The Crow and Hammer

I shook my head.
“It’s ‘Don’t hit first, but always hit back.’”

## STATUS

Example

**The Crow and Hammer** is a small generalist guild operating out of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. While not a dedicated combat guild, the Crow and Hammer has a reputation for punching above their weight class. It *also* has a reputation for skirting the finer print of the law, and publicly welcomes misfits, ex-convicts, and reformed rogues to its ranks. Their guildmaster, Darius King, was infamously known as the Mage Assassin in his youth, despite the MPD's inability to convict him due to lack of evidence. Despite his ostensible retirement, he uses his encyclopedic knowledge of magical bylaws and codes to shield his guildeds from MagiPol's watchful eye.

## Features

### Exterior

The Crow and Hammer is housed in a cube-shaped building standing at an intersection. Its northern neighbor is a shorter building with boarded-up windows and construction tape across the doorway. On the other side there is a cramped parking lot with a dumpster.

The entrance to the guild is a black door, tucked into a shadowy nook with no overhead light. The door is adorned with faded print in Ye-Old-English lettering declaring, “The Crow and Hammer.” Painted beneath the letters is a black bird with its wings spread ominously, perched on an ornate mallet. The door has a repelling ward on it that deters regular humans from entering the guild. The spell doesn't work well on the inebriated, or on the stubborn.

### Interior

The guild building has four floors:

Basement: The main training area for the guild. The main floor space contains exercise equipment and a sparring arena, with shelves of gear lining the far side and 80s action movie posters plastered over every available inch of wall space. A large alchemy lab and a heavily reinforced strongroom for spell testing adjoin the gym room. At the end of the exercise area there are men's and women's showers, with lockers, two showers and two sinks each. The door to the male showers is marked with an alien.

Ground Floor: This floor contains the guild's eponymous pub, and is the most public floor. Heavy beams in the ceiling, wood finish, and dim lighting give it a dark, "English pub" feel. The dining area has seating and tables for up to fifty patrons, though barring all-hands meetings, it rarely reaches maximum capacity. A staircase leading to the other floors sits in one corner, and the bar takes up the back wall, with saloon doors behind it leading to the kitchens, storage, a small office for the pub's operations, and a back door exit. Centered on the wall behind the bar is a massive steel war hammer with nicked and tarnished metal and a dark wooden handle.

Second Floor: The main guild operations area, where jobs are coordinated and organized. The massive space is wide open, filled with worktables and mismatched chairs. A bank of computer desks runs along one wall, with whiteboards, cork boards, and a floor-to ceiling map of the city covering the others. A flat-screen TV is mounted in the corner.

Third Floor: This floor is divided into two sections. One side contains the guild master's office and those of his officers. The other side houses an Arcana laboratory.

## Guildeds

### Elementaria

-         Ezra Rowe

-         Kai Yamada

-         Aaron Sinclair

-         Alistair

-         Laetitia

### Arcana

-         Lyndon McAllister

-         Ramsey

-         Sylvia

-         Zora

-         Cameron

-         Darren

-         Cearra

-         Sin Baker

-         Riley

-         Katherine Hewitt

-         Venus

-         Alyssa

-         Gwen

-         Elisabetta

-         Sanjana

-         Miles

-         Zhi

-         Ming

-         Weldon

-         Lim Chen

-         Jia Chen

-         Julian

-         Amalia Harper

-         Cooper (unconfirmed)

### Spiritalis

-         Philip

-         Kaveri

-         Delta

-         Kier

-         Tori Dawson

### Psychica

-         Liam

-         Rose

-         Bryce

-         Taye

-         Sabrina

-         Blair

-         Drew