vanishing Serpent has come to London. Though not brought by her directly, Elizabeth recognises the signs of the Art that she once studied in a set of remarkable, some might say inexplicable, murders. Locked rooms, high windows, in plain sight in Leicester Square. Passing like ghosts, leaving only corpses in their wake, a darker presence has come to England on the East wind. Bringing their ancient, serpentine order to England may be the next step in the eternal, cyclical war between the Vanishing Serpent practitioners and the deadly artists of the Kali.
*'''The Signs of the Phansigar (Dilemma)'''
''Everyone in London has heard of the Thuggee and their particular murderous modus operandi -- death by garrote, usually in the form of a yellow scarf, knotted in the center to crush the larynx of the victim. Until recently, the Thuggee were little more then bogeymen for Londoners, even those who have spent some time in India. A spate of murders has changed all that. Experts have determined that these assassinations were not the handiwork of a copycat, but rather show all the signs of authentic Phansigar craft.''
*'''Opium Opens the Door (Dilemma)'''
''Samuel Berk's Needlework opens a hyper-vivid dreamworld to the hackers, visionary artists, conmen, addicts and technoshamans. So far, this knowledge is undergound cant, belonging to the very boho or the very cutting edge... but rich and powerful men are starting to scent a new path to power.''
*'''The Secret Eyes of Her Majesty (Dilemma)'''
''As the century grows Weirder, the powers that be starts worrying about unhealthy infuences on the fabric of society. Informants have disappeared in the streets, establishments catering to the odder ends of society has disappeared or been boarded up without warning. Special Branch have their eyes on the Kerberos Club.''
*'''The Opening of the East (Dilemma)'''
''The life and times of Mrs Tokugawa have directly resulted in the opening of Japan. With India already under British control, and the mass interest in the opium trade in China, the Land of the Rising Sun offers both cultural importation and the opportunity for exploitation. Those in the Club and otherwise with an interest in social justice, however, have grave concerns regarding what havoc might be wrought on the up until now unapproachable East by the hands of those who see it as a beast ripe for slaughter.