Constabulary Record — Mistborn Gilded Steps

File BLM-343-0114 Division Knightbridge · forwarded to Bilming Central Opened 343 PC

Archive token of Dion Rook: a fair-haired man with a short beard and a level stare, on a pale green-grey field.

Archive portrait · division of origin

Rook, Dion

Under observation No warrant outstanding · no conviction on record

Known aliases: no record
Date of birth: no record
Place of birth: Bilming district unconfirmed
Father: no record
Mother: Mariola Rook
Stated residence: Ashlar Row, Knightbridge number unconfirmed
Distinguishing marks: Average height. Brown hair, wavy, to the shoulders. Short beard. No declared marks.
Present occupation: no occupation on record
Prior service: Bilming Constabulary, Knightbridge Division. Eleven years. Discharged.
Grounds for discharge: Sealed — restricted annexe
Metallic Arts: no record
Known associates: Mariola Rook, Ashlar Row no. 11 · Serefina Auld, the corner bakery · Porval Hess, Ashlar Row no. 30 · one minor, details protected
Prior record: None. No complaint filed. No proceedings.

Duty clerk's assessment Subject known to this division. He served well, and for a long time, which is what makes his file shorter than it ought to be — the men who write the files knew his name. He still lives on the street he grew up on, and the street answers for him. There is nothing to charge. The file is recommended to stay open on account of the company he keeps, not on account of anything he has done.

Appendix — interview, summarised by the attending officer

The subject gives eleven years' service as a constable in Knightbridge, in the division covering the streets he was born on. He describes, without being asked, how a patrol is arranged, how an item of evidence is lost, and which drawer a case is put in to die without anyone having to give the order. He was careful to say he learned this by working and not by informing. The officer notes the distinction appeared to matter to him more than the information did.

He states he lives on the row he was raised on and has watched the redevelopment contracts arrive house by house. He asserts that the offer rises when a neighbour refuses; that people leave the street without notice; and that men appear afterwards measuring the pavement. He was told that none of this constitutes an offence. He replied that this was the point of it. No complaint was filed and none is on record.

Asked what he wants, he answered that those who profit from others should be made to answer for it. He then volunteered, unprompted, that once he is certain of a man he stops waiting for proof and goes looking for the proof that agrees with him; that he did so on one occasion; that it cost him his position; and that he would not promise not to do it again. The officer records the admission as given. It is the only part of this interview the subject was not asked for.

Character sheet — out of fiction

Cosmere RPG, level 1 · Human · Misting (Tin) and Hunter · Outer Cities and High Society, with the constable's trade behind him.

Str2
Spd3
Int2
Wil2
Awa3
Pre0

He is built to find things and to be right about them. Awareness and Speed are his high attributes, and his trained skills are the three that follow from that: Perception, Light Weapons and Allomancy. Tin is the seeing metal — a Tineye burns it and every sense opens at once — and his is nascent, which in this system means he has Snapped but has not been trained: the power arrives in flickers he does not fully command. His Hunter talent, Seek Quarry, lets him fix on one person and follow them; the rest of the file is about what he does when he has fixed on the wrong one.

He carries a hunting rifle, a breastplate, a uniform he is no longer entitled to, and a set of manacles. His Presence is 0. He cannot talk his way past anything — not a doorman, not a magistrate, not a friend. Everything he gets, he gets by being already certain and already there.

Open goal: train the Tin — the reward is the full power.

File BLM-343-0231 Division Harbour · forwarded to Bilming Central Opened 343 PC

Portrait taken at the quay · no formal consent

Rhazed

Under observation File opened by association · no conviction on record

Surname: no record
Known aliases: no record
Date of birth: no record
Place of birth: unconfirmed — no birth recorded in this city. Entered the Enclave as a child, in his mother's company.
Father: no record
Mother: name not on file — recorded only as a departure from and return to the Enclave. Whereabouts unknown.
Stated residence: Terris Enclave, Bilming
Distinguishing marks: Young. Dark skin. Long hair, worn in locks.
Present occupation: no occupation on record
Schooling: Terris Enclave. Reads and speaks Terris.
Family: Maternal grandmother, member of the Enclave Synod · Lhazweth, twin sister · maternal grandfather
Metallic Arts: Presumed Feruchemist — unconfirmed · standing notation for natives of the Enclave
Known associates: Frequently seen among the labourers and idlers of the quay. No names established.
Prior record: No conviction. No proceedings. No complaint filed.

Duty clerk's assessment Known by sight on the quay since he was very young, and never for anything one could write down. He runs well, he disappears quickly, and he knows a patrol is about to turn the corner before the patrol does. That is not a crime. The file exists because the name came up near people who matter, and not because there is anything to charge. Let it further be noted that the family is of good standing with the Enclave, which makes his presence at the harbour a matter of curiosity to this division.

