Murder Maker

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Respawn Denied

A scenario by Murder Maker

  • 11 players
  • ~3h 40m
  • Language: English
  • Murder Party
  • Underworld
  • Blackmail
  • Murder
  • Heritage
  • Dilemma
  • Conspiracy
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The premise

In the Vale, death is a toll road: pay your bind-fee at the Lastlight Shrine and the bell brings you back — ten percent lighter, and laughing about it. Torvald Emberhand, the inn's death broker, died at sundown in a friendly spar. Twelve witnesses. One shared joke. But the shrine stands empty, and toll after toll he does not return. Snowbound until the midnight bell — the last before the shrine sleeps till spring — pilgrims, debtors, heirs and one circuit judge must answer a question no one in the Vale has ever needed to ask: who made death permanent?

The cast

Torvald Emberhand

Victim NPC

The Lastlight's death broker — broad, bronze-knuckled, beloved. He sold strategic deaths, escorted corpses, adjusted bind-fees, and never lost a client. He died at sundown in a friendly spar, laughing, and the whole…

Marra Quicklime

Suspect

A sell-sword and the taproom's favorite sparring partner. At sundown, in front of twelve witnesses, she landed the blow that killed Torvald Emberhand — with his cheerful consent, on his own wager. Now the shrine is…

Abbot Cerule

Suspect

Keeper of the Lastlight Shrine for forty years — silver-tongued, immaculate, and visibly rationing the shrine's last charge like a miser with a final coin. Since the empty toll he has locked the ledger office and let…

Fenn Vellow

Suspect

Torvald's apprentice — quick with the fee-tables, quicker with excuses, carries the broker's satchel everywhere. The route, the clients, the whole trade should pass to him. Should.

Sister Halda

Suspect

Envoy of the Order of the Second Dawn — a rival shrine to the south — courteous, relentless, and two days into an uninvited audit of Lastlight. She says souls belong to no single shrine. Abbot Cerule says other words.

Ravenna Sol

Suspect

A widowed wine-factor from the south roads, veiled against the cold, gracious with clergy and generous with coin. She has been at Lastlight a week, waiting out the snow, smelling faintly of winter roses, her hands…

Iron-Widow Casque

Suspect

Torvald's estranged wife — iron-grey, precise, unweeping. She arrived a fortnight ago 'to settle accounts' and has been settling them at everyone since. As widow, she claims the brokerage and everything in the ledger.

Corporal Anseau Nine-Deaths

Witness

A garrison corporal on convalescent leave, dead nine times in the Crown's service. He flickers slightly out of step with the lamplight, and the taproom finishes his sentences kindly. He says the bell quiets his head.

Grist

Suspect

The corpse-locker porter — quiet hands, quick pockets. This morning the abbot caught him skimming grave-goods off bodies between death and respawn, and his pardon is still an open question.

Petal Wren

Witness

A cheerful rookie adventurer who has never once died — a fact the taproom toasts and teases in equal measure. She counts the shrine's charge-gauge every time she passes it.

Master Oleandre

Suspect

An alchemist whose taproom stall sells 'deathless tinctures' — prophylactics against level-loss and respawn-sickness. Business is loud; the patter is louder. He has cornered every guest at least once tonight.

Magistrate Pell

Detective

A circuit judge snowed in on his way to the winter assizes. By Vale law a death at a shrine-inn must be certified before the shrine sleeps — which makes tonight's verdict his, signed at the final bell, appeal-proof or…

Intrigues

  • Grave-Goods and Small SinsUnderworld

    Between death and respawn, your pockets are nobody's. Somebody disagrees.

  • The Broker's LedgerBlackmail

    Every soul at Lastlight has a price. Torvald wrote them all down.

  • The Empty ShrineMurder

    He died at sundown, laughing, in front of twelve witnesses. That was never the problem.

  • The Inheritance of the RouteHeritage

    Two claims, one route, and a page missing from the ledger.

  • The Last ChargeDilemma

    One charge left before spring. Everyone needs it. Only one can have it.

  • The Rival Shrine's DossierConspiracy

    The Order of the Second Dawn says Lastlight misbinds souls. Tonight they want it in writing.

Factions & circles

  • Keepers of the Lastlight ShrineStaff
  • The Emberhand BrokerageTeam
  • The Order of the Second DawnFaction

Respawn Denied

In the Vale, death is a toll road: pay your bind-fee at the Lastlight Shrine and the bell brings you back — ten percent lighter, and laughing about it. Torvald Emberhand, the…

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