**[3/14/2026, 2:18:12 PM] Michelle** . --- **[3/14/2026, 2:19:52 PM] Cam** Attune Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 4 1d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[3/14/2026, 2:28:57 PM] Boo** Study Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 4 1d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[3/14/2026, 2:29:21 PM] Boo** Attune Risky | Standard Success You do it. 6 5 2d6 = 11 = 11 --- **[3/14/2026, 2:29:25 PM] Rob** Heard you --- **[3/14/2026, 2:29:26 PM] Michelle** heard ya --- **[3/14/2026, 2:29:29 PM] Kristian** success --- **[3/14/2026, 2:33:37 PM] Debinani** All right. So, um, let's see here. I'm going to spare you all the marquee. OK, so, when last we left off, you had, um, gone and taken a look at Lancaster's apartment and, um, snuffed your way through there. You found all manner of, um, goodies. You found some tins that had been holding, um, rare reagents, um, and, uh, it looks like they had been imported or smuggled through, or just simply stored in, um, tins from a Eruvian importer operating in Nightmarket. You had found a note from a sister that Lancaster doesn't have, uh, saying that, um, uh, they would be meeting this evening at 10:00 p.m. in Luminous Square, on the southeastern edge of the district. And, um, um, let's see. No sign of the Black Book. Oh, and then, um, Freakshow and, um, Wolf went hunting about to try to get information about where perhaps, uh, in, um, Six Towers his lab might be, and, uh, while Wolf threw a bunch of money around and didn't get anywhere, uh, Freakshow actually did with a drug dealer contact he has. And now you have Intel that there is a carriage house, um, an abandoned carriage house in Six Towers that, um, smells like the reagents that you have, um, that you found in the tin. So, those are the leads that you're running on. Um, most all of you have been up for a long time. Um, most of you are pretty stressed out and, uh, and, uh, uh, running on fumes. I think, um, Idolon and Nyx are probably the two exceptions. Um, uh, and, um, you, uh, a runner arrives. Actually, it wasn't a runner. It was Wolf coming back from Six Towers, um, came back and said, "Hey, hey, hey, um, there's a gang of people. They look like Reclamer Circle, um, um, shoving muscle around behind the Clerk Street typesetters," which is your territory. And so, they are, um, definitely, definitely making a move on your territory. So, mechanically speaking, um, when something like this happens, if you just let it go, um, you know, eventually the owner of the Clerk Street typesetters might just start, you know, paying tribute and offering info to the Reclamer Circle, and you guys would lose territory and ultimately, um, influence and all manner of other things. So, um, it's kind of important to, um, protect your claims. So, that is what's happening. So, you've got, let's say it's about, oh, 8:00 p.m. going on 9:00 p.m. You've got the supposed meeting at Luminous Park in at 10:00 p.m. and you've got a bunch of toughs, um, um, moving in on your neighborhood right now. So, um, what's the deal? What's the plan? --- **[3/14/2026, 2:38:09 PM] Debinani** Uh, yeah. Wolf is, uh, a little, um, uh, a little distraught because she just blew a whole bunch of, uh, the crew's money and, uh, got nowhere. So, she's going to... she's... she's... not in it. Uh, no, I gave everybody XP at the end of the last two sessions, so you should be good, and we haven't had any downtime. So, any stress accrued is still here. We haven't gone into downtime, so nobody's had a chance to get rid of any stress. So, you're all... some of you are in pretty rough shape. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:38:10 PM] Kristian** split the party --- **[3/14/2026, 2:38:16 PM] Kristian** do everything, simultaneously. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:38:16 PM] Michelle** Before we left, we suggested having Boo And Wolf go to the meetup and the rest of us go on defense. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:38:21 PM] Rob** We wire Freakshow with a suicide vest and send him after the toughs. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:38:47 PM] Jason G** I still have stress on my sheet I wasn't able to clear last game, and did any xp accrued at the beginning of last session, from the previous? --- **[3/14/2026, 2:39:28 PM] Michelle** OK, since Wolf isn't here, does anyone else want to go with Boo? Only one more, gonna need bodies here. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:39:43 PM] Debinani** I mean, Freakshow and Wolf are your spies. Um, you know, Boo's a... Boo's a Whisper. Um, uh, Watcher and Idolon are Lurks. Right? Um, so... --- **[3/14/2026, 2:39:56 PM] Nyx** I can go --- **[3/14/2026, 2:39:59 PM] Rob** I think Boo is a Whisper so it'd be redundant for Crow to go along with her. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:40:11 PM] Rob** Although it would get him out of dying to the toughs. :P --- **[3/14/2026, 2:40:13 PM] Random** I do have my detaachable shadow at ready still --- **[3/14/2026, 2:40:23 PM] Nyx** Nyx shrugs --- **[3/14/2026, 2:40:24 PM] Veth** I think I might be too healthy to waste on that. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:40:41 PM] Debinani** And you all know this from your history together, but Idolon can actually turn himself into a shadow. Good "Detachable Penis" reference. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:41:00 PM] Cam** Boo, Nyx - go spy on that meetup for us. Just be careful heading that way. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:41:02 PM] Veth** yeah it's neato. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:41:06 PM] Kristian** you sure? I thought I saw it on a blanket down by St Mark's Place, guy wanted $20 --- **[3/14/2026, 2:41:07 PM] Cam** Everyone else, gear up for some action. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:41:12 PM] Debinani** No, we are both old. And that's why I got it. Good old "Ping Missile." Uh, thing about Nyx is that Nyx is usually loaded down with poisons, gases, uh, explosives, you know, things like that. So, um, uh, you know, it may not, you know... it's up to you. I'm just saying that, you know, while Nyx isn't great in a standup fight, Nyx does blow things up. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:41:24 PM] Kristian** thank god someone got that I am not old yay --- **[3/14/2026, 2:41:33 PM] Kristian** lol --- **[3/14/2026, 2:42:15 PM] Nyx** Or I could stay here. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:42:15 PM] Rob** She's the reincarnation of her Deadlands character... --- **[3/14/2026, 2:42:50 PM] Nyx** I may have some poison darts. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:42:57 PM] Nyx** Nyx rummages around her bag --- **[3/14/2026, 2:43:07 PM] Crow** Crow takes a careful step away from Nyx --- **[3/14/2026, 2:43:23 PM] Cam** Cam rolls her eyes --- **[3/14/2026, 2:43:25 PM] Cam** Fine --- **[3/14/2026, 2:43:26 PM] Freakshow** Just like me, I always keep me poison darts floating loose about with me knickers. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:43:45 PM] Eidolon** I can keep it quiet. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:44:07 PM] Debinani** I guess it's really just about how you want to deal with either one of these issues, right? If you want to send your talkers to the thugs, or you want to send your talkers to the meet, or if you want to send your sneakers to the thugs, or the sneakers to the meet, or, you know... OK. So, um... uh, OK. So, Boo and Idolon are going to go to, um, Luminous Park for the meet. Um, and I assume the rest of you are going to gear up and go down the street and deal with, um, these toughs. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:44:20 PM] Boo** Boo rearranges gear and gets ready to head out. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:44:25 PM] Cam** Boo, Eidolon - you're up. And get moving. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:44:36 PM] Michelle** Cam has no interest in talking to the thugs. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:44:42 PM] Eidolon** Righto. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:44:58 PM] Debinani** All right. Um, since you are back at your lair, you all may reset your load. You can uncheck anything that you had previously checked and reset your load. I would assume all of you going down the street are just getting loaded for bear, just going heavy. Um, Boo, Idolon, you guys decide what your load's going to be for the park. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:45:05 PM] Michelle** yep --- **[3/14/2026, 2:45:12 PM] Random** remind me, are we doing the meet or just observing the meet? --- **[3/14/2026, 2:45:40 PM] Michelle** Spying on it --- **[3/14/2026, 2:45:59 PM] Debinani** Yeah, that was the... that was the sister letter that Wolf found. OK. Um, so, everybody have their loads reset? Um, Idolon, Boo, what are you... how much... how much are you taking? It is after dark, but you have to cross the entire district to get to the park. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:46:07 PM] Michelle** We found out about the time/place from that letter --- **[3/14/2026, 2:46:11 PM] Random** nods, just needed a jog --- **[3/14/2026, 2:46:45 PM] Veth** remind me how gear works? I think this might be new for me --- **[3/14/2026, 2:46:49 PM] Cam** Cam gears up --- **[3/14/2026, 2:46:49 PM] Nyx** Nyx pulls a tube from her bag and tucks it into her pocket. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:46:52 PM] Random** shadow is good for a few hours, and a few blocks so we can 'observe' from a bit of extra concealment. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:47:14 PM] Michelle** Use the backpack icon on your character sheet to pick what load type you want. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:47:18 PM] Debinani** Yeah, I mean, you guys are going literally right around the corner to where the... the toughs are. So, you know, the chances of you getting... unless you want to talk your way out of this or deal with the Bluecoats or something, I think you're fine going heavy. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:47:38 PM] Michelle** Then you can pick whatever you need from your "load" when we get rolling. heavier load means more options --- **[3/14/2026, 2:47:51 PM] Random** I'm kitted out, nothing really out of the ordinary. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:47:58 PM] Nyx** Nyx looks at Cam --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:03 PM] Nyx** Do we kill them? --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:07 PM] Debinani** Remember, you don't have to actually pick your gear. You just have to pick how much gear. You pick your gear as you need it. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:28 PM] Cam** *grins darkly* We're not going over to say "hi". --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:31 PM] Random** normal load --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:32 PM] Rob** Ah, forgot about that. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:36 PM] Veth** ohhh! ok cool I'm good --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:36 PM] Nyx** Nyx nods --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:38 PM] Debinani** Everything about this game is "Oh, by the way, I also..." --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:51 PM] Cam** Whatever it takes to run them out of our territory. