[9/26/2026, 2:31:02 PM] Rob
Heard you
[9/26/2026, 2:31:05 PM] Kristian
heard
[9/26/2026, 2:31:07 PM] Michelle
heard ya
[9/26/2026, 2:31:57 PM] Watcher
Is that Watcher’s twin brother on the screen?
[9/26/2026, 2:32:06 PM] debinani
I hadn’t thought about it.
But you’re right, they look pretty similar.
Well, frighteningly similar.
Good job, would ever AII make that.
[9/26/2026, 2:32:16 PM] Michelle
Might be. That would be a fun twist.
[9/26/2026, 2:32:40 PM] Rob
Which one is the evil twin?
[9/26/2026, 2:32:49 PM] debinani
Okay.
So where were we?
You all, yes, indeed, as always, as is your lot.
So trying to get any kill grace matter, trying to make off with this ancient Cherokee artifact,
you’ve got a fairly accomplished whisper with you by the name of Caleb.
[9/26/2026, 2:32:51 PM] Michelle
Only time will tell
[9/26/2026, 2:32:56 PM] Kristian
watcher is the clone to take over after death
[9/26/2026, 2:33:01 PM] Kristian
somehow watcher returned
[9/26/2026, 2:33:18 PM] Rob
Screwed.
[9/26/2026, 2:33:25 PM] debinani
You have infiltrated the dinner party by or the gathering by posing as the hired help.
You are busy wandering around with champagne flutes and canopies.
Caleb Grave himself is in the study, essentially holding court from a number of elites who have
[9/26/2026, 2:33:26 PM] Michelle
Job just went sideways
[9/26/2026, 2:34:02 PM] debinani
trickled in there.
You know that the spark craft hand that Mr. Ash wants you to retrieve is in the lab in
basement, which is accessible down a back hall.
Because foyer has a number of paintings of the Killgrave family line in it, all of which
appear to actually have the spirits of the deceased Killgraves trapped in them, which is
[9/26/2026, 2:34:41 PM] debinani
not completely unheard of.
It’s just a silly crazy affectation of the ultra rich.
This foyer has a number of, let’s say, nearly 20 little pedestals in which some artifact
is held beneath the glass dome.
One that is in the centerpiece is of the five interlocking rings that you guys keep stumbling
across.
[9/26/2026, 2:35:12 PM] debinani
That happens to be sort of at the center of the display.
Yours is a little off to the side closer to the wall.
Caleb has said, I can definitely get inside this glass dome.
I just need a few minutes of distraction and I can get into it without causing a problem.
Let’s see.
Nix has been staring at the painting of Stephen Killgrave who is the current Killgrave’s
[9/26/2026, 2:35:50 PM] debinani
father and the current Killgrave’s kind of old.
This guy is probably, I don’t know, 120, 130, 140 years ago.
Many things like are you, my father, which is highly unlikely considering Nix’s like
20 years old.
As you have been plotting, I believe, Freak Show was attempting to get, making excuse
to get into the study.
[9/26/2026, 2:36:23 PM] debinani
The fellow at the front door announces Inspector Edren Holt and guest the constabulary and
in the door, oh, that’s right, Crow and Nix, we’re going to try to make their way to
the basement.
In the door comes Inspector Holt with some very attractive arm candy on his arm and he
nods gentily to the announcer and they step into the room and start idly.
[9/26/2026, 2:36:55 PM] Michelle
Crow and Nyx headed for the basement
[9/26/2026, 2:37:00 PM] debinani
Idly examining the pedestals.
So.
So for the record, I don’t know if I asked this before but since you all are in disguise,
I’m going to say all of your equipment you all have light loads for this because there’s
[9/26/2026, 2:37:36 PM] debinani
just no other way.
You honestly don’t know, none of you have actually ever run into him before.
Does he have photos of y’all or portraits of y’all?
[9/26/2026, 2:37:50 PM] Michelle
So which of us is he most likely to recognize? heh
[9/26/2026, 2:38:04 PM] Michelle
fair
[9/26/2026, 2:38:07 PM] debinani
He might not actually recognize you by sight.
Um, I don’t think
[9/26/2026, 2:38:32 PM] Kristian
I’m disguised as a suit of armor
[9/26/2026, 2:38:48 PM] debinani
uh, no, somebody, somebody saw him like taking down statements but I don’t believe, let
me look real quick.
I don’t think so.
[9/26/2026, 2:38:50 PM] Rob
Have any of us been arrested? Or has he been in on any interrogations of one of us?
[9/26/2026, 2:38:51 PM] Michelle
Subtle
[9/26/2026, 2:39:12 PM] Michelle
I don’t think so, wasn’t sure if any of you had past encounters with him
[9/26/2026, 2:39:37 PM] Michelle
Saw a ghost image of him in dude’s house way back when
[9/26/2026, 2:39:48 PM] debinani
Yes, you knew he’d been there because you guys, you guys, uh, I think Crow actually saw
his echoes in Lancaster’s apartment.
[9/26/2026, 2:39:58 PM] Michelle
Or somehow we knew he’d been there
[9/26/2026, 2:40:48 PM] debinani
Yeah, y’all are, you’re just like the pinnacle of subtlety.
Yeah, yeah, that wasn’t subtle.
[9/26/2026, 2:40:54 PM] Michelle
OK, so everyone play it cool. Gonna have to take our chances with him here. :\
[9/26/2026, 2:41:13 PM] Rob
I’m sure it’ll be fine. When have we ever drawn unnecessary attention?
[9/26/2026, 2:41:15 PM] Cam
Cam signals the gang (within range) to continue
[9/26/2026, 2:41:38 PM] debinani
Okay, so, um, all right, so Freak show, uh, you actually, um, uh, make your way into
the, uh, into the parlor.
Um, in here, there’s a, it’s exactly as you might expect, there’s a wood paneling, bookshelves,
um, all just all, all the stuff that you would expect.
Um, a large, uh, leather, two leather couches, some leather chairs, you know, fireplace burning,
[9/26/2026, 2:41:54 PM] Rob
That’s us! Occasional bloodcurdling scream when picking up objects notwithstanding.
[9/26/2026, 2:42:16 PM] debinani
big desk kind of over against one wall by the windows, um, and, uh, Kilgrave himself
and a handful of dignitaries are puffing on cigars and, um, and, uh, drinking something
that you probably can’t afford.
And that’s the, that’s the scene.
Kilgrave’s own, um, and now the Butler wouldn’t be in here.
[9/26/2026, 2:42:48 PM] debinani
Yeah, so it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s pretty much that.
He kind of raises an eyebrow when you come in and, um, nods to you so that the people
across from him can kind of turn and see that you’ve come into the room.
And they, they, whatever they were talking about, they stop and they all look at you.
Uh, one of one, there, there’s actually a town council member here, um, and a few other
[9/26/2026, 2:43:19 PM] debinani
kind of general titans of industry, um, all staring at you in your platter of canapace.
Roe, next you guys were heading towards the basement.
[9/26/2026, 2:43:51 PM] debinani
Kilgrave actually rolls with it, um, and, uh, gestures you over somewhat impatiently.
And, um, gestures you over, somewhat impatiently and, and, uh, takes, you know, and few people
kind of take, or reach for their, um, snacks.
[9/26/2026, 2:44:05 PM] Freakshow
Hello gentlemen
[9/26/2026, 2:44:13 PM] Freakshow
Canape?
[9/26/2026, 2:44:25 PM] Random
not hearing the gm. let me tinker
[9/26/2026, 2:44:32 PM] debinani
Oh dear.
Okay.
Um, yeah.
So the hand is in the basement.
So, um, so, uh, Crow, Nick, you guys head down the back hallway and it’s still really busy
with, um, with, uh, serving staff.
And, uh, but then, you know, kind of once you get past the kitchens and, um, um, there’s
[9/26/2026, 2:44:52 PM] Freakshow
Freakshow trips on something and spills the food on someone that isn’t Kilgrave
[9/26/2026, 2:44:57 PM] Rob
We were. Crow’s going to basically back up Nyx, so it’s her show right now. If I recall correctly we’re after the hand?
[9/26/2026, 2:45:04 PM] Michelle
… subtle
[9/26/2026, 2:45:06 PM] debinani
a, uh, a large pantry, the, the, the way to the basement, the, the hallway gets very,
very quiet.
Um, there’s, there’s nobody back here that you can see.
Uh, so you guys head and you know, you know, the floor plan by heart because you guys
had the blueprints.
So, you, you make it to the door to the basement, uh, and it is, um, a lot.
Uh, there’s a quite a bit of, so in the parlor, there’s quite a bit of, uh, uh, oh dear,
[9/26/2026, 2:45:09 PM] Kristian
computer is doggin’ here…so I may not live to regret that
[9/26/2026, 2:45:21 PM] Freakshow
Oh my!
[9/26/2026, 2:45:40 PM] debinani
oh dear, uh, uh, uh, kill grave, uh, kill grave.
I mean, literally grabs you by the scruff of your neck and, and like starts guiding
you towards the, uh, the door.
Uh, okay, so Nick’s you actually, because you have, um, thief rigging, you get to get
lot picks for free.
You don’t have to check off inventory for that and that will be a, uh, tinker roll at
[9/26/2026, 2:45:55 PM] Crow
Crow grumbles
[9/26/2026, 2:46:14 PM] Random
fixwd
[9/26/2026, 2:46:15 PM] debinani
the door.
I think risky standards fine.
Okay.
So, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Nick’s you get your lot picks out, click, click, click, click, click,
very quickly, uh, unlock the door, open the door and the two of you slip in and head
[9/26/2026, 2:46:17 PM] Nyx
Nyx rummages for her lock picking tools
[9/26/2026, 2:46:31 PM] Freakshow
Ah terribly sorry sir I told them I wasn’t read y to do anything but cook the sauces!
[9/26/2026, 2:46:47 PM] debinani
down a set of stairs.
And this is obviously, it’s a, uh, this is where his lab is.
It’s a very nicely appointed stairwell.
It’s not like you’re going down into a root cell or anything, um, uh, but you, as you step
down, it definitely gets a lot cooler, um, as you, uh, you start heading down the stairs.
Um, so there are two doors into the study, Freak Show, instead of ushering you out into
the, um, uh, into the foyer, he kind of like man handles you into through the, another
[9/26/2026, 2:46:48 PM] Freakshow
It isn’t my fault that bristly woman sent me out here!
[9/26/2026, 2:46:49 PM] Nyx
Tinker
Risky | Standard
Success
You do it.
1 6
2d6 = 7 = 7
[9/26/2026, 2:47:07 PM] Nyx
Nyx nods at Crow
[9/26/2026, 2:47:23 PM] debinani
door, which goes into, um, it looks like a, um, a second sitting room where the head
butler who you guys have got glimpses of as you’ve come on the property, uh, the head
butler is, um, um, you know, kind of raises an eyebrow and co-graves like this, this
idiot just spilled, spilled, can it pays all over the mayor?
[9/26/2026, 2:47:54 PM] debinani
Get rid of him and he, and he kind of shoves you into the room and then goes back into
the study and closes the door.
So the butler, uh, is, uh, I think we actually established his name with jeeps.
Um, the butler, uh, size and, um, and, uh, and says, uh, I’m afraid Anne Marie is going
to hear about this.
So, uh, go out the back door and we will, we will, I will, uh, address your, uh, docking
[9/26/2026, 2:48:02 PM] Cam
Cam signals Caleb to get ready
[9/26/2026, 2:48:11 PM] Rob
So what’s your next character, Mayvik?
