The Counterfeiter of Moons

Hunt 38: Wet Paint, Second Moon

PeopleSkarn

LensHeist

LeadLio

RegionThalme

RunMiddle Run

Hunt 38 · Heist

Wet Paint, Second Moon

The Counterfeiter of Moons · Skarn

A wedding hangs under the Painted Moon, forty meters of canvas the Counterfeiter keeps taut by letting the high wind play his iron vents, and it has to stay up through the toast. Lio has one night, five selves and a ladder, while a rival forger's ship with a telescope crawls in on sail.

On the boardSold a planet a second moon. Needs it to stay up through the wedding.

WhereThe Painted Moon (street name: Wet Paint), Thalme. A fake moon hung over a wedding.

How it feelsFresh paint, a tiny engine whine.

House ruleNo hard-burning engine may fire within a hundred kilometers of the canvas moon.

Leads the huntLio Twil

PeopleSkarn, from Skarnak

Abigail's notebookA wedding.

I'm on a ladder.

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He sits up on the frame with every vent open to the high wind and it plays him, one long note, and the note holds the canvas flat. He can't lower his voice. It's physically not available to him. Kellen and I were at the bottom of a hundred meters of ladder when we heard from up top, at a volume I felt in my knees:

"I AM BEING QUIET."

The rims of the moon went a little blue.

Kellen's seen a sunset here he likes. They've painted it on the back of the marquee, behind the bride, and he doesn't know it's painted, and he's asked if we can keep it.

The Painted Moon, development art — The Painted Moon. Development art. Find it in the galaxy ▸

Hunt 38: Holding up the second moon. Development art.

The people

Skarn

Thick-skinned and loud, with a second voice box that carries a mile. They can't whisper.

Expressive, melodramatic, and surprisingly sentimental.

ALSO ON THE BOARD: The Anarchist (1), Mr. Marrow (11), The Karaoke Warlord (56), The Water Baron (87)

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