Heart- Going Under

All the Dude ever wanted...was his rug back...not greedy...it just really tied the room together. --The Stranger, The Big Lebowski screenplay Against that heinous background, my crimes were pale and meaningless. --Raoul Duke, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

IC Thread

OOC Thread

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GM: DannyK

Player Characters

Ravna Ascendere, played by KreenWarrior
Midwife (Fight (Sneak Attacks), Fix, Sneak, Investigate | Low Society, Occult)

Stress Tracks: 1 total

Blood [] [] [] Mind [] Silver 1 Shadow Reputation []

Nemulith, played by Dirty Chai
Masked (Compel (Get Others to Trust Me), Deceive, Fight, Resist, Sneak | Academia, High Society, Order)

Stress Tracks:

Blood Mind [] Silver [] [] [] Shadow [] [] Reputation

Zazie Dubois, played by Cannonball
Azurite (Compel, Deceive, Fight | Commerce, Crime, High Society)

Stress Tracks:

Blood ()()() Armor from bodyguard and from True Blue Mind Silver [] [] [] [] Shadow [] [] Reputation [] []

Cain Xenis, played by EnigmaticOne
Firebrand (Compel, Deceive, Fight, Steal | Crime, Low Society, Order)

Stress Tracks: 1 total

Blood 1 Mind Silver Shadow [] [] [] Reputation [] [] [] [] []

Retired Character The Friend, played by Mr. Prim
Blood Witch (Deceive, Fight, Resist, Sneak, Steal | Low Society, Occult (?))

Stress Tracks:

Blood [] [] [] Mind Silver Shadow [] [] [] Reputation

Faces of Spire

Upper Class

Orchid-At-Sunrise, Nemulith's former master, whom he is in hiding from.

Blue-Of-The-Moons, aelfir industrialist and Nemulith's best client.

Mistletoe-Growing-Wild, Zazie's mistress during her Durance, degenerate drug addict

Middle Class

Captain Antoine, somewhat honest cop and publicity hound, husband of Guards Commander Antoine.

Harrow, the cell's Magister. He is a Drow Professor of Megacorvid Husbandry at the University, and addicted to Drow opera, particularly the kind which involves someone eating corpse fruit and then killing all their relatives.

Darnold, operator of the hospital near the creche where Ravna works as a Midwife, an eccentric fellow who never seems to sleep, seems fond of Ravna.

Mr. Timothy Girder, Zazie's Human bodyguard.

Hooks, a human engineer and associate of Darnold. Last seen tinkering with a mysterious glass sphere.

Lower Class

Unnamed Hyena-priest of Charnel, who killed several Guards at the Maison Glace and then made off with the Friend and an armload of corpses.

Billy Snifter, gloomy lieutenant of the Lux Aeterna lamplighter's guild

Places of Spire

Levels of Spire, Top to Bottom: Feel free to add additional notes to this level by level map. Areas of special importance like PC safehouses should be put in Bold. Places that have changed due to Ministry action are in Italics.

"Shelf" means that the area in question sticks out from the side of the tower like a shelf fungus attached to a tree trunk.

New Heaven

--Bird Druids & Bee Druids

--Morticians

--Moonseekers

--Apex of Spire

--Towers of Silence

--Megacorvids and Sky Whales

Amaranth

--Pleasure-domes of the high elves

--Ice caves and ice baths

--Council chambers

--Spiral gardens of the aelfir

--Street of Masks

Solar Basilica

(sticking out from the side of Spire)

--New cathedral

--Sky docks

--Lunar font

--College library

Silver Quarter

--Mermaid club

--Endless Canal

--Unmasked district

--Gilded Oyster

Ivory Row

--Crumbling Mansions

--Upper Perch

--Old (Lunar) Cathedral

Perch

(hanging off the side of Ivory Row)

--Upper perch hanging down from Ivory Row

--Graveyard of the Small Gods (swap meet)

--Lower perch (on the ledge of Middle City)

--Ropes and knotters

Middle City

(the widest part of Spire)

--Prison Hive

--Wild Alleys

--Toadstools

Leech Canals

(Shelf)

--Hanging gardens

--Grubworks

--Wisp glades

Algae Farms

(Shelf)

--Locust keepers

--Weed woods

--Dead Titan

--Crimson Pool

Wild Zones

--Oak Mother

--Death Lilies

--Elf-traps

--Old zoo (shelf)

The Works

(top of the “base”)

--Manufactories

--Turbines

--Daily Torch

--Graymanor Detective Agency

Pilgrim’s Walk

--Godstreet

--Shrines

--Sects

--Vulgate

--Paladins

St. Perdita’s Circle

--Jennisgate

--Moongate

--Alph & Zeph

--North Docks

--Dreadnaught

--Customs House

--Main Gates

Undercity

--Red row: Sunday Riot, Maison Glace murder and arson

--L’Enfer Noir

--Derelictus

--Grist: where the Friend hides out

--Hemlock Fruit Mart

--Vermissian terminals

The Heart

--Pit Caves

--Blood Witches

--Chaos, Flux, Dream

--The Mansion