The crew is approached by Caddo, a senior Lieutenant of The Crows. The gang that controls the Crow's Foot district of Duskvol is on the verge of war with The Red Sashes and they're consolidating their power through their allies. He wants [[Introduction to The Silent Jacks|The Silent Jacks]] to infiltrate a Lampblacks safe-house on the other side of the district bordering a canal, retrieve a specific artifact (a bundle of dried plants wrapped in a ribbon), and make sure the Lampblacks blame the whole thing on The Red Sashes. [[Lazaroni Fen|Fenil]] attempts to drug Caddo's drink to get more out of him, but besides saying the Jacks are essentially expendable, they get no further information. The crew discovers that the Lampblack safe-house is connected to a network of tunnels and they choose that as their entry point. Meanwhile, [[Juliette Varn|Jules]] works with a contact of hers who works at The Gilded Peach, a Sashes-owned brothel, and pays her the last of the crew's reserve coin for a sash and sword from one of the gang's members. Thus armed, [[Lazaroni Fen|Fenil]], [[Juliette Varn|Jules]], [[Veyra Flint|Huntress]], [[Sable Thorn|Thorn]], and [[Basran Cross|Cross]] take to the tunnels to infiltrate the safe-house. [[Basran Cross|Cross]] picks the lock separating the basement of the row-house from the tunnels and [[Sable Thorn|Thorn]] diverts a ghost that was lurking in the basement beyond. After some consternation about the mud in the basement, the crew takes the stairs up and listen at the door into a kitchen. They hear men talking in the next room. [[Basran Cross|Cross]] devises a strategy to take a barrel of flammable liquid they found in the basement outside to create a distraction, so he and [[Sable Thorn|Thorn]] make their way back into the tunnels. Meanwhile, [[Veyra Flint|Huntress]] attempts to sneak into the kitchen to poison the food, but the door handle to the basement clatters to the ground, summoning one of the Sashes to investigate. The crew huddles in the stairwell until the man fixes the door handle and moves back into the sitting room at the front of the house. Out front, [[Basran Cross|Cross]] and [[Sable Thorn|Thorn]] find a carriage parked next door to the safe-house. [[Basran Cross|Cross]] discovers gunpowder in the back and rigs it to explode. [[Sable Thorn|Thorn]], feeling sorry for the two Arthusian goats tied to the carriage, moves to cut them loose from the stirrups. However one of the goats bleats extremely loudly at her and draws attention from the neighborhood, causing the two to retreat up the street. Once at a safe distance, [[Sable Thorn|Thorn]] calls down lighting from the ghost field and detonates the carriage in a massive explosion that shatters windows and leaves some of the tenements on fire. The goats are vaporized. The team still inside use the distraction to break out into the kitchen and race up the bustler stairs at the back of the brownstone. They pass through the second floor into a sitting room on the third, where they find a safe. [[Lazaroni Fen|Fenil]] and [[Juliette Varn|Jules]] crack the safe while [[Veyra Flint|Huntress]] shoots a man who enters from the bedroom beyond, which had been converted into a sort of office. In the safe they find the artifact as described, several pouches of coin, and a bundle of documents. When [[Juliette Varn|Jules]] touches the artifact, she hears the sound of cicadas. The crew races from the building while [[Sable Thorn|Thorn]] unleashes another bolt of lightning at the Lampblacks who've come out of the building to investigate. On their way down the stairs, they drop the Sashes evidence and convince a wounded Lampblack that the Sashes had assaulted the safe-house. However, as they're making their mistake, [[Juliette Varn|Jules]] distinctly hears the man mention he had seen her at The Gilded Peach. Days later, Caddo returns to collect the artifact and pay for a job well done. For the job, the crew earned 3 Coin directly from The Crows and another 3 from looting the safe (one goes to The Crows as a tithe). The crew earned 2 Rep. Because of the high body count, the crew accrues six Heat. During downtime: - [[Lazaroni Fen|Fenil]] begins a project to understand the artifact, having absconded with a small piece of the plant matter within. Everyone becomes even more curious when simply touching it sends [[Sable Thorn|Thorn]] into several minutes of screaming in psychic pain. - [[Lazaroni Fen|Fenil]] works his contacts and gets some of the Heat on the crew reduced. - [[Juliette Varn|Jules]] finds and murders the man who recognized her at the safe house, reducing the Heat on the crew to nothing.