**[7/25/2026, 2:21:52 PM] Freakshow** Acquire Asset Critical Success! Exceptional result. You gain an asset of Tier 2 quality. To raise the result beyond critical, you may spend 2 coin per +1 Tier bonus. dat asset 3 3 6 4 5 5 2 6 6 4 10d6 = 44 = 44 --- **[7/25/2026, 2:22:02 PM] Michelle** That was a lot of dice --- **[7/25/2026, 2:22:12 PM] Kristian** YOU'RE A LOT OF DICE --- **[7/25/2026, 2:22:27 PM] Michelle** Loaded dice too, so watch it --- **[7/25/2026, 2:22:41 PM] Kristian** all d4s, they hurt AND explode when trod upon --- **[7/25/2026, 2:22:50 PM] Michelle** Now those would be fun --- **[7/25/2026, 2:22:54 PM] Michelle** Who needs caltrops? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:23:44 PM] Kristian** can't trop won't trop --- **[7/25/2026, 2:33:37 PM] Rob** Yes. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:33:49 PM] Veth** yeeep --- **[7/25/2026, 2:33:59 PM] Kristian** yarp --- **[7/25/2026, 2:34:05 PM] Michelle** I heard you, just through the wrong speakers. Hopefully that's fixed now --- **[7/25/2026, 2:34:19 PM] Michelle** Yep --- **[7/25/2026, 2:34:28 PM] Kristian** how are we supposed to know if it is right or left speaker Deb --- **[7/25/2026, 2:34:29 PM] debinani** Okay, let's see. Whoever wasn't with us last, and we did XP at the end of last session, right? Whoever wasn't with us last time can take one XP and whatever they want. Okay. So where were we? It's been a minute. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:34:30 PM] Jason G** it's both speakers, not just the right --- **[7/25/2026, 2:34:33 PM] Random** it is for me. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:35:11 PM] debinani** So you all broke into, well, not murder specifically. See all broken to stillments to stillery. You poison a couple of kegs with, you know, cyclosporitis. You paid this guy, paid this guy Steve, paid off this guy Steve to make sure to very specific kegs were delivered to the mortar and pestle. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:35:22 PM] Kristian** murder --- **[7/25/2026, 2:35:29 PM] Kristian** we just poisoned some places...maybe... --- **[7/25/2026, 2:35:32 PM] Rob** I think we got back after Steve very convincingly lied to get our doctored kegs taken in. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:35:35 PM] Random** you were upgradi8ng our lair to a t3. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:35:36 PM] Michelle** Steve may have ruined our hard-thought lpan --- **[7/25/2026, 2:35:41 PM] Kristian** "oh no it turns out they are all deathly allergic to ex lax!" --- **[7/25/2026, 2:35:47 PM] debinani** You watched as the kegs were delivered poor Steve, not a very good liar, but at least they took the kegs inside. And I think that was it, right? So this poison, such as it is, is, you know, should, you know, if somebody consumes it, they should get sick, you know, pretty quick within, within hours. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:35:59 PM] Michelle** We sent over some Taco Hell lettuce --- **[7/25/2026, 2:36:19 PM] Michelle** yeah --- **[7/25/2026, 2:36:24 PM] Random** not a very good liar is being generous. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:36:26 PM] debinani** So what's the plan now that you have essentially poisoned a middle, you know, business tier watering hole in the middle of a civic and university district of a city. You did also get some leads, right? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:37:00 PM] Kristian** franchises --- **[7/25/2026, 2:37:00 PM] debinani** You got some paperwork that tied Aldrich Venn to Camden Street in the Alchemist Parish. And you also got a list of accounts at the Bank of Dustwall, mostly bars, private buyers and a charter hall art dealer. You're not sure how those work, but the distillery had like essentially a counts on file with several people. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:37:11 PM] Jason G** we did... what?? lol --- **[7/25/2026, 2:37:22 PM] Veth** time to sell bottled water! --- **[7/25/2026, 2:37:34 PM] debinani** Yes, yes, the mortar and pestle is a tavern frequented quite often by the reclaimer circle. And so you all broke into a distillery, poisoned some beer, and made sure that beer got delivered to the mortar and pestle. So yeah, yeah, you're doing mass poison exam. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:37:42 PM] Jason G** we're doing mass poisonings now? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:37:45 PM] Rob** Non-lethal. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:38:15 PM] Michelle** I think we were going to keep an eye open for Fat Eddie and snag him if we can catch him while ill. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:38:16 PM] Kristian** "sure" --- **[7/25/2026, 2:38:22 PM] debinani** I mean, the rule book refers to the players as the scoundrels. So I mean, kind of. Okay, so at a minimum, we're staking out the mortar and pestle. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:38:31 PM] Jason G** are we the baddies? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:38:38 PM] Michelle** Or really, any of their guys - trying to pin down where Venn is. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:38:50 PM] Rob** We have Venn's bank account info, which we could use to draw from his real funds, but we don't know what a legitimate document to do so looks like. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:38:54 PM] Veth** everyone is in this city! --- **[7/25/2026, 2:39:23 PM] debinani** Yeah, well, Jason's here this time. So you'll be fine. The, okay, the delivery was done in the late afternoon, and it is now getting into evening on January 10th. And you all are essentially hiding out rooftop and alleys and whatever, just sort of watching the mortar and pestle. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:39:33 PM] Michelle** May the stealth rolls be in our favor --- **[7/25/2026, 2:39:47 PM] Kristian** jinxed --- **[7/25/2026, 2:39:54 PM] debinani** You guys sort of safely got into well, I mean, yeah, and who knows when they're going to tap those kegs to. So it's, you know, it's kind of a, it's kind of a wait and see sort of thing. They did, they did a stealth thing without without either stealth characters. They did okay. However, they left a little bit of themselves behind walking through a wall. So we'll see how that. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:40:07 PM] Michelle** We figured 12 hours for this stuff to kick in? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:40:16 PM] Veth** You guys ended up doing a stealth mission without both stealth characters last time? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:40:25 PM] Michelle** Yes --- **[7/25/2026, 2:40:28 PM] Veth** lol --- **[7/25/2026, 2:40:28 PM] debinani** We'll see what that what happens with that. They did all manage to stealth into the alchemist parish and set up positions to case out the mortar and pestle and watch the delivery and things like that. So, so there, there was some stealth success. I believe it's because I didn't make them roll. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:40:38 PM] Rob** Which had nothing to do with Stealth, ironically. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:40:43 PM] Kristian** It wasn't me! Phrasing. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:40:43 PM] Michelle** Not sure the stealth would've helped there. lol --- **[7/25/2026, 2:40:57 PM] Veth** That really does fit our MO. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:41:07 PM] debinani** All right, staking out the mortar and pestle. Nothing happens for a long time. Let's say the delivery was about four p.m. And we are now closing in on one or two a.m. Is anybody doing anything besides staking out the mortar and pestle in this time? Yeah. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:41:11 PM] Michelle** Cam has 2 Prowl now! So, better? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:42:00 PM] Veth** kiegel exercises. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:42:06 PM] debinani** Okay. So generally taking turns, you know, people go off, get snacks. No, no, you guys are just, you guys are just, you're scattered around rooftops, some of y'all on the surface. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:42:07 PM] Kristian** I would think we are probably doing shifts or something, not all standing around in a pile? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:42:13 PM] Random** I"m still injured so not much from me. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:42:20 PM] Rob** Boo desperately needs a downtime to heal up... --- **[7/25/2026, 2:42:38 PM] debinani** You know, just keeping it on the place. You know, boo is boo is in pretty rough shape. Nix is just doing something creepy with a doll and pieces of Lancaster. And yeah, you probably, yeah, you probably don't want to set up a 3 card money game in the alchemist parish, but you could, you know, go some number of blocks away and, and if you wanted to do that, that was a, that would be a thing you could do. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:42:39 PM] Veth** nah we're just inconspicuously laying in a pile on a roof. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:42:40 PM] Jason G** we're literally just sitting as a whole group on beach chairs in the mddle of the street in front --- **[7/25/2026, 2:42:59 PM] Kristian** if we have idle during this, Freakshow might set up a 3 card monte game or something and fish for rumors (and or rip some people off for spending money) --- **[7/25/2026, 2:43:09 PM] Kristian** obviously like not right where we are posted up. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:43:16 PM] debinani** It's plenty of time, at least like eight hours. If you want to make a, if it's 3 card money, you want to make it finesse, I was so. Finesse will probably earn you money, swale or any information. How about we do it that way? Alright, so that would be normal and, you know, just standard role. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:43:55 PM] Kristian** sure, Sway was more what I was going for --- **[7/25/2026, 2:43:59 PM] Rob** Use Wreck. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:44:09 PM] Veth** stand out in front and harass people for signatures on a petition. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:44:09 PM] debinani** Risky, I mean, you're still at war with a gang and you're out in public and, and you're running 3 card money, you know. It's not a gather information role. It's actually a swear roll. So you can go ahead and re-roll that risky standard. Oh, oh, is it? Oh, I didn't know. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:44:16 PM] Kristian** normal? controlled or risky? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:44:28 PM] Freakshow** Gather Information Failure Limited: You get incomplete or partial information. More information gathering will be needed to get all the answers. 3 2 2d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[7/25/2026, 2:44:39 PM] Kristian** I learn that I should have used FInesse --- **[7/25/2026, 2:44:48 PM] debinani** Sorry, shows me how much I know how this rule set work. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's actually, it's not a gather information role. It's a swear roll. That's not actually a flavor box. That's actually changing the type of dice roll it is. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:44:58 PM] Kristian** that was Sway, I just ticked the gather "flavor" box? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:45:18 PM] Kristian** there are like optional boxes on the roll type, I don't know those do anything mechanical? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:45:20 PM] debinani** See, it's so much better. Yeah, the gather, I mean, gather information isn't really a skill based role. It just means you guys are going to go out and do stuff. Sway means you're actually like making a roll against some stuff. Okay, so let's see. I will think about the hints you pick up. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:45:26 PM] Kristian** lol shows how much I know about this ruleset lol --- **[7/25/2026, 2:45:32 PM] Freakshow** Sway Risky | Standard Success You do it. 2 6 2d6 = 8 = 8 --- **[7/25/2026, 2:45:39 PM] Michelle** Learning experience for all of us --- **[7/25/2026, 2:45:43 PM] Kristian** suck it flavor! --- **[7/25/2026, 2:45:52 PM] debinani** Any other side quests during the state hours? Yeah. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:46:01 PM] Rob** Clearly Freakshow is better at Swaying than he is at Gathering Information. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:46:22 PM] Rob** Not from Crow. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:46:26 PM] debinani** No, however, you do learn that the worst way. Okay, you do learn that the owner of the meridian, a guy named Oswin rail. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:46:29 PM] Kristian** "you learn that the Reclaimers Circle recently became a dry gang and are teetotalers" --- **[7/25/2026, 2:46:32 PM] Rob** Dammit! --- **[7/25/2026, 2:46:45 PM] Michelle** just watching for one of our targets. Particularly the boss man --- **[7/25/2026, 2:46:48 PM] Random** ha! --- **[7/25/2026, 2:46:58 PM] debinani** He hasn't, he's been on the, he's been on the reclamers payroll for a long time. That shop has always sort of been a place that the reclamers used to certify antiques, whether honestly or not. And you learn that he hasn't been paid in quite a while. He was, he got drunk in a bar uptown and was making a bunch of noise about it. So something you would hear kind of in this neighborhood because the meridian is just north of here and. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:47:41 PM] Rob** I take that back. Crow is going to Camden street to see if he can find a ghost that knows Venn's actual address. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:47:41 PM] debinani** And you would hear people complaining about the reclamers circle seems a lot of people who are getting paid off by the reclamers circle have not been paid in a while. That's the general thing that you get from several hours of running a three card money game on a street corner. You don't actually make any coin because you're specifically like egging people on to keep them playing and keep them talking. So you come out of it, you come out of it even Stephen, but you that's what you learn. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:47:59 PM] Kristian** cool maybe he can do us a favor and appraise our magic talking statue --- **[7/25/2026, 2:48:27 PM] debinani** Okay, two in the morning, the bars are starting to kick people out at least the ones that you know this one does have a couple of rooms over the over the tap room, but only only a few. So we'll start trickling out you see, you know, typical combination of local merchants and office workers. That's the best way to describe it offers workers workers from the university smattering of of of of students. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:48:29 PM] Kristian** will whisper that back to the rest of the crew at an opportune moment --- **[7/25/2026, 2:49:00 PM] Jason G** and at one point we rolled very well on spreading discontent about the protection racket if I recall --- **[7/25/2026, 2:49:09 PM] debinani** So generally generally people who work in the bureaucracy trickling trickling out you do notice was a fat Eddie big Eddie thin guy fat Eddie yeah. Notice fat Eddie come out and okay, because the chemistry to see and find a ghost. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:49:28 PM] Rob** Deb, slight change to the 8 hours. Crow is going to Camden street to see if he can find a ghost that lingers in the area to see if it knows Venn's actual address. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:49:37 PM] Michelle** Yeah --- **[7/25/2026, 2:49:38 PM] Veth** Oh no! Someone smattered students all over this road! --- **[7/25/2026, 2:49:43 PM] debinani** Okay, so you were going to go to Camden Street, which is literally just a couple blocks away. We're still looking at let me let me let me. I am not doing a good job to. Some reason that photo says the Ravens rest, but it's the mortar pestle and the AI just screwed up making the image. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:50:18 PM] debinani** Okay, so yeah, you you go over to Camden Street, I would definitely make. I'm going to need a prowl role just to see if you are keeping out of anybody sites. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:50:51 PM] Rob** You are funny man. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:50:55 PM] debinani** You're the one who wants to play freaking you know private dick or toxic hosts. Yeah, you could go with that would be smart, then you could do a group role with with watcher and probably having much better chance. Okay, so both of you go ahead and make a prowl role it's a group role and we will see if watcher takes a stressor. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:51:04 PM] Rob** Risky Standard? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:51:12 PM] Michelle** Time to get a disguise! --- **[7/25/2026, 2:51:15 PM] Jason G** I could go with --- **[7/25/2026, 2:51:38 PM] Rob** Probably a good idea... --- **[7/25/2026, 2:51:45 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. Okay, so you guys climb down from whatever it is you're watching from and no stress for that because well he would have, but he was he was rolling with disadvantage because he is zero dots. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:51:49 PM] Crow** 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 6 2d6 = 11 = 11 --- **[7/25/2026, 2:51:58 PM] Rob** Holy shit. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:52:01 PM] Veth** oof --- **[7/25/2026, 2:52:03 PM] Watcher** 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 4 3d6 = 10 = 10 --- **[7/25/2026, 2:52:19 PM] debinani** Otherwise you guys would have succeeded. And so you guys climb down from wherever it is you're hiding and you make it over to Camden Street and you're kind of kind of cruising alley to alley and and and watching watching out for the place. Crow you may make an attuneral if you're going to see if there are any kind of local ghosts who are. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:52:25 PM] Watcher** Did better than I did... lol --- **[7/25/2026, 2:52:32 PM] Rob** I have 0 in Prowl, so no. I did the same. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:52:53 PM] debinani** Candy. I have no idea. Absolutely one extra dice. