**[6/27/2026, 2:26:13 PM] Kristian** annnnnd it's gone --- **[6/27/2026, 2:27:34 PM] Michelle** poof --- **[6/27/2026, 2:28:00 PM] Random** I have no memory of this place... anymore. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:31:23 PM] Kristian** gotchu boo --- **[6/27/2026, 2:31:24 PM] Rob** Heard you --- **[6/27/2026, 2:31:46 PM] Michelle** dangit. I didn't. Hold on --- **[6/27/2026, 2:32:11 PM] Michelle** Try again, please? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:32:26 PM] Random** separate checks please. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:32:29 PM] Michelle** That's better --- **[6/27/2026, 2:32:48 PM] debinani** Yeah, yeah, I don't know what the hell you're doing. Let's see. Yeah, yeah, no worries. He didn't say that his summer Saturdays were going to be complicated. Okay, so if I recall correctly, you guys are hyper focused on how to put it into the reclamor circle because enough is enough. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:32:56 PM] Rob** If I read the session notes correctly, we're all going on a keg run today, right? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:33:06 PM] Michelle** yup --- **[6/27/2026, 2:33:17 PM] Michelle** LOL. Watcher found our path in and isn't here though --- **[6/27/2026, 2:33:34 PM] debinani** There are a number of rumors running around like the the meridian, which is a a fellow who moves goods for them. And then you all staked out the was at the mortar and pestle, which was a bar. That a majority of the reclamor circle hang out in the in the alchemist district. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:34:09 PM] debinani** As you were staking it out, you discovered that they are supplied by a place called Stilman's Distillery in Night Market. You asked around a little bit, you talked to Mara, you talked to a chigger nine run, who's a regular at the Enconanville. And they confirmed that Stilman Distillery Night Market, a lot of people get their booze from there. You know that they are a full service supplier of many drinking establishments in in dust fall. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:34:27 PM] Random** can we put a ghost jar inside the keg so that when it's tapped they'll get a spirit of a different sort? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:34:46 PM] debinani** And they're also an importer. So you guys decided in the evening of January 9th to head over to Stilman's Distillery in Night Market. It is the first under level. And essentially it's just a loading door and a personnel door in a brick wall. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:35:22 PM] debinani** And it's locked up and it's dark and there's no traffic. Because it's nighttime. One second. So trying to figure out exactly how to get into this place, watcher who suddenly becomes ill and waters off had used the ghost site and seen that this foundation used to be under a really big watch tower. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:36:03 PM] debinani** And it goes several layers deep and there used to be a door right over here where this wall is. So theoretically, you guys don't have to break in and enter through the doors there. You can break in and through a door that was at some point in the past. So here you are, huddled outside Stilman's Distillery at night. And I believe the intention was you were going to try to drug or poison the supply at the mortar and pestle. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:36:41 PM] debinani** I think that was the plan. I don't recall entirely how you all intended to do that or how severe you all intended to be. But that's how we found ourselves at Stilman's Distillery. And you guys have theoretically have a way in that doesn't involve the doors, but would involve a group attuned check. So here you are. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:37:10 PM] Michelle** Yeah, Nyx made something to make them sick if we can tamper with their next shipment. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:37:18 PM] debinani** Watchers group checks only count for Pral. Yeah, a lot of you are pretty stressed out. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:37:30 PM] Michelle** Demoralize, weaken, and swipe a guy to press about finding their boss --- **[6/27/2026, 2:37:35 PM] Rob** A group check and Watcher is not here. Yay. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:37:47 PM] Kristian** how is everyone overall doing for stress? I'm 4 away from max...feel like our stress economy is sucking --- **[6/27/2026, 2:37:54 PM] Rob** Ah, my mistake. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:01 PM] Rob** I have no stress. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:04 PM] Kristian** or is that too meta to ask.. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:12 PM] Michelle** CAm' --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:15 PM] debinani** So this only one downtime per or only one action per down only one downtime action per downtime is getting old. That's sort of why the focus on the reclaimer circle. Oh shit, you're hurt too. How do you manage that? Oh, that was from that was from when you. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:17 PM] Michelle** Cam is getting up there --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:19 PM] Kristian** "OI ME BOLLOCKS ARE STRESSED" --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:19 PM] Random** I'm stressed and hurt --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:33 PM] Random** phsyci backlash' --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:33 PM] Cam** Alright, let's see what's behind this "door" here. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:37 PM] Rob** Exactly. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:46 PM] debinani** Jimmy the tracker off of idle honor freak show somebody right. Okay, so were you guys going to hold hands and and click your heels three times and wish your way through the brick wall. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:52 PM] Random** right. and it's not been heled up yet --- **[6/27/2026, 2:38:59 PM] Cam** We need to find records or some way to identify the next shipment for the Circle. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:39:12 PM] Rob** Crow can lead the group Attune. I would hope we can't find a way for him to go from 0 stress to Trauma with one check... --- **[6/27/2026, 2:39:28 PM] Cam** Cam glances at Boo and Nyx --- **[6/27/2026, 2:39:40 PM] Cam** Not really worried about sticky fingers either. *winks* --- **[6/27/2026, 2:39:41 PM] debinani** All right, so crow is going to lead the lead the action. Is that is that we decided? Probably the only person amongst you who is if you all fail, won't immediately get trauma. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:39:47 PM] Random** clicks her heels. there's no place like the other side. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:39:55 PM] Nyx** Nyx coughs --- **[6/27/2026, 2:39:59 PM] Crow** Casks are a bit hard to slip into a hidden pocket. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:40:23 PM] debinani** I mean, it's controlled standard. There's nobody on the street. You guys can stop and think about it real hard. It's a really quiet night. So yeah, everybody make it a funeral. Okay. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:40:32 PM] Rob** That seems to be the case. Risky Standard? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:40:32 PM] Michelle** That would be nice --- **[6/27/2026, 2:40:33 PM] Boo** Attune Controlled | Standard Failure You falter. Press on by seizing a risky opportunity, or withdraw and try a different approach. 3 1d6 = 3 = 3 --- **[6/27/2026, 2:40:51 PM] Crow** 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. 3 4 2d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[6/27/2026, 2:40:59 PM] Freakshow** Attune 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 --- **[6/27/2026, 2:41:03 PM] Cam** 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. 5 1d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[6/27/2026, 2:41:03 PM] debinani** All right, so. So that's three stress to crow. Could have been worse could have been five, I guess. Yes, well, as yeah, Nick says, I'm sorry, boo is boo is still a little brain fried literally. Okay, so you all join hands and think about it real hard and and you pass through the door that was some point in the past. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:41:09 PM] Nyx** 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. 3 3 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[6/27/2026, 2:41:10 PM] Random** -1d hurts. /sighs --- **[6/27/2026, 2:41:20 PM] Michelle** oh boy --- **[6/27/2026, 2:41:30 PM] Rob** I am disappointed in Boo. The only other person who would have a decent Attune failed. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:41:46 PM] debinani** Essentially through the brick wall into the body of stillness to stillery beyond. And it is a partial success was as good as you got. And I will explain the complication later when you find out about. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:41:47 PM] Random** I'm -1d on all rolls until I get some more doctoring. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:42:17 PM] debinani** Oh, crow one XP from the session before last because we didn't do XP. Sorry, look at my notes. Okay, so you pass through the wall and you get to the other side and boo you you turn around and kind of instinctively look behind you. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:42:19 PM] Rob** -1d? Ouch. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:42:40 PM] Rob** Ah, excellent. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:42:56 PM] debinani** And you realize that your passage unlike usual your passage through the wall has left a fingerprint. It's left an impression left a psychic memory of your passing. So FYI. Not just your specific passing of all of yours passing through the wall. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:43:23 PM] Boo** uh guys. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:43:32 PM] debinani** Okay. It is essentially just a ripple in the ghost field. I mean, it's not like it's got your faces plastered against it or anything like that. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:43:35 PM] Boo** we''ve left a trace --- **[6/27/2026, 2:43:53 PM] Boo** Boo exmines it closer. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:44:00 PM] Crow** Grand... --- **[6/27/2026, 2:44:02 PM] Cam** *quietly* What? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:44:03 PM] Random** can it tell who did it? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:44:09 PM] debinani** It's just it's just that it's just that you left a mark. Right. And no, because it is the consequence of a die roll, you cannot fix it. The consequence is that you left tracks. Of course, you could blow up the whole wall burn the place down, whatever, right, all possible. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:44:23 PM] Rob** Is there some way for us to somehow 'fix' it? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:44:44 PM] debinani** But anyway, so here you are. The first level of stillness distillery is the first level of stillness is essentially a front office and a loading dock. So what you've got is a number of bays like marked out with essentially little bits of rope and and stones where within them are stacked kegs of beer smaller casks of spirits. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:44:45 PM] Boo** Not sure if it's a detection spell or just a fluke. but we need to be extra careful --- **[6/27/2026, 2:44:50 PM] Kristian** we could blow up the whole wall --- **[6/27/2026, 2:45:06 PM] Kristian** can't leave evidence if everything is on fire! :) --- **[6/27/2026, 2:45:25 PM] debinani** The occasional shelf with a bottle or two, a named bottle or two on it. There's probably about seven or eight bays and it looks like they've all been staged for tomorrow morning still livery's. And then there is a essentially a little podium kind of buy the big double doors where you know a clerk would be you know acknowledging the carts that pull up and checking out the deliveries and whatnot, you know, and taking notes. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:46:05 PM] debinani** There's nothing much going on there right now. It looks like it's been it's clear. And then there is a in the back. There is a small office very, very small office, just a number of with a desk and essentially a file cabinet and a lamp and whatnot. It's completely dark in here. You guys are using your your little algae little handheld algae lamps to to cask cast a dim light around in here. And then in the very very back. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:46:08 PM] Random** any small bottles in view? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:46:37 PM] debinani** You know behind the bays there is what looks like a great kind of a platform an elevator that goes that that with a pulley system that that descends further probably you know there this place is probably multiple levels where they're brewing or distilling and they may even be growing their own mushrooms. You know who knows what's going on below this level, but there's a large lift maybe seven or eight feet by six feet that that can be lifted up and are down not up but down further. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:47:20 PM] debinani** And there's also a looks like there's a stairwell down on the other side of the office for human size peoples. There are there are some like pint size bottles. There's some like half court bottles of of spirits on on the walls lowercase S spirits on the walls. You know bourbons a. Iruvian jeans a couple of couple of things nothing nothing incredibly top shelf. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:47:57 PM] Boo** Boo pockets a pretty half pint --- **[6/27/2026, 2:47:58 PM] debinani** But there are a couple of imports if you're interested in swiping you know booze. All right you swipe you you swipe a half a half pint of you don't even recognize the writing it's it's a it's a it the bottles dusty and even though it was on a shelf for delivery wherever they got it from was dusty and it looks like it's a it's an American bourbon which is very very rare because America --- **[6/27/2026, 2:48:37 PM] debinani** was ground zero of the freaking apocalypse thank you holding and and and but you don't recognize the writing it looks like it might be maybe a Navajo. No no not where it's at this this came out of a dusty crate somewhere and was set on the shelf to be delivered to a bar. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:48:48 PM] Cam** Let's see if there's any identifiers on these shipments. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:48:48 PM] Random** is there a dust ring were it sat? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:02 PM] Rob** It's not my fault! --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:04 PM] Freakshow** We taking a break for libations are we? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:05 PM] Michelle** dammit Holden! --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:13 PM] debinani** It's gin it's it's an Iruvian gin it smells like gin. Like juniper berries and booze. No no no the shelf was not dusty just the bottle was dusty. So the the casks everything in a barrel here was either brewed or distilled at stillman's they're all carrying the mark the maker's mark of stillman's distillery. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:18 PM] Nyx** Nyx strolls over to a bottle, uncorks it and sniffs --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:19 PM] Random** check jsut seeing if i needed to clean a bit. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:26 PM] Rob** Hopefully it isn't actually a bottle of djinn. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:32 PM] Kristian** pft, we all know native americans don't know anything about whiskey, I bet it's swill --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:33 PM] Random** I'll examine my bottle later. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:49 PM] Cam** Cam starts checking casks for any markings --- **[6/27/2026, 2:49:59 PM] debinani** There are a couple well yeah there's probably two different brews of beer one is a you know much higher quality one is essentially you know go into the go into the low rent bars. And then there are several small pony kegs or pony small barrels right you know look little 12 18 inch barrels of spirits and again all of which marked with the with the stillman distillery basically they looks like they distilled some two varieties of scotch and a variety of gin here or --- **[6/27/2026, 2:50:13 PM] Nyx** Nyx glances at Cam, recorks and puts it back. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:50:34 PM] Nyx** Nyx helps check for markings --- **[6/27/2026, 2:50:42 PM] Random** any notes of of which bays goes to which establishment.... specifically what shipment is going to our marks place? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:50:44 PM] debinani** somewhere that they own not out in the staging area there's not no nor on the little podium there's no paperwork or anything on the podium. They are all the bays are all numbered you know like one through eight. Yep there's a small looks like it's just a typical little business office for a joint like this. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:51:16 PM] Michelle** Was just about to ask that. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:51:16 PM] Random** door locked? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:51:23 PM] Michelle** You said there was a small office up here? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:51:23 PM] debinani** Nope nope not locked they've got incredibly heavy duty doors on the outside of this joint so the interior you know soft squishy center hard at her shell sort of sort of security at least so far I mean yeah maybe they have a whole place rig to blow you don't know. Okay so tiny little business office it it kind of it smells of like cigar smoke and you know sweat and a little smells ever so slightly hoppy like like a brewed brewed beer like I said there are a couple file cabinets there is a desk that is surprisingly neat and tidy. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:51:35 PM] Cam** Cam heads to the office --- **[6/27/2026, 2:51:58 PM] Cam** Cam riffles around quietly --- **[6/27/2026, 2:52:15 PM] debinani** Some quills and ink pots as well as just some charcoal pencils and there does appear to be a log book you know for looks like the morning the morning orders are all kind of stacked up neatly on top of the desk. Okay so there are there's a stack of probably 25 maybe 30 order forms on. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:52:46 PM] Random** reads over cam's shoulder --- **[6/27/2026, 2:52:57 PM] Cam** Cam reads the books --- **[6/27/2026, 2:53:07 PM] Rob** Crow is going to try and attune to check this place out from a different perspective. Make sure we aren't triggering any silent alarms or anything. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:53:13 PM] debinani** I'm going to say paper it's not wood pulp but it's the dust fall equivalent of paper. And they're they're all handwritten the top eight forms actually have a what you're assuming is a bay number on them and then and then there are you know maybe 20 20ish more orders in the stack. Crow you can go ahead and make a attuneral. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:53:55 PM] debinani** The troll standard is fine you're not under any stress here everything is fine. Okay really you take a look and there's just there's really just nothing there's nothing to see at least not not here there's no as far as you can tell there's no. Silent alarms or any any there's nothing going on in the ghost field in this place in fact the only thing literally the only thing you see in the ghost field is you see echoes of humans around the bay right probably yesterday's activity people people coming and going and moving barrels from the lift to the base and from the bays out the door. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:54:03 PM] Rob** Risky Standard? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:54:11 PM] Crow** 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 --- **[6/27/2026, 2:54:50 PM] debinani** And you see the kind of psychic scar on the wall where you guys came through and that's it. The first eight orders in the stack I'm assuming you're looking for anything going to the mortar and pestle and the first eight are not going to the mortar and pestle. You scroll a little bit further and down close to the bottom of the stack there is a order for the more and now you do see I mean you get a list of essentially all the bars and private establishments and in fact a couple of personal. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:55:35 PM] debinani** You know civilian homes that are ordering from this place tomorrow not that. None of them don't apologize you there is an order in the stack for the mortal for the mortar and pestle it is close to the bottom of the stack and it is the kind of a small daily replenish order in fact that's actually what it says it says daily replenish it's two kegs of two kegs of their standard ale and scheduled for pickup tomorrow afternoon by. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:56:01 PM] Cam** Cam jots some notes on who customers are --- **[6/27/2026, 2:56:11 PM] debinani** The name of a career Steve and and then. It actually says a payer on file at the at the bottom of it. You assume because there knows there's no bay number or those two barrels of beer haven't been staged yet. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:56:47 PM] Random** does it say when the pick up is? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:57:01 PM] debinani** Actually it does say it says that the Steve is going to pick up this order and three others three other small orders in the afternoon. So I think this guy Steve rolls a cart in loads of barrels for a couple of loads of replenishment for a couple different bars and goes and makes deliveries. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:57:03 PM] Michelle** But no bay number? They haven't staged it yet --- **[6/27/2026, 2:57:06 PM] Freakshow** Maybe we should grab a bottle of something nice, and include it with their order along with a little note about thanks for being a great customer? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:57:21 PM] Cam** Damn. They're not in the morning pickup. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:57:22 PM] Freakshow** In case they aren't just fans of beer... --- **[6/27/2026, 2:57:54 PM] debinani** you you --- **[6/27/2026, 2:57:56 PM] Random** we could waylay steve and bribe him tgo add in an extra bottle to the m&p.... maybe? --- **[6/27/2026, 2:58:18 PM] Crow** Of course it couldn't be that easy. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:58:27 PM] debinani** you you you you you you you you you you --- **[6/27/2026, 2:58:51 PM] Cam** Yeah. And I doubt there's any easy way to identify which casks they might pick if they're downtstairs. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:58:54 PM] Cam** Cam ponders --- **[6/27/2026, 2:59:00 PM] debinani** you you you --- **[6/27/2026, 2:59:29 PM] Kristian** we kidnap Steve, put on his clothes and a disguise kit, and do the delivery ourselves! --- **[6/27/2026, 2:59:48 PM] Random** or that. --- **[6/27/2026, 2:59:51 PM] debinani** you you you don't get any impression that this fellow Steve is I can't believe I can't believe we're now stuck with the name Steve but we'll go with it. This fellow Steve is an independent guy with a cart that just does deliveries all day. It's ducks fall door dash right I mean he doesn't work for stilman's he doesn't work for mortar and pestle. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:00:05 PM] Random** as I said, a bribe --- **[6/27/2026, 3:00:06 PM] Crow** If this Steve is just a courier, maybe we could offer him an incentive to allow us to do some tampering. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:00:27 PM] debinani** Yes at the bottom of so mortar and pestle's order is standard replenishment to two casks of the you know stillman's special light or whatever. Steve pick up you know sometime between like three and four p.m. and at the bottom it says payer on file. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:00:35 PM] Rob** What was that you said about a note regarding a payee or something? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:00:58 PM] Nyx** Or we could add it too all of the casks...make it look like a bad batch. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:01:11 PM] debinani** you you --- **[6/27/2026, 3:01:26 PM] Crow** Adding it to all the casks puts the blame on Sillman's. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:01:27 PM] Cam** Cam jerks a thumb toward the wall --- **[6/27/2026, 3:01:44 PM] debinani** you you you there are in fact two file cabinets here. beaten up rattly rusty old things but by god their file cabinets. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:01:46 PM] Nyx** Accident's happen --- **[6/27/2026, 3:01:46 PM] Cam** If we left a calling card, I'm not sure I want them doing a hard look around this place for that many bad batches. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:01:57 PM] Rob** Is there a file cabinet of some sort here? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:02:22 PM] Random** wonderr who the payer on file is. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:02:29 PM] debinani** you --- **[6/27/2026, 3:02:39 PM] Crow** Why don't see if we can find out who the 'payer' is? Maybe it'll have a useful address for us. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:02:39 PM] Cam** Cam Crow gets tetanus from touching them... --- **[6/27/2026, 3:02:45 PM] Michelle** oops. OOC there --- **[6/27/2026, 3:02:55 PM] Cam** Take a look. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:02:58 PM] Freakshow** It's probably Locket, and we're all doomed. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:03:00 PM] debinani** you you whoever runs this joint runs a pretty tight ship. Basically one file cabinet is entirely supply side and the other file cabinet is entirely demand side so that narrows it down pretty quick. One side basically got all the suppliers of the raw ingredients and importers and etcetera etcetera. And the other file cabinet essentially is the customer list. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:03:06 PM] Boo** Boo points to the cabinets. "you take one, I'll take the other." --- **[6/27/2026, 3:03:06 PM] Crow** Crow begins to carefully rummage through the file cabinets --- **[6/27/2026, 3:03:21 PM] Rob** Trying not to make it obvious they were searched --- **[6/27/2026, 3:03:31 PM] debinani** And so you are looking for a file for the mortar and pestle. It doesn't take too long. You're being careful not to ruffle any papers too much. Especially if whoever is the lord of this particular office is so meticulous. And you get to the file for the mortar and pestle. And inside there is essentially maybe 90 days of order history. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:04:07 PM] debinani** Nothing looks incredibly dramatic. You know the normal ups and downs of the various holidays and drinking events in the city. And then way back in the back of the file there is a record that says all deliveries to the mortar and pestle are on account on the account of one Mr. Aldrich then. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:04:43 PM] debinani** And one second. It basically says Aldrich then. And then street charter hall. And it says account at. You know there's a number and bank of dusk ball. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:05:19 PM] debinani** And as the first time you have seen Aldrich's Venn's names, attacked Aldrich Venn's name, attached to a location. I did pick the right guy right. Aldrich Venn is the reclaimed reciprocal too. Okay. Right on. I remember my own lord. Aldrich Venn. Camden street. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:05:35 PM] Boo** Boo makes careful notes. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:05:48 PM] Rob** Yes. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:05:53 PM] Kristian** yeah --- **[6/27/2026, 3:05:53 PM] Random** of all the details --- **[6/27/2026, 3:06:08 PM] debinani** And apparently a number to count at the bank of dusk ball. I would suggest breaking into the bank maybe more I would think more fishing sort of you know. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:06:15 PM] Random** afk a moment --- **[6/27/2026, 3:06:17 PM] Crow** Huh. I wonder if that's his actual living address. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:06:52 PM] Rob** So... our next job is to break into the bank and take his money from it, leaving him poor. That's the easiest path, right? Breaking into a highly secure bank? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:06:56 PM] Cam** It's more than we've gotten before. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:07:04 PM] debinani** I would say more of a white collar heist than a smashing grab when it comes to banks. But so this joint collects. So this joint collects funds on behalf of Aldrich Venn from the bank somehow. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:07:12 PM] Kristian** surely there is another way to do that --- **[6/27/2026, 3:07:17 PM] Kristian** joker heist? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:07:38 PM] debinani** Right. Maybe there's something maybe there's a maybe there's a real promissary note somewhere. But you know basically. This joints got access to some account of Venn's at the bank. So if you guys want to pursue that perhaps there's some play there that could you know drain his assets somehow. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:07:40 PM] Kristian** catfishing? Freakshow can probably pass as a sexy Skovlanian princess --- **[6/27/2026, 3:08:15 PM] debinani** I don't know. None of you have ever really been in the like the legitimate. Business of any kind before ever. So you you probably have to do some investigation to figure out. How how that authorization works. It's it's likely not. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:08:24 PM] Rob** What sort of information would we need to forge such a document? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:08:26 PM] Cam** Hey, if that one gives us Venn's bank account number, are there any others? Might be useful down the line. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:08:46 PM] debinani** It's likely not a face to face thing. It's probably there's probably some. There's probably some certificate of authenticity or something some promissary note. You know the equivalent of a blank check or revolving account that. The money changes the money actually changes hands via. None of which appear to be here. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:09:17 PM] debinani** Yeah, I mean you could see through the files and and see what other bars or establishments have. Essentially accounts on file. Okay. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:09:32 PM] Rob** We have to sign the document with our private key. Wait, sorry, wrong thing. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:09:47 PM] Michelle** Once we take out Venn, we could give that number to Locket as a good will gift. lol --- **[6/27/2026, 3:10:13 PM] debinani** Somebody make a study role. And your level of successful determine. Kind of what's going on. Yeah, I mean you do I mean yeah, I mean you guys are you guys are espionage folks. I mean this is this is good. Yeah, a lot of you do like Crow and Nick's and Boo all have like two dots. Study. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:10:22 PM] Michelle** And yeah, let's make a list of any other buyers and accounts if we can --- **[6/27/2026, 3:10:34 PM] Michelle** we deal in info and whatnot --- **[6/27/2026, 3:10:37 PM] Random** I have 2 dots in study, but have -1d. I can roll --- **[6/27/2026, 3:10:40 PM] Rob** Crow has 2 ranks in it --- **[6/27/2026, 3:10:49 PM] Michelle** What kind of roll? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:10:50 PM] debinani** Yeah, anybody. So one of you. So whoever's going to roll one of you can spend a stress point and give that person an extra die. Basically for any role. Sorry, it's been a long time for any role. You can get a max of two additional dice. The first die can come from others by them's helping you out and spending a stress point. The second can come from you by you others either spending two stress points or taking a devil's bargain. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:10:57 PM] Rob** It's been a while... how can we assist? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:10:59 PM] Michelle** I got nothing --- **[6/27/2026, 3:11:35 PM] debinani** Well, let's not have Boo role because Boo's rolling at a minus one. So either, either Nick's or how about next makes the role and Crow helps. It's all the same amount of dice. Everything else is superstition. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:11:43 PM] Rob** Ah, right. Okay, Crow can spend a stress point to help someone else out since he does have a bit to spare. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:11:50 PM] Jen** I can take the stress to help --- **[6/27/2026, 3:12:07 PM] debinani** Okay, and this is a the role is controlled and one second. Make it controlled and great. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:12:09 PM] Rob** That works. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:12:22 PM] Jen** ok --- **[6/27/2026, 3:12:29 PM] Rob** Stress has been marked. Go for it. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:12:47 PM] Nyx** Study Controlled | Great Partial Success You hesitate. Withdraw and try a different approach, or else do it with a minor consequence: a minor complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you suffer lesser harm, you end up in a risky position. 4 3 2d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[6/27/2026, 3:12:47 PM] debinani** Okay, re-roll with the extra die. Pretty much same result. Okay. So you you guys are all kind of sifting through all this paperwork. You're plucking out anytime, anytime it has accounts. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:13:15 PM] Nyx** Study Controlled | Great Partial Success You hesitate. Withdraw and try a different approach, or else do it with a minor consequence: a minor complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you suffer lesser harm, you end up in a risky position. 5 1 1 3d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[6/27/2026, 3:13:19 PM] debinani** And you get you get a list of about. Make a fortune. You get a list of about 15 different accounts on file. Most of them are for different bars and a couple of a couple of private, private buyers. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:13:26 PM] Random** takes notes as they find details. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:13:51 PM] Debinani** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 2 5 2d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[6/27/2026, 3:14:01 PM] debinani** But yeah, you get a handful of customers who have, who have accounts on file with stillman. And nobody you know. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:14:35 PM] debinani** One of the private buyers is a, an art dealer who has a has a shop in Charter Hall. But besides that, nobody, you know, I mean, you guys know bars and they're just bars. Nobody, nothing, nothing that, nothing, it stands out. If at some point in the future, you want to check against this list, we'll make a fortune roll and decide if, if whoever you're interested in may or may not be in the list. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:14:36 PM] Michelle** Anyone we know? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:15:20 PM] Michelle** ok --- **[6/27/2026, 3:15:23 PM] debinani** And hey, what do you know you have as account number for stillman's. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So you've got the rough time of a delivery pickup for tomorrow for mortar and pestle. You've got alder gvens account number with stillmans and you've got a street attached to alder gvens name, which may or may not be useful. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:15:37 PM] Kristian** "Who's this Epstein character?" --- **[6/27/2026, 3:15:55 PM] Rob** "No idea. There's a bunch of 'redacted' lines here." --- **[6/27/2026, 3:16:10 PM] Cam** Alright, I'm not comfortable with poisoning at random, so why don't we see about bribing a courier. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:16:18 PM] debinani** Thank you. Yes, and you do have a rough time frame in which this fellow Steve is supposed to be performing his pickup. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:16:20 PM] Boo** I'm good with that. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:16:48 PM] Crow** Or see about overdrawing Venn's account? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:16:48 PM] Boo** we have a vague time frame to stake the place out and find a guy who likes a Steve. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:16:48 PM] Cam** We move forward with this plan, and work on getting a street address for our rat Venn. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:16:56 PM] Boo** looks like a= --- **[6/27/2026, 3:17:06 PM] Cam** Sure, if anyone has a clue how to go about it. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:17:13 PM] debinani** Much like a plumber or an internet repair guy, it's between the hours of X and Y tomorrow afternoon. You flip through the orders, it looks like he's picking up eight total kegs of beer, which would be about enough to fill a goat drawn cart, a single goat drawn cart. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:17:26 PM] Random** how many kegs is Steve picking up total? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:17:59 PM] Michelle** Wait for someone to pass by, yell out "Hey Steve!", and if it's not him, then "oh, my mistake, thought you were someone else". --- **[6/27/2026, 3:18:09 PM] Crow** Hm. Let's discuss it once we're home. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:18:09 PM] debinani** Probably not those are cruising goats are pretty big, they're the size of ponies and they're mean. You could probably get yourself smelling like one, but looking like one would be a bit of a feat. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:18:18 PM] Boo** Boo poins that out. "this will halp narrow down potential Steves" --- **[6/27/2026, 3:18:45 PM] Kristian** can I use a disguise kit to take on the appearance of a goat? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:18:56 PM] debinani** Anything else anything else here at stillmans. Yeah, so you tidy up you straighten up. You have plenty of time I mean you're not expecting anybody to like roll in here, so you. You straighten everything up all neat and tidy, how are you going to get out. You're going to go through the wall or I mean you could just like go out the door, you'd have some trouble locking it from the other side, but could. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:19:02 PM] Kristian** ok so two of is do it. I call head! --- **[6/27/2026, 3:19:13 PM] Cam** Sounds good. Try to get rid of any evidence we've been here... well, other than the damn wall. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:19:28 PM] Rob** We set the place on fire to hide all evidence. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:19:36 PM] Boo** They could have forgotten to lock it last night...., --- **[6/27/2026, 3:19:44 PM] Rob** Yeah, re-locking it is the issue. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:19:48 PM] debinani** Yeah, like you get the impression that whoever is like operating this joint is a little type A yeah. You --- **[6/27/2026, 3:19:50 PM] Michelle** Back through the wall, I think --- **[6/27/2026, 3:20:12 PM] Crow** With how organized whomever cares for this place is? I doubt it. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:20:17 PM] Boo** no sign of forced entry. unlocked door. some slub gets in trouble that's all. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:20:37 PM] Kristian** Alcoholic? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:20:46 PM] debinani** know it's not a key it's a. Well, okay, yes, you're right, I mean somebody has to lock it from the outside, it is a key. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:20:49 PM] Rob** Or everyone else leaves by the door and one of us leaves by the wall after locking up. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:20:54 PM] Random** agreed. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:20:58 PM] Rob** Less stress that way! --- **[6/27/2026, 3:21:07 PM] Michelle** True --- **[6/27/2026, 3:21:18 PM] Boo** Boo checks the interior of the door for alarms --- **[6/27/2026, 3:21:24 PM] Michelle** If the locking mechanism is that simple and not a key. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:21:28 PM] debinani** But you can it's got a it's got a latch lock on the inside, so key on the outside latch on the inside like a dead bull. No alarms on the door, it's just a really big heavy door. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:06 PM] Cam** OK, who wants to try going through the wall on their own? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:08 PM] Rob** Okay, then let's do that. I mean, I presume the key unlocks the latch. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:08 PM] debinani** Okay, so you undead both the door, you haul the thing open, everybody but crow files out, crow closes the door, crow latches the door and crow attempts to walk through a wall with an attuneral. Yeah, that's fine. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:15 PM] Crow** I'll do it. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:21 PM] Crow** What's the worst that can happen? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:23 PM] Cam** Cam nods --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:35 PM] Boo** -- mutters -- never challenge worse. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:39 PM] debinani** And voila, you click your heels three times and walk through the wall, no problem. All right, so you all are headed back to charter hall and to home, which is a bit of a haul, but that's fine. Any particular any particular. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:41 PM] Rob** Controlled Standard? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:46 PM] Crow** Attune Risky | Standard Success You do it. 6 4 2d6 = 10 = 10 --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:48 PM] Michelle** Crow becomes part of the wall --- **[6/27/2026, 3:22:51 PM] Kristian** "oh no I am trapped inthis liquor warehouse" --- **[6/27/2026, 3:23:15 PM] debinani** You try to go underground as much as you can so you're not in the streets. Okay, all right, I will assume that unless told otherwise. So you guys get into the the night market underground is pretty much night market, but you get through night market, get across the charter hall, get into the tunnels, get all the way to your layer under the incandes and bill and your home without any sort of any sort of trouble. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:23:37 PM] Michelle** oh yeah --- **[6/27/2026, 3:23:47 PM] debinani** So now we are going to discuss how to deal with Steve. You do because you saw all of the different deliveries, you actually do know you don't know his exact route, but you do know the. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:24:28 PM] Random** and maybe get doctored up some. I just have one pie piece left to get rid of the die penalty. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:24:37 PM] Michelle** We need to intercept him either right off the distillery or before he gets to enemy territory --- **[6/27/2026, 3:24:46 PM] debinani** I said eight kegs, you do know the four places that he's intending to deliver to tomorrow, you don't know in what order, but it's it's you know there's a bar and night market, two bars and crow's foot and a and the mortar and pestle and charter hall. Healing is a downtime activity, so when you do downtime, that would be the time to do it. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:25:26 PM] debinani** But you're not going to do a downtime between now and Steve. Yeah, basically, if if you were Steve and you're not maybe Steve does things differently, if you were Steve, you would. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:25:33 PM] Random** pity --- **[6/27/2026, 3:26:12 PM] Cam** Cam maps out Steve's stops --- **[6/27/2026, 3:26:15 PM] debinani** Would hit the night market, then the two crow's foot and then mortar and pestle last or you would do mortar and pestle first and go back around it really kind of depends on where Steve's going to end up that. But who knows maybe Steve's got other motivations and we'll do things in a different order. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:27:02 PM] Kristian** sounds like a great opportunity to split the party! --- **[6/27/2026, 3:27:08 PM] debinani** Tomorrow is the day Steve just as fuck it steals the beer and makes off for you know lands unknown. Yeah, I mean the safe bet is once you identify Steve to never let him the hell out of your site. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:27:11 PM] Random** where is the best spot to intercept Steve from the distillary if he does to either one? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:27:15 PM] Rob** Steve is like Two Face and flips a coin at every intersection. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:27:18 PM] Freakshow** So hard way or less hard way? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:27:35 PM] Kristian** heard if we murder Steve we get 1 coin --- **[6/27/2026, 3:27:41 PM] Crow** Or unexpected way. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:27:43 PM] debinani** That's really the where the smart money is, so you would probably want to pick him up outside the distillery and then find a spot to do whatever it is you're going to do to him. You have no idea if Steve's the one who delivers that bar or not he's just the one who delivers to the bar tomorrow. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:28:09 PM] Cam** Let's set a watch on the distillery, and we'll pick our intercept based on where he goes. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:28:23 PM] Kristian** have a nice conversation about a timeshare in Abilene? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:28:31 PM] Rob** Drat. Did we pick up on whether Steve is always the one that delivers to that bar? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:28:32 PM] Cam** Maybe we'll get lucky and our target is last - don't have to mark the damn kegs then. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:28:43 PM] debinani** Not any that you reviewed. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:28:52 PM] Rob** Okay, wasn't sure if it was in the logs. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:29:16 PM] Random** steve is just a guy with a goat and a cart. he probably has regular client list he hauls for on roation. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:29:37 PM] Rob** Unknown to us, 'Steve' is the name of the goat pulling the cart. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:29:43 PM] debinani** Okay, so the plan is wait for tomorrow. Make your way across town as certitiously as you can and set up a stakeout essentially a midday stakeout at the distillery. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:30:02 PM] Michelle** heh --- **[6/27/2026, 3:30:17 PM] Michelle** Yeah, let's go with staking out the distillery and waiting for our guy --- **[6/27/2026, 3:30:41 PM] debinani** Okay, yeah, you just want to take a cab over that's that's a lot easier than crawling around in tunnels. Do any of you have friends that operate legitimate businesses with many customers like that. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:30:51 PM] Michelle** We can carriage over there again and just get dropped off a block away or something --- **[6/27/2026, 3:31:12 PM] Kristian** if I was Steve I'd probably have a couple goons with me if I was responsible for hauling around tons of coin worth of booze purchased by some unsavories... --- **[6/27/2026, 3:31:15 PM] Rob** Other question.... how would we go about researching what sort of document we'd need to draw from a bank account? Could we query any friends we have that actually operate a legitimate business? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:31:29 PM] debinani** The legitimate being somebody who would actually use a bank. You do have Mara. Yeah, perhaps she has accounts on file with different suppliers. Quellen is probably a little too to cash only. You got drug dealers blood dealers bureaucrats. Yeah, mostly your guys's relationships are all scoundrels but you do know more. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:31:41 PM] Kristian** define "legitimate" --- **[6/27/2026, 3:31:45 PM] Michelle** We have a bar tender upstairs --- **[6/27/2026, 3:32:00 PM] Kristian** perhaps she even knows Steve... --- **[6/27/2026, 3:32:10 PM] debinani** Who's your vice per per mayor. What is your vice oh your gambler so probably a large gambling house yeah sure they might know. Okay, so you all are you all are heading across town. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:32:14 PM] Rob** Actually, my vice purveyor would. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:32:23 PM] Rob** Large gambling house. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:32:31 PM] Kristian** we should probably be going out of our way to not be tying ourselves to anything with this activity...like being vague with questions and being disguised and such. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:32:32 PM] Rob** Lady Dusk. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:32:47 PM] Random** your vice perveyor is a bank. easy terms. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:33:01 PM] debinani** I will make one of you make a prowl role you can pick who this is whoever is the closest and really laying eyes on the door. The rest of you are certitiously kind of scattered about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:33:15 PM] Rob** I mean, she sort of is? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:33:34 PM] Rob** So our best at Prowl are Veth and Desius, right? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:33:34 PM] debinani** They're off doing stuff somewhere else. They're busy they're minding the till they're trading information there they are engaging in the day to day operations of your little criminal empire. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:33:47 PM] Random** I have 0 with a -1 --- **[6/27/2026, 3:33:50 PM] Michelle** I have 1 --- **[6/27/2026, 3:33:59 PM] Rob** I have 0. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:34:00 PM] Jen** I have a 1 --- **[6/27/2026, 3:34:11 PM] Rob** You're up, Boo. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:34:13 PM] debinani** So I'm going to actually going to add this to your sheet as a vice per mayor so lady dusk. Lady dusk at a gambling house. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:34:24 PM] Random** I will not be the fall for when it goes t up --- **[6/27/2026, 3:34:39 PM] Michelle** You want it, Nyx, or me? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:34:54 PM] Jen** go for it --- **[6/27/2026, 3:35:07 PM] Rob** Yeah, I forget the name of it. It'd be in the actual character creation stuff. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:35:07 PM] debinani** Oh, you you pluck that one out of the book. That's fine I can find it. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:35:21 PM] Jen** I've been rolling terribly --- **[6/27/2026, 3:35:21 PM] Rob** Our sheets need more space for this stuf --- **[6/27/2026, 3:35:24 PM] Rob** Yup. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:35:47 PM] debinani** Wow boy you really do some upscale gambling the dusk manor club in white crown. I don't know how you're operating in those circles. I'm a risky standard on the prowl role yes. Maybe she operates a down market club somewhere. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:35:55 PM] Michelle** Risky/Standard on that Prowl roll? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:36:15 PM] Michelle** lol --- **[6/27/2026, 3:36:19 PM] debinani** It's very very very unlikely that you're allowed in the same zip code as her club. Not that good. You don't have enough money. You actually technically don't have a home actually you do now but only recently did you get a home and that's when you guys built it in your layer. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:36:26 PM] Rob** I can change it if you think it's too unlikely. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:36:30 PM] Michelle** He's their charity case? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:36:37 PM] Cam** Prowl Risky | Standard Success You do it. 6 1d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[6/27/2026, 3:36:41 PM] Kristian** Temu Vegas --- **[6/27/2026, 3:36:46 PM] Rob** Maybe Crow is just a really good spender? :P --- **[6/27/2026, 3:37:00 PM] debinani** So I would I would yeah I would chat GPT something but yes assuming your vice per mayor is the per mayor of a gambling house they probably much like Mara have accounts on file places and could tell you how that shit work. So Pam a great stakeout you have a great spot just up the street where you can see everybody coming and going and you can even see you're actually on the surface level looking down into the into the first sub level street and you can see into the open doors of stillmans where they're issuing stuff and you have a fantastic fantastic vantage point. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:37:08 PM] Kristian** and your home is a hole --- **[6/27/2026, 3:37:12 PM] Rob** Okay, so I'll make something up. So Lady Dusk is out. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:37:14 PM] Kristian** you're basically a hobbit --- **[6/27/2026, 3:37:50 PM] debinani** Several coaches will not coaches several carts show up get loaded move on. You're basically waiting to see a guy pull up in a cart and get eight kegs you know of the same stuff loaded and it is four or five p.m. January 10th so it is a blustery cold the skies are clouded like they almost always are there's really no very very very dim some sunlight. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:38:30 PM] debinani** Cold cold wind blowing through night market little flurries of snow and ash and whatever cold smoke is being belched out from the various foundries around around the city and a cart with a loan driver just kind of a shabby dressed fellow maybe in his early twenties. And old rickety cart and a old rickety a crowsian goat roll up to the door a a rotund fellow in a leather apron and a clipboard come out they speak very very briefly for a few minutes. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:39:29 PM] debinani** The fellow with the clipboard checks and things off and goes inside and over the course of the next couple of minutes eight barrels of stillmans pale ale are loaded onto the cart. If this isn't Steve it's a hell of a coincidence. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:40:18 PM] debinani** Okay. There's actually not really enough room in this road to turn a cart around so he gets loaded up you singly everybody it's a it's mid afternoon so it is it is fairly busy. There's and this is night market right it's always kind of bustling so there are there are there's foot traffic at every level there's cart traffic there's carriages going to and fro you know so it's it's a it's a busy it's a busy day in you know this sort of cramped. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:40:23 PM] Cam** Cam signals the others if she can and watches which way he goes --- **[6/27/2026, 3:41:07 PM] debinani** You know claustrophobic you know part of the city and so Steve gets loaded up and he starts moving moving his cart down the road again there's a lot of carts and and carriages in the road so he's not moving that fast but there's also a lot of foot traffic so you're not moving that fast either. So what sort of opportunities are you looking for to intercept Steve hopefully Steve doesn't like find open road and you know start moving faster than you can keep up. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:42:04 PM] debinani** Uh make somebody can make a survey roll. Or I will allow cam to use hunt. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:42:15 PM] Michelle** First, can we determine if he's headed to one bar or another? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:42:34 PM] Debinani** Fortune Failure The result is bad. You have poor or little effect. 1 1d6 = 1 = 1 --- **[6/27/2026, 3:42:41 PM] Michelle** And Cam can use a Hunt roll to track him --- **[6/27/2026, 3:42:46 PM] debinani** Okay. All right so you guys you you you essentially are sort of loosely within you know you guys are kind of spread maybe about two blocks apart and you're following along as you know Steve moves through traffic and and whatnot and he makes a turn and cam it is very very obvious that unless his route is just. Non sensically insane he's probably going to the mortar and pestle first. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:42:58 PM] Cam** Hunt Risky | Standard Success You do it. 6 1 3 3d6 = 10 = 10 --- **[6/27/2026, 3:43:24 PM] debinani** He is definitely trying to get onto the main thoroughfare to head up to the bridge across the charter hall. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:44:16 PM] debinani** Yeah I mean he's headed towards a main street you're not going to be able to catch this guy in an alley probably until it gets he gets close to actually making his delivery he's probably going to be on main thoroughfares all the way up through charter hall into the alchemist parish. Yeah I mean he's loaded with all the same stuff reasonable believe that the first two would come off his first stop. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:44:20 PM] Michelle** OK, we need to intercept him before he gets that far. Doesn't have to be super quiet, but maybe quieter than we started. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:44:30 PM] Michelle** Freakshow, you want to chat him up? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:44:55 PM] Random** so the rear most kegs will be the first off. if we can stop the cart and distract steve, we can do something to the kegs. --ponders-- --- **[6/27/2026, 3:45:15 PM] debinani** So you could chat him up in bribe him you could distract him and and dose the barrels. Um I mean they're their barrels it might be hard to do that quietly there they're probably they they probably have a they may not they haven't been tapped but they probably have a cork or something. Uh in the middle of a road without the guy driving the cart noticing probably not. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:46:01 PM] debinani** I mean uh nicks can essentially she's got she's got syringes so she can essentially. Um get it in like without a huge fuss but. These are sealed barrels essentially and and uh there meant to be there meant to be tapped with a hammer and literally a tap so you you'll need to fuss with them a little bit. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:46:02 PM] Michelle** Are we stealthy enough to get it into the kegs? heh --- **[6/27/2026, 3:46:06 PM] Random** yeah, better to bribe him. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:46:51 PM] debinani** Um not really your he's not he's he's he's in traffic. He's probably not going to be in an alley until like literally here to he turns out on to uh in in the alchemist parish. So I mean you're literally probably going to have to trot up next to the cart and chat him up which you could do because he's not moving very fast at least not right this second. Okay you want to leave that one to talky dude. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:47:02 PM] Michelle** If we can catch him in any kind of alley before he hits main roads, we'll do that --- **[6/27/2026, 3:47:26 PM] Michelle** hrm --- **[6/27/2026, 3:47:40 PM] Michelle** Yeah, let's do that. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:47:50 PM] debinani** Hey at least you've got talky dude today we don't have uh we don't have uh we don't have sneaky dudes today. So freak show you're going to trot up to the trot up to the cart and. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:47:57 PM] Michelle** Course, we prolly need Mayvik to make the roll. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:48:04 PM] Kristian** "talky" dude --- **[6/27/2026, 3:48:21 PM] Michelle** You've been called worse --- **[6/27/2026, 3:48:33 PM] Kristian** I can also dance on the head of a pin if you'd like --- **[6/27/2026, 3:48:50 PM] debinani** Now I don't think I don't think uh yeah I don't think you're going to be able to lace it um surrepsitiously I think you I think you probably need to bribe him. Or well no I think you probably need to I so what I would do is I would bribe him I would get him to pull over into someplace a little quieter. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:49:21 PM] Kristian** I have no idea...are we just trying to BS him enough to distract him so someone can lace his crap, or what? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:49:26 PM] Michelle** Bribe him --- **[6/27/2026, 3:49:33 PM] debinani** I would lace the barrels and let him go about his business. Um you could try to lace the barrel surrepsitiously it's probably not going to happen. This guy probably does not make much uh one coin again it'll probably depend on roles but you know you're not you're not talking about you're not talking about a lot like one coin is a week's wages for uh um you know a uh but typical person. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:49:55 PM] Kristian** "hey here's all of Cam's money so we can poison your clients" --- **[6/27/2026, 3:50:17 PM] Michelle** She has two coin, but let's try for only one. :P --- **[6/27/2026, 3:50:24 PM] Kristian** well taking my own advice, I am going to flashback that I am in disguise for this. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:50:25 PM] debinani** Uh what uh uh is the disguise um uh so so uh before you guys left um you know before you guys left you you assumed that you sat down and you assumed that you know what I'm probably going to have to end up talking to this joker. Um so you were going to get dressed up something respectable um like high class middle class merchant class like what what sort of what sort of errors are we putting on here. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:50:38 PM] Kristian** since I am like..super identifiable. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:51:01 PM] Kristian** something respectable looking! --- **[6/27/2026, 3:51:07 PM] debinani** Yeah yeah that's kind of assumed no tatted up circus guy. Oh okay alright so um okay right so somebody like a lock it I mean not like you're dressing up like lock it but you're somebody like a uh an operator. Okay okay fair um so go ahead and uh don't dress up literally like lock it uh you you can't pull it off um go ahead and mark your disguise kit as uh as gear you've got and take a stress for the flashback and I'm not going to make any make any make any roles because it's all just um you're --- **[6/27/2026, 3:51:20 PM] Kristian** something that doesn't yell "hey it's a tatty'ed up circus guy" --- **[6/27/2026, 3:51:29 PM] Kristian** thinking like maybe "upper crust crimminal"? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:51:42 PM] Kristian** since we're obviously doing somethign shady, but yeah like Locket --- **[6/27/2026, 3:51:47 PM] Kristian** literally Locket lol --- **[6/27/2026, 3:51:56 PM] debinani** just the the stress that you're you're you're you're dressed up like a uh uppercrust enforcer for a higher and gang um and almost certainly completely unrecognizable to somebody who doesn't know you. And now you trot up next to the cart and uh --- **[6/27/2026, 3:52:36 PM] debinani** uh Steve notices you come up next to the cart he's moving pretty slow he's kind of stuck in traffic uh he he looks over and and like I what you want. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:52:37 PM] Kristian** commence the trots --- **[6/27/2026, 3:53:07 PM] debinani** He sort of raises an eyebrow and and and you know immediately becomes suspicious but he's he's like uh I mean it really depends it depends on what you what you can get out of him right maybe he's desperate and you know a handful of eels would be enough. Um but uh he's like business proposition it's like I got a job see and he points to uh he he points to the barrels he's like I got me a car I got me old Gracie he needs gestures to the really smelly old angry goat. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:53:17 PM] Freakshow** Hullo there. Would you happen to be Steve? Slow going today it looks like...perhaps you've got a moment to hear a business proposition? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:53:34 PM] Kristian** am I bribing him with like...loose cash, or coin or what? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:53:41 PM] Rob** "I represent a Nigerian Prince..." --- **[6/27/2026, 3:53:49 PM] debinani** Right what got my own got my own business. What do I need with you. This guy probably makes a handful of eels a day you know plus tips maybe. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:54:38 PM] Freakshow** Well I'm sure it pays quite well, but if you're anything like me you're always on the lookout for a little bit of extra clink in your purse, no? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:54:48 PM] debinani** Oh yeah yeah absolutely uh you've got I mean you've got like a coin worth of worth of cash on you. Which is a good healthy good healthy pouch a jingle. Here's a his eyes bulge out a little bit and he's like all right hop on tell me what you tell me tell me about this proposition of yours then. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:55:00 PM] Kristian** going to assume we have some loose change that I can jingle up into a coin purse or something? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:55:25 PM] Michelle** If it comes to it, Cam will lose the coin --- **[6/27/2026, 3:55:30 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow opens up his jacket and jingles a sack of change --- **[6/27/2026, 3:55:38 PM] debinani** you that poor bot I'm sure it's heard worse. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:55:51 PM] Freakshow** Much obliged! --- **[6/27/2026, 3:56:02 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow gimply struggles to get up on the cart --- **[6/27/2026, 3:56:02 PM] Rob** So... Mayvik's propositioning Steve. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:56:08 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow grunts --- **[6/27/2026, 3:56:17 PM] Kristian** NOW SHOW ME THEM TITTIES STEVE --- **[6/27/2026, 3:56:26 PM] debinani** Same with the Gemini transcriber I'm sure. Well you know I love easy. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:56:27 PM] Kristian** RIP AI recorder bopt --- **[6/27/2026, 3:57:04 PM] Freakshow** It's quite an easy for you really. In fact, aside from one little thing, don't need you to do much of anything at all. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:57:07 PM] Rob** I'm sure this is all being added to its training data. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:57:08 PM] debinani** I love you. He uh he. Lances that you kind of you know the suspicion comes back he's like I'm going to lose my job am I. I'm going to deliver every day from Stomens and it you know works out pays the bills. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:57:21 PM] Freakshow** Just looking for you to pull out of this traffic for a little bit, look the other way, and forget we ever met. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:57:58 PM] debinani** So I pull out a traffic form minute and I look at the clouds and you're going to pay me the. Pouch a pouch a cash then I. No but like he's moving so slowly that the entire crew is sort of following along at a relatively you know comfortable distance so wherever he pulls over you guys can. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:58:03 PM] Freakshow** Longs as we never had this little chat, I can't see how you would. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:58:34 PM] Kristian** did we pick a little alley or something already staged up? --- **[6/27/2026, 3:58:35 PM] debinani** Descend on him but there's planning you're in a main thoroughfare there's plenty of places for him to just turn off where you're not going to be particularly observed. you --- **[6/27/2026, 3:59:20 PM] debinani** I'm going to ask are you going to guarantee in any way that specific barrels make it to the specific location or are you just going to assume. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:59:30 PM] Freakshow** The pouch! Good sir now you are robbing me. No no I will definitely make the detour worth your while, but I have expenses too you know. --- **[6/27/2026, 3:59:48 PM] Kristian** is there a denomination below "1 coin" that makes sense..like 10th of a coin to start or something? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:00:04 PM] Michelle** Mark two kegs and tell him those are for his first stop. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:00:20 PM] debinani** I mean so if we're going to get hinky with if we're going to get hinky with the game rules normally if you guys have like levels of. Stash that accounts for a certain amount of spending money without having to nickel and diamond however none of you have any levels of stash you're all still essentially dead broke except for. You know your coin so let's see let's see what kind of role that we get on a sway role. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:00:23 PM] Michelle** See if he'll take half a coin --- **[6/27/2026, 4:00:23 PM] Kristian** saving us from ourselves... --- **[6/27/2026, 4:00:39 PM] Kristian** I figured I'd start low and negotiate...since he's a filthy peasant! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:01:13 PM] debinani** Good question let's do risky. risky status fine. Okay. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:01:18 PM] Kristian** pos/eff? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:01:41 PM] Freakshow** Sway Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 2 2 2d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[6/27/2026, 4:01:47 PM] debinani** Yeah no kidding he's like. I was like no no listen you obviously obviously you ask me to do something that could get me a lot of trouble if if I'm found out and obviously he says just during to your your outfit your your fellow of of well we'll do a break right after this your fellow of. Considerable means and stature just during to your your nice outfit so no I think I think if you want me to do this you got to make it worth my while and I'm going to take I'm going to take the entire pouch. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:01:51 PM] Michelle** stupid dice --- **[6/27/2026, 4:01:52 PM] Random** I need to afk here in a moment for about 10ish minutes. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:01:53 PM] Kristian** so much for that 10th of a coin haha --- **[6/27/2026, 4:02:00 PM] Kristian** should have flashbacked those loaded dice again! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:02:06 PM] Michelle** Eh, we can handle one coin --- **[6/27/2026, 4:02:47 PM] debinani** You do got you do have three coins in the the faction kitty in the the group kitty. Yeah no you're not getting three coins I'm just saying you don't have to take anybody's personal coin we can take it out of the kitty. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:03:17 PM] Random** this is a legit expense --- **[6/27/2026, 4:03:37 PM] Rob** If we give him 3 coins he can retire! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:03:38 PM] debinani** Yeah no you're not getting three coins. Make a sway role. I'm going to take a very rarely will let you re roll to avoid a consequence but or a complication but we'll see. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:03:45 PM] Random** we give him the coin and the crew will p0ay you back. eventually --- **[6/27/2026, 4:04:01 PM] Freakshow** I like your stones Steve. How about this - I'll give you half, and as a person of means, I'm sure if there was any unlikely fallout from your employer, I could certainly find some work for someone with stones like yours in short order. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:04:17 PM] debinani** Now I know firm if you're asking me to to crawl across the the to the dark side of law then you're definitely going to make it with my while or I'm going to go and and and tell he waves forward into the crowd. The next blue coat I see that a fellow is is attempting to to a bribe me for unseemly un unseemly things. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:04:29 PM] Freakshow** Sway 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 5 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[6/27/2026, 4:05:32 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow frowns --- **[6/27/2026, 4:05:54 PM] Random** now now steve. why did you have to go and say that. now we're going to have be less than friendly. -- ooc thoughs -- --- **[6/27/2026, 4:06:14 PM] debinani** He looks on your hand and he spits and shakes hands he's like raw then. We like me to pull in up here he just years up to a it looks like an alley that's actually it's a side road it's not very populated but it's close enough to population that if you decided to screw him he could scream. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:06:27 PM] Freakshow** You drive a hard bargain Steve. I must say I do not appreciate the threats, but have it your way. I'm sure my friends with the circle can spare the clank. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:06:35 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow spits in hand and offers it --- **[6/27/2026, 4:06:49 PM] debinani** Which as long as you're not trying to screw him over is fine for your purposes. You just need to card you just need the card to stop out of traffic for a few minutes. I'm going to remember you Steve. Alright so we're going to take a coin out of the team kitty just fine we're going to give it to Steve and you're fine with Steve pulling over on the side road. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:06:50 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow grins again --- **[6/27/2026, 4:07:20 PM] Kristian** I'll screw him later! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:07:23 PM] Kristian** wait. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:07:37 PM] debinani** I mean he's keeping a really close eye on you because at this point he's afraid you're just going to stab him and take the card. Yeah I mean it's it's fine I mean unless somebody is actually following you all watching you. It's it's as good as it's going to get. Okay so you pull the cart into pull the cart into a side road you're in the northern part of the night market. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:08:02 PM] Boo** Boo will check our back trail --- **[6/27/2026, 4:08:03 PM] Kristian** unless we had a specific spot, sure. Somewhere we can be stealthyish --- **[6/27/2026, 4:08:17 PM] Michelle** You can wait with him, and Nyx and Cam will handle the barrels --- **[6/27/2026, 4:08:18 PM] debinani** There's not a lot of traffic now a lot of foot traffic this is just a little side road that that leads to some maintenance stuff for the the rail line. And Cam and Nick's move in he doodifully just looks up in the sky and and just sits just sits comfortably looking up in the sky you know sitting on the bench. Nick's and Cam there's no doubt you're going to get the drugs and we're we're talking about a make them sick drug right we're not trying to kill a bunch of people we're just going to make them sick. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:08:26 PM] Freakshow** That'll be just fine --- **[6/27/2026, 4:09:04 PM] debinani** Okay you will definitely get the drugs in the barrels the question is how subtly you're going to get the drugs in the barrel. So I will take a probably the best bet would be a tinker roll from Nick's and Cam you're more than welcome to spend a a stress to give her an extra die. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:09:17 PM] Michelle** yes --- **[6/27/2026, 4:09:17 PM] Random** afking. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:09:36 PM] Kristian** that would not be what Locket wanted "oops murdered everyone by mistake lulz" --- **[6/27/2026, 4:09:44 PM] Jen** a syringe through the cork? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:09:45 PM] debinani** The risky standard is fine. You've got you're not any foot traffic it's risky but not desperate you're going to get a typical standard result yeah tinker and then plus one die for crow or for a cam like moving roll is Jesus Christ. So you boy that goes well so you pull into the you pull into the side roll side side road Steve looks up in the sky very deliberately Cam and Nick's roll in Cam like rotates the barrels around till they get to where they're corked next has a syringe that looks like it's designed to you know. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:09:56 PM] Michelle** sure --- **[6/27/2026, 4:10:05 PM] Michelle** stress marked --- **[6/27/2026, 4:10:18 PM] Nyx** Tinker Risky | Standard Critical Success! You do it with increased effect. 6 6 6 3d6 = 18 = 18 --- **[6/27/2026, 4:10:26 PM] Michelle** lol --- **[6/27/2026, 4:10:28 PM] Jen** Wow! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:10:32 PM] Kristian** saved all my rolls up for you --- **[6/27/2026, 4:10:37 PM] debinani** Pull bone marrow out of a goat and very very rapidly. And then you can put a fork into both barrels. Cam takes a piece of charcoal marker and just makes a mark on the two barrels that you poisoned and they're gone honestly freak show before you even you even realize they've done it in fact you you turn around wondering when they're going to be done and they're gone. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:10:44 PM] Kristian** you actually insert the poison directly into the anuses of all the poisonees --- **[6/27/2026, 4:10:44 PM] Rob** Now we know where all of our past successes went. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:11:13 PM] debinani** So you know what you do see the two marks on the on the barrel so you know they they did it you just it went really really well. Well was that all. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:11:41 PM] Michelle** Just let Steve know to drop those two off first --- **[6/27/2026, 4:11:43 PM] Freakshow** Well, that's it Steve. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:11:54 PM] Freakshow** I told you it was easy. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:11:54 PM] debinani** You are assuming based on his route that the mortar and pestle this is for stop. Oh man's got to eat right so just go on doing my deliveries that I. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:12:00 PM] Rob** Maybe I missed it, but was it confirmed that 'first' is our target? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:12:09 PM] Freakshow** I bet you feel just a little silly right now asking for this much money and threatining me with Bluecoats and all that. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:12:31 PM] debinani** Oh yeah yeah they just happen to be the two in the back of the cart. He actually pulls out his he's got a little scrap of slate that he and a piece of chalk. I get more on pestle is my first stop and they will just take the barrels off the back yeah. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:12:34 PM] Freakshow** You'll be eating well for sure! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:12:42 PM] Freakshow** Just one more bit - see these two barrels here? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:12:46 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow taps the marked ones --- **[6/27/2026, 4:12:58 PM] Freakshow** Those are for the Mortar and Pestle, right? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:13:25 PM] debinani** He he looks the barrels for a long minute you can see the gears running in his head. Yeah you're all right we can ask you something. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:13:48 PM] Freakshow** Right right...make sure they grab those will ya? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:13:57 PM] debinani** I know it's probably not proper for me to ask you but I'm not like accessory to some murders or anything am I. He actually goes pale and then he he looks relieved. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:14:03 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow reaches into his jacket again and grabs the pouch --- **[6/27/2026, 4:14:20 PM] Freakshow** You can always ask, but... --- **[6/27/2026, 4:14:38 PM] Freakshow** Well they do say the drink will kill a man eventually --- **[6/27/2026, 4:14:38 PM] debinani** All right well you know nobody's dying I'm sure I can live at that those two barrels mortar and pestle you got it. Oh yeah yeah pleasure doing doing business with you. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:14:42 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow big creepy grin --- **[6/27/2026, 4:14:47 PM] Freakshow** but no, no murders Steve. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:14:57 PM] Freakshow** Just a little break from the traffic. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:15:14 PM] Freakshow** Pleasure doing business with you! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:15:17 PM] debinani** Okay so you hop down and he goes off on his route I assume you are going to watch him until the delivery gets made make sure nothing goes wrong. Yeah okay yeah as best you can all right so let's take a break and we will see how steely eyed old steve is when we go back. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:15:37 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow whistles and strolls off down the side street --- **[6/27/2026, 4:15:41 PM] Michelle** And off we go --- **[6/27/2026, 4:15:59 PM] Rob** Like him selling us out for more money? We should, yes. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:16:04 PM] Kristian** GOD DAMNIT STEVE NOT THOSE BARRELS THE OTHER ONES! *from the bushes* --- **[6/27/2026, 4:16:07 PM] Michelle** As best we can considering we're targets in that neighborhood. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:16:21 PM] Michelle** afk --- **[6/27/2026, 4:16:28 PM] Debinani** Break Time Complete --- **[6/27/2026, 4:25:17 PM] debinani** Oh that's interesting. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:26:02 PM] Rob** What is? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:26:08 PM] Kristian** what? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:26:14 PM] Random** bak --- **[6/27/2026, 4:26:14 PM] debinani** There's a rule that I wasn't aware of anytime the crew gets an advancement HPC gets one stash plus one per crew tier. So you've gotten a crew advancement in XP and so you all should add your tier one crew you should all add two stash to your sheets that's the bars next to where your cash is. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:26:32 PM] Michelle** Steve brings the whole Bluecoat battalion down on us --- **[6/27/2026, 4:27:01 PM] debinani** I'll go add that to the folks you aren't here. Yeah okay so yes so basically when you open up your little coin pop up there's coin and stash add two boxes to stash. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:27:18 PM] Random** boxes --- **[6/27/2026, 4:27:31 PM] Michelle** Two? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:27:32 PM] Kristian** the bars next to our cache? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:27:51 PM] debinani** Yeah so no you don't have to minus anything because we took cash out of the crew. Basically the way stash works is anytime you fill up your coin boxes that coin gets cashed in for stash and stash is non liquid assets that is sort of a measure of your wealth and each full row of stash you have is sort of a wealth tier and it sort of is a baseline for your --- **[6/27/2026, 4:28:00 PM] Michelle** neat --- **[6/27/2026, 4:28:06 PM] Kristian** or minus one box for me to bribe Steve? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:28:16 PM] Kristian** or is stash not a consumable? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:28:26 PM] Michelle** We used money from the crew for that, so it won't affect yours --- **[6/27/2026, 4:28:49 PM] debinani** quality of life the amount of petty cash you have and so on and so the idea is and now you can you can liquidate stash but it comes at a cost I think it's like one half so you could liquidate two stash for one coin I think that's what the conversion is I have to look but yes stash is a measure of your non liquid assets and overall level of wealth and you can have a level of wealth and lifestyle so right now ain't none of you have any and so your lifestyle is hot garbage but you know you're you're just one you're one crew upgrade away from living on the street but but that's essentially the accumulation of wealth. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:29:46 PM] debinani** I started doing some bigger jobs because I was just I was I was actually kind of wondering like how slow the money game is so far and part of it is because you all are a baseball team and then part of it is just because I've been stingy and you guys have been doing stuff that isn't necessarily for money you've been doing stuff for the war but any who so everybody has to stash now and because I forgot to do it when you got enough xp. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:30:28 PM] debinani** Okay so you all follow Steve about as far as you reasonably can without you know showing your face in the alchemist parish and let's just see how Steve does you are not able to you know what maybe that's what watchers doing. Okay so watcher has been essentially watching the back of the mortar and pestle all this time to you know earn his keep. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:30:39 PM] Michelle** We essentially robbed what we have. heh --- **[6/27/2026, 4:30:55 PM] Kristian** I mean makes sense...money isn't usually linear --- **[6/27/2026, 4:31:13 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow strips off his disguise and ditches it in pieces as we go --- **[6/27/2026, 4:31:19 PM] Rob** About time that bum earned his keep. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:31:20 PM] Debinani** 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. 2 2 5 3d6 = 9 = 9 --- **[6/27/2026, 4:31:25 PM] debinani** I've been following from the rooftop and let's just see how Steve does. Oh boy okay. All right so you all you all don't witness this watcher reports it back after but you watch Steve go into the alchemist parish towards the mortar and pestle and about a long time a --- **[6/27/2026, 4:31:44 PM] Random** steve steve steve --- **[6/27/2026, 4:31:44 PM] Debinani** Fortune Failure The result is bad. You have poor or little effect. 2 1 2d6 = 3 = 3 --- **[6/27/2026, 4:31:59 PM] Kristian** visible roll --- **[6/27/2026, 4:32:08 PM] debinani** concerningly long time later maybe like 40 minutes you see Steve come out of the alchemist parish with his cart minus the two barrels that Steve was supposed to deliver. Watcher meets up with you guys later back at the back at your layer and says yeah that it just fell to pieces he was the worst liar ever and he goes I honestly don't know how I mean they took the delivery and they tipped him but I cannot imagine how. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:32:58 PM] debinani** How the guy accepting the delivery wouldn't be a little suspicious because Steve was a hot mess. But not much to do but wait and see I guess. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:33:32 PM] Cam** Cam sighs heavily --- **[6/27/2026, 4:33:38 PM] Random** steve: yes takes these 2. only these 2. not any of the oother 4. these 2. nohting wierd about these two --- **[6/27/2026, 4:33:44 PM] debinani** Here's your delivery everything normal everything's normal here all things all things normal not didn't make a deal with a weird guy in an alley and people mess with your barrels no no everything's fine here now. Now there's really nothing you can do about it you know you're just gonna have to see if you're just gonna have to see if anybody drinks anything. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:33:50 PM] Rob** "'ere's yer deliv'ry, sir, unpoison'd jus' like us'al!" --- **[6/27/2026, 4:33:53 PM] Kristian** shoulda let me dress up as the goat, pansies! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:34:05 PM] Cam** Not a whole lot more we can do, for the moment. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:34:17 PM] Kristian** oh I don't need a tip, I got a ton of money from some guy! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:34:36 PM] debinani** I mean the good news is that you're rolled so amazingly well to actually dope the beer that if they're suspicious they're not gonna find any evidence of anything. Yeah let's let's talk about that how fast acting is the poison what what what sort of what. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:34:37 PM] Crow** Crow facepalms --- **[6/27/2026, 4:34:44 PM] Kristian** I am like the super dice curse this game. I don't think I or anything peripheral to me that has been rolled has gone well. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:35:33 PM] Michelle** Not until some people get sick... --- **[6/27/2026, 4:35:35 PM] debinani** What what sort of what sort of outcome were we aiming for. She marked them with a little happy face and devil horns little skull and crossbones. Okay so essentially essentially something something it's gonna seem like food poisoning it comes on within maybe 12 hours and last for some time. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:35:47 PM] Kristian** when you marked the kegs you didn't mark them with like, our crest? lol --- **[6/27/2026, 4:36:09 PM] Rob** Mr. Yuk stickers. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:36:21 PM] Jen** wet farts. for 3 days --- **[6/27/2026, 4:36:27 PM] Michelle** lol --- **[6/27/2026, 4:36:30 PM] Jen** a lot like food poisoning --- **[6/27/2026, 4:36:34 PM] debinani** And last for several days. Sure okay. Okay. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:36:50 PM] Jen** in the outhouse --- **[6/27/2026, 4:36:54 PM] Jen** yes --- **[6/27/2026, 4:37:13 PM] Michelle** Sure. We're looking to snag someone who's ill and see if we can pummel some info out of them too. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:37:23 PM] debinani** All right so we will. Okay so we will go ahead and pick that up next time you've got the address well the street. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:37:28 PM] Michelle** Like the one dude we've seen a few times --- **[6/27/2026, 4:37:41 PM] Michelle** Fat Eddie --- **[6/27/2026, 4:37:57 PM] debinani** You've got a whole bunch of mortar pestle patrons who are gonna get the shits within the next day and we'll see what happens there. So let's do experience so everybody can make a case for experience I'm gonna give the crew to XP for a successful espionage sabotage or theft operation it's kind of two of the three and and you by getting all those account numbers and things like that you were sort of expressing the essential nature of the crew. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:38:20 PM] Random** we got steve killed --- **[6/27/2026, 4:38:41 PM] debinani** So I'll give you I'll give you two XP for you. I'm perfectly fine giving everybody one XP if anybody wants to make a case for a second one. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:38:51 PM] Random** I nicked a fancy bottle of liquir --- **[6/27/2026, 4:39:01 PM] Kristian** flashback disguise / getting Steve to do ...something... --- **[6/27/2026, 4:39:12 PM] debinani** I think I think freak show. I think freak show definitely probably earned a second one. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:39:22 PM] Boo** Boo took copious notes and suggested the best way to find steve --- **[6/27/2026, 4:39:30 PM] Michelle** Cam tracked Steve and managed a Prowl to watch the distillery. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:39:32 PM] Rob** I think everything I rolled was controlled, so nothing more for Crow. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:39:50 PM] debinani** Yeah I mean the only XP the only XP that is based on roles is if you if you make it desperate if you make a desperate action yeah and the XP is not based on on results at all. Let me see cam you can have a second XP. Yeah yeah I mean I think I think I'm good with a second XP for all of you. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:40:01 PM] Kristian** thank fuck xp isn't based on rolls --- **[6/27/2026, 4:40:06 PM] Rob** Or not on results. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:40:20 PM] Michelle** Nyx did a Study roll --- **[6/27/2026, 4:40:22 PM] debinani** Why not. you --- **[6/27/2026, 4:40:50 PM] Rob** Wow... I can take a second Special Ability now! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:40:58 PM] Michelle** Good, I can up Prowl so I'm not so lousy at it! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:41:12 PM] debinani** Yeah second special abilities fine. What are you thinking? I yes it's essentially just one of two in a row to get a nearby ghost assuming there are nearby ghosts to appear and and obey a command. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:41:52 PM] Rob** I'm thinking of Compel. I don't think it requires any roll beyond the initial Attune, correct? --- **[6/27/2026, 4:42:08 PM] debinani** So that ghost would theoretically freak everybody out. Yeah that's fine. Yeah I mean there's a lot of a lot of tempest is a lot of fun it's chaos. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:42:40 PM] Rob** I'm going to think on it before deciding for certain, but that's what I've been leaning towards. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:42:42 PM] debinani** Ritual is always useful. Warded is good I mean they're all good. So that's it I didn't want to pick up I didn't want to start something new since you guys are at base and probably ready to do it downtime. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:42:48 PM] Random** I'm leaning to tempest for my second special ability --- **[6/27/2026, 4:43:14 PM] debinani** So because people are going to start getting sick and you want to follow them so we will we will pick up next time. How's everybody feel about the 11th? Yeah 18th would be tough for me so I think I think let's try for the 11th and see if we get a quorum. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:43:16 PM] Rob** I thought Tempest, too. And yes, I'm aware that i'm the only one immune to the ghost's terrifying aspect. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:43:31 PM] Random** I'm okay with it --- **[6/27/2026, 4:43:43 PM] Rob** Should be good for me. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:43:51 PM] Michelle** I'm out --- **[6/27/2026, 4:43:51 PM] Kristian** am good with all July, for now! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:44:15 PM] debinani** And I think y'all you all know what you're supposed to do without cam ordering you around you're supposed to beat up beat up sick people and find find Vens layer. All right well we will do the 11th and hope you all had fun. See you then. Happy Independence Day and so on. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:44:38 PM] Michelle** Neat, Cam expects to come back to find you all tracked down and killed Venn. :P --- **[6/27/2026, 4:44:48 PM] Rob** Set raging fires. That sort of thing. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:45:01 PM] Rob** Thanks, Deb. --- **[6/27/2026, 4:45:01 PM] Kristian** a'ight...thanks Deb! --- **[6/27/2026, 4:45:07 PM] Cam** Thanks Deb! ---