[9/26/2026, 2:48:20 PM] Freakshow
Canapes sir
[9/26/2026, 2:48:34 PM] debinani
an appropriate amount of your pay with Miss Anne Marie.
Leave out any kind of flipses, flipses hand at you, uh, um, um, derisively, gesturing
towards the door out in the hallway, out to the hallway.
All right, stairs going down to the cellar.
You guys are aware, I mean, you know, you know the floor plan.
There is a wine cellar down here.
[9/26/2026, 2:48:48 PM] Veth
we found the mayor! Lock in!
[9/26/2026, 2:49:02 PM] Veth
someone get a chair to break!
[9/26/2026, 2:49:03 PM] Michelle
BURN IT ALL DOWN! DEATH TO THE MAYOR!
[9/26/2026, 2:49:06 PM] debinani
Um, um, there’s some storage and then there is the area that is the, um, the, the sparkcraft
lab.
And, um, doesn’t appear to be anybody down here.
Um, they, the, the, the whole house is lit with, um, um, uh, what’s the freaking word?
[9/26/2026, 2:49:17 PM] Rob
Preferably a mayoral chair.
[9/26/2026, 2:49:29 PM] Freakshow
yes sir..
[9/26/2026, 2:49:37 PM] debinani
Um, electroplasmic lamps.
And, um, so it’s well lit and, um, there’s some art on the walls.
None of it seems to be screaming.
And, um, you know exactly where the lab is.
Freak show out in the hall.
Uh, you, you get out to the hall and, uh, this is the part of the hall that’s really busy.
There’s a, it runs from the foyer all the way back to the kitchens.
[9/26/2026, 2:49:40 PM] Freakshow
Freakshow defeatedly saunters toward the hallway
[9/26/2026, 2:50:08 PM] debinani
Okay, smart.
Go ahead and give me an attune roll.
Uh, if you take your time, go ahead and make it controlled and standard.
You guys are rolling good.
I wonder how long it’s gonna last.
All right.
Uh, so you, um, uh, so you guys come around until we need you exactly.
[9/26/2026, 2:50:26 PM] Rob
Crow will attune and make sure there are no surprises before we enter the lab, like wards that could trigger an alarm.
[9/26/2026, 2:50:41 PM] debinani
Uh, you guys come around the, the corner and you start heading to the, um,
um, yeah.
So you really should be able to just wander back into the foyer.
I mean, unless the butler sees you, you know, he’s expecting you to leave,
but this all happened inside the, um, the study.
So, um, Crow, you come around the corner and, um,
the door to the lab is actually pretty big.
[9/26/2026, 2:50:47 PM] Crow
Attune
Controlled | Standard
Success
You do it.
4 5 6
3d6 = 15 = 15
[9/26/2026, 2:50:59 PM] Rob
Until we need to not fail.
[9/26/2026, 2:51:08 PM] Kristian
should be able to just wander off and pretend nothing happened with the crowd?
[9/26/2026, 2:51:12 PM] debinani
It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s wider than a normal door and a little taller than a normal door,
probably to move equipment in and out.
Um, and, uh, it is just, it is warded to shit.
I mean, there’s, there is a big heavy lock on it and there are wards on the lock
and on the door frame and all around it.
I mean, it is, it is, uh, really only meant to be open by somebody authorized to open the thing.
So, um, what are the rest of you doing?
[9/26/2026, 2:52:04 PM] debinani
Just being just serving canopies and cocktails.
Um, I mean, you’d be doing it without a prepared ritual and, um,
and, uh, so, this is probably, it’s probably a,
[9/26/2026, 2:52:07 PM] Crow
Er… hang on, Nyx. There are wards here. … Many wards.
[9/26/2026, 2:52:39 PM] Rob
Odds that Crow can bypass them? Or would this need a miracle?
[9/26/2026, 2:52:48 PM] debinani
um, a, uh, probably risky limited.
Um, you’d probably need a couple of assesses, successes to unwind the wards to the point that you could open the door.
I mean, you are aware that this door, I mean, this lab is behind like this whole wall here,
[9/26/2026, 2:52:50 PM] Veth
as inconspicuously as possible.
[9/26/2026, 2:52:52 PM] Michelle
Cam is keeping herself and Caleb near the target and trying not to draw attention
[9/26/2026, 2:53:16 PM] Nyx
Nyx sighs
[9/26/2026, 2:53:26 PM] debinani
but, um, the door itself is really quite, quite, um, solid.
Uh, you know, there might have been a way around the wards if, uh, you’d, uh, prepared, uh,
[9/26/2026, 2:53:36 PM] Nyx
Can you get by?
[9/26/2026, 2:53:44 PM] Crow
Maybe…
[9/26/2026, 2:53:51 PM] Nyx
Nyx studies the door and the room
[9/26/2026, 2:54:08 PM] Rob
Any way around the wards? Or did they take that into account?
[9/26/2026, 2:54:12 PM] debinani
prepared yourself to deal with wards.
I mean, gosh, you could probably go and probably could have gone down the road and bought yourself, uh,
uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, charmed, uh, help unwind wards.
I mean, it’s all, you know, it’s the sort of thing that, you know, criminals do.
Okay. Yes. So, uh, um, yeah, if you just want a, uh, if you just, that’s exactly what this game’s designed to do.
[9/26/2026, 2:54:20 PM] Michelle
We’re inside the house, any “backdoors” visible now?
[9/26/2026, 2:54:44 PM] Veth
retcon it!
[9/26/2026, 2:54:54 PM] Michelle
lol
[9/26/2026, 2:54:54 PM] debinani
Uh, if you just want a, let’s call it a commercial, uh, off the shelf, uh, sort of ward untangling charm.
Uh, yes. Uh, that’s a, a one stress thing. I will charge you a coin for it, and we’ll just say you did it.
If you want anything more extravagant than that, you’re going to have to tell me what you did and, uh, um, and how you did it and we’ll actually play it out.
[9/26/2026, 2:54:58 PM] Rob
Gee, I took into account that I might need to unwind wards. I even have a flashback to it.
[9/26/2026, 2:55:07 PM] Rob
That’s one stress to do so?
[9/26/2026, 2:55:14 PM] Random
ie: bill and ted it.
[9/26/2026, 2:55:34 PM] debinani
Okay.
Okay. So, yeah. Uh, so a couple days ago, you went to a place in silk shore that you know, you, uh, because this, this place is obviously warded to crap.
Uh, uh, you are still in the main foyer where the reception is happening, uh, serving drinks and canapes.
[9/26/2026, 2:55:51 PM] Michelle
rofl. Flashback = Bill & Ted It, now.
[9/26/2026, 2:56:08 PM] Rob
Hmm… we’ll go with the basic one right now. Crow’s a bit broke.
[9/26/2026, 2:56:14 PM] debinani
Uh, you have plenty of excuses to wander back to the kitchens and reload your tray and come back out again.
Uh, and Crow, yeah, you, you, uh, um, you, you, you go and buy, um, a charm that the proprietor of this place guarantees you will, uh, will, uh, unwind, um, unwind anybody’s wards.
So, pull that thing out and let’s go ahead and make an attuneral. Uh, this one is, um, risky and great.
[9/26/2026, 2:56:25 PM] Random
since I’m coming in late ( apologies) where is I?
[9/26/2026, 2:56:50 PM] Veth
we now need a bill and a ted minion to go with poop kevin
[9/26/2026, 2:56:53 PM] Michelle
Trying not to attract Holt’s attention
[9/26/2026, 2:56:58 PM] debinani
You guys are doing awesome today. Okay. So, you, uh, you see the wards, you’re like, uh, hold on, Nick’s, um, you, you pull out the charm.
You, it’s a, it’s a, um, um, it’s just a tiny little vial. You, you attune to it and you crack it open and a little puff of something comes out of the vial and the runes on the door, light up.
[9/26/2026, 2:57:23 PM] Michelle
“except someone like killgrave’s…”
[9/26/2026, 2:57:25 PM] Crow
Attune
Risky | Great
Success
You do it.
6 2 3
3d6 = 11 = 11
[9/26/2026, 2:57:40 PM] debinani
Next, you can even see them. They become visible and then they fade to nothing and the doors no longer warded.
But it is locked.
Good for thought.
[9/26/2026, 2:58:16 PM] debinani
Um, upstairs. No boo you don’t.
Okay. Next, you, um, you get your lockpicks out. Click, click, click, click, click, click, and, uh, the door unlocks.
[9/26/2026, 2:58:19 PM] Crow
Crow nods to Nyx
[9/26/2026, 2:58:24 PM] Crow
Should be safe now.
[9/26/2026, 2:58:35 PM] Nyx
Good Job Crow.
[9/26/2026, 2:58:42 PM] Rob
Amazing that. :P
[9/26/2026, 2:58:50 PM] Random
do I feel anything in the ghost field when the wards are uncermoniously dispelled? any sort of psychic alarm?
[9/26/2026, 2:58:51 PM] Nyx
Nyx nods and attempts to pick the lock
[9/26/2026, 2:58:56 PM] debinani
Uh, it does the, the, the, the, the bolt in the door is actually pretty heavy and when you, when you get the lock and then turn the bolt, it just kind of makes an audible clunk sound.
But the door to the labs unlocked.
[9/26/2026, 2:59:07 PM] Nyx
Tinker
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 4
2d6 = 8 = 8
[9/26/2026, 2:59:34 PM] debinani
Up at the, um, up in the, everybody up in the foyer. Um, obviously everybody’s keeping an eye out for an eye on, um, um, hold.
He has, um, he’s kind of looking at the different artifacts, but not very passionately. He’s really, you can tell he’s like moving himself towards the door to the study and he’s very carefully watching the people that, that, uh, that, that coming out.
[9/26/2026, 3:00:10 PM] debinani
No other sounds based on the clunk.
Okay. You open the door and, uh, and peek in. This lab is lit just like everywhere else. It’s not like it’s dark. Um, and, um, so this is a spark craft lab with a focus on, um, the mechanical.
[9/26/2026, 3:00:30 PM] Nyx
Nyx listens for other sounds
[9/26/2026, 3:00:47 PM] Nyx
Nyx cracks the door and peaks in
[9/26/2026, 3:00:56 PM] debinani
Um, and, you know, unlike you where your lab is like, pieces of dead things. Um, so there are, um, you know, there’s a, there’s a, there’s a, there are blue prints on the walls.
There are chalkboards. There are, um, um, um, all manner of like two or three very, very large workbenches. There are, um, the workbenches are covered in, uh, all manner of fascinating and incomprehensible and incredibly sophisticated tools.
[9/26/2026, 3:01:23 PM] Jason G
need to step away a few
[9/26/2026, 3:01:40 PM] debinani
Um, uh, and there is a, on one far wall, there are shelves and shelves of, you can only assume the creations or something. So there’s, there’s a great many devices and constructs, um, shelved and, and scattered around.
Also, uh, on the far side of the room, there was a, um, it looks like there was a small sitting area and a woman, uh, she’s looks to be about, I don’t know, maybe in her 50s.
[9/26/2026, 3:02:02 PM] Nyx
Oh…charming.
[9/26/2026, 3:02:19 PM] debinani
Um, dark black hair, streaked with gray, um, definitely not dressed for a party. It looks like a, a very nice weave, a very simple wool and dress.
