General Summary

Bribes, Blood & Bargains - Blood

The walls are closing in, the city is watching, and the Southside Sinners are done playing small.
The session opened with Merissa issuing a fresh warning: the Crooked Horn is moving, and something terrible is coming. But Charlie, always thinking tactically...or for himself, convinced the crew that the supernatural threat could wait—Sherman Park was the next step, and the political mess had to be mopped up first.
They reached out to Rashad from the Thrill Kill Club, who delivered a detailed dossier on Reverend Isaiah King—his home, habits, family, even his scars. Meanwhile, Sean and Tommy visited Father Brannigan, digging into King’s past and the story of his old church, now just a burned-out husk fenced off near the edge of the ward.
They tasked Razor with watching the site. It paid off—King still visited the ruins to pray.
And that’s where they struck.
Tommy, Sean, and Merissa cornered the preacher beside the ashes, and while they threatened and rattled him with their depth of knowledge, Charlie slipped into his car and shot King’s driver point-blank. Calm as confession, he looted the man’s watch before returning to the rest of the crew. Broken by fear and pressure, King agreed to step down—but let slip he’d *never wanted to run at all.*
Smelling larger prey, the crew pressed harder. Merissa called on Dakota, who manifested as a looming spiritual force. King responded with a Veil-touched crucifix, banishing the ghost with a shudder of divine heat—but not before giving up the man behind the curtain: "an Outfit guy named Tony," meeting him regularly at a butcher shop in Bridgeport.
Sean wrestled the crucifix away, and the crew left King weeping in front of the charred bones of his church.
Later, after indulging their vices to bleed off the pressure, they got word: Charmaine Hill had reached out. Ruttner wasn’t done. He’d hired someone to sabotage the rally and pin it on the Sinners.

The crew moved fast. They arrived early—Merissa and Dakota posted up on the catwalk, Sean fell into place with the union men setting up, Tommy observed the crowd, and Charlie went looking for Bruce Donnelly.
A child named Danny went missing, sparking panic. Sean asked God for help and got an answer, "This is not the distraction, the boy is in the back of the building", and Dakota—sifting through walls—found the boy quickly. Not long after, Charlie and Tommy spotted a few men crowding around a garbage can. What they found there was a strange device, ticking with unearthly energy.
As the building was evacuated, the crew debated what to do. A horrible chemical smell began to rise. One of the mooks muttered, “Tom touched it… I told him not to!” Sean prepared to grab the device and run but not before giving a quick prayer, again he was answered with a voice echoing in his head: “This IS the distraction.”
A shout rang out: “Gun!”
Outside, a drunk man was showing off a pistol to his buddy. Charlie disarmed him just in time, but Donnelly stepped in to escalate. Charlie dodged him gracefully and talked him down, preserving the moment and Donnelly’s pride.
Then Sean saw something off: a man in a trench coat, calmly spray-painting “Sinners For Life” on the sidewalk.
The real saboteur.
Charlie whipped the crowd into a frenzy as Tommy stirred up the union boys. Sean charged, Merissa fetched a fire hose, and the man pulled out a wired device—veiled to look like dynamite. Merissa hosed down a little old lady to clear Sean’s path, who then cracked the saboteur with his shillelagh.
As he fled, Charlie tripped him into the curb—killing him instantly.
Merissa turned the hose on the device to push it clear—but the power knocked her backward and unconscious. Tommy dove in, sweating, heart pounding, and disarmed the device with seconds to spare—collapsing from the stress as he did.

When the smoke cleared, the crowd was shaken but safe. The building still stood. The saboteur was dead. And the Sinners? They left not as villains, but as something dangerously close to local heroes.

Rewards Granted

+1 relationship with Citizens of Back of the Yards

Backyard Blades Season 2 Episode 3

Season 1

Season 2

Report Date

17 May 2025

Primary Location

New City

Secondary Location

West Englewood

Related Characters

• Bruce Donnelly
• Charmaine Hill
• Father Brannigan
• Rashad