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Night by night, the company's passage through the city above and the Undercity below — each session set down as it fell.
Our chronicle opens, as such tales are apt to, at a well-laid table.
2Session 2 · 2025-09-28The tale resumes where the last left off — with that fearful crack still ringing in every ear at the farmhouse upon the plain outside Constantinople.
3Session 3 · 2025-10-19The company awoke, if one may call it that, to a ship in peril — the Ejder-i Derya, settling by degrees into the water.
4Session 4 · 2025-10-26The night's hunt found the company scattered through the darker lanes of the city.
5Session 5 · 2025-11-10Grown canny in its methods, the company resolved this night to divide itself.
6Session 6 · 2025-12-01As the sun dipped below the horizon, the four — Sidra al-Najjar, Jean-Zera Mongé, Gizem Faruki, and Ahmet Yusuf — threaded the crooked alleys of the U
7Session 7 · 2025-12-08The Festival of Candles ended in blood.
8Session 8 · 2025-12-14Beneath the earth, where our previous account left the company, the chamber gave up its first secrets: silver coins scattered amongst the stones, and
9Session 9 · 2026-01-11The company woke still under the spell of a shared dream — a little girl in flight after her mother had killed her father, and a sister left distraugh
10Session 10 · 2026-01-19The company came to their meeting with the Ghost of March warily, resolved to keep their tie to Osman Hamdi Bey to themselves, and mindful that Sharif
11Session 11 · 2026-02-08There are nights the body endures but the spirit does not, and this was such a night for the company.
12Session 12 · 2026-02-23In the depths of the Undercity, Sidra al-Najjar, Jean-Zera Mongé and Gizem Faruki rehearsed the shape of their errand: to identify the assassin sent b
13Session 13 · 2026-03-02The Sublime Porte had come at the design of Hamit the Quartz of Damascus to murder the Vizier-i Aezam — Mustafa Pasha — at the stroke of midnight, and
14Session 14 · 2026-05-09The reader will recall the grim theatre lately played out within the grand hall of Topkapi Palace, where the Egyptian Kavalan struck down his would-be
15Interlude · 2026-05-10The company descended at last into the flooded Basilica Cistern beneath Constantinople, where the air hung thick with the scent of damp stone and the
16Interlude · 2026-05-16Deep in the prison beneath the Basilica Cistern, the company's charity was repaid, as charity so often is, with an unpleasant surprise: the prisoner i
17Interlude · 2026-06-14Beyond the serpent-carved door where the previous night had ended — a great portal that Jean-Zera Mongé read as an incongruous montage of styles rathe
18Interlude · 2026-07-07The battle for the Crown of Sargon ended atop the cloud-wreathed ziggurat with the party battered but victorious.