> [!tip] Profile > **Captain Blinton** > --- > **Species:** Human > **Role:** Field Operative, Emerald Nights > **Affiliation:** [[Order of the Emerald Claw]], [[Arthemis d'Cannith]] ## Profile Captain Blinton commands the Emerald Nights — Arthemis's augmented field teams. He was first encountered leading the ambush during the schema recovery (E7-E8), where the party stripped him naked and left him on a rooftop. He has not forgotten this. By E14, Blinton is carrying different gear — orichalcum-inlaid crossbow, enhanced armor. He's quieter now, harder, and visibly better equipped than the man the party humiliated in E7. ## Reputation Professional. Cold under pressure. Makes smart tactical withdrawals rather than dying for pride. The kind of officer who remembers every slight and files it for later. ## Key Appearances - **E7-E8:** Led the schema ambush. Defeated and humiliated by the party. Retreated. - **E14-E15:** Dolan's Span ambush. Enhanced with convergence-rated gear. Pincer formation, five operatives. The resonance cascade forced mutual disengagement. Retreated via trust fall off the skybridge with a parting threat for Professor Daela. ## Current Status At large. Reporting to Arthemis via sending stone. Has convergence-detection optics (the lens the party recovered was his team's). Knows the party works for Clifftop, knows their faces, knows they're delivering artifacts to Morgrave. %% ## DM Only - Blinton is disposable-but-capable from Arthemis's perspective. Selected for augmentation trials because he can identify the party and has motivation (humiliation from E7). - Each encounter, he's a little more competent, a little more dangerous, a little more of a person. The party made this version of Blinton. That's a consequence. - His gear if examined closely: orichalcum-inlaid weapons, micro-plating matching Drummond's forge specs. Same program, different operator. - Left behind on the bridge: sealed letter (orders from Arthemis), sending stone (paired to Arthemis), emerald claw armband (the fake one from E7 — he kept it), convergence-attuned lens (Kouneli recovered it). - Parting line E15: "Tell that professor friend of yours that we'll see him soon to take care of these noisy toys." %%