The Pavilion of Rolling Gunpowder

The Morovian Pleasure-Rotunda is legendary across the eastern gulf for exquisite spiced wine, death-defying aerial displays, and sweeping harbor views. Built atop sixty lashed pontoon hulls, the sprawling three-tier pagoda serves as the floating crown jewel of maritime trade. But when mutinous privateers seize its heavy defensive battery and train sixty stolen carronades on the waterfront to extort the shoreline, the grand banquet turns into a slaughterhouse. Trapped aboard the drifting palace as harbor warships prepare to incinerate the structure, the only patrons capable of resistance are three bickering martial artists from rival traditions: Boleslav Krikunov, an insufferable sabre grandstander who weaponizes spilled vintage and refuses to strike unless someone is cheering; Danika Mravik, a sharp-tongued assassin whose rotational footwork redirects bullets into her flintlocks' line of fire; and Rostislav Benov, an aerial socialite who fences while swinging from chandelier chains. With the pontoons leaking, the powder magazines ticking down, and imperial galleasses closing in, the unlikely trio must dance through grapeshot and banquet wreckage to retake the artillery deck before the entire pavilion goes to the bottom.