Thread 1 — Port Stability

The Silenced Crew

Someone killed a butcher crew to bury what they found.

A crew went missing three weeks ago. Officially: gravewater accident. Their equipment came back. They didn't. Yara Tideshorn is asking questions and the harbor regulars are calling it grief.

What Is Actually Happening

The missing butcher crew of the Pessel Orn didn't drown. They found something at a gravewater site — a pre-Ignition coordinate showing anomalous ley echo readings — and someone decided their silence was worth more than their lives. The kill order came from inside the port. The cover-up is ongoing. The evidence is distributed across three people who don't know what they're sitting on.

What It Looks Like From Outside

A crew went missing three weeks ago. Officially: gravewater accident. Their last registered contract was a standard salvage run. Their equipment came back. They didn't. Yara Tideshorn is asking questions and the harbor regulars are calling it grief.

Entry Points

Four independent ways players can stumble into this thread.

  • Yara approaches the players at Session One — she has the log and the timestamp gap but not the interpretation.
  • A job posting at the Rendered Whale offers salvager work near a specific gravewater coordinate.
  • Veska Orr mentions the crew's final visit while treating a player character at Pier 7.
  • Red Marrox asks the players to check out a coordinate where he noticed something off.

Escalation Track: Port Stability

StageTriggerConsequence
1Players begin asking questions about the missing crewThe Log Cutter becomes aware they are being investigated and seeks guidance from their employer.
2Players connect the log splice to harbor system accessThe Log Cutter is found dead — a second body that creates new pressure.
3Players reach the gravewater coordinateThe Church of Flame requests access to the crew's survey records. Someone else already knows what was found.
4The truth of the kill order is exposedThe employer surfaces — connected to Thread 2 — and takes active countermeasures against the players.
5Full exposure of what the crew foundThe pre-Ignition site becomes contested by multiple factions simultaneously. Port Stability track reaches crisis.

Thread Connections

Thread 6 — What Moves Below
The gravewater coordinate connects to the ley echo anomalies and Leviathan behavior changes.
Thread 2 — The Consortium Squeeze
Whoever paid for the silence has a Consortium connection.

DM Presentation Guide

Play this as a grief investigation that becomes a conspiracy. Yara Tideshorn is the emotional anchor — she is not clever or well-resourced, but she is right and she knows she is right. The horror is not the death; it is that the mechanisms that should have prevented it were the mechanisms that caused it.