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==Backertag==

Otto woke up to the news that his brother-in-law Eberhard had been murdered at his office. After some discussion with his sister and his brother's business partner, Aldo Lorenzo, it became obvious that the murderer was Johannes de Silentio or someone in his employ and that he knew Eberhard had the gunpowder. Otto successfully traced the leak: Eberhard found what Otto had hidden in his house and asked Aldo for his advice on what to do. Aldo told his Ostlander wife about it -Otto had previously learned that van Eyke was having an affair with her. She was obviously the source of the leak.

Johann was brought out of his cell and met with the blind lector Benedict von Logau. Logau explained that he had been searching for the Nachthaus for some time and that he had been aware that Braun was one of its agents. He had been having him watched for some time in the hopes that he'd lead them to more important people. Braun's out-of-the-blue assassination of von Metzradt had shaken everything up. Logau had the guards interrogate Braun about the Nachthaus but he refused to speak. Logau suspected that Braun feared that some of his fellow cultists were among his interrogators. He thought he might speak more freely among his own kind, and so the Lector had had Johann and Gottfried arrested and put them in the same cell as him. The plan was foiled by Gottfried's escape and Braun's subsequent murder, but Logau had discovered that Braun actually left a document of his confessions, including names of major cultists, somewhere in Altdorf. He was temporarily releasing Johann on condition that he and his underworld friends tracked down these confessions.

Otto had arranged to meet everyone outside the priest Vincenz Briemle's chapel. Although he was no longer need to help free Johann, he had some information on the Nachthaus. His parish had been hit hardest of all by the series of disappearances centred around the house and one of them, Dorotea Frey, had actually come back -mutated and completely insane. He had hid her in the Monteufel asylum.

The group then repaired to a tavern to discuss their next move. Otto voiced doubts about their investigation of the Nachthaus and even suggested that he would leave Altdorf but was eventually brought around. Manny bought a Rumster pie, only to find inside it a ring last seen on van Eyke's finger -it was obvious that Otto's ruse to turn his employers against him had worked all too well. The group again split up -Manny and Otto went to visit the island asylum while Gottfried, Eckhart and Johann went to try and find Katarin, Braun's widow, in the hope that she might have his confessions.

Gottfried hired a local gang-member to lead them to Katarin's rooms, but it turned out to be a trap and a local gang ambushed them. The trio survived, although Eckhart's leg was broken, and managed to negotiate a truce. The gang revealed that they had been hired by Bertholdt Dreisen, the Ostlander lawyer whom Manny had met, to see off anyone trying to find Katarin Braun. The trio decided to cut their losses and seek medical attention from their ally, Doktor Liebenfreud. Afterwards, Gottfried went to play a game of cards. He won a large sum, but the judge he was playing against tried to organise an ambush to get his money back. Thinking quickly, Gottfried changed clothes with a naive young Border Princes man and managed to escape. He was later told by Stilts, a mad beggar, that Johannes de Silentio had been at the game that night, and hoped to play again soon.

Eckhart, meanwhile, woke up to find that he had sleepwalked all the way to the eerie Grey College. He gained entrance to the college only to find that his contact, von Baltasar, had been murdered. Eckhart took Baltasar's journal and left the college grounds pursued by phantom guards.

Meanwhile, at the asylum, Manny and Otto were met by the asylum's director, Monteufel himself. It soon became clear that Monteufel was as mad as any of his inmates but he spoke a great deal about Dorotea Frey and her experiences of the Nachthaus, saying that it had inspired him. Monteufel turned out to be an impostor -an anonymous inmate who had led an inmates' revolt against the wardens and taken over the running of the asylum. He was also, inspired by Dorotea's description of the Nachthaus, a worshipper of Slaanesh, although not in connection with any cult. He managed to feed Manny a hallucinogenic which gave the protagonist horrifying visions. Manny and Otto killed the impostor and his guards and talked to Dorotea, who said that the Nachthaus was in a 'dark place where the winds stopped' and also that it was 'where all the roads ended'. Otto then torched the hideously mutated woman and the two fought their way out of the asylum.

Once back in town, Otto and Manny organised a meeting of drug-dealers, in order to gain access to supplies of Shade and opium. Three factions responded: Fan Lung's Cathayans sent a representive, Song Fang, who, puzzlingly, did virtually nothing but politely turn down Otto's offer and leave immedietely afterwards; the Estalian Alejo and his Harvesters, who offered Otto a deal on Crimson Shade, and a Kislevite student Kowalczyk, who claimed to be working for Braun's supplier, who also possessed the peddler's confessions (which the group had been looking for). He was willing to trade the confessions for another document, and asked to see the group the next day.