Um, and, um, um, she’s got a, a leather belt with some pouches on it. And, um, she obviously heard the clunk in the door and is was walking across the lab to the door when the both of you poked your head in and she,
[9/26/2026, 3:02:22 PM] Crow
Crow glances in over Nyx’s head
[9/26/2026, 3:02:31 PM] Michelle
No touchy without checking first!
[9/26/2026, 3:02:55 PM] debinani
uh, you know, uh, kind of jolt and surprise and, uh, and, and, and says, who the hell are you?
Um,
up in the foyer, Holt has, has been waiting for people to come out of, of the thing. Um, when, uh, somebody who looks like a member of the household staff comes out of the study, Holt, um, excuses himself from the lady he arrived with and, and whisper something in, um,
[9/26/2026, 3:03:40 PM] debinani
uh, in the household workers ear and he, um, um, he nods and opens the door and Holt, um, actually pulls a, literally like a pad, like an inspector’s note pad and pencil out of his jacket and, and goes into the study and the member of the household staff closes the door and, and stands there at the door.
Um, who the hell are you? Nick says the assistant.
[9/26/2026, 3:04:09 PM] Nyx
The assistant.
[9/26/2026, 3:04:16 PM] debinani
The assistant.
So you guys are dressed as canopy delivers.
Okay. So you actually, you actually pop your head in there wearing the spirit mask because you had worn it to dispel the wards.
[9/26/2026, 3:04:47 PM] Rob
Uh… So Crow was probably wearing a spirit mask.
[9/26/2026, 3:04:53 PM] debinani
Okay. Um, um, so, so she goes, who the hell are you?
Um, and she, she glances sideways at the outer face of the door. Um, and she gets a very familiar far off looking her eyes. Um, it’s obvious she’s glancing to see if her wards are there.
[9/26/2026, 3:05:08 PM] Rob
He’d have put it on to check for wards and dispel them. I admit I didn’t think that someone would be in there.
[9/26/2026, 3:05:14 PM] Rob
Yeah.
[9/26/2026, 3:05:37 PM] debinani
Okay.
Okay. Boo. Uh, you, um, yeah, you, you actually, it’s actually not that hard. You, you start hitting down the hall of the kitchen, uh, and you, uh, drop and like crack open the little vial of ink and the shadow comes alive and zips away to go poke under the door.
[9/26/2026, 3:05:47 PM] Crow
… shit
[9/26/2026, 3:05:48 PM] Boo
Boo steps out of lines of sight, best I can, and pop my longer use shadow and send it under the door into the study to spy.
[9/26/2026, 3:05:53 PM] Nyx
Nyx slips out her blowgun
[9/26/2026, 3:06:24 PM] debinani
Okay. Uh, Crow, what are you doing?
Uh, Nick’s is, uh, Nick’s is wrestling her, uh, or blog on out from her, uh, from out from hiding.
[9/26/2026, 3:06:52 PM] Nyx
Would you care for a canape?
[9/26/2026, 3:07:05 PM] debinani
Okay. So you, you get a, uh, a vial out, uh, Nick’s freeze her, um, freeze her, uh, uh, blog on the, um, the, the woman, um, she’s about halfway, she’s maybe 15 feet away from you because she was walking towards the door.
Cause she heard the noise and, uh, she, uh, she crunches something in her, in her hand and jerks it down on the floor and the room is almost immediately, uh, filled with, uh, um, filled with smoke.
[9/26/2026, 3:07:22 PM] Rob
Pulling out an electroplasmic vial in case things are about to get fun.
[9/26/2026, 3:07:37 PM] Nyx
I have one in here somewhere
[9/26/2026, 3:07:55 PM] debinani
What do you do? I mean, you can’t see her. I mean, you can’t see anything.
Sure. Yeah.
[9/26/2026, 3:08:34 PM] debinani
Okay. Are you going to do anything with the attune or are you just going to try to detect her?
I, yeah, I mean, at first sniff, it doesn’t smell like, it doesn’t smell noxious. It actually doesn’t even seem accurate. I mean, it’s, it’s almost the, it’s almost exclusively, it, it’s not even real smoke. It’s just a clue to your vision.
[9/26/2026, 3:08:39 PM] Nyx
Nyx covers her nose and mouth with her jacket
[9/26/2026, 3:08:39 PM] Rob
Can Attune be used to see a living person through the smoke? Sense their aura, for example?
[9/26/2026, 3:09:02 PM] Rob
Crow will try that so he at least has a target.
[9/26/2026, 3:09:25 PM] Rob
Does the smoke smell like smoke or like one of Nyx’s concoctions?
[9/26/2026, 3:09:35 PM] debinani
Okay. Um, let’s try, um, well, I mean, something you could do.
Um, the, the attune, the attune is going to take you a second. What you wanted things you could do is you could, uh, reach out into the room with your attune and then, and, and attempt to like just create an electric plizing with discharge around her.
[9/26/2026, 3:09:52 PM] Rob
My original plan, if necessary, was to toss a vial into her area and try to then shock her and knock her out.
[9/26/2026, 3:09:53 PM] Random
magic smoke. very bad.
[9/26/2026, 3:09:56 PM] Nyx
It’s just a cloud so we can’t see.
[9/26/2026, 3:10:14 PM] Rob
If that’s possible, that’s what I’ll do. If not, Crow will… Hrm. Charge her and try to grapple or knock her out.
[9/26/2026, 3:10:16 PM] debinani
Um, that would probably make her glow a little bit and not require you chucking a vial. You want to try that?
Okay. This will be, uh, you’re wearing your spirit mask. Um, I think and it’s your surprised. It’s a snap call. Let’s call it desperate standard. So you can go ahead and take an experience point.
[9/26/2026, 3:10:43 PM] Rob
Ah, that’ll work.
[9/26/2026, 3:10:50 PM] Rob
Yup.
[9/26/2026, 3:10:56 PM] debinani
Okay. Um, oh, what do I want to do here?
Okay. So you, um, you reach out of the ghost field, you immediately sense the other living person in the room and you focus all your attention on, on, um,
uh, creating a electric plasmic discharge, uh, around her and, uh, she does, like glow, like a bright blue, uh, in, in in the fog, in the fog, you smoke.
[9/26/2026, 3:11:14 PM] Crow
Attune
Desperate | Standard
Partial Success
You do it, but there’s a consequence: you suffer severe harm, a serious complication occurs, you have reduced effect.
5 3 1
3d6 = 9 = 9
[9/26/2026, 3:11:30 PM] Rob
Feedback?
[9/26/2026, 3:11:43 PM] debinani
The unfortunate side effect though of focusing all of that energy without like a prebuilt
ritual or anything like that is that you cause quite a lot of things in this room to
malfunction. So at least a dozen two-doves and things many of them over on the
[9/26/2026, 3:11:49 PM] Nyx
Nyx raises her blowgun
[9/26/2026, 3:12:22 PM] debinani
shelf start sparking and a few actually little fires light up as like
electroplasmic batteries ignite all all around the room. There’s just a whole
bunch of whole bunch of things just spark sparking and it’s smoke and it’s a
little noisy but it’s glowing.
[9/26/2026, 3:12:47 PM] Rob
Oh right. Lab with a lot of equipment.
[9/26/2026, 3:12:56 PM] debinani
Next
So if Nix is gonna go blow gun the target that would be let’s just
let’s call it risky and then risky standard is fine which is
long. You guys are not doing too bad. Okay so you shoot the dart and the dart
[9/26/2026, 3:13:24 PM] Crow
Whoops!
[9/26/2026, 3:13:40 PM] debinani
hitzer you’re sure the dart hitzer because you actually see her stumble a
little bit and but she does something else. Crow you actually feel a a release
of energy from her like she’s popping off a ritual and she vanishes I mean
[9/26/2026, 3:13:51 PM] Nyx
Finesse
Risky | Standard
Partial Success
You do it, but there’s a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position.
5 5
2d6 = 10 = 10
[9/26/2026, 3:14:15 PM] debinani
she’s gone and the smoke fog stuff clears so she’s gone as far as you can
tell I mean you’ve never heard of people being able to do that but I mean you
don’t think she’s invisible she probably still be glowing if she was
invisible I’ll give you that but definitely seems gone there’s some like real
legit smoke happening in the room there’s some sparking and a couple of small
[9/26/2026, 3:14:43 PM] Rob
Teleport?
[9/26/2026, 3:14:51 PM] debinani
fires have happened down here. Yes she probably could have certainly if she had
a ritual teed up that’s something that she could have absolutely done.
Boo will get to your we’ll get to your ghost in a second but Boo you do sense a
[9/26/2026, 3:15:06 PM] Rob
Yeah, that’s actually what I thought.
[9/26/2026, 3:15:14 PM] Nyx
Where ever she is she’s going to sleep.
[9/26/2026, 3:15:14 PM] Rob
Could she have stepped into the ghost field?
[9/26/2026, 3:15:19 PM] Crow
I hope so…
[9/26/2026, 3:15:23 PM] Nyx
Let’s hurry up.
[9/26/2026, 3:15:23 PM] debinani
fairly significant amount of energy being released in the basement. Okay it’s
actually not hard to do it’s gonna take maybe five or six seven minutes to do
that but yes you can absolutely rush around and put out fires before it alerts
anybody else. I got to step away for like just a couple of minutes you guys
[9/26/2026, 3:15:34 PM] Crow
I think she slipped into the ghost field. Better hope she nods off before she reaches help.
[9/26/2026, 3:15:40 PM] Nyx
Nyx searches for the hand
[9/26/2026, 3:15:52 PM] Crow
Crow tries to put out the obvious fires before the smoke reaches the upstairs
[9/26/2026, 3:15:52 PM] Nyx
Nyx nods
[9/26/2026, 3:15:54 PM] debinani
talk amongst yourselves. You’re in the Boo you’re in the the foyer so watch her
and Cam and Idle on and your Hyaline Caleb are in here putting on the active
being helpers. Be right back.
[9/26/2026, 3:16:16 PM] Random
who’s with me?
[9/26/2026, 3:16:43 PM] Michelle
All of us except Crow and Nyx right now. We’re all milling around.
[9/26/2026, 3:16:47 PM] Watcher
Watcher helps
[9/26/2026, 3:17:34 PM] Boo
Boo makes my way around, being helper and serving drinks, the room and when passing my peeps, whispers the innocuous code word for “trouble”
[9/26/2026, 3:17:48 PM] Cam
Cam nods at Boo discretely
[9/26/2026, 3:18:04 PM] Michelle
I was gonna suggest letting the fires go so we can make our swap and run. hehe
[9/26/2026, 3:18:19 PM] Michelle
As long as Crow and Nyx can get out of there. hehe
[9/26/2026, 3:18:21 PM] Nyx
Messy…so messy…where’s the hand.
[9/26/2026, 3:18:33 PM] Rob
Crow has no way of knowing how things are going upstairs and if you need more time and fewer alarms.
[9/26/2026, 3:18:43 PM] Michelle
True
[9/26/2026, 3:18:52 PM] Crow
Er… well, nothing I’ve extinguished is hand-shaped.
[9/26/2026, 3:18:59 PM] Crow
Yet.
[9/26/2026, 3:19:14 PM] Michelle
afk a sec
[9/26/2026, 3:19:16 PM] Random
would nix have given us all small vials of knock out potion?
