**[5/9/2026, 2:33:25 PM] Freakshow** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 2 2 3 5 2 5d6 = 14 = 14 --- **[5/9/2026, 2:37:46 PM] Kristian** kinda-ish is pretty good! --- **[5/9/2026, 2:37:48 PM] Michelle** ish --- **[5/9/2026, 2:37:49 PM] Random** mwh --- **[5/9/2026, 2:37:53 PM] Random** meh --- **[5/9/2026, 2:38:19 PM] Michelle** They're all trying to avoid in-game death. :P --- **[5/9/2026, 2:39:06 PM] Random** I'm not entirelly comfy with this few active players --- **[5/9/2026, 2:40:01 PM] Kristian** sometimes a life of crime makes you uncomfortable! --- **[5/9/2026, 2:40:05 PM] Debinani** lol --- **[5/9/2026, 2:40:05 PM] Random** that said, afk a few moment to get some pickles for my bbq sammich --- **[5/9/2026, 2:40:25 PM] Debinani** Your fellow scoundrels all have better things to get up to. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:40:33 PM] Kristian** Drugs. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:40:36 PM] Kristian** hookers --- **[5/9/2026, 2:40:41 PM] Kristian** communing with dead --- **[5/9/2026, 2:40:47 PM] Kristian** communing with dead druggie hookers --- **[5/9/2026, 2:41:12 PM] Michelle** hooking with dead druggie communers --- **[5/9/2026, 2:41:57 PM] Rob** Yup --- **[5/9/2026, 2:41:59 PM] Michelle** yep --- **[5/9/2026, 2:42:01 PM] Kristian** yarp --- **[5/9/2026, 2:42:15 PM] debinani** There. Okay. So, uh, if I remember correctly, you all had decided you were going to go to the Alchemist ward, figure out how to get a hold of uh, uh, Aldrich Venn, and um, make a deal, try to uh, try to take his position of weakness and uh, and see if he's willing to make a deal. Uh, so you all got together and it is New Year's Day, probably maybe 1 in the morning. Uh, um, you all got together and marched across the the district. And the moment you had crossed the canal, um, you started getting shot at. And you used your ghost echoes to pop into a building, get into an underground tunnel, uh, move a couple of blocks to a different bridge across the river, pop up, peek your head out, and you have seen that there are a group of um, three or four, um, reclaimer circle folks guarding this particular bridge across the river. Let me find our score. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:42:49 PM] Michelle** We TRIED to be nice --- **[5/9/2026, 2:43:42 PM] Rob** We certainly learned our lesson about that. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:43:43 PM] Michelle** We need to invest in a canal boat to avoid using bridges. :P --- **[5/9/2026, 2:43:48 PM] Random** *rudely* started getting shot at. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:43:57 PM] debinani** Yeah, so you have popped out somewhere around Wormwood Lane and you're peeking around the corner at the Wormwood bridge and there are folks um, uh, watching it. And so I think that's pretty much caught up. Um, uh, and so here you are. Like I said about 1 in the morning, New Year's Day. Uh, the revelers are starting to break up. There's still a um, uh, this is a quieter part of town, so there's there's some folks on the street, but not many. Um, especially not that a whole ton of gunfire went off like a couple of uh, um, couple of blocks away. Uh, yeah, and there are three folks on your side of the bridge. Cam, you recognize one of them one of them is a a regular from the uh, from the alley fight. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:44:38 PM] Michelle** 3 guys on our side of the bridge, and Cam recognized one from our alley fight --- **[5/9/2026, 2:45:17 PM] Cam** *quietly* This just keeps getting better and better. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:45:28 PM] debinani** You do take a moment look around and there is a there is a marked absence of uh, uh bluecoats. I mean, it's a it's a celebration night, but I mean, there's a marked absence of bluecoats, especially on these main thoroughfares. Uh, you don't know the gunfire has stopped. Uh, they they they got a pretty good shot of you, not shot, they got a pretty good sight of you leaping mysteriously through a brick wall. So uh, um, you know, they probably think you're in the building or you know, they they believe you're in the process of escaping them at least. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:45:37 PM] Cam** Cam scrubs a hand over her face --- **[5/9/2026, 2:45:40 PM] Rob** Do we have any pursuers or do they think we're still in the building? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:45:49 PM] Crow** Happy New Year? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:46:30 PM] Crow** *quietly* Maybe we can make it to one of the other bridges unseen. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:46:58 PM] Boo** *quietly* no way they were waiting in ambush. were they coming to do a hit on us? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:47:19 PM] Cam** Probably just protecting themselves after all the recent hits. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:47:51 PM] Cam** And we'd have to go pretty far east to get to a bridge outside their territory. Might work though. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:47:54 PM] debinani** Yeah, I mean you could go um, you could go a couple blocks away. There's a bridge over to Crow's Foot. Yeah, you guys are are um, here I'll just I'll just put a little dot on the map or I'll just, you guys are about right there, Wormwood Lane. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:48:08 PM] Boo** maybe. stilll stinks to me. but you might be right. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:48:14 PM] Rob** We're at the Wormwood Bridge, you said? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:48:28 PM] Michelle** Let's do that. use the tunnels to leave their territory. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:48:31 PM] debinani** So you guys are, you know, kind of half watching the the guys watching the guard the bridge and half uh, um, you know, trying to figure out what to do. And uh, one of the guys on the bridge uh, starts a little bit, I mean kind of like um, you know, jerks as if he's surprised and like pats his pockets and and uh, uh, pulls out uh, you can't you can't really see what he pulls out from here. It's dark. Um, I mean there's there's uh, Charter Hall's got really good electroplasm lamps kind of up and down the main thoroughfares, but it's dark and you guys are, you know, you're still a little bit away. Um, and he looks at whatever is in his palm, and the two other guys who are with him look at whatever is in his palm. And then uh, the guy holding the thing actually turns and looks straight at you. And points and says something. And uh, um, uh, one of them one of them yells um, um, to people you can't see but they're further east um, uh, on the canal. And um, and then um, they start coming your way but very, very slowly because I think they understand you're they're outnumbered. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:49:20 PM] Rob** For a moment I thought you were going to tell us that Boo managed to somehow take something from him from way over here. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:49:31 PM] Eidolon** What the hell? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:49:40 PM] Cam** Damn it. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:49:47 PM] Crow** *mutters 'fuck' under his breath* --- **[5/9/2026, 2:49:54 PM] Freakshow** Made us. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:49:56 PM] Nyx** huh. I wonder what that was. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:50:05 PM] Nyx** I'd like it. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:50:12 PM] Rob** Clearly the solution IS "Leoroy Jenkins" --- **[5/9/2026, 2:50:21 PM] Cam** Yeah, well maybe another time. Let's get back underground and haul ass out of here. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:50:23 PM] Boo** we need to get that. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:50:31 PM] Cam** They can't tail us all the way home. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:50:32 PM] debinani** Well, I mean you can't get home underground, um, you know, because this this part of Charter Hall is cut off from you know, rivers and whatnot. At some point you've got to cross the water. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:50:33 PM] Nyx** Nyx shrugs --- **[5/9/2026, 2:50:42 PM] Rob** We have to cross a bridge. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:51:04 PM] Rob** So... what happens to people who try to swim? I'm not sure if you mentioned that. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:51:08 PM] debinani** I mean, you can you could swim. I mean, especially in this part of Charter Hall, I mean, you you probably won't be poisoned or eaten by much of anything swimming across the canal. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:51:12 PM] Michelle** No, but we know we can get to other territories from here --- **[5/9/2026, 2:52:06 PM] Michelle** Let's try to get to Glasskey territory --- **[5/9/2026, 2:52:09 PM] Crow** Right... --- **[5/9/2026, 2:52:30 PM] debinani** Yeah, you could go you could go east, um, which would be kind of back the way the shooters were. But um, uh, but yeah. I don't know, someone's just itching to throw a ghost at somebody. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:52:32 PM] Rob** Is that East? West? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:52:46 PM] Rob** They were a bit south, too, weren't they? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:52:50 PM] Michelle** Besides, if we have to set a ghost loose on these bastards, I'd rather do it underground. lol --- **[5/9/2026, 2:53:08 PM] debinani** Okay, so you guys want to head back to like the storm drain you just crawled out of? Okay, um. So you all uh, kind of high-tail it back uh, up you know, east on Wormwood Lane there and uh, the guys who were the guys who were on the bridge come around the corner behind you and another group of about four or five guys come around the corner in front of you. And uh, you guys are at the at the manhole, but they all see you and they start coming at you. Um, are you going to like try to hold your ground, are you all just going to high-tail it um, I mean you can y'all can get underground before they get to you, but they see what you're doing, they see where you're going. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:53:18 PM] Michelle** Yeah. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:53:52 PM] Rob** I feel like I'm in a JRPG cutscene. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:54:10 PM] Kristian** we should split up! what could go wrong --- **[5/9/2026, 2:54:15 PM] Michelle** That's fine. They have to come at us slower through the same entry. :P --- **[5/9/2026, 2:54:28 PM] Rob** We throw Freakshow at them as a sacrifice and run away. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:54:30 PM] debinani** I mean, yeah, I mean and then hopefully they wouldn't be so dumb as to like stick their head down a manhole that you all just climbed down. But you never know. Um, okay. So you all uh, you you essentially throw up a manhole cover and everybody drops down into uh, a uh, uh, a storm drain. No, that's probably a little too unusual. Um, um, you the you drop down into the storm drain. Um, it it hasn't rained a whole lot, so there's only a trickle of water kind of running down it. Uh, and um, you pull the manhole cover in behind you and you're underground. You have probably probably maybe thirty seconds before the the guys get to the manhole. Now, whether they like throw up in the cover or whatever is another story. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:54:54 PM] Kristian** can I tick off "an unusual weapon" and choose minigun? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:54:55 PM] Nyx** If they have a location device will they find the hideout? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:54:56 PM] Cam** As soon as you get down there, run like hell. Nyx, if they follow, toss something their way to slow them down. NOT to kill them though! --- **[5/9/2026, 2:55:31 PM] debinani** Okay, so everybody's going to go down, you're going to have Nyx drop something noxious and y'all are just going to bolt in one direction or another. Okay, so uh, Nyx, what are you uh, what are you um, what are you tossing to slow them down but not kill them? If you are indeed following instructions. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:55:50 PM] Michelle** Heading east as best we can --- **[5/9/2026, 2:55:56 PM] Kristian** fleeing is a valid strategem --- **[5/9/2026, 2:56:13 PM] Nyx** Nyx rummages through her bag and grabs a tear gas vial. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:56:17 PM] Michelle** Trying not to cause any more bodies. :P That was the whole point of going over there. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:56:20 PM] debinani** Okay, you have a uh, you know, essentially a uh, a vial of uh, of uh, let's just call it tear gas for lack of a better word. And um, and you throw the vial down, it fills the the tunnel uh, underneath the manhole cover with um, um, uh, um, tear gas and you all head eastward trying to make your way into Glasskey territory. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:56:43 PM] Rob** I mean, they don't seem to mind causing more bodies. Unless they've learned how to 'shoot to stun'. :P --- **[5/9/2026, 2:57:01 PM] Michelle** yes --- **[5/9/2026, 2:57:01 PM] debinani** Okay, um. Uh, all right. So what we're going to do next is I'm going to want a prowl roll. And you can do it as a group if you want. Um, uh, and the idea here is that you are attempting to escape a group of people in in a territory you know very well, right? You know the tunnels very, very well. But you're trying to escape a group of people who actually know precisely where you are. So we're going to make a contested roll between that group of well, we're going to make a roll, you're going to make a roll, uh to see how well you prowl versus how well they hunt. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:58:13 PM] debinani** I assume you guys want to do a group roll and not and not try to do this individually. Well, I don't know, I mean those guys pulled something right out of their pocket, looked at it, and then looked straight at you. So I mean it's a pretty good guess that somebody's got somebody's got some some juju on you. Maybe, I mean maybe they're just looking at a photo and go oh, well no, there they are. Um, okay, so Boo's going to lead Boo's going to lead a group roll. Uh, everybody who wants to contribute to the roll, actually I think everybody has to. Everybody roll prowl. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:58:24 PM] Rob** Know exactly where we are as in "they saw us go down into the sewers" or as in "they can track us through mystic mumbo jumbo"? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:58:32 PM] Random** I can take the stress if we want to a group --- **[5/9/2026, 2:58:34 PM] Michelle** Yeah. I have 3 stress right now --- **[5/9/2026, 2:58:40 PM] Kristian** does anyone have any reasonable level of prowl? lol --- **[5/9/2026, 2:58:45 PM] Michelle** I have a 1 in prowl --- **[5/9/2026, 2:58:51 PM] Kristian** it was a street charicature --- **[5/9/2026, 2:58:59 PM] Rob** Yeah, that's what I figured. And our lair is supposedly hidden, so we can't go back until we figure this out. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:02 PM] Kristian** that's them, with the gigantic noses and big teeth1 --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:12 PM] debinani** Um, just let's just call it let's call it uh, uh, good question. Let's call it, screw it. It's desperate and standard. And because it's desperate, uh you will all get an experience point regardless of if you succeed or not. But the experience point has to go into um, must go into uh, uh prowess. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:14 PM] Rob** Conditions? Risky standard? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:14 PM] Kristian** at.. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:16 PM] Veth** Risky standard? --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:40 PM] Crow** Prowl Desperate | Standard | 0d Failure It's the worst outcome. You suffer severe harm, a serious complication occurs, you lose this opportunity for action. 5 1 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:43 PM] Nyx** Prowl Desperate | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer severe harm, a serious complication occurs, you have reduced effect. 5 1d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:44 PM] Kristian** unless we die. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:45 PM] Eidolon** Prowl Desperate | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer severe harm, a serious complication occurs, you have reduced effect. 3 5 2d6 = 8 = 8 --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:48 PM] Cam** Prowl Desperate | Standard Success You do it. 6 1d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:53 PM] Freakshow** Prowl Desperate | Standard | 0d Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer severe harm, a serious complication occurs, you have reduced effect. 6 4 2d6 = 10 = 10 --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:55 PM] debinani** Okay, so everybody take an experience point in prowess, uh cause it was a desperate roll. Uh, you got a success, good on Cam. And let's see, Boo, you take one two stress. Okay, uh yeah, and uh, uh, Veth, uh, you can drop that experience track to zero and put a dot in something as long as you don't go over three. Yes, it translates to a pip in a skill in prowess, yes. But you cannot go over three dots unless you get some crew upgrades. --- **[5/9/2026, 2:59:57 PM] Boo** Prowl Desperate | Standard | 0d Failure It's the worst outcome. You suffer severe harm, a serious complication occurs, you lose this opportunity for action. 3 5 2d6 = 8 = 8 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:00:06 PM] Kristian** sigh...6 / 4 is partial :( --- **[5/9/2026, 3:00:13 PM] Veth** hey cool I filled up prowess --- **[5/9/2026, 3:00:27 PM] Random** marked --- **[5/9/2026, 3:00:38 PM] Kristian** so veth ticked everything off, does that translate to a pip in a skill? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:00:53 PM] debinani** Okay, let me make a fortune roll. Yeah. Um, okay. Yeah, no well, I'm I'm I'm taking the success. I mean you got a you got a full success. Your goal was to get into Glasskey territory uh before they caught you. And uh, you have succeeded. So you have made it through the underground tunnels, uh, you are um, you've been really you've just been staying one step ahead of them. I mean this has been a a race, right? You'll come around a corner and you'll see a couple of guys dropping through um, uh, you know, a uh, you know coming out a basement door or something and uh, you know quick turns and and everybody's just kind of rushing fast through the tunnels um, barely barely staying ahead of them. Um, they obviously are tracking you and know where you are. Um, but they also don't necessarily know how to navigate the tunnels all that well. Um, you are entering the sub-basements and tunnels and whatnot beneath the beneath the university. So what uh, as you guys have been as you guys have been racing ahead of these guys, what um, what's the plan now that you're kind of in Glasskey territory? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:01:00 PM] Rob** So you take the highest roll and that's what they roll against? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:01:03 PM] Debinani** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 1 5 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:02:14 PM] Nyx** They will find the hideout if we go there. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:02:37 PM] Crow** Yeah... we need to find someplace they won't pursue and figure out how they're tracking us. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:03:03 PM] Rob** Is there someplace nearby they're unlikely to start anything? Bluecoat station or something? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:03:03 PM] Kristian** might have to pay a toll if we get caught... --- **[5/9/2026, 3:03:07 PM] Cam** *grunts* Ok, back to Lancaster's bolt hole. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:03:11 PM] debinani** Uh, oh you mean Lancaster's uh, Lancaster's, okay. Um, so, okay, let me let me go through this. So is there somewhere nearby they're not likely to start something? Um, you do know there are a couple of um, there's essentially like a um, there's a tavern down here that a whole lot of like scholars hang out at and that's usually where you can find Locket. So you kind of assume it's a it's sort of a a Glasskey's joint. So there's that. But it is like 1 1:30 in the morning and that may not be particularly viable. Um, you you could try going to a bluecoat station. Um, uh, they're very, very easy to buy. Uh and so I don't know if you would really uh, you know, they might they might just find a reason to arrest you. Um, you could uh try to make your way to Six Towers where uh, um, Lancaster's Lancaster's uh, um, the carriage house, Lancaster's carriage house. You will have to cross water again, um but uh, um, you know, that's an option. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:03:31 PM] Michelle** It's about as shielded as we can find. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:04:40 PM] Cam** We need to figure out how they're tailing us. Any other suggestions? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:04:44 PM] Rob** Not necessarily into it. I figured they might not attack us if the Bluecoats were nearby. I did forget how easy they were to buy off, though. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:04:51 PM] Boo** if you're talking the carriage house I say no. they're tracking us. we don't want to lead them to that ace if we can avoid it. for now. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:04:53 PM] debinani** Yeah, the bluecoats are just wretchedly corrupt. And you guys already didn't you guys already noticed a marked absence of them like on the streets. And Charter Hall is pretty heavily patrolled. And so uh, um, you know, something was definitely something was definitely up. And this running cat and mouse game across the district probably takes, you know, 15 minutes. So you guys have plenty of time to breathlessly to discuss your next steps while while you're running. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:05:18 PM] Cam** If we move fast enough, they may not be able to follow us that closely outside their territory. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:05:30 PM] Crow** If we had someplace we could stop for a few minutes then Boo or I might be able to figure out what they're doing, assuming it's related to the ghost field. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:05:38 PM] Boo** they have a freakin device. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:06:23 PM] Cam** Fine. Then let's at least get to a bridge near there. If they aren't on our asses, you might have a chance to work fast. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:06:38 PM] Crow** *sketches a salute* --- **[5/9/2026, 3:06:46 PM] debinani** Okay, so let's say you're um, let's see. Uh you find your way beneath the Tolewater canal. Um, there's certainly that's just a that's a gondola canal, so it's not like a deep river. You guys make it across that, no big you guys make it under that. Um, so let's say you are you're somewhere near uh the border of uh, uh Charter Hall and Six Towers. So you're getting kind of near the the Fogwater canal. Um, again they know exactly where you are, they are chasing you. Um, um, you're going to have to come to the surface to get across all the waterways. Unless you do something specific to attempt to lose them, slow them down or whatever. I mean they are they are nipping at your heels. So let's let's start there. How do you want to stop them nipping at your heels? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:07:36 PM] Michelle** They kept following us all the way here? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:08:07 PM] Veth** landmines! --- **[5/9/2026, 3:08:07 PM] debinani** Uh, you do get occasional glimpses of that one guy, but not right this minute. I mean you guys are you guys are you know, busy running like hell. Oh, yeah, yeah, no they they're they're following you. I mean they they are, you know, occasionally you don't you you lose them for a minute or two and then like you turn a corner and there's more of them. I mean it's just well, not more of them, there's the same guys. Um, definitely not all these guys are reclaimer circle. You don't recognize them, you recognize a couple of like local toughs. So it it feels like it feels like the reclaimer circle once again dumped a bunch of money um, to hire people. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:08:14 PM] Random** can I see the one that had the thing tracking us>? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:08:19 PM] Nyx** I'd really like that gadget. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:08:31 PM] Cam** Me too. Any more tear gas on you? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:08:32 PM] Nyx** It seems it might happen. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:08:46 PM] Rob** When they shot at us initially, it didn't nick anyone's clothes, right? Who did the shot hit closest to? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:08:51 PM] Boo** Boo I'll keep an eye for and prepare an electrroplasm granade --- **[5/9/2026, 3:08:54 PM] Nyx** Nyx rummages --- **[5/9/2026, 3:09:22 PM] Boo** Boo checks my clothes --- **[5/9/2026, 3:09:42 PM] Michelle** I don't know if they shot at anyone specifically --- **[5/9/2026, 3:10:03 PM] debinani** Uh, I don't think any of you got hurt at all, um, in the last firefight. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:10:05 PM] Nyx** 2 more --- **[5/9/2026, 3:10:23 PM] Rob** I don't know if they did, either, but if they couldn't track us a few hours ago to our lair then maybe it's due to something that happened when they shot at us. Or at least something that happened since they caught sight of us initially. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:10:43 PM] Random** is checking for 'splash'. something that got scattared onto us mayb e. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:10:45 PM] Rob** I suppose Crow will mention that theory. :P --- **[5/9/2026, 3:11:01 PM] Michelle** We aren't carrying their statue, are we? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:11:07 PM] Rob** Mistress Ash? No. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:11:13 PM] Kristian** Ms Ash is at home --- **[5/9/2026, 3:11:24 PM] Rob** And they never seemed to know that it was anything but a statue. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:11:25 PM] debinani** Uh, you are not carrying the Mistress Ash statue, no. But you do actually have, I mean you do have the ghost sight even though you're not carrying it with you. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:11:56 PM] Michelle** I can't think of anything else we would have picked up that would be trackable. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:11:57 PM] debinani** Um, yeah, uh you you you're kind of looking over everybody. You don't really see anybody who got like splashed or tagged with tagged with anything. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:12:29 PM] debinani** Uh, ghosts themselves trackable? Uh, not really, maybe with maybe with a ritual. Yeah, I mean you guys are moving as you're doing this. So you guys are talking as you're moving along. Uh and they they they they again the closeness varies. Sometimes they're like right around the corner and sometimes you almost think you've escaped them and then you hear a yell. And so uh, um, that's uh, that's just um, yeah. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:12:31 PM] Nyx** I also have sleeping gas --- **[5/9/2026, 3:12:32 PM] Kristian** are ghosts trackable? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:12:33 PM] Rob** We are moving as we're doing this, right? How close to us are they? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:12:52 PM] Kristian** or like..the energy of carrying a bottle around --- **[5/9/2026, 3:12:58 PM] Boo** Boo slips on her spirit mask and scans to see there are spirit tethers on any of us. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:13:00 PM] Crow** Like permanent sleep or just knock them out for a few hours? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:13:32 PM] Cam** Nyx, gas them again. Everyone else, get aboveground. Boo and Crow, I hope you have something you can try quick to figure this out. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:13:32 PM] Nyx** A few hours --- **[5/9/2026, 3:13:43 PM] Crow** Crow nods --- **[5/9/2026, 3:13:54 PM] debinani** Uh, okay, Boo, um, you can make a a tune roll. Um, and since you're just looking and not trying to do anything, we'll call it um, uh, we'll call it risky standard. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:14:10 PM] Nyx** Sleeping gas? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:14:16 PM] Cam** If anyone comes out of that manhole, use ectoplasm. *looks unhappy about it* --- **[5/9/2026, 3:14:19 PM] Rob** Not Crow? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:14:21 PM] Cam** Sure. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:14:25 PM] debinani** Okay. Uh, um. Okay, so you guys are still rushing. Uh so you guys are going to get to a manhole, jump out and do like sleeping gas or something. We'll we'll get to that in a second. Uh, okay. So, Boo, um, you um, so you guys are still kind of on the run. You you pop your spirit mask on and uh, uh, you you try to get try to get a sense of of of what's going on um uh in in the ghost field. And you see that there are um, uh, several lines coming from, hold on. Everybody roll, just roll one die, fortune die, except for Boo and Crow roll two. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:14:30 PM] Boo** Attune Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 3 4 2d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:14:33 PM] Nyx** Nyx nods --- **[5/9/2026, 3:14:37 PM] Eidolon** What if we split up to see how they react? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:14:40 PM] Rob** Ah, I see that she took an action. Never mind. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:15:02 PM] Crow** We might be easier to pick off. Chances are they want Cam, anyway. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:15:36 PM] Freakshow** Fortune Failure The result is bad. You have poor or little effect. 3 1d6 = 3 = 3 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:15:41 PM] Cam** Fortune Success The result is good. You have standard or full effect. 6 1d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:15:47 PM] Crow** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 5 1 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:15:49 PM] Nyx** Fortune 0d Failure The result is bad. You have poor or little effect. 2 1 2d6 = 3 = 3 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:15:50 PM] Eidolon** Fortune 0d Failure The result is bad. You have poor or little effect. 2 5 2d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:15:51 PM] debinani** Uh, you click the die roller and uh, you select one for you, you select two dice and click fortune and then click roll. It's over on the left menu, looks like a couple of dice. Okay, when you put on your mask and look, you see um, you see lines and you're assuming these are the the tethers uh, coming from Nyx and Eidolon um, and uh Freakshow. Uh, and uh, there's there's several of them going off in different directions, so it's probably not like one it's probably not like one one um, yeah, I think you guys rolled zero dice instead of one die. For those of you who were only supposed to run roll one die and see zero dice, go do it again and this time select one die from the from the drop-down at the top. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:15:59 PM] Random** how do i do that --- **[5/9/2026, 3:16:21 PM] Boo** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 5 2 2d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:16:42 PM] Rob** I think they rolled 0d rather than 1d. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:16:52 PM] Boo** Boo relays this. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:17:14 PM] debinani** So Nyx and Eidolon, go ahead and uh reroll. Okay. Okay, slightly better. So, uh instead of Nyx, uh we'll just say Eidolon and Freakshow. Uh, uh you see several lines uh coming out from each of them uh going a couple different directions. Um, and um, uh they are there's let's say there's two total lines from each one and they're going in two different directions. So you're assuming there's more than you can tell there's more than one more than one tracker. Probably two. Uh, however, um because it was only partial success. Ah, no. Leave it at that. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:17:25 PM] Eidolon** Fortune Failure The result is bad. You have poor or little effect. 3 1d6 = 3 = 3 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:17:32 PM] Nyx** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 4 1d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:18:26 PM] debinani** Okay. So, while she was doing that, uh the plan was um drop smoke, pop out to the surface and do what? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:18:27 PM] Boo** Boo relays this information --- **[5/9/2026, 3:18:31 PM] Rob** Spectral cooties. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:18:40 PM] Eidolon** Huh. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:18:55 PM] Michelle** Was going to let Boo and Crow try to figure this out. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:19:00 PM] Crow** Did you two accept candy from a stranger or something? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:19:19 PM] Boo** *hmmmss* I wonder if passing through some electroplasm would disrrupt the traces.... --- **[5/9/2026, 3:19:23 PM] Rob** Can we break the threads somehow? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:19:25 PM] debinani** Um, yeah, so you you could, um uh, ideally you would want to do a ritual uh, which would take hours and hours and hours but would be, you know, fairly uh, uh fairly safe. Um, I will allow a uh, a essentially breathless desperate on the run attune roll uh using you know, probably using um, uh, you know one of your charms or whatever, electroplasm or something, right? Um, it would be a desperate desperate limited um, well, if you use your your fine spirit mask we'll call it desperate uh standard. Но the idea is that you would um, you probably wouldn't be able to break it but you might be able to um uh suppress it for a time, maybe long enough to make it to the carriage house if you know that turns out to be your plan. Но you are essentially doing it on the run. I mean you guys unless unless you unless you do something really clever um, they know exactly where you are and they're only minutes behind you, tops. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:19:28 PM] Cam** Is it THEM or something they're wearing or carrying? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:19:34 PM] Eidolon** I have no idea. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:21:31 PM] Rob** Is there something that would break tracing? Crossing running water? Anything like that? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:21:35 PM] debinani** Uh, you have no idea. Really depends on the ritual. Um, so uh, you're pretty sure that with what you've got on you, you could make a fair attempt at suppressing it and you'd essentially do one person at a time. Um, but you guys would need to do a longer ritual to actually break it. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:21:54 PM] Michelle** We went under one canal already :\ --- **[5/9/2026, 3:22:01 PM] Rob** Can a spirit help us with this? Like Freakshow's friend? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:22:13 PM] debinani** Uh, you really don't know what Freakshow's friend can and cannot do. His Freakshow's friend has not, you know, only only rarely proven useful. No, he's absolutely not around all the time. Uh in fact, since I have reinterpreted uh your special ability, uh he's around even less because honestly the special ability kind of read differently. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:22:33 PM] Kristian** he's not even around all the time, is he? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:22:36 PM] Rob** Got it. Then I think it's worth the desperate attempt. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:22:44 PM] Kristian** he might just light up a cigar and like...watch us die. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:23:11 PM] Kristian** yeah, it's like "you can talk to ghosts like they are not ghosts" not "you have a dead bff that watches you poop" --- **[5/9/2026, 3:23:15 PM] Rob** I mean that or we send Freakshow and Eidolon off to die gloriously in battle. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:23:22 PM] Boo** I say we try suppressing at least one and see how it goes. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:23:28 PM] Michelle** OK, we get above ground, let the voodoo team do its stuff. Cam will cover the manhole with her pistol. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:23:34 PM] debinani** Okay, so you're going to have Nyx pop smoke, um, you're going to hop up a manhole cover in some alley somewhere, uh you are going to stay there and give uh uh Crow and or Boo a chance to do the thing. Okay, um. You actually, I mean there's a uh you actually have an opportunity to come out into a uh, um, a uh like a a shop or something so you're not actually on the street. And um, and so you can you can hole up like in the shop with a door in and a door into the tunnels and I mean if you want if you want to like last stand this that would be a you know as good a place as any. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:23:59 PM] Michelle** Voodoo team gets out of sight if possible. :P --- **[5/9/2026, 3:24:42 PM] Rob** And what are our options to improve our chances again? And what sorts of consequences do they cause? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:24:47 PM] debinani** Um, okay, so what you could do is you can uh somebody can spend a stress to assist, which would get you one die. Um, you can take a devil's bargain, which would be another die. And or you can spend two stress to get yourself another die. So basically you're limited to plus two dice um, uh you know if if those things happen. Um, the other thing you can do is you can swap position for effect. So if you wanted to um, if you wanted to reduce your you could reduce your effect to reduce your position. Um, make it a little bit less desperate but make it a lower chance that you would actually um uh succeed. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:24:59 PM] Cam** Work fast. *to the rest* Nyx, stay with me. We'll try not to kill anyone, but we drive back anyone who comes out of that hole. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:25:22 PM] Nyx** Nyx nods --- **[5/9/2026, 3:25:32 PM] Rob** Since we have not used a devil's bargain yet, remind me what the downside of it is? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:25:44 PM] debinani** Uh, devil's bargain. Um, uh, for you, I would give you a die, uh but the uh, the demon who's after you would uh would you it would get his attention. Но you could get a devil's bargain die. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:26:17 PM] debinani** Uh Boo, if you wanted to take a devil's bargain, um, uh you could uh I could give you a die, uh but um, uh let's see. One second. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:26:24 PM] Random** and my devil's bargain? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:26:53 PM] debinani** Uh let's see. Boo, let's see. You would uh, you could get a die but um, uh the uh, the the tracker tracer might end up on you if you fail. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:27:20 PM] Rob** Okay, I can't think of a way that someone can aid me so I'll take two stress and the Devil's Bargain. That'd give me +2 dice. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:27:37 PM] debinani** Okay. Uh, okay and then I mean you could think of I mean I'm sure I mean I mean the uh uh for when it comes to like people helping, I mean y'all can get creative. I mean like uh you know since it's Eidolon and Freakshow, Eidolon could be like, okay, I'm I'm emptying my pockets or you know whatever, I don't I don't know. But uh so anybody anybody want to spend a stress to help and come up with a really good really good uh really good way uh really good explanation about how. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:27:39 PM] Random** mmmm.... nah. I'll take 2 stress for a die. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:28:13 PM] Veth** I could get naked. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:28:22 PM] debinani** It's an attune roll. Okay, fair enough. Uh who's trying to do who? So Crow are you trying to clear Freakshow and Boo trying to clear Eidolon? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:28:27 PM] Michelle** *makes popcorn* --- **[5/9/2026, 3:28:30 PM] Random** what roll is this on btw? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:28:49 PM] Kristian** I can probably help out, given I've got some attune too..so I can chant alon gand hold hands or whatever haha --- **[5/9/2026, 3:29:05 PM] Boo** Boo cracks her knuckles. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:29:07 PM] debinani** Okay. Uh Freakshow, you can spend a stress and give Crow an extra die. Okay, that's fine. You're just you're you're at you're attempting to attune to the ghost field along with them. Uh that's that's good enough. So you can spend a stress and Boo will get a die. And then um, okay, yeah. Well, it's only two dice you can only get two extra dice total. So you can use a devil bargain or the two stress. You can't do both. But you're going to get a die from Freakshow, you can take two stress oh, you're going to keep the devil's bargain? Okay. So take a die from Freakshow, take a die for the uh devil's bargain. Uh Boo, die from Eidolon and two stress for the devil uh two stress for the extra die and then both of you are rolling with two extra dice. That's what devil's bargains are for. They're for me to have fun. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:29:09 PM] Rob** Sure. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:29:16 PM] Random** works for rme. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:29:22 PM] Kristian** boop..done --- **[5/9/2026, 3:29:24 PM] Veth** I have attune too I can spend a stress --- **[5/9/2026, 3:29:30 PM] Kristian** om...om...om... --- **[5/9/2026, 3:29:34 PM] Rob** I'll... actually, I'll keep the Devil's Bargain and just not take the 2 stress. I have enough of that. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:29:57 PM] Rob** Right. I'll let you have fun with that. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:30:13 PM] Crow** Attune Desperate | Standard Success You do it. 1 3 1 6 4d6 = 11 = 11 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:30:26 PM] Kristian** yikes --- **[5/9/2026, 3:30:30 PM] Rob** Yes, but it's a full success due to the 6. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:30:34 PM] debinani** Okay, wow 1316. Uh and okay. Okay. So, um, uh, so you guys pile into this, uh let's call it a bookshop. And Nyx throws a smoke grenade down, you guys close this uh, essentially trap essentially a trap door. Uh, you guard the trap door and you you huddle up and and do your thing. Um, Boo, uh, you um, just get this massive feedback loop uh from the ghost field and you are going to take, hold on, let me find where the hell is your character sheet. Weird, I can't find your sheet in the list, but you're there. Oh, there we go. Okay, I see. Okay. Um, it still says Cassia, that's why. Um, okay, uh, you are going to take, oh gosh you've got a pretty high stress. Uh you're going to take level 2 harm, um, uh and we'll just we're just going to call it, we're just going to call it psychic backlash. Um, you can choose to resist, which you basically roll uh 1D6 and you will take the amount of stress equal to 6 minus your die roll, but you are definitely running the if you do that you're definitely running the risk of getting a trauma or you could just take the damage. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:30:37 PM] Boo** Attune Desperate | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer severe harm, a serious complication occurs, you have reduced effect. 5 1 2 3 4d6 = 11 = 11 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:32:42 PM] debinani** Okay. So, uh everybody's just just uh, plus both Crow and Boo, you both get a uh experience point in uh resolve, uh because this was a desperate roll. Um, okay. Um, so you you know you guys like kneel down and and, you know, start chanting and looking into the ghost field and um, uh, Crow, you you get a psychic handle on the the two lines running off uh from Freakshow and you you essentially suppress them and scatter them. Um, Boo, you do the exact same thing uh but and to everybody else, to all the other observers, you know, Boo and Crow are both making gestures with their hands and muttering things and the temperature in the room is dropping and um, uh Boo just, you know at one point Crow goes okay good, and then Boo just like screams and and and falls over and uh, uh there's like like smoke coming out of her ears or something and uh, uh she's just sitting there kind of shaking and trying to shake it off. But you did succeed. Um, you both are fairly positive that you've got a good solid let's call it half a day where um the trackers that are attached to these things aren't going to work. You haven't severed it, but you have successfully suppressed it um for at least half a day. You have definitely screwed up whoever's ritual uh did did this in the first place. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:32:50 PM] Random** I'll take the damage --- **[5/9/2026, 3:33:07 PM] Rob** Was just about to ask about that. :P --- **[5/9/2026, 3:34:00 PM] Veth** It's like watching the magicians, only with a far better story. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:34:11 PM] Cam** What the hell was that? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:34:12 PM] Rob** Boo.exe has stopped working. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:34:15 PM] Eidolon** Ah shit. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:34:28 PM] Random** blood from the nose --- **[5/9/2026, 3:34:47 PM] Random** need to afk a moment --- **[5/9/2026, 3:35:19 PM] Crow** Okay... I think that'll throw them off our trail for now. Can't say exactly how long it'll last. Roughtly half-a-day. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:35:20 PM] Freakshow** All better then? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:35:27 PM] Eidolon** Well... not all. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:35:33 PM] debinani** Yeah, I mean Boo is Boo is I mean conscious and able to act, but she's at a minus one die to you know everything. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:35:54 PM] Cam** NOW are we ok with going to the carriage house? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:36:04 PM] Crow** Yeah, as long as we can get there unseen. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:36:06 PM] Cam** Cam eyes the trap door --- **[5/9/2026, 3:36:14 PM] debinani** Yeah, uh trapdoor, no actually uh no, I mean all this happened in the span of like a minute and a half. So your best bet is to you know haul ass out of here because they can't track you. Um, in fact, why don't we do a another group prowl roll. That seems to make sense if you're trying to remain unseen. Um, whoever wants to lead that, uh go ahead and offer up your stress and um, yeah no I wouldn't. Um, you guys are pretty bad on the stress. You need to get this war over with so that you can actually take two downtime activities. Uh, Watcher Nyx, uh oh Watcher's not here. Nyx, um Cam I guess they're kind of they're kind of okay-ish on on uh on stress. Um, okay so uh okay so Nyx'll lead. Uh everybody make a um risky standard um prowl roll. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:36:36 PM] Cam** Then let's move. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:36:50 PM] Random** back --- **[5/9/2026, 3:36:53 PM] Rob** Nor am I. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:36:55 PM] Random** I'm not leading --- **[5/9/2026, 3:36:59 PM] Kristian** no dice --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:11 PM] Freakshow** I hear Veth just got a pip in Prowess ;) --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:16 PM] Jen** i can lead --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:20 PM] Cam** I have 3 stress, so a little room --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:21 PM] Rob** Can't we use him anyway? :P --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:29 PM] Michelle** lol --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:36 PM] Veth** hehe --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:46 PM] Crow** Prowl 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 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:46 PM] Cam** Prowl Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 3 1d6 = 3 = 3 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:46 PM] Freakshow** Prowl 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. 5 5 2d6 = 10 = 10 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:49 PM] Eidolon** Prowl Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 5 1 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:52 PM] Nyx** Prowl Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 4 1d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:55 PM] Boo** Prowl 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 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:57 PM] debinani** Oh my god. Nobody got a success out of that. Okay, so Nyx you take three stress for the failures. Okay. Um, all right. So, you guys make your way um out uh across Wac- Requiem road and uh, um, and make your way across into into Six Towers. Um, you generally you stay hidden, you lose them, um uh but uh once you get into Six Towers, there's like there's a lot more like revelers on the street, so so there's probably a pretty good chance that you're seen. Um, you're still a long way away from the carriage house, so nobody's following you. You have you have successfully lost them. Um, but um but chances are um chances are they'll be able to find somebody will be able to find out that you escaped to Six Towers at least. Um, but anyway, uh it takes about maybe thirty minutes and um and you make it to the manor house. Um, there are still a couple of ghosts there floating around, but we'll not we're not going to I'm not going to make you deal with it. Um, suffice to say, you it's about 2 2:30 in the morning now. You guys make it to the carriage house and um, uh and you are not pursued. Um, it is a very, very safe bet that the wards in this carriage house will prevent these trackers from working, as long as Eidolon and Freakshow stay here in in the carriage house, you know, they they can't be found. So if you guys wanted to just move and and and run through a downtime, we absolutely could. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:37:59 PM] Kristian** yahtzee --- **[5/9/2026, 3:38:04 PM] Michelle** I used up my good rolls. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:40:28 PM] Rob** Stay a while. Stay forever! --- **[5/9/2026, 3:40:33 PM] Freakshow** Did anyone bring some food? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:40:38 PM] Random** they stop the death bells. so yeah, I think we're safe --- **[5/9/2026, 3:40:51 PM] Cam** Catch your breath. Then we need some ideas how to get rid of this stuff. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:40:53 PM] Eidolon** Someone check me for like... voodoo pins or something? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:41:17 PM] Cam** Are you ok, Boo? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:41:22 PM] debinani** Boo feels like her soul has been, you know, held to a belt sander. Но um, yeah. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:41:37 PM] Boo** I have a headache that could peel paint. I'm not going to be good for a bit --- **[5/9/2026, 3:41:42 PM] Cam** Try to rest then. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:41:48 PM] Eidolon** Yeah, you should lie down. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:41:49 PM] Cam** Crow, sounds like this is your show for a while. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:41:53 PM] Crow** Crow nods --- **[5/9/2026, 3:41:57 PM] Cam** How can we help? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:42:00 PM] Freakshow** So I guess peaceful resolution is off the table then? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:42:12 PM] Cam** Cam shrugs at Freakshow's comment --- **[5/9/2026, 3:42:12 PM] Boo** Boo finds a comfy spot to lie down for a bit. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:42:29 PM] Rob** Crow will try to come up with a way to permanently break the trace that's on Eidolon and Freakshow. I presume we're talking about a ritual here. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:42:32 PM] Boo** *mutters* they all must die. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:42:51 PM] debinani** Uh yeah. So, um, basically it would be a um it's considered a downtime activity. You would need to do a ritual, um or you could, you know you could pay somebody um to derisk it essentially, pay somebody to to do it. I think you all probably if you if you thought through your contract contacts you could probably find somebody. But um, but yeah, a ritual would be a it would be a downtime activity. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:43:27 PM] debinani** Which is fine, I mean they can't trace um, uh, who's Quellin a Whisper? Just a supplier, what's what's her what was the description of her? Quellin is a witch and a friend of Crow. Yeah, yeah, probably. Um, let's see who else of your friends. Quellin would probably be probably be your best bet. Um, the um, you know or you guys could do the ritual but it would take it would it would take a downtime activity. And I mean after this escape as long as Freakshow and Eidolon stay here in in the carriage house, you know, they they can't be found. So if you guys wanted to just move and and and run through a downtime, we absolutely could. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:43:29 PM] Rob** Like Quellyn? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:43:37 PM] Rob** Witch. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:44:46 PM] Rob** Freakshow and Eidolon are the New Odd Couple. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:44:47 PM] Michelle** I think everyone needs the rest --- **[5/9/2026, 3:44:55 PM] debinani** Um, yeah, and Eidolon, not that you need it, um what's your what's your vice Eidolon? Oh, that ain't it. Okay. Um, so if you guys decide to take a downtime um here, um neither one of you would be able to um indulge vice because you're you're um, you're stuck here. And neither one of your vices are are are conducive to hanging out in a dead guy's carriage house. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:45:17 PM] Veth** luxury --- **[5/9/2026, 3:45:23 PM] Kristian** "solitude" womp womp --- **[5/9/2026, 3:45:37 PM] Random** my friend is a posessor ghost. Who is currently being possesed and would that might help us>? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:45:49 PM] Veth** SOMEONE GO GET ME CAVIAR AND A CIGAR! --- **[5/9/2026, 3:45:50 PM] debinani** Um, yeah, so Nyrix, Nyrix is a ghost uh who you know possesses a a hooker over in Silkshore. Um, you don't you're probably not. The ghost is probably not going to be very helpful. Not a bad source of intel your friend the ghost, but probably not the greatest ritualist. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:46:03 PM] Kristian** and a bunch of opium! --- **[5/9/2026, 3:46:34 PM] debinani** Okay, so let's go ahead and uh assume that we're going to do uh downtime. Um, Freakshow and Eidolon have to stay at the uh at the carriage house until the their problem gets resolved. You weren't doing a job so nobody gets paid. Uh, they may not the so seances I mean oh they may not be able to help you get rid of the tracker, they might be able to you might be able to find out maybe how the tracker got there to begin with. I don't know, it's a possibility. The rest of you are not trapped um in the uh in the thing so you guys can do kind of whatever. Um, we're not going to do entanglements um because I don't care. Um, so let's just say everybody gets one downtime activity and uh um, you know Eidolon and Freakshow you guys got to make some decisions about what you want to do. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:47:09 PM] Random** and my vice is attending seances. would one of my mediums be of help? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:47:49 PM] Random** makes a note to follow up on that. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:48:11 PM] Rob** Crow's downtime activity would be seeking out Quellyn and getting her help? Or can he actually indulge vice in the meantime, too? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:48:28 PM] Veth** Dance battle. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:48:37 PM] debinani** Uh, well, so I mean okay so the idea is that you're you're going to pay you're going to pay Quellin to to do the ritual instead of doing it yourself. Usually downtime activities um, you know sometimes it's a roll sometimes it's just sometimes you can just pay it off. Um, uh I need to find the the ritual chapter. You could you could you could probably figure out like what ritual this is and and dispel it, so that wouldn't be a big a big deal. Hold on, flipping through flipping through the book. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:48:46 PM] Kristian** you would dance battle a circus freak? Ballsy. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:48:50 PM] Eidolon** Indeed. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:49:07 PM] Michelle** If you want to bring her here, gonna have to blindfold her. :P --- **[5/9/2026, 3:49:17 PM] Rob** Well, what would it take for me to do it myself? And does just paying her guarantee success as opposed to me doing it, which I presume requires a roll? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:49:34 PM] Random** well I'll down time at some seances and network on some possible info of how a tracker of this nature might be applied. purely academic interest of course. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:50:32 PM] debinani** Okay, well I take it back. You actually have to have the ritual special ability to to do rituals, and you don't. So either Boo has to do it or uh you have to hire Quellin. And honestly, Boo probably needs uh probably needs to heal, um they probably need to recover rather than uh um do that. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:51:03 PM] Rob** Right. Hiring Quellyn it is. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:51:06 PM] debinani** Okay, so that's going to be considered a um um actually, you know what, I'm not going to make you use a downtime activity uh for that. So, uh do it this way. For one coin you can go and you can hire Quellin, uh you can blindfold her so she doesn't know where you're taking her, uh you can bring her to the carriage house and she will spend a day conducting a ritual and she will clear um this this tracker off of Freakshow and Eidolon. That has the added benefit of letting Freakshow and Eidolon actually have their have their downtime. So let's do that. And it at the at the bargain basement price of one coin. Probably you. She's your friend. Or you can get Cam to uh pay it out of the kitty. You want to pay it out of the how out of the out of the crew's kitty? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:52:01 PM] Rob** Now... who is paying? :P --- **[5/9/2026, 3:52:26 PM] Rob** And they are the ones with the tracker on them... But okay. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:52:32 PM] Cam** Cam slips Crow a coin --- **[5/9/2026, 3:52:41 PM] Michelle** sure --- **[5/9/2026, 3:52:41 PM] debinani** Okay, that's fine. Okay, you pay uh you pay one coin out of the out of the crew reserves, uh you uh go find Quellin, you bring her to the carriage house, um she spends a while uh on the ritual, she has seen it before, um and uh um and and does it. Um, by the by, Boo, um by watching real close, uh you learn this ritual as well. So, um um you learn a you learn, we can just we can just call it um um dispel ties that bind or something and um and you know this ritual for the future. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:52:49 PM] Kristian** cruise? shit we're all gonna die of hantavirus --- **[5/9/2026, 3:53:23 PM] Rob** Can she tell us how they did it and how to prevent it from happening again? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:53:39 PM] debinani** Um, yeah, so you asked her you know hey how does this do it? And she she says that um uh she says um she says there are a lot lot of ways. I mean there are some there are some ritualists who can do it with nothing more than a photo or a uh you know a bit of hair or a discarded mug. Um you know if if if they wanted to do this, they they could figure out how. And since Freakshow tends to go out and get blottoed you know every chance he gets and since Eidolon goes and you know drinks expensive bourbon and smokes cigars, um you know it probably wouldn't have been hard for somebody to get a hold of enough that a good enough a good enough caster could could make it happen. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:53:54 PM] Random** cool --- **[5/9/2026, 3:54:54 PM] Michelle** So we need vice rooms at our lair now.... --- **[5/9/2026, 3:55:07 PM] debinani** That's not how that works. Got to got to get away. Got to get away to indulge your vice. Okay, so that gets done. Let's do downtime activities. So what's the what's everybody's what's everybody's plan for their downtime. Obviously the reclaimer circle is out for blood. Um, but um sounds like most of you are are going out and and um indulging vice. Okay, you want to you really want to you're going to hang on to this you're going to hang on to this harm and just get rid of stress for now? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:55:27 PM] Rob** Indulge Vice! --- **[5/9/2026, 3:55:34 PM] Kristian** go out and get blotto! lol --- **[5/9/2026, 3:55:40 PM] Veth** Might as well train I guess.. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:55:56 PM] Veth** lol freakshow's going out anyway --- **[5/9/2026, 3:56:04 PM] Michelle** Cam goes out for a massage and maybe a roll in the hay. lol --- **[5/9/2026, 3:56:06 PM] Random** vicing for now. I'll do healing next time. (fingers crossed) --- **[5/9/2026, 3:56:30 PM] debinani** Uh, yeah you do. Um, the um Nyx is a physicker. So you actually get a benefit. So you absolutely uh, um you know she's got all manner of she's got all manner of things that don't uh, you know pickle dead bodies. Okay, so um let's see. So those of you who are indulging vice, you know how to do it. Basically you roll your worst quality uh, you know number of dice um as a indulge vice roll. Um for most of you I think that's probably zero and uh you reduce that amount. If you end up reducing more stress than you have, you overindulge and let me know. Oh dear, okay. Well, it's not a failure, it's uh you rolled more you removed more stress than you had. Uh, it shows you had five. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:56:37 PM] Random** I don't have a contact to deal iwth the harm, and doing it myself could give me more stress. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:56:49 PM] Rob** Crow is off to Lady Dusk's establishment for a card game. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:56:57 PM] Random** Oh! ok. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:57:02 PM] Boo** Nyx! my head hurts. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:57:31 PM] Freakshow** Vice 0d Success You indulge your vice. Clear 1 stress. 5 1 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:57:34 PM] Random** I'll keep my stress and get healing then. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:57:39 PM] Crow** Vice Failure You overindulge. Clear 5 stress and choose one of the following consequences: Attract Trouble. Select or roll an additional entanglement. Brag about your exploits. +2 Heat Lost. Your character vanishes for a few weeks. Play a different character until this one returns from their bender. When your character returns, they've also healed any harm they had. Tapped. Your current purveyor cuts you off. Find a new source for your vice. 6 1d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:57:42 PM] Cam** Vice 0d Success You indulge your vice. Clear 2 stress. 2 4 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:57:43 PM] Kristian** crap --- **[5/9/2026, 3:57:53 PM] Rob** How did I get a failure on a 1d? --- **[5/9/2026, 3:58:04 PM] Nyx** Nyx rummages and pulls out a cloth and balm. Applies it to Boos head. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:58:05 PM] Rob** Ah. Dude, I have more than 6 stress. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:58:14 PM] Kristian** AD&D rules, this time you have to roll low, instead of high --- **[5/9/2026, 3:58:17 PM] Rob** Wait, I lied. I have 5. Argh. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:58:36 PM] Rob** Yeah, I see that now. I thought I had 6 or more. But okay. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:58:43 PM] debinani** Okay, we'll do some healing, since this is the first time any of you have actually gotten hurt. Okay, so the way recovery works is uh for every um, boy getting hurt sucks, for every level of harm, uh you have to have you have to tick uh your healing clock uh by four. And uh once you tick your healing clock, um it it reduces the level of your thing. So if you tick the clock four it your psychic backlash will go down to a level one like persistent headache or something like that and then you do it again and it'll be completely gone. So for recovery rolls your healer actually does the roll. So this would be Nyx in this case. Um Nyx you will roll your tinker plus one die for physicker and um and uh go ahead and roll. 6, excellent. Uh so uh Boo, you tick three segments on your healing clock. And so you're you still have that psychic backlash but you're a lot closer to getting it resolved. Oh sorry Boo, not Nyx. --- **[5/9/2026, 3:59:10 PM] Kristian** I gotsta go get ready for baseball game...thanks for game, cya in X weeks where X > 1 --- **[5/9/2026, 3:59:32 PM] Michelle** Oh god. If Crow gets lost for a few weeks, poor Boo is gonna go off the deep end for real. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:00:20 PM] Rob** I am hoping I do not have to disappear for a few weeks. :P Heat would be okay at this point since we have only 1 at the moment. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:00:49 PM] Michelle** agreed --- **[5/9/2026, 4:00:54 PM] Nyx** Tinker Risky | Standard Success You do it. 1 4 6 3d6 = 11 = 11 --- **[5/9/2026, 4:01:21 PM] Rob** I have no idea what entanglements are. I need to look that up. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:01:29 PM] debinani** Entanglements are what I usually roll at the end of a job. Now let me see, there it went. Um, entanglements are what I usually roll at the uh at the end of a job. It's things like, you know, uh Cam's friend getting turned and uh, uh you know so-and-so getting arrested. It's those sort of outcomes. Но yeah, you can pick you can pick which consequence it is that uh that resulted from your overindulgence. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:01:40 PM] Random** it does not let me click --- **[5/9/2026, 4:01:53 PM] Random** thanks --- **[5/9/2026, 4:02:04 PM] Michelle** Cam has no friends anymore :( --- **[5/9/2026, 4:02:32 PM] Rob** Heat, if no one has a problem with it. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:03:23 PM] Veth** Nah, heat is inevitable --- **[5/9/2026, 4:03:39 PM] Michelle** lol. Which exploits are you bragging about? Don't want to let on that we framed the Reclaimers. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:03:42 PM] debinani** Well, no, I mean you know what could have happened is that you know he went out and he went out and played cards and um, you know just ended up talking about like or ended up asking about um um you know any crazy rituals out there for um um tracking people. And you know word gets around and the crew takes a couple of heat for that. Which you're at zero, you're fine. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:03:54 PM] Nyx** Vice 0d Success You indulge your vice. Clear 1 stress. 1 1 2d6 = 2 = 2 --- **[5/9/2026, 4:04:22 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay, so everybody have their downtime covered then? So Boo is healing, pretty much everybody else is reducing stress. Or Eidolon were you training? I mean you've got five stress, you sure you don't want to you know you can reduce stress. They they Quellin the ritual the the no, Nyx didn't lose a downtime activity for for being your healer, no. Um, Quellin took care of the took care of the thing before um before downtime. So you can you can go indulge vice if you want. Okay, that's essentially a you get a one die uh indulge vice roll. And you reduce one stress. You really got to get this war over with so you get two downtime activities. Um, okay, so um yeah you just you just don't quite indulge enough. There's a lot going on, you all have to look over your shoulders everywhere you go and it's just it's just really stressful. There's assassins out for you and it's just awful. Um, yeah, unlike some people that go playing cards and freaking talk and bring the freaking heat down. Um, all right. Let's take ten here and you guys can figure out what your next play is. Yeah, that's it exactly. You you're kind of scared to indulge because you're worried somebody's going to slap some freaking voodoo tracker on you. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:04:47 PM] Veth** training is all I can do --- **[5/9/2026, 4:05:01 PM] Random** and nyx did not loose a downtime activity for the healing. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:05:22 PM] Veth** oohhh then I will reduce stress! --- **[5/9/2026, 4:05:44 PM] Eidolon** Vice Success You indulge your vice. Clear 1 stress. 1 1d6 = 1 = 1 --- **[5/9/2026, 4:05:56 PM] Veth** I have way too much self control. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:06:14 PM] Veth** Unlike SOME people. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:06:28 PM] Rob** You're nervous about indulging after hearing that's how they might've managed to put a tracer on you. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:06:53 PM] Veth** ITS IN THE CIGARS! --- **[5/9/2026, 4:06:55 PM] Debinani** Break Time Complete --- **[5/9/2026, 4:07:23 PM] Random** we know whhat to look for. we'll just sweep people for bugs from now on. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:08:36 PM] Debinani** Sounds like that might be a fun ritual to learn/invent: hide from unnatural sight or something. Could probably learn it pretty easily just by studying the ritual work at the carriage house --- **[5/9/2026, 4:09:25 PM] Debinani** Fortune Failure The result is bad. You have poor or little effect. 