Blades in the Dark: Rose of Command

[Part of the Party Time journal]

Thanks to the evidence they handed in last time, the corrupt cops are taken off the beat and Celeste's team moves in to look after Crow's Foot. This is effectively means the Shield of Dawn (that's the name the vigilantes chose) totally control the district! They also rename it it to that on the map then head to Charhollow as requested by Adda, a resident Ink Rake (reporter) there to quell an uptick in racial violence between Skovlander drug dealer Ulf and the local butchers.

Some sleuthing reveals that the butchers are working for Lady Drake in hopes to secure the freedom of their patriarch Tarvul, currently serving a life sentence at Ironhook Prison for killing a Spirit Warden that was destroying his wife's ghost. Rose does some amazing negotiation rolls and gets the butchers to stand down - convincing them to let Tarvul rot. Meanwhile Ulf isn't very pleasant but he does get along well with his kin, Juris, who convinces him to also stand down in exchange for getting a chance to distribute Lure instead of his homebrewed KwikCopy drug which makes users see double.

The good news continues to the next day as they learn the Iruvian consulate has been closed as its members were exiled by the Lord Governor. In support of their allies the Dagger Isles consulate follows suit and they both impose a trade embargo in retaliation, making it harder to source material to make stuff but that doesn't deter Juris who bottles some spirits in the tunnels below with DL acting as a bodyguard since he can now physically punch ghosts with the ghost fighter skill.

Having heard than a large number of orphans were taken to a club at Nightmarket, Rose and mom go to investigate catching a cab (a carriage pulled by large goats) to save time. Only, the cab pulls into its garage instead as the cabbies are after the bounty (set by the Iruvians) to get the vigilantes. Rose commands them to surrender and... they do (she rolls criticals at the best times)!? They are tied up, arrested and the ladies return to base to regroup. In the meantime there was a fire at Tangletown, and blaming DL for not paying the fire insurance (an obvious extortion), the Old Crows move elsewhere to seek gainful employment.