[9/26/2026, 3:19:30 PM] Nyx
Nyx nods
[9/26/2026, 3:19:34 PM] debinani
I mean unless you guys were really thinking about like drugging everybody. Okay so
Crow and Nick’s it becomes wildly apparent that not only is there a witness but
half the crap in this room is caught fire there is no going to be leaving here
in him thinking he hasn’t been robbed so there’s just there’s that and okay
[9/26/2026, 3:19:50 PM] Random
we serving drinks might need to spike the drinks and canapes
[9/26/2026, 3:19:56 PM] Michelle
back
[9/26/2026, 3:20:08 PM] debinani
and so while Crow is putting up fires Nick’s you find the hand it’s easy it’s
sitting on a shelf it looks like it’s a place of some prestige it’s a beautiful
clockwork hand the gears and clockwork of it are just meticulously I mean just
the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen. I will let you make a
[9/26/2026, 3:20:22 PM] Random
I’ll spend the stress to have some nyx knockout potion #8
[9/26/2026, 3:20:26 PM] Nyx
Nyx eyes the papers on the table and anything useful as she looks
[9/26/2026, 3:20:39 PM] Nyx
We’re screwed so fill your bag.
[9/26/2026, 3:20:39 PM] debinani
hmm how about you’ve got several minutes while he’s putting stuff out you can
make a steady a study role and let’s go ahead and make it desperate you can
make a desperate standard study role and that will determine kind of the the
value or lack thereof of the stuff that you put your hands on while he’s
[9/26/2026, 3:20:47 PM] Nyx
Got it!
[9/26/2026, 3:20:50 PM] Rob
Yes, but this will distract attention from the item they’re swapping.
[9/26/2026, 3:21:10 PM] debinani
putting out fires. Okay so boo yeah you know you said you know what I think we’re
gonna I think we’re gonna I think we may end up having a drug a whole damn
party so you do have and you want it you want something to tank drinks with or
something to aerosolize. Okay so you do actually have some of Nick’s not
[9/26/2026, 3:21:43 PM] Nyx
Study
Risky | Standard
Partial Success
You do it, but there’s a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position.
3 5
2d6 = 8 = 8
[9/26/2026, 3:21:53 PM] debinani
out pushing number eight it is one of your inventory items and I don’t know if
you’re here yet but everybody is light because you’re you know in servant
close. Next so you you get the hand and instead of instead of grabbing
Nicknacks you actually grab blueprints and things that that look interesting. So
[9/26/2026, 3:22:01 PM] Rob
Crow will grab a small nicknack for Boo since she isn’t here to swipe one for herself.
[9/26/2026, 3:22:12 PM] Random
drinks.
[9/26/2026, 3:22:16 PM] Nyx
There’s no way to hide this mess, and there’s a witness.
[9/26/2026, 3:22:23 PM] Crow
Crow sighs
[9/26/2026, 3:22:29 PM] debinani
there’s a couple this is in that and a couple of a couple of a sheaths of
blueprints that you think are interesting and you’re essentially just kind of
packing them away as you as you go the consequences of which I’ll figure it
out later. Okay so that’s happening now boo your shadow so let’s talk about the
[9/26/2026, 3:22:35 PM] Nyx
Unless you find the witness
[9/26/2026, 3:22:59 PM] Crow
Yeah. At least all of their attention will be on this… incident.
[9/26/2026, 3:23:07 PM] debinani
shadow second because that’s going on while all this crap is going on. The
Holt steps in and steps into study and he has caught Kilgrave essentially alone
he was kind of carefully waiting for people to leave and what was his name
Balon, Balon Kilgrave is that what we call
[9/26/2026, 3:23:22 PM] Rob
Wanted level 8.
[9/26/2026, 3:23:28 PM] Nyx
Unless we make the entire things look like the lab caught fire.
[9/26/2026, 3:23:31 PM] Crow
…
[9/26/2026, 3:23:38 PM] Nyx
But the witness needs to be eliminated
[9/26/2026, 3:23:45 PM] debinani
the doop the doop the doop. Yeah Balon Kilgrave I remember. Okay so Balon Kilgrave
anyway he steps in he goes he goes ah Lord Kilgrave actually before he even
opens his mouth Kilgrave’s like Kilgrave’s like inspector Holt seriously your
line of inquiry did not need to you know did not need to you actually know he
[9/26/2026, 3:23:46 PM] Crow
So we should feed the flames?
[9/26/2026, 3:23:52 PM] Nyx
Nyx stuffs blueprints in her bag
[9/26/2026, 3:24:05 PM] Nyx
If we can find the witness.
[9/26/2026, 3:24:23 PM] debinani
says I have said no enough you’re getting yourself you’re getting yourself
ingratiated in my party is not is not going to change my answer and Holt gives
him a innocent look and he says Lord Kilgrave it was purely a targeted
opportunity your cousin Vanessa needed a date and and we had met at the you know
[9/26/2026, 3:24:24 PM] Crow
Easier said than done. She must’ve had something prepared in case she needed to make a quick escape.
[9/26/2026, 3:24:40 PM] Nyx
Can’t you bippity boppity boo and find her or something?
[9/26/2026, 3:24:56 PM] Crow
Crow gives Nyx a flat look, which is somewhat ruined by wearing a mask that hides it
[9/26/2026, 3:24:58 PM] debinani
the Canary Club across town and and I just saw you alone and saw an opportunity to
to to ask ask my question and Kilgrave Kilgrave says I told you I have
absolutely no intention of and Holt in interjects he says he says he poisons you
[9/26/2026, 3:25:33 PM] debinani
didn’t he he poisons you and he asks you to do something before he would give
you the antidote what did he ask you to do and right then Kilgrave opens his
mouth looks really angry he’s probably going to yell at Holt to get off his
property or whatever and a woman you’ve never seen before somewhat attractive
50 year old woman in a wool dress falls out of the world you know just falls out
[9/26/2026, 3:26:14 PM] debinani
of the ether into Kilgrave’s study she’s got some sparks rolling around her
from you would assume a lecture plasma discharge and so the three of them are
all going to be very alarmed together for a moment crow and nicks are finishing
packing up their what they can pack up downstairs unless they are deciding to turn
around and light the whole thing on fire and and and then we have the foyer
[9/26/2026, 3:26:30 PM] Rob
I bet Nyx and Crow have.
[9/26/2026, 3:26:52 PM] debinani
you guys are going to burn the house down
okay all right so you have you have spiked a set of drinks and you are mingling
[9/26/2026, 3:27:17 PM] Nyx
Nyx lights a bunson burner
[9/26/2026, 3:27:20 PM] Crow
Crow sighs
[9/26/2026, 3:27:33 PM] Crow
Just burn a bunch of papers so he can’t tell the blueprints were absconded with.
[9/26/2026, 3:27:33 PM] Nyx
Shall we tip it?
[9/26/2026, 3:27:41 PM] debinani
around distributing drinks now just to give you a sense of scale there are and
now 25 to 30 guests in this room along the wall towards the front door and a
few outside are the guests guards who are not drinking but you are definitely in
the process of drugging some guests and it will it will happen fast well
[9/26/2026, 3:27:42 PM] Cam
Cam glances impatiently toward where the basement door is supposed to be
[9/26/2026, 3:27:51 PM] Random
spike the drinks and mingle, using a new code phrase for “shit fan” to my peeps as I wander
[9/26/2026, 3:28:02 PM] Crow
Less heat that way. Er… figuratively.
[9/26/2026, 3:28:14 PM] debinani
slower than the gas but it will it will it will happen pretty fast
okay so you are going to set some fires in the lab not quite you’re not quite
after burn the whole house down you’re just after confused the hell out of the
evidence is that a way to put it
[9/26/2026, 3:28:32 PM] Random
all i need is a few to fall over to cause a commotion.
[9/26/2026, 3:28:52 PM] Cam
Cam sighs quietly when she realizes what Boo is doing
[9/26/2026, 3:28:52 PM] debinani
okay so you dump some papers on the burner the burner is catch fire and
you know this workbench will probably catch fire but it probably won’t like
[9/26/2026, 3:29:06 PM] Nyx
Nyx shrugs…let’s tip it on the table
[9/26/2026, 3:29:11 PM] Rob
I mean, that’s Crow’s suggestion.
[9/26/2026, 3:29:27 PM] debinani
make it to the ceiling probably I mean it’s fire you never know
[9/26/2026, 3:29:29 PM] Rob
Nyx is a force of nature so Crow is just along for the ride. :P
[9/26/2026, 3:29:32 PM] Cam
quietly to Caleb Get ready. Going to get busy soon.
[9/26/2026, 3:29:36 PM] Nyx
put the some singed blueprints with it
[9/26/2026, 3:30:17 PM] Crow
Crow nods
[9/26/2026, 3:30:21 PM] debinani
all right so
Okay, so set and fire this machine and leave me, right?
[9/26/2026, 3:30:24 PM] Crow
Probably good enough.
[9/26/2026, 3:30:41 PM] Boo
Boo makes way to cam and says quietly “something bad is up, and no way it’s not related to the others. it’s going sideways. I’m making a distraction.”
[9/26/2026, 3:30:55 PM] Cam
Cam nods
[9/26/2026, 3:31:08 PM] debinani
The basement.
Probably smart.
Okay, so you, Nick’s, relax the door.
[9/26/2026, 3:31:40 PM] debinani
You take the spirit mask off.
You shuffle upstairs.
A bunch of things happen at once.
You guys in the foyer and boo because she’s got a ghost entity in the room.
Here what sounds like a woman yelling in the study.
[9/26/2026, 3:31:52 PM] Rob
Yes. And Crow will take off the spirit mask this time.
[9/26/2026, 3:31:53 PM] Nyx
Nyx relocks the door before leaving.
[9/26/2026, 3:32:11 PM] debinani
Crow and Nick’s come around the corner from the back hall near the kitchens looking a
little bit dragiled but done the worst for where.
Watch her, you’re serving canapes to a guest and one of the guests kind of sniff and goes,
do you still smoke?
[9/26/2026, 3:32:42 PM] debinani
Just then you hear kill grave in his study, scream jabs and two patrons at different
ends of the foyer pass out and follow the ground.
Okay.
[9/26/2026, 3:33:02 PM] Crow
Crow walks in, trying to straighten his hair and clothes
[9/26/2026, 3:33:30 PM] debinani
So, a couple people passed out, fell to the ground.
Members of, you know, the, the dusk vault gentry were huddled around them and, you know,
waving kurchiffs in their faces and smelling salt and things like that.
[9/26/2026, 3:33:33 PM] Cam
Cam signals Caleb to start removing the ward
[9/26/2026, 3:33:36 PM] Nyx
Nyx screams
[9/26/2026, 3:33:39 PM] Nyx
Fire!
[9/26/2026, 3:34:04 PM] debinani
Patron number three falls to the ground.
You hear kill grave yelling something in his study.
It definitely smells like smoke in here and a third, a third guest falls to the ground.
Now, at this point, the sharper of the bodyguards against the wall are now like moving into
[9/26/2026, 3:34:05 PM] Rob
We have successfully created a distraction. Three of them, in fact.
[9/26/2026, 3:34:40 PM] debinani
the room to extract their charges, some of whom are passed out or very, very groggy from
the room.
Serving staff that isn’t you are essentially, they’re, they’re, they’re pretty vapor locked.
Caleb gets to work on the glass dome.
He’s, he has some sort of charm that he’s using on the glass dome and that’s taking a second.
[9/26/2026, 3:35:27 PM] Rob
Do we have a rendezvous spot? Like on the assumption that we may not be able to leave together?
