[Chy 23-25] World's Mouth Closure Summary

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[Chy 23-25] World's Mouth Closure Summary

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With thanks to Morgan for doing this writeup.

The night of Chyril 23rd proved to be a momentous one for World's Mouth. In the Arsenale harbour, aboard a guild ship in top security, the stakeholders of the Aveas Exports Company met to receive a report on the progress of the vendetta against House Constanza. It would be their last. A quantity of blackpowder had been sneaked aboard and into the hold, and the guild ship Sapphire was blown sky-high.

No less than four of the city's nine Magisters had been aboard the Sapphire: Grand Marshal Arlis Amadici, Lord Mercantiler Esteban Saphio, head of the Office of Foreign Affairs Tai Carloni, and Magister Primus Simon Maglio, chancellor of World's Mouth. Also present was Ottavio Alphonse Binaldi, High Inquisitor and leader of the Purificatio. None of the bodies were recovered. By the time Condotierre airskiffs reached the scene, a few burns later, it was already too late. A single flicker had altered the World's Mouth political scene forever. An extraordinary general meeting of the Merchants' Council was called for the tradetide of the 24th, but attendance was low, and without firm leadership the meeting soon descended into panicked squabbling, with nothing decided. Only one thing was determined for sure: the finger of blame, for whatever reason, now pointed not only at the most obvious suspects, the semi-evanescent House Constanza, but also at the Union of Labourers and Teamsters.

The 23rd and 24th also held dramatic events for the city's criminal underside. First, on the night of the 23rd, the well-known blackmailer Scullio was found dead just outside the Promenade Theatre, his throat neatly cut. The assailant was unclear. Those parties such as the Lycaeum Library who had been threatened by him held their breaths, but by the 25th no new contact had been made. The remnants of Scullio and Penna's operation seemed to have gone to ground.

Eveningtide of the 24th held a massive joint raid on Southbridge and East Arch by the Home Guard and the Biancairre, the "Whites", hoping to take advantage of Hart's fall to catch the underworld unawares. Many petty criminals were taken to Caer Dumnare, and an equal number, those who resisted, were simply butchered where they stood. The Southbridge Whites, who in many ways were no better than the gangs they fought, weren't going to pass up this opportunity to make a statement. As a result, the organisations of Remmel, Dante and Black Heart began to keep a much lower profile. Many criminals skipped town, feeling that the heyday of the Mouth as criminal heartland of the West was over.

When the 25th came, World's Mouth was a town in turmoil. The bureacracy of the Turcotte, already stretched to its limit, was at breaking point; the cells of Caer Doom were packed to bursting; a good number of the city's organisations, both licit and illicit, found themselves in weak positions. The only thing that seemed to have remained constant was the filth belched out by the factories of East End, which blackened both the Scillus and the skies. Suddenly the Mouth, self-proclaimed capital of the world in terms of civilisation and wealth, was no longer such an alluring place to be.
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