The

Wolf Job
The broker summons the crew to a warehouse in a
seemingly abandoned stretch of the Greywater, a slum
not far from the docks, in the deep of night. Two thick-
necked toughs in suits far too nice for this district eye
the crew up and down before grunting and admitting
them reluctantly. Inside, the warehouse shows more
activity, as a half-dozen Family goons are painting a
gondola as a replica of those used by the City Watch.
Their broker is Doña Vivianna Valdiano, a handsome
woman with dark pompadour hair and an imposing
presence. This is the personal study of Doña Valdiano
overlooking the warehouse floor, a dark room
illuminated only by a single lamp hanging from the
ceiling over the Doña’s desk, which she sits behind,
smoking a glowing cigar and occasionally drinking from
a brandy snifter on her desk. Family enforcers lurk in the
shadows around the edges of the room.
Tell the Players...
Before starting, give the players a brief précis of the Job
so they can decide on the characters they want to create:
“This Job involves stealing a valuable tincture
from an unscrupulous physicker’s laboratory.”
The Basics
The characters learn these essential pieces of
information after accepting the Job.
The Score: One of Doña Valdiano’s enforcers has
been cursed. For the last two nights, when Mahmat
Luciaro falls asleep, he transforms into a hulking half-
man, half-wolf and has rampaged through the city.
The Family managed to subdue him, and one of their
hexers confirmed the presence of a curse. A cure does
exist: the wolfsbane tincture. A physicker named Gilbert
Krenhauser claims to have the tincture, and has offered
to give it to her if the Family agrees to kidnap people
from their districts and deliver those people to him for
medicinal experimentation. Doña Valdiano is disinclined
to pay the price, and wants the crew to steal the tincture
instead. It is being kept by Krenhauser in his secure
laboratory in the Docesler Barony.
Time Limitations: The crew has one day (two
segments) to complete the Job. They must have finished
the Job by the end of the following night, else Mahmat’s
curse becomes a permanent affliction.
The Broker’s Reward: If the crew succeeds in the Job,
they receive 1 XP tied to the Family.
Extra Respect: If the crew gives the wolfsbane tincture
to Mahmat Luciaro, they receive an extra 1 XP.
Extra Respect: If Gilbert Krenhauser is killed in the
course of the Job, the crew receives an extra 1 XP.
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Gilbert
Krenhauser
Members of the crew who know about the Royal
Family know these things. Otherwise, they can do
legwork to learn them without making die rolls.
✦✦ Gilbert Krenhauser is a physicker who has always
sold his services to the wealthy elite. Until the
previous Regent’s untimely death, Krenhauser was
one of the Court Physickers to the Royal Family.
✦✦ Krenhauser is a slender, wiry man who has gone
completely bald. He wears spectacles with thin,
gold frames and, unlike most other physickers, he
wears bejewelled rings on each hand.
A Little Digging
These things can be learned by doing legwork.
✦✦ Krenhauser owns an entire building in the
Docesler Barony, a merchant district, which
serves as his home and workplace and is called
Krenhauser’s Sanctuary.
✦✦ Krenhauser rarely leaves his building, but when
he does it is usually by private coach. His most
frequent errands are to nearby ward houses,
orphanages, and the offices of a handful of
other physickers.
✦✦ Krenhauser does not seem to be taking on new
clients now, nor has he for several years. Queries by
merchants and nobles have been politely rebuffed.
✦✦ Krenhauser employs a manservant named Urich
and an assistant named Evonne Manfort.
Deep Secrets
Members of the crew can learn these things by spending
Influence or as a result of rolling boons during legwork.
✦✦ Krenhauser received his appointment to Court
Physicker from the former Regent’s personal vizier.
After the Regent’s death, Krenhauser was quietly
dismissed, with exhorbitant sums deposited into
his counting house accounts by that same vizier.