[9/26/2026, 3:35:34 PM] debinani
He’s working on the word.
It’s going to, it’s going to take a second.
There are people are running around.
Caleb is, is, he’s got a, he’s, he’s got some sort of ritual baked up that he is essentially
unleashing on this thing to, to get it to open.
Okay.
[9/26/2026, 3:35:38 PM] Rob
(If not, Crow suggested it in the past)
[9/26/2026, 3:36:04 PM] Michelle
Sorry, what was that about the ward?
[9/26/2026, 3:36:11 PM] Michelle
ok
[9/26/2026, 3:36:31 PM] debinani
Some have run to the kitchens.
Some are vapor locked.
Some are trying to be useful with the people who have passed out.
You know, it’s kind of a variety past.
Yeah, I think you’re all assumed you guys are going to go out the kitchens.
[9/26/2026, 3:36:49 PM] Cam
Cam Cam clutches her tray, trying to look as panicked as the rest of the staff
[9/26/2026, 3:36:51 PM] Random
the other staff are not doing anything of note?
[9/26/2026, 3:37:19 PM] Michelle
Let’s say we agreed to exit via the kitchen if at all possible since that would make sense for staff
[9/26/2026, 3:37:20 PM] debinani
Okay.
That’s definitely, yeah.
So here, you’re actually adding to the people moving around a little bit, which is good.
[9/26/2026, 3:37:38 PM] Veth
good idea
[9/26/2026, 3:37:38 PM] Boo
Boo finds on who is locked and with a shake “go help those them to safety.”
[9/26/2026, 3:37:52 PM] Nyx
(whispers to Crow) We need to find that woman.
[9/26/2026, 3:37:57 PM] Boo
pointed to a vague group
[9/26/2026, 3:37:58 PM] debinani
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
So, you hear, you now hear Kilgrave’s voice coming from the back hall.
[9/26/2026, 3:38:03 PM] Michelle
lol
[9/26/2026, 3:38:20 PM] Crow
(quietly, to Nyx) Yeah, but it might be best for you to get out of here since she saw your face.
[9/26/2026, 3:38:24 PM] Nyx
(screams) Fire! Leave in an orderly fashion
[9/26/2026, 3:38:32 PM] Boo
Boo generally causing a controlled confusion, as much as confusion can be controlled
[9/26/2026, 3:38:34 PM] Watcher
Watcher “assists” with the passed out folks to see if the security stops him, adding some chaos
[9/26/2026, 3:38:34 PM] debinani
And, and, next, you trying to get people out the front door?
Okay.
And, yes, Crow, next, you both heard the woman’s voice from the study, you assume it’s, it’s, you know, whoever it was.
Kilgrave is now yelling at people in the back hall.
[9/26/2026, 3:38:43 PM] Cam
Cam signals her people to start moving toward the back
[9/26/2026, 3:38:44 PM] Nyx
Nyx nods at Crow
[9/26/2026, 3:39:01 PM] Boo
Boo nods to Cam and starts moving
[9/26/2026, 3:39:02 PM] Nyx
This way to the door
[9/26/2026, 3:39:02 PM] Rob
Did Crow and Nyx here the woman screaming from the study?
[9/26/2026, 3:39:05 PM] debinani
Two of his guards run through the four year towards the back hall.
Next, you find somebody who’s very, very groggy and not under guard.
And, you help them out the front door towards the carriages.
Holt comes out from the study into the four year.
And, he does not look panicked.
[9/26/2026, 3:39:35 PM] Nyx
Nyx attempts to escort people out the door
[9/26/2026, 3:39:36 PM] debinani
He looks curious.
And, he is, he is watching the room.
Right about then, Cam, you hear Caleb go, got it.
Switch it out.
And, you see, there’s Holt.
[9/26/2026, 3:39:52 PM] Cam
Cam sighs heavily and signals again toward front door
[9/26/2026, 3:39:53 PM] Nyx
This way…
[9/26/2026, 3:40:08 PM] debinani
And, he seems to be watching everything and everybody.
I mean, there’s a bunch of people running around this room, but like, like literally at this moment, it looks like Caleb’s got the glass dome up on the, on your target.
I, no, I mean, not.
And, people running around, he doesn’t have a clear line of sight to the dome.
I will say that.
Caleb is between Holt and the dome.
[9/26/2026, 3:40:14 PM] Nyx
I will help you.
[9/26/2026, 3:40:19 PM] Crow
Crow stands out of the way and surveys the room, looking for incoming trouble
[9/26/2026, 3:40:21 PM] Nyx
No worries. All will be well.
[9/26/2026, 3:40:41 PM] Boo
Boo points a staff to Holt. “he needs help”
[9/26/2026, 3:40:46 PM] Rob
Does Holt have a clear line of sight to Caleb and Cam?
[9/26/2026, 3:40:46 PM] debinani
Boo.
Make a…
Command or sway your choice.
You have to say amount of dice either way.
Command, I guess.
Let’s call it.
[9/26/2026, 3:41:18 PM] debinani
Yeah, it’s fine.
Okay.
I’ll get back to that in a second.
Are you…
So, your shadow, by the way, woman appeared in the room, yelled something at Kilgrave.
Kilgrave, yield for jeeps.
Jeeps came in.
Jeeps, Kilgrave and the woman left through the side door into the hallway.
That’s what your, that’s what your ghost has.
[9/26/2026, 3:41:36 PM] Random
risk - stand?
[9/26/2026, 3:41:46 PM] Boo
Command
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
[9/26/2026, 3:41:51 PM] debinani
No, you probably weren’t searched.
Your shadow, okay, the shadow is following Kilgrave and the woman.
They are going out the back hall and heading down into the basement.
Cam.
Are you…
It’s time to swap.
It’s time to swap the stuff.
[9/26/2026, 3:42:09 PM] Rob
Would we have been searched for weapons before entering? Small ones like daggers/knives?
[9/26/2026, 3:42:23 PM] Random
have the shadow follow
[9/26/2026, 3:42:33 PM] debinani
Well, we can…
You can…
Other people can aid.
So, you are going to be rolling a…
I’m sorry.
You’re going to be rolling finesse.
So, everybody who hasn’t actively done something in the last couple of minutes,
so that leaves nicks and boo are off the table.
They’ve been very, very busy.
[9/26/2026, 3:42:55 PM] Michelle
I was waiting to see if anyone else would distract. :P
[9/26/2026, 3:42:58 PM] Cam
Cam makes the swap
[9/26/2026, 3:43:04 PM] debinani
Anybody who…
Well, somebody can help.
And this would be just by like creating noise at a distraction, whatever like that.
Right? That’ll give her one die.
So, somebody can take a stress and show you get one die.
And then…
If you’d like,
[9/26/2026, 3:43:19 PM] Michelle
ew
[9/26/2026, 3:43:28 PM] Michelle
I have 0 in that
[9/26/2026, 3:43:35 PM] debinani
you could spend two stress, give yourself a second die, or you could take a devil’s bargain.
Okay.
Sure. Okay. So, spend a stress and Cam spends two stress.
[9/26/2026, 3:44:10 PM] debinani
And then Cam, you get two dice for making the swab.
We are going to call this desperate standard, which means you can immediately take an experience point in that category.
In prowess.
Yes. You’ve taken two stress so far.
One stress for this and one stress for the flashback.
[9/26/2026, 3:44:12 PM] Michelle
Take the stress
[9/26/2026, 3:44:20 PM] Rob
If Crow is available, he’ll try to create a distraction. Possibly check on one of those ‘passed out’ guests and call for help, saying he isn’t sensing a pulse.
[9/26/2026, 3:44:36 PM] Rob
Which would cost 1 stress? Did the flashback earlier cost a stress?
[9/26/2026, 3:44:55 PM] debinani
Look at you. Okay.
Caleb lifts the glass case.
You swoop in. You pull an Indiana Jones on it.
You swap this little ritual idle out.
You pocket the real one. Caleb puts the thing down.
And then he sprinkles a little dust on it and mutters something to rearm the ritual warning on the dome.
[9/26/2026, 3:45:06 PM] Rob
Thought so. Thanks.
[9/26/2026, 3:45:17 PM] Cam
Finesse
Desperate | Standard
Success
You do it.
3 6
2d6 = 9 = 9
[9/26/2026, 3:45:33 PM] debinani
And you’ve got it.
So, Nick’s is in the clear.
She’s outside having escorted somebody outside to their carriage and scooted off.
And I think you all are still here.
Boo, your shadow has gone down into the basement.
And with Kilgrave and his whisper.
[9/26/2026, 3:46:05 PM] debinani
And they’ve gone into the lab.
The lab has caught.
He’s in a game in various spots.
And the whisper is actually working on putting out some of the fires.
And Kilgrave is storming upstairs.
He’s like, he’s like, he thought you’d never ask.
And you two came and Caleb go go hobbling out the front door.
[9/26/2026, 3:46:17 PM] Cam
Cam seems to stumble and leans up against Caleb
[9/26/2026, 3:46:20 PM] Cam
The smoke!
[9/26/2026, 3:46:41 PM] Cam
quietly to Caleb Out the front.
[9/26/2026, 3:46:53 PM] debinani
Okay.
The kitchen area is just a madhouse.
And it’s actually really, really quite easy for watcher, idle on boo, crow.
You guys to start your way out the back.
That being said.
I want.
So watcher, boo, crow, idle on.
[9/26/2026, 3:47:11 PM] Rob
Once Crow sees Cam leaving, he’ll make his way out one of the doors, too.
[9/26/2026, 3:47:12 PM] Michelle
That’s everyone’s cue to bail :P
[9/26/2026, 3:47:27 PM] debinani
Make.
You cannot do it.
You cannot do this as a group role.
You have to roll individually.
You may roll either sway, command, or prowl.
Those of you who are making your way outside, watcher, boo, crow, idle on.
[9/26/2026, 3:47:30 PM] Boo
Boo starts her way out the back
[9/26/2026, 3:47:38 PM] Watcher
Watcher heads out through the busy kitchen
[9/26/2026, 3:47:53 PM] Rob
We toss Freakshow on the altar as a distraction.
[9/26/2026, 3:48:11 PM] debinani
And most of you roll in pretty good today.
Okay.
So you guys are making your way into the kitchens.
And and boo, right.
You take it before you duck into the kitchen and start heading towards the back door.
And then you go back to the back of the room.
And Holt is still standing there at the door to the study.
[9/26/2026, 3:48:13 PM] Rob
Who all was that?
[9/26/2026, 3:48:18 PM] Eidolon
Prowl
Risky | Standard
Partial Success
You do it, but there’s a consequence: you suffer harm, a complication occurs, you have reduced effect, you end up in a desperate position.
5 5
2d6 = 10 = 10
[9/26/2026, 3:48:26 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 5 5
3d6 = 15 = 15
[9/26/2026, 3:48:26 PM] Crow
Prowl
Risky | Standard
Success
You do it.
6
1d6 = 6 = 6
[9/26/2026, 3:48:27 PM] Boo
Sway
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
[9/26/2026, 3:48:38 PM] Random
of course
[9/26/2026, 3:48:45 PM] debinani
And you you glance back at him.
And he’s looking he’s looking at the pedestal where you guys did the swap.
And then he looks at you.
And you lock eyes.
And he his head tilts just slightly.
And then you duck into the kitchen and and and are out.
And you all in the madness and chaos.
[9/26/2026, 3:48:48 PM] Rob
And then there’s Boo. Poor Boo.
