The casde had been taken over during the later days of the repression riots by a rather desperate band of refugees, mosdy metahumans who were Seeing from the hate that had swept over the world. Most of them were orks and dwarfs, more than half of them members of the bundeswehr. The soldiers’ experience and weapons had bought the refugees their safety. The determination of both soldiers and civilians had kept it. Locally, they had maintained their holding through a balance of threats, bribes, and usefulness to the government. The experiences of the squatters had birthed a hatred and led them to turn Weberschloss into a haven for anti-norm terrorists. They called themselves the Herbstgeists, the Ghosts of Autumn. So far, their operations were too minor—and too often convenient for some corporate or governmental faction—for them to be rooted out.