Blades in the Dark: Burger Time

[Part of the Party Time journal]

Surrender is not something our heroes do and thus violence ensues. While they are careful to only disable their opponents, the Skovlanders have no qualms about killing the local militia and Weeping Lady volunteers and destroying the guardian hulls who get caught up in the conflict. Bluecoats also arrive early on but as they are allied with Strangford proceed to just shoot the vigilantes (they get shot a lot)! Also Flint, Juris' nemesis (according to his character sheet anyway) appears and points him out to a full contingent of 40 Spirit Wardens. He tries to surrender but they just shoot at him too!

He manages to lightning bolt eight of them into disrepair and gets Onna to shapeshift into Flint to negate that order (some BS good dicing here for them to not notice Onna's a spirit). By the time this happens the others have defeated their foes: only 7 Skovlanders escaped out of 112. Juris senses Nyryx is also dead, but her body can't be found. Having pissed off DL, he leaves the 125 injured opponents (including the captured cops) to whatever Juris has planned. This includes feeding Ulf to Coran's death hounds and feeding the rest to Onna who executes them one by one and eats their spirits. Coran handles the corpse disposal, turning them into delicious burgers.

After healing up, Juris gets DL to make a delivery at the Archive of Echoes where Flint works: an F-Bomb. The bluff is so perfect that they get away scott free, walking down the street in slo-mo fashion as the entire building behind them explodes and goes up in flames. Flint eats this to his face and dies (as does whoever else happened to be in there).

Meanwhile Rose and mom follow a lead given to them by Celeste's widower Veleris, who claims the Iruvians still have an in-roads through some drug dealers at the docks. After a terrible stealth engagement roll which sees the pair jump across rooftops only for the roof to give in and drop them right on the drug table, they basically blow everyone away and find evidence linking the Church of Ecstasy. On their way back they also find a talking corgi at the menagerie and Rose convinces the owner to let them take it back to Juris.

It holds the spirit of Jen, and having seen Jen's body as a "pleasure" hollow (the Dimmer Sisters really did a number on her and Nyryx) at the Silver Stag he retrieves it and returns her spirit there. Helene has no problems with any of this and sets her free. Juris also gets to keep the corgi. The team then gear up to attack Brightstone, which is the home district of both the Church of Ecstasy and Lord Strangford's Leviathan Hunters!