A sprawling metropolis where law decays father than concrete. Nimble is a city of crooked skylines, flickering neon, and alleyways that breathes secrets. Crime syndicates replace government, newspapers lie as often as they tell the truth, and memory itself feels edited – redacted by unseen hands.
Here, every rumor has a price. Every truth has a body count.
Bramwell’s Mission
- Locate the hidden stomping grounds of Kenton Nimble, the city’s most feared drug lord.
- Extract cryptic coordinates known only to Kenton.
- Follow those coordinates to a concealed building.
- Recover a forbidden newspaper article revealing suppressed truths about Bramwell’s family lineage, occult heritage, and ancestral dwellings.
A Blood-Printed History
The Newspaper is not a relic meant to be kept. It is a rite disguised as journalism – a surviving fragment of an older, forbidden craft practiced by Bramwell’s ancestor within Nimble.
The Founding of the Blood Press
Long before Nimble fell into syndicate rule, the city was home to a clandestine collective known as The Blood Press – a lineage-bound cabal of scribes, printers, and occult archivists.
Their belief was heretical:
“Truth decays unless it is wounded.”
They discovered that events bound with ritual ink – ink mixed with blood, ash, and memory – could survive erasure. Governments could burn books. Cities could be rebuilt. But printed truth, properly bled into being, would resurface when summoned by the correct bloodline.
Bramwell’s family were not leaders of the Blood Press.
They were its anchors.
Bramwell’s Lineage: The Anchored Blood
The Zuwa lineage (long before Bramwell’s birth) possessed a rare trait known in Nimble’s occult lexicon as Anchoring.
An Anchored bloodline:
- Does not create rituals
- Does not lead cultic movements
- Instead, stabilizes forbidden knowledge, preventing it from dissolving into madness
This made Bramwell’s ancestors invaluable – and expendable.
They were embedded across Nimble as:
- Printers
- Journalists
- Typesetters
- City record-keepers
Every Zuwa dwelling doubled as a ritual safehouse, built atop ley fractures where truth thinned. These homes were written into the city, not merely built within it.
The Article That Refused to Die
The newspaper article Bramwell uncovers was printed during The Redaction Riots – a violent purge when Nimble’s ruling powers attempted to erase all occult documentation.
The article contained:
- Names of Blood Press members encoded as misprinted advertisements
- Addresses of Zuwa safehouses disguised as weather reports
- A genealogical mark identifying Bramwell’s direct ancestral line
Its headline never appears the same twice.
To ordinary readers, it is meaningless.
To Bramwell, it reconstructs itself.
Why the Article Was Hidden
The article could not be destroyed because it was unfinished.
Blood Press doctrine forbade completing certain records until a future bearer could witness them safely. Finishing the article too early would:
- Collapse the Anchoring bloodline
- Release unfiltered truths capable of unmaking the city
Thus, the article was sealed inside The Redaction Building, waiting for:
“A child born under divided moons, whose memory would survive the truth.”
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