Blades in the Dark: The Flaming Tower

[Part of the Party Time journal]

Juris goes alone to the Crow orphanage to try get their aid against the Lampblacks but the talk goes poorly, to the point that he has to threaten them with a powdered fire grenade. The Crows leader, Lyssa, manages to disarm him and wound him a bit as he runs off to then get treated by DL's doctor friend, Ferny Sawbones, putting him out of action for a short spell.

In the meantime, DL - keen to get revenge for Remira has taken the last two powdered fire grenades from Juris and with Mom and Rose shooting from a flanking position, assaults the Lampblacks coal warehouse setting everything (and a decent number of leg breakers) on fire, before taking his sword to the heavily armored leaders and slaying them. Bazso meets his end.

The next day the Crows foolishly attack the charity where the vigilantes work (dice roll) using the last powdered fire grenade as their opening move. Luckily Juris already knows that salt is all it takes to douse those flames. In the ensuing gun battle, Rose and Juris are hit in the armor while holding off the front while mom and DL deal with a lone sniper out the back. Mom manages to wound the enemy and DL rushes into the building the sniper is stationed in to find it is Lyssa, the Crow leader in the stairwell - she was the sniper. Before she can do anything, DL runs her through.

A pair of Spirit Wardens then arrive with their lightning guns and summarily execute the three remaining Crows who were obviously the aggressors here and tell the vigilantes to return to their normal life. Of course the four instead sneak off and head right for the Crow's Tower where Rose and Juris disable the electric fence and mom kills the lone Crow remaining in there. In a safe they find spirit bottles of "dirt" - ghosts of deceased Bluecoats offed by dirty Bluecoats on the payroll of the Red Sashes and in the basement they find a massive ghost filled canal but also a spirit warded catwalk that leads to the orphanage.

Rose convinces the children that their custodian is evil and Juris interrogates him to learn that Tangletown is home to the retired (or "old") Crows who will probably want revenge. Juris then takes him down to the canal passage and executes him before the lot of them set fire to the Crow's Tower so that no one can use it again. They lastly invest a lot of the coin they've collected in expanding the Weeping Lady Charity so that the orphanage falls under its care.