Town in a Single Web
Overnight, one enormous spider silk wraps the square—mail, gossip, and footsteps all vibrate to a listening nest. Merchants cut strands and vanish. Trace a message to the spinner, negotiate a toll in flies and secrets, or cut the key strand without collapsing the town.
Faces in the wings
Ethan Scarecroft
- Human
- Non-binary
- Adult
Role
- Occupation
- Ice wagon driver
Character
- Motivation
- Building wealth and reputation
- Personality
- Melancholy romantic who writes letters never sent
- Background
- Merchant dealing in rare goods
Details
- Quirk
- Counts equal hours on their fingers at noon
- Speaking style
- Calls everyone cousin or friend
- Private fear
- Losing their shadow to the fog tailor
- Secret
- Serves candy that remembers every secret
- Signature item
- Ledger that only opens at dusk in late August
Diana Ashbrook
- Human
- Male
- Adult
Role
- Occupation
- October calendar page-keeper
Character
- Motivation
- Building wealth and reputation
- Personality
- Passionate and fiery
- Background
- Merchant dealing in rare goods
Details
- Quirk
- Stares at clouds when lying
- Speaking style
- Ends sentences with or treat
- Private fear
- Being the villain in someone else's story
- Secret
- Collects summer memories to pay August's gate toll
- Signature item
- Whistle only dogs and spirits hear
Corwin Brightblade
- Human
- Non-binary
- Adult
Role
- Occupation
- Meteor shower hospitality coordinator
Character
- Motivation
- Building wealth and reputation
- Personality
- Cheerful mortician who hums at work
- Background
- Merchant dealing in rare goods
Details
- Quirk
- Rakes leaves into tidy questions
- Speaking style
- Soft voice that carries oddly far
- Private fear
- A black cat answering to their name
- Secret
- Cannot die until they finish one last apology
- Signature item
- Pocket of leftover heat sewn into a coat