"Wherein a hard-boiled, old planeswalker arrives on the Western-based plane of Jakkard in order to conduct the semi-legal business of selling cigars, and is promptly interrupted by the tribulations of a local woman, whose pleas originally fall upon deaf ears but as the weeks pass slowly worm their way into the old planeswalker's black heart, after which follows intense violence, blackmail, general skullduggery, angels, demons, a traitorous viashino and minotaur, who are unrelated, regrettable murder, commendable murder, at least three explosions and a centaur barkeep - after which, the local woman is killed and additional murder ensues, birthing a planar ghost story and setting the tone for the rest of the plane, which is immediately followed by a red-eyed woman of dubious origins acquiring revenge upon her former partner-in-crime via disenfranchised husband, while occasionally changing perspective to earlier and later points in her life, which include a visit to a brothel whilst drunk, at least four banks heists, two murders, hijacking a train, saving a bullet-prone minotaur, requesting the services of a pair of unnerving twins, meeting the old planeswalker from the first part of this story arc, and striking a deal with this man of legend - until such a time that a bigger threat enters the picture in the form of an ancient and powerful chessmistress, who blackmails the old planeswalker into playing for her turn, whilst her counterpart engages a psychopathic rat with a vendetta against the old planeswalker for assistance in disrupting the powerful chessmistress's plans, which include but are not limited to removing additional planeswalker threats from the Western-based plane of Jakkard (such as a clairvoyant chaos mage with a penchant for gambling), acquiring absolute monopoly over the railway system, instituting an orderly social order, and gathering the magic of the local leylines for her own inscrutable purposes, all while her counterpart kidnaps the red-eyed woman's potential beau, forcing her into a maddened rage that levels most of the northern capitol city and pisses off a minimum of two demons before the old planeswalker returns just in time to talk the red-eyed woman down from her fury long enough to come up with a plan of attack, allowing the chessmistress to essentially win the day in the Western-based plane of Jakkard, while the red-eyed woman fakes her death, leaving only the barest of clues for her potential beau to follow. Contains not quite enough rattlers, too few nightsalkers, not quite enough Viashino, a great deal of swearing in the local dialect, angry minotaurs, placid centaurs, grinning demons, at least one sangromancer, two gifted twins, a haughty one-eyed angel, revenge, explosions, gunfire, violence, graphic violence, extremely graphic violence, torture, implied torture, implied graphic torture, two counts of prostitution, enough foxes to fill a Furry convention, untrustworthy djinni, a distinct lack of horses, two bruised egos, sexual content, implied sexual content, substance abuse, and death."