✦✦ Krenhauser has tried to convince other physickers
that experimentation on living humans is the only
way to further their understanding of medicine.
Several physickers believe that Krenhauser should
be stripped of the Regent’s seal (the right to
practice medicine) and run out of town. However,
up to this point, they have been reluctant to act,
fearing that Krenhauser might do something rash.
Urich Evonne
Members of the crew who know about commoners
know these things. Otherwise, they can do legwork
Manfort
Members of the crew who know about Little
to learn them without making die rolls.
Taona know these things. Otherwise, they can do
✦✦ Krenhauser’s manservant, Urich, is a hulking man legwork to learn them without making die rolls.
who speaks little and acts as bodyservant, coach
✦✦ Evonne Mannfort is a commoner who lives in
driver, and errand boy all in one. He keeps his
Little Taona and has her whole life, despite not
master’s house in order.
being of Taonan heritage herself. She is Gilbert
✦✦ Urich is a tall, broad-shouldered man who looks
Krenhauser’s personal assistant.
like he should be cracking heads in a dockside
✦✦ Manfort is petite and slightly sickly looking.
tavern by his physique. Krenhauser keeps him
Though waifish in physical form, she has an
dressed in clothing fitting a wealthy merchant’s
aggressive personality and a dark sense of humor.
bodyservant, and Urich wears it well. He has the
faintest trace of a Vladich accent. A Little Digging
These things can be learned by doing legwork.
A Little Digging
These things can be learned by doing legwork. ✦✦ Manfort has no social life. She seems uninterested
in men or women, and makes no stops between
✦✦ Urich is also secretly Krenhauser’s bodyguard. He
her home and Krenhauser Sanctuary.
only leaves his master alone when commanded to
do so, and he always doubles the private security Deep Secrets
guards on duty for any time when he is away. Members of the crew can learn these things by spending
✦✦ Urich lives in Krenhauser’s Sanctuary, in a small Influence or as a result of rolling boons during legwork.
room on the 4th floor of the building. He handles
✦✦ Evonne Manfort is a practitioner of sorcery.
all of the shopping, cooking, and cleaning in
Though she has not yet achieved sufficient
the Sanctuary, though he avoids the laboratory
mastery of the dark arts to hire serself out as other
whenever possible. While his master is working
sorcerers do, she has lent her sorcerous talents to
in the laboratory, he attends to household duties.
her employer, Gilbert Krenhauser. It was she that
When Krenhauser leaves, Urich goes with him.
placed the curse on Mahmat Luciaro.
✦✦ Urich is fully aware that Krenhauser conducts
✦✦ Manfort has had dealings with the Gravediggers
unscrupulous experiments and keeps “patients”
in the past. She has paid to have them deliver
trapped in the laboratory against their will.
fresh cadavers to her, which she has then brought
While he does not take any of the pleasure in the
to Krenhauser for use in sickening experiments
experiments that his master does, Urich is paid so
in the laboratory of the Krenhauser Sanctuary.
well that he turns a blind eye to Krenhauser’s dark
Unfortunately for her, she has not been very
side. He also knows that should the physicker ever
good at repaying the favors she has accrued with
be investigated by the City Watch, he would likely
the Gravediggers, and the cartel is said to be
be seen as complicit to the crimes, and will fight
sharpening their knives over her.
and kill in order to protect these secrets.
Deep Secrets
Members of the crew can learn these things by spending Evonne Manfort
Influence or as a result of rolling boons during legwork. Minor villain

✦✦ Urich’s parents are still alive, and living in the La
Draza County district. He sends nearly all of the
money that Krenhauser pays him to his parents
via secret couriers. He keeps their existence secret
and never visits them, a necessity after Crown
investigators tried to use them as leverage to get
him to provide evidence against Krenhauser.
Luck 100
Inflict Pain with Sorcery (75%, 30 physical damage)
Muddle Someone’s Mind with Sorcery (75%, 30 mental damage)
Anything else (40%, 10 damage)
Blood Magic: If Evonne reduces a person or animal to 0 luck with
sorcery, they also take 1 wound.
