**[4/11/2026, 2:29:29 PM] Watcher** Resolve Success You reduce or avoid the effects of the consequence (GM chooses). Suffer 0 stress. 6 1d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[4/11/2026, 2:29:37 PM] Debinani** Hah! --- **[4/11/2026, 2:30:09 PM] Freakshow** Study Risky | Standard | 0d 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. 6 5 2d6 = 11 = 11 --- **[4/11/2026, 2:30:22 PM] Kristian** I STUDY METH --- **[4/11/2026, 2:30:42 PM] Jason G** basically OCD around the city --- **[4/11/2026, 2:31:19 PM] Jason G** you're welcome all --- **[4/11/2026, 2:31:31 PM] Michelle** lol. More heat on top of Wanted already. We're on a roll! --- **[4/11/2026, 2:31:32 PM] Rob** You arrange Nyx's corpse part collection by color and texture? --- **[4/11/2026, 2:34:22 PM] Michelle** We spent a little coin to make it more convincing too. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:37:23 PM] Michelle** Bummer. So we have to recollect some of what was divvied up to pay for this. The crew has 2 coin in the bank. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:37:28 PM] Kristian** @#(%(#%# BIOS --- **[4/11/2026, 2:37:33 PM] Kristian** back and hearing. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:38:24 PM] Kristian** I mean we need 1-2 coin from everyone? that seems doable. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:38:24 PM] Rob** Well, we don't gain any more rep until we do so it sounds like we should do it now. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:38:46 PM] Boo** I'm cool --- **[4/11/2026, 2:38:49 PM] Kristian** I will put in 2 --- **[4/11/2026, 2:38:52 PM] Kristian** or 1 lol --- **[4/11/2026, 2:38:59 PM] Boo** easy come, easy go --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:00 PM] Michelle** Yeah, if everyone is ok with that. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:02 PM] Eidolon** sure --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:04 PM] Rob** I have no problem with it. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:05 PM] Kristian** sold --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:25 PM] Boo** now at 2, yes. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:26 PM] Michelle** Does that leave most of you with 2 coins still? --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:35 PM] Rob** Yeah, Crow still has 2. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:36 PM] Michelle** ok --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:45 PM] Jason G** I had 3, I guess some of that came from before, but I had coin before that too so not sure --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:50 PM] Michelle** And we'll keep our crew's banked --- **[4/11/2026, 2:39:50 PM] Kristian** wait didn't we get +2 last time? or was that already accounted for lol --- **[4/11/2026, 2:40:07 PM] Kristian** dang gremlins managing my char sheet! --- **[4/11/2026, 2:40:08 PM] Michelle** We all had 1 initially. Then you all got 2 from the university job, Cam took 1. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:40:25 PM] Kristian** I added the 2..back to 2. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:41:08 PM] Kristian** Maybe some charitable things for the normies in our zone --- **[4/11/2026, 2:41:31 PM] Kristian** gotta kiss hands and shake babies so they like to help us out --- **[4/11/2026, 2:41:46 PM] Michelle** And hire some kiddos or whatnot to watch the streets since we need to stay under cover. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:42:12 PM] Rob** So do we actually get an Upgrade from the list, too? Or is that something different? --- **[4/11/2026, 2:43:23 PM] Rob** Ah-ha. Got it. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:43:54 PM] Veth** that's a pretty big deal actually. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:44:37 PM] Random** hired a maid to dust the place once a week. :P --- **[4/11/2026, 2:44:46 PM] Kristian** hench --- **[4/11/2026, 2:45:51 PM] Watcher** a Legitimate, Upstanding Operation --- **[4/11/2026, 2:45:59 PM] Michelle** ha --- **[4/11/2026, 2:47:06 PM] Michelle** We have the lead on the weird smells in that one part of town AND we have a good idea that the cop has Lancaster's book - if we're going to keep pursuing that job. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:47:26 PM] Rob** I don't think we want to mess with the Reclaimers Circle any further until we know how that went. Unless someone has an idea on how to do it subtly without it coming back towards us yet. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:48:15 PM] Rob** I like the option of making them go away. :P --- **[4/11/2026, 2:48:16 PM] Michelle** Hoping the evidence does that. :P --- **[4/11/2026, 2:48:30 PM] Michelle** Or knocks them down to our size. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:49:15 PM] Michelle** Ups our chances of taking them down.. maybe --- **[4/11/2026, 2:49:30 PM] Michelle** Carriage house seems the best bet imo --- **[4/11/2026, 2:49:30 PM] Rob** Or force them to make peace with us. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:49:45 PM] Michelle** That too --- **[4/11/2026, 2:49:47 PM] Rob** You don't want to go steal from a police evidence locker? --- **[4/11/2026, 2:49:53 PM] Veth** Why make peace when we can EXTERMINATE them? --- **[4/11/2026, 2:49:55 PM] Random** absorb them and make them hench. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:49:59 PM] Michelle** uh no. lol --- **[4/11/2026, 2:50:15 PM] Michelle** We got Wanted just from killing a couple of them. lol --- **[4/11/2026, 2:50:26 PM] Michelle** ^ That would be awesome --- **[4/11/2026, 2:50:34 PM] Kristian** probably have to make the leaders go away, and absorb the lackeys... --- **[4/11/2026, 2:50:46 PM] Kristian** coup from within is just feeding Deb things to fuck with us. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:51:02 PM] Rob** Crow is very much in favor of making Malus Thorne go away. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:51:08 PM] Michelle** If the Glasskeys get pissy because they were operating in their territory, we might be able to team up and do more damage. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:51:28 PM] Veth** Give them all Macaulay Culkin character portraits. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:51:32 PM] Michelle** I wanted to hire my assassin for that, but that fell through. :( --- **[4/11/2026, 2:51:40 PM] Eidolon** From now on all of our minions are him. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:51:42 PM] Rob** 'fell through' is an understatement. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:51:43 PM] Veth** oops --- **[4/11/2026, 2:52:37 PM] Rob** So carriage house? --- **[4/11/2026, 2:52:57 PM] Kristian** hagfish farm, then we can go legit and retire. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:53:01 PM] Kristian** THE END --- **[4/11/2026, 2:53:19 PM] Michelle** We're running out of time before Lancaster disappears, so I vote for keeping on this heels. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:53:28 PM] Veth** sounds good to me. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:53:33 PM] Kristian** gotta go up down to Poughkipsee, see my cousin at the pig farm --- **[4/11/2026, 2:54:44 PM] Rob** Do we have sneaky people that can check it out first? --- **[4/11/2026, 2:54:46 PM] Michelle** wait till dark and go scope it out. We can do more if we find an opportunity --- **[4/11/2026, 2:55:35 PM] Michelle** Sending the sneaks first is a good idea. Can still use the tunnels to make that part easier. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:55:39 PM] Veth** As it turns out.. I am kinda sneaky. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:55:52 PM] Rob** Didn't you sneak poorly last session? --- **[4/11/2026, 2:56:06 PM] Kristian** Perhaps use some disguise kits...since we like, have those available. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:56:06 PM] Michelle** Oh , our rolls last time were terrible --- **[4/11/2026, 2:56:11 PM] Jason G** I thought I was sneaky, until I gained us two heat just sneaking around the back alleys... --- **[4/11/2026, 2:56:21 PM] Kristian** I'm something of a terrible roller myself. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:56:33 PM] Michelle** ... --- **[4/11/2026, 2:56:50 PM] Michelle** Volunteers? --- **[4/11/2026, 2:56:50 PM] Veth** I did say only kinda sneaky. :P --- **[4/11/2026, 2:56:56 PM] Veth** I can go. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:57:13 PM] Veth** If it's wanted I can also be disguised --- **[4/11/2026, 2:57:20 PM] Freakshow** Last time I tried to do something sneaky I stabbed a guy in the neck in a public street. Might not be best having me out there. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:57:33 PM] Veth** but I can also as it turns out make myself invisible for a bit. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:57:47 PM] Veth** indeed. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:58:04 PM] Veth** full on invisible as it turns out if I spend extra stress. --- **[4/11/2026, 2:58:27 PM] Jason G** sure --- **[4/11/2026, 2:59:15 PM] Veth** well, is it a man, or a house? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:01:31 PM] Veth** we're just wanting to watch the house for now right? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:01:45 PM] Jason G** but apparently you can just hire them as guards? or maybe it's more like compel? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:02:59 PM] Kristian** tech fails us again --- **[4/11/2026, 3:03:09 PM] Random** no, we failed tech. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:03:13 PM] Jason G** watch for a while to see if the patrols are always in the same pattern --- **[4/11/2026, 3:03:23 PM] Rob** Deb's memory is handled by tech? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:03:39 PM] Debinani** Um, yeah, you watch it for a bit and, uh, the, uh, the ghost is inconsistent. It slows down and speeds up and stares off into the middle distance for a little bit and then keeps wandering. So it's not really regular, but as far as you can tell, it's the only thing out here moving. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:04:01 PM] Eidolon** Well, one is better than ten, I guess. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:04:14 PM] Watcher** Watcher scribbles timing and patterns down in his notes --- **[4/11/2026, 3:04:35 PM] Jason G** ugh, need to turn off focus on speaker again --- **[4/11/2026, 3:04:37 PM] Veth** Is there any obvious egress points? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:04:47 PM] Veth** other than the front door of course. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:05:02 PM] Debinani** Yeah, the, the main double doors, yeah, the main double doors of the carriage house are boarded up, but there's a, there's a smaller door that you can see that isn't boarded up, so you're assuming that's how people get in and out. You don't see any activity in the, the manor house. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:05:37 PM] Debinani** You both can make, I know this is gonna be a riot, you both can make attune rolls. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:05:46 PM] Eidolon** Attune Controlled | Standard Failure You falter. Press on by seizing a risky opportunity, or withdraw and try a different approach. 2 1d6 = 2 = 2 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:06:02 PM] Watcher** Attune 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 1 2d6 = 2 = 2 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:06:11 PM] Kristian** ugh --- **[4/11/2026, 3:06:21 PM] Debinani** Wow. Uh, okay. Nothing happens. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:06:24 PM] Veth** at least I didn't roll a 1! :P --- **[4/11/2026, 3:06:28 PM] Michelle** At least it was bad rolls without consequences. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:06:31 PM] Rob** I see our dice rolling is picking up where we left off. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:06:40 PM] Jason G** I see, this is how the GM generates drama lol --- **[4/11/2026, 3:06:53 PM] Eidolon** I could go look around for a minute.. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:07:00 PM] Veth** what do we know about ghosts? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:07:12 PM] Veth** like can they see better than we do? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:07:21 PM] Jason G** I am mainly waiting to see if anyone comes or goes and how they interact with the ghost --- **[4/11/2026, 3:07:38 PM] Michelle** I'd be more worried abuot how far away they can sense AND come eat your lifeforce. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:07:43 PM] Debinani** Yeah, you, uh, you watch the place for a while and nobody comes and goes. You guys are basically just kind of huddled in a shrub outside the gates and, uh, it's kind of an abandoned part of Six Towers. I mean, there's some folks wander by, but, uh, you know, it's just not, nothing's happening inside those walls. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:08:09 PM] Veth** ok so seemingly dead end yet somehow guarded by ghost. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:08:28 PM] Watcher** Outside of my field of expertise.... maybe we should bring along one of the spooky ones --- **[4/11/2026, 3:08:38 PM] Debinani** And remember, this is the place that they reported smelling, uh, the noxious fumes coming from, which would be consistent with, uh, brewing something with Columwort. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:09:00 PM] Eidolon** Yeah, we should get the others. If I want a closer look I can do it with them here. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:09:11 PM] Rob** I am wishing I had Compel right now. Or points in Command. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:09:12 PM] Watcher** Watcher nods --- **[4/11/2026, 3:09:13 PM] Eidolon** No reason to make pointless risks. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:09:32 PM] Eidolon** Let's head back. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:09:37 PM] Veth** ya --- **[4/11/2026, 3:09:45 PM] Debinani** I guess you guys are gonna go back and get the rest of the crew. All right, you head back, um, head back to the lair and, uh, report in. Yep, there's a carriage house. Yep, there's a ghost there. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:10:10 PM] Jason G** yep, and with two 1s I probably brought along a possessing spirit or something --- **[4/11/2026, 3:10:19 PM] Cam** Damn. *rubs the bridge of her nose* One hell of a guard. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:10:19 PM] Veth** lol --- **[4/11/2026, 3:10:26 PM] Crow** Just one ghost? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:10:27 PM] Cam** So, what can we do about this ghost? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:10:31 PM] Debinani** Yeah, you, you were actually possessed by something, you just don't know it yet. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:10:33 PM] Eidolon** Just the one so far. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:11:04 PM] Watcher** Creepy as fuck ghost playing sentry... not fixed on any pattern, but definitely keeping an eye out --- **[4/11/2026, 3:11:28 PM] Debinani** Yeah, both, uh, both Boo and Crow have the necessary gear to catch ghosts and bottle them up. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:11:37 PM] Eidolon** I could have snuck past but... well.. that seemed like the worst idea at the time. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:11:41 PM] Freakshow** Creepier than normal? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:11:44 PM] Watcher** Watcher shows a sketch he took, even though it's probably not helpful --- **[4/11/2026, 3:11:54 PM] Veth** it's a stick figure. :P --- **[4/11/2026, 3:12:00 PM] Watcher** define normal.. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:12:02 PM] Cam** Cam consults our maps --- **[4/11/2026, 3:12:12 PM] Michelle** Anything that puts us inside the estate? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:12:28 PM] Cam** Well that doesn't help. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:12:31 PM] Debinani** Uh, nothing'll put you inside the estate. The closest you can get is, uh, a block or two away. Actually, I mean, you do actually have to cross the canal, um, you have to cross the river and then go back underground, you know, as you go to the New District. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:12:32 PM] Crow** I could try to catch it... Or spirtbane charms might keep it away. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:12:43 PM] Boo** could talk to it... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:13:07 PM] Cam** Way outside my capabilities. Think you two can handle it? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:13:15 PM] Eidolon** If ya want to get eaten, sure. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:13:29 PM] Cam** That's a possibility, which is why I ask. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:13:38 PM] Crow** Or that, although if it's on guard duty it might not be too chatty. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:13:49 PM] Boo** I"ve got experience talking to ghosts. but yeah, we can bottle it up if needed. chances are good for that maybe. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:14:14 PM] Watcher** Eidolon and I can get more, but we figure you may have some way to manage the spectre --- **[4/11/2026, 3:14:47 PM] Eidolon** I can look inside, even with the ghost there it wouldn't be too difficult. I just figured it might be better to have more of us around for it. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:14:56 PM] Watcher** Shadows don't help against things that can feel you nearby, I'd wager --- **[4/11/2026, 3:15:14 PM] Cam** It may trip an alarm before talking. If you can capture it, that seems safest - in the loosest use of the word. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:15:26 PM] Rob** Does Crow think a ghost would be able to notice ethereal Eidolon? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:15:26 PM] Debinani** Yeah, I mean, everybody's universally terrified of, of ghosts, even, uh, even, um, even the Whispers. I mean, it's, you know, the raging horde of the undead ghosts are just outside the walls and you all were raised in, in that environment where, you know, walking outside the, walking outside the, you know, the, the walls is a death sentence. Um, you know, so everybody reacts very poorly to ghosts. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:15:35 PM] Eidolon** I just don't want to go inside there and find another damned ghost trying to eat me. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:15:59 PM] Rob** Alive? :P --- **[4/11/2026, 3:16:07 PM] Debinani** Uh, um, yeah, so probably yes, because Eidolon's, um, Eidolon's talent literally, it doesn't make him invisible, it literally moves him into the ghost field. So, yes, he would be, um, uh, literally closer to the ghost than, than you are now. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:16:08 PM] Random** yes, but having a ghost friend (and a sense of bravado) will color outward feelings. :) --- **[4/11/2026, 3:16:19 PM] Jason G** its like frodo putting on the ring... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:16:22 PM] Veth** indeed. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:16:50 PM] Veth** having it be ours would probably generate heat if anyone found out, would it not? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:16:50 PM] Crow** The ghost outside will probably notice you first. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:17:11 PM] Rob** Who's going to report it? "Officer, those fiends stole my pet ghost!" --- **[4/11/2026, 3:17:13 PM] Eidolon** Glad I didn't try, then. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:17:15 PM] Veth** the ghost --- **[4/11/2026, 3:17:21 PM] Watcher** Is it bound to the property? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:17:28 PM] Debinani** Uh, having what be yours? Oh, I mean, I don't know. You know, it's probably just, it's probably just compelled to, you know, guard the building. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:17:46 PM] Rob** How does one dispose of a ghost? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:17:56 PM] Rob** If you manage to capture it first, that is. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:18:02 PM] Veth** ghostbusters --- **[4/11/2026, 3:18:15 PM] Jason G** Eidolon walks up and says, "OoOoOooO ooOO oOoo oOO?" --- **[4/11/2026, 3:18:16 PM] Random** Electroplasm, salt, iron, oh and these bottles. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:18:17 PM] Debinani** Uh, they can be, uh, melted down with electroplasm. Um, there are, there are ways. But you have a couple of spirit bottles and basically you can just bottle it up. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:18:24 PM] Veth** Fuck, I should have thought of that. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:18:39 PM] Rob** And give it as a gift to one of the Reclaimers? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:18:59 PM] Cam** Let's try this. Crow and Boo try to tackle the ghost with Eidolon keeping an eye on them at a distance. The rest of us break into two pairs and spread out to check the perimeter elsewhere. If things go south, anyone not being eaten by a ghost hightails it out. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:19:07 PM] Debinani** You absolutely could. I mean, um, it's, uh, not outside the realm of reason for you to have some jarred-up ghosts that you can, uh, uh, un-jar at, uh, tactically valuable moments. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:19:29 PM] Cam** If things go well, we converge on the carriage house and figure out our next steps. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:19:43 PM] Crow** What about those that are eaten by a ghost? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:19:57 PM] Cam** Cam gives him a bland look --- **[4/11/2026, 3:19:59 PM] Crow** Crow shrugs --- **[4/11/2026, 3:20:02 PM] Crow** Just asking! --- **[4/11/2026, 3:20:04 PM] Eidolon** We wait for them to finish eating and collect their coin, obviously. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:20:29 PM] Veth** Gallows humor ahoy! --- **[4/11/2026, 3:20:49 PM] Cam** It's a risk, so if you *looks at Boo and Crow* think this is a non-starter, say so. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:20:49 PM] Boo** I'm game to try it. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:20:58 PM] Rob** Okay, so does this count as a job? We have to pick our load and such? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:21:09 PM] Crow** Crow shrugs --- **[4/11/2026, 3:21:13 PM] Crow** I'm up for it. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:21:21 PM] Cam** Then let's roll. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:21:21 PM] Debinani** Yes. So, um, okay. So if you guys are gearing up to go to the, um, go to the carriage house, everybody pick your load. I assume you're going at night, but anybody who's choosing heavy, let me know. Well, because I mean if you, if you, if you, if you go with heavy, you're pretty obvious and, you know, people will, you will attract attention on the streets, regardless of the time of day. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:21:33 PM] Kristian** any reason NOT to go heavy? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:21:39 PM] Random** do we jsut pick the load level, or the actual items? (memory filled with cotton right now) --- **[4/11/2026, 3:22:00 PM] Kristian** didn't they not really take the streets? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:22:03 PM] Michelle** Splitting us up is in the hopes of reducing notice, but yeah, the gear will be telling. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:22:08 PM] Random** check, thought was but was needing that nudge --- **[4/11/2026, 3:22:20 PM] Debinani** You just pick the load level. You don't pick the stuff. You pick the stuff as you need it. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:22:38 PM] Michelle** Cam is bringing Mutt for this too --- **[4/11/2026, 3:22:58 PM] Debinani** Okay, and we're bringing Mutt along. Um, okay, everybody, I, it looks like everybody's just kind of going with normal. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:23:12 PM] Veth** we are so normal! --- **[4/11/2026, 3:23:13 PM] Watcher** light is very inconspicuous, Normal is probably fine unless you get searched, Heavy you're walking in with a plate carrier and an MP7 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:23:20 PM] Rob** Define 'normal'. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:23:24 PM] Cam** Nyx, you're with me. Freakshow and Watcher are our other pair. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:23:41 PM] Watcher** Watcher nods --- **[4/11/2026, 3:23:46 PM] Cam** Standard calls if we run into trouble. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:23:54 PM] Michelle** Figuring we have standard alerts. :P --- **[4/11/2026, 3:23:55 PM] Veth** Yeah I don't think defining normal is going to get anywhere in this world. :P --- **[4/11/2026, 3:23:55 PM] Rob** Standard call = bloodcurdling scream --- **[4/11/2026, 3:24:07 PM] Debinani** All right. So you guys load up and, uh, you, uh, uh, you, uh, load up and you head out and, uh, so the idea is you are going to, uh, um, split up, come at the estate from different directions, uh, Boo and Crow are going to, uh, um, take on the ghost and, uh, go from there. So, uh, we will make an engagement roll. Um, whoever wants to make it can make an engagement roll with two dice. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:24:10 PM] Jason G** was that the cuckoo, or the night warbler? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:24:23 PM] Random** shhhhhh.... be wary wary quiet. we're spiwit hunting....hhehehehehe --- **[4/11/2026, 3:24:32 PM] Michelle** With Eidolon watching over that part --- **[4/11/2026, 3:24:52 PM] Cam** lol. I can roll. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:24:56 PM] Kristian** I ain't marryi'n no ghost --- **[4/11/2026, 3:25:00 PM] Veth** certainly shouldn't be me. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:25:09 PM] Debinani** Okay, go for it. Uh, it doesn't. You're fine. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:25:13 PM] Michelle** Wait, I still have 4 stress. How does that affect it? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:25:20 PM] Cam** Engagement Failure Bad result. You're in a desperate position when the action starts. 2 2 2d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:25:27 PM] Michelle** ugh --- **[4/11/2026, 3:25:28 PM] Nyx** Engagement 0d Failure Bad result. You're in a desperate position when the action starts. 3 6 2d6 = 9 = 9 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:25:34 PM] Jason G** I love this game, nobody wants to be responsible for the probably-disasterous rolls that hose the whole team.. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:25:44 PM] Debinani** Everything is awesome. Um, okay. So, Um, all right. So, uh, uh, you guys make it across town. Um, nobody falls in the canal and drowns. Um, you, uh, uh, Cam and, how did you divide everybody? Cam and Nix go around to, uh, one side of the manor and kind of hop the wall and start moving in. Freakshow and Watcher do the same. And then, uh, uh, Crow and Boo and Eidolon, uh, basically go through the, uh, uh, go through the front gate and, uh, start, start heading for the, for the ghost head-on. Uh, and you freeze because there's, uh, um, uh, not one ghost there. There's close to four. Um, and they're, they're wandering around. I mean, gosh, it's only been, it's only been, let's call it two hours since they reported in. Um, and, um, um, and they're, they're, um, ghosting about. Um, I am, so Boo and Watcher, you both realize that something's weird about this house. Um, it, it feels like it's forming a spirit well. And what a spirit well is, it's a place where it draws, draws ghosts into it. Um, it's not fully there yet, but something's definitely going on in this house that is, that is drawing, uh, spirits, uh, spirits to the house. Um, but, uh, there's four of them here now. And, uh, uh, the three of you are, uh, petrified, uh, in, in fear. Um, you can make resistance rolls to act or you are going to be frozen or run, like one of, one of the other. Uh, I believe the resistance roll would be a resolve roll. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:26:09 PM] Kristian** can I use a flashback to add loaded dice to my loadout, and hand them to Jen and Michelle? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:26:27 PM] Boo** fuck --- **[4/11/2026, 3:26:37 PM] Crow** ... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:26:41 PM] Boo** they said 1 ghost. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:26:46 PM] Jason G** oh, that was the attune roll... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:26:49 PM] Crow** (quietly) Where did you learn to count, Eidolon? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:26:50 PM] Eidolon** Fuck. How the hell? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:27:03 PM] Watcher** yeah, Eidolon... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:27:07 PM] Eidolon** There was. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:27:36 PM] Jason G** oh joy --- **[4/11/2026, 3:27:41 PM] Random** resitence roll. how? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:27:57 PM] Rob** Okay, what is a resistance roll? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:28:01 PM] Boo** Resolve Success You reduce or avoid the effects of the consequence (GM chooses). Suffer 2 stress. 4 1 1 3d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:28:11 PM] Crow** Resolve Success You reduce or avoid the effects of the consequence (GM chooses). Suffer 3 stress. 3 3 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:28:17 PM] Eidolon** Resolve Success You reduce or avoid the effects of the consequence (GM chooses). Suffer 5 stress. 1 1d6 = 1 = 1 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:28:35 PM] Rob** There's an Eidolon-shaped cloud of dust where he was standing. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:28:40 PM] Jason G** 5 stress... ouch! --- **[4/11/2026, 3:28:40 PM] Debinani** Ooh, that hurts. Okay. So, um, that's the, that's the consequences. So you resist, you act, you're like "Oh, look, ghosts, that's terrible." But, uh, Crow gets three stress, Eidolon gets five, um, Boo gets two. Oh, no, he resists. It just takes a lot, it takes a lot out of him. You know, you all like "Oh, god. Oh, there's four of them. Oh, shit." Uh, because I believe you only have one, uh, yeah, you only have one dot in attune. So one is a correct resolve roll. Um, okay. So, um, there are four ghosts and, um, um, because the engagement roll went so well, um, uh, one of them actually, uh, sees you and, uh, hisses and starts, uh, drifting, I say drift, starts racing your way, uh, with, you know, ethereal wisps coming off of it and nasty-looking distorted features, claws, and it's like gonna like eat your soul. It's coming at you. What do you do? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:28:43 PM] Rob** Ouch. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:28:48 PM] Kristian** traumatic --- **[4/11/2026, 3:28:54 PM] Veth** why did I only roll 1? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:29:11 PM] Veth** ahhh! ok :) --- **[4/11/2026, 3:29:20 PM] Eidolon** We need to run.. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:29:30 PM] Michelle** sorry... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:30:09 PM] Veth** I'd like to pull out a spiritbane charm and whip it at the bugger. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:30:22 PM] Random** prepare a bottle to for trapping. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:30:37 PM] Debinani** Okay. Uh, so, uh, you pull out a spirit bane charm and, and, um, uh, you know, hold it out. Um, uh, I mean you could whip it at them but it's probably better just to like keep it on you. Um, and, uh, it, it, it was coming your way but it, it sort of veers off and, and heads more towards Boo and Crow instead. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:30:39 PM] Veth** sure let's do that. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:30:51 PM] Rob** So what would capturing it do? I know we use a lightning hook, but what do we roll? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:31:09 PM] Debinani** Yep, so here's basically how this works. Uh, yeah, what you do is you will be using your, uh, your lightning hook. And, uh, basically what I'll do is we'll make, uh, a, um, we'll make attune rolls to use the lightning hook and, and capture the ghost in the bottle. Um, you know, you may have to make multiple rolls depending upon how well or poorly you do. So Boo gets out a bottle and, uh, Crow gets out a lightning hook and, uh, it's coming at you. You're gonna, gonna try to, uh, try to catch you a ghost. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:31:29 PM] Random** yarp --- **[4/11/2026, 3:31:32 PM] Rob** Right. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:31:39 PM] Rob** Sure... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:31:50 PM] Kristian** don't cross the streams --- **[4/11/2026, 3:32:01 PM] Debinani** All right. Um, so again because of the, uh, um, because of the, uh, engagement roll, um, this first roll will be desperate. I mean, it's, it, the ghost is literally screeching towards you as you, as you ready your lightning hook and, uh, and try to get it. So, uh, this will be a, um, let's call it, uh, desperate, um, standard, uh, attune roll. And you automatically, Crow, get an XP in resolve, um, for making a desperate roll. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:32:31 PM] Crow** Attune Desperate | Standard Critical Success! You do it with increased effect. 6 6 2d6 = 12 = 12 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:32:42 PM] Rob** Pfft. Easy. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:32:47 PM] Rob** *wipes sweat* --- **[4/11/2026, 3:32:54 PM] Debinani** Woo! Okay. Um, take your XP for resolve. Um, uh, and, um, yeah. And so the ghost comes screeching at you, you get your lightning hook out and, uh, um, and you just, you just like a freaking boss, you just whip that, you know, whip that hook out, you, you snag the ghost. It screeches this unearthly screech that you hear, you feel in your head more than, more than you hear it with your ears, and in one fluid motion, you, uh, you collapse your, your lightning hook and, um, you know, drop the other side of the conductor into Boo's spirit bottle and 'shloop', ghost goes in the bottle. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:33:26 PM] Boo** Boo seals the bottle. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:33:44 PM] Michelle** ONLY THREE MORE TIMES --- **[4/11/2026, 3:33:50 PM] Crow** Okay... we showed you how to do it, Eidolon. You get the rest of them. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:33:54 PM] Jason G** one down... three alerted... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:33:55 PM] Debinani** Uh, the other three, um, the other three ghosts, um, have, uh, have seen you now. And while they are not rushing your direction, um, you know, they are, they are coming your way. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:34:03 PM] Crow** Let's... back off. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:34:13 PM] Eidolon** No, no nonononono.. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:34:15 PM] Freakshow** Neat trick, do it again. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:34:18 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon starts to run. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:34:25 PM] Debinani** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 4 1d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:34:48 PM] Cam** Cam signals the other team to back off too. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:35:05 PM] Debinani** I'm freaking sitting here talking, I'm not even holding the button down. Um, okay. So, uh, you, you back off, uh, you back off through the gates of the estate and, uh, um, the ghosts pursue you in a sort of shambling zombie-like way, but they don't, um, they don't, they don't, they don't cross the gate. They don't cross the, um, um, the walls of the, of the estate. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:35:39 PM] Boo** Boo takes the moment to secure the bottle. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:35:43 PM] Cam** Cam signals everyone to regroup in a quiet spot --- **[4/11/2026, 3:35:55 PM] Rob** What would the ghosts likely do if the cause of the spirit well is dealt with? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:35:57 PM] Michelle** Something out of sight a bit --- **[4/11/2026, 3:36:03 PM] Debinani** Okay, you find a, um, uh, fairly quiet spot in an alley between like the walls of this estate and the walls of the next estate over. Uh, they probably go about their way. They'd scatter, they'd wander off to do whatever it is they feel like doing. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:36:11 PM] Cam** What the hell happened to one ghost? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:36:17 PM] Eidolon** I don't fucking know! --- **[4/11/2026, 3:36:31 PM] Eidolon** There was one, we were there a while. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:36:41 PM] Jason G** great, you all lead the ghosts away. freakshow and I will look inside! --- **[4/11/2026, 3:36:44 PM] Crow** There's something drawing them to the house. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:36:49 PM] Michelle** lol --- **[4/11/2026, 3:37:04 PM] Cam** Great. *fumes and thinks* --- **[4/11/2026, 3:37:14 PM] Cam** They aren't leaving the grounds at least. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:37:15 PM] Random** can I use my spirit mask to see what or where the biggest influence around grounds that might be drawing the ghosts? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:37:26 PM] Rob** Stop helping. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:37:31 PM] Debinani** I mean there's only three left and you've got two Whispers. I mean, hell, I mean, the, the, you guys took out one ghost, looks easy. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:37:34 PM] Jason G** that's bait --- **[4/11/2026, 3:37:48 PM] Boo** risky? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:37:56 PM] Boo** Attune Controlled | Standard Success You do it. 6 3 2d6 = 9 = 9 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:38:01 PM] Michelle** And Cam will survey the area for any other options. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:38:05 PM] Debinani** Uh, you may, sure. Um, you can look over the wall or through the gate or whatever you choose. You put your spirit mask on and make an attune roll. Uh, yeah, risky standard is fine. Actually, controlled standard. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:38:06 PM] Rob** Are all rolls desperate or only the first one? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:38:35 PM] Cam** Survey Controlled | Standard Success You do it. 6 1d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:38:37 PM] Debinani** Okay. Um, no, this roll was desperate because your engagement roll was a failure, and so it starts you in a desperate position. And the desperate position was "Oh my god, there's a ghost coming to eat me." Okay. Um, all right. So, um, Boo, you put your spirit mask on, you kind of like crawl and look over the top of the wall at the carriage house. Uh, there is, um, you through the spirit mask you actually see the, the carriage house is veritably covered in protective runes. Um, you know, so whatever's going on in there, it, it, it's not quite a spirit well, but it's something that's acting like a spirit well. So, um, it, it's drawing, it's drawing ghosts to it. There is definitely something, some kind of like hardcore ritual juju going on inside the carriage house. But that's, that's about all you can see. Um, the carriage house itself is covered in, in protective runes. So, um, you know, it's, it's basically a big, um, a big spiritual, uh, "go away" sign. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:39:07 PM] Boo** Boo passes that along. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:39:46 PM] Crow** Maybe it's a side-effect of Lancaster brewing his poison. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:40:02 PM] Debinani** Um, Cam, you take a look. Um, theoretically if you wanted to, um, you could, Um, you see a path where you could hop the wall, travel down the wall, grab onto this, you know, old tree and, and, and with a little bit of acrobatics you could make it to the roof of the carriage house, um, and, uh, you know, theoretically, theoretically dodge the rest of the ghosts that way. But it'll, it'll, um, it, it definitely is going to take some little bit of acrobatics. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:40:23 PM] Boo** want to try and get a second ghost? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:40:45 PM] Cam** Cam relays what she's seeing --- **[4/11/2026, 3:40:49 PM] Rob** Are the runes that Boo saw something that we'd have to get past or do they not affect people? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:41:14 PM] Debinani** Uh, you don't know, you'd have to get closer. Um, uh, but, um, um, yeah, Boo got a pretty good roll. Um, Boo's best guess is that they are, um, they're not wards, they are, um, runes to hide somebody. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:41:15 PM] Kristian** so Ghost Voice does nothing here unless it's "my" ghost? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:41:45 PM] Cam** I'm hesitant to put you up against three at one time. Even if you each take one down quick, that last one is going to find a feast. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:41:49 PM] Crow** Not... especially, no. I feel like I just drew a straight flush and am unlikely to do it twice in a row. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:41:55 PM] Debinani** Uh, your, your ghost voice, um, let's see, interpret act with a ghost or demon as if it was normal human regardless how wild or terrible it appears. Um, yeah, I mean we interpreted ghost voice as being like your, your ghostly friend, but it does say you gain potency when communicating with the supernatural. So, um, you do, you do have a little bit of benefit, um, you know, trying to get through to them. And then of course you have Mr. Perkins, you have your ghost. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:42:20 PM] Kristian** so I can just yetll out "OI WANKERS GO HOME" and get a bonus to them sodding off? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:42:22 PM] Rob** He seems like a fine, upstanding type. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:42:35 PM] Cam** Getting onto the roof of that place isn't going to be easy either, but it avoids the nasties that we know of. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:42:36 PM] Kristian** "you can always try' --- **[4/11/2026, 3:42:46 PM] Debinani** Um, I mean, maybe. Um, the fact that they're there to begin with probably means that they're compelled in some way. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:42:54 PM] Veth** Mayvik needs to change his code name to christ, and compel them. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:42:56 PM] Cam** Can we even get past those wards? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:43:11 PM] Boo** I'd need to get closer to be sure, but I don't think the wards are going to be a problem --- **[4/11/2026, 3:43:16 PM] Kristian** I guess I could try the whole "don't worry about us, they're coming from the other side of the house!" gag --- **[4/11/2026, 3:43:17 PM] Boo** not as much as the ghosts. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:43:19 PM] Debinani** Uh, Boo suspects that the wards are there to keep things hidden, not necessarily to, like, keep you out. So you'll have to take another closer look at them, but, um, but you don't, you're not too concerned about the wards. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:43:38 PM] Kristian** or "eat the one with the dog" and we can walk by while they are distracted? :P --- **[4/11/2026, 3:43:43 PM] Cam** Cam nods --- **[4/11/2026, 3:43:56 PM] Random** would an electroplasm splash scatter the ghosts? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:44:13 PM] Michelle** Getting up there is going to be a Finesse roll? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:44:36 PM] Jason G** or just annoy them because they are wet now... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:44:40 PM] Debinani** Uh, um, yeah, sure you could try, yeah. That would be essentially like, uh, uh, I mean, the electroplasm can harm ghosts. So, I mean, it is, you could theoretically turn a, a bottle of electroplasm into a grenade that would harm ghosts. Uh, yeah, we're probably looking at finesse rolls to, uh, get up and across onto the roof of the, uh, onto the roof of the carriage house. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:44:43 PM] Random** are the ghosts clustered or drifting apart? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:45:06 PM] Michelle** Who has good Finesse? Cam does not. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:45:12 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon breathes a bit heavily. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:45:25 PM] Random** 1 dot finesse --- **[4/11/2026, 3:45:27 PM] Rob** I have 0 dots in it, so... not I. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:45:38 PM] Veth** I have a 1 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:45:47 PM] Jason G** someone give poor Eidolon a xanax ? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:45:50 PM] Veth** also very spooked atm though. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:46:05 PM] Boo** I want to try and scatter the ghosts. it'll either work or stir them up like hornets? yes? no? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:46:15 PM] Rob** We don't have Xanax. Would a ghost-in-a-bottle work? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:46:22 PM] Cam** Cam reaches out and punches Eidolon lightly in the shoulder --- **[4/11/2026, 3:46:24 PM] Debinani** I mean you're not that spooked. I mean, you, you spent the five stress. You're, you, you resisted the, the spooked. It would either work or stir them up like hornets, yeah. Oh yeah, I mean stress is definitely an indicator of personal well-being. I mean you're definitely, uh, uh, I don't know what your stress is up to, but you're definitely, uh, oh my, yeah, you're, you're getting a little twitchy. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:46:31 PM] Veth** oh.. I thought stress was an indicator of personal wellbeing. :P --- **[4/11/2026, 3:46:34 PM] Cam** You haven't been eaten yet, man. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:46:52 PM] Eidolon** Yeah, I just wasn't expecting four. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:46:54 PM] Jason G** if you get a Trauma, like Haunted, or Paranoid... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:47:05 PM] Cam** Cam shrugs --- **[4/11/2026, 3:47:14 PM] Debinani** Yeah, just remember if you exceed your stress thing you get a trauma and trauma is forever. Um, once you get four traumas you're too broken to, to go on and you retire. And remember if you guys want to do something goofy with finesse you could do a group roll. Um, you know, and, and you know, all of you try to Scooby-Gang it across to, um, across the thing. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:47:20 PM] Cam** We're not the spooky hunters, so eh, it happens. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:47:27 PM] Rob** With Eidolon taking the stress? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:47:29 PM] Michelle** That's why I asked. hehe --- **[4/11/2026, 3:47:35 PM] Veth** lol --- **[4/11/2026, 3:47:48 PM] Debinani** Yeah, probably not. I wouldn't have him lead the roll. ChatGPT actually had a pretty good interpretation of Ghost Voice. Um, basically, um, basically the, the default is you can engage any nearby ghost in conversation without any special tools or anything like that. So, um, we'll go with that. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:47:57 PM] Michelle** So our highest is 1 in Finesse? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:47:58 PM] Kristian** dibs on being Shaggy --- **[4/11/2026, 3:48:13 PM] Michelle** Nyx? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:48:27 PM] Jason G** So what happened to the last guy I am replacing? Group: he kinda just whimpered then exploded... so, interested? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:48:31 PM] Michelle** Who has 2? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:48:35 PM] Debinani** Oh no, Freakshow's got a two. Nix has a one finesse. Freakshow has a two. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:48:42 PM] Kristian** Freakdshow can do like circus flips across the yard like ninja style, while you all panic and run. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:48:43 PM] Michelle** And he just dumped stress :P --- **[4/11/2026, 3:48:58 PM] Cam** Cam looks at Boo --- **[4/11/2026, 3:49:04 PM] Cam** What are you thinking for scattering them? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:49:04 PM] Freakshow** I can try talking to those guards, but they seem pretty pissed. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:49:26 PM] Boo** I was thinking lobbing a electroplasm vail amongst them. maybe 2. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:49:37 PM] Crow** We should do something soon. Whatever is drew those ghosts here might draw more. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:49:54 PM] Veth** we go back and there's now 10 ghosts. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:50:07 PM] Cam** Would anyone or anything else notice that? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:50:46 PM] Random** ecotplasm with a bit of a spark --- **[4/11/2026, 3:50:53 PM] Rob** Cam's seen it in action. Crow used it when we fought the Reclaimers' Circle people two sessions ago. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:51:06 PM] Michelle** Ah ok --- **[4/11/2026, 3:51:26 PM] Boo** check --- **[4/11/2026, 3:51:39 PM] Cam** Tell you what... Keep those vials handy if we fail to get onto the roof or get the ghosts' attention again/ --- **[4/11/2026, 3:51:47 PM] Cam** Probably will need it to get out of there. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:51:49 PM] Rob** Does everyone have spirtibane charms? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:51:59 PM] Veth** I sure do --- **[4/11/2026, 3:52:03 PM] Michelle** It's on my equipment list --- **[4/11/2026, 3:52:07 PM] Random** never leave home without it --- **[4/11/2026, 3:52:10 PM] Kristian** haven't pulled one but can --- **[4/11/2026, 3:52:17 PM] Debinani** I think so, everybody who hasn't run out of, uh, gear pulls yet, yeah. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:52:21 PM] Michelle** You mind leading a group Finesse roll, Mayvik? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:52:25 PM] Rob** Wasn't sure it was standard for all playbooks. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:52:34 PM] Cam** Cam pulls out a spiritbane charm too --- **[4/11/2026, 3:52:41 PM] Michelle** ah --- **[4/11/2026, 3:52:48 PM] Debinani** And remember the, the person with the highest rating doesn't have to lead the roll. Um, anybody can lead the roll, they're just the one taking the stress. Group rolls are a great way to, spread the stress economy around a little bit. Okay. Uh, so you all are going to, uh, uh, scurry across the, uh, across the top of the wall and grab onto the tree branch and hop over and try to get yourselves over to the roof, uh, so you don't get eaten by the ghosts on the ground. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:52:50 PM] Kristian** can lead the finesse roll anyway. Make myself useful --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:10 PM] Michelle** better than fighting 3 ghosts --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:11 PM] Rob** Risky, Standard? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:20 PM] Boo** 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 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:26 PM] Kristian** rolling...as...? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:34 PM] Debinani** Um, yeah, so everybody, everybody is going to make a finesse roll with, uh, Freakshow leading. Um, and we are going to do, uh, uh, I'm fine with risky standard. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:37 PM] Freakshow** Finesse Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 3 1 2d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:37 PM] Eidolon** 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. 5 1d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:37 PM] Crow** Finesse Risky | Standard | 0d Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 3 5 2d6 = 8 = 8 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:41 PM] Cam** Finesse 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 5 2d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:42 PM] Nyx** 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. 5 1d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:43 PM] Kristian** I am not --- **[4/11/2026, 3:53:45 PM] Watcher** Finesse 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 --- **[4/11/2026, 3:54:03 PM] Veth** You're killin me here guys. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:54:06 PM] Kristian** that was generally awful. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:54:09 PM] Debinani** Is that everybody? What's our highest, partial success? Okay. Uh, so let's see. So I think Freakshow takes five, um, stress. Um, but thankfully, thanks to Eidolon and Nix. Um, so okay. So you guys get up on the wall and you scurry across the wall and you, uh, uh, hop over the tree branch and, uh, the last one, the last one coming over, uh, let's say it's, um, let's say it's Cam. Um, Cam, when you like swing over the tree branch it breaks and snaps and falls to the ground. And so all of you are, on top of the roof of the carriage house now. Uh, and there is a, there is a, uh, um, a little, a little door to get in, but you're not getting out the same way you got in. Uh, your, your path back to the wall is, is gone. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:54:10 PM] Kristian** fate point! lol --- **[4/11/2026, 3:54:20 PM] Jason G** oof --- **[4/11/2026, 3:54:22 PM] Michelle** Fits the overall pattern these last two games. :\ --- **[4/11/2026, 3:54:33 PM] Kristian** wheee...1 away from trauma --- **[4/11/2026, 3:54:33 PM] Rob** He's going to need a lot of drugs after that. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:54:38 PM] Kristian** no daddy no --- **[4/11/2026, 3:54:52 PM] Rob** Dude... I thought you were down to 0 stress when you offered to lead the roll. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:55:09 PM] Michelle** whee! --- **[4/11/2026, 3:55:35 PM] Veth** Zoinks. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:55:37 PM] Michelle** So Cam is on the ground? --- **[4/11/2026, 3:55:44 PM] Michelle** ok --- **[4/11/2026, 3:55:48 PM] Debinani** Yeah, remember indulging vice does not get you down to zero stress. It just lets you roll to reduce some stress. No, no, you made it. You're, you, you're all on the, you're all on the roof of the carriage house, but you're not getting out the way you came in. So you all can organize yourselves to go into the carriage house and we will, uh, uh, let's just take a 10-minute break here and then we'll go inside the carriage house. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:55:50 PM] Rob** Right, but I thought he'd rolled well. Oops. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:56:14 PM] Debinani** Break TIme Complete --- **[4/11/2026, 3:56:26 PM] Jason G** just so I understand... we're on top of the carriage house, surrounded by ghosts.. who can fly..... and we can't get back easily.. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:56:27 PM] Random** this is a nice bit of real estate to set up home on.... --- **[4/11/2026, 3:56:54 PM] Veth** We live here now. --- **[4/11/2026, 3:58:02 PM] Debinani** They can't *fly*...much --- **[4/11/2026, 4:03:46 PM] Michelle** Worst case, we'll check out the building, clear it, and yank off some roof to make a bridge out. :P Or yeah, we live here now. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:04:17 PM] Rob** Worst case, we wind up as ghosts patrolling the area. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:04:27 PM] Cam** That too! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:04:43 PM] Michelle** Can't live forever! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:04:47 PM] Random** will die trying. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:04:59 PM] Michelle** Though being eaten by ghosts is probably high on all of our "ways not to die" lists. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:05:20 PM] Watcher** yeah, I suppose flying would allow them to get over the walls --- **[4/11/2026, 4:05:37 PM] Debinani** Having your life force consumed by ghosts is definitely not a good way to go. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:05:46 PM] Random** add a bit of stress does it? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:06:19 PM] Michelle** We could become a ghost crew! That would be awesome. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:06:31 PM] Debinani** There are rules for such things in the book --- **[4/11/2026, 4:06:49 PM] Michelle** Surefire way to cause havoc for the Reclaimers --- **[4/11/2026, 4:07:18 PM] Jason G** I've just sucked one year of your life away... Tell me, how do you feel? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:07:46 PM] Michelle** Guessing the ghosts go well beyond 50 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:08:00 PM] Debinani** Okay. So you are, uh, on the, um, uh, top of this carriage house. It's about a two-story carriage house. Um, um, most of it is probably literally a, the barn to keep carriages in. Uh, there is a little hatch on the top to get in. Uh, and um, yeah. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:08:17 PM] Cam** Any wards to worry about here? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:08:25 PM] Cam** Cam looks at our spooky peoples --- **[4/11/2026, 4:08:37 PM] Boo** mmmmmm.... they should't cause a problem. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:08:38 PM] Debinani** Um, Boo and Crow take a look at the wards. Um, I mean there are plenty of wards, the whole place is covered in them, but you don't really think they're harmful. I think they're really to keep things hidden, um, but they are extravagant. It took somebody a lot of time. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:08:57 PM] Boo** why dont' you open the hatch while I stand ..... over here. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:09:05 PM] Eidolon** Shouldn't? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:09:08 PM] Boo** Attune Controlled | Standard Success You do it. 6 3 2d6 = 9 = 9 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:09:14 PM] Rob** Crow will examine them, too. Just an Attune roll? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:09:18 PM] Watcher** Are they real? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:09:31 PM] Crow** Attune Controlled | Standard Success You do it. 6 4 2d6 = 10 = 10 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:09:37 PM] Debinani** Yep, an attune roll. Um, controlled standard. Yep. Um, they are incredibly, incredibly, um, um, elaborate wards. Um, you would guess that they're so good that, um, that, like, spirit wardens couldn't even find the place. I mean this is, um, this would be an incredible place to do bad things in because ain't nobody, um, ain't nobody finding it through, through spiritual means. It's very extravagantly warded. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:09:55 PM] Boo** these are invisibility wards. and well made ones. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:10:03 PM] Boo** but not boom boom wards --- **[4/11/2026, 4:10:08 PM] Rob** Crow (or Boo) will relay that. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:10:24 PM] Kristian** are we going to ghostepstein island? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:10:27 PM] Cam** Let's take a look inside then. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:10:32 PM] Crow** Hmm. I wonder if one of the ingredients in Lancaster's poison is "ghost". --- **[4/11/2026, 4:10:35 PM] Cam** Cam carefully opens the hatch a peek to look inside --- **[4/11/2026, 4:10:52 PM] Rob** Yet. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:10:55 PM] Debinani** Okay. So, um, you, uh, you pop open the hatch and, uh, uh, and look in, um, and, uh, uh, nothing jumps out and eats your face, so that's good, right? Um, so this hatch immediately on the inside is a ladder that leads down to the ground floor. This carriage house is essentially just one big open space. It's not, um, um, you know basically what would happen is they would roll carriages in and detach the horses and take the horses to the barn, and this is just a place where they store the carriages. Um, um, on the inside it is certainly not a, a carriage house anymore. Um, it has been, um, you know, as I said, everything was sort of boarded up and, um, it has been converted into an extravagant, um, chemistry lab. Um, Um, I'll actually start from the things that grab most of your attention first. So, um, the first thing you see is a man in a noose, um, hanging off of, uh, one of the big piers. Um, he's been dead for probably a couple of days. Um, um, have you guys ever actually seen a picture of Lancaster? I guess you guys tossed his apartment, you guys probably saw a picture at one point. Um, no, I, I didn't. Uh, so it is, uh, it is, it is Lancaster. Um, um, and, uh, uh, and he's looks like he's been dead a couple days. Looks like he hung himself. You've got the noose and the rope and the girder and the chair that he kicked out from under him, uh, and, and so on. Um, uh, and so that's the first thing you notice. The second thing you notice is a ghost of Lancaster, um, uh, looking at a wall. And on this wall is, uh, it looks like the result of, um, conspiracy theory, right? So it's, it's, Um, a handful of photos, but mostly like documents and symbols and, uh, lines drawn between them, all of which looks like it was written in some sort of code. It's a, it's a language, it's written in a language that none of you, none of you understand. But there is just the wall is just covered in writing. Um, and it looks more and more and more desperate as like time goes on. I mean there's just, um, um, uh, is just, uh, you know the writing gets a little bit more and more, uh, frenetic and crazed. Um, and, this symbol is prominent. It's drawn several times around the, the room on various parchments and things like that. Um, just five interlocking circles. Um, and, you know, so okay. So you've got Lancaster, uh, the body, you've got Lancaster the ghost, you've got, walls covered in looks like mad scribbles that you don't understand. You've got an extensive chemistry lab. I mean it's good stuff. I mean it is a proper, a proper chemistry lab. And obviously he was a professor. Um, and um, yeah. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:11:07 PM] Veth** that's better than we've been doing. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:11:47 PM] Rob** "Things"... --- **[4/11/2026, 4:12:06 PM] Jason G** as one does --- **[4/11/2026, 4:12:13 PM] Random** got a fresh one...well semi fresh.... for ya nyx. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:12:25 PM] Kristian** yeah you used Don Knotts right? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:12:34 PM] Michelle** There were drawings at the house, but weren't sure who he was --- **[4/11/2026, 4:12:36 PM] Nyx** Oh my --- **[4/11/2026, 4:12:46 PM] Rob** Hey, our job was to get rid of Lancaster. Job done! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:12:48 PM] Cam** Shit. That explains his absence. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:12:48 PM] Eidolon** Guess he didn't get away. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:13:02 PM] Nyx** Explains one ghost --- **[4/11/2026, 4:13:04 PM] Kristian** and two bullets in the back? It was Hillary. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:13:05 PM] Crow** Maybe... --- **[4/11/2026, 4:13:09 PM] Veth** lol --- **[4/11/2026, 4:13:17 PM] Crow** Oh, wait... there he is. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:13:22 PM] Nyx** oops --- **[4/11/2026, 4:13:43 PM] Watcher** a death, without alerting the spirit wardens because of the wards... careful --- **[4/11/2026, 4:13:53 PM] Nyx** Nyx stands behind Boo --- **[4/11/2026, 4:14:36 PM] Rob** He's creating the Olympics? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:14:50 PM] Kristian** oh christ he plays Magic. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:15:23 PM] Michelle** Merry xmas, Nyx! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:15:24 PM] Veth** looks like he might have been a.. pentaphile. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:15:37 PM] Cam** Cam carefully closes the hatch --- **[4/11/2026, 4:15:41 PM] Rob** Do any of us have any clue what that symbol might mean? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:15:44 PM] Debinani** Uh, the ghost doesn't appear to have, uh, noticed you. It is, the ghost is muttering to itself, um, um, looking at the, looking at the wall, the conspiracy wall. Uh, nope, nobody's seen it before ever. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:15:48 PM] Cam** We're down to one ghost. Ideas? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:15:48 PM] Random** ponders talking to the ghost. it seems sane --- **[4/11/2026, 4:15:54 PM] Crow** Talk to it? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:16:21 PM] Eidolon** Think he's as controlled as the others? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:16:23 PM] Michelle** What are we supposed to do to complete our job with the Glasskeys again? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:16:23 PM] Crow** I'm serious. It seems calm, so maybe we can get some information from it. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:16:29 PM] Random** well he's gone away. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:16:35 PM] Debinani** Yeah, and it's obviously pretty fresh, so it, it may not have, you know, gone nuts yet. So, um, the Glass Keys basically offered up four coin to make Lancaster go away. And then he would, he offered bonuses if you got his victim list and or got the recipe for the poison and or the antidote. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:16:52 PM] Michelle** gotcha --- **[4/11/2026, 4:16:54 PM] Boo** did he kill himself? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:16:59 PM] Eidolon** We've still got a job to do.. lots of bonuses to be had. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:08 PM] Watcher** Why though... why did he kill himself? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:11 PM] Boo** Professor? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:12 PM] Debinani** Uh, and yes, I think somebody in the chat said it, um, the wards probably kept the spirit wardens from grokking that the, that the dead body was here. That's how good the wards are. So you guys are still on the roof, right? You actually haven't like climbed down. So like Freakshow, you just gotta like stick your head in the hatch and go "Hey, you around?" --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:14 PM] Freakshow** Lancaster? You around mate? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:21 PM] Cam** Ok, give it a try. But only you go down there to start. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:27 PM] Watcher** Watcher shrugs --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:30 PM] Kristian** yes lol --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:39 PM] Crow** (quietly to Boo) Get a bottle ready, just in case. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:41 PM] Kristian** Lancaster mate you're late for tea! Get your trousers on wanker! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:48 PM] Watcher** and does he know he's dead... --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:48 PM] Boo** Boo pepares the bottle, carefuully --- **[4/11/2026, 4:17:51 PM] Debinani** Okay. Um, so, um, Freakshow can talk to ghosts, uh, without, uh, without needing any rolls. So Lancaster, um, um, Uh, Lancaster stops his muttering and the, the ghost kind of turns around and looks around and looks up and sees the lot of you like staring in through the, staring in through the hatch. Um, he looks, he looks kind of, uh, confused. Um, uh, definitely, um, you know, definitely bedraggled and, uh, I mean, you know, for a ghost. And, um, um, and he, you know, kind of shuffles, drifts, whatever over to, um, exactly, uh, shuffles, drifts kind of across the room and, looks up at you all being ceiling cat through the, through the, the hole in the roof. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:18:09 PM] Jason G** we're his Ceiling Cat --- **[4/11/2026, 4:18:40 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow points at decaying Lancaster --- **[4/11/2026, 4:18:43 PM] Freakshow** You do that brother? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:18:47 PM] Rob** Deb is calling up his Ghostly Don Knotts picture. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:19:05 PM] Debinani** He, it, the ghost looks at the body and then back up at you and he just says, says, um, "The, the wolves are coming. They were nipping at my heels." The voice is, you know, sounds like it's coming from a long way away across the ghost veil. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:19:20 PM] Freakshow** The wolves eh? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:19:39 PM] Freakshow** You get cross with somebody? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:19:42 PM] Debinani** "There was just, there was just no point." and he's kind of rubbing the back of his head and twitching a little bit. "There is no point. The constabulary or the Red Sashes, it was going to be somebody. It was at an end. Oh no, they knew, they knew that I know." and he gestures at the wall. "They knew, they knew that I know. Or is it knew? They knew that I knew. Am I now or am I then?" Kind of drifts back over to the wall and looks at it a little bit. "They, they know that I knew." --- **[4/11/2026, 4:20:09 PM] Boo** knew what? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:20:10 PM] Freakshow** Do you not still know? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:20:38 PM] Freakshow** Any of them circles got a name? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:20:42 PM] Debinani** Raises a ghostly finger and traces the five rings on one of the, on one of the things that, that, uh, it's drawn upon. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:20:46 PM] Jason G** picturing a ghostly Pepe Silvia with his conspiracy board... --- **[4/11/2026, 4:21:15 PM] Debinani** The, uh, the ghost kind of whips around and looks again up at you guys sticking your heads in through a hole in the ceiling. Um, and, and says, um, um, "I tried. I tried to slow it down. There is a darkness coming and I don't know if any of us can stop it. But I tried and then they found out and here we all are." He kind of glances at the, all the, the chemistry equipment and back to the wall and looks back. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:21:46 PM] Freakshow** Any of they got a name? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:22:05 PM] Freakshow** You don't seem fixed to stop it now but perhaps we can pick up your torch, as it were --- **[4/11/2026, 4:22:11 PM] Debinani** "Oh, they never do. Or sometimes they do. But it's coming and I just couldn't, I couldn't get it out of my head." and wanders back over and looks at the, uh, looks at the, uh, the symbol again. "I just... I couldn't get it out of my head." --- **[4/11/2026, 4:22:13 PM] Boo** ask him if he did the wards. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:22:16 PM] Jason G** wait, was he actually poisoning people, or trying to help them... --- **[4/11/2026, 4:22:31 PM] Rob** Yes. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:22:44 PM] Rob** Or maybe he was poisoning "them". --- **[4/11/2026, 4:22:47 PM] Kristian** great question IC.. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:22:58 PM] Random** watcher taking his notes of the consipracy board? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:23:04 PM] Nyx** Nyx takes out a notebook and starts copying the scrawlings. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:23:04 PM] Debinani** Nix is just like "Can I have your chemistry set?" "It was how I could make them stop. It was how..." He doesn't even, he doesn't even actually turn to look at you. He's just, he's just, um, um, he's just waving at the conspiracy board. It's like "It's how I could make them stop. I could, I could threaten their lives. Threaten their lives. And many of them did. Many of them, many of them took the antidote and did what we asked. Some didn't. Some I suppose stood on principle. And I couldn't do it all myself. I needed, I needed to find..." Oh yeah, everybody, everybody hears this. He's speaking essentially out loud. Um, no, no. Most of the time it probably would be, but I'm, I'm, um, I'm, um, letting you all hear for dramatic purposes. Um, yeah and he's, and he's new. Um, he's like "Oh I needed help. I needed, I needed the, I needed the maids and the barbers and the cooks and the little people who could get in and deliver the, deliver the, the poison and deliver the messages. Oh they all had their reasons and they all got paid in one way or another." --- **[4/11/2026, 4:23:09 PM] Freakshow** What was all this juice for? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:23:15 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow gestures at the lab equipment --- **[4/11/2026, 4:23:54 PM] Crow** We? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:24:09 PM] Kristian** is anyone hearing this but me? hopefully --- **[4/11/2026, 4:24:19 PM] Kristian** ok it's not just oooOOOooo --- **[4/11/2026, 4:24:24 PM] Jason G** is schizo affective disorder a known concept to headshrinkers here? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:24:28 PM] Veth** someone get two comm crystals! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:24:33 PM] Michelle** He's a fresh ghost too --- **[4/11/2026, 4:24:36 PM] Rob** We have the Mistress Ash Plot Device. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:24:51 PM] Freakshow** Someone to carry on your work? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:24:52 PM] Random** he seems calm enough. let's go on down? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:25:00 PM] Veth** he has midgets! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:25:09 PM] Rob** Yes. He has midgets. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:25:33 PM] Random** I'll go first. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:25:34 PM] Jason G** Eidolon first, then? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:25:37 PM] Freakshow** Any of them know what you were about, or just helpers of convenience? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:25:41 PM] Veth** bastard :P --- **[4/11/2026, 4:25:46 PM] Random** yes --- **[4/11/2026, 4:25:53 PM] Michelle** Cam would probably send Boo or Crow down to bottle him first. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:26:02 PM] Jason G** just kidding, I don't want to go down quite yet... may make him hangry --- **[4/11/2026, 4:26:13 PM] Michelle** If we're done questioning him --- **[4/11/2026, 4:26:15 PM] Debinani** Okay, so, so Boo you're, you're huffing it down the ladder. Okay, you get down to the, you get down to the ground floor. Um, he, he kind of waves about and then, um, and, uh, he, Crow, Crow is down there too, okay. Um, and, uh, he, the next time he turns around from the wall he sees that the two of you are, are down on the bottom level and he's, and he's like "So, so cold here." and he starts kind of drifting towards you. He's got, he has kind of a hungry look in his ethereal, ethereal eyes. "It's so cold, so hungry." He's, he's, um, coming, coming for you slowly and, not... he doesn't have a very pleasant look. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:26:16 PM] Rob** Crow will sigh and follow to provide backup. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:26:43 PM] Veth** Eidolon is now a full time ceiling cat. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:26:52 PM] Watcher** Watcher sighs --- **[4/11/2026, 4:26:54 PM] Veth** eyetherials. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:26:58 PM] Boo** Boo prepares the bottle "i'll be warm soon' --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:00 PM] Crow** Freakshow... Maybe you want to try to calm him down? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:04 PM] Boo** ooc it'll --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:07 PM] Cam** Better hurry it up! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:12 PM] Veth** let's bottle him for interrogation later! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:24 PM] Freakshow** It's not supper time yet brother...we're having a pleasant chat here. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:29 PM] Michelle** Did everyone pull a charm? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:40 PM] Veth** foodian slip there, boo. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:42 PM] Crow** Crow pulls out the lightning hook and a spiritbane charm... just in case --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:50 PM] Kristian** are we into attune/command mode yet? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:52 PM] Debinani** Um, so, um, um, Freakshow you want to, are you, you want to try to get him to, to not try to eat, not try to eat Crow and, Crow and Boo? Uh, I would say, uh, you can make a command roll, yeah. Um, this one's going to be, um, um, uh, risky limited. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:27:59 PM] Kristian** yes, that would be preferable. At least boo ;) --- **[4/11/2026, 4:28:20 PM] Kristian** does my "potency" give me any sort of bonus? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:28:29 PM] Kristian** roger --- **[4/11/2026, 4:28:31 PM] Freakshow** Command Risky | Limited 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 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:28:39 PM] Kristian** EAT THE FAT ONE FIRST --- **[4/11/2026, 4:28:39 PM] Debinani** Yeah, I'm, I'm, but it, it made it possible. Okay. Okay. So, um, "It's not supper time yet, brother. We're having a pleasant chat here." And, and it goes "Supper time? Supper time? Yes, it's so cold." and it rushes, uh, it rushes towards, uh, Boo and, and Crow. What are you guys doing? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:28:46 PM] Rob** Did you insult his mother, too? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:28:58 PM] Rob** Try to capture it. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:29:07 PM] Random** woo --- **[4/11/2026, 4:29:13 PM] Rob** Risky Standard? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:29:17 PM] Crow** Attune Risky | Standard Success You do it. 6 5 2d6 = 11 = 11 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:29:19 PM] Debinani** Okay. Uh, whoever, whichever one of you has got the lightning hook out, go ahead and, make a, make an attune roll. Uh, yeah. Yep. See you're doing pretty good with the ghosts. Um, okay. Um, so, uh, so the ghost comes, the ghost is like "Hungry!" comes rushing towards you and, uh, again, uh, Crow with the hook, he pulls out his lightning hook, 'whack!', uh, snatches it, um, and Boo, go ahead and make an attune roll to, uh, uh, to get him bottled. Uh, this is, we'll call it controlled standard. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:29:21 PM] Kristian** remember that time you went on your first date and you came in your pants the minute your date touched you? IT WAS ME LANNY --- **[4/11/2026, 4:29:30 PM] Michelle** Oh thank goodness --- **[4/11/2026, 4:29:37 PM] Boo** Attune 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. 1 4 2d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:30:18 PM] Debinani** Uh, good enough. So, you, you bring the bottle up and you hook it up to the, uh, um, you hook it up to the, the lead, and Lancaster's ghost gets sucked into, uh, gets sucked into the bottle. Um, however, I will say that, um, the, the act damaged his ethereal form somewhat and, uh, he's not gonna have much of any memory left. But, he's in the bottle. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:30:23 PM] Boo** Boo sighs and seals the bottle --- **[4/11/2026, 4:30:39 PM] Cam** Cam Cam immediately starts down the ladder --- **[4/11/2026, 4:30:47 PM] Freakshow** Shame we don't know if he was that batshit before he died. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:30:49 PM] Boo** Boo will go check the lab area while the others descent. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:30:50 PM] Crow** You have a way with words, Freakshow. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:30:55 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon climbs down as well. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:05 PM] Eidolon** He mentioned an antidote. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:06 PM] Boo** Boo will pocket something small. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:09 PM] Debinani** I mean the ghost didn't draw all that shit on the wall. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:12 PM] Cam** I wonder how much the inspector has to lead to this place. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:16 PM] Eidolon** It's gotta be around here somewhere. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:21 PM] Freakshow** He said some of the ones he targetted got the antidote --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:27 PM] Watcher** He also called it poison.... intentionally --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:28 PM] Cam** Ah well. Be careful what you touch, but spread out and see what we can find. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:34 PM] Eidolon** Alright. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:46 PM] Michelle** eh, Boo behaved last time --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:48 PM] Watcher** so he knew it was meant to harm.. something --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:48 PM] Veth** Boo pockets Lancaster's severed penis. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:50 PM] Freakshow** so I guess we got two things out of this...everyone he targetted, dead or alive, was part of this ring group conspiracy team, and there's an antitode. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:31:50 PM] Debinani** I love it. Boo will pocket something small. "Be careful what you touch." So, um, the lab equipment's pretty extensive. It's designed to, um, you know make, uh, pretty advanced, um, pretty advanced stuff. Um, um, if you guys are, are looking around, I assume people are looking to see, um, uh, you attune to the ghost field and it's basically just the runes. Um, oh yeah, so the, um, um, um, the protection runes are, or the invisibility runes are, are everywhere. Um, and, uh, it looks like this was a ritual space. Um, you, you see it in the ghost field, you don't see it normally. It looks like this was a ritual space at some point in the past. Um, and that's sort of where the, that's sort of where the, forming spirit well is, is kind of happening. A combination of the very, very powerful, um, hiding runes and whatever somebody used to do here, um, as a, as a ritual space. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:32:02 PM] Rob** Crow will attune to the ghost field and see what's here that we can't normally see. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:32:07 PM] Nyx** Nyx finishes her notes --- **[4/11/2026, 4:32:21 PM] Random** is there a convenient: "list of my enemies" book? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:32:23 PM] Watcher** Yes, but did he get them all? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:32:23 PM] Cam** Nyx, make a list of anything you'd really, really like to keep. If we can get it out of here, we'll do our best. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:32:27 PM] Kristian** I don't know crap about this so I'm just gonna look for valuables lol --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:03 PM] Rob** Can it be... dispersed or whatever? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:10 PM] Nyx** Nyx studies the lab --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:25 PM] Rob** Which means we still need to get past the ghosts to get out. Bleh. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:26 PM] Debinani** Uh, yes, but it would be a, it would be a project. You could absolutely, uh, you could absolutely do it, but it would be a project. Uh, Nix, make a study or a tinker roll, I'm fine with either. Okay. So Nix is actually, you know, looking over the equipment. What's everybody else doing? Just looking for anything useful? Useful or valuable. Uh, anybody who cares to can make a survey roll, or if you guys want to you could do a group survey roll. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:32 PM] Nyx** 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. 1 4 2d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:33 PM] Random** checking the papers --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:43 PM] Michelle** We can try to cobble together a bridge off the roof --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:47 PM] Kristian** pillage --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:48 PM] Veth** or valuable. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:56 PM] Cam** Cam studies the conspiracy board --- **[4/11/2026, 4:33:59 PM] Watcher** Watcher carefully looks around --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:04 PM] Random** controled, risky? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:06 PM] Rob** We should look for his notes that might contain the formula and/or antidote. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:12 PM] Michelle** We have enough stress for that? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:20 PM] Boo** Survey Controlled | Standard | 0d Failure You falter. Press on by seizing a risky opportunity, or withdraw and try a different approach. 2 6 2d6 = 8 = 8 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:21 PM] Kristian** controlled , since no one aroun dand we are guarded by ghosts? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:35 PM] Freakshow** Survey Controlled | Standard | 0d Failure You falter. Press on by seizing a risky opportunity, or withdraw and try a different approach. 3 3 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:40 PM] Watcher** Survey Controlled | Standard Success You do it. 6 4 2d6 = 10 = 10 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:41 PM] Crow** Survey Risky | Standard Success You do it. 6 1d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:43 PM] Debinani** Uh, yeah, I mean, so it would be, yeah, controlled, controlled standard, I suppose. Like I said, or you guys could do a group, you could do a group survey roll, or not. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:48 PM] Eidolon** Survey Controlled | Standard Failure You falter. Press on by seizing a risky opportunity, or withdraw and try a different approach. 3 1d6 = 3 = 3 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:49 PM] Cam** Survey Controlled | Standard Failure You falter. Press on by seizing a risky opportunity, or withdraw and try a different approach. 1 1d6 = 1 = 1 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:56 PM] Veth** I need to stop rolling. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:34:59 PM] Michelle** oh for... --- **[4/11/2026, 4:35:00 PM] Kristian** I should have stayed at the opium den today --- **[4/11/2026, 4:35:02 PM] Rob** The Whispers are on fire today. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:35:10 PM] Michelle** Cam got the roof. That's it --- **[4/11/2026, 4:35:22 PM] Debinani** Okay. So let's see who actually succeeded. Crow, Watcher. Okay. Um, yeah, exactly. Um, okay. So, you know, failure's more interesting, right? If you all were just successful at everything all the time, how would that be fun? Um, okay. So Crow, Watcher, uh, you do find, uh, there are some very neatly handwritten notes, uh, in a, uh, a desk. Again, they all appear to be in the same code or alternate language that the stuff on the wall is, but it looks, I mean these more than anything look like research notes more than, you know, mad scribblings of somebody. So it's, it's very possible you found like, you know, and there are, there are like chemistry symbols on, on the page. So you've got, you've got something that looks like it could be a, um, a recipe or a, um, um, or a, or a compound or whatever. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:35:27 PM] Veth** Eidolon found... that we were in a carriage house. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:36:14 PM] Jason G** seems right up Watcher's alley --- **[4/11/2026, 4:36:38 PM] Debinani** Nix, after studying the equipment, you're pretty sure you could, um, uh, it's all incredibly clean, well, as clean as it can be, um, but you're pretty sure that you could, if you knew the... there are, there are gonna be four ingredients. You're pretty sure that you could reproduce it because now that you've seen, you've kind of observed just by the setup kind of what his process is, you could probably, uh, um, you could probably reproduce it. Between that and the, um, the notes, you know, you also, somebody could probably do a project, a, a downtime project to decipher all this stuff and you, you probably have the, uh, um, you probably have the recipe for either the poison, the antidote, or both in your hands. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:36:45 PM] Jason G** well, not the chemistry bit, but the code/cipher stuff --- **[4/11/2026, 4:37:00 PM] Rob** He has a doctorate. it's not code, it's just really incomprehensible writing. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:37:21 PM] Nyx** I can make it, with time. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:37:32 PM] Jason G** fair point, its his grocery list --- **[4/11/2026, 4:37:33 PM] Michelle** watcher does the sketches, doesn't he? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:37:37 PM] Rob** Is Crow the only one that gets a cold chill down his spine when Nyx says that? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:00 PM] Nyx** Take the lab equipment. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:07 PM] Jason G** I do it out of personal recordkeeping habit, but he is happy to assist --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:09 PM] Cam** Anything we can carry safely, sure. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:16 PM] Boo** ogregano would taste better. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:17 PM] Veth** eidolon's roll was so bad, he cannot find the lab equipment. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:18 PM] Cam** Might be more than one trip here, and we have to get out first. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:19 PM] Nyx** Nyx nods --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:37 PM] Cam** Watcher, can you sketch out this board in as much detail as you can? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:44 PM] Cam** Nyx has notes, but the layout will help. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:47 PM] Debinani** Oh, yeah, good point. Um, so yes, you actually find, um, you find the, uh, uh, Columwort and you find about five other, uh, um, various alchemical ingredients that I'm not going to choose to name. Um, so you're, you're pretty sure these are the ingredients that he used for one or both of the, uh, recipes. He didn't have much left, but he had a little bit. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:38:50 PM] Watcher** Watcher looks at it and nods --- **[4/11/2026, 4:39:11 PM] Nyx** I sketched the board. I have what I need. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:39:19 PM] Watcher** Watcher records the board and its connections in fine detail --- **[4/11/2026, 4:39:25 PM] Cam** A second isn't a bad idea --- **[4/11/2026, 4:39:31 PM] Debinani** Um, if you, um, if you, um, if you want to haul the lab equipment out of here, um, um, basically I'll say that you guys get, um, uh, um, oh what's it called? You guys get a bonus to, um... it's very nice lab equipment. Let's just say it's tier 3 lab equipment, so it would, it would help rolls for chemistry-ish stuff. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:39:47 PM] Nyx** Of course. I'm sure he'll ad more detail. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:39:54 PM] Michelle** What materials are available to make a means out of here? There's a desk. Anything else easily breakable without damaging equipment? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:40:11 PM] Crow** Cam, should we leave that... *gestures to the conspiracy board* as is or should we wipe it out? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:40:16 PM] Watcher** Watcher glances at the corpse.. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:40:19 PM] Watcher** We'll need proof --- **[4/11/2026, 4:40:21 PM] Debinani** Um, yeah, building a bridge from the roof of this thing over to the wall? I guess you could start pulling down timbers or something. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:40:36 PM] Cam** Bring it with us. we can reconstruct it with the sketches. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:40:44 PM] Random** there's no evidence of a tunnel out of here? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:40:47 PM] Crow** Crow nods --- **[4/11/2026, 4:40:57 PM] Cam** As for proof, anyone feel like removing a head off that body? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:04 PM] Eidolon** So... what's luring the ghosts in here anyway? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:04 PM] Rob** Once Watcher has sketched it to his satisfaction, Crow will take down the board. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:12 PM] Eidolon** Anyone? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:15 PM] Kristian** can we strip it down to essen tials? Like we don't need like...glass beakers +3 --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:19 PM] Nyx** I can, if someone cuts him down. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:21 PM] Debinani** Yeah, I mean you could, you could bring the head to, uh, to Locket. Um, no evidence of a tunnel, however, um, you could use your ghost echoes to go through any of the boarded-up, um, windows or doors or anything like that. That's a kind of an easy, an easy play. You know, you'd be walking out onto the, yeah, out to the ghosts, yes. But, um, uh, no, no, no tunnels. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:28 PM] Michelle** Out to the ghosts? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:31 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow takes out a knife --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:32 PM] Nyx** Nyx rummages to find tools --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:40 PM] Watcher** Watcher looks at the floor... any way down? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:46 PM] Eidolon** Guys? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:41:48 PM] Freakshow** Right stinky bastard --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:04 PM] Eidolon** What's luring those ghosts? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:10 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow cuts rope and drops Lancaster's corpse to the ground like a sack of wet cement --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:13 PM] Veth** ohh ok --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:15 PM] Michelle** Cam will try to break down the desk or anything else wooden that might work for a bridge out of here. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:17 PM] Crow** A combination of the wards and ritual magic, I think. It'll take a while to undo it and disperse the spirit well. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:17 PM] Boo** not easily. or fast --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:20 PM] Watcher** Was his spirit attracting the ghosts? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:25 PM] Debinani** The, uh, old ritual space that was here is luring the ghosts in. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:29 PM] Veth** can we destroy it? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:36 PM] Nyx** Nyx proceeds to saw his Lancaster's head off. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:41 PM] Eidolon** Damn. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:43 PM] Rob** It's a Project, so it'll take multiple successes over time. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:42:58 PM] Rob** Do ghosts tend to leave at dawn? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:43:06 PM] Random** it's a project then. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:43:09 PM] Debinani** I will say, if you guys choose to do that, um, choose to, um, let's call it cleanse the space. Um, I will let this carriage house be, um, count as the covert drops turf, um, for your crew, because it's so hidden, nobody can really find it. So it's a great place to, uh, it's a great place to, um, manage drops and pickups. So, um, so if you do the, if you do the project, it'll count as turf. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:43:21 PM] Veth** we should do that. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:43:22 PM] Kristian** but also they are onto him. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:43:43 PM] Michelle** Go for it. Worst case, we lose it if the inspectors find it --- **[4/11/2026, 4:43:52 PM] Kristian** let's restore it to a vintage carriage house and AirBnB and go legit and retire. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:43:53 PM] Jason G** so, reuse the space, or nuke it from orbit? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:43:55 PM] Nyx** This is coming away nicely...good bones (mumbles to herself) --- **[4/11/2026, 4:43:55 PM] Debinani** Okay, so Nix is sawing Lancaster's head off. All right. Um, so that's pleasant. A sickening crunch as she saws through a, vertebrae. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:44:04 PM] Crow** Crow gives Cam a bland look --- **[4/11/2026, 4:44:19 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon watches Nyx, then stops when he feels his stress rising. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:44:25 PM] Michelle** What did Cam do? lol --- **[4/11/2026, 4:44:26 PM] Boo** Boo goes up to the roof and sees if the ghosts have muliltplied or are drifting off --- **[4/11/2026, 4:44:27 PM] Freakshow** Eh, don't enjoy that too much there. Someone might hear your moans and stuff you in a bottle. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:45:00 PM] Random** a clear line to the gate? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:45:11 PM] Debinani** Uh, the ghosts have not multiplied. Uh, um, uh, they have kind of drifted off. They're not together in a group anymore. They're just kind of wandering the yard, um, uh, you know, between the, the manor and the carriage house and the walls. I mean you guys could probably just make a break for it. You know, these ghosts didn't wouldn't go past the walls. Uh, you could probably just make a break for the gates and, uh... Oh yeah, the manor's abandoned. I mean, the there's probably some squatters living in there or something maybe, but it's, it, it's definitely abandoned. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:45:25 PM] Eidolon** We might be able to sneak out.. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:45:29 PM] Jason G** that manor is abandoned too? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:45:32 PM] Boo** Boo goes back down. we might have a good chance of just running out. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:45:33 PM] Rob** And we all have spiritbane charms. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:45:51 PM] Michelle** How loaded down are we with lab equipment? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:45:56 PM] Jason G** abandoned sounds very much like, "open for occupancy" to me... --- **[4/11/2026, 4:45:56 PM] Debinani** Yeah, and you do have, you have spirit bane charms. I mean there's a lot you could do to just, like, hoof it, um, to the gate. Uh, um, not hugely. I'm you're not, you're not taking anything else with you. There's, there's not, there's nothing of particularly, there's nothing like easily fenceable here. I mean you could theoretically sell the lab equipment for some coin but, um, but um, you're not terribly loaded down. And since you're only taking his head, that, that, you're not loaded down a whole lot. I mean to take all the lab equipment out of here, you're, you're all loaded down, I mean you're done, but not like, it's not crazy. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:46:05 PM] Boo** we can come back for the equipement later --- **[4/11/2026, 4:46:24 PM] Michelle** So take the notes, the contents of the board, the head, and any portable equipment we can carry --- **[4/11/2026, 4:46:25 PM] Rob** We could've just given them his ghost. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:46:32 PM] Nyx** Nyx grabs his head by the hair and holds it up --- **[4/11/2026, 4:46:38 PM] Watcher** If these wards remain... will they stay.. potent? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:46:41 PM] Michelle** Yeah, we can come back for more gear later --- **[4/11/2026, 4:46:47 PM] Nyx** Nyx dangles it in front of Cam --- **[4/11/2026, 4:46:53 PM] Crow** Crow quietly hands Nyx a bag --- **[4/11/2026, 4:47:00 PM] Boo** this place a a serious "nothing to see here, move along" shield. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:47:08 PM] Debinani** Yeah, as far as you can tell the wards are, the wards are pretty badass. They're, um, um, somebody was doing something hardcore here in the past and, I mean the wards are, the wards are fantastic. They'll probably be there as long as the, as long as the walls hold up. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:47:11 PM] Watcher** good safehouse... --- **[4/11/2026, 4:47:24 PM] Nyx** Nyx shoves the head into the ba and hands it to Cam. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:47:28 PM] Freakshow** Long as Lanny there was not right about people being onto him. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:47:33 PM] Rob** Whose territory are we in right now? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:47:41 PM] Cam** If you can figure out how to make it less... ghostly, then yeah, we should keep this place. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:47:56 PM] Debinani** Uh, good question. Um, you're surely in somebody's territory but you're, you're not very familiar with Six Towers. So you're, you're not sure which gang holds, uh, you know holds sway here. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:48:01 PM] Watcher** If he was, this place may have been kept quiet --- **[4/11/2026, 4:48:20 PM] Cam** We'll need to dispose of the body eventually, but not a problem for today. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:48:44 PM] Random** I do. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:48:45 PM] Watcher** We could check city records, maybe adversely possess the manor, or buy it off the bank cheap? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:48:58 PM] Debinani** I mean if, if Boo and, if Boo and Crow still have, enough pulls for, uh, electroplasm vials, you could probably just melt the body in a, tub. Sort of a gateway version of what the spirit wardens do. Nix makes sure to saw, saw off the fingers before you do it for some reason. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:01 PM] Freakshow** Surely there's a shovel about somewhere. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:05 PM] Michelle** If we have the means, go for it --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:11 PM] Nyx** Nyx walks over the the corpse and saws off the fingers, slipping them into her bag. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:15 PM] Rob** Yup, Crow can supply electroplasm. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:20 PM] Michelle** lol --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:31 PM] Kristian** did we see Nyx taking sourveniers? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:39 PM] Watcher** Watcher wrinkles his nose at the corpse work --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:39 PM] Freakshow** Saving that for later girl? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:44 PM] Freakshow** Twisted. I like it. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:45 PM] Michelle** More things to be OCD organized! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:49:51 PM] Nyx** Nyx nods, preoccupied --- **[4/11/2026, 4:50:10 PM] Debinani** Okay. So, uh, uh, you guys dump the body in a big copper drum that he looks like, looks like he had, you know, mass mixed something in and pour electroplasm over it and it starts melting the body down. It doesn't smell great, um, but it'll, it'll, um, it'll probably chew through the whole body. So that's, that's all very pleasant. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:50:21 PM] Cam** Ok, round up everything we can carry. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:50:39 PM] Watcher** both --- **[4/11/2026, 4:50:42 PM] Michelle** We copied it BUT we want to take it with us --- **[4/11/2026, 4:50:45 PM] Debinani** Okay. Um, did you actually take all the stuff down from the wall or you, did you just copy it down and leave it up on the wall? Okay, so you actually, you actually, um, pulled everything down so there's no quote-unquote evidence left on the wall. Got it. Okay. So you've got all of his mad scribbles, uh, you've got his chemistry notes, you've got quite a bit of lab equipment, you've got a head, uh, and Nix apparently has some of his fingers. Uh, she probably took all of them. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:50:48 PM] Rob** Yes. Crow collected it after Watcher gave him the okay. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:50:49 PM] Michelle** Yes --- **[4/11/2026, 4:51:05 PM] Boo** Boo will double check the area to make sure no papers slipped away unnoticed. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:51:18 PM] Jason G** which fingers, and how many --- **[4/11/2026, 4:51:25 PM] Rob** That sounds about right. Taking inventory for when we walk right into a patrol of bluecoats? :P --- **[4/11/2026, 4:51:28 PM] Jen** all of them --- **[4/11/2026, 4:51:42 PM] Cam** Someone check on those ghosts again. If we can slip out, we'll try. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:51:50 PM] Jason G** nods... perfectly understandable and normal --- **[4/11/2026, 4:51:51 PM] Debinani** Yes, I'm, that's exactly what I'm doing. Uh, I'm checking to see, I'm checking to see what they find when you get searched. Um, okay. Uh, you, uh, uh, you, I don't know if your prism vault's big enough to take a whole head. Uh, um, you, you take a glance out the door and the ghosts are, um, there's not a ghost immediately there. You guys could probably just haul ass and make it to the gates. Okay. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:51:52 PM] Kristian** will they check the prison wallet... --- **[4/11/2026, 4:51:58 PM] Cam** Everyone get out your charms if you have them. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:52:05 PM] Kristian** I did work at the cirucs. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:52:18 PM] Michelle** Let's bail --- **[4/11/2026, 4:52:22 PM] Kristian** OOH YOU SHOULD LET ME ROLL FOR THAT --- **[4/11/2026, 4:52:29 PM] Veth** OH GOD NO --- **[4/11/2026, 4:52:37 PM] Debinani** So, the lot of you and the... oh no, I'm not going to make you roll, I'm just, that would be too much. Um, all of you and your little dog Toto, um, um, make it out, back out to the street, um, and uh, um, the... you don't get eaten by ghosts. Um, you make your way through the underground and back and across the canal and, uh, yeah no kidding the dog, Mutt was probably like "Fuck it, I ain't going in there. I'm just going to sit out here." He's just waiting, he's just waiting at the gates. Um, and, uh, um, you make it back to your lair with, um, without any sort of, any sort of additional complications. Um, and, uh, next time we will talk to Locket and we'll, see what we, see what we see. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:52:44 PM] Rob** I figured the dog was smart and stayed outside of the grounds. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:52:50 PM] Random** just glad that once the head left the wards the bell didn't go off. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:53:17 PM] Michelle** Rough start, but great haul! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:53:39 PM] Debinani** So that's where we will end for today. Let's talk about experience. Everybody can make their case. Um, I am going to grant the crew four experience points and that will unlock, um, an upgrade or ability. Basically it's either one new ability or two upgrades. So you all can discuss that, uh, offline. Um, so Eidolon, um, you addressed a challenge with stealth. Um, um, there's at least that. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:53:41 PM] Kristian** I was hot garbage today so I get -10 xp --- **[4/11/2026, 4:53:46 PM] Veth** I have no idea if I deserve XP --- **[4/11/2026, 4:53:49 PM] Watcher** Watcher starts a project to decipher the notes --- **[4/11/2026, 4:53:52 PM] Cam** Surveyed us into the building --- **[4/11/2026, 4:53:54 PM] Veth** I was terrible --- **[4/11/2026, 4:53:55 PM] Random** addressed challenges of the ghosts by trapping 2. and kleptoed. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:53:58 PM] Rob** I'm going to recommend quarters so everyone has a secure place to sleep. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:54:00 PM] Kristian** anything I tried to do was a bumbling mess. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:54:07 PM] Veth** oh, yeah I guess so --- **[4/11/2026, 4:54:11 PM] Veth** so prowess? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:54:22 PM] Michelle** Boo and Crow took down ghosts --- **[4/11/2026, 4:54:31 PM] Rob** Woo! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:54:33 PM] Jason G** was it stealth to go back for the others and not rush in? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:54:34 PM] Debinani** Okay, I think, I think Nix has a case for two XP. Um, Boo and Crow, I think you both have an, a case for two XP. Um, sure, Watcher, I've got, you've got a case for an experience point. Um, Cam, you've got a case for an experience point. Um, you address, you addressed a challenge with tracking. So yeah, I mean I think everybody gets one, um, Boo, Nix and, uh, Crow get two. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:55:00 PM] Michelle** yep --- **[4/11/2026, 4:55:30 PM] Rob** Is the one Crow got for the Desperate roll one of the two or is it in addition to them? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:55:32 PM] Debinani** And then like I said, the crew has leveled up, so, well not leveled up, the crew has got enough XP to buy either a new ability or two new, upgrades. And remember that could be cohorts, right? So if you guys want, um, if you guys want henchmen, um, that would be a, that would be a use for that as well. Uh, the one for the desperate rolls in addition. So if you made a desperate roll you get that XP right then and there. But you don't get to pick where you put it. If you make a desperate roll the XP goes in the, attribute that you made the desperate roll under. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:55:41 PM] Kristian** can we buy someone that can roll like..not shitty? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:55:55 PM] Rob** Thought so, but wanted to make sure. I didn't want to cheat. Yet. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:56:15 PM] Rob** Should be good for me. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:56:21 PM] Michelle** Should be ok --- **[4/11/2026, 4:56:23 PM] Debinani** Okay, two weeks puts us at the 25th. Uh, no, any of the XP you get at the end of the session, they can go to, um, they can go to any the three attributes or the thing. The only, the only, the only XP that, um, the only XP that goes that, that you don't get a choice on is when you roll a desperate roll. Everything else you get to pick where the XP goes. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:56:29 PM] Eidolon** Sounds good --- **[4/11/2026, 4:56:30 PM] Jason G** same for the "address a challenge with xyz" xp? they go to that stat group? --- **[4/11/2026, 4:56:32 PM] Kristian** 25th have a hard stop at like 3pm cST but ok --- **[4/11/2026, 4:56:38 PM] Michelle** no more vaccines for you before then. :P --- **[4/11/2026, 4:57:11 PM] Kristian** thx deb! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:57:15 PM] Eidolon** Thanks deb! :) --- **[4/11/2026, 4:57:20 PM] Debinani** Okay, so everybody's got their XP, got new thing on the calendar. All right. That's that. Um, feel free to open the discussion in Discord about, uh, what upgrades you want. And, uh, we will, uh, see you in a couple weeks. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:57:21 PM] Watcher** Thanks, Deb! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:57:22 PM] Rob** Yup. Thanks, Deb. --- **[4/11/2026, 4:57:23 PM] Cam** thanks Deb! --- **[4/11/2026, 4:57:23 PM] Eidolon** Later all! ---