Good evening, Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Dragon's Greek Gaming. This is
Sins in Consequences the Blades in the Dark actual play podcast tonight. Adam has
been predisposed he's currently fighting hordes of the undead in his basement. That's what
he told me, and I choose to believe him. He may be joining
us later, or he may succumb to the Lord, so we may not
see him again for next week either one. Yeah, maybe we'll see him
next week. He might join us a bit later, but for the time
being, we we got the rest of our wonderful crew. CJ. CJ
the phone. Yeah, how's it going, how's life? It's going?
Okay, that's fair. I got my bathroom all fixed up. I was.
There's been issues with it from forever. Oh my, oh yeah,
the sinks leek. So but finally maybe get the bathroom fixed. Was that
the drain on the tub like completely clogged up. I tried DRAINO, I
tried the snakes. It was not. It was not getting fixed. I
was like, okay, that's not that that's a problem. So while we're
at it, let's get rid of these other things because the toilet will also
run so like it we just wouldn't stop making noise. And then the sink,
I like, it always leaks, so I just have to like turn
the knobs or whatever to turn off the water so it wouldn't do is.
I was like, I can live with this, it's fine. But I
was like, hey, I'm get plumbers coming. Let's just get it all
Done's get it out here. So now I have a fully functioning bathroom.
Life is good. That's awesome. But I got to ask you went her
own? I own? Oh? Nice? Nice? I own a house
too. It sucks because, yeah, every time something breaks, you got
to pay for it, and especially especially when it's water based, which makes
anything in the bathroom like some of the scariest types of repairs because that's where
all the water is, or at least. Yeah, I had to replace
a toilet and that was terