@CoP - yeah, I am honestly trying to figure all this out.
The troll said "no blood in Nightside."
But what is Nightside?
Is it all the underground "world" outside of the more openly commercialized Underplex north of the Thames?
Is it just everything under the Lambeth Containment Zone?
I read Kinkerbell's writeup again, and this place we are in seems to be the "Nightside market" which in turn is the "most interesting place in Shadow's Folly" which near as I can tell was a particular community we were originally making for on our way to somewhere much farther away called Earl's Court (which seems even freakier than where we are now).
So is it the market we're to understand they won't try to kill us in, and after we leave the "market" they can come after us?
In that case guys, we would want to stay in the market???
But in this place where violence is somehow forbidden to all, they stole our girl with a spell and nuked one our friends with magic dust that made him scream and claw at his face, and then put some sort of delayed action death sentence on us.
So near as I can tell, as long as we stay in the market, we can't do violence to them, but there is nothing stopping them from cutting loose on us whenever it suits them or some weird set of rules says it's okay.
But I'll admit, this place is still totally baffling.
Good news, Aria has only cleared us to get "through" not "out" of the market, and also to make our rendezvous with Requiem/clowns. Maybe once we meet some relatively friendly locals we can get some good advice (toward getting out of here and toward our as yet unspecified meet with eTher - THAT is what we are aiming for - eyes on the prize!).
So I'm about to IC our team linking back up together.
Maybe someone else take us as far as meeting the clowns before the weekend is out?