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:53:13 PM] Rob** All right. Ghost mind should apply and give me an extra 1d, right? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:53:19 PM] Kristian** and hopefully not handsy --- **[7/25/2026, 2:53:42 PM] Jason G** gonna get smattered by a handsy ghost --- **[7/25/2026, 2:53:44 PM] debinani** And it's been a risky standards fine. You don't have to do a gather information. Yeah, yeah, because that's because you did it with yeah. Just making a tune role. It's okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:53:53 PM] Crow** Gather Information Partial Success Standard: You get good details. Clarifying and follow-up questions are possible. 4 4 2d6 = 8 = 8 --- **[7/25/2026, 2:54:06 PM] Rob** And it did not add the extra die. Let me try that again. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:54:06 PM] Eidolon** all over this street! --- **[7/25/2026, 2:54:18 PM] debinani** Actually tell you what make it a tune role. Desperate standard with the extra dice. And I'm going to call it desperate because you guys had a complication with your stealth role. So we'll just we'll just make a position a little harder. Okay, so okay, so one you get the XP for making a desperate role. You get an extra XP and resolve. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:54:43 PM] Crow** Attune Desperate | Standard Success You do it. 3 1 6 3d6 = 10 = 10 --- **[7/25/2026, 2:54:51 PM] debinani** Okay, so you actually do find a you actually you sense the ghost and you leave watcher behind so watcher doesn't get freaked out by the ghost. And you you go to the back of this alley and you find a a free roaming. Free roaming phantasm. It is a well, I mean everybody either fights flights or resists or freeze free or resist every time they see a ghost. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:55:03 PM] Veth** Nice! --- **[7/25/2026, 2:55:24 PM] Rob** I'm sure Watcher has nerves of steel. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:55:31 PM] debinani** This particular ghost is of a. Looks like a just a middle age fellow wearing. Almost a smoke I guess and an apron and practical practical pants and. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:55:47 PM] Rob** That's going to make Compel really fun. :P --- **[7/25/2026, 2:56:02 PM] debinani** It looks like it looks like this is the alchemist parish it looks like something blew up in his face at some point right so he's just it's it's it's like. He's being shattered or exploded and just riddled him and whatnot and he is at the back end of this alley facing a brick wall slowly just slowly. Saying he's beating his head against the wall is pretty generous he's essentially just tapping over and over his head against this wall muttering something to himself that you really can't understand. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:56:09 PM] Jason G** yes, I steel myself in my 1 Resolve --- **[7/25/2026, 2:56:57 PM] debinani** It it it stops tapping it's head. What do you want. It's voices kind of blurbly because there's a looks like some some debris or some shrapnel had gone through his voice box or something. It's all very gasoline scary. Also two in the morning. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:57:01 PM] Crow** Greetings, friend. You seem to be having a bad day. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:57:51 PM] Crow** I was looking for a particular gent that lives around here, but I'm not too familiar with the area. I was hoping you might be able to help me out? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:57:52 PM] debinani** I'm I'm taking your attuneral as the compel role so he's like he's like. You got a name. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:58:00 PM] Jason G** so, pretty normal for the "bars letting out" crowd --- **[7/25/2026, 2:58:00 PM] Rob** Exactly. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:58:28 PM] Rob** It's an ally when the bars let out. I'm surprised he wasn't urinating here instead. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:58:38 PM] Crow** His name's Venn. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:58:43 PM] debinani** Alder van the smuggler the antique guy ring. Number 16. I don't know if he lives there or not but paint his people sure spend a lot of time there. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:58:47 PM] Rob** Crow will give a description, too. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:59:03 PM] Crow** That would be him. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:59:12 PM] Jason G** puddle of ectoplasm... Boo suddenly shows up to collect it --- **[7/25/2026, 2:59:37 PM] debinani** I was going to say that was actually my reaction to I was like you could put him in a bottle. So now actually he's he just he he the your your compulsion kind of fades and and he goes back to just tapping his head against the wall. --- **[7/25/2026, 2:59:43 PM] Crow** Much obliged. Is there anything I can do for you to repay the favor? --- **[7/25/2026, 2:59:52 PM] Michelle** Thanks for your help, now into this bottle here.... --- **[7/25/2026, 2:59:58 PM] Rob** I thought of that, but... --- **[7/25/2026, 3:00:24 PM] Rob** Anything does not include giving him my soul to eat. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:00:25 PM] Michelle** You're lucky he isn't trying to eat you --- **[7/25/2026, 3:00:25 PM] debinani** Okay. So you guys head back to watcher. Well you head back and and so watcher is at the end of the alley watching Camden Street for anybody coming and going. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:00:41 PM] Crow** Huh. Guess not. *nods and heads back to Watcher* --- **[7/25/2026, 3:00:54 PM] Michelle** You can gather him up after we take this place over :D --- **[7/25/2026, 3:00:56 PM] debinani** And the ghosts ghosts are rarely cogent. So generally know the help they seek out is by trying to suck their soul out to because they have a deep need to steal life energy. They're generally pretty ravening they're generally not like this ghost who is nuts and just bang his material heading in the wall. So generally not ghosts but but they're all quite mad and and if they can be captured sometimes they'll they'll ask for things. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:00:57 PM] Jason G** are ghosts ever known to actually seek out help from the living, or is it pretty one-way? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:01:37 PM] debinani** There's all manner of crap that people have done to ghosts and ghosts have inevitably asked for whatever. So it's not it's not completely unreasonable. I mean you're not entirely sure what mr. Ashes either right I mean she could be a ghost trapped in a statue right. It's actually probably quite likely. And she hasn't asked anything of you all yet. But mostly because you've been at war and taking a long time to get a result. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:02:12 PM] debinani** Statue shapes fear bottle. Okay so I will say that around the time. You are finishing your conversation with the ghost this is around the time the rest of you all see fat Eddie stumble out of the back of the more pestle. And I say stumble. Yeah stumble he's pretty he's pretty sorted and start making his way down the street in a relative direction of Camden street. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:02:24 PM] Random** statue shaped spirit bottle --- **[7/25/2026, 3:03:07 PM] debinani** Okay so you all I'm assuming it probably we're probably not doing this on the rooftops. It's this is probably this is probably a ground level. You all as inconspicuously as you reasonably can. In the cold flurries dark night. You know make your way. To follow follow fat Eddie. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:03:17 PM] Michelle** Time to follow him --- **[7/25/2026, 3:03:40 PM] debinani** He goes about a block and and then like doubles over. Just like he's like holding his gut and he kind of doubles over in grunts. And not obviously not not feeling very well he actually like puts out his hand and leans against a leans against the wall of the nearest brownstone for a couple of minutes. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:03:47 PM] Jason G** better a statue than a "marital aid" --- **[7/25/2026, 3:03:57 PM] Michelle** ew --- **[7/25/2026, 3:04:09 PM] Jason G** exactly --- **[7/25/2026, 3:04:26 PM] debinani** Yeah. Yeah. You know there's a. A smattering of people you guys passed a blue coat who is just idly standing under a electro plasma lamp. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:04:35 PM] Kristian** if it wasn't brown before it's about to be --- **[7/25/2026, 3:04:50 PM] Michelle** Anyone else wandering about? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:05:05 PM] debinani** And there's a few waste rolls and scoundrels and you know nobody nobody's wondering I'm going about legitimate business that you know 230 in the morning and in charter hall. After after a few minutes fat Eddie actually looks around desperately and and rushes into an alley like tugging on his belt. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:05:07 PM] Rob** Ironically named. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:05:14 PM] Jason G** oh, I see.. ironic naming --- **[7/25/2026, 3:05:37 PM] Rob** Or maybe that's what he weighs after Nyx's poison runs its course. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:05:38 PM] debinani** How how close do you want to follow how how how dedicated are you to keeping eyes on him in whatever it is that he's about to do. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:05:45 PM] Jason G** or maybe the nickname refers to something else --- **[7/25/2026, 3:06:14 PM] debinani** So. Okay. So you follow him in the mail. Don't say I didn't warn you. Okay. Okay. So. Fat Eddie has a Russian of the alley and is he has his yanked his pants down or in his ankles and no I haven't I'm not going to do that. And he is essentially squatting against the side of the alley the building on the side of the alley and rocketing out his colon. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:06:20 PM] Cam** Cam slips out a dagger and follows him into the alley --- **[7/25/2026, 3:06:30 PM] Rob** Cam is going to put him out of his misery? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:06:32 PM] Michelle** nothing like catching a man with his pants down! --- **[7/25/2026, 3:06:37 PM] Veth** ew --- **[7/25/2026, 3:06:40 PM] Jason G** with his pants down, even... brutal --- **[7/25/2026, 3:06:49 PM] Kristian** Deb has used AI to make an image for us --- **[7/25/2026, 3:07:00 PM] Michelle** lol --- **[7/25/2026, 3:07:01 PM] Veth** lol --- **[7/25/2026, 3:07:01 PM] debinani** He's groaning his eyes are shut he's faces pale he is shaking and he is just not he's not in a good place. Yeah how how timely this beat of the adventure is. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:07:18 PM] Michelle** one sec --- **[7/25/2026, 3:07:28 PM] Jason G** shouldn't have had Taco Bell, buddy --- **[7/25/2026, 3:07:36 PM] Veth** Poor deb having to describe this on the record --- **[7/25/2026, 3:07:45 PM] debinani** Well you're in the phone we can get back to fat Eddie in a second watcher and grow so you you can't help but you know look up and down the street and try to put eyes on number 16. Campbell street is essentially its its it's kind of deep in the alchemist Parish it's essentially brownstones for it's it's three story brownstones like almost the rest of charter hall and --- **[7/25/2026, 3:07:51 PM] Jason G** we've all been there... --- **[7/25/2026, 3:07:55 PM] Michelle** Sorry. Phone call --- **[7/25/2026, 3:08:25 PM] debinani** really, it's a narrow street with little doors to residential townhomes. Because it's charter hall, they're probably pretty nice. They're probably actually actual townhomes that go from, that are all three floors, you know, with a front entrance. And number 16 is just another one of those. There's there's a bunch of them in this row of this kind of narrow row of brownstones. There are windows --- **[7/25/2026, 3:08:31 PM] Veth** anything to avoid watching what's happening in the alley --- **[7/25/2026, 3:09:03 PM] debinani** on the, there's actually no windows on the ground floor at number 16 with their windows on the second and third floor. And it's actually got a peaked roof. It doesn't have a flat roof. It actually has a peaked roof like these all these brownstones have had. So you've got eyes on number 16 and we will get back to what is Cam doing with poor fat Eddie. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:09:27 PM] Michelle** OK, back --- **[7/25/2026, 3:09:44 PM] Eidolon** it had a giant picture window on the alley, but it's brown now. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:09:48 PM] Veth** oops, ooc --- **[7/25/2026, 3:09:51 PM] debinani** Doesn't even, okay, I was going to say, didn't even notice you're there and then you speak. He, he, he, he actually kind of winpers and moans while another spasm and rush of --- **[7/25/2026, 3:10:17 PM] Cam** Cam leans up against the alley wall and taps the dagger against her chin --- **[7/25/2026, 3:10:24 PM] Cam** Looks like you're having a bad day, friend. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:10:30 PM] debinani** effluvia overtake him. Are you close, are you close to this? Are you, you, you, like close enough to actually stab him with the knife? Because it's, it's pretty appalling. I mean, it's really not, it's really bad. It's, it's terrible. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:10:51 PM] Cam** Go ahead and finish your business, but don't move. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:11:11 PM] debinani** Okay. Far enough away to avoid the mess he's making perfectly fair. So he, he, he looks up, he looks up at you and he's, he, he goes, oh, holy shit. What you want? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:11:17 PM] Michelle** She could throw it at him, so she's far enough away to avoid the mess. :P --- **[7/25/2026, 3:11:21 PM] Kristian** not even wipe? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:11:25 PM] Kristian** you monster --- **[7/25/2026, 3:11:35 PM] Michelle** :D --- **[7/25/2026, 3:11:44 PM] Jason G** out of the splatter zone --- **[7/25/2026, 3:11:54 PM] Veth** indeed --- **[7/25/2026, 3:11:57 PM] debinani** What about him? Oh, God. Another, another, gosh, I suppose. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:12:09 PM] Cam** Your boss. What else? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:12:28 PM] Cam** And I think you're going to help me find him - once you're done there. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:12:35 PM] debinani** Those of you who probably did not follow Cam into the alley of diarrhea hell, you actually, you do actually see another passerby who you don't know, maybe they're in their claimers circle, maybe they're not, but they suddenly experience a whole bunch of distress and go running. I wonder, wonder how many people drank the beer at the Morton Pessel tonight? Let's find out. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:13:06 PM] debinani** So he's going to be doubled over in this alley for a little bit. At one point you think he's actually done and, and he, he like, he sniffs a little bit and he, he grabs like a crumpled newspaper from a nearby dumpster and tries to clean himself up a little and then he, he goes to see like --- **[7/25/2026, 3:13:39 PM] debinani** straightens up and then he doubles over again and, and like, takes a few steps down, takes a few steps down from the last puddle, I guess, and continues on. It's just, it's, it's, it's pretty bad. Mixed rolled really good when she made that poison. Okay, watch her and, --- **[7/25/2026, 3:13:42 PM] Veth** this area will henceforth be known as browntown. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:13:59 PM] Random** m&p is going to have a decline in cliental me thinks. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:14:11 PM] debinani** crow. Okay, I just wanted to check here. I just wanted to see where your stress was real quick. Yeah, we actually haven't had it downtime in a bit. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:14:17 PM] Michelle** Methinks the man's pants are ruined --- **[7/25/2026, 3:14:34 PM] Jason G** pants, shoes, socks... dignity.... --- **[7/25/2026, 3:14:55 PM] debinani** Um, I've actually been keeping track of how many downtime's when you guys don't make a downtime. I usually keep track of who's not here. It's like a backlash from that, from that, okay. Uh, so here's what happens. Let's just do even on. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:14:56 PM] Debinani** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 1 4 2d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[7/25/2026, 3:15:02 PM] Jason G** my stress hasn't moved since I probably wasn't here for the last downtime --- **[7/25/2026, 3:15:10 PM] Random** but yeah, boo didn't follow cam. boo doesn't need more psychic backllash resetting her healing clock --- **[7/25/2026, 3:15:27 PM] debinani** Even, okay. So, um, uh, uh, what are you feel the rifle shot before you hear it? Um, uh, a shot comes out of the night, um, from um, one of the windows, the third story window of the number 16 roundstone. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:15:37 PM] Debinani** Fortune Failure The result is bad. You have poor or little effect. 2 1d6 = 2 = 2 --- **[7/25/2026, 3:16:06 PM] debinani** And it is going to strike you for, um, we'll call it, um, do, do, do, do, do, do, what are we going to call it? We'll call it too hard. Um, do you want to resist? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:16:08 PM] Rob** Hopefully you didn't feel it with your face. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:16:39 PM] debinani** Probably want to see us. Okay. So roll prowess, uh, which I for you would be two dice and, um, yeah. Okay. So you take, uh, three stress for resisting. Um, uh, tell me what happens instead. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:17:00 PM] Jason G** I believe I do --- **[7/25/2026, 3:17:14 PM] debinani** Does it, uh, does it, uh, hit a bulletproof plate that you kept on your shirt or does it miss because you turned your head in the last second. How, how, uh, how, uh, how do you not just get, uh, uh, shot the head? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:17:16 PM] Watcher** Prowess Success You reduce or avoid the effects of the consequence (GM chooses). Suffer 3 stress. 