Siphon Life: Evonne regains 25 luck for each wound she deals to a
person or an animal.

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Krenhauser’s
Sanctuary
Members of the crew who know about merchants
know these things. Otherwise, they can do legwork
to learn them without making die rolls.
✦✦ Krenhauser’s Sanctuary is a four-story brick
building in the Dorcesler Barony. Unlike many
other buildings in the district, the building does
not share walls with other buildings on its row.
✦✦ The windows on the first, second, and third floor
have been bricked up. Dark-tinted alchemical glass
cover the bricks, so that the building looks dark
at all times (but not condemned). Late at night,
lamplight shines through the 4th floor windows.
A Little Digging
These things can be learned by doing legwork.
✦✦ The 4th floor of the building is where Krenhauser
lives; the entire floor is given over to opulent living
quarters, comforts fitting a successful merchant.
✦✦ The 1st floor is mostly a supply area, kitchens, and
a guard post. At all times, four guards are on duty
in the guard post; two guards rotate off shift every
4 hours. Their instructions are to admit no one
besides Krenhauser, Manfort, or Urich.
✦✦ The 2nd and 3rd stories make up Krenhauser’s
laboratory. The the floor separating the two stories
was removed, creating a single double-height
ceiling. The area is filled with medical equipment,
chemical storage and supplies, and several metal
beds with arm and leg clamps and machinery for
elevating and rotating the bed. Thick iron doors
that are kept locked lead to the stairwells.
Deep Secrets
Members of the crew can learn these things by spending
Influence or as a result of rolling boons during legwork.
✦✦ A cellar beneath the ground floor of the building
has been converted to a holding cell. Krenhauser
keeps his unwilling patients here. One such patient,
a barely responsive woman, is imprisoned here
now, and her wails can sometimes be faintly heard
by passers-by on the street.
✦✦ Several man-sized canisters in the laboratory
contain harmful gases Krenhauser uses in his
experiments. If punctured, they will spew poison;
if this happens, add challenge dice to all rolls made
by character in the area, and have any drawbacks
rolled deal 10 damage from inhaling poison.
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Mahmat Luciaro
Members of the crew who know about the Right Kind
of People know these things. Otherwise, they can do
legwork to learn them without making die rolls.
✦✦ Mahmat “Matty” Luciaro is a Family enforcer who
was born into the cartel and can trace his lineage
back to the city’s founders.
✦✦ Luciaro is in his late 20s, handsome and possessing
a sense of style that would make a Vesper
jealous. He’s known to be quite the ladies’ man,
though among the women he has courted he
has a reputation for being charming, respectful,
and easygoing.
A Little Digging
These things can be learned by doing legwork.
✦✦ Prior to his cursing, Luciaro was seen sharing a
table with a woman named Evonne Manfort, who
is not herself one of the Right Kind of People, at
a private supper club in the Dorcesler Barony. He
appeared to be courting her; she appeared to be
encouraging it.
✦✦ Luciaro is currently being held in the cellar of a
butcher’s shop in the Highroad County district.
The shop is a Family front, and it has been closed
since he was brought there. The curse manifests if
he falls asleep and loses control. He is kept chained
to the wall, and other Family members have been
staying with him, forcing him to stay awake; as a
result, he has been driven to near-madness by sleep
deprivation and his clothes are in tatters.
Mahmat’s Accursed Form
Major villain
Luck 200
Claws and Teeth (75%, 40 physical damage)
Break Something (75%, 30 physical damage)
Menace (50%, 30 mental damage)
Anything else (40%, 10 damage)
Against All Odds: Each time this character is attacked, add one
challenge die to the attack roll for each time this character has been
attacked since the end of her last turn.
Animal Fury: Any attempt to convince or intimidate Mahmat during
his accursed transformation gains three challenge dice on the roll.
