Crimson Suicides: The forest has eyes

"From a distance, Blackseagate is a masterpiece of light and stone. Her pale towers pierce the horizon, catching the sun like ivory spears, while the harbor overflows with sails crowded together like the folded wings of great white birds. It is the capital’s greatest promise—a city where gold passes from hand to hand with practiced, grease-slicked ease. But up close, the mask slips. The air grows thick with a suffocating mist of salt, woodsmoke, and the metallic tang of coin. Here, trade and corruption are twins born of the same greed, and no one is hypocritical enough to pretend otherwise. In Blackseagate, everything is a commodity: names, favors, and silence. You can reinvent yourself a thousand times over, provided your purse is heavy enough and your contacts know exactly when to look away.

On the city’s jagged edge, where the law thins and the shadow of the nobility grows long, stands the Fighting Pig Inn. Within these smoke-stained walls gather the Crimson Suicides, a brotherhood of mercenaries bound by a single, jagged truth: they take the contracts everyone else is too sane to touch. For a Suicide, danger isn’t a deterrent—it’s the point. The room hums tonight with a restless, electric energy as deals are struck in whispers and tempers fray against the heat of the hearth. Around you, the legends of the company stir in the gloom. You see Erdwan, the elven bard, weaving songs that turn drink into confession, and Khazar, the drow blade-dancer, whose twin steels flicker in a silent promise of violence. In the corners loom the others: the massive, hungry silhouette of Grunt the troll; Traki the dwarf, whose temper is a short fuse; the restless, feline grace of Faude Myon; and Sorcha the tiefling, who scans the room with a predator’s knowing smile. Apart from the noise stands Ayn, the dragon-trainer, wrapped in a quiet, ancient strength, while somewhere in the deepest shadows, the mad priest Rati mutters gibberish that sounds increasingly like a funeral dirge.

It's just another night at the fighting pig, a celebration and a party, then at the back of the room you see a well-dressed man leaving Max's office in a great hurry as if he wants to get out of there as soon as possible, you know it, you see instantly in Max's eyes that it's time to get back to work, Black Seagate never sleeps."

A dark fantasy role-playing game in which we take on the role of a mercenary in the Crimson Suicide Company.

Characters:

Ayn: The half-elf ranger, an excellent archer and tracker, has a baby dragon named Chamusquina as a pet; she is cheerful and warm.

Grunt: A troll adopted by Max as a child, gluttonous, innocent and kind-hearted... until he stops being so.

Edwin Costaescudo and Aurea Ventoaureo: Two nobles from the richest and most influential families in Black Seagate, an alliance between their families would alter the order of power among the nobility of the city.

Ismael: A solitary but resolute explorer of the Silk Forest; his help may mean the difference between the success and failure of your mission.

Rorg and his gang: A bandit who terrorizes the roads leading to Black Seagate, he has a score to settle with the Crimson Suicides over bandit hunts and is angry....

...and he doesn't come alone...

And many more characters!

Places of Interest:

Black Seagate: The capital, a port city where anything can be bought with gold and power struggles take place in the shadows.

The Fighting Pig: The tavern, inn, and headquarters of the Crimson Suicides. Here, clients come to sign contracts and look for swords to hire. Locals also come to enjoy the atmosphere and the spectacles of Erdwan and Khazar in their show "Sun and Shadow." It is located on the outskirts of Black Seagate and the lands of Count Dracamorte.

Count Dracamorte's Mansion: Gothic in style and more opulent than one would expect of a nobleman of his rank, surrounded by vast gardens and a large private guard, of which the Fighting Pig himself acts as an advance guard. The Count's coat of arms, a serpent devouring itself on a red field, flies over his lands.

The Whispering Woods: A forest that connects Black Seagate to the rest of the country. Its roads are fast, but due to the high volume of goods traffic, bandits abound, most notably the gang of the infamous Rorg.

Silk Forest: A little-traveled frontier forest, nowadays few use its paths since the creatures that dwell there are dangerous, yet like every forest it has its own Ranger to mitigate the plagues of giant spiders that inhabit the area.

Introductions:

1 - Max sends you to team up with Ayn.

2 - Max sends you to team up with Grunt.

3 - Max sends you to team up with Rati.

4 - Max sends you to team up with Faude Myon.

5 - Max sends you to team up with Erdwan

6 - Max sends you to team up with Merricat

Author's Notes: Well, this is the second chapter in the Crimson Suicides adventures, although it can be played independently of course. If you haven't played the first one, you can do so at the link below. janitorai.com↗ If you have, enter the following command:

[OOC: Pauses the role-playing game and summarizes the events so far.]

Then you can copy and paste the result into your memory to save your progress from the previous chapter and run a campaign. This bot has been tested on Gemini and Deepseek; I don't recommend it for other LLMS. Today I'm launching the new Crimson Suiciders bot: Midnight in Bloodraven. To celebrate, I'm updating this with the characters from the new bot. I hope you like them.SENSITIVE CONTENT. DO NOT PLAY IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO THE TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THE TAG.