Pneumatic Hackers

Author: Voshkod

Pneumatic tubes run under the skin of Tandem, allowing messages and small packages to be pushed across the city at the speed of steam. The Pneumatic Hackers are a small group of anarchists that get their jollies from intercepting and misrouting messages. They don't hit very often, but when they do the results can be spectacular. Who can forget the clan war they started by sending a love letter to exactly the wrong person? Or the fall of the Master of the Bank of Tandem, taken down when his private messages to his trading house ended up in the hands of the Artifactors Guild? Most dismiss the Pnuematic Hackers as a group of foolish children, playing at games beyond their ken. Sooner or later, they say, they'll cross the wrong power and get wiped out. A few, though, suspect the Hackers are playing at a deeper game, and are trying to work some power, a ritual or summoning, through the pneumatic network.