1 3 2d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[5/9/2026, 4:09:52 PM] Debinani** Inspector Holt failed to make the connection between a New Years shootout on main street and the Old Town Echoes... --- **[5/9/2026, 4:10:47 PM] Random** I'll put it on my list of rituals to create "Pass Without A Trace" --- **[5/9/2026, 4:11:23 PM] Random** once I get some downtime activity --- **[5/9/2026, 4:12:16 PM] Random** while I'm recovering I'll be making some notes though. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:17:18 PM] Rob** Yub. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:17:19 PM] Michelle** here --- **[5/9/2026, 4:17:27 PM] Veth** ya --- **[5/9/2026, 4:18:38 PM] Rob** Count Dracula has arrived. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:19:10 PM] Boo** We're we expecting company? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:19:17 PM] Cam** Cam curses --- **[5/9/2026, 4:19:28 PM] Crow** ... --- **[5/9/2026, 4:19:46 PM] Cam** Stay here. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:19:55 PM] Cam** Cam goes outside --- **[5/9/2026, 4:20:10 PM] Nyx** Nyx waves --- **[5/9/2026, 4:20:11 PM] Random** I would not have bene obvious in my looking. harumph --- **[5/9/2026, 4:20:14 PM] Rob** Nyx just made up for it. :P --- **[5/9/2026, 4:20:32 PM] Michelle** However we get past the ghosts, Cam will go over to the gate. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:20:43 PM] Boo** Boo joins Nyx then. (let's own the place) --- **[5/9/2026, 4:20:53 PM] Nyx** Nyx nods --- **[5/9/2026, 4:21:17 PM] Cam** Cam rests a hand on her pistol --- **[5/9/2026, 4:22:12 PM] Rob** What's the name of this place again? Carfax Abby? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:22:14 PM] Random** very pale? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:22:26 PM] Nyx** Ooo fancy --- **[5/9/2026, 4:24:09 PM] Rob** Dracula, actually. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:24:24 PM] Rob** Fair. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:24:57 PM] Cam** No intentions. We needed somewhere safe to remove some kind of tracking ritual from our friends. This seemed our best option at the time. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:24:57 PM] Rob** So does attuning give someone the chance to see anything about the carriage from this distance away? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:25:16 PM] Random** oh nothing much. maybe oping a tea and cakes shop. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:25:47 PM] Veth** that is one way to put it. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:25:48 PM] Cam** He's dead by his own hand. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:25:53 PM] Boo** You can say that. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:26:06 PM] Nyx** Nyx presses her nose against the glass --- **[5/9/2026, 4:26:08 PM] Boo** Still ius. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:26:50 PM] Cam** We would be very interested in obtaining your approval to use this place, if we could. Thank you. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:26:58 PM] Boo** Boo takes the card and tucks it away --- **[5/9/2026, 4:27:20 PM] Boo** We will come visit forthwith. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:27:21 PM] Rob** Mental note. Next time, look into who owns a place before planning on adding it to our turf. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:27:42 PM] Cam** Cam nods to the coachman --- **[5/9/2026, 4:27:52 PM] Boo** how should we address you Sir? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:28:15 PM] Boo** Boo sighs --- **[5/9/2026, 4:28:31 PM] Random** they are gone take a closer look at the card --- **[5/9/2026, 4:28:33 PM] Cam** Who knows? Maybe they'll be easier to deal with than the Reclaimers. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:28:37 PM] Cam** Cam heads back inside --- **[5/9/2026, 4:28:39 PM] Random** one they are --- **[5/9/2026, 4:28:41 PM] Cam** Cam relays what happened --- **[5/9/2026, 4:28:53 PM] Boo** Boo follows --- **[5/9/2026, 4:29:12 PM] Nyx** I like the fanciness --- **[5/9/2026, 4:29:26 PM] Nyx** Maybe they want to be friends? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:29:33 PM] Cam** Wealth and power. *sounds envious* --- **[5/9/2026, 4:29:36 PM] Random** now... six towers. is that where we were following the maid that one time? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:29:58 PM] Cam** Friends? Doubtful. But if this is their territory, we can at least be friendly. One war is enough. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:30:07 PM] Random** got it. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:30:28 PM] Crow** Crow scratches his chin --- **[5/9/2026, 4:30:39 PM] Crow** We seem to have a knack for getting tangled up in things lately. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:30:42 PM] Boo** we need to clean up some before we go a visiting. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:30:42 PM] Cam** Cam snorts --- **[5/9/2026, 4:31:16 PM] Nyx** I will make a gift for the fancy lady. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:31:35 PM] Crow** Crow gives Nyx a side-eyed look but keeps his mouth shut --- **[5/9/2026, 4:32:04 PM] Cam** Ok, everyone take a little time off, then regroup two blocks west (or wherever). We'll double check for tracking and figure out what comes next. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:32:09 PM] Nyx** Perfume...I bet she wears perfume. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:32:25 PM] Nyx** Nyx mumbles to herself...fancy ladies love perfume --- **[5/9/2026, 4:32:33 PM] Rob** Which may be what these sisters also smell like... --- **[5/9/2026, 4:32:34 PM] Michelle** So downtime, regroup, verify no new trackers, then come back to the carriage house. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:33:17 PM] Michelle** yeah --- **[5/9/2026, 4:34:21 PM] Random** that should do good for our own rep. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:35:10 PM] Cam** Cam rounds the group up --- **[5/9/2026, 4:35:53 PM] Cam** OK, my hopes to bury the hatchet with the Reclaimers really went south there. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:36:02 PM] Crow** Crow shrugs --- **[5/9/2026, 4:36:18 PM] Boo** yes. they all must die now. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:36:18 PM] Cam** We still don't know where to find Venn. They've amassed as many toughs as they can. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:36:45 PM] Crow** How long can they pay them, though? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:36:46 PM] Boo** Boo sips some soothing tea and makes a face "can this taste better Nyx?" --- **[5/9/2026, 4:36:49 PM] Cam** And the Glasskeys have expressly warned us about adding more bodies to the pile. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:37:00 PM] Nyx** Um, I thought it tasted good. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:37:19 PM] Cam** I'm open to suggestions on a new tack. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:37:24 PM] Nyx** Nyx shrugs and rummages . --- **[5/9/2026, 4:37:27 PM] Boo** Boo squints at Nyx, then shrugs and takes another sip --- **[5/9/2026, 4:37:55 PM] Nyx** Adds a drop of gold liquid to Boo's cup. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:38:02 PM] Nyx** That should sweeten --- **[5/9/2026, 4:38:06 PM] Crow** Getting rid of Venn and Malus still seems like the right play. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:38:17 PM] Boo** Boo sips and nods. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:38:35 PM] Cam** Malus is still in jail. We won't have a shot at him for a couple more weeks. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:38:35 PM] Rob** Crow still wants him dead, so he may be biased. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:38:54 PM] Crow** Getting rid of Venn before he gets out would go a long way, then. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:38:56 PM] Boo** Cam, yes the Keys said no more bodies. and we tried. but they started it by tyring to add our bodies. that changes the equations. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:39:42 PM] Cam** *nods to Boo* So how do we get to Venn without having to pick off a small army? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:40:01 PM] Cam** Pretty sure we're all targets, so even sneaking in there is a risk. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:40:10 PM] Boo** send him a ghost baked into a cake? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:40:47 PM] Crow** Hrm. We have to figure out where he is first, which... we haven't done so well at. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:41:15 PM] Crow** I mean in order to get to him. The cake idea is... an option, I guess? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:41:32 PM] Cam** Cam shakes her head --- **[5/9/2026, 4:41:49 PM] Rob** Yeah, but it's a crapshoot about whether or not he'd be at one we hit. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:42:03 PM] Nyx** Nyx busies herself crushing floral scented herbs. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:42:53 PM] Random** since I know the ritual to break the tracer, do I also know the ritual on how to make tracer? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:43:26 PM] Michelle** Yeah, I think we're going to have to either sweet talk, buy off, or rough up some people to get what we want. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:43:34 PM] Boo** Boo makes another ritual research note for the pile. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:43:50 PM] Rob** I don't think any of our sweet talkers are present right now. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:44:15 PM] Nyx** Nyx removes a finger from her bag, makes a slit along the dehydrated flesh. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:44:40 PM] Rob** Slowly grind them down, in other words? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:44:48 PM] Boo** Boo watches Nyx with casual interest --- **[5/9/2026, 4:45:35 PM] Rob** Do we have the resources to claim and hold such turf? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:45:57 PM] Random** I think the first order is to visit the kind ladies of the coachhouse. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:46:13 PM] Random** before they become..... miffed. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:46:16 PM] Nyx** Nyx scrapes dried blood from the interior flesh and adds it to the herbs, then mashes it in. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:46:46 PM] Michelle** put up their map again, please? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:46:52 PM] Boo** Whatcha makin' Nyx? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:47:02 PM] Nyx** Perfume. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:47:19 PM] Boo** Boo ponders a bit and then nods. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:47:37 PM] Nyx** Nyx sniffs at the mixture and smiles --- **[5/9/2026, 4:49:04 PM] Nyx** Nyx stuffs the mixture in a bottle, half filled with alcohol, corks it, and places it in her bag. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:49:12 PM] Rob** My brain seems to be stuck in neutral. So this would work like a series of Jobs to whittle away at their territory? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:49:17 PM] debinani** Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I mean, you know, what what sort of what sort of what sort of control would they have over over a territory. Um, you know what what what makes it theirs? Maybe there's a maybe there's a bar and um, and you guys go and and drive them out and keep them out. Uh or blow it up or do whatever you want to do. Maybe there's a um, uh you know a series of shops that are all paying uh protection to them. And you guys go and and say, listen, you could pay us instead and uh we'll uh, you know, we'll keep the reclaimers we'll keep the reclaimers away. You know. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:50:00 PM] Rob** "Hey mister, you forgot your briefcase!" --- **[5/9/2026, 4:50:00 PM] Boo** put a small black ribbon on the bottle. good perfume comes adorned with things like that. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:50:27 PM] Nyx** Nyx wraps the finger in cloth and puts it back in her bag. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:50:40 PM] Rob** Thoughts from Cam? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:50:45 PM] Nyx** No, it's not ready. It must marinate. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:50:57 PM] Michelle** Sorry, thinking --- **[5/9/2026, 4:50:57 PM] Nyx** 2 weeks to be perfect. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:51:12 PM] debinani** Uh yes, that whole Bellweather area um is you know, no gangs really claim it uh because there's just a lot of government, right? Bellweather's sort of owned by the spirit wardens. And then that area of the old quarter uh is um, it's where all like the government offices and whatnot are and there really aren't a whole lot of gangs that claim that. I mean you could say that the actual government itself is the faction that claims that territory. As well as the the bluecoat headquarters for all of Duskwall is there and, you know, it's just not really gang territory. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:51:13 PM] Michelle** Most of Bellweather belongs to the dead/ghost management people, right? --- **[5/9/2026, 4:52:53 PM] debinani** I can't for the life of me figure out how I got those notes on the on the map with the showing where the ink and anvil and stuff are. I mean, so mechanically mechanically what you guys would want to do is probably a couple of gather information rolls to figure out like what makes the reclaimers tick, like what makes their territory their territory. And then, you know, come up with an approach to uh make it yours instead. And you've tried this a couple of times and just rolled terribly. And so that's why y'all just that's why the whole thing just feels like this impenetrable fortress because every time you guys try to walk in there you just you just fail. Well, and you know, you can pass some money around, you could hire you could hire folks to to go, you could grease some pockets. I mean there's a lot you could do. They had a good plan. Bad rolls. It certainly does not. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:53:01 PM] Michelle** What if we check the underground near say Wormwood bridge to set up a post, then look for a building/business on the other side to claim? At least get a foothold and a clear bridge in the area before sniping at territory. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:54:02 PM] Michelle** Yeah, and now they're shooting at us on sight --- **[5/9/2026, 4:54:20 PM] Rob** And the Old Time Echoes pass into history through bad die rolls. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:54:20 PM] Random** the rng hates uus. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:54:28 PM] Michelle** heh --- **[5/9/2026, 4:54:42 PM] Rob** No plan survives first contact with RNG. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:55:16 PM] Michelle** Yeah, since we're short on time, let's say we'll go visit the Sisters first next time, then go on an info collection campaign. See what we dig up. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:55:39 PM] debinani** Okay, so the idea is make sure you don't get crossways with the sisters because you used this as a safe house. And um, and then continue to figure out how to deal with the reclaimers in one way or another. Um, okay, uh let's see. We can yeah, I mean I'll let you use it as um if you guys do a ritual to purge it, you can actually use it as your um covert drops turf, um which would be plus two coin in your payoff for scores that involve espionage or sabotage. So uh and it adds turf. The more turf you have, the less rep you need to go up in tier. So turf is a universally good thing to acquire. Um, okay, so for we'll we'll we'll call it there then. Um, so we could do the 23rd, um the next date would be the 6th. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:55:44 PM] Michelle** Though I probably won't be at the next one, so feel free to go off the rails. hehe --- **[5/9/2026, 4:56:02 PM] Michelle** Def want their approval to use this place. It has potential. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:56:58 PM] Rob** I can do either. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:56:59 PM] Cam** 6th for me --- **[5/9/2026, 4:57:08 PM] Random** I'm good with both --- **[5/9/2026, 4:57:16 PM] debinani** Okay, how about since that's Memorial Day weekend, I have no idea what's coming up. Why don't we just go ahead and just make it the 6th and then we will go from there. Good job escaping certain death. At one point, we're going to say, we're going to say that takes about a week. So, we started on New Year's and it is now January 7th. At some point during that week, um you guys are all at the carriage house. Let's just say it's let's just say it's it's shortly after Quellin finishes her ritual and leaves, before you all sort of scatter to go um do what whatever it is you're going to to do to yourselves. And um, uh you're still at the carriage house because it just feels a hell of a lot safer than anywhere else. And a um, a massive, not a massive, a black carriage, very, very beautiful, very understated, uh but very, very expensive looking, uh black lacquered carriage, uh uh pulled by four just huge Acrosian goats, um pulls up to the front gate of the manor house and stops kind of on the road. Um, it's a it's a quiet let's call it morning, uh there's not a lot of foot traffic going on out there. Um, obviously nothing's happening at the manor house itself, you guys have been in the carriage house for a couple of days. Um, and and it just stops. The uh the driver of the carriage pops off, he's a um small stout fellow, uh dressed in very fine, very dark um coachman's clothes, uh and uh he notices you guys are looking at him out the window and um just kind of stands next to the the carriage door and looks at you guys looking out at him patiently. Nyx's compensating for your sneakiness. Uh, yeah. The um the ghosts are a little less present uh in the mornings anyway. So you kind of look both ways and and uh scurry, uh no other word is is quite appropriate for how you guys dodge the ghosts outside the carriage house. Um, you scurry uh out to uh um out to uh the the carriage. Um you walk up and uh the uh the coachman, you know just gives you a curt little nod and knocks gently uh twice on the the door to the carriage. Um, the uh a little I'd say it was a window, but really it is a the the door to the carriage there's a um very like beautiful elegant like tracery like iron or tin tracery where a window would be and a um a shutter is slid back from that tracery and inside the the shadows of the carriage you see a you're assuming a woman, um very uh slender, uh you think she's got very delicate features, but she's wearing a black veil, uh a black lace veil and uh very very fine uh black um black uh clothes. And uh she when she speaks, uh it um she speaks really quietly and really softly and you almost have to kind of lean in to hear her. Um, but um but she uh she basically says "This is my sister's territory. We've felt your rituals and we've heard your comings and goings. What are your intentions?" You are fairly certain that this woman is either a member of or a representative of the Dimmer Sisters, which is a um criminal faction of very, very weird witchy chicks. Um, it's a um they are very, very big, very, very powerful, and um, um and generally very, very spooky. And you all oh, you didn't actually look into this at all. You were unaware that this was in their territory. I mean everything is somebody's territory, but as it turns out maybe this is in the Dimmer Sisters' territory. So, anyway. Are you asking what the name of the mansion was or are you making a UO gag? Sorry, I see the word Abby and I think UO. Uh yeah, I mean it I guess if you wanted to see anything anything weird about the um the carriage. She uh she tilts her head slightly. "Interesting. I believe there was a professor staying here for some number of months. Has he moved on?" Pity. He was quiet. Well. You have been so advised that this is our territory. If you wish to stay, we uh would invite you to come speak to us first at our at our manor. And the coachman pulls a little um essentially a business card uh from his pocket and he um and he hands it to you. And it's got a an address in in Six Towers on it. Remember you guys were thinking of uh purging um, you know cleansing the place so that you could use this as part of your turf. "Very well. We will we will speak with you soon then." And uh the shutter closes and the coachman uh smiles slightly at you and and and says "They're all like that." And then he gets back up onto the coach and hits the leads and the goats angrily, because that's all goats ever are is angry, they uh they trot off down the road. He does not give you his name. The card itself is literally just a small Victorian calling card, uh it doesn't have any names on it or anything but in a nice in a nice flowing hand it has a an address in Six Towers. Uh no, uh you were following the maid across the bridge from Charter Hall to Brightstone, which is where the fabulously wealthy live. Um Six Towers is where the fabulously wealthy used to live until six or seven families of the the six families of the fabulously wealthy decided to rise up against the Emperor, and the Emperor came and crushed them to a man, uh you know and wiped out their entire lines, and the whole district has sort of fallen into relative disrepair. Yeah and this like I said this moment this beat happened before you guys kind of separated to go do your whatevers. I just um I want I want them to catch you while you were still at the carriage house. Nyx who smells like ether and the dead, um Okay, so uh um so everybody goes off you know for the rest of the week, they do their thing, um Nyx, you know ministers to Boo as well she can and Boo you know spends a whole lot of time just like recovering. Um and um about a week goes by, like I said we come to the 7th and you all reconvene at the carriage house and um both Boo and Crow verify that the trackers on Eidolon and Freakshow are seemingly completely gone. Quellin did a good Quellin did fine work. So the looking over the shoulder um has gotten pretty bad. Uh it's pretty distracting. Um the um you know word has definitely gotten out that the reclaimer circle spent a lot of money uh to try to pin you guys down and you got away. And that has just made them more pissed and agitated. Um they don't have a lot of core members left. They are they are spending money to to hire just unaffiliated toughs off the street. It is, in fact, um you guys I mean that wasn't really that wasn't really a score, but you guys did essentially collect heat from the downtime. I'll go ahead and give you I'm actually going to give you um they're technically a weaker tier than you are now, but I'll give you I'll give you two rep for for uh for evading their evading their assassins. Group is rounded up. Uh the ghosts that had been hanging around here they they're not gone but they're not like guarding like they used to. You think that might have been something that um that Lancaster was doing to keep them keep them close to the carriage house. So it's a little easier to get in and out. --- **[5/9/2026, 4:57:29 PM] Rob** Works for me! --- **[5/9/2026, 4:57:38 PM] Cam** Sounds good. Thanks Deb! --- **[5/9/2026, 4:57:46 PM] Rob** Good job nearly killing us all! --- **[5/9/2026, 4:57:50 PM] Random** ok! --- **[5/9/2026, 4:57:51 PM] Veth** Thanks deb! --- **[5/9/2026, 4:57:54 PM] Jen** take care all! --- **[5/9/2026, 4:57:56 PM] Rob** Thanks, Deb --- **[5/9/2026, 4:57:59 PM] Cam** We're weasely sometimes --- **[5/9/2026, 4:58:06 PM] Random** do I get xp for figuring out the tracker? ---