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The Demon Lord Knows Our Plans

A scenario by Murder Maker

11 players
~3h 40m
Language: English
Murder Party

Cover up
Politics
Espionage
Graft
Evidence
Conspiracy
Desertion
Testimony

The premise

Three plans, three massacres — the Demon Lord answers every order before the trumpets sound, so someone in the chain of command is selling them. The army's Reckoner, the hard-eyed spy-catcher who reads couriers and ciphers the old mundane way, swore she'd name the mole at tonight's war council. She's found in the command tent with her own dagger driven through the battle-map. In magic-dead Forward Camp Greymarch — where skills gutter, status windows flicker to static, and no one can be Appraised — the assault on the Black Keep launches at dawn regardless. The recalled veterans have one watch-fire's worth of night to hunt both the leak and the killer who silenced the only person who'd cornered them, and pray they're the same.

The cast

Reckoner Sigrid Korr

Victim NPC

The army's Reckoner and spy-catcher — keeper of the who-knew-what ledger, a veteran of four campaigns who trusted no skill and only paper. Everyone knew she'd sworn to name the mole at tonight's war council. Found in…

Commander Harlan Stroud

Suspect

The iron camp commander of Greymarch and the man now running the traitor-hunt. Grim, correct, and openly grieving the Reckoner he calls the finest spy-catcher the army had. He discovered her body at watch-fire and…

Lieutenant Halvar Reike

Suspect

The camp's hard-driving field second-in-command, all clipped orders and quick blame. Loudly certain the mole is 'some rat in the ranks' and pushing hard for a fast verdict. Sweats when the second massacre at the Gray…

Edda Vorn

Suspect

The camp's black-market scrounger and unofficial trader — the one soul who slips the perimeter regularly, moving pilfered rations and salvaged kit between units for coin. Korr had flagged her as the obvious channel.…

Quartermaster Ostran Falk

Suspect

The ledger-keeping supply officer and camp fixer — the man who decides who eats and how much. Unctuous, indispensable, and visibly nervous that the Reckoner's audit died with her but her books did not.

Maddox Greaves

Suspect

The obsessive sapper and siege-engineer, forever waving marked-up drafts and demanding to be heard. Korr wanted his unproven breaching-engine cut from the dawn plan; Oskar Crale actually cut it. The camp treats him as…

Oskar Crale

Suspect

The cold battlefield strategist and former war-college instructor who drafts the dawn plan without flinching. Since arriving at Greymarch he speaks openly of 'acceptable losses.' Korr was moving to strip sole command…

Bracken Holt

Witness

The battle-scarred standard-bearer and keeper of the colors, near-voiceless since an old throat-wound. He haunts the fire and the dying-pen, mouthing words no one takes time to read, growing more agitated as the night…

Provost-Serjeant Kessa Dain

Detective

The camp provost appointed by Commander Stroud to run the traitor-hunt now the Reckoner is dead. Blunt, dogged, and under orders to produce a culprit before the assault. She holds the recovered dagger and the…

Clerk Wren Ashby

Witness

The young tally-clerk who kept the Reckoner's ledgers at her side. Grief-stricken and stubborn, guarding Korr's who-knew-what ledger like a relic and insisting her master's method be finished properly, not rushed.

Chaplain Osric Vale

Witness

The camp's battle-priest, keeping vigil in a hollow where prayers go unanswered. Gentle, exhausted, and the only soul who slows down for the dying and the voiceless. He walked with Korr in her last days.

Courier Lark Fenn

Witness

The camp's youngest runner, forever sprinting dispatches between tent and picket. Wide-eyed and terrified since the murder — certain that as the one who carries messages, he'll be the easy neck for the mole's rope.

Intrigues

The Doctored RollsCover up

The dead of the second massacre don't add up. Someone's been counting creatively.
The Expendable FeintPolitics

Were the recalled veterans of Greymarch ever meant to march home — or just to buy the Hero time?
The Mole in the ChainEspionage

Three plans, three massacres. Someone sold them. Find the channel before the dawn trumpets.
The Quartermaster's SkimGraft

The rations run short and the ledgers run long. Who's eating the difference?
The Reckoner's Last EntryEvidence

Her ledger has one final line. The question is who gets to read it aloud.
The Rigged Witch-HuntConspiracy

The camp is hunting a traitor tonight. Ask yourself who chose the hunters.
The Scrounger's ExitDesertion

One soul crosses the pickets in the dark. Where does the coin go, and where is she going?
The Voiceless WitnessTestimony

A ruined throat, a thing he saw, and no one who'll stop to read his hands.

Factions & circles

The Camp CommandFaction
The Recalled VeteransTeam
The Reckoner's OfficeStaff