[9/26/2026, 3:49:17 PM] debinani
Make it clear of the area.
And over the course of several hours because you’re all separate and and just kind of.
You know, ditching your ditching your servants clothes, etc.
Over the course of several hours, you make it out of bright stone and back to charter call.
And cam, you pay off Caleb job well done, sir.
And you all.
By the time it’s about, you know, three in the morning.
[9/26/2026, 3:49:52 PM] debinani
You all have made it back to the layer.
Thank you.
[9/26/2026, 3:50:23 PM] Boo
Holt made me on my way out.
[9/26/2026, 3:50:30 PM] Crow
Crow tosses a small nicknack/gizmo from the lab to Boo
[9/26/2026, 3:50:33 PM] debinani
You
[9/26/2026, 3:50:42 PM] Cam
Damn. Hopefully he doesn’t figure out what we actually did.
[9/26/2026, 3:50:49 PM] Crow
Here. I figure you didn’t get to take your usual souvenier.
[9/26/2026, 3:50:51 PM] Boo
Boo catches it and smiles brightly. “thank you”
[9/26/2026, 3:51:04 PM] debinani
can’t wait to see the next one.
Okay.
So you all make it back to the to layer.
And why don’t we go ahead and just take our 10 minutes here.
And then we will discuss follow up and consequences and whatever.
When we get back.
you
[9/26/2026, 3:51:15 PM] Boo
he was loooking at the dome with some interest. He’ll figure it out.
[9/26/2026, 3:51:36 PM] Cam
The ward was put back. shrugs We’ll see what happens.
[9/26/2026, 3:52:03 PM] debinani
you
you
[9/26/2026, 3:52:07 PM] Debinani
Break Time
Complete
[9/26/2026, 3:53:03 PM] debinani
you
you
[9/26/2026, 3:54:03 PM] debinani
you
you
[9/26/2026, 3:55:03 PM] debinani
you
you
[9/26/2026, 3:56:03 PM] debinani
you
you
[9/26/2026, 3:57:03 PM] debinani
you
you
[9/26/2026, 3:58:03 PM] debinani
you
you
[9/26/2026, 3:59:03 PM] debinani
you
you
[9/26/2026, 4:00:03 PM] debinani
you
you
[9/26/2026, 4:01:03 PM] debinani
you
you
[9/26/2026, 4:02:03 PM] debinani
you
you
you
you
you
you
you
you
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you
you
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you
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you
that’s right.
Time for consequences.
Okay.
So you guys make it back.
So nobody is immediately after you.
[9/26/2026, 4:02:37 PM] debinani
As far as you can tell.
And obviously this is going to be all over the new sheets the following day.
So let’s talk about what actually makes the papers.
The next day.
The Gazette talks about.
[9/26/2026, 4:02:42 PM] Michelle
Time for… truth or consequences! Well, mostly consequences.
[9/26/2026, 4:02:53 PM] Rob
I’m sure it’s all fine.
[9/26/2026, 4:03:08 PM] Rob
And Boo did garner some info that can be very useful to us.
[9/26/2026, 4:03:10 PM] debinani
You know, it’s it’s it’s a yeah, it makes the front page.
Violent theft at Killgrave Manor.
And the article discusses how a gang of
a
a
a
a
a
a
a
a
a
a
a
a
[9/26/2026, 4:03:41 PM] debinani
a group of
servants that were on that were going to be hired out to to one of Lord Killgrave’s fairly
legendary
parties.
And
infiltrated the party.
And did an incredible amount of damage to Lord Killgrave’s lab and research.
And you know, they they accosted they they they stole away with some
[9/26/2026, 4:04:03 PM] Rob
Uncultured thugs.
[9/26/2026, 4:04:21 PM] debinani
of the
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
years, quote, unquote years of research.
After you know, poisoning some of the cities elite and you know, so on it goes on like that.
And you know, so you know, you know, I’m not going to make that work.
[9/26/2026, 4:04:31 PM] Crow
Crow scowls at the newssheet
[9/26/2026, 4:04:41 PM] Crow
It wasn’t that violent.
[9/26/2026, 4:04:55 PM] debinani
I’m not going to make that work.
Um,
of the
of the
of the
of the
of the artifacts that were actually on to of the of Kilgraves you know, Kilgraves true passion.
The
ancient artifacts that that he had on display.
had only one was stolen and you’re reading this going, oh fuck.
And it says it was an artifact.
[9/26/2026, 4:05:23 PM] Cam
Cam munches on an apple
[9/26/2026, 4:05:30 PM] debinani
It was the center piece of the evening’s collection, an artifact from the ancient America’s
A, a, a brooch composed of five rings was stolen in the chaos.
And that’s essentially the whole of the, the whole of the news article.
Everybody looks a boo, boo shrugs.
[9/26/2026, 4:05:33 PM] Cam
To us, no. To them?
[9/26/2026, 4:06:18 PM] Rob
Wait… what did we take?
[9/26/2026, 4:06:27 PM] Michelle
Not that
[9/26/2026, 4:06:28 PM] Boo
Boo not me
[9/26/2026, 4:06:32 PM] Nyx
Huh
[9/26/2026, 4:06:41 PM] Boo
Killgrave is pulling a fast one under our cover
[9/26/2026, 4:06:42 PM] Crow
Maybe there were other thieves there.
[9/26/2026, 4:06:57 PM] Cam
None of us could break the wards without help. It had to be someone else or it’s a lie.
[9/26/2026, 4:06:57 PM] Boo
or Holt
[9/26/2026, 4:07:10 PM] Cam
Holt? Really?
[9/26/2026, 4:07:28 PM] Random
I have not turned over the ghost yet. I want to question it, then I’ll deliver it.
[9/26/2026, 4:07:37 PM] debinani
Yeah, as to your shadow, it fizzled out as, you know, it’s funny, the shadow actually
hung around long enough to watch.
Her name was Lady Vanessa succumbed to Nick’s sleeping stuff.
[9/26/2026, 4:07:53 PM] Random
I have a single question i think.
[9/26/2026, 4:07:55 PM] Cam
I can’t imagine that guy dirtying his hands on anything. He’s continuing to be a problem.
[9/26/2026, 4:07:59 PM] Nyx
Nyx casually studies her new blueprints
[9/26/2026, 4:08:10 PM] debinani
She like passed out on the floor and caused even more chaos, but, but then you, you got
too far away in the ghost lit it up.
Mistress Ash is incredibly pleased that you’ve got to hold the hand.
And she and Nick’s have been muttering to each other in a corner about how the hand
works and how it interfaces with flesh ever since you got back.
[9/26/2026, 4:08:47 PM] Cam
This sure as hell wasn’t quiet, but as long as our replacement isn’t noticed, hopefully the Sisters won’t mind.
[9/26/2026, 4:08:55 PM] Crow
Crow coughs uncomfortably
[9/26/2026, 4:09:17 PM] Crow
Yes, our sojourn downstairs could’ve gone better.
[9/26/2026, 4:09:26 PM] debinani
Okay, we’ll get to the ghost in just a second.
The Lady Vanessa, as it turns out, is another kill grave, Lady Vanessa Killgrave, she is
a sister who of the bailons who apparently works as his in house whisper.
She’s going to remember at least two of you.
If it makes you feel any better, I ran a similar scenario with a local group and they burnt
[9/26/2026, 4:09:32 PM] Nyx
Nyx chatters on excitedly
[9/26/2026, 4:09:34 PM] Cam
Cam shrugs
[9/26/2026, 4:09:42 PM] Crow
At least it drew attention away from our real goal.
[9/26/2026, 4:09:46 PM] Random
when I get a chance I want to question the ghost.
[9/26/2026, 4:09:57 PM] Cam
We needed a distraction, yeah
[9/26/2026, 4:10:08 PM] debinani
down half the block.
So, you know, compared to them, you were subtle.
All right.
Boo, you find a dark corner of the layer and put some sigils on the ground and get it all
ready and get a ghost hook ready and everything else and let Lancaster out.
[9/26/2026, 4:10:27 PM] Rob
She saw a guy with a crow-like spirit mask. :)
[9/26/2026, 4:10:39 PM] Michelle
rofl
[9/26/2026, 4:10:43 PM] Rob
Good to know!
[9/26/2026, 4:10:55 PM] debinani
He his ghost emerges from the vile, glowing, kind of purplish blue, static charge and
everybody’s the hairs on everybody’s heads for no, you can’t talk to him from the jar
if you let his ass out.
Hair standing on end for everybody within three blocks and he immediately begins muttering
[9/26/2026, 4:11:01 PM] Watcher
I mean, Nyx was right there on the same path for a sec… the glint was in her eye
[9/26/2026, 4:11:25 PM] Random
can I not talk to him from the jar?
[9/26/2026, 4:11:26 PM] debinani
to himself the same things he was muttering when he went into the jar about just about
the darkness is coming and I hear the march of the feet and the blah blah blah just randomly
just crazy talking.
Oh, you mean kill, Grave?
[9/26/2026, 4:11:42 PM] Random
crow b e ready
[9/26/2026, 4:11:45 PM] Cam
Cam shudders
[9/26/2026, 4:11:50 PM] Crow
Crow sighs and puts his spirit mask on to help block out the aura
[9/26/2026, 4:12:26 PM] debinani
Oh, make a go ahead and make a tune roll.
This is controlled standard.
[9/26/2026, 4:12:28 PM] Boo
You poisoned Lancaster. What did you make him do for the cure?
[9/26/2026, 4:12:38 PM] Boo
yeah, killgrave
[9/26/2026, 4:12:40 PM] Boo
sorry
[9/26/2026, 4:13:13 PM] debinani
You may spend two stress for an extra diet.
Crow is in there helping.
He could spend one stress to give you an extra diet.
Oh, yeah, you’re stuck, right?
[9/26/2026, 4:13:33 PM] Random
can I add a stress for an extra die?
[9/26/2026, 4:13:44 PM] Boo
I don’t have 2 stress.
[9/26/2026, 4:13:52 PM] Rob
Sure.
[9/26/2026, 4:14:01 PM] debinani
You’re a guy, you’re talking to you.
Okay, so you focus the energy in the room or you encroach together, focus the energy
in the room and try to really bind Lancaster up and make him lucid long enough to give
[9/26/2026, 4:14:11 PM] Rob
Crow just needs to find a way to remove Stress before it becomes an issue. :P
[9/26/2026, 4:14:23 PM] Boo
Attune
Controlled | Standard
Success
You do it.
4 6 2
3d6 = 12 = 12
[9/26/2026, 4:14:32 PM] debinani
you a clear answer that I now need to come up with the power of who compels you, the power
of who compels you.
Lancaster is like, oh, yes, kill, Grave, yes, kill, Grave, Baylon, Baylon.
Not as clever as his father, not as clever, not as clever at all, however, however,
[9/26/2026, 4:14:54 PM] Rob
“The Power of Boo compels you!”
[9/26/2026, 4:15:12 PM] debinani
clever enough, clever enough.
I had him poisoned at the serendipity club and then his house made, his house made, house
made, asked the question and returned with the antidote.
[9/26/2026, 4:15:46 PM] debinani
I had him, I had him make a disruptor, a machine, a machine to disrupt the, a machine to disrupt
the electoplasmic flows between two dipold arrays and he goes on like that, a bunch of
scientific stuff that you got no clue about.
[9/26/2026, 4:16:19 PM] debinani
And he did and he delivered and he received his antidote and he went on with his miserable
miserable life.
