When you work as a magician, every detail of your life must remain a mystery.  It makes things complicated in the day-to-day, and further complicates things when you’re implicated in stealing a seventy-carat diamond from a local museum.

Fortunately, strange victims will have strange connections, and in a pinch you may want those people who can see through your every illusion.

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The crew of the Fanoma Reine has, for now at least, evaded the Inquisition forces.  It was not without considerable loss:  The crew is bearing a great many injuries from the fight in the palace and the subsequent fight and chase with the inquisition death squad, which left a few members subject to a hailstorm of gunfire.

Tired and bedraggled, the crew stumbled into the underground city of Petit Charouse, founded by a disgraced invisible college member, populated by the untouchables, and led by an explorer with a nasty-looking gauntlet.

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The Inquisitors have been held in a month-long quarantine after their last mission led them into a Chaos Ritual.  Upon their emergence and rigorous interrogation, they have been informed that their new assignment is on Assuar to investigate the death of a fellow inquisitor.

Their only lead, a video sent from the inquisitor as he died asking “Do they know what will happen when he gets out?”

Back in mid-October when the Cubs and Indians were head-to-head in the World Series, Matt made a bet with Greg Bennett of Technical Difficulties:  If the Indians won, Matt would run a game of deadEarth, and if the Cubs won, then Greg would run deadEarth.  In reading through the books fully expecting the Cubs to lose, Matt also shared the books with the rest of the Drunk and Ugly and they wanted to make characters for the game even if they weren’t used.  So we did it.  This is that.

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After the crew discovered that the Pirate’s Ball was much more. . . festive than they expected, they quickly found themselves fighting for their lives against assassin squads from rival pirate kings looking to make themselves the strongest on the seven seas.  With some quick thinking, they were able to avoid death with grappling hooks and a few barrels of black powder.  As the dust settles, however, they find themselves in the sewers below the manor, and the sounds of inquisitors is not far off.

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