Appendix — interview, summarised by the attending officer

The subject states that the woman who signs for the Synod is his maternal grandmother and that she raised him. He states his mother brought him and his twin sister to the Enclave and departed; he does not know where, does not know why, and says he no longer recalls her face with any precision. Of his father he gives no name and claims none is known to him. He observed that this file records no record three times, and that what is a form to this division has been his whole life. The observation is entered because he made it twice.

He gives his schooling as the Enclave's: the Terris tongue, the scriptures, and the discipline of sitting still, at none of which he claims to have been good. He states that what he read in practice were the Allomancer Jak serials, concealed inside the science volumes. He states that he began going down to the harbour at twelve and that it taught him faster: who pays, who collects, who delivers, and what a night spent watching one corner is worth. He named no one.

On the notation of presumed Feruchemy, the subject stated that the presumption is made because he is Terris, that this file was built on it, and that all such files are. The officer did not correct him. Asked his intentions, he said he means to gather enough to take a train to the Roughs and not return; that out there, by his account, a man may still be something he chose. Nothing in the statement is actionable.

Character sheet — out of fiction

Cosmere RPG, level 1 · Human · Ferring (Steel) and Warrior · Terris Enclaves, Underworld and Outer Cities, with a reader's grounding in religion.

Str1
Spd3
Int3
Wil2
Awa3
Pre0

Quick and sharp rather than strong. A Steel Ferring is a Steelrunner: they store physical speed in a steel metalmind and draw it back out in a burst. His is nascent — he has the heritage and none of the training, and no metalmind of his own yet, which is exactly why building one is written down as a goal. His Feruchemy and Light Weapons are his two trained skills, with Agility and Athletics under them; he fights with two revolvers and leather, and the Vigilant Stance talent is a defensive posture, not an opening move.

Like Rook, Presence 0: no persuasion, no deceit. The difference is that Rook cannot lie because he will not, and Rhazed cannot lie because nobody in this city has ever given him a reason to practise.

Open goals: build the steel metalmind · get named in the broadsheets · earn the respect of the harbour gangs.

File BLM-343-0007 Division High Ward · courtesy registration Opened 343 PC

Composite token of Julien Vance: dark wavy hair, thin moustache, pale eyes, on a violet field.

Composite sketch · third attempt

Vance, Julien

Nothing to pursue Courtesy registration · gentleman of the capital · vouched for

Style: Lord as claimed
Date of birth: Elendel as stated
Place of birth: Elendel as stated
Parentage: House Vance, of Elendel as stated by the subject; unconfirmed against the capital's registries
Residence: High Ward no fixed address
Declared occupation: Administration of family property. Liquidation of a pre-Catacendre art collection. Assignment of mining interests.
Distinguishing marks: Tall, slight. Dark hair, full, wavy. Thin moustache. Pale grey eyes. Dark frock coat of discreet pattern, waistcoat and cravat in wine red. Cane with a gilt head. Red stone ring on the right hand. Watch chain. Leather document case.
Recognition: Divisional notation — the description above was taken from three deponents on separate occasions. None of the three officers who took the statements could describe him afterwards. Composite sketches were executed on three occasions; the three do not resemble one another. The third is filed here as the most recent, not as the most faithful.
Metallic Arts: no declaration on file — not requested
References: Vouched for by two houses of the ward
Prior record: None in this city. Nothing on file in Elendel under this name.

Duty clerk's assessment A gentleman of impeccable manner, presented by houses of settled reputation in this city. He attended of his own accord to regularise his stay, which already sets him apart from most. There is nothing to pursue and no enquiry is recommended. It is noted here, purely for internal order, that the duty officer of the third appointment, on reviewing his own notes, could not recall having been in the subject's presence. The officer has been cautioned as to diligence in completing his records.

Appendix — interview, summarised by the attending officer

The subject volunteered that his father was a bookkeeper who spent thirty-one years reckoning the accounts of the steel houses of Elendel and died in debt to three of them. He was at pains to say nothing was stolen: it was written down, in small print, and signed. He offered the conclusion he drew from it — that money does not belong to the man who does the work but to the man who tells the story about the work — in the manner of a pleasantry.

He gives as his reason for coming to Bilming that Elendel contains too many people who look closely. He describes the trade he conducts here without embarrassment: that the men who built this city hold more money than they know how to spend and less lineage than they would like, that they do not want paintings, and that what they buy is a gentleman of the capital saying aloud, before witnesses, that they have taste. He stated the price is high. No offence is disclosed.

The subject then remarked that the file compiled on him is immaculate and entirely wrong, and asked that it not be corrected. He denied acting on his father's account or in the correction of any wrong, and said he does it because he is good at it and because those who pay him deserve to lose every coin they display. He added, without being asked, that he does not consider this to place him above the magnates. The attending officer recorded the remarks and closed the interview. On review, the officer could not account for having agreed to reopen it.

