Violet City: The World's Edge

Characters:

Nat Mordecai: Deft Cogflower Necromantic Lawyer, carrying a neural whip, accompanied by a slightly unsettling furry pet, that giggles when petted. Nat represents the Cogflower church that sponsors the caravan.

Satrap 88 "Chemosynthesis": Wise Mendicant Healer and peddler of Illusions, soulless for now but hoping to acquire a soul in the Black City.

Naida: Deft Yellowlander Climate Migrant, a sharpshooter with a Plasma Rifle and Ajax, the exiled cat lord with a serpent tail. Looking for intel on the road to the Black City. The Legion of the Far Sight must know.

Copernicus Fuse: Strong Wandering Witness clad in a sealed golden armor, a golden sword on his side. A Violet City Revolutionary Émigré searching for memories of past glory.

Copernicus Fuse

The Prophets of Profit

The Cogflower Church has put together a caravan to the Black City. Its objective is to donate the huge profit gained on this strange commercial pilgrimage to the entity residing within the city so that it may grant the church a nefarious wish. The Lacquered Chaos of Possibility is not mentioned, maybe the church doesn’t know.

The shareholders meet in an open air café with automated platters and the journey is discussed. A guest introduces herself as Mancia, a publisher of sorts, looking for dramatic first-hand accounts of the wonders of the west. Illustration pay extra. Naida takes the offer.

Nat visits the church to see if the augurs approve of selling vidy crystals on the Low Road and the High but there is no profit in bringing owls to Athens. Nat senses a business opportunity.

Nat Mordecai

Fear and Loathing in the Violet City

Ajax kills a vome-corrupted sewer rat in a pit fight. Naida collects the bets. There is a dead drop in a pigeon coop on a roof above the city. A mingy bird carries a note from the Legion Of The Far Sight: “Deep in the Lavender Hills we lend our bodies to the war at the ancient city of the nomads.”

Ajax

Satrap 88 is looking for their contacts among the beggars of the city. Together with Copernicus they visit the Bluelander refugee camp when an old friend tries to pick their pockets - in jest of course! Edgar invites them to tea and purple haze. Satrap 88 inquires about the dangers that lie to the west ... of which there are many. Edgar introduces them to Vigo Brasteć, a tall, pale student of the dead and ghost hunter who might just be the one to insure safety on their perilous journey. His chains rattle when he walks.

Satrap 88 Chemosynthesis

The party reconvenes at the café. Nat proposes to buy vidy crystals on the Low Road and the High. Buy for a nickel and sell for a dime! Vigo knows about the Lavender Hills to the North of the Steppe of the Lime Nomads. There are rumors. A friend woke up in the hills, a whole week missing from her memory - but dreams of the dead linger.

Vigo Brasteć

The caravan leaves the city, a solid coach drawn by two ponies, carrying their supplies and a sack of Cat coffee.

Actual Play: https://youtu.be/nyKXnAXq6rU