The Public Mandate and the Missing Axe

After a long rest at Rabe House, four Sinclairs turned the safehouse into a working print room while a Lawful bulletin changed the political map outside. Rook Threadbore brought word that the Lawful had agreed to an election for a new civilian official: not a ceremonial liaison, but a co-equal authority intended to govern beside the Lawful magistrate as a show of good faith. Adjudicator Sela Quill certified the offer.

Maine stepped into the street and answered it personally. Naming the Lawful's weakness against Castro and FLESH, Maine argued that the Queefdom needed an authority able to confront dangers the old order had failed to stop. The speech carried. Maine formally registered as a candidate, and the movement around My Angst gained a concrete political objective.

The party's separate errands made Velvet Cross feel newly alive. Djon Charleston thanked Jonah for sending Gravenhurst refugees toward the safety of his church barrier and gave him Creator's Reprise, a Creator-aligned ring whose magic restores momentum after healing. Jonah accepted the item, though whether he attuned to it was not established. Ash met the garment merchant Matilda and bought the Pants of Familiarity for 50 gp: enchanted clothing able to cast Find Familiar and grant the wearer's closest Companion advantage on its first check after being called. Morgan met her Lawful necromancer sister, Trivia—Katrine Draxtler—and finally received a direct answer from Maine that they were friends.

Vic discovered that Stormcall still remembered him as a StormCrows Murderball celebrity and sold an autograph for 20 gp. The bright moment ended when his sentimental great axe went missing. The party found it embedded in Alexa B’Praghus, alive but dying, while one of Alexa's relatives accused Vic and My Alchemical Romance of the attack. Crimson Verdict was not the missing weapon. The session ended with Alexa in immediate danger, Vic publicly framed by his own axe, and the party standing at the edge of a rescue and an investigation.