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Ruined monastery

Travelling monk

Iconoclasm

Coffin Bearers is an independent production by Franc and is not affiliated with the Melsonian Arts Council.

The Sword-Arm

The theocratic Kingdom of Gate-linked mini spheres is wet and low, blue and night-green with rain and grief.

Between the Gates, the Coffin Roads. When a man dies, he takes a last journey.

In the middle of iconoclastic war, a Sword-Arm of the Church carries a coffin to its final resting place.

The Iconoclasts hunt them.

Specialist

You have recovered Relics of watching and waiting: A sensor frond. An arquebus.

You’re missing an eye.

The Iconoclasts hunt you.

Skills

• 3 Second Sight
• 2 Sniping
• 2 Pilot
• 2 Tracking
• 1 Sneaking
• 1 Run
• 1 Hacking

Possessions

• Orbital Port
• Sensor Frond
• Arquebus (as fusil)
• Tin Cross
• Coffin, and a destination

Special - Your orbital port interfaces with the Sensor-Frond, gifting multi-spectrum sight. Interface with other Relics of the Disciples at your peril.

Quartermaster

You carry the tea. You make the tea. You are heavier than the rest of them put together, body and soul.

The Iconoclasts hunt you.

Skills

• 3 Strength
• 2 Forced March
• 2 Grappling
• 2 Cooking
• 1 Knife Fighting
• 1 Empath
• 1 Camping

Possessions

• Yoke
• 5D6 Provisions
• Caddy of Best Tea
• Bones of a friend
• Bale Hook
• Tower Shield
• Tent
• Coffin, and a destination

Marine

You black the blades of your cutlasses, so they do not shine at night when you do your work. The Bishop points, and you follow. He gives you a casket, and you carry.

The Iconoclasts hunt you.

Skills

• 3 Swordfighting
• 2 Shipboarding
• 2 Climb
• 2 Knowledge - Tactics
• 1 Run
• 1 Tattooing
• 1 Terrify

Possessions

• Stick and poke needles
• Tattoo ink
• A pious tattoo
• Grappling hook
• Twenty feet of silk rope
• 2 blackened cutlasses (damage as Sword)
• Stolen helmet
• Boarder-name, fearsome
• Old name, and a reason to forget it
• Coffin, and a destination

Padre

You lead this Sword-Arm. You take their confessions. Ease weight of sins enacted by the Bishop’s will.

The Iconoclasts hunt you.

Skills

• 3 Knowledge - Religion
• 2 Oration
• 2 Run
• 2 Astrology
• 1 Heretic spell
• 1 Gambling
• 1 Sneak

Possessions

• Knucklebones
• Tin cross
• Rosary
• 1d6 Grenades (damage as Pistolet)
• Bible
• Sock filled with lead shot (damage as Club)
• Heretical revelation
• Coffin, and a destination

Special - You can take confessions and grant pardons. +1 Etiquette when dealing with people you have personally pardoned.