3 3 2d6 = 6 = 6 --- **[7/25/2026, 3:17:42 PM] Kristian** ricochets off the wall and kills Freakshow --- **[7/25/2026, 3:17:53 PM] debinani** I took crow in front of me. Uh, the rest of you who are about a block away, um, uh, the rest of you who are about a block away, --- **[7/25/2026, 3:18:31 PM] debinani** uh, um, here, a shot, you know, go off in the night from the direction of Camden Street. Yeah, it is dark. There is a shot. Oh, no, heavens no. I mean, like a block away at least. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:18:36 PM] Rob** Shush! Don't give him ideas. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:18:41 PM] Watcher** Watcher catches a glimpse out of the corner of his eye and turns to look at the last second --- **[7/25/2026, 3:18:53 PM] Rob** A shot in the dark? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:19:10 PM] debinani** Yeah, nobody's nobody's looking at work. Cam is, um, yeah, any, any actually, any actually, uh, um, uh, any actually, you know, actually stops looks up goes somebody shouldn't and then goes back to goes back to, uh, uh, uh, grunting. Yes. So watch her. You, you, uh, uh, --- **[7/25/2026, 3:19:14 PM] Cam** Cam waves anyone who can see her to get into cover --- **[7/25/2026, 3:19:18 PM] Kristian** one step away from us? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:19:24 PM] Cam** Cam stays with Eddie --- **[7/25/2026, 3:19:26 PM] Rob** I don't think anyone is looking at where Cam is. :P --- **[7/25/2026, 3:19:45 PM] debinani** you, something distracts you out of the corner of your eye, you turn and like right next to your head, a shot hits the brick and, um, um, and, and crow, you see that it came from the, came from the, uh, third story of number 16, uh, you are across the street from it, you are at the mouth of an alley, so you could duck into the alley for, for cover pretty easily. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:19:53 PM] Boo** Boo fades, as best she can, into a shadow. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:19:54 PM] Watcher** Fuck --- **[7/25/2026, 3:19:59 PM] Michelle** lol, figured no one was in here, but wasn't sure if you were at the alley opening :P --- **[7/25/2026, 3:20:05 PM] Watcher** Watcher bolts to cover, or around the corner --- **[7/25/2026, 3:20:17 PM] Watcher** run! --- **[7/25/2026, 3:20:20 PM] debinani** Unless you're trying to get away like going down the block. Which might expose you to another shot. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:20:21 PM] Crow** Crow curses and follows Watcher --- **[7/25/2026, 3:20:59 PM] Cam** And yeah, sure sounds like it. *smiles at Eddie* I sure hope none of my people were the target. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:21:04 PM] Rob** Crow did follow Watcher, so whichever he chose. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:21:07 PM] debinani** Yeah. He actually just say, uh, let me see. Because I don't know the old man paid Steiner an awful lot of money. So, uh, definitely might be. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:21:38 PM] debinani** Okay. So the nearest cover is definitely you look and literally just like back into the alley and nobody's going to be shooting you from that window. That is the cleanest safest. Yeah. Okay. So you guys, you, the two of you back down the alley, um, uh, you know full well that there is not a back way out of the alley. No, different alley, different alley, not the poop alley. Um, you know that there's not another way at its alley. Just it's a dead end, which is where you found the ghost. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:21:54 PM] Cam** Cam nods slightly but doesn't answer --- **[7/25/2026, 3:22:03 PM] Jason G** if the alley is the one we came from, then down that --- **[7/25/2026, 3:22:10 PM] debinani** But you are undercover from the, um, uh, uh, good point. Uh, you are undercover from the shots. Um, uh, so shot fired. All of you guys near cam, uh, near the poop alley have, you know, just generally made sure nobody's shooting at you. And the answer is no, nobody's shooting at you. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:22:11 PM] Veth** the poop alley? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:22:25 PM] Rob** I mean, not in the purely physical realm there isn't. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:22:42 PM] debinani** Um, uh, you can see about a block away on the corner of, uh, of, um, what is that? Feinway, uh, which is one of the big thrufer's of town. Uh, there's a blue coat standing under a, a electroplasm lamp. Just like defeated. He's just like, uh, do I actually go try to figure out where this gunfire is coming from or not? Um, um, and, uh, um, and so he doesn't actually do anything. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:22:58 PM] Jason G** ghost hears it... ghost comes from the other direction.... STOP GIVING HIM IDEAS JASON --- **[7/25/2026, 3:23:15 PM] debinani** Cam, uh, Eddie, Eddie kind of straightens up slowly, and cautiously, and he stands there, you know, just kind of with his pants around his ankles for 30, 40 seconds. Um, there's not another shot. There's just a single shot fired. Um, and, uh, and then just very slowly, gingerly kind of shuffles a few steps away from the, the pool of awful and, --- **[7/25/2026, 3:23:49 PM] debinani** and, uh, Pulse of his pants and, and slowly buckles his belt. Uh, you, it doesn't look like he's armed with anything. It looks like he, he has a, he's, he's got a knife in a, in a sheath on his belt, but he, uh, as far as you can tell, that's all he's, all he's carrying weapons was. Uh, the rest of you just hanging hanging out outside poop alley. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:24:24 PM] Eidolon** Be careful, they might be repositioning for another shot. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:24:27 PM] debinani** He, uh, he gives you kind of a withering look and stumbles over to the, to the other wall and sits down. Um, um, there are a couple of like, well, let's see, residential, um, --- **[7/25/2026, 3:24:33 PM] Random** he as a biological weapon..... --- **[7/25/2026, 3:24:42 PM] Cam** Why don't you take a seat against that wall? *indicates the one not in the mess* --- **[7/25/2026, 3:24:55 PM] Freakshow** Think they need help? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:24:58 PM] Jason G** literally no other doors in this alley? fire escapes? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:25:01 PM] debinani** yeah, there are a couple of, there are a couple of doors at the ground level leading into the alley, um, on, on both sides. They're pretty heavy, heavy duty doors, um, and then at the back end of the alley, it's actually the face of, of a, another set of brown stones the next block over. So there's really, it's really just like this three story slit in the brick, brick of the, of the block. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:25:39 PM] debinani** Okay, you don't actually have to attune for that. That is, uh, you get that for free with, um, uh, with, uh, um, Mr's Ash. Um, the, uh, um, so there's a couple of doors in the alley and then at the end of the alley, that's, that's a dead end, it looks like it used to be, um, uh, it actually used to be an open park at some point in the very distant past, uh, and, uh, and so that wall didn't actually exist --- **[7/25/2026, 3:25:44 PM] Rob** Crow will attune to see if there's another way out. Either into a building or into the underground. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:26:00 PM] Rob** Fair. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:26:00 PM] Jason G** ok, so we can go through to the next street? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:26:15 PM] debinani** at one point. So you guys could go through it if you wanted to. You would be inside, you're not sure what's past it. You would be inside, um, another row of brown stones. So you, you might like fall out and somebody's living room. Cam is, uh, cam's down there with Eddie. You all are kind of outside the alley and freak just like, I think they need help. Yeah. Next is like, ooh, that really worked. I want to remember --- **[7/25/2026, 3:26:50 PM] Nyx** Nyx takes notes on the effectiveness of the poison. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:26:51 PM] Crow** Crow points it out to Watcher --- **[7/25/2026, 3:26:51 PM] debinani** that one. So Eddie goes over to the other wall and, and, and, and that slumps down into huff. Um, that is exactly the wall that Ghost was tapping his head on. Yes. Um, the ghost right now is not invisible to you. You can't see it. Um, um, even with the, the ghost echoes. Oh, okay. Yeah, actually, eh, eh, eh. No, with the ghost echo skill, uh, I don't --- **[7/25/2026, 3:26:54 PM] Jason G** wait, is that the wall the ghost was tapping his head on? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:27:26 PM] debinani** know. I don't know. Do you think you can see it with the ghost echo skill? From weird experience or occult ritual, all crew members gain the ability to see interact with the ghostly structure streets and object within the echo of death fall, existence and ghostfield. No. Okay. So you do not, uh, you do not see the ghost for free. Um, but yes, uh, that is the wall the ghost was tapping his head against. Almost as if the ghost --- **[7/25/2026, 3:27:52 PM] Kristian** Yes. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:27:57 PM] debinani** expected it not to be there, but you can't see it so you don't, you know, have to like freak out and make a resistural. Um, you can't see number 16 anymore, but you do actually hear the sound of a, uh, some people --- **[7/25/2026, 3:28:01 PM] Kristian** when someone asks if you have a skill you say yes! --- **[7/25/2026, 3:28:13 PM] Crow** Shall we take our leave and travel into the great unknown? Considering the 'gentleman' I was talking to, it might be... uh... a bit scorched. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:28:16 PM] Veth** indeed! Roleplay 101! --- **[7/25/2026, 3:28:33 PM] debinani** coming out a door and, uh, um, yes, exactly. You hear the sound of pursuit. Okay, you guys are going to hop through the wall. Uh, let's make it a, I'm assuming we're going to do a group attune role. Um, go ahead and both of you roll attune. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:28:46 PM] Rob** The word is 'pursuit'. :P --- **[7/25/2026, 3:28:47 PM] Watcher** Watcher looks around.. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:28:57 PM] Watcher** I think that's best --- **[7/25/2026, 3:29:03 PM] Crow** Crow nods and strolls through the wall --- **[7/25/2026, 3:29:17 PM] debinani** Okay, Crow, you take a stress, uh, and, uh, you guys, uh, make it through the wall. Um, so you, this is the backside of, um, the allies on Camden Street, Allie backed into another building of the parish. You go through the wall and, uh, no, they do not come out. They do not come out of the poop wall. I wouldn't do that even even on a partial success. Um, --- **[7/25/2026, 3:29:20 PM] Crow** Attune Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 5 5 2d6 = 10 = 10 --- **[7/25/2026, 3:29:28 PM] Watcher** Attune Risky | Standard | 0d Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 3 1 2d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[7/25/2026, 3:29:29 PM] Veth** needs to be a percent chance they end up in poop wall. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:29:51 PM] debinani** but, uh, like you click your hills three times, you go through the wall and, uh, um, you are, um, standing in a parlor. Uh, it is lit with electroplasma lamps, so it's pretty upscale. So no like candles or whatever. Uh, uh, this is presumably somebody's home and there are, uh, four men, um, in, you know, fairly nice --- **[7/25/2026, 3:30:08 PM] Veth** I would. 100% --- **[7/25/2026, 3:30:15 PM] Rob** That would be a shitty thing to do to us. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:30:28 PM] debinani** attire sitting around a table, uh, playing cards and drinking. There's quite a number of bottles of empty, empty and open bottles of, of, uh, of beer and, uh, some cocktail glasses and things like that. And they all look at you in a somewhat inebriated bit of shock coming to the wall. Oh, --- **[7/25/2026, 3:30:34 PM] Veth** Indeeeed! --- **[7/25/2026, 3:30:37 PM] Jason G** raving ghost just watches us go through the wall he couldn't... becomes even more annoyed... --- **[7/25/2026, 3:30:45 PM] Kristian** "ooh, you rolled five sixes and what's that? a five? right to the poop wall." --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:03 PM] debinani** rest of you just hanging out at the end of the alley, not getting shot at. Happy about it. Okay. Um, you guys, just gonna go out the front door of their house. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:21 PM] Veth** All in all you're just another brick in the poop wall. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:22 PM] Crow** Crow pantomimes tipping a hat --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:27 PM] Crow** Sorry, wrong turn. We'll just be going now. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:29 PM] Watcher** Deal us in? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:34 PM] debinani** They don't really do anything. They're pretty shocked. Okay. Uh, okay. So you, uh, you both, you both, uh, uh, tip your hats and you, you rush out the front door. Um, the street you come out on is actually the street that they poop alley is in. So you actually see the rest of your folks at the end of the poop alley, um, um, you know, maybe 50 yards away. And, uh, um, um, yes, Cam, the rest of the party can hear you. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:43 PM] Freakshow** We should probably hurry this up if there's gunshots. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:46 PM] Crow** Crow pulls Watcher along out the front door --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:50 PM] Random** I did kinda try to hide a bit extra when the shot rang out, but nothing special beyond that. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:56 PM] Watcher** Many partdons! --- **[7/25/2026, 3:31:57 PM] Rob** Yeah, Crow's idea is to leave before they think about it. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:32:01 PM] Watcher** pardons too --- **[7/25/2026, 3:32:14 PM] Michelle** Is anyone in earshot of Cam? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:32:14 PM] Veth** Very Doctor Who moment there. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:32:18 PM] debinani** They tried to get further away so they couldn't hear the sound of the, uh, expulsions, but, um, but yes, they can hear you. Uh, and then watch your crow. You see your people, Sans, Cam standing at the end of the alley, uncomfortably, um, at the end of the street. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:32:33 PM] Jason G** has the waft reached us? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:32:49 PM] Veth** Poop fountain. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:32:51 PM] debinani** Okay. So you rush over there, you give them the story. Um, um, as it turns out, they figured out how to find older friends house without the grand beer cable, but okay, at least we had this moment with Eddie. Um, Eddie's, uh, um, Eddie's still sitting on the ground, glaring at you, Cam, drunkenly. So he, he, he, he gets up. Uh, you hear his, you hear his stomach audibly. I mean, --- **[7/25/2026, 3:32:53 PM] Crow** Oh, good. We found which house is Venn's. We expect armed company shortly. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:32:57 PM] Cam** *to the others* We got trouble? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:33:08 PM] Eidolon** Yeah, someone's shooting. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:33:30 PM] Cam** Alright, my friend, you're coming with us. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:33:32 PM] debinani** you are 10 feet away from him and you hear his stomach gurgle when he stands up and he freezes and takes a couple deep breaths. And then he, he pulls the knife in the sheath off his belt, and he shuffles by you and he holds the knife out, uh, so you can take it from him. He doesn't smell great. I mean, there's only so much, --- **[7/25/2026, 3:33:33 PM] Cam** Get up. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:33:38 PM] Watcher** Watcher brushes the brick dust from the wall shot off his shoulder --- **[7/25/2026, 3:33:40 PM] Veth** Eddy is the new Kevin. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:34:04 PM] debinani** so much he could do in the alley. But yeah, so, um, um, that Eddie looking quite a bit the worst for where, um, comes shuffling out of the alley, followed by, uh, followed by Cam. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:34:10 PM] Cam** Cam takes the knife --- **[7/25/2026, 3:34:11 PM] Rob** No, I don't think we want this particular Kevin. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:34:26 PM] Veth** His name will now be Poop Kevin. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:34:30 PM] Michelle** Let's make a retreat to our side of the underground - not home. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:34:44 PM] debinani** Okay, where do you want to, where do you want to retreat to? Just down into the tunnels or down in the under city and, or the tunnels, I guess, since it's charted all down to the tunnels and away from reclaimed territory. Oh, on your side of the canal, got it. Okay. Um, so you guys kind of take the long way around --- **[7/25/2026, 3:34:53 PM] Jason G** someone get this man some pedialyte... --- **[7/25/2026, 3:34:58 PM] Michelle** ha --- **[7/25/2026, 3:35:16 PM] debinani** out of the Alchemist Parish on the main street. You go across the bridge, you're on the north side of Charter Hall now across the across the canal. Um, and, um, and so you take, you take Eddie underground after that. So you've got, you're in the tunnels. You are on at least the home side of the river, uh, and you have a very smelly, gurgly, uncomfortable grumpy --- **[7/25/2026, 3:35:19 PM] Michelle** Out of Reclaimers territory, but back into the tunnels on our side of the canal --- **[7/25/2026, 3:35:52 PM] debinani** be, fatty with you. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:36:10 PM] Veth** Did Deb just say we have urine the tunnels? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:36:16 PM] Michelle** ugh --- **[7/25/2026, 3:36:27 PM] Jason G** are we leaving a witness, or dealing with him? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:36:29 PM] Crow** Cam, why are we befouling our tunnels with him? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:36:32 PM] debinani** We'll cannot wait for the AI to process the transcript of this. I can see poor cloth thinking what the absolute fuck. So I'm sure it's not the weirdest TTRPG transcript it will come across, probably even today. Okay. Um, okay. So, uh, yes, so you find a nice quiet spot of, uh, essentially a --- **[7/25/2026, 3:36:33 PM] Veth** This session officially has a theme! --- **[7/25/2026, 3:36:41 PM] Michelle** Find a dead end spot where we can park him --- **[7/25/2026, 3:37:04 PM] Kristian** RIP your recommended search algorithms --- **[7/25/2026, 3:37:04 PM] debinani** stormwater drain tunnel, uh, and, um, in a dead end and you stop in there. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:37:06 PM] Cam** If we're being shot at, can't really do this over there. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:37:14 PM] Cam** Have a seat, Eddie. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:37:22 PM] Veth** Try not to think about poor claude doing the same for the ERP gamers. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:37:35 PM] Rob** And the impetus for the AI revolution is when a man forced Claude to transcribe a scatological nightmare. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:37:40 PM] Cam** *to the others* What happened? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:37:47 PM] debinani** Yeah. Uh, fat Eddie, fat Eddie actually says, uh, you guys are lucky. Uh, Steiner guys are really good shot. Yeah. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:38:01 PM] Rob** Crow will relay what happened. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:38:20 PM] Cam** Don't I know it. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:38:37 PM] Eidolon** Tell us more about Steiner.. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:38:39 PM] debinani** Old man paid him a lot of money for a retainer and offered him even more for each one of you he brought in. Yeah. I'll probably probably pay them all of our wages. He had most of us haven't gotten paid in weeks. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:38:47 PM] Watcher** Watcher stress level intensifies --- **[7/25/2026, 3:38:59 PM] Veth** Frank N. Steiner. Doctor of snipery. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:39:17 PM] debinani** Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Probably he's a wily old fuck. I got no idea. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:39:20 PM] Veth** The N is for Nutshot. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:39:43 PM] Eidolon** That seems like a terrible way of doing business. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:39:43 PM] Cam** That's a right shame, isn't it? Any other surprises he has set for us? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:39:45 PM] Boo** Not been paid in weeks? that's loyalty for ya. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:39:49 PM] debinani** Yeah. If you folks are still hanging around on the true believers, rest of us are just haven't been paid in a while. We got to find other work. Can't sit around waiting for him to come up with another job. Yeah. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:39:56 PM] Watcher** Doesn't seem right --- **[7/25/2026, 3:40:23 PM] Eidolon** Sounds like a shitty situation. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:40:29 PM] Veth** That was indeed IC. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:40:32 PM] Cam** Cam smiles a bit --- **[7/25/2026, 3:40:47 PM] Random** ponders offering him a job. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:40:49 PM] debinani** Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He kind of glared up at you. Forgive my hesitation. Maybe later. Yeah. Yeah. He kind of glared up at you. Forgive my hesitation. Maybe later. Yeah. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:40:55 PM] Veth** Told you. Poop Kevin. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:40:59 PM] Rob** Nyx needs a test subject? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:41:02 PM] Jason G** hey, I resisted.... --- **[7/25/2026, 3:41:05 PM] Cam** I'm always interested in potential new blood, and my coin is good. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:41:32 PM] Cam** Cam shrugs --- **[7/25/2026, 3:41:45 PM] debinani** Yeah. Yeah. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:42:45 PM] debinani** Yeah. Yeah. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:42:58 PM] Michelle** Cam isn't going to kill this guy since we're trying to avoid more bloodshed. He's a mess, but we probably ought to stash him somewhere until we get Venn. Suggestions? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:43:17 PM] debinani** Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, coin is kind of a, um, it's, it's a generic term. It means roughly about a week's pay. There is obviously currency, right? They're, they're, they're generally called eels. Like so, you know, just like in Canada. They're called tunis here. They're called eels. They're called tunis here. They're called tunis here. It's essentially a buck, right? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:43:29 PM] Veth** is there a currency other than the coins we only have a few of? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:43:49 PM] debinani** It's your, it's your, your pocket change and stuff like that. Generally your crew tier and your current level of, uh, of stash. Tells you how much of that you have as, uh, at any given moment. So right now you guys don't have a heck of a lot of pocket change, but you all have a certain amount of pocket change. It, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, --- **[7/25/2026, 3:43:59 PM] Rob** I suggest an outhouse... --- **[7/25/2026, 3:44:09 PM] Kristian** we could sell Miss Ash as a sex slave? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:44:19 PM] Eidolon** You've had a bad day friend, here's some eels for some new clothes. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:44:23 PM] Kristian** step up step up, bid on the world's only talking buttplug! --- **[7/25/2026, 3:44:31 PM] Eidolon** Your boss clearly can't afford it. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:44:35 PM] debinani** I, III, III, III, III, III, II, III, III, III, III, III, III, III, III. Uh, yeah, green rule. Thank you very much. I'll see you next time. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:44:50 PM] Michelle** Can you put up our map? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:45:02 PM] Michelle** thankee --- **[7/25/2026, 3:45:11 PM] debinani** Okay. Give him some money for a pair of pants. He's just kind of looking at you all suspiciously. He takes the money. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:45:27 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon hands him what would be enough small money for at least new pants. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:45:33 PM] Watcher** Clearly he can afford it, he just has other priorities. knocks more brick dust off his clothes --- **[7/25/2026, 3:46:04 PM] Veth** It was our fault, gotta keep that karma. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:46:08 PM] debinani** Thank you very much. Thank you very much. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:46:34 PM] Veth** also it proves we have money to pay people where the reclaimer boss don't. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:47:04 PM] Michelle** I'd like to pay someone in our territory to keep the man locked up in a room for a couple days (paying extra for the mess). Put some eyes on him to make sure he doesn't escape. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:47:05 PM] Watcher** How did you get that name, Eddie? I've always wondered. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:47:07 PM] debinani** Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:47:38 PM] debinani** Yeah, man. Somebody just made a joke 20 years ago and here we are. Sure. You can. Okay. Yes. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:47:46 PM] Watcher** Is it like calling the portly fellow "Slim"? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:48:05 PM] Watcher** Watcher nods --- **[7/25/2026, 3:48:15 PM] debinani** Thank you very much. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:48:54 PM] Jason G** puts Deb on the spot to come up with character name backstories --- **[7/25/2026, 3:48:55 PM] Michelle** Done. Don't want him reporting to Venn even if he's not getting paid --- **[7/25/2026, 3:48:55 PM] debinani** You guys, you can take him to Navid. Navid, Oberoi. He's the guy who owns the clerk street type setters. You know that he's actually got a safe room in the back of his shop. He's got a safe room in the back of his shop. He's got a safe room in the back of his shop. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:49:32 PM] debinani** You just want to pull that coin from the crew kitty. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:50:01 PM] Michelle** Cam will pay it. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:50:06 PM] Jason G** it's decent captivity, yeah? --- **[7/25/2026, 3:50:17 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:50:26 PM] Michelle** Since she inflicted the mess on him. lol --- **[7/25/2026, 3:50:55 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:51:31 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:51:37 PM] Cam** This good man is going to take care of you for a bit, Eddie. Just recover here, and maybe we'll talk again in a while. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:51:55 PM] Jason G** with dehydration, the longer it goes the weaker they should get over that period I assume --- **[7/25/2026, 3:51:56 PM] Michelle** yeah, we need to figure out how to get into Venn's place --- **[7/25/2026, 3:52:02 PM] debinani** Yeah. Yeah. The poison is out of their system in 20 hours. But like. Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:52:28 PM] Debinani** Break Time Complete --- **[7/25/2026, 3:52:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:53:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:54:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:55:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:56:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:57:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:58:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 3:59:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:00:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:01:23 PM] Veth** We should make a diagram of ideas on how to get into Venn's place. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:01:45 PM] Veth** but what to call that... --- **[7/25/2026, 4:01:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:02:22 PM] Rob** I refuse to bite. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:02:40 PM] Veth** :P --- **[7/25/2026, 4:02:49 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:03:30 PM] Jason G** I bet there's some overlap with those ideas --- **[7/25/2026, 4:03:47 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:03:54 PM] Michelle** Yeah, we'll wait for a bit, and while we're at it, we'll look for any way into #16 there that we can explort --- **[7/25/2026, 4:03:59 PM] Michelle** exploit --- **[7/25/2026, 4:04:00 PM] Veth** Indeed, we should come up with a way to represent that overlap. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:04:10 PM] Michelle** oy --- **[7/25/2026, 4:04:19 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. All right. So in the absence of actual physical recon, which gets you shot at. So basically you've got this row of brown stones. It's got a peaked roof. It backs on to a. Another set of brown stones again with a with a peaked roof. There's really no alley between them. They do have basements or at least they did at the time that all your charts, your underground maps were made. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:04:28 PM] Random** I'm injured and not in my right mind and am easily swayed by those around me. I'm not a terrible person. I just hang out with terrible people. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:05:00 PM] debinani** So there might be a basement access to that brown stone. But whatever is going on inside that basement is not going to be represent on your maps. So you just you wouldn't know until you got there. But there is a set of tunnels that would lead you past the basement to that place. Right. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:05:24 PM] Rob** Didn't we steal these maps from them? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:05:48 PM] debinani** But for this particular assault, if we call it that, I think I really want to do this in the proper blades in the dark way. And that would be, you all just figure out, are you going to talk your way in, sneak your way in, fight your way in, and kind of give me an idea of how. And we will make the engagement role and just do it. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:06:03 PM] Rob** Okay, so it's highly likely that they would also know about any underground tunnels that go into the basement. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:06:24 PM] Watcher** Watcher paces in thought, very visibly stressed and unusually agitated --- **[7/25/2026, 4:06:27 PM] debinani** And hopefully those of you who are stressed left could do flashbacks. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:06:35 PM] Rob** Option 4: We just set the place on fire when Venn's home. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:06:56 PM] Cam** Cam watches Watcher pacing --- **[7/25/2026, 4:07:03 PM] Kristian** we are probably not super good at the "fight your way in" one... --- **[7/25/2026, 4:07:09 PM] Random** we are a sneaking bunch. we sneak. vote. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:07:14 PM] debinani** Well, when you have watcher, you get to do the group sneak rolls and not spend a ton of stress on it. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:07:16 PM] Cam** Spill it, what's up? This job needs everyone's focus. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:07:21 PM] Rob** We're rather hit-or-miss at sneaking. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:07:35 PM] Rob** True. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:07:36 PM] Veth** I'm terrible at it. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:07:52 PM] Random** we have watch...what deb said. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:08:02 PM] Rob** Watcher is our stress mule. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:08:14 PM] debinani** Yeah, watcher just has a special ability that means he only takes one stress on group, prowl rolls. Which is really handy keeping the rest of you sneaky. Yeah, I didn't realize when he picked it, how handy it was actually going to be, but considering --- **[7/25/2026, 4:08:16 PM] Kristian** until Watcher runs out of Stress because the rest of us suck... --- **[7/25/2026, 4:08:28 PM] Veth** Then we have meeeee! --- **[7/25/2026, 4:08:39 PM] Jason G** I have expertise, so I lose at most 1 --- **[7/25/2026, 4:08:48 PM] Random** what's a little trauma between friends? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:08:50 PM] debinani** how group rolls work in this game, it's incredibly handy. Yeah, I'm amazed you actually haven't come up with a use for that yet. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:08:55 PM] Veth** VERY handy. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:09:02 PM] Jason G** but I still only have three stress to go before a trauma lol --- **[7/25/2026, 4:09:09 PM] Veth** We haven't even had a need for my super power yet. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:09:28 PM] Kristian** this group is trauma lol, --- **[7/25/2026, 4:09:34 PM] Crow** Did Dysentery Eddie say he'd been inside 16? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:09:37 PM] Cam** Cam tosses a random spoon at Watcher --- **[7/25/2026, 4:09:43 PM] Veth** I've been careful cause of the stress system. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:09:57 PM] Random** we've not had enough downtime recently for me to prepare my super power for another use. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:09:58 PM] Cam** Hey! What's rattling around in your head there? Really need you to focus. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:10:14 PM] debinani** He definitely implied that he'd been in there. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:10:19 PM] Rob** Crow's question was directed at Cam. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:10:51 PM] Michelle** yeah, she's trying to get Watcher's attention --- **[7/25/2026, 4:10:59 PM] Rob** Crow has noticed. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:11:17 PM] Crow** Fire a gun. He notices when that happens. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:11:26 PM] Watcher** Watcher breaks free of his thoughts --- **[7/25/2026, 4:11:41 PM] Watcher** Just... that shot was one inch from ending me... --- **[7/25/2026, 4:11:51 PM] Watcher** If I hadn't turned --- **[7/25/2026, 4:11:58 PM] Crow** Crow shrugs --- **[7/25/2026, 4:12:02 PM] Crow** But you did. And it didn't. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:12:06 PM] Watcher** Anyway, what's the plan --- **[7/25/2026, 4:12:22 PM] Cam** I get it. Almost bit it during that ambush. But Crow's right, you're still here. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:12:42 PM] Cam** And we still need to make the guy behind it all pay for it. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:12:48 PM] Watcher** Yes, let's get to work. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:12:54 PM] Crow** Can we buy Steiner away from Venn? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:13:14 PM] debinani** Yeah. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:13:17 PM] Cam** Not if he's already been paid. He's sticky like that. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:13:19 PM] Freakshow** Can buy most people for the right pric e. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:13:24 PM] Freakshow** ..but not all of them --- **[7/25/2026, 4:13:34 PM] Cam** And he's why we can't just assault the place - obviously. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:13:49 PM] Crow** Didn't Sir Craps-a-lot say that Venn has a bounty on us? Bounty implies he hasn't been paid for that bit of work yet. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:13:50 PM] Freakshow** ..hrm --- **[7/25/2026, 4:13:55 PM] Freakshow** Steiner only take one job at a time? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:14:16 PM] Cam** He also said Steiner took a retainer, so... --- **[7/25/2026, 4:14:26 PM] Cam** We're just bonuses. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:14:34 PM] Crow** Yes, and Steiner is so loyal that he moved on from you to someone who paid him more. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:14:41 PM] debinani** Hey, it's not like you had hired him. You guys are just old acquaintances. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:14:46 PM] Freakshow** Pay Steiner to take out Venn...at the same time he has a contract to take out us? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:14:51 PM] Cam** Cam grunts and nods --- **[7/25/2026, 4:15:05 PM] Cam** I don't think he'll take any messages from me at this point. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:15:09 PM] Cam** Or from any of you. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:15:15 PM] Crow** Crow nods --- **[7/25/2026, 4:15:27 PM] Crow** All right. So that's a dead end. So to speak. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:15:31 PM] Boo** maybe we can call him out for parley and talk to him. find out how committed he is. We have an idea where he's holed up. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:15:48 PM] Cam** How, Boo? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:15:57 PM] Watcher** If he's already been paid, I expect he's committed. He's got a reputation to uphold.. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:16:25 PM] Boo** white flag from round the corner and yell "parelay"? I dunno. just tossing ideas from my rattled head. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:16:39 PM] Cam** Cam nods --- **[7/25/2026, 4:16:58 PM] Boo** if he talks he talks if not no harm in the try. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:17:10 PM] debinani** Yeah. IV. contact. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:17:12 PM] Cam** Breaking in through the basement is probably our best bet, but they know we travel that way a lot. So it's still risky. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:17:28 PM] Freakshow** Anybody know how to fly? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:17:30 PM] Cam** And we still have to deal with whatever Venn has waiting other than Steiner. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:17:40 PM] Crow** They also had these maps before us. If they've had that house long enough then they know there's a way in from there. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:17:49 PM] Jason G** who knew Steiner? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:17:56 PM] Michelle** Was, being the key word --- **[7/25/2026, 4:18:01 PM] Watcher** Watcher looks at Cam --- **[7/25/2026, 4:18:03 PM] Boo** flying is easy. the landing is the tricky part. ..--puases-- well falling with style is more accurate I guess. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:18:06 PM] Michelle** She basically has two enemies now. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:18:07 PM] debinani** oh ah Cam make a this is a fortune roll just roll make a fortune roll with --- **[7/25/2026, 4:18:14 PM] Watcher** You weren't close to Steiner? Does he have family of his own? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:18:32 PM] Cam** None that I know of. Close would be the wrong word for it. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:18:39 PM] Eidolon** I do kind of know how to fly.. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:18:44 PM] debinani** One die Yeah, Cam actually you know Steiner has a young daughter. She would probably be --- **[7/25/2026, 4:18:57 PM] Boo** Boo raises an eyebrow. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:19:19 PM] Cam** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 5 1d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[7/25/2026, 4:19:20 PM] debinani** Six by now You're not sure who the mother is or she's selling a picture, but you do know she you don't use a daughter Since someone asked You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:19:24 PM] Crow** Can you land gracefully? Without creating craters? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:19:25 PM] Eidolon** It's more floating than flying. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:19:35 PM] Eidolon** Yeah. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:20:05 PM] debinani** You Yeah, it is a that block is one solid Brownstone that has been subdivided into townhouses You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:20:10 PM] Michelle** OK, amending her last statement... --- **[7/25/2026, 4:20:27 PM] Rob** Do the houses on Camden street share walls? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:20:32 PM] Cam** Close would be the wrong word for it. He does have a kid somewhere out there though. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:20:58 PM] Crow** We could get into one of the neighboring houses and get into 16 from there. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:21:04 PM] debinani** Yeah, I mean while they do know that you go through the tunnels. I don't quite know if they know that you go through walls yet I --- **[7/25/2026, 4:21:10 PM] Crow** Crow glances side-eyed at Watcher --- **[7/25/2026, 4:21:42 PM] Watcher** The man clearly has no qualms taking us out for money. Not saying we harm the kid, but perhaps we remind him of his familial obligations in favor of recusing himself from this specific job... and we make him right financially for the trouble... --- **[7/25/2026, 4:21:46 PM] debinani** Mean presumably he's in there with then so I mean your chances of getting him out to have a conversation with him are probably pretty slim Let's you get real creative about getting a message You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:22:19 PM] Freakshow** Messing with someone's family...dangerous business. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:22:25 PM] Crow** Crow scratches his head --- **[7/25/2026, 4:22:31 PM] Crow** I agree with Freakshow. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:22:33 PM] Freakshow** sure a way to enrage him as not --- **[7/25/2026, 4:22:34 PM] Cam** Hey, if the opportunity comes up, no harm in yelling that at him, but I don't know if we'll get that chance. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:22:34 PM] debinani** You You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:22:37 PM] Jason G** we wheel out an exact duplicate of me with a sign on it... --- **[7/25/2026, 4:23:14 PM] Watcher** I think we're well past "dangerous business".. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:23:22 PM] Crow** Yeah, but the results could be... unpredictable. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:23:26 PM] Eidolon** I grew up in a family with money, they loved harming kids. I hate it. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:23:26 PM] Cam** Nyx, if you can mix up more of your knock-out or knock-down gas - again non-lethal - that'd be a help. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:23:29 PM] Watcher** He already wants us dead --- **[7/25/2026, 4:23:34 PM] debinani** You You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:24:11 PM] Crow** Steiner is being paid to kill us. He doesn't particularly care one way or another about us. If we threaten his kid and he cares about them, then he'll want us dead. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:24:18 PM] Cam** So what exactly could you do, Eidolon? With this flying thing. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:24:19 PM] debinani** You guys know you guys know each other well enough island can like he can walk through walls in his own way Turn himself invisible Essentially float like you know walk on water that sort of stuff He just can't do it much --- **[7/25/2026, 4:24:22 PM] Eidolon** Steiner works for money, it's not personal. Going after family would make it personal. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:24:31 PM] Crow** Crow nods to Eidolon's point --- **[7/25/2026, 4:24:35 PM] Cam** Whoah, hey, people. Let's table Steiner. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:24:55 PM] Veth** "float like a ghost". --- **[7/25/2026, 4:25:00 PM] debinani** You You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:25:09 PM] Veth** very stressful. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:25:10 PM] Rob** As opposed to a butterfly? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:25:48 PM] debinani** It is not an end. It's got stuff on other side. Yes, there is a there is a a 14 and an 18 Camden Street You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:25:50 PM] Random** we all float down here.... --- **[7/25/2026, 4:25:51 PM] Rob** Does 16 have houses on either side or is it on an end? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:25:53 PM] Cam** How about a multi-pronged approach? Some of us from the basement, a couple from above. Fill the place with Nyx's stuff, then go after Venn. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:26:01 PM] Eidolon** A couple? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:26:13 PM] Cam** Cam shrugs --- **[7/25/2026, 4:26:17 PM] Eidolon** It's not like I can carry anyone.. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:26:18 PM] Cam** Through the air or the walls. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:26:20 PM] debinani** It's a fairly safe bet that You know ghost echoes and roofs is probably a good combination because Roof's are by their nature pretty temporary especially with storms and things changing so Yeah, even if you didn't want to go in from either side you could probably go down through the roof into the attic space I --- **[7/25/2026, 4:26:34 PM] Crow** If we could get entry to the houses on either side then we might be able to hit it from both sides rather than top and bottom. Or top and sides. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:26:45 PM] Cam** Do we have anything to protect us against Nyx's toys? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:26:56 PM] debinani** Know like if you gas the house I Mean I suppose you could you could prepare for that you could you could get Essentially gas masks This particular roof. It's not a flat roof. It's actually a steeple roof so there's nothing up there but chimneys --- **[7/25/2026, 4:27:16 PM] Eidolon** I could get up there and drop a rope though.. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:27:18 PM] Jason G** roofs are probably pretty guarded in this city too, no? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:27:27 PM] Michelle** That's what I was thinking --- **[7/25/2026, 4:27:30 PM] Kristian** this whole campaign is a war crime lol --- **[7/25/2026, 4:27:37 PM] Michelle** Or the equivalent of the day and age --- **[7/25/2026, 4:27:38 PM] Rob** Operation: Grinch --- **[7/25/2026, 4:27:44 PM] debinani** You You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:27:49 PM] Veth** It's not a war crime the first time! --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:00 PM] Watcher** gas them all, kidnap their kids, --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:06 PM] Watcher** oops that was OOC --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:10 PM] Veth** lol --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:10 PM] Jason G** or was it --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:13 PM] Michelle** It's a war. We're criminals. So yes, all war crimes --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:25 PM] Veth** War crime all the time. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:34 PM] Rob** War time war crime? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:44 PM] debinani** You You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:48 PM] Random** history is written by the winners. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:51 PM] Cam** So coming in through the roof sounds like a better plan? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:28:58 PM] Rob** Unless they're illiterate. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:29:00 PM] Veth** That didn't rhyme so it's invalid. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:29:01 PM] Cam** Or at least less expected of us. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:29:13 PM] Random** point. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:29:16 PM] debinani** You There's not a great way on to those roofs. I mean you could you could You could you could You could probably make it over I mean it would be kind of involved but you could go rooftop to rooftop and --- **[7/25/2026, 4:29:40 PM] Eidolon** I don't mind trying to get us to the roof, but won't we be exposed trying to get up the rope? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:29:53 PM] debinani** Ultimately get there But then you're you're you're literally hoping for ghost echoes to get you through the roof You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:29:54 PM] Eidolon** If Steiner's there we're sitting ducks. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:30:06 PM] Crow** We don't have to climb up onto Venn's rough. We could start on another roof. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:30:18 PM] Jason G** just to recap for the AI note taker, we stashed the explosive pooping man in a quiet place and are now contemplating the degrees of depravity we're comfortable with --- **[7/25/2026, 4:30:26 PM] Michelle** lol --- **[7/25/2026, 4:30:42 PM] debinani** You Yeah, I'm sure you can blow a hole to the roof and be fine Not quite the stealthy weight approach, but I mean --- **[7/25/2026, 4:30:56 PM] Rob** AI: Load sample images of explosive poop for Deb when you write the summary. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:31:08 PM] Cam** Stealth is a must on this one, however we do the approach. Steiner probably won't miss again if we give him a clear shot. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:31:13 PM] Random** if we can't ghost echo through the rroof can we boom our way through the roof? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:31:31 PM] Veth** bring pickaxes. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:31:39 PM] Rob** I'm sure Nyx can whip something up. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:31:42 PM] debinani** You Okay, so you guys are going to stealth into the place You are going to make prolific use of knockout gas to and neutralize as many people as you can before it actually comes to a fight and fight and fight House does not have windows on the backside the only windows are the only face the only outer face the house has is a front face --- **[7/25/2026, 4:31:43 PM] Rob** Or already has. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:32:12 PM] Rob** Does the house have windows on the back side? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:32:20 PM] Random** maybe acid through the roof. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:32:20 PM] debinani** It's got brownstones on either side and then whole other block of brownstones behind it You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:32:44 PM] Michelle** The less bloodshed the better, though Venn is gonna die after all this. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:32:58 PM] Crow** We could check for ghost echoes on the back side, too. Might have been a door or window there at one time. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:33:12 PM] debinani** You Remember the game system supports flashbacks --- **[7/25/2026, 4:33:53 PM] Michelle** Is that worth risking another scouting trip over there? Or do we want to wing it during the job? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:33:54 PM] debinani** I mean for those of you actually have stress left Okay, let's try this again stealthy approach The idea is you're going to gas people and be quiet --- **[7/25/2026, 4:34:04 PM] Rob** Flashbac- what he said. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:34:15 PM] Watcher** Watcher eye twitches --- **[7/25/2026, 4:34:18 PM] Rob** I have 4 left! --- **[7/25/2026, 4:34:20 PM] Michelle** Ok --- **[7/25/2026, 4:34:27 PM] debinani** Let's answer two more questions. Are you all going in together or are you going to go separate and what's the initial entry point going to be? Basement Sideways in or roof on down --- **[7/25/2026, 4:34:32 PM] Michelle** I'm at 6. whee --- **[7/25/2026, 4:34:34 PM] Jason G** three is a lot, right? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:34:42 PM] Nyx** I think knockout gas would work just fine. Pitch it in through the windows of each room. We will need gas masks. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:35:12 PM] debinani** I Will say that you all have access to gas mask it will take a load though At some point it seemed like a good investment because you guys know next You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:35:13 PM] Rob** I think basement is going to be guarded/trapped. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:35:17 PM] Kristian** Freakshow on the roof with the candlestick --- **[7/25/2026, 4:35:20 PM] Veth** I like the roof idea. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:35:27 PM] Kristian** is my vote, but I love splitting the party too :P --- **[7/25/2026, 4:35:33 PM] Boo** how fast will the knockout gas disperse after kocking everyone inside out? do we need maskes? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:35:51 PM] Michelle** This is a heavy load job --- **[7/25/2026, 4:35:57 PM] Random** ha! --- **[7/25/2026, 4:35:57 PM] debinani** Okay, so you all want to Get through the roof somehow as sneaky as possible and then use gas and work your way down together You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:36:35 PM] Veth** there's a fart joke in here somewhere. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:36:42 PM] Rob** Seems to be the route they'd least expect. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:36:42 PM] debinani** Okay Definitely a fair assessment that they wouldn't expect Okay, so If so we're going to go in undercover darkness so we're at the evening of the 11th Everybody add heavy load --- **[7/25/2026, 4:37:03 PM] Cam** Alright. Rooftop is our goal. If Crow sees a back wall entry we can exploit, great, but roof is the plan for now. Nyx comes loaded for bear, and we take out as many without killing them as we can. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:37:13 PM] debinani** No, they're not natural gas so either people are using lamps and candles lit by oil or Electroplasm Which is essentially Electric lights and in Charter Hall it might be a mix depending upon level of wealth Okay, so Do do do do do do do --- **[7/25/2026, 4:37:18 PM] Veth** One last suggestion.. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:37:23 PM] Jason G** is this a gas-lit era? like natural gas for lights and homes? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:37:28 PM] Veth** Spanish inquisition. Nobody expects it. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:37:34 PM] Jason G** oil --- **[7/25/2026, 4:37:37 PM] Jason G** ok --- **[7/25/2026, 4:37:48 PM] debinani** All right, that's the plan. Let's make the engagement role Let's see Is this operation particularly boulder daring? Yeah, it probably is so you're gonna one D for dumb luck you're gonna have one D for boulder daring I'll give you a dice for them never freaking expecting somebody to come through the roof --- **[7/25/2026, 4:38:15 PM] Rob** We haven't done one of those in a while. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:38:19 PM] Nyx** Nyx busies herself with nitrous oxicide bombs. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:38:22 PM] Michelle** What modifiers can we put on that? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:38:29 PM] debinani** Friends of contacts not we're providing aid And a major rival's not really interfering You No dice for the Spanish acquisition so one two three. Okay, so um Um, I don't know who wants to make the engagement role. It can be cam --- **[7/25/2026, 4:38:34 PM] Nyx** Nyx whistles --- **[7/25/2026, 4:38:44 PM] Rob** Can we have a die if we dress up as the Spanish Inquisition? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:39:01 PM] debinani** So everybody set up for heavy load and mark off the burglary tools on your sheet the burglary gear on your sheet representing the gas mask So you're gonna you're gonna start with you're gonna start with one thing being used Oh, yeah, you can use an usual weapon to I don't care mark something Representing the gas mask --- **[7/25/2026, 4:39:05 PM] Random** I'll mark the mask as "unusual weapon" for tracking. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:39:12 PM] Michelle** What if we do the song and dance number? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:39:33 PM] Random** or that. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:39:37 PM] debinani** Okay, so cam go ahead and make a three dice engagement role You Okay, well good of all the roles that you could make Uh, the having a really good engagement role is a good one. So --- **[7/25/2026, 4:39:45 PM] Veth** unusual weapon is a good idea --- **[7/25/2026, 4:39:54 PM] Michelle** OK, how many dice for this? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:40:05 PM] Cam** Engagement Critical Success! Exceptional result. You've already overcome the first obstacle and you're in a controlled position for what's next. 1 6 6 3d6 = 13 = 13 --- **[7/25/2026, 4:40:08 PM] debinani** Here's how this all works out Uh, you are um You make it up to the rooftops like two blocks over and you make your way. It's like it's late It's it's you know 10 11 o'clock you make your way across the roofs all the way to Camden street Make your way over to 16 no problems at all Um, once you once you get to 16 you guys do a um You do a ghost echoes on the roof and see that they're actually used to be a rooftop --- **[7/25/2026, 4:40:10 PM] Veth** nice! --- **[7/25/2026, 4:40:12 PM] Michelle** awesome --- **[7/25/2026, 4:40:18 PM] Random** woot --- **[7/25/2026, 4:40:19 PM] Rob** I'd say that was an acceptable roll. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:40:20 PM] Kristian** the roof dies --- **[7/25/2026, 4:40:41 PM] debinani** Of a a a small rooftop terrace on this building and literally there's a space Where the roof didn't exist for a period of time and you Pass through that completely painlessly uh, you you you Nobody takes any stress everybody's everybody's um A tune role miraculously succeeds and you end up in the attic space of --- **[7/25/2026, 4:41:16 PM] debinani** um 16 Camden street um, the attic space is Pretty much I mean, it's it's there's not much attic space. I mean, it's it's really just um the brownstone is maybe out of 50 feet 50 feet wide um, maybe 60 feet deep and um And this attic space is really low, right? So all three stories have been used to the max there is a um --- **[7/25/2026, 4:41:28 PM] Veth** if the roof dies we can capture the ghost! --- **[7/25/2026, 4:41:48 PM] debinani** A trapdoor Uh, in the floor of the attic space pretty smoothly. I mean that leads down into the third floor um, and you have successfully unlatched and opened it All right, uh, and that's where we'll start um Yes, there are a couple of um Yeah, there's some stuff stored up here, but it doesn't really look like um It doesn't really look like it's these guys's stuff. It's so dusty like there's like an old rocking horse, right? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:41:50 PM] Michelle** Cam is not above loosing a ghost on these people at this point. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:19 PM] Random** is the attic being used for storage? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:25 PM] Nyx** Nyx hands everyone a nitrous oxide bomb. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:25 PM] debinani** It's just um There's just A couple of odds and ends, but no, they haven't been they have been up here Nothing small and pocketable that isn't like a dead rat. I mean, it's it's pretty uninteresting It's just dust bunnies Um, and so Yes, so next you've got um --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:33 PM] Crow** Crow cautiously takes one --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:36 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon puts on his gas mask. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:46 PM] Random** anything small and pocketable? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:53 PM] Nyx** Throw it hard. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:55 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon takes his bomb. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:57 PM] Jason G** it's more like a smoke bomb, not a "boom" device? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:57 PM] debinani** um, you can mark off your bandalier and And you'll have three Essentially three gas vials and they will They will pop open and release gas and knock out people um Um, the gas is lighter than air so it will tend to go up Uh, you you --- **[7/25/2026, 4:42:59 PM] Michelle** Nyx might want one of those --- **[7/25/2026, 4:43:07 PM] Crow** Crow adjusts his mask --- **[7/25/2026, 4:43:12 PM] Nyx** It will put them to sleep. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:43:28 PM] debinani** so um So basically the way her bandalier works is anytime she dec she has two bandalier checkboxes Each time she checks the bandalier she has three vials. So she has six vials of nicks magic, right? um So she could have that many um and I mean you can hand them all out and they can all be the same thing if that's what you want if you want to hand out six vials of gas --- **[7/25/2026, 4:43:32 PM] Boo** Boo settles her mask into place --- **[7/25/2026, 4:43:37 PM] Michelle** We have three total? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:43:45 PM] Nyx** Nyx secures her mask --- **[7/25/2026, 4:43:48 PM] Boo** Boo pockets a dead rat for Nyx --- **[7/25/2026, 4:43:59 PM] Jen** I can't hand them out? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:44:00 PM] debinani** cool um They will not flood the whole floor Uh, they'll flood a lot they'll flood a huge room um each um And they act very very very fast um Uh, unless you're doing something incredibly creative with it if you're just checking it into a room you don't have to roll anything --- **[7/25/2026, 4:44:14 PM] Nyx** Yes --- **[7/25/2026, 4:44:33 PM] Rob** 7 of us and 6 vials. What do we roll when using them? Anything? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:44:39 PM] Nyx** Nyx nods approvingly at Boo --- **[7/25/2026, 4:44:49 PM] debinani** As far as you can tell the trapdoor opens into a hallway You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:45:15 PM] Cam** On your toes, people. Let's get this done. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:45:16 PM] Jen** whoever goes first gets the vials? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:45:28 PM] Veth** that does fit how things usually work for the game --- **[7/25/2026, 4:45:40 PM] Michelle** Cam will forgo one. She needs hands free for her pistol. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:45:47 PM] Rob** Someone stealthy should go first. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:45:50 PM] debinani** you Okay, so um Okay, uh, are you guys going to do a group stealth roll that way Everybody stay sneaky as you crawl out of this patch Okay, uh, the hall um, so it's a hallway there is a um --- **[7/25/2026, 4:46:21 PM] Eidolon** Here goes. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:46:29 PM] debinani** A set of stairs you know Modestly wide set of stairs Going down to the second floor Um, it's a it wraps it goes down. There's a landing and it goes further kind of tall ceilings. These are nice places um and um front of the house, you know, it's essentially just lined with bedrooms I mean this this this sort of brownstone it's going to have bedrooms on the third floor um Yeah, what's uh what what what's your flashback? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:46:30 PM] Jen** Nyx will not have any because she's not going first. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:46:33 PM] Watcher** Watcher sticks his head down carefully and peeks into the hall --- **[7/25/2026, 4:46:39 PM] Michelle** As long as we don't drive Eidolon insane --- **[7/25/2026, 4:46:48 PM] Rob** Insanity is a journey, not a destination. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:46:48 PM] Michelle** Or Watcher --- **[7/25/2026, 4:46:50 PM] Veth** it's not a long drive. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:46:59 PM] Jason G** can I do a flashback? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:47:00 PM] debinani** What do you want to do? you --- **[7/25/2026, 4:47:03 PM] Rob** You want to retcon coming with us? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:47:12 PM] Veth** lol --- **[7/25/2026, 4:47:39 PM] debinani** Okay, uh make a Make a fortune roll with three dice And Spend one stress Oh just uh just open the little dice the roll some dice button and Click fortune and put three dice in it --- **[7/25/2026, 4:47:42 PM] Watcher** Watcher in preparation, Watcher went to his Records Clerk contact to try to get the floorplan/blueprint for this building --- **[7/25/2026, 4:48:15 PM] debinani** You Okay, uh, so anyway, yes, it's one One stress it's a one stress flashback. This one's easy Uh, you do go to your friend the records clerk And uh and he provides uh blueprints for the house. They are a little dated --- **[7/25/2026, 4:48:16 PM] Jason G** I have to find fortune first --- **[7/25/2026, 4:48:19 PM] Michelle** He's gonna be like Tweak in South Park --- **[7/25/2026, 4:48:39 PM] Rob** I sure hope I'm not Kenny. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:48:45 PM] Watcher** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 4 1 2 3d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[7/25/2026, 4:48:48 PM] debinani** They're about 20 years old. So Last time the place was a major remodeled was done that at least he's aware of um You know, so the plans are a little old, but you do have floor plans for the house Such as they are You --- **[7/25/2026, 4:49:02 PM] Veth** why? Kenny's immortal. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:49:21 PM] debinani** And as you glance up and down the hallway the walls look like they are where they're supposed to be Um, you know, so you've got um, there's a There's sort of a large master suite covering most of the floor. It's a combination of a um, you know traditionally it would be a uh like a nursery and a master bedroom and um Uh, a changing room right and that's like one whole side of the um of the thing and --- **[7/25/2026, 4:49:39 PM] Jason G** cool, so we would have gone over those, and hopefully have a good idea how to split up --- **[7/25/2026, 4:49:56 PM] debinani** The nursery and master bedroom both have windows facing out to the street one of which uh, you would have been shot at by uh Steiner and then the other side of the stairwell there were three small um three smaller bedrooms and then there is a um, there's actually a Uh bathroom essentially up here with like real plumbing and uh um --- **[7/25/2026, 4:50:27 PM] debinani** You know plumbing down to the sewage level Uh, you don't See you're here anything. There's nobody. It's 10 11 o'clock. There's nobody active in the hallway or as far as you can see down the stairs --- **[7/25/2026, 4:51:02 PM] Watcher** Watcher I can lead stealth getting into the hall, plus I brought a silence potion which should cover our ingress for a short while until we get down and into better positions --- **[7/25/2026, 4:51:04 PM] debinani** Okay, and I see you actually checked shadow cloak. So you're you're sporting the shadow cloak Okay, uh, okay, so we're gonna make a group prowl roll um To see and i'm sure and watchers leading it uh, which is quickly running him out of stress Group prowl roll watcher you get plus one d for your cloak because it is dark --- **[7/25/2026, 4:51:25 PM] Watcher** Yes --- **[7/25/2026, 4:51:35 PM] debinani** You Risky standard is just fine. Yes I Okay, well since it's since it's watcher, I guess the rest you don't have to roll um --- **[7/25/2026, 4:51:47 PM] Rob** Risky standard? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:51:48 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 4 2d6 = 9 = 9 --- **[7/25/2026, 4:51:48 PM] Michelle** Risky standard? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:51:52 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. 2 6 2d6 = 8 = 8 --- **[7/25/2026, 4:51:59 PM] Watcher** Prowl Risky | Standard Critical Success! You do it with increased effect. 4 6 6 3 4d6 = 19 = 19 --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:02 PM] Boo** 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. 4 6 2d6 = 10 = 10 --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:03 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 1 2d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:07 PM] debinani** So watcher you take one stress and then um um you guys are Inches sneaking out of this attic way you all kind of lower yourself down and somebody actually catches nicks because she's small and and um um You know everybody everybody Everybody makes it down onto the the hall the landing of the stairs --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:14 PM] Veth** nice! --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:18 PM] Michelle** I used up my good roll --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:20 PM] Rob** I may need to put a rank in Prowl sometime. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:27 PM] Watcher** Watcher ticks one more stress --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:40 PM] debinani** perfectly quietly your your absolute Frickin ninja bastards and uh, you can make it to any of the doors up here without making a sound So like I said there's uh, one two three small bedrooms and a door leading to a bathroom on one side There are two doors on the other one leads into the master suite and one leads into the nursery area --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:41 PM] Jason G** the facade begins to crack.... --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:43 PM] Rob** You have 1 left? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:51 PM] Veth** we're the only one's making any goddamn sense. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:52:54 PM] Jason G** yep --- **[7/25/2026, 4:53:14 PM] Rob** I'm sure you'll be fine. What could go wrong? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:53:34 PM] debinani** You Yes, uh, both the master suite and the nursery have windows facing the street Uh, and if it matters the shot that came at you came from one of the nursery windows since you've got the blueprints --- **[7/25/2026, 4:53:56 PM] Jason G** we can likely assume the window room facing the street has someone there --- **[7/25/2026, 4:54:05 PM] debinani** You You Okay, so you guys are going to uh, yes, they share a wall and there's a door between them --- **[7/25/2026, 4:54:14 PM] Rob** Hit both of them simultaneously? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:54:36 PM] Michelle** Yeah --- **[7/25/2026, 4:54:36 PM] debinani** At least on the blueprints Um, okay, so you guys Checking in the rooms or are you just like open in the door tossing into violin closing door --- **[7/25/2026, 4:54:44 PM] Veth** do they share a wall? --- **[7/25/2026, 4:54:54 PM] Veth** interesting.. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:55:02 PM] Cam** Cam signals for the group to split and check both rooms --- **[7/25/2026, 4:55:09 PM] Jason G** that wall may not be there, if it wasn't load bearing --- **[7/25/2026, 4:55:13 PM] debinani** You got a critical success on the prowl. I'll give you a little grace You Okay um Yeah, so now you don't have to take the potion yet uh, I'm we're doing this on we're we're you guys are writing the back of your critical success --- **[7/25/2026, 4:55:36 PM] Random** quick peak to see if a vial is needed. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:55:41 PM] Michelle** ^ that --- **[7/25/2026, 4:55:46 PM] Veth** we don't really need to even open the doors.. but if we've got advantage already I'll save the stress. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:55:50 PM] debinani** critical success on the uh, the the prowl um But this is the end of the critical success for the prowl uh You guys open the doors to the master suite the master bedroom and the uh, um, the sitting room simultaneously for the nursery simultaneously um uh master bedroom uh, there's a sitting area and a large four-poster bed and it's hard to tell because there's not any light --- **[7/25/2026, 4:55:53 PM] Jason G** and for as long as the potion runs, doors are quiet, but it could drop quickly --- **[7/25/2026, 4:56:15 PM] Jason G** ahh, cool --- **[7/25/2026, 4:56:22 PM] debinani** um, but there is definitely There's definitely somebody sleeping in the big bed um, and then in the nursery it's definitely not a nursery uh, there is um, there are a couple of a couple of small beds in here and um There is you definitely see a figure sitting in a chair um holding a rifle looking out the windows --- **[7/25/2026, 4:56:53 PM] debinani** uh, and and you hear a little bit of snoring so there's at least two people in the nursery Let's call it the other room then oh, I'll just fuck it's the nursery. There's two people in the nursery one is awake um, there's at least one person in the bed in the master bedroom asleep You have now used all my goodwill from the engagement role and the really great uh, um uh prowl role Okay, so two vials of gas a vial and gas goes into each room --- **[7/25/2026, 4:57:30 PM] Kristian** I scream like Xena and charge in --- **[7/25/2026, 4:57:30 PM] Michelle** gas them --- **[7/25/2026, 4:57:32 PM] Kristian** jk --- **[7/25/2026, 4:57:34 PM] debinani** Okay, uh, there's a uh, gentle uh, cracking of glass, plink-pink, and a a bit of a scissor as the uh, contents react to the air and uh, um, uh, it is a uh, slightly greenish grayish gas uh, very quickly expands to uh, uh, fill each room You both and and also the sitting room that's other the changing room that's on the other side of the master bedroom because it's doors open --- **[7/25/2026, 4:57:47 PM] Michelle** yep --- **[7/25/2026, 4:58:10 PM] debinani** um, uh, you all tighten your gas masks and uh, um, and uh, um, the the guy's the guy at the the guy at the window um, turns and and is like what the and uh, uh, he slumps over and falls out of the chair with a bit of a thump um, you're not entirely sure if the sound of the other people's sleeping breathing has changed --- **[7/25/2026, 4:58:24 PM] Veth** jokes on you guys, I'm the only one who put on his mask! --- **[7/25/2026, 4:58:31 PM] Kristian** "why does this smell like Chonky Tony's shit?" --- **[7/25/2026, 4:58:45 PM] debinani** but if it affected this guy that quick, presumably it's affecting everybody else in these rooms Oh, hey, uh, so you slip into the master bedroom and in the bed in the master bedroom is uh, dude, he's probably about 65, maybe 70 years old, uh, looks pretty well taken care of, um, uh, uh, ruddy skin from uh, uh, uh, many, many smuggling adventures early in life, uh, it is almost certainly --- **[7/25/2026, 4:59:02 PM] Cam** Cam Cam checks the occupant of the bed in the master bedroom --- **[7/25/2026, 4:59:23 PM] debinani** alderic vent, um, uh, there is on the yeah, it's just it's it's oh, it's it's it's uh, barrister, you know, barrister Steve, um, on the side of the bed, um, between the bed and the changing room, there's a palette of blankets on the floor and there is a uh, young girl, a sleep --- **[7/25/2026, 4:59:36 PM] Rob** All that planning and we have the wrong house. --- **[7/25/2026, 4:59:58 PM] debinani** kind of wrapped up in the blankets, um, there's nobody in the changing room, the changing room looks like actually it looks like there's a little bit of clothes in the changing room with the rest of it looks almost like a trophy room, um, you know, maybe this is this is part of Venn's personal collection that he keeps close to him, uh, in there and then, um, in, uh, um, in the nursery, there are two people, uh, both adult males, one of whom is Steiner, uh, he was the one --- **[7/25/2026, 5:00:32 PM] Cam** Cam hisses in frustration --- **[7/25/2026, 5:00:32 PM] debinani** awake with the rifle, um, and, um, um, um, and then there's another fellow who was sleeping on a cot, um, you recognize him as a member of the reclameber circle, you've seen him around, you know, I know his name, um, uh, on the cot. Yeah, so that room actually has, there's like several rifles in the room, a bunch of ammo. Hey, you know, somewhere between five and seven, maybe, young, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:00:43 PM] Veth** you know they call it the changing room, but it never looks different. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:00:54 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon takes Steiner's rifle. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:01:11 PM] Rob** How old is the sleeping child? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:01:13 PM] debinani** uh, lots of trinkets in the changing room, in fact, Boo, just make a, make a two-die fortune role. Actually, make a fortune role equal to your number of attune dice. Uh, yes, definitely around Steiner's kid's age. Okay. Uh, so, Boo, you find a, um, there's a pocket-sized, um, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:01:22 PM] Boo** Boo takes an available trinket. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:01:27 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon removes a bullet and tosses it to Boo. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:01:29 PM] Rob** So around Steiner's kid's age. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:01:33 PM] Boo** Boo smiles --- **[7/25/2026, 5:01:49 PM] Cam** *almost inaudibly* Loot what you can. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:01:58 PM] debinani** yeah, okay. It's a small, uh, metal brooch. Uh, it looks like it, um, uh, it's very, very old. Uh, it, it, it's, um, made of maybe steel. Uh, it shines a little bit, and it is of those five interlocking circles that, um, that, uh, Lancaster had scrawled on a, on a page. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:01:59 PM] Boo** Fortune Partial Success The result is mixed. You have limited or partial effect. 1 4 2d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:02:00 PM] Crow** Crow eyes Cam --- **[7/25/2026, 5:02:16 PM] Cam** Cam slips up to the bed --- **[7/25/2026, 5:02:39 PM] debinani** But it's exactly the same as the circle see it scrawled on a page. Uh, this was in a, and, and this wasn't actually, this wasn't from a, like, a, a thing of stuff. This was like from essentially what looks like a trophy case. So, this is a, this is not something that he like wears around. This is something that was in a, in a, in a trophy case. Um, from a looting standpoint, there's not a lot up here that's small. Um, you guys would really --- **[7/25/2026, 5:02:52 PM] Rob** Well fuck. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:03:09 PM] Boo** Boo mutters "interesting" as she pockets it. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:03:18 PM] Rob** Ah, something he has as a trophy. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:03:19 PM] debinani** have to search the place if you wanted to find like small and valuable together. Um, his, his little trophy room is essentially, um, uh, it's a lot of statuary, frankly. Um, you know, so without, without really, without really digging in, it, you know, is there a jewelry box somewhere in this room? Maybe, um, you know, this gas is only going to keep people out for maybe an hour. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:03:51 PM] debinani** So plus, who knows how, however many other people are in this building. So I don't know, I don't know how much, uh, I don't know how much looting you want to actively do before clearing the rest of the joint. Okay. You, uh, you do so. So, uh, uh, you, he's, he's knocked out unconscious. You --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:04 PM] Kristian** so like paintings of teenagers? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:14 PM] Rob** There's a velvet Elvis on a wall. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:20 PM] Cam** Cam slits Venn's throat with her dagger, then covers his face with a pillow --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:22 PM] debinani** split his throat and he squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt, slowly bleeds out and twitches a little bit, but he was, he was way, way unconscious. Yeah, everybody in this room, not wearing gas mask is unconscious. Um, you go and you, you pull the crow, when you pull the blankets off the kid, um, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:29 PM] Random** I don't loot. I klept. :P --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:32 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow grimaces --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:44 PM] Crow** Crow watches Cam, then turns, picks up the kid, and moves her into the other room --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:46 PM] Jason G** the daughter is out too? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:50 PM] Veth** Velvis --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:53 PM] debinani** her, her hands and her feet are tied. They're not tied together, but they're tied with a, maybe, eight inch length so that she couldn't possibly run. Okay. You cut the bindings. They're just, they're just a, a very nice silk rope. Um, and, uh, you --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:58 PM] Boo** Boo listens for the bell --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:58 PM] Jason G** are we killing Steiner, or no? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:04:59 PM] Cam** *quietly* We're done here. Get moving. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:05:19 PM] Crow** ... what the hell? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:05:32 PM] Eidolon** Huh.. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:05:32 PM] Rob** Crow will still move her, but he'll also cut the bindings --- **[7/25/2026, 5:05:34 PM] Watcher** Was be being paid, or blackmailed? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:05:35 PM] debinani** carry her into the nursery, which has the two sleeping fellows and, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:05:46 PM] Rob** He's not too keen on a small kid waking up into a room with a corpse. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:05:47 PM] Eidolon** Let's bring her, and we can release her later. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:05:52 PM] Eidolon** We don't know who she is. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:05:57 PM] Cam** Cam jots a note onto a scrap of paper, then follows Crow and tucks it into the girl's clothes --- **[7/25/2026, 5:06:13 PM] Kristian** carry Steiner back and put him in a compromising position with his dead boss lol --- **[7/25/2026, 5:06:21 PM] Veth** make him the little spoon. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:06:22 PM] Random** does she resemble any of the people around here? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:06:22 PM] Cam** Pretty sure it's Steiner's kid. Telling him his contract is done, and she's his. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:06:23 PM] debinani** yeah, I'll give this one to you. The girl looks a little bit like him. Um, so I'm going to give you a little bit, give you a little bit of, uh, okay, just a second. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:06:30 PM] Eidolon** What if it isn't? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:06:37 PM] Crow** Then no harm done either way. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:06:50 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon sighs. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:06:52 PM] Eidolon** Alright. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:06:58 PM] Cam** We need to go. Move it. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:07:05 PM] Freakshow** This seems too easy. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:07:06 PM] Jason G** I was going to suggest something similar to what Cam did. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:07:07 PM] Eidolon** Add in the note to Steiner that was don't hurt kids. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:07:14 PM] debinani** After I finish coughing and hacking, um, so you are, to met a game a little bit, uh, you are officially in the layer of the reclamer circle. You essentially reduce their hold to such that, um, you know, they, they still have a couple of, um, they still have a couple of, um, areas of turf, but for the most part, you've got them backed into a corner. Their second and --- **[7/25/2026, 5:07:29 PM] Rob** Deb keels over dead before revealing the big secret. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:07:48 PM] debinani** command is in prison, at least for another couple of weeks. Um, you have just killed their leader. Um, now, if you can figure out how to strike enough of a blow, here in their layer, they won't come back. Uh, you'll probably still have to deal with Malastor at some point, maybe he'll start a new gang, but, um, but, you know, if there are, you know, the last of their most loyal, loyal soldiers --- **[7/25/2026, 5:08:25 PM] debinani** here, dispatching them would probably make the reclamer circle simply not, just not exist anymore. Um, especially if you actually looted the place. Um, alternately, if you left right now, right, uh, you would be effing legends because you would have essentially snuck in and nobody would know how, uh, you gasped a killer assassin, you slid Aldrich's men's throat and then you slipped away. And, um, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:08:28 PM] Veth** blow up the house! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:08:48 PM] Michelle** Trying not to kill too many more of them if we can. :\ --- **[7/25/2026, 5:08:56 PM] Rob** Do we know who they are? The 'most loyal', that is. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:09:01 PM] debinani** and so, but there's a chance that another head of the snake will come along and the reclamer circle will remain. Um, so you could go either way. I mean, and either way, obviously, you're going to be, you know, you're going to be, um, it's going to be known that you, you did this, but, um, um, but I think you can either guarantee by killing a few more people and looting the joint. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:09:06 PM] Watcher** Watcher slips a small sack of eels, wrapped in that silk tie she had on (from my own wealth) into Steiner's coat pocket, to hopefully help convince him to cut his losses while he's ahead. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:09:25 PM] Kristian** being Legendary isn't always great... --- **[7/25/2026, 5:09:34 PM] Rob** It's pretty good in this game. :P --- **[7/25/2026, 5:09:38 PM] Random** second is in prison? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:09:39 PM] debinani** You know, you can guarantee the reclamer circle cannot come back, or you can take the risk of the reclamer circle to come back and take the renown for just being freaking slick. Well, presumably, you're not going to kill Steiner. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:05 PM] Jason G** legendary in this regard raises our myth, and higher status --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:17 PM] Michelle** Vote? Kill or Leave? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:27 PM] Jason G** and also says, "don't fuck with us" --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:28 PM] Random** I like the idea of renown --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:29 PM] Kristian** we super need to not be at war so we can get double downtimes...my vote is kill everyone. Or maybe kill everyone but 1 person to spread our legend heh --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:30 PM] debinani** You don't. However, that is a thing that can be developed, uh, over time, but right now, no, you don't. I don't thank you guys, no anybody in Iron Hook. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:41 PM] Rob** We'd have a break from the war either way. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:43 PM] Cam** That's 1 leave and 1 kill --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:51 PM] Jason G** I say leave, personally, but Watcher is not super confrontational --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:53 PM] Random** do we have contacts in the prison to off the second in command? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:10:57 PM] Veth** I say leave. Maybe leave a note threatening what's left that we're willing to call it over and let them live if they never bother us again. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:11:01 PM] debinani** Okay. Okay. So it sounds like you guys are going to, uh, you guys are going to slip away. So you leave. Okay. So you're leaving everybody alive, except obviously, Alder, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:11:16 PM] Rob** Crow says leave --- **[7/25/2026, 5:11:17 PM] Michelle** 3 leave, 1 kill --- **[7/25/2026, 5:11:20 PM] Random** pity. an oversight that needs correcting. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:11:28 PM] Kristian** power abhors a vacuum --- **[7/25/2026, 5:11:35 PM] Rob** Power is lazy about housework. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:11:36 PM] debinani** Alder, Ben, um, you leave a note for Steiner and, uh, I guess somebody's leaving some eels. Um, and, and then, uh, anything else you guys probably have 15 minutes on this floor before folks start waking up, uh, anything else that you want to do with those minutes. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:11:51 PM] Jason G** I left the coin along with Cam's note for Steiner... that, plus the unharmed kid (and himself) should hopefully get him off our backs --- **[7/25/2026, 5:11:54 PM] Michelle** Yeah, Cam plans to start announcing that we're looking for good people after this anyway. Make a move on the Meridian --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:10 PM] debinani** Probably will end up requiring another prowl role so people don't hear you. Okay. Um, anybody who wants to loot the joint or actually, like, I'm going to say strategically, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:20 PM] Veth** Dance number. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:34 PM] Michelle** Let's move out --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:36 PM] Kristian** maybe some attune stuff in case we have secret stash? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:39 PM] Veth** LORD OF THE DANCE NUMBER. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:42 PM] Rob** Leaving the way we came in? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:43 PM] Random** quick loot? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:44 PM] debinani** loot, right? You're looking for things of interest or value. Um, uh, go ahead and make a, uh, survey role or if you're only looking for things that may have a ghost echo, you can make a tune role instead. Why? Yes. Thank you for reminding me. Silly me. Uh, then bleeds out and, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:48 PM] Watcher** We should go... our luck is getting thin --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:50 PM] Crow** Crow nods --- **[7/25/2026, 5:12:56 PM] Michelle** The death guys are going to be coming soon --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:00 PM] Kristian** seems like whenever we spooky loot we find cool shit --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:04 PM] Random** yes --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:05 PM] Rob** Oh, right. Did the death bell thing ring? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:08 PM] Veth** spooky loot is a great idea. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:17 PM] debinani** uh, wait for these roles to finish. Okay. Uh, you were so cool. You were so slick. And then it all fell down. Okay. Uh, yeah. So, um, a couple of things happen. So you guys are, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:25 PM] Nyx** Survey 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 6 2d6 = 9 = 9 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:28 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. 1 4 2d6 = 5 = 5 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:30 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. 3 1d6 = 3 = 3 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:32 PM] Cam** Survey Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 1 1d6 = 1 = 1 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:41 PM] Rob** Thank Khara. She reminded me. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:43 PM] Kristian** we all suck now lol --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:44 PM] Michelle** Cam dies while searching --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:48 PM] Veth** Rob you're that kid that reminds the teacher about homework --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:54 PM] Crow** Attune Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 5 2 2d6 = 7 = 7 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:13:56 PM] Eidolon** Survey 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 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:14:00 PM] Random** I asked aboutt the death bell earierl --- **[7/25/2026, 5:14:00 PM] Michelle** That's why Cam keeps saying we need to go --- **[7/25/2026, 5:14:01 PM] debinani** you guys are looking around. Uh, Crow and Boo, both with a tune. Um, uh, you guys are poking around. Maybe, you know, maybe he keeps his money here or something like that. Uh, you're not really finding anything, especially not anything that you would want to carry out of here. Like it's like, he's got a thing for like antique statuary and stuff. And, and most of it is worthless or would only be worth to, you know, something to, uh, to a collector. Um, uh, Crow and --- **[7/25/2026, 5:14:07 PM] Jason G** not like this... --- **[7/25/2026, 5:14:07 PM] Kristian** Cam: "I found this board full of rusty nails with my feet!" --- **[7/25/2026, 5:14:38 PM] debinani** Boo, both notice essentially the same thing. Uh, in his trophy case, there is a, um, uh, it's really, honestly, it's, it's just a little sage bundle. Um, it's, it's a bundle of what looks like sage. It looks like it's very, very dry and it's got a little bit of dust on it. It looks like it was wrapped with a leather thong and it's, you know, it's about the size of a, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:14:45 PM] Veth** I found Steiner! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:15:14 PM] debinani** half the size of a burrito, right? I mean, it's just like literally like a smudge stick or a, a bundle of sage, but it is, um, uh, it is, uh, radiating somewhat in the, uh, uh, the ghost field. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:15:27 PM] Rob** Not that kind of thong, Mayvik. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:15:35 PM] Kristian** What? Quick! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:15:36 PM] Veth** Who wraps things in a G string? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:15:40 PM] Kristian** let me see that thoo ooo ooooong --- **[7/25/2026, 5:15:51 PM] debinani** Okay. So a whole bunch of things happen at once when you grab it. Um, uh, so Crow, you reach into the trophy case, you grab the bundle of sage. At the same time, everybody hears the ball, the bell of, uh, from Bellweather Crematorium. Everybody hears the death bell of Ven. At the same time Crow starts screaming. Uh, he's, got his hand on the, uh, the, the bundle of sage and he's just blind, uh, just screaming in --- **[7/25/2026, 5:15:57 PM] Crow** Crow snags it and tosses it to Boo --- **[7/25/2026, 5:16:04 PM] Veth** Thong song dance number! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:16:07 PM] Boo** Boo very carefully takes it, wrapping it in a cloth. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:16:22 PM] Boo** don't!!! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:16:34 PM] debinani** like horror and pain. Um, and after you guys have just been absolute ninjas for the last 40 minutes, it's quite jarring. The bell and the screaming at the same time. Okay. Uh, so, uh, uh, uh, no, you have not used the silenced potion. Uh, you whack, um, uh, you whack the thing out of his hand. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:16:58 PM] Rob** I saw Freakshow's porn collection. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:17:10 PM] Cam** Dammit. Knock that thing out of his hand, and let's get the hell out! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:17:21 PM] Veth** And lived?! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:17:23 PM] Cam** Carry him if you have to, Freakshow --- **[7/25/2026, 5:17:24 PM] Rob** That remains to be seen. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:17:25 PM] Boo** Boo whacks his hand with something to get him to drop it. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:17:26 PM] debinani** It drops at the ground and Crow stops screaming and collapses, uh, sort of semi-conscious somewhat stunned. Breathe in heavy. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:17:30 PM] Jason G** I still haven't used that silence potion, right? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:17:56 PM] Nyx** Nyx looks at crow --- **[7/25/2026, 5:17:57 PM] debinani** Okay. Uh, smart. Uh, so you wrap the thing up and, and, and, and stow it away. Um, and you guys grab Crow and start scurrying up the, um, um, uh, there's not really a door to the stairwell. Um, the, the stairs come up the hall. It's combination of hall and landing. So there's really not a, --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:02 PM] Eidolon** Well shit. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:02 PM] Cam** The rest of you, get back to the roof. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:03 PM] Freakshow** Damnit. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:05 PM] Cam** Move! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:13 PM] Boo** Boo wraps the thing up careful not to touch it directly. "someone check on him." --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:28 PM] Cam** Cam shoves Freakshow toward Crow --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:28 PM] Eidolon** Eidolon helps grab Crow. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:31 PM] Freakshow** Freakshow carry carry --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:31 PM] debinani** really not a door. Um, now you guys can like scurry up the trap door and barricade that. Yeah. And you guys still have plenty of vials to sleep, guys. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:34 PM] Jason G** tries to barricade the door to the stairwell with a chair --- **[7/25/2026, 5:18:45 PM] Veth** You FAIL! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:19:00 PM] Rob** There are still 4 vials of sleep gas. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:19:02 PM] debinani** I mean, you can literally just chuck it down the stairs if you wanted to slow, slow down pursuit. Okay. So you all, um, nobody, um, you hear noise. You hear people shouting downstairs. Uh, but, by the time you all have gotten up back into the attic and hauled Crow up with you, um, uh, they hadn't come back. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:19:06 PM] Kristian** Just remember, we were legendary sneaky assassins for like...10 minutes. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:19:14 PM] Jason G** hall door? whatever the entry to this floor is --- **[7/25/2026, 5:19:24 PM] Random** toss one out the door --- **[7/25/2026, 5:19:28 PM] Jason G** oh I see --- **[7/25/2026, 5:19:31 PM] Random** ? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:19:33 PM] Michelle** yeah up to the attic, drop a vial in the hall, then block the hatch --- **[7/25/2026, 5:19:43 PM] debinani** Um, uh, they hadn't come up the stairs yet. Uh, you chuck a couple of vials down into the, into the, onto the hall landing or the stairs and you close the, um, close the thing and drag the rocking horse over the hatch. There's, there's actually a latch up here on the hatch too. So you can, you, you've got the, you've got the trap door. Going out the way you came in. Who is going to lead the group of tuneroll? Who's got the stress? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:20:23 PM] Michelle** yes --- **[7/25/2026, 5:20:30 PM] Rob** Apparently not Crow. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:20:30 PM] Random** that's the plan --- **[7/25/2026, 5:20:35 PM] debinani** Probably idle on's probably your best bet. Okay. So idle on's going to, idle on's going to do it. Uh, you all making a tune role Crow. You're at minus one minus one die. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:20:36 PM] Michelle** Can you handle it, Boo? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:20:40 PM] Kristian** 3 left... --- **[7/25/2026, 5:20:42 PM] Veth** I can do it. I have 5 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:20:46 PM] Random** i"m stressed to the guills. I've got 3 left. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:20:50 PM] Michelle** Me too --- **[7/25/2026, 5:20:51 PM] Rob** It can actually be anyone. Conscious, I mean. Or does it need to be? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:06 PM] Michelle** You good with that? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:16 PM] Michelle** Then Eidolon it is --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:22 PM] Veth** let's do it --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:23 PM] debinani** He's a Christ. Uh, who hasn't made roles yet? Uh, Nick's. Okay. Okay. Is that everybody? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:26 PM] Jason G** we'll have to have a talk with crow about randomly grabbing the magic items later... --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:27 PM] Eidolon** Attune Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 1 1d6 = 1 = 1 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:29 PM] Crow** Attune Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 4 1d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:31 PM] Cam** Attune Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 1 1d6 = 1 = 1 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:32 PM] Boo** Attune Risky | Standard Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 1 1d6 = 1 = 1 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:41 PM] Michelle** Gah --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:47 PM] Jason G** wow --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:48 PM] Michelle** Bad to worse --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:49 PM] Freakshow** Attune Risky | Standard Partial Success You do it, but there's a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position. 4 1d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:51 PM] Veth** now let's have the people with attune roll --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:54 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 1 2d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:21:56 PM] Rob** Hey, I had a partial success. That's one less stress for Eidolon! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:04 PM] Watcher** Attune Risky | Standard | 0d Failure Things go badly. You suffer harm, a complication occurs, you end up in a desperate position, you lose this opportunity. 1 3 2d6 = 4 = 4 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:05 PM] debinani** Okay. That's five stress for idle on. That hit the top, right? Okay. Uh, you guys, uh, Jesus, you, you, you, you make it through, you make it out onto the rooftops and, um, and you, uh, essentially, you, you, you go across the rooftops. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:07 PM] Random** yeah, i"m at minus 1 for the time being. it hurts --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:07 PM] Kristian** oh no we suck again --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:17 PM] Veth** you are all trying to kill me. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:18 PM] Rob** 2 partials, five fails. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:27 PM] Kristian** Eidilon starts singing Mama I'm Comin' Home --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:36 PM] Michelle** We are soooo taking downtime --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:37 PM] Veth** just barely --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:45 PM] Veth** correct --- **[7/25/2026, 5:22:55 PM] debinani** And then you, you, you make it, you make it all the way to, uh, back to the base. Okay. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:23:05 PM] Eidolon** WHY did that feel like we walked through a wall for the first time?! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:23:25 PM] Cam** Worry about that later! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:23:45 PM] Michelle** Well it ALMOST was a legendary run. lol --- **[7/25/2026, 5:23:45 PM] debinani** Okay. So you, uh, you make it back to the, um, you make it back to the, um, layer, uh, none the worse for where except for, um, um, idle on being significantly more twitchy. Um, and, uh, and there we go. Okay. So I know we're way over. We will deal with the downtime and everything else later. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:23:59 PM] Rob** Someone needed to screw it up, and it fell to me. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:24:10 PM] Veth** If it involves my wellbeing, it never goes well. :P --- **[7/25/2026, 5:24:11 PM] Jason G** it was still pretty legendary... they don't know who screamed.. it could've been Venn's last gasp --- **[7/25/2026, 5:24:18 PM] Michelle** Oh, most of our looting rolls were awful --- **[7/25/2026, 5:24:18 PM] Jason G** we didn't get seen --- **[7/25/2026, 5:24:25 PM] debinani** But let's go ahead and do XP, um, so we don't forget. So, um, I will give the crew four experience points for this. That does take you all the way up and you can choose a upgrade or ability. So you guys can talk about that, um, between sessions. Um, and I think everybody contributed pretty heavily. So I am, um, I'm good for everybody getting two XP in anything they want. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:25:17 PM] debinani** Yeah. Yeah. The crew got four and that, and that actually unlocks an upgrade for you all that you can talk about. Uh, when you fill the bar, you dot up. Yes. Not the next XP. Once the bar is full, you get your dot or your special ability or whatever. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:25:20 PM] Kristian** the scream was muffled with a gas mask on at least? :) --- **[7/25/2026, 5:25:24 PM] Eidolon** true that --- **[7/25/2026, 5:25:27 PM] Cam** Sorry, how man? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:25:29 PM] Cam** many? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:25:40 PM] Jason G** 2 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:25:41 PM] Cam** thansk --- **[7/25/2026, 5:25:47 PM] Jason G** 4 for crew --- **[7/25/2026, 5:25:54 PM] Kristian** remind me, do you dot up when you fill the bar, or the next xp after it's full? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:25:59 PM] debinani** Uh, no, I'm giving everybody two because I think everybody got to. Yes. You guys can go up to three dots. You cannot go beyond it without a crew upgrade. And, um, I know you guys will probably think about like what you could do, but, um, I would probably recommend you all start saving up for a cohort. That's just me. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:26:07 PM] Cam** I highly recommend Second Story ability for the crew upgrade --- **[7/25/2026, 5:26:10 PM] Random** 2 + individual things like my klepting? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:26:14 PM] Rob** We can go to 3 dots, right? --- **[7/25/2026, 5:26:18 PM] Random** or jsut 2 --- **[7/25/2026, 5:26:27 PM] Rob** That's what I thought. 3 Attune for me. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:26:33 PM] debinani** But, guess, probably need some hired muscle. Um, anyway, so that's where we'll end. We will do consequences of the run and all that and downtime. Next time, uh, two weeks from now would be the eighth. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:26:40 PM] Jason G** nice --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:05 PM] Veth** nice, that was especially fun :) --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:15 PM] debinani** Okay. So I'll end on the eighth. So we will do that. Uh, good job. I suppose. And, uh, I will see you all then. Thanks, y'all. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:16 PM] Cam** 8th should be ok --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:18 PM] Jason G** 8th works --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:19 PM] Rob** 8th should be good. --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:24 PM] Kristian** 8th good for me --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:28 PM] Random** good with that --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:39 PM] Eidolon** Thanks deb! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:40 PM] Rob** Thanks, Deb! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:42 PM] Eidolon** Later all! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:44 PM] Jason G** thanks, Deb! --- **[7/25/2026, 5:27:57 PM] Kristian** thanks! see ya ---