I’ll part of the plan to stop it from coming here and ending.
[9/26/2026, 4:16:46 PM] Random
i hope someone is taking notes
[9/26/2026, 4:16:58 PM] Crow
Crow whispers quietly to Boo “What the hell did he just say?”
[9/26/2026, 4:16:59 PM] debinani
We are the last, the last, really, I mean the five, the five are really the, is it fun?
The five are the last bubbles of hope and lifeboats, lifeboats on a sea on the dark sea
of stars and we cannot, we cannot survive.
We cannot survive if we don’t.
The five, the immortal emperor and the twins and archangel, archangel Patrick and Queen
[9/26/2026, 4:17:04 PM] Boo
why did you have him do that?
[9/26/2026, 4:17:22 PM] Boo
make what stop?
[9/26/2026, 4:17:22 PM] Crow
Crow tries to take some coherent notes
[9/26/2026, 4:17:37 PM] debinani
Ratt and the other one that I said in the prayer, they’re barely, they’re barely keeping
it a, barely keeping it at bay.
It’s for 800 years.
How much longer do you think they can do it?
And then he goes on muttering about like oats and mushrooms and alkalines and just random
ness.
[9/26/2026, 4:17:46 PM] Boo
Who , what, are the 5?
[9/26/2026, 4:18:18 PM] debinani
To be clear, it was the Duke and Duchess, Queen Ratt, Archangel Patrick and the immortal
emperor.
Which you guys know, right?
I mean, these are the, these are the, these are the near godlike entities who have essentially
saved humanity since the breaking.
[9/26/2026, 4:18:59 PM] debinani
You have the encrypted recipe for the poison and antidote.
You have not actually sorted it out yet.
The symbol of the five interlocking rings is new to you, yes, and it is not in any ray
related to those five in any way that you’re aware of.
[9/26/2026, 4:19:17 PM] Random
do we have the recipe for the poison and antidote?
[9/26/2026, 4:19:25 PM] Rob
But the symbol of five interlocking rings is new to us?
[9/26/2026, 4:19:33 PM] debinani
You say that exactly.
You just start rattling off a random prime.
You know, it’s like 650 characters long.
No, he actually, he actually gets real lucid for a second and stairs right at you.
And he’s like, did you know, did you know that I served in this confluent war?
It was nasty.
It’s very, very nasty.
The very, very violent, very violent fierce people.
[9/26/2026, 4:19:42 PM] Boo
what is the key for the encryption of your notes?
[9/26/2026, 4:19:54 PM] Rob
He starts to rattle of a 4096 bit key
[9/26/2026, 4:20:04 PM] debinani
I had, I had time in those trenches to think up.
He taps his ethereal temple.
He goes, had a lot of time.
Had a lot of time to make something up.
And then he starts like trying to walk away from you and, you know, bumps up against the
wards that you, you paint it on the, you paint it on the ground.
[9/26/2026, 4:20:38 PM] debinani
He’s not really answering your question.
He’s just kind of bumping up against the bumping up against the wards, muttering about
that, you know, there’s a, there’s a fish in the southern aisle that, uh, aisles that
eat itself.
It’s really, and then he ran him, he goes on to talk about, you know, stotes and, you
[9/26/2026, 4:20:56 PM] Boo
and what did you think up?
[9/26/2026, 4:21:21 PM] debinani
know, the imbreeding within a certain, it’s certain cohort of, of the Aruvian nobility.
And I mean, he’s just, he’s all over the place.
You pretty much lost him.
Information dump over.
[9/26/2026, 4:22:00 PM] Boo
Boo bottles him back up.
[9/26/2026, 4:22:04 PM] debinani
Anyone who is within air shot of that exchange, which can be any of you except Nick’s, um,
now you’re going to scream, can make a tinker roll.
Well, I think somebody has like one dot, um, besides, uh, besides, uh, next.
[9/26/2026, 4:22:07 PM] Crow
I think he’s out of ‘not crazy’ for now.
[9/26/2026, 4:22:15 PM] Boo
well that is a start.
[9/26/2026, 4:22:46 PM] Crow
Crow hands Boo the notes
[9/26/2026, 4:23:00 PM] debinani
Yeah, yeah, you can make a roll.
So I said, anybody besides Nick’s can make a tinker roll.
[9/26/2026, 4:23:01 PM] Random
me too?
[9/26/2026, 4:23:05 PM] Rob
Does anyone other than Nyx have Tinker?
[9/26/2026, 4:23:20 PM] Random
I have tinker
[9/26/2026, 4:23:27 PM] Michelle
it was all technobabble to Cam
[9/26/2026, 4:23:35 PM] debinani
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, it was, it was the stotes.
It was really, it was really about the stotes.
Okay.
Uh, so, um, I’m assuming you guys bottle Lancaster back up.
I’m not going to make your roll for it because it’s controlled and you’ll get it done.
[9/26/2026, 4:23:42 PM] Random
am I allowed to make the roll?
[9/26/2026, 4:23:53 PM] Watcher
Watcher heard Stoats… and nothing tinkering related
[9/26/2026, 4:23:57 PM] Random
standard?
[9/26/2026, 4:24:04 PM] Boo
Tinker
Controlled | Standard
Success
You do it.
6
1d6 = 6 = 6
[9/26/2026, 4:24:10 PM] debinani
Um, um, but you bottle, you bottle Lancaster back up.
You stop being useful.
And, um, uh, everybody sort of wanders off to really get some sleep, uh, before, um, presumably
going and, and, uh, seeing Sister Beatrice again.
Um, uh, Nick’s is still, uh, uh, uh, working with, um, um, with lady Ash or Mr. Ash on, on, um,
um, the stuff you stole.
[9/26/2026, 4:24:14 PM] Rob
The stoats were the key.
[9/26/2026, 4:24:42 PM] debinani
And Boo, you’ve just been just distracted by something he was saying there.
And, um, as everybody’s just kind of having the end of their night caps and, and getting
ready to, getting ready to turn in, um, your, your, your, actually, you pass by Nick’s
workbench.
And, um, um, at some point in the last number of days, Nick’s had like the body, um,
[9/26/2026, 4:25:18 PM] debinani
like the desiccated body of a rat plugged into an electroplasmic battery and, and you pass
by and it’s still there and it looks like she had gotten it to like walk around at a little
circle attached to, you know, wires and things.
And you sort of, you sort of see a little bit of a electroplasmic charge kind of zapped from
the rat back to the thing.
You realize where you’d heard that, where you’d heard a, uh, disrupt, an electroplasmic
discharge from the, the, uh, the matrixed array.
[9/26/2026, 4:25:54 PM] debinani
That’s how the, um, that’s how the walls work.
Those, those arrays are how the, um, the lighting barriers work that keep, keep the ghosts, um,
from invading the city.
So,
now there may be other, there may be other matrixed arrays used for electroplasmic discharge in the
[9/26/2026, 4:26:27 PM] debinani
world.
But the one you know of is the one circling the whole city.
Well, blackmailed killgrave into building one as it turns out.
[9/26/2026, 4:27:07 PM] Boo
uhm… Nyx…
[9/26/2026, 4:27:16 PM] Michelle
and he built a DISRUPTOR for it? yay
[9/26/2026, 4:27:27 PM] debinani
Um, I mean, so Nix is much more aware of all the other things in the world that could use an
electroplasmic array matrixed array.
Um, so it may not necessarily be designed to disrupt the lighting barriers, which would really
[9/26/2026, 4:27:47 PM] Boo
Boo explains to Nyx what was just said and my idea. “Is this bad?”
[9/26/2026, 4:27:59 PM] debinani
be very hard. It would require a lot.
Um, but, uh, yes, it definitely sounds like whatever killgrave built could conceivably disrupt
a lighting barrier.
Um, unless it was really, really big and really, really super powered, it would probably just be a
small area.
But, yeah, or who knows what else somebody is, is using this stuff for.
[9/26/2026, 4:28:32 PM] debinani
I mean, smugglers, smugglers have all sorts of ways to like find their way past, um,
find their way past the lighting barrier.
Um, Nix has never really heard of this being one of them, but, yeah, I mean, theoretically,
from what little you know, which is just this rambling, you know, what little data you have is
rambling thing. Yes, it’s conceivable. Killgrave could have put together something to disrupt the
lighting barrier.
[9/26/2026, 4:28:57 PM] Random
yeah…that’s why I’m getting Nyx’s input. Nyx is our SME
[9/26/2026, 4:29:03 PM] debinani
And if scaled, it could theoretically disrupt an entire section of the lighting barrier,
which would be fantastically bad.
Um, I can’t remember. I think, yes, I think watch your, watch your head would, watch your
[9/26/2026, 4:29:34 PM] debinani
head been, he took a crack one downtime at working on the codes.
In fact,
Okay.
[9/26/2026, 4:29:46 PM] Random
Watcher is working on the codes?
[9/26/2026, 4:29:47 PM] Michelle
We’re going to need more bottles
[9/26/2026, 4:30:04 PM] Watcher
Watcher in downtime I had been yea’
[9/26/2026, 4:30:16 PM] debinani
Next time you spend a downtime activity to work on it.
giving an extra die. Because maybe it truly is helpful.
Okay. All right, so I’m assuming you all make haste to get landcaster and this artifact to
[9/26/2026, 4:30:24 PM] Boo
Boo will tell Watcher that the key was thought up during his stint ain the Skovlan war, maybe that’ll be a help or clue?
[9/26/2026, 4:30:47 PM] debinani
Sister Beatrice.
All right, that goes fine. She’s when you arrive, Sister Beatrice is actually manning the desk and
and she’s you know, she’s like, oh, this is wonderful. I was wondering if you all had, if you all had
[9/26/2026, 4:31:20 PM] Boo
Boo is good with that.
[9/26/2026, 4:31:23 PM] Michelle
Yes
[9/26/2026, 4:31:23 PM] debinani
forgotten about us. I’m so glad that you came through. Quite a bit of noise, yes, made quite a bit of noise,
but it seems like our dear Belon was none the wiser. So thank you.
So again, feel free to make use of the, oh, what was it? The fall staff or whatever was a state
[9/26/2026, 4:31:54 PM] debinani
as much as you like. Just remember, we don’t actually legally own it. So somebody could come along and
and want to boot you out. But as far as we’re concerned, it’s all yours.
[9/26/2026, 4:31:59 PM] Boo
Forgotten about you? Perish the thought.
[9/26/2026, 4:32:35 PM] debinani
Okay. So that officially gives you a, some your covert drops turf. So that is you get plus two coin
and your payoff for scores that involve espionage or sabotage.
[9/26/2026, 4:32:40 PM] Cam
We appreciate that. We’ll certainly look into the ownership next.
[9/26/2026, 4:32:47 PM] Boo
Much obliged.
[9/26/2026, 4:33:11 PM] Watcher
Watcher mumbles something about adverse possession…
[9/26/2026, 4:33:11 PM] debinani
Which is very nice. Which could include this one. So, yeah, I’m playing sabotage.
Next made off with quite a lot of stuff. Various designs and blueprints, all of which hadn’t been
released or marketed or, or you know, made it into the, made it into the general,
[9/26/2026, 4:33:36 PM] Rob
Does unplanned sabotage count?
[9/26/2026, 4:33:45 PM] debinani
made it into the general popular list yet. Now, you guys don’t really have much ability to
capitalize on most of it, except of course the hand, which, which Nick’s really wants.
I will say that you could sell some of this stuff to the glass keys.