Character sheet — out of fiction

Cosmere RPG, level 1 · no sheet on file.

An actor exists for him in the campaign world, and it is empty: no attributes, no paths, no talents, no items. Everything above this line is fiction the table has already agreed on; the mechanics are still to be built. This block will fill in from the sheet the moment there is one.

File BLM-343-0402 Division Registry Office · arrival entry Opened 343 PC

Registry token of Randy Vargas: a bearded man with thick dark hair and a work collar, on an olive-grey field.

Registry portrait · taken at the counter

Vargas, Randy

Nothing on file Arrival entry · no proceedings · no complaint

Known aliases: no record
Date of birth: no record
Place of birth: no record — not born in this city
Father: no record
Mother: no record
Stated residence: no fixed address — declared as recently arrived
Distinguishing marks: Thick dark hair. Full dark beard, kept.
Declared occupation: Repairs and mechanical work, taken by the job. Reads and writes. Carries precision tools and a reference book.
Schooling: Self-taught, as stated
Prior movements: States he has travelled, without naming where from. The Registry does not require him to.
Metallic Arts: no declaration on file — not requested at an arrival entry
Known associates: no record
Prior record: Nothing in this city.

Duty clerk's assessment The thinnest file in this batch, and not by accident. He came to a counter, gave a trade and a name, and was written down. A man who arrives with tools and no history is either exactly what he says or has taken some trouble to be. Nothing here justifies either conclusion. Recommend no action; recommend the file be kept.

Appendix — interview, summarised by the attending officer

Not yet taken. Two or three paragraphs of interview, written up as the division writes them up: where the subject came from, what he does for a living, what he wants and what he fears losing, all of it in the officer's third person. The player supplies the substance; the archive supplies the voice.

Character sheet — out of fiction

Cosmere RPG, level 1 · Human · Twinborn (Electrum and Cadmium) and Scholar · Wayfarer, with ties to the Terris Enclaves.

Str1
Spd2
Int3
Wil2
Awa2
Pre2

The maker of the group. Intellect is his high attribute and Crafting his best skill, with Deduction, Lore and Discipline behind it, and the Erudition talent on top — which lets him fix a new field in his mind after a short, hard study and work in it with unreasonable competence. His expertises are machinery, crafting, deduction and literature: he is the one who can read the paperwork and open the machine.

Twinborn means two powers, one of each art. Electrum Allomancy — a Misting of electrum is an Oracle, who sees a moment of their own immediate future — and Cadmium Feruchemy, a Gasper, who stores breath. Both are nascent: he has them and cannot properly use them, and the cadmium metalmind is not built yet. In fiction that is a man who has recently found out something about himself and is testing it in a workshop rather than telling anyone.

He is the only one of the three with any social footing at all — Presence 2, where Rook and Rhazed are flat 0. He carries a boot pistol, a uniform, a lantern, a lock and its key, ink, paper, and a reference book.

Open goals: train the electrum · build the cadmium metalmind.

File BLM-343-____ Division to be assigned Opened 343 PC

File
unassigned

Awaiting identification

One file per character at the table. The rest are opened as the group forms.

Name: to be filled
Known aliases: to be filled
Date of birth: to be filled
Place of birth: to be filled
Father: to be filled
Mother: to be filled
Stated residence: to be filled
Distinguishing marks: to be filled
Declared occupation: to be filled
Known associates: to be filled
Prior record: to be filled

Appendix — interview, summarised by the attending officer

Each player supplies two or three paragraphs of interview: where the character came from, what they do for a living, what they want and what they fear losing. The archive writes it up in the officer's third person, which is the only voice this file has.

How to read this archive

The Constabulary records what it established, not what is true. A blank field may mean that nobody looked, that somebody preferred not to write it down, or that the information went into an annexe this archive does not open.

There is no part of a file written in the subject's own voice. What reads as a confession is an interview written up by the officer who took it — the words reordered, the tenses moved, the admissions kept because they were useful. Where the appendix and the fields above it disagree, both are the same institution disagreeing with itself, and the disagreement is the point rather than an error to be corrected.

Each portrait sits on a coloured field, and the colour is a metal. The metal is one the subject has a relation to — what kind of relation is the subject's business, and in more than one case the Constabulary does not know there is one. The rings belong to the archive; the fields do not.

The block at the foot of each file, marked character sheet, is not the Constabulary speaking. It is the table: what the character is in the rules, taken from the campaign's own sheets. Where it contradicts the file above it, the file above it is only what the city managed to write down.

Nothing here goes past the campaign's spoiler line, and no file reveals GM material. What a character hides from the others stays hidden.