The Unholy House of Manfed Gretzenhof

To cap off our run of interconnected Halloween Month one-shots, I ran a game of Blades in the Dark for the group. Instead of using the game's default Doskvol setting, I used Krevborna. The premise was that the characters were all blackened skalds--devil-worshipping bards--who had been hired by the infamous Nightsong to infiltrate a Hallowmass party and steal an unpublished manuscript written by Morten Jaqard (who featured in all four of the Halloween Month games). CharactersWinterwake, the CutterNithogg, the LurkVigil, the HoundAshlen, the SlideBleakwold, the SpiderUlfurbryn, the WhisperEventsWe began play with the characters arriving at a lonesome house on the moors just outside of Creedhall in their stolen catering uniforms and domino masks. But how did they get into this position? We flashed back to the events leading up to this moment. Ashlen kept watch over the house, learning that it had been shut until just recently when its master had returned. Ulfurbryn used his occult…