The Rabengaat Deck

Every contract into Rabengaat sounds simple in the tavern. That is what the tavern is for.

Objectives (five, public at briefing)

Contract	The pitch
The Vault Grab	Find the strongroom; take what the crown left behind
The Ledger / The Rescue	Recover the records — or the person the records say is still down there
Seal the Seep	Something is leaking into the prison from below; close it
Lay the Warden	The prison’s master never left; put them down for good
Escort the Heir	Deliver a claimant safely through their ancestors’ worst building

Antagonist Factions (six — how the dungeon fights back)

The Antagonist card sets behavior and pressure; creatures resolve late from faction tags plus biome.

Faction	Weight	Nature
The Abandoned (inmates)	common	Prisoners’ descendants and survivors; territorial, human-scale
The Restless Dead	common	The unburied of a forgotten prison — Rabengaat makes Desecrants by the cellblock
The Chaos-Seep	uncommon	Something wrong leaking up from a deeper stratum
The Winged Host	rare, apex	Zealot invaders from above — a run you may not see your first session (faction lore needs Cairnfall migration; name also collides with Zephyrin — see Loose Threads)
The Old Wards	uncommon	The kingdom’s own defenses, reactivating — kin to the Wrought
Vermin	ambient filler	The valley’s low-tier constant

The Face-Down Cards

Safe to read between sessions; spoilered for play:

Pressures (six, tag-gated — every Pressure requires a faction or environment tag, the structural fix for the old “Hunt” over-draw): the flooding undercroft (P-DAMP) and the hunt (P07) are the two documented exemplars; the remaining four live in the Starter Deck artifact awaiting migration.

Twists (six): documented exemplars: T-EMPTY — the coffer is bare, and the records office fairly foreshadowed it; T-LIED — the contract’s premise was a lie: the vault is a mass grave, or the “heir” is a fraud your employer planted. The remaining four await migration.

Post-run, every card above is shown face-up in the ledger.