Wounds: While in his accursed form, Mahmat is not defeated until he
is knocked unconscious or killed, and he heals one wound at the start
of each of his turns while conscious. When knocked unconscious or
killed, Mahmat reverts to his normal appearance.
The Wolf Curse
Members of the crew who know about sorcery
know these things. Otherwise, they can do legwork
to learn them without making die rolls.
✦✦ The curse laid upon Luciaro is the wolf curse, an
ancient hex that traces back to the shrouded past
of the lands that lie between the former Vladov
Empire and the nations of Elderland.
✦✦ The wolf curse is normally spread through the
bite of one so accursed who has completed the
transformation. Laying the curse upon someone
using sorcery is extremely costly.
A Little Digging
These things can be learned by doing legwork.
✦✦ Curses like the wolf curse retain some signature of
the person that laid it upon the victim. By carefully
studying the victim, a sorcerer could not only trace
the curse back to its creator, but also use it to tailor
sorceries to more strongly affect that person.
✦✦ In order to cast the wolf curse on Luciaro, Evonne
Manfort burned a masterpiece Taonan wall
hanging, stolen from an antiquities dealer in Little
Taona, as a sacrifice to fuel the sorcery.
Wolfsbane
Tincture
Members of the crew who know about medicine
know these things. Otherwise, they can do legwork
to learn them without making die rolls.
✦✦ While wolfsbane tincture is unknown in the field
of medicine, the concept of treating sorcerous
maladies and hexes through mundane chemicals
is both sought-after and unproven. Most theories
suggest that such medicines would be extremely
unstable and thus would need a special container.
A Little Digging
These things can be learned by doing legwork.
✦✦ The wolfsbane tincture must be kept inside a lead
canister that blocks out light and other stimuli
due to its instability. The tincture itself is in an
hourglass-shaped glass vial inside the canister. The
canister is as long as a cask of ale and roughly six
inches in diameter. It is unwieldy and difficult to
conceal without special preparation. If the tincture
is exposed to sunlight, it becomes completely
inert and useless.
For the Judge
These notes about the Job include a tally of
enemies, exceptional ways for characters to earn
heat, and ways for the Judge to spend heat.
In the execution of the Job, the players need to account
for the following obstacles:
✦✦ Gilbert Krenhauser, the physicker himself (use the
statistics for the calculating noble)
✦✦ Urich, the manservant (use the statistics for the
brutish lieutenant)
✦✦ Evonne Manfort, the physicker’s assistant
✦✦ The size 4 squad of private security guards
Krenhauser employs, plus a second size 4 squad if
the crew chooses to arrive when Urich is away
✦✦ Additionally, the crew needs to know which of the
hundreds of vials is the wolfsbane tincture; if they
do not have a physical description of its container,
or some way to deduce which one it is, they will
not know which vial to retrieve.
Plot Twist (Spend 20 Heat)
Mahmat Luciaro breaks free from where he is being
held and begins going on a rampage through the city.
Mahmat Luciaro is added to the scenario as a major
villain; at the start of each day or night segment, the
crew hears of horrible things he has done in his accursed
form. Worse, some part of him remembers Evonne
Manfort, and in his bestial rage he seeks her out. Until he
is dealt with, Mahmat can appear in any scene the Judge
chooses for the remainder of the Job.
Major Complication (Spend 12 Heat)
The Crown has been gathering evidence against
Krenhauser and stages a raid to arrest him at the
Sanctuary. The raid runs the risk of destroying the
wolfsbane tincture, as the agents of the Crown have no
idea that Luciaro has been cursed, nor that Krenhauser
has a cure. The raiding party consists of a size 8 squad of
City Watch minions and a City Watch lieutenant.
Credits
Design: Rodney Thompson
Cover Art: Waclaw Wysocki
Graphic Design: Daniel Solis
Background Art: Jared Blando
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