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Evildoers' Tavern is the underworld bar in Tingen and one of three named Tingen landmarks that carry their own pages. It serves as the player's contact point for Sequence 9 underworld content, alley-fight encounters, and shadier side quests. The tavern sits on the boundary between Tingen's East and North Boroughs, making it accessible from both the industrial waterfront and the poorer residential streets. The February 2026 Crimson Test featured it alongside the other two landmarks.

Atmosphere

Evildoers' Tavern is a low-ceilinged, smoke-darkened bar with rough plank tables, sawdust on the floor, and an unfinished cellar that customers are politely asked not to wander into. Gas lamps hang at low intensity. The bar runs a back-counter ledger of names whose owners receive a free first drink and an unspoken understanding that they are not to start trouble; the same ledger keeps record of those whose owners are barred from the cellar entirely.

The tavern's clientele rotates by time of day. Late afternoon brings dockworkers and crewmen from Tingen's freight rail terminus. Evening brings small-time fixers, mid-tier operatives of the city's grey-economy gangs, and Beyonders in plainclothes. Late evening rotates in heavier traffic: senior fixers, cross-borough bodyguards, and occasional Sequence 7 or higher visitors whose presence the bartender registers and quietly does nothing about.

Patrons and Contacts

Several recurring contact archetypes can be approached at Evildoers':

Contact archetype	Role	Player approach
Information broker	Sells leads on missing-person cases, alley fight recruitment, and the Tingen rumour mill	Direct purchase via mundane currency, Acting Method check for a discount
Underworld fixer	Connects the player with off-the-books job offers, including bodyguard and courier work	Reputation-gated; first contact via the Nighthawks undercover quest line
Beyonder ingredient broker	Sells low-tier and mid-tier ingredients not available at Iron Cross	Higher prices than Iron Cross, but stocks rarer items and asks fewer questions
Sequence 9 underworld contact	Recruits low-Sequence Beyonders into local crew operations	Pathway-dependent introduction; bypassed by overt Mandated Punishers or Nighthawks affiliation
Sealed artifact fence	Occasional cellar guest who buys sealed artifacts of dubious provenance	Cellar access only; gated behind East Borough reputation

Beyonder Commerce

Unlike the open-air Iron Cross Street Market, Evildoers' Tavern handles its Beyonder commerce in the cellar, behind a door that opens only to specific knock patterns and to recognised Beyonder mannerisms. The cellar room is wallpapered with wax-sealed envelopes and a brass speaking tube that connects to the main bar. Inside, the broker keeps a small standing inventory of low-tier ingredients (hair clippings of the deceased, low-grade soporific dust, dried marsh-vine, low-purity sea-salt) and a longer waiting list of bespoke orders. See Potions and Ingredients.

Cellar prices run roughly 30 to 60 percent over Iron Cross prices for comparable ingredients; the premium covers discretion and same-day delivery. The cellar will not sell any item categorised as evidence of a current Nighthawks or Mandated Punishers investigation, regardless of price.

Quest Hooks

The February 2026 Crimson Test build ran three named quest lines through the tavern:

Tavern interior in Lord of Mysteries, a crowd pressed around a roped fighting ring while a cloaked player character watches from the foreground

Evildoers' Tavern Cellar: the introductory dungeon encounter. The player enters the cellar on a Nighthawks-side investigation and discovers a wider supernatural conspiracy under Tingen's underbelly. Triggered after the early Iron Cross smuggling case.
Alley-fight tournament: an underworld tournament held in the rear courtyard. Pathway-flavoured combat against opponents tuned to Sequence 9 reach. Reward includes early Acting Method practice tokens.
Cover-identity rehearsal: the player practises a long-form Acting Method cover identity by drinking with the regulars without being identified as a Beyonder. Shared drink rounds become sanity management practice.

Faction Presence

Nighthawks: run an undercover monitoring rotation. The bartender knows; he is paid not to act on the knowledge.
MI9: a source-material intelligence organisation based in the imperial capital, which is not part of the launch build. Its operating here has not been published. See MI9.
Red Gloves: a source-material Backlund unit, not confirmed to appear in the Tingen content that shipped at launch.
Divination Clubs: rarely meet here. The tavern's atmosphere is not conducive to ritual; clubs prefer rented private rooms elsewhere in Tingen.

A Note on the Name

Official character material for the live game names a Tingen tavern written 恶龙酒吧 (Evil Dragon Tavern) as the place one Tarot Club member retreats to when a deadline is closing in. Whether that is this venue under a different rendering of the name, or a separate bar in the same city, has not been published.

Tingen: parent city.
Iron Cross Street Market: the open-air mid-tier market that the cellar prices itself against.
Gandren Department Store: the civilian-side counterpart in the same city.
Crimson Test: the February 2026 closed test that first showed this landmark.

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