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:54 PM] Nyx** I've never killed a person. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:48:59 PM] Veth** I like that. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:49:10 PM] Nyx** May I keep the body? --- **[3/14/2026, 2:49:11 PM] Cam** Cam pats her shoulder --- **[3/14/2026, 2:49:11 PM] Rob** Right. Although if you wind up needing heavy armor you aren't going to turn out to be carrying much more. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:49:17 PM] Debinani** All right. So, um... uh, all right. Um, Boo and Idolon, you guys kind of get yourself kitted out and you duck out and start heading, um, across the... the... across the district, and um, um, towards Luminous Park. Uh, I will deal with you in a little bit. Um, the rest of you, what's the approach? I assume you're all freaking loaded for bear, um, and, um, and are marching your way over to this alley behind the, um, Clerk Street typesetters and, um, um, and so, um, are you... any... any nuance to this at all? What's the... how are you guys approaching this? They are... um, you know where they are. You know the territory. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:49:30 PM] Cam** I don't think we want to run into spirit trouble. Best to leave the body there. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:49:41 PM] Kristian** how come "a 7th pistol" doesn't show up on my list?! --- **[3/14/2026, 2:49:49 PM] Nyx** Nyx looks disappointed --- **[3/14/2026, 2:50:01 PM] Crow** Do you need some particular part of the body? Or are you suddenly into anatomy? --- **[3/14/2026, 2:50:46 PM] Debinani** Yeah, you all are painfully, nauseatingly aware that Nyx plays with dead animals. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:50:56 PM] Nyx** I experiment. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:51:26 PM] Veth** I imagine Mayvik has a "prison purse" pistol. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:51:30 PM] Michelle** We know the ground, so let's get people on rooftops that make sense. Bruisers on the ground. Cam will go ground if Watcher goes upstairs to keep an eye on things --- **[3/14/2026, 2:51:35 PM] Debinani** Yeah, you could absolutely, um, you could absolutely, uh, um, get to a rooftop position over these guys. Um, you don't know if they've got people on the rooftops or not, but you could... you can... you can... you could get over there via the rooftops. You could get over there via the sewers. You could get over there via the alleys. I mean, this is your territory and you know it very well. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:52:23 PM] Rob** Any ghostly 'behind the scenes' paths we can use? --- **[3/14/2026, 2:52:25 PM] Debinani** Uh, good question. Uh, yeah. Um, I will say that, uh, yes, there is a... um, a... it's an alley, um, which means that the... the... the buildings facing the alley have been built and rebuilt quite a... a lot over the years. So, um, if you wanted to, yes, you all could theoretically, like, appear magically by walking through a brick wall if you wanted to. Um, there's probably plenty of opportunities for you to go into a side business or a... a side building and... and come out... come out through the wall. But, again, to do that, somebody's going to have to make an Attune roll and probably lead a group action for Attune. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:53:13 PM] Michelle** oo, that would be fun --- **[3/14/2026, 2:53:36 PM] Debinani** You do know, or at least Wolf reported, that there were a lot of them, like nearly a dozen. And there will be, what, five of you? --- **[3/14/2026, 2:53:42 PM] Veth** When you come out, be sure to be snapping your fingers to the beat. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:54:20 PM] Rob** Are they grouped together or dispersed? --- **[3/14/2026, 2:54:21 PM] Debinani** Uh, you don't know. You ain't there. But, if you... I mean, we could... we can... we can do this... we can... we can run this like a job, uh, you know, if you guys want to just tell me what the approach is, whether you're coming in straight on or sneaking in or whatever, we can do an engagement roll and just see how it goes. Or, you can do this the old fashioned way if you want and send somebody over to watch and report back or whatever you want to do. It is a fairly long alley, um, uh, and it... it splits off behind a... a brownstone and some other businesses that are facing, uh, um, Main Street or Market Street or whatever it is. Um, you know, so, it's going to be a fairly wide alley, fairly long. Um... --- **[3/14/2026, 2:54:22 PM] Michelle** ok, sneak through a wall or rooftops are my suggestions --- **[3/14/2026, 2:54:27 PM] Watcher** I'll check out the area from the rooftops, being careful to approach even the rooftops carefully to avoid being spotted. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:55:11 PM] Crow** I think we should use hit-and-run tactics, Cam. If they're spread out a bit it'd be ideal. If we just go toe-to-toe with them we're not going to come out on top. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:55:43 PM] Debinani** Um, Boo and Idolon, I'm assuming you guys are taking a fairly wide berth around this particular alley, right? You don't want to... you don't want to get stopped by these jokers on your way to your thing, right? OK. Just making sure. OK. So, y'all taking to the rooftops, making your way over there and just taking a look and... and seeing what the situation is, um, is fine by me. Um, so y'all kind of pack up, head to the rooftops, um, and, uh, and make your way over there. Um, easy-peasy. Uh, in fact, uh, as... as you guys approach the alley in question, uh, one of the kind of local scamps is uh, a... perched on the rooftop kind of looking over. Um, you... you know him. He's... he's one of your info runners, uh, who... who just runs... runs jobs for spare change, um, and, uh... so it looks like... it looks like whoever's on the ground doesn't necessarily have a... a... a lookout. At least not a lookout from the rooftops. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:55:46 PM] Random** correct --- **[3/14/2026, 2:56:07 PM] Cam** Let's try a quiet approach over the rooftops then. Can get a look at what's going on. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:56:13 PM] Veth** Seems sensible yeah. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:56:21 PM] Cam** And if we get lucky, Nyx might have some fun things to drop on their heads. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:57:01 PM] Nyx** Nyx rummages through her bag as she walks --- **[3/14/2026, 2:57:12 PM] Veth** "The things I do for love..." --- **[3/14/2026, 2:57:34 PM] Veth** Shove him off! BE THE LANNISTER --- **[3/14/2026, 2:57:45 PM] Rob** Shush, you aren't there. --- **[3/14/2026, 2:57:51 PM] Debinani** Uh, the kid's name is Tweek. Um, I mean, it's probably not his real name. Um, and, uh... he... he... he kind of nods over. He's like... he's like, "That lot... they're just down there talking shit. Uh, you know, they... they... uh... roughed up, uh, um, uh, you know, Lady Sander's kid, Billy, a little bit ago, and now they're just... they're just making noise. They're banging on the back door of the... the print shop, and um, uh, you know, generally threatening everybody who comes by." --- **[3/14/2026, 2:57:54 PM] Cam** What's it look like down there? --- **[3/14/2026, 2:58:01 PM] Michelle** to the kid --- **[3/14/2026, 2:58:41 PM] Debinani** Um, you take a look, uh, over the edge, and there are, uh, a dozen guys down there. Um, I mean, so you're outnumbered like two to one and a bit. Um, um, several of them are carrying, you know, clubs, right? Metal pipes, you know, various... various implements of... of... um... harm. Um, you... watch them for a little bit. You know, a couple of them might have firearms. All of them probably have a knife somewhere, um, you know, so it's just... it's a gang. Um, the interesting thing to note, and I'm going to give this to you without a roll, um, the interesting thing to note is that there are only, of the 12 guys, only like three of them are guys you recognize as Reclamer Circle. Uh, the lead here, uh, seems to be, uh, a fellow named Scratch. Um, you know Scratch. He's just one of the... one of the smugglers who works in the Reclamer Circle. He seems to be the guy kind of in charge of this group, but there are really only three of them that you recognize. The rest of these guys might be, you know, hired for the job. I mean, they might not be... you don't think they're Reclamer Circle regulars. Or if they are, you've never seen them before. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:00:31 PM] Debinani** I'm simply providing the sandbox. You may choose to do with it as you will. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:00:33 PM] Rob** I sense that Deb feels we have too much money and wants us to bribe our way out of this... --- **[3/14/2026, 3:00:49 PM] Cam** (quietly) Got anything on you that will mess them up but not kill them, Nyx? Something that will disperse? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:01:15 PM] Debinani** Uh, Idolon and Boo went to the meet-up. Freakshow is with the... with you guys, with everybody else on the roof. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:01:17 PM] Nyx** Nyx nods --- **[3/14/2026, 3:01:24 PM] Kristian** which group when to this vs the meetup? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:01:37 PM] Nyx** Nyx pulls a vial from her bag and throws it towards the ground --- **[3/14/2026, 3:01:38 PM] Kristian** thuggery got it --- **[3/14/2026, 3:01:45 PM] Nyx** tear gas --- **[3/14/2026, 3:01:45 PM] Rob** Bluffing someone uses Sway, right? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:01:50 PM] Freakshow** I take that as a yes. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:01:51 PM] Debinani** OK. Um... uh, uh, Nyx, go ahead and check the box for Bandolier, because that's where all these things are coming from. Uh, bluffing someone uses Sway or, um, um, Command if you're trying to, like, order them off. Um, Sway is lying, Command is ordering, and Consort is... is, you know, being friendly. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:02:09 PM] Kristian** Sway or maybe Command --- **[3/14/2026, 3:02:30 PM] Kristian** Intimidate --- **[3/14/2026, 3:02:30 PM] Debinani** OK. So, uh... Cam, um... uh, Cam says, "Hey, Nyx, do you have anything that would disperse them but not kill them?" Nyx nods, pulls a vial from her... her Bandolier of tricks and chucks it down, uh, into the midst of, of all the, um, um, all the toughs. Uh, Nyx, let's make a Wreck roll. And, uh, if you want to spend two... if you want to spend two, uh, um, stress, you can get an extra die. Um, I'm not sure how anybody could help you surprisingly drop a vial amidst them all, but if somebody has a creative idea to spend stress to help her, that's fine, but we're going to make a Wreck roll. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:02:34 PM] Kristian** slut --- **[3/14/2026, 3:02:39 PM] Rob** Irrelevant now. I was thinking if she didn't we could drop something harmless on them and try to convince them it's slow-acting. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:02:46 PM] Kristian** and attune is ghost slut. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:03:04 PM] Kristian** could still convince them the tear gas is fatal? heh --- **[3/14/2026, 3:03:11 PM] Rob** You have the highest Sway, Mayvik. :P --- **[3/14/2026, 3:03:24 PM] Veth** I imagine they wouldn't really know much about tear gas. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:03:44 PM] Debinani** Uh, that was only one die. Go ahead and, um... hold on a second. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:03:50 PM] Nyx** Wreck Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 3 1d6 = 3 = 3 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:04:06 PM] Rob** Would someone dropping a large stone from the roof somehow add to her Wreck roll? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:04:25 PM] Debinani** Um... no, I mean... I mean, you could... you could... I... I don't think it would help. I think it would just do whatever. Um, OK. So, let's see. Um, so Nyx takes a thing, chucks it over the edge. And, uh, let's see, uh, with a partial success, um, reuse effect, suffer lesser harm, end up in a risky position. OK. So, you... you chuck the, essentially a vial of tear gas down amidst all of them, uh, and it cracks open, and, um, uh, quite a number of them are, um, um, are coughing and sputtering and their eyes are watering, like almost all of them. I mean, she got it... I mean, you... she could... she could aim it pretty well. Um, but, um, but, uh, you know, at least one guy looks up and goes, "The bastards are on the roof!" and a couple of guys are... are pulling out guns, um, to, uh, um, to, uh... bring y'all a little closer. So, who's doing what? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:04:28 PM] Rob** I mean, I'm not adverse to causing grievious bodily harm to them... --- **[3/14/2026, 3:04:39 PM] Jen** oops --- **[3/14/2026, 3:04:42 PM] Nyx** Wreck Controlled | Great Partial Success You hesitate. Withdraw and try a different approach, or else do it with a minor consequence: a minor complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you suffer lesser harm, you end up in a risky position. 5 1 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:04:56 PM] Jen** better, sorry about that --- **[3/14/2026, 3:05:19 PM] Rob** Getting complete successes is hard in this game. Partials are good. :) --- **[3/14/2026, 3:06:02 PM] Nyx** Nyx ducks back --- **[3/14/2026, 3:06:05 PM] Rob** "Shoot us" is the operative term. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:06:08 PM] Crow** Crow takes cover --- **[3/14/2026, 3:06:11 PM] Debinani** Yeah, I mean, these are three-story brownstones. You have plenty of cover. I mean, they... unless you are sticking your head out over the edge of the... the... of the thing, they're not going to be able to shoot you. However, there are, like, fire escapes and stuff going all the way down, so they can... they can come up. Yeah, both... yeah, there's plenty of ways up and down this wall. Right in this moment, they're pretty distracted because, you know, tear gas. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:06:38 PM] Kristian** are there any like fire escapes, tubes, anything like that that one could climb or slide down? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:06:42 PM] Kristian** there ya go. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:06:51 PM] Debinani** While they're all doing that, Idolon and, uh, Boo, let me know how you want to approach this park thing. Um, it is a public park, it's radiant trees, so there's not a whole lot of darkness. They're... they... they basically, they're glowing plants. Um, and it's not a very big park. So, I just want to know, like, how you're staking the place out, what you plan to do. OK. I'll give you that one. Mud's at the far end of the alley. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:07:02 PM] Rob** Anything in the ghost field around here that I can make use of if they get up here? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:07:25 PM] Rob** Potentially, that is. I just want to know if attempting to Attune is worth it. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:07:27 PM] Michelle** BTW, I'd like to have Mutt waiting at the far end of the alley. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:07:28 PM] Debinani** Um, nothing that you're really aware of with the Ghost Field. You really don't detect any ghosts, you don't... nothing really going on. Um, no, unless you guys want to climb trees, there's really no high ground to be had at the meeting. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:07:29 PM] Freakshow** Wait for 'em to start climbing and get 'em on the way up? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:07:54 PM] Veth** no highground to be had at the meeting? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:07:58 PM] Rob** How click is ectoplasm? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:07:59 PM] Cam** Yeah, make the bastards come to us if we can. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:08:06 PM] Random** what's the area like? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:08:10 PM] Debinani** Uh, no, it is actually a pretty wide alley. It's probably maybe 10 to 12 feet wide. Um, you could look at the photo. I mean, it's basically a, um, a walking path, the occasional bench, um, and, uh, glowing foliage on both sides. There are trees, shrubs. It is only lit by the plants themselves. There aren't, like, electroplasmic lights or anything like that. Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily want you all just to take the, you know, rapidly AI-generated photo at face value, but in this case, you kind of can. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:08:12 PM] Veth** Beyond climbing a glowing tree? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:08:16 PM] Cam** Cam takes cover but pulls out a pistol --- **[3/14/2026, 3:08:23 PM] Jason G** how wide is the alley? able to leap across to the neighboring building? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:08:43 PM] Random** Oh, missed the photo, oopps. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:09:28 PM] Debinani** Uh, yes. This building, uh, the building you're on, yes, you could absolutely get into the, um, it's probably an attic space, but it might actually be an apartment, um, um, through... through the roof into the building if you wanted to. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:09:36 PM] Veth** I guess we could try to come in behind shrubbery, shadowblasting the area with my presence would kind of work against is with the trees. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:09:40 PM] Jason G** does this building have an internal stairwell with roof access too? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:09:44 PM] Boo** Boo drops the vial and activates my shadow self. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:10:09 PM] Veth** us, not is. :P --- **[3/14/2026, 3:10:15 PM] Debinani** Funny thing is, you guys really don't have a lot of fighter types. Yeah, Boo, we established that you could, like... you can puppet your shadow, right? So you can... you guys can be a fair... at a fairly safe distance and just be looking through the shadow's eyes, right? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:10:18 PM] Boo** let's hang back a bit and I'll send smoky me to scope the meet out some. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:10:22 PM] Kristian** should probably send a couple people that way in case they try to come in through the building, and keep the rest on the roof? Or vice versa and send the fighter types down to street level --- **[3/14/2026, 3:10:39 PM] Kristian** shhhh --- **[3/14/2026, 3:10:47 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon nods. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:10:51 PM] Random** yes. a blooks or two. and yes, I can either puppet it directly or send it off with instructions. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:10:56 PM] Debinani** I don't think your flashback can rewrite established fiction. No. OK. I'll get to you guys at the, at the... at the... park in a second. All right. So, the, uh, um, the guys, um, the guys are, like, getting this crap out of their eyes and they're starting to organize to come beat the crap out of you. What's the plan? Or who's doing what? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:11:01 PM] Random** a block or two --- **[3/14/2026, 3:11:04 PM] Rob** I have a pip in Skirmish, so I'm only mostly incompetent as a fighter rather than completely incompetent. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:11:05 PM] Kristian** weird, in my flash back I spent 3 years on the Muy Thai circuit learning how to kickbox --- **[3/14/2026, 3:11:22 PM] Kristian** training montage? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:11:39 PM] Random** I need to afk a couple of moments. pet complications --- **[3/14/2026, 3:11:43 PM] Debinani** You definitely hear the clanking of iron as, uh, um, as, you know, several folks start coming up the fire escape. OK. You're just going to lean over, take a pop at, uh, um, um, what did I say his name was? Scratch. All right. Um, we'll call that, um... it's not really controlled because they... they see you. Um, I think I'm good with risky standard. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:11:44 PM] Cam** Hey, Freakshow, watch the door from downstairs. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:11:55 PM] Nyx** Nyx pulls an acorn shaped object from her bag --- **[3/14/2026, 3:12:02 PM] Michelle** Cam will take a shot at their boss :P --- **[3/14/2026, 3:12:09 PM] Freakshow** Sure thing. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:12:15 PM] Michelle** yeah --- **[3/14/2026, 3:12:18 PM] Debinani** Um, Freakshow, you make it over to the door, you open the hatch, and it appears to be a, uh, um, it's actually... it's actually an attic space. So it's an attic space above whatever the... the third-floor apartment is on this... in this brownstone. And you guys know the region very well. You actually know... you know the people who live there. It's a... it's a... a family, uh, records clerk at the City Hall. Uh, you are rolling, um, I don't know, um, Hunt, risky standard. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:12:24 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow shimmies his way into the attic or upstairs apt or whatever it is. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:12:27 PM] Nyx** Nyx peaks over the side of the roof --- **[3/14/2026, 3:13:00 PM] Rob** Foolish as it is, Crow will take up a position near the top of the fire escape, but out of their line of fire, so he can use it as a choke point if it comes down to combat. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:13:02 PM] Michelle** What am I rolling? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:13:06 PM] Rob** Hunt? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:13:13 PM] Debinani** Uh, it is evening, and... oh, God, that's terrible. Um, it is evening, and, um, um, yes, the family is at home. They're, like... they've just... they're just cleaning up after dinner right now. Um, boop-a-doop-a-doo. Um, so, Cam, you... you... uh... pop out and you take a... take a shot and at least two people fire back, and you, um, um, you, uh... let's see... you actually take level-two harm, uh, uh, shot in the arm. Uh, would you like to try to resist? The way this will work is you will roll, um, Prowess, uh, so that would be... you'll roll two dice for Prowess, and it will cost you six stress minus the highest die to resist. And this is absolutely where you could add armor to your load and check your armor to... to resist that... that hit. Well, it's six stress minus whatever you roll. But, yes, I mean, you are, you know, you are... you could theoretically fill up the rest of your stress bar with this one resist roll if you roll really, really bad. And you all ain't rolling great today. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:13:16 PM] Michelle** I was thinking that --- **[3/14/2026, 3:13:22 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow heads over to the attic to apt hatch and opens it up to see if anyone is home --- **[3/14/2026, 3:13:25 PM] Cam** Hunt Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 3 3 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:13:32 PM] Michelle** ugh --- **[3/14/2026, 3:13:41 PM] Watcher** Watcher pulls a shadow cloak around himself and slinks into the attic to take up a hidden ambush position --- **[3/14/2026, 3:14:21 PM] Michelle** sure --- **[3/14/2026, 3:14:22 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow drops down into the apartment and does the shushy finger gesture to them --- **[3/14/2026, 3:14:24 PM] Rob** This is where she can add armor to her load? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:14:48 PM] Kristian** would want to get anyone in apt to a back bedroom or something away from their front door on the path the attic hatch... --- **[3/14/2026, 3:15:00 PM] Michelle** yeah, I don't have 6 stress --- **[3/14/2026, 3:15:14 PM] Debinani** Um, OK. So, OK. So you... uh... you lean over, you take a shot, uh, you miss, and, uh, um, uh, a shot comes up and "ting!"... tings off of your, um, uh... you've got some... you've got some like hardened boiled leather plates under your... under your shirt and it essentially soaks up one and you don't get hurt. But your armor's not going to be any use after this. You've... you've essentially checked your armor. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:15:52 PM] Debinani** Uh, grease the top of the fire escape with... "grease"... I mean, you could theoretically use it to, um, if you wanted to, like, try to shock some people, you could do that. Like, you could use the ectoplasm in an Attune roll to use the ectoplasm as kind of a, um, a conductor and... and zap some folks on the fire escape. I mean, that's reasonable. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:15:56 PM] Rob** Quick question... is ectoplasm something I could 'grease' the top of the fire escape with? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:16:39 PM] Random** bak --- **[3/14/2026, 3:16:48 PM] Rob** I'll go with that. I couldn't figure out what it was used for. :P Guess I'm carrying vials of ectoplasm tonight. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:16:55 PM] Debinani** Um, yes. So, right now there's a dozen guys. Um, there's, let's say about half of them are still kind of coughing and sputtering where the... the... the stuff came down at. Um, there's two guys on the ground who aren't being affected by the... the... the tear gas and are shooting at Cam. And let's say there's another four that are hoofing it up the... up the fire escape. And they are, at this point, probably about halfway to you. Uh, Freakshow, you've gone down into the, uh, you know, the Hendersons' apartment and you've told them to get the hell out of the way or get away from, uh, um, uh, you know, any doors or anything like that. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:17:55 PM] Debinani** All right. Nyx, you want to... you want to throw? OK. Um, so you... so, um, Freakshow, the front door to their apartment opens into essentially a stairwell. Uh, there is nobody out there as far as you can tell. They're not coming up through the inside of the building. Or if they are, they're not doing it yet. Um, uh, for your ectoplasm zap-zap, uh... yeah, there's a... uh... there's one other door across the stairs for the other kind of half of the... the... the building. But that... that door, yeah, the Hendersons' neighbors. Um, um, so we will make a Crow, we'll make an Attune roll and we're going to call this one risky, uh, eh, I'll take standard. OK. Uh, so there are four guys kind of coming up the fire escape. You chuck a vial of ectoplasm down the fire escape and, uh, uh... close your eyes and, um, um, and think real hard, you know, uh, uh, try to focus on the ectoplasm and the ghost field and you bring a bunch of energy in and it just blasts these guys using the... the... the ectoplasm and the metal of the fire escape as a conductor and they essentially all get a really, really solid jolt. Um, all of them, like, collapse on themselves and are kind of tumbling down the stairs with a bunch of grunts and groans and... and what-not. Um, they're all... eh, essentially unconscious, uh, or out of the fight. Uh, however, you have, um, ectoplasmic burns on your hands. Take level-one harm, or resist it if you want. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:17:57 PM] Crow** Crow tosses a vial of ectoplasm onto the fire escape and pulls down his spirit mask --- **[3/14/2026, 3:18:15 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow will open their front door and peek out to see if there's anyone there --- **[3/14/2026, 3:18:18 PM] Rob** Risky Standard? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:18:48 PM] Kristian** any other doors there, or just theirs? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:18:59 PM] Kristian** Henderson's neighbors? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:19:23 PM] Crow** Attune Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 5 1 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:20:40 PM] Debinani** Uh, level one means, um, your effect for everything you do will be reduced until you heal up. Uh, you are going to roll, uh, the category that Attune is in. You're going to roll Resolve. Uh, so for you that would be two dice and, um, uh, you will take six stress minus, uh, your highest die roll. All right. Good job. You take one stress and the burns don't happen. You... you're a bigger Billy badass than you thought and you route the excess, uh, excess energy into, uh, uh... just into the fire escape. Um, Nyx pulls out a... uh... a little gadget, uh, fiddles with it a little bit and chucks it where? Towards the cluster of people who were still kind of recovering or... Yes. OK. Kind of chucks it down into the... pretty much the same spot that she chucked the tear gas, uh, and go ahead and make a Wreck roll. Um, this one's going to be risky standard. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:20:45 PM] Rob** What's level 1 exactly? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:21:03 PM] Rob** I'll try to resist. What am I rolling to do so? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:21:27 PM] Crow** Resolve Success You reduce or avoid the effects of the consequence (GM chooses). Suffer 1 stress. 1 5 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:21:42 PM] Rob** Excellent... --- **[3/14/2026, 3:22:07 PM] Crow** Crow shakes his hand, trying to get the tingling feeling to go away --- **[3/14/2026, 3:22:25 PM] Debinani** OK. Um, uh, oh dear. OK. Um, let's see. OK. So Freakshow, you talked to the... uh... you talk to the neighbors, you tell them, you know, there's something going down, um, and, uh... OK. Uh, so, gadget, um, uh, you, uh... you... you chuck the thing, um, over the... um, uh... over the edge. It... it drops down and goes kind of "clink-clink-clink-clink-clink" in front of the... the group of people that are just now kind of recovering from the tear gas. They all... they all scream and, uh, dive for cover. And, uh, the gadget just kind of goes, you know, "poof" and sparks a little bit and a little bit of smoke comes out and, uh, um, and, um, and nothing happens. Um, uh, however, the guys on the ground who just shot at Cam, uh, take shots at Nyx. And Nyx, you will take, um, you know, pretty much same thing, level-two harm, we'll call it shot in the arm, unless you want to resist. Or again, I mean, you brought a heavy load, you could theoretically say you wore armor. You could do that too. OK. Nyx also, uh, smartly, uh, had a whole bunch of, uh, um, whole bunch of boiled leather under her clothes and the bullet embeds itself in a... a hunk of it and, uh, she does not get... does not get hurt. OK. Freakshow, uh, monitor top of the stairs, doesn't look like anybody's coming inside. Guys on the ground have scattered for cover. Two guys on the ground with guns. Four guys unconscious in the stairwell. What's next? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:22:33 PM] Kristian** would like to go over to the Henderson's neighbors, open door (if unlocked) or knock lightly, same thing with the shushy finger and try to get anyone there into a back bedroom. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:22:36 PM] Nyx** Wreck Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 1 1d6 = 1 = 1 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:22:52 PM] Kristian** forgot to chiggity check yourself first. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:22:53 PM] Jen** she blows up --- **[3/14/2026, 3:23:10 PM] Rob** Can Nyx dissect her own body...? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:23:10 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow monitors the top of the stairs from the door of the apt that doesn't lead to the roof hatch --- **[3/14/2026, 3:23:40 PM] Nyx** Nyx sighs --- **[3/14/2026, 3:25:12 PM] Debinani** You two at the park, you've set yourselves up a ways away from, you know, like kind of outside the park but close to the entrance. Uh, and, uh, Boo sits down in a quiet spot and takes out this little vial of... of ink and breaks it onto the ground and a shadow emerges from the ink and slithers off, uh, down the park. And so Boo is sort of kind of sitting crisscross-applesauce, uh, uh... near the entrance of the park with her eyes closed, um, um, looking through her shadow's eyes as it goes and... goes and slinks into the park. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:25:39 PM] Boo** keep me safe. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:25:58 PM] Debinani** OK. What's next? The... uh... the two guys on the ground, one of whom is, um, um, Scratch, uh, are definitely like covering the, um, you know, top of the building from which you have been... you have been, um, um, um, firing from. Um, and, uh, the guys who scattered are starting to recover. Um, you guys, anybody who's doing anything to, like, expose themselves over the edge of this thing now, it's going to be a desperate roll. Because two guys with guns kind of have the thing covered. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:26:14 PM] Nyx** Nyx loads a dart into her blow gun --- **[3/14/2026, 3:26:43 PM] Nyx** Nyx looks for the closest target --- **[3/14/2026, 3:27:18 PM] Debinani** OK. Uh, so Freakshow, you go down and... and start securing the second floor. The first floor of this is actually a, uh, um, uh, I mean literally a boutique paper and ink store and it's definitely closed this time of day. OK. You... you psychically tell Mutt to, uh, uh... bark at these guys. Uh, it... it, you know, there's some muttering about "Shit, where'd that dog come from?" and you know what not, but, uh, nothing, um, you know, it's probably... probably forcing them to keep their heads down just a... a couple seconds longer. Uh, yeah, sure. They... they'll be distracted for a second. Are you using Mutt as a distraction so you don't have to make a desperate roll to... to pop a shot off? I'll take it. Sure. Mutt actually aids you and in aiding you is allowing you to reduce the risk of your, uh, um, or increase... no, let's call it increase the position of your... of your roll. Yep, risky standard. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:27:25 PM] Kristian** if things look like nothing is going on with the stairwell, will move down to 2nd floor and repeat the drill...have one of the apts go hide and monitor the stairs from their door --- **[3/14/2026, 3:27:27 PM] Cam** Cam Orders Mutt to pop out, bark at the enemies, then duck out of sight again --- **[3/14/2026, 3:28:24 PM] Michelle** Was hoping the guns would look away for a sec. :P --- **[3/14/2026, 3:28:34 PM] Michelle** Yes --- **[3/14/2026, 3:28:49 PM] Debinani** Uh, Nyx, are you going to use the distraction too? OK. Nyx, what are you loading into your blowgun? OK. Um, so Nyx will use a... for poison dart gun... Um, go ahead and use Finesse for that, why not? Uh, risky... yeah, risky standard's fine. Um, OK. Uh, Cam, you know, "Woof, woof, woof!" Uh, um, uh... everybody looks for a second. Cam and Nyx pop over the edge of the... the roof line. Cam fires off a shot and, uh, you hit... you hit... uh... Scratch and he crumples to the ground. Uh, Nyx, you shoot with your dart and, uh, um, uh... miss. Freakshow, you are down on the second floor. Uh, Crow... fire escape. Yeah, you'd have to... you'd have to... it would be a Wreck roll to try to, um, uh... to try to, uh... uh... get the... get the... and it would be a... it would be a pretty big deal. I mean, you'd need... you'd need a lot. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:28:50 PM] Rob** I presume it would be a Wreck roll to bring down the fire escape. Like pry it loose with a crowbar or something like that? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:28:56 PM] Michelle** So Risky Standard? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:29:01 PM] Cam** Hunt Risky | Standard Success You do it. 5 6 2d6 = 11 = 11 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:29:05 PM] Rob** Nice! --- **[3/14/2026, 3:29:52 PM] Nyx** Finesse Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 2 1d6 = 2 = 2 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:30:45 PM] Debinani** Um, one thing you could do, OK Freakshow, you head down, uh, print shop is closed up for the night, um, its, uh, doors are locked, so you can't really head down into the print shop, you're sort of in a... a breezeway stairwell where the people can come up off the street and go into their apartments. Uh, but you are on the ground floor, sort of around the corner from this. Um, Wolf, one of the things you could do, if you really wanted to, uh, you have or you could theoretically have, um, some spirit bottles. Um, the shop definitely has a back door, so the front door of the shop is facing out onto, uh, the street and it has a back door for loading and unloading, yes. Um, Crow, you could theoretically have a... some spirit bottles, and if you wanted to, you could just set a ghost loose on their asses and see what happens. I mean, since you all are kind of in the "let's scatter 'em" mode of operating. I will say, um, in case it matters to you all, that of the three actual Reclamer Circle, um, um, members that are down there, one of which... one is unconscious from the zap-zap, uh, one... Scratch... has crumpled to the ground having been shot quite smartly by, um, by Cam, and another is actually still up. He's one of the guys who kind of jumped for cover when, uh, Nyx, um, scattered them. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:30:53 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow head down into the print shop --- **[3/14/2026, 3:31:20 PM] Rob** I thought so. I don't have any dots in Wreck but I wanted to see if it was an option. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:31:29 PM] Michelle** Anyone have Sway? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:31:34 PM] Kristian** gotcha. Would I know if the shop itself had a back door into the alley for loading and unloading? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:31:42 PM] Rob** Freakshow does, I believe. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:31:52 PM] Michelle** Need someone more convincing than Cam to tell them they're not getting paid enough for this and should bail. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:31:57 PM] Kristian** it's just for loading. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:32:09 PM] Rob** Ah. I thought they were empty spirit bottles. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:32:10 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow tries to enter his way into the print shop --- **[3/14/2026, 3:32:31 PM] Debinani** Uh, Freakshow, you can, uh, Finesse to, um, uh... pick the lock. You could take burglary gear and roll Finesse to try to pick the lock to get into the, uh, um, print shop. Um, no, you've got... I mean, you're a little rushed, so let's call it... let's call it, yeah, risky standard's fine. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:33:05 PM] Kristian** R/S? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:33:05 PM] Debinani** Yeah, they just say "spirit bottles." Maybe... maybe they're not empty. Does it say "empty spirit bottle"? Maybe you have a ghost. OK. Um, uh... Freakshow, you, um... d-d-d-d-d pick the lock, uh, but, um, you... you... when you... you pick the lock and you open the door, uh, you forget, or maybe you never even knew, um, that there is a big old bell above the door, and so you open the front door of the print shop and go, "Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!" Um, you're not sure... you're not sure who may have heard it, but you're in the print shop now. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:33:18 PM] Freakshow** Finesse Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 4 1 2d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:33:41 PM] Rob** It does not say they're empty. I'll hold onto that thought for the moment. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:33:53 PM] Debinani** Crow, haven't taken any actions in a while. What... uh... what are you doing with your... what are you doing with your... your... your moment? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:34:25 PM] Debinani** Uh, it's not really... it doesn't really have a press in it. Uh, but there's plenty of room to hide. Um, there are shelves of like paper and ink and all sorts of... all sorts of things. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:34:32 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow find a big printing press or something to hide behind for a couple --- **[3/14/2026, 3:34:57 PM] Debinani** Uh, as far as you can tell there's only like one other guy down there with a gun, but they are still up. Um, the... the guys who had scattered, um, um, are kind of back out, um, as... well, I say as far as you could tell. Nobody's really looking, but you can hear them like yelling at each other and... and, uh, uh... you know, giving orders. Um... uh, Freakshow, uh, one of the toughs, um... and anybody who's... well, you're not really watching a whole lot because, you know... Yeah, what the hell is Watcher doing? I just realized this whole thing's been going on, he's just been like... Cam's like, "Are you going to get in on this anywhere?" OK. Uh, well, all this has been going on, you've been hearing what you've been hearing, uh, and, um, the attic is... you know, Freakshow has already left the attic, gone down into an apartment, said hi to the Hendersons, and has gone about his merry way. You are watching the attic. You're watching the attic good. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:35:05 PM] Nyx** Nyx loads another dart --- **[3/14/2026, 3:35:18 PM] Kristian** good enough..just going to pause for a minute or so to see if anyone comes through before I proceed to the back door --- **[3/14/2026, 3:35:28 PM] Michelle** Watcher? You jumping into this? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:35:33 PM] Rob** He's just going to watch. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:36:11 PM] Michelle** Just realized we were all taking actions without him :) --- **[3/14/2026, 3:36:22 PM] Kristian** I like to watch... --- **[3/14/2026, 3:36:30 PM] Random** Watcher ..... watches. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:36:35 PM] Jason G** (see, not even my party knows I'm here... I'm that good) he said he ducked into the attic at the beginning of this --- **[3/14/2026, 3:36:51 PM] Debinani** Um, yes, a fellow, not one of the... not one of the official Reclamer Circle people, has, uh, um, um, come to the front door of the print shop, found it ajar, opened it up and is, um, squinting into the... he has stepped into the print shop holding a, kind of a... a heavy iron bar and is... is taking a look around. Not very thoroughly, but he's... he's looking around. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:37:04 PM] Kristian** there's a tough in the print shop now? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:37:31 PM] Rob** Cam, Crow does have 1 dot in Sway if you want him to try to talk these guys into leaving now that their leader is down. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:37:41 PM] Debinani** All right. Um, you pop out of cover, chuck a throwing knife at him, risky... I'll take risky standard. OK. Um... OK. So, you, um, you pull out a knife, you jump out, "Aha!" and chuck a knife at him, uh, and, um, um... you get him. I mean, like, it literally... it, like, gets him in a neck and there's just blood spraying everywhere. Uh, and he... he... stumbles out of the door, uh, trying to yell, and it rings the bell, "ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!" and kind of stumbles out into the very, very public street and collapses, uh, on the ground. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:37:44 PM] Kristian** throwing knife time. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:38:10 PM] Michelle** Not sure we can back you up any without causing extra stress :\ --- **[3/14/2026, 3:38:13 PM] Freakshow** Finesse Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 4 1 2d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:38:23 PM] Kristian** I'm like 4 1 machine today. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:38:35 PM] Michelle** But yeah, like I said, just remind them they're getting paid and there's a body on the ground already. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:38:48 PM] Kristian** and he lands on the bell "god damnit!" --- **[3/14/2026, 3:38:49 PM] Debinani** So, um, OK. Um, some shit's gone down, um, and about now, you all through the... you don't hear it with your ears, you hear it sort of with your psyche. And a... a loud bell rings out. "DONG! DONG!" This is the Spirit Bell that goes off when people in the city die. And, apparently, probably the guy Cam shot and the guy that Freakshow just stabbed in the neck have died. Now, because you are in Charterhall, I will remind you, you are mere blocks away from the, uh, Bellweather Crematorium, where the Spirit Wardens live and where the Deathseeker crows leave from. So, killing folk, there's a fairly rapid response from the Spirit Wardens here in Charterhall. So, there was gunfire. That gunfire's so far been ignored by the Bluecoats. But now there's dead things. Probably not going to be ignored. You're probably on a bit of a timer. Yeah, but not Charterhall and not at the same time as gunfire. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:40:39 PM] Jason G** this'd be like a nightly occurrence in a busy city? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:40:51 PM] Rob** Maybe, but being right where they show up isn't a good idea. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:40:55 PM] Cam** We need to wrap this up. Watcher! Go get Freakshow! --- **[3/14/2026, 3:41:08 PM] Debinani** OK. So... --- **[3/14/2026, 3:41:42 PM] Debinani** Fortune Failure The result is bad. You have poor or little effect. 1 1 2d6 = 2 = 2 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:41:49 PM] Crow** Cam, I think we should leave now. The Bluecoats will deal with the rest of them. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:41:50 PM] Debinani** Um, you mean, like, having purloined some throwing knives from the Reclamer Circle? I mean, they... they do... they do antique smuggling. I'm not sure you would... you would have throwing knives from them. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:41:53 PM] Michelle** want to take that shot at telling these guys to bail, Crow? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:41:54 PM] Kristian** so flashback wise...can I have purloined some throwingish knives from our friends that we robbed? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:41:57 PM] Watcher** Watcher will head down to let Freakshow know --- **[3/14/2026, 3:42:24 PM] Cam** Yeah, I think we made our point. The rest of you head out. I'll wait for Watcher and Freakshow. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:42:50 PM] Debinani** Yep. OK. So, Watcher, you b-b-b-b-b-b go down the stairs. Uh, you go into the print shop, step over the body of one of the thugs laying in the middle of the street, in... uh... um, um... and, uh, yell at Freakshow that y'all are leaving. Um, Freakshow, having the knife you just threw be marked in some way would be rewriting existing history and you can't do a flashback for that. Um... uh... Cam orders Mutt back. Uh, the actual... the... the guys in the alley basically crumbled. They're... they're like, "We gotta go, the Spirit Wardens are coming!" and they actually all scatter, um, as well. And, um, um... and... um, leave the body of Scratch, uh, and... they actually... well, um... the unconscious bodies, the not-dead folks are still kind of collapsed on the ground. Um, but yeah, they leave the bodies and the unconscious folks behind. So that's four, five, six... about six guys essentially scatter, um, on the ground. And the rest of you are... are bailing as well. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:42:51 PM] Crow** Crow nods --- **[3/14/2026, 3:42:53 PM] Kristian** not sure they had any crap in their warehouse that would be identifiable. Not a problem if not. Since the guy I shanked sounded like rent-a-shemp --- **[3/14/2026, 3:43:00 PM] Jason G** flashback montage of someone etching "property of the reclaimers circle" on the knives --- **[3/14/2026, 3:43:04 PM] Cam** Cam orders Mutt back to HQ --- **[3/14/2026, 3:43:13 PM] Kristian** EVERYBODY LOVES A MON-TAGE --- **[3/14/2026, 3:43:17 PM] Crow** C'mon, Nyx. No body for you today. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:43:44 PM] Watcher** Watcher whistles and points behind him with his thumb --- **[3/14/2026, 3:43:55 PM] Kristian** got it. Flashback basically just "start of scene" --- **[3/14/2026, 3:44:41 PM] Debinani** OK. Um, there was a... when you... when you look out on the street and, uh, Watcher probably sees this too, there was actually a Bluecoat kind of down on the corner who had obviously been paid off not to pay attention and now that everybody's kind of running and the... the Spirit Bells have gone off, he's... he's definitely looking like he's... gonna head into the alley and... and theoretically do his job. So... um, so Freakshow and Watcher, you guys kind of bail out of there on the ground and everybody else kind of takes the rooftops back to... back home. OK. And Nyx needs a parting shot. So, go ahead and make your... make your roll. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:44:51 PM] Michelle** oh yeah --- **[3/14/2026, 3:44:52 PM] Rob** Yeah. No reason to stick around here. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:46:11 PM] Michelle** lol --- **[3/14/2026, 3:46:28 PM] Debinani** OK. Um, so here's... here's basically what happens. The guys in the alley are like, "Shit, we need to get out of here, Spirit Wardens are coming!" Um, Watcher, you grab, uh, Freakshow. Everybody, um, um... everybody, um, starts scattering. Nyx, on her way out, "thoomp!" shoots a dart in the back of one dude's neck. Uh, and they all kind of leave and they go rushing past the, uh, uh... the... the Bluecoat. And the guy that she shot literally stumbles and falls and passes out at the Bluecoat's feet and... uh... and he just... he... he... he sighs and he's like, "Ah, damn it," and then another "DONG!" Spirit Bell goes off. Um, Watcher, you do take note, uh, uh, you... you've seen him around. He's obviously a... a local... a local footpad, uh, his... his name is, um, uh... Constable Williams. OK. You all, um, you all get out and, um, and get it, um, get back to the lair. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:46:36 PM] Nyx** Finesse Controlled | Standard Partial Success You hesitate. Withdraw and try a different approach, or else do it with a minor consequence: a minor complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you suffer lesser harm, you end up in a risky position. 4 3 2d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:46:55 PM] Watcher** Watcher makes note of this cop. This is our turf and we need to know which cops are accepting bribes from competing crews --- **[3/14/2026, 3:47:52 PM] Rob** Mayvik. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:48:11 PM] Debinani** Right around this time, uh, a woman, uh, shows up at, um, the park. Um, the park is completely empty, nobody is really walking through it, uh, except this one woman. She is, um, dressed quite nicely but conservatively. I mean, it's obviously... it's cold, it's... it's late November. Um, and, uh, she's dressed either as, um, you know, a... a... you know, maybe she's a bureaucrat or a functionary, uh, here in Charterhall or, conceivably, she could be household staff for somebody very, very wealthy. Uh, it's... it's kind of hard to tell. I mean, she's got... she's got an overcoat on. Um, she, a few minutes before 10, she comes walking, um, um, down the path and, um, stops at a park bench. Um, she doesn't sit down, she just kind of stands there and, um, is, you know, looking back and forth up and down the path somewhat... somewhat nervously. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:49:47 PM] Debinani** So far it's 10:00, 10:01, 10:02... not like you guys are keeping track of time that precisely. Um, nobody else approaching the park, nobody else even on the street. Several more minutes pass by. She's tapping her foot. She's, you know, every minute that passes she becomes kind of increasingly... um... agitated. You get a really, really good look at her. Um, uh, she is a, um, younger woman, maybe in her late 20s. Um, um, you probably think she's probably household staff because you get a good look at her shoes, um, and, uh, and her hands. So, um, you know, it's a good guess that she's probably domestic staff for... um... somebody fairly wealthy. She's becoming increasingly agitated as the minutes tick by. By the by, there are two ways out of this park. There's the entrance that you guys are near, um, and then there's another entrance to the park, uh, kind of on the far side near the canal, but there's a footpath. So she could theoretically go either way. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:49:48 PM] Boo** Boo settles the shadow among the shadows nearby and watches. I whisper the description. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:51:18 PM] Random** we'll I"m occupied so I just remain patient watching. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:52:02 PM] Michelle** Still with us, Veth? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:52:28 PM] Debinani** OK. Uh, again, every minute that passes she becomes more and more agitated. Um, she is now, you... you can tell that she is now like on the verge of just leaving. Like, a couple of times she like takes a couple steps down the path, um, and then stops and kind of comes back and, uh, um, you know, taps... taps her fingers on the back of the... the park bench. Um, you do notice that she's also, um, she keeps... she keeps going and padding something, uh, in her... in her... uh... coat, um, you know, like... like she's making sure it's still there. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:53:54 PM] Jason G** veth may be afk while they had to wait for our bit to resolve --- **[3/14/2026, 3:54:09 PM] Boo** Boo sends my shadow slinking behind her and up her back and into the coat pockets. hopfully very stealthily --- **[3/14/2026, 3:54:25 PM] Debinani** Ooh, I don't know. Um, um, let's make an Attune roll to see if your shadow is good enough to do that. We're going to call this... we're going to call this, um... let's do risky and, um, um, limited because there's only so much you're going to get out of her pocket in the dark. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:54:58 PM] Veth** just listening. :) --- **[3/14/2026, 3:55:06 PM] Michelle** lol --- **[3/14/2026, 3:55:20 PM] Boo** Attune Risky | Limited Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 1 3 2d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:55:27 PM] Random** oof --- **[3/14/2026, 3:55:34 PM] Debinani** OK. Um, so, um, so you literally, like, creep the shadow over and have it kind of crawl up her leg and underneath her coat. And, um, and, uh, she, uh, at one point she actually notices the shadow cross, like, her... like her midriff as it... as it literally quietly tries to crawl up her. And, uh, she... she screams and tries to brush it and then, uh, uh, turns really quick and starts running. We're going to make a fortune roll to see which direction she's running. OK. She is, um... she turns and starts running the other way towards the canal, not towards you. Uh, and, and has her act all in between the... um... the... the fear and the ethereal reso- resonance of the fear and her moving real fast and running has dispelled your shadow. So, you are on the wrong side of this park and this chick is bolting, um, towards the, uh, uh, canal. And she screamed, but you don't think there's anybody close enough to have heard her. You guys going to try to follow her? --- **[3/14/2026, 3:55:57 PM] Rob** Ouch. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:56:47 PM] Debinani** Fortune Failure The result is bad. You have poor or little effect. 2 1d6 = 2 = 2 --- **[3/14/2026, 3:56:57 PM] Kristian** that is not good fortune --- **[3/14/2026, 3:57:25 PM] Veth** ah geez. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:57:30 PM] Boo** Boo sighs. "well let's see if we can track her back to where she came from. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:57:52 PM] Boo** Boo starts after her, keeping back but keeping her in sight. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:58:12 PM] Eidolon** Alright. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:58:22 PM] Boo** Boo will break off if it looks we've been made --- **[3/14/2026, 3:58:29 PM] Debinani** OK. We are going to call this a Hunt roll. Uh, you guys could make it a group Hunt roll if you... if you want to, uh, pool your chances. I know Idolon's got plenty of stress to spare. Oh, I know neither one of you do. You could still lead the roll and take the stress. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:58:34 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon follows along. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:59:06 PM] Random** yes, let's group action on this think --- **[3/14/2026, 3:59:15 PM] Random** it gives us a better chance. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:59:17 PM] Veth** I have not hunt. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:59:21 PM] Debinani** OK. Uh, both of you could make a Hunt roll, uh, and, uh, you can spend two stress to give yourself an extra dice if you want. Uh, yeah, if you want a Devil's Bargain, I could offer up a Devil's Bargain. Same for extra dice. Um, the... the... the bargain is, um, uh, you can get an extra dice, but, uh, she will almost certainly make you. Basically, after all this is over, I will add two, uh, two... two heat to the crew if you take the bargain. Um, uh, this is... she's, yeah, she's been alerted that something's going on obviously because there is a creepy shadow crawling up her chest. Um, so let's call it risky and standard. If you want the extra dice, crew can take two heat. You both get an extra dice though. So you would both be rolling one dice instead of rolling two dice and taking the lowest. Up to you. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:59:29 PM] Veth** ok --- **[3/14/2026, 3:59:36 PM] Rob** They can take a devil's bargain. --- **[3/14/2026, 3:59:47 PM] Boo** position? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:00:05 PM] Veth** what's the bargain? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:00:16 PM] Kristian** a fiddle of gold against your soul --- **[3/14/2026, 4:00:35 PM] Random** risky/desparate? standard? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:00:39 PM] Veth** hrm.. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:00:58 PM] Veth** I wonder if it's better to stay anonymous --- **[3/14/2026, 4:01:32 PM] Random** I don't like the devil's bargain. I'd rather spend 2 stress for a die --- **[3/14/2026, 4:01:36 PM] Debinani** OK. So that's two stress, uh, for a die. I didn't know you had that much left. Oh, yeah, I guess you do. OK. All right. So both of you are taking two stress so that you can each roll one die each. Go for it. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:01:46 PM] Veth** I'll take the stress for one --- **[3/14/2026, 4:01:56 PM] Boo** Hunt Risky | Standard | 0d Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 2 1 2d6 = 3 = 3 --- **[3/14/2026, 4:02:17 PM] Debinani** Um, so... you, yeah, so... um, I'll let you reroll. Uh, what you need to do is when you roll something with no dice, but you have a die, make sure you add one die as a modifier and it should just roll the dice properly instead of rolling the two and taking the lowest. So both of you can reroll, just make sure you add that one die modifier. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:02:21 PM] Eidolon** Hunt Risky | Standard | 0d Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 1 6 2d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[3/14/2026, 4:02:31 PM] Kristian** This is why the devil always wins. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:02:34 PM] Michelle** ew --- **[3/14/2026, 4:02:44 PM] Boo** Hunt Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 4 1d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[3/14/2026, 4:02:59 PM] Debinani** OK. Um, so Idolon, you don't take any stress for this because you both technically succeeded. And, uh, you follow her. Uh, you actually follow her fairly successfully. Um, she, uh... once she gets to the edge of the park she stops running, um, and... and her panic kind of subsides a little bit. And, uh, um, she, uh, starts kind of making her way through Charterhall. Uh, you follow her for ages. Um, uh, she goes all the way through Charterhall and she crosses the bridge to the north over to, uh... Bright-whatever it is, where all the very rich people live... Brightstone. So, you walk all the way through Charterhall, she crosses the bridge into Brightstone and, uh, uh... you, um, you follow her into Brightstone. Are... well, I'm going to ask you, are you going to follow her into Brightstone? Much wider streets, much more well-lit, rich, rich, rich, rich-y of the rich, uh, live here. Um, and, uh, you guys certainly don't look like you should belong here. But that's where she's going, into Brightstone. And you can keep following her, she hasn't seen you. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:03:08 PM] Eidolon** Hunt Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 5 1d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[3/14/2026, 4:04:37 PM] Boo** Boo stares. "in or out?" --- **[3/14/2026, 4:05:07 PM] Boo** yeah, me neither. be bad if we get caught here. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:05:11 PM] Eidolon** I don't like this part of town.. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:05:19 PM] Boo** let's head back --- **[3/14/2026, 4:05:30 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon looks put off at the idea of following. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:05:41 PM] Random** and so we do. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:05:45 PM] Eidolon** Agreed. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:06:02 PM] Debinani** OK. So, you follow her all the way to the bridge to Brightstone and you let her go. Um, OK. She takes the bridge, goes across to Brightstone. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:06:03 PM] Boo** wait --- **[3/14/2026, 4:06:32 PM] Random** on the way back I want to go back to the park, check the bench, and see if she dropped anyhthing in her fight. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:06:39 PM] Boo** flight --- **[3/14/2026, 4:06:56 PM] Debinani** She did not. Uh, OK. So, uh, you guys, you head back all the way across Charterhall to South Charterhall to the park. And, uh, you check around the park bench where she was standing and walking. She didn't drop anything, um, notable. Um, really all you really get out of it is you know what sort of prints her shoes are leaving. And then you head back to the... Nope, no secret note taped to the back of the bench. Uh, nothing. Uh, whatever was supposed to get delivered here, she probably kept it on her. Um, yeah, and remember the... the note from the sister said, uh, you know, "I've spoken to Uncle," I think it said something like that. But, um... OK. So you guys, uh, you guys head back to the lair. Um, uh... you have to take kind of a wide path around because the alley behind the, uh, um... the alley behind the Clerk Street typesetters is a crime scene. There are, um... there are several... quite a number of Bluecoats standing around. Um, uh, you get there just in time to see some Spirit Wardens... Uh, I'll give you that one. No, there weren't. You basically only see her prints. Um, um... there are two Spirit Wardens there, uh, with a, uh... a goat-drawn, uh, a black goat-drawn cart. Uh, and they... they're not full Spirit Wardens, they're... they're assistants. So basically think like plague doctors. They're... they're... they've got, um, dark clothing, they're covered in like charms and glyphs. Um, they've got, you know, masks to hide their identity. Nobody really knows who the Spirit Wardens are. Um, and they are loading, uh, a couple of corpses or three corpses onto a cart. Um, there is also a fellow here that neither one of you have seen before. He's not a Bluecoat, he's not a Spirit Warden. Um, tall, handsome fellow. Um, um... and he is talking to, uh, one of the Bluecoats and he's got a... a pad and paper out. He's almost certainly, uh, an inspector. Um, so not really a Bluecoat but from the Inspector's office. They... they, uh, um... you know, they hunt down, you know, specialized crimes and things like that. So, big crime scene, um, fellow kind of a tall handsome fellow taking notes, Spirit Wardens loading bodies onto carts. You don't see... none of the bodies look like your friends, so that's a win, I guess. Uh, and you take a big long way around and get to the basement with... with everybody else. Uh, everybody else looking largely, uh, none the worse for wear, um, just a little bit more ragged and exhausted than last time. And, um, um... and you guys come in and have to, um, you know, explain yourselves. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:07:07 PM] Debinani** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 4 1d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[3/14/2026, 4:07:10 PM] Veth** Good idea. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:07:22 PM] Random** no secrete note taped to the back of the bench? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:07:38 PM] Boo** okay. home time. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:07:46 PM] Veth** She has giant feet. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:08:10 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon nods. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:08:16 PM] Random** where there extra set of prints that would say that someone showed up after she fled? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:10:34 PM] Michelle** 3 out of 12 isn't bad when we're outnumbered! --- **[3/14/2026, 4:10:50 PM] Boo** No. Something spooked her. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:00 PM] Cam** Any luck? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:04 PM] Debinani** And Boo, by the by, um, you were staring at her long enough that you would definitely recognize this woman if you ever saw her again. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:06 PM] Eidolon** Not exactly.. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:08 PM] Rob** We incapacitate more than half of them and took no harm on our side, so yeah. Definitely a win. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:13 PM] Boo** we did follow her to some rich part of town. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:22 PM] Boo** she looked to be a domestic. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:23 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon looks at Boo. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:26 PM] Cam** Damn. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:32 PM] Eidolon** Yep, but we got a good look. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:36 PM] Freakshow** I think the one I got was just a mercenary. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:41 PM] Freakshow** Didn't recognize him at all. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:51 PM] Michelle** Do we have anyone good at sketching like a portrait? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:54 PM] Freakshow** So not sure we tipped the scales as far as all that --- **[3/14/2026, 4:11:58 PM] Eidolon** She ran to Brighton. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:12:03 PM] Cam** Cam nods --- **[3/14/2026, 4:12:26 PM] Cam** Maybe --- **[3/14/2026, 4:12:34 PM] Michelle** sorry, pc blip there --- **[3/14/2026, 4:12:44 PM] Cam** Maybe Lancaster didn't get the letter. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:12:48 PM] Debinani** Yeah, you definitely killed Scratch, uh, who is, uh, one of the Reclamer Circle lieutenants. So, um, there's that. Um, um, yeah, I mean Boo and Idolon, or Boo, yeah, I mean you'd need Boo to kind of sketch the portrait or, or maybe... maybe Freakshow could sketch it. Uh, I mean, y'all could... y'all could sketch the portrait. I mean, it won't be as... as much of a shoo-in, uh, recognizing her, but you could. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:12:51 PM] Boo** we aren't exactly dressed for Brighton, and we didn't want to draw attention. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:13:20 PM] Crow** Maybe the meet was set up before he was scared off? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:13:41 PM] Eidolon** I don't know about that. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:13:42 PM] Michelle** Just so the rest of us have an idea --- **[3/14/2026, 4:13:45 PM] Crow** By the inspector, I mean. And the Red Sashes. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:13:54 PM] Eidolon** She seemed interested in a meet up until she got spooked. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:13:55 PM] Crow** And who knows who else is after him. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:13:57 PM] Kristian** Freakshow probably has like amateur level skill in most circus type things, so I could see "crappy charicature" in his reportoire. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:14:07 PM] Kristian** might come out with exaggerated cartoon features heh --- **[3/14/2026, 4:14:07 PM] Cam** Cam sighs --- **[3/14/2026, 4:14:11 PM] Debinani** Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. He could... he could probably do a pretty good sketch. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:14:14 PM] Rob** Crow can draw stick figures. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:14:26 PM] Cam** Well, not a complete wash today, I guess. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:14:27 PM] Boo** I got a good look, I can describe her well if someone wants to draw. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:14:54 PM] Watcher** Did you happen to come back past the printers? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:15:21 PM] Debinani** Yes, that was the crime scene. Yes. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:15:30 PM] Veth** was the printers the crime scene we passed? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:15:37 PM] Eidolon** Yeah. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:16:11 PM] Eidolon** Someone new was involved. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:16:43 PM] Debinani** Yeah, I mean you guys know most of the local, um, especially the Charterhall, um, um, Bluecoats and, and Williams was actually the one... uh, Boo, Idolon, Williams was actually the one giving the statement to, uh, the inspector. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:16:53 PM] Watcher** Was there still this bluecoat there, or had he scampered? (describes Ofc Willians if nobody else knew of him) --- **[3/14/2026, 4:16:58 PM] Boo** Boo describes the scene we saw on our way back --- **[3/14/2026, 4:17:28 PM] Eidolon** Yeah, he was giving words to the inspector. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:17:41 PM] Debinani** Yeah, for your reference, the Bluecoats are legendarily corrupt. The inspectors are legendarily not. Um... yeah, you guys have never seen him before. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:17:50 PM] Watcher** Ok, so he either had to explain that he was paid to take a nap, or made up some details... --- **[3/14/2026, 4:18:09 PM] Eidolon** Someone's taking it serious I guess. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:18:12 PM] Boo** He looked inspectorish. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:18:18 PM] Watcher** Happen to recognize the Inspectore? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:18:23 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon shakes his head. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:18:28 PM] Eidolon** Never in my life. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:18:47 PM] Eidolon** I could try to find out, I know a guy. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:18:47 PM] Watcher** as one does --- **[3/14/2026, 4:19:06 PM] Debinani** Actually, I'm going to... I'm going to retcon a little bit. The, uh... the Bluecoat that, um, obviously took the bribe and was... was preaching to the inspector, uh, is, uh, um, Sergeant Bell, uh, who Watcher has a little bit of a history with. So, sorry, retcon, not Williams, Bell. That's why we have friends and enemies when we make characters. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:20:03 PM] Watcher** faaaack.... --- **[3/14/2026, 4:20:14 PM] Cam** Cam raises a brow --- **[3/14/2026, 4:20:16 PM] Eidolon** You know him? --- **[3/14/2026, 4:21:08 PM] Debinani** OK. While, uh, he's typing, everybody take a look at your sheet... OK, there you go. We go back a ways. Um, while he's typing, everybody look at your sheet, uh, and think through, uh, if you deserve experience for this session or not and make your case. Uh, next session we will definitely do downtime because frankly y'all don't have anything left and y'all going to have to take a downtime. Um, and so if you're not going to be here next session, um, think about what you would want to do with one downtime activity because you're at war, you... you have to keep your heads down, you can only get one instead of two. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:21:27 PM] Watcher** Yeah, we go back a ways... --- **[3/14/2026, 4:21:47 PM] Michelle** Yeah, figured that would be the case --- **[3/14/2026, 4:22:07 PM] Kristian** 28th it looks like I may be a bit late...kid has a bday party until mid day --- **[3/14/2026, 4:22:16 PM] Boo** I addressed our challenge my spooky shadow power, even if it was less than stellar. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:22:16 PM] Michelle** cam killed a guy and used Mutt as a distraction again --- **[3/14/2026, 4:22:19 PM] Veth** I can't imagine I did enough for XP this week. I just stalked a lady to a rich neighborhood. :P --- **[3/14/2026, 4:22:32 PM] Debinani** Uh, yep. You addressed your challenge with spooky shadow power. One XP for that. Uh, Cam, definitely one XP. Um, yes. So, yes, you killed a guy and you did some sneaky-sneaky. And the other thing I'm going to do is I'm going to give the crew one rep because you took care of people... you helped... you took care of people in your... in your domain. Um, and so the crew will actually get one extra rep, uh, because you're protecting your hood. Yep. I haven't quite figured out how much heat you're taking for that yet because it's going to be a lot. But, um, yes. So Freakshow, definitely one XP. Uh, Crow, definitely one XP. Um, Watcher, sure, one XP. Uh, every- so yeah, everybody can take one and if you have a... if you have a case for a second one, let me know. As an example, Nyx was kind of harping on people to get ahold of a body, which is in line with her vice, and so I, um, allowed it. Oh, you're absolutely going to draw heat because, one, the Reclaimers know who you are and at least four of them are going to get questioned, uh, and, um, everybody knows who owns this block, right? I mean, the Bluecoats, they know who own- you're going to get heat. The heat level of the district is going to go up. Same thing with the university theft. You're going to get heat for that, but, um, even though people can't directly pin it on you, uh, things are just getting harder. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:22:33 PM] Michelle** I need to use him for more but not get him killed. heh --- **[3/14/2026, 4:22:44 PM] Rob** Crow used Attune to electrocute the fire escape, so that should count for a XP --- **[3/14/2026, 4:22:56 PM] Kristian** FS killed a guy, did some sneaky sneaky and looked out for the civilians in their area of operation so they didn't have any collateral --- **[3/14/2026, 4:23:01 PM] Jason G** I attempted to hide for an ambush that never happened, which is addressing vis Stealth or Evasion --- **[3/14/2026, 4:23:23 PM] Kristian** protec the hood --- **[3/14/2026, 4:24:31 PM] Rob** I mean, we weren't seen by the Bluecoats. The people who knew we were involved were mainly the locals who we just protected. I wouldn't think we'd personally draw that much heat. :P --- **[3/14/2026, 4:25:16 PM] Debinani** Yeah, and Bell probably knew exactly who you were and who he was getting paid by. So... OK. So I am going to do the math to figure out the... next session we will start with, um, all the rep and heat you guys have taken since your last downtime. I've been keeping track. Uh, we will do one downtime and then we'll figure out what's next. So, we'll stop there. We were already on the calendar for two weeks. And I know we split the party and a couple of you were bored most of the time. Sorry about that. But I guess it made sense. Usually I would go back and forth a little bit faster but I was trying to go chronologically. You do have the location in Six Towers and the residue that Nyx found. Yep. All right. So that'll be it and I will, uh, see you guys next time. Thanks y'all. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:25:25 PM] Watcher** If we can find that Inspector, he may be interested to know Bell loved to look the other way. I can guarantee if Bell saw any of us, he would've bleated --- **[3/14/2026, 4:25:55 PM] Random** it's good --- **[3/14/2026, 4:26:17 PM] Cam** So if the meeting was a bust, what do we have left to find Lancaster? The residue Nyx found and whatever that location in Six Towers is. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:26:19 PM] Veth** NP :) I'm still learning the system so getting to listen helps. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:26:33 PM] Rob** Thanks, Deb. --- **[3/14/2026, 4:26:35 PM] Jason G** should've split into six groups --- **[3/14/2026, 4:26:36 PM] Eidolon** Thanks deb! --- **[3/14/2026, 4:26:40 PM] Kristian** thx deb. cya in 2 weeks for at least partial! --- **[3/14/2026, 4:26:42 PM] Cam** Thanks Deb! --- **[3/14/2026, 4:26:46 PM] Watcher** Thanks, Deb! ---