A note, slipped under your door. Sealed with wax. An image of a flame impressed.

Snapping the seal you read what is an invitation from a Lord of this great haunted city; a Lord Scurlock. Now what would a Lord want from you? Reading on, he requests your presence as he has a proposition, a proposition for someone with a set of very particular skills. Apparently, you come highly recommended.

Hearing the sound of a snorting horse (a rare sight and sound indeed are horses in the city), you go to the barred window of your cramped room and see outside a carriage bearing the same symbol as on the seal, the drivers eyes lift to you and he nods.

It looks like opportunity awaits?

Welcome to the dark-steampunk city of Doskvol and to a world facing eternal night. The city of Doskvol is surrounded by steep walls protected by powerful electrical fields. Fields that sputter as they try to keep endless hoards of roaming ghostly dead from passing through. Inside those walls are the last remnants of people - twisted over time after the great 'calamity'. At the bottom of the pecking order the underclass wail in misery and at the top the aristocracy lounge plump on riches. In the middle; smart scoundrels try their best to make some coin. Tis a city of bribery, treachery, and of course... opportunity.

This will be a one-shot of Blades in the Dark. This game uses the Forged in the Dark system which is an amended version of PbtA. Blades utilizes 'flashbacks' as a temporal narrative-jump device allowing players to turn their heists or criminal jobs into Oceans-Eleven-like adventures! Flashbacks allow players to skip a long planning phase for jobs and instead are thrust into the action. Character creation will be part of the session (its quick compared to many other TTRPG's), plus dice, pencils and paper will all be provided. Come be scoundrels, make a devil's bargain or two, and drive your characters to their absolute limits as if they were stolen cars!