• In flashbacks to their original introductions, the characters fell in together through an unlikely encounter - a brawl in the library.
• They took a job brokered by a spirit trafficker associate of Parvash's named Flint, and the crew was charged with smuggling an insane spirit hull across town. By way of assistance, Flint loaned the crew an ensorcelled scarf that would supposedly subdue an hostile spirit.
• The Queer opted to use the canals and discovered the device was being redirected from a Spirit Warden warehouse by an inside man. Nothing could go wrong with that...
• The party was ambushed by thugs in a trio of other gondolas, whom appeared to be in the employ of the now-nefarious Flint.
• The somnambulant hull woke and the Queer were forced to fight it while simultaneously fending off the rival crew's attack - which they managed with only a modicum of death and commotion.
• They survived the encounter, delivered the hull and got paid. They also kept the spirt scarf and are quite sure Flint is no longer a friend.