For, oh, I don’t know. Let’s call it 12 coin, 10 plus your extra two.
[9/26/2026, 4:34:27 PM] debinani
But you have to hand it over. You really can’t copy it because the novelty is in the invention.
Yeah.
[9/26/2026, 4:34:37 PM] Michelle
Highest bidder within reason
[9/26/2026, 4:35:01 PM] debinani
Yeah, Nick’s is keeping the hand and the research about the tissue interface, but everything else is
[9/26/2026, 4:35:09 PM] Michelle
Will Nyx part with them?
[9/26/2026, 4:35:28 PM] Boo
Boo is keeping the tchotchke that Nyx gifted her.
[9/26/2026, 4:36:01 PM] Rob
Crow gifted her. Unless there was another one I missed.
[9/26/2026, 4:36:05 PM] Michelle
Poor Crow. Forgotten already
[9/26/2026, 4:36:13 PM] Rob
It’s the mask. No one recognizes him without it.
[9/26/2026, 4:36:23 PM] Michelle
lol
[9/26/2026, 4:36:33 PM] Random
sorry, Crow. Made my note wrong. corrected
[9/26/2026, 4:36:39 PM] Jason G
crow is actually Nyx, wearing a mask
[9/26/2026, 4:36:43 PM] debinani
in the description.
Okay. Yeah, you guys could hold a locket and you sell the stuff.
[9/26/2026, 4:36:50 PM] Nyx
I feel I failed the crew. I’m keeping the hand. I’d like Crow to have this. (hands him a blueprint) and hands the rest to Cam. To the crew.
[9/26/2026, 4:36:54 PM] Michelle
Oh my… That would be…
[9/26/2026, 4:37:06 PM] Nyx
Thank you, Crow.
[9/26/2026, 4:37:10 PM] Cam
Cam smiles a bit
[9/26/2026, 4:37:14 PM] debinani
And so, Crow, you can, Crow, you get a one coin for the blueprint. She gifted you the rest of the
crew gets 12 total. The kitty can hold one and you just want to kind of divide the rest of
the, there are six of you. So if everybody but Crow got two, then essentially everybody gets two.
[9/26/2026, 4:37:19 PM] Crow
Crow nods his thanks, opens the blueprint and looks at it, turns it on its side and looks again, then upside down
[9/26/2026, 4:37:22 PM] Cam
Hey, the job got done. It’s all in the past now.
[9/26/2026, 4:37:22 PM] Crow
Um.
[9/26/2026, 4:37:23 PM] Nyx
Thank you.
[9/26/2026, 4:37:29 PM] Michelle
Sell! Sell! Sell!
[9/26/2026, 4:37:36 PM] Nyx
Sell it Crow.
[9/26/2026, 4:37:42 PM] Rob
That’s what Crow’s going to do. :)
[9/26/2026, 4:37:47 PM] debinani
Okay, Nick’s isn’t taking. So, cam figure out where the money’s going.
You’ve got 11 coin to hand out.
Well, remember guys, you collect coin and once you hit four, it goes into stash and stash is how you
[9/26/2026, 4:38:10 PM] Nyx
Nyx Nyx is taking nothing.
[9/26/2026, 4:38:24 PM] debinani
determine what your quality life is.
[9/26/2026, 4:38:25 PM] Rob
Crow would like at least one more. After selling the blueprint, he has 1.
[9/26/2026, 4:38:28 PM] Michelle
Send any extra to Crow if he has the room. Didn’t he spend a lot recently?
[9/26/2026, 4:38:32 PM] Veth
will pass too, doing fine there
[9/26/2026, 4:39:03 PM] debinani
I guess not.
[9/26/2026, 4:39:04 PM] Eidolon
Just this time
[9/26/2026, 4:39:16 PM] Random
I’ll take all the shares nobody wants :P
[9/26/2026, 4:39:19 PM] Michelle
So no coin to Nyx or Eidolon?
[9/26/2026, 4:39:41 PM] Michelle
How many are you short of 4, Crow?
[9/26/2026, 4:39:42 PM] Rob
Heh. 3.
[9/26/2026, 4:40:00 PM] Michelle
OK, two to you, plus the one for your blueprint
[9/26/2026, 4:40:03 PM] debinani
Yeah, kitty’s full. What about what about watcher?
[9/26/2026, 4:40:15 PM] Rob
That puts him at 3. That works.
[9/26/2026, 4:40:34 PM] debinani
And I guess freak show. I mean, he was there.
Oh, I see. So two for everybody or one for everybody and then extra for that.
I’ll start awarding you even numbers for the number of players.
[9/26/2026, 4:40:38 PM] Michelle
That leaves two. Cam will give those to Boo and Watcher for stash if the kitty is full.
[9/26/2026, 4:41:23 PM] Jason G
watcher currently has 3 Coin, 4 Stash
[9/26/2026, 4:41:24 PM] Michelle
Gah. Forgot Freakshow
[9/26/2026, 4:41:33 PM] debinani
Okay.
So, everybody who’s taking money gets two.
Including watcher.
[9/26/2026, 4:41:43 PM] Random
currently has 4 coin 4 stash.
[9/26/2026, 4:42:12 PM] debinani
And that’ll be all of it. We’ll just call it that.
And that includes freak show. So I gave him two as well.
Okay, everybody gets two. And the kitty gets one. And Crow gets an extra one.
Okay, so you sell Blueprints off. And that makes a sh-t ton of money, which is fantastic.
[9/26/2026, 4:42:15 PM] Rob
Cam’s going to get tired of math and just keep them all herself.
[9/26/2026, 4:42:46 PM] debinani
Everybody, I’m not going to make you justify anything. Everybody gets two experience for the session.
And I’m going to give three to the crew sheet.
[9/26/2026, 4:42:49 PM] Michelle
Yeah, as long as Freakshow is included, it’s all good.
[9/26/2026, 4:43:01 PM] Random
is building a retirement fund.
[9/26/2026, 4:43:24 PM] debinani
Okay. Let’s talk about what you guys figure out what to spend your XP on. Let’s talk about.
Rep.
Okay.
[9/26/2026, 4:44:09 PM] debinani
Okay. You earn as a crew. You earn three rep, which is putting you right at the verge of going up from a week to strong.
So as a crew, you earn three rep. Let’s talk about heat. You didn’t kill anybody.
So good on you.
We’ll start with a base of two, three for the high profile target.
[9/26/2026, 4:44:44 PM] debinani
And nobody dies.
I think you’re going to get away with this job for just three heat, which is pretty good, consider.
That brings the crews heat up to four. So you know, it’s amazing when nobody dies and like,
you know, major swaths of real estate aren’t damaged. Right. Like you exactly, you didn’t burn down half a line.
[9/26/2026, 4:45:16 PM] debinani
You didn’t blow anything up. Okay. Some other things that happen. Nix now knows the spark craft tissue
interface invention, which was necessary for her grand plans. So that’s just done. That was going to be a
that would have been an eight segment research project, but you stole it instead of inventing it.
[9/26/2026, 4:45:36 PM] Michelle
Well, it’s not like we burned down half a block or anything…
[9/26/2026, 4:45:47 PM] Rob
Only half of a room.
[9/26/2026, 4:45:47 PM] debinani
So that’s done.
On the inspector’s radar goes up by one tick, because you know, he’s starting to get a picture in his head.
And that brings us to entanglements.
[9/26/2026, 4:46:39 PM] debinani
Okay.
Okay. So Holt is definitely leaning in. And they actually, they actually bring in
Eddie for questioning the blue coats, uh, uh, find them on the streets and they, uh, bring them in for
[9/26/2026, 4:46:50 PM] Debinani
If there are two results, the GM picks which entanglement occurs.
2d6kl1
2d6kl1 3 3 4
3
Gang Trouble Questioning
2d6kl1 = 3 = 3
[9/26/2026, 4:46:58 PM] Rob
Invosodice!
[9/26/2026, 4:47:16 PM] Michelle
awfully quiet
[9/26/2026, 4:47:17 PM] debinani
for questioning. Um, let’s see how much they talk.
Eddie doesn’t roll that great. Let’s see.
[9/26/2026, 4:47:29 PM] Jason G
what? no, clearly he rolled a ???
[9/26/2026, 4:47:40 PM] Jason G
out of ?????
[9/26/2026, 4:47:52 PM] Michelle
That poor man
[9/26/2026, 4:47:52 PM] debinani
Okay. Um, no, really nothing, nothing good has happened in Eddie’s life, uh, since you guys came along really.
Um, I mean, except now he’s the, these are the leader of a small gang. Um,
so you can either, uh, shell out two coin to pay a bribe and get him out of lock up before Holt’s
questions him or, uh, you guys are going to get a couple, a couple points of heat. Your choice.
[9/26/2026, 4:48:05 PM] Debinani
Fortune
Failure
The result is bad. You have poor or little effect.
2 3 1
3d6 = 6 = 6
[9/26/2026, 4:48:17 PM] Rob
He tells them everything.
[9/26/2026, 4:48:17 PM] Michelle
He has yet to experience anything good from us, has he?
[9/26/2026, 4:48:31 PM] debinani
Okay. So I’ll just pay it out of the kitty.
Okay.
Okay. So paid the bribe out of the kitty. Uh, you guys, uh, managed to pay off a couple of the local blue coats and, uh,
instead of taking him to the conservatory office, uh, they actually drop him off at the mortar and
pestle, uh, instead and collect their money and, and, and move on. So, uh, bullet dodged. Um,
[9/26/2026, 4:48:54 PM] Michelle
Pay the bribe
[9/26/2026, 4:49:03 PM] debinani
we’ve got a little bit of time left. You guys want to do downtime now or do you want to do it next
session? You all can think about what you’re going to do next. You’ve got a couple of options. You’ve
got the, uh, figure out how to maybe get the carriage house in your name, figure out how to get, uh,
16 Camden Street in your name. Um, and then you’ve also got the Aria and Lancaster’s Black Book and
things like that. All right. Fair enough. We will pick up next time with your downtime activities as
[9/26/2026, 4:49:04 PM] Michelle
yes
[9/26/2026, 4:49:43 PM] debinani
you try to figure out what your next, uh, your next job is going to be. Um, two weeks brings us to
the 10th. How’s everybody on the 10th?
All right. Well, the 10th it is.
[9/26/2026, 4:49:56 PM] Michelle
Next session, I think. Have a grandkid bday party to get to in a bit.
[9/26/2026, 4:49:59 PM] Veth
I actually need to run a tiny bit early, I’ve got family coming over in a minute
[9/26/2026, 4:50:13 PM] Veth
Thanks deb!! :)
[9/26/2026, 4:50:14 PM] debinani
All right. Um, well, I will see you all then. Hope you had a good time. Good hall and I will catch you all later.
[9/26/2026, 4:50:24 PM] Cam
Should be ok
[9/26/2026, 4:50:24 PM] Veth
10th good
[9/26/2026, 4:50:25 PM] Jason G
10th is good
[9/26/2026, 4:50:34 PM] Random
good
[9/26/2026, 4:50:35 PM] Rob
Maybe? My future availability is hazy. I’ll let you know as soon as it clears up.
[9/26/2026, 4:50:55 PM] Rob
Thanks, Deb!
[9/26/2026, 4:50:57 PM] Cam
Thanks, Deb!
[9/26/2026, 4:50:57 PM] Jason G
Thanks, Deb
[9/26/2026, 4:51:08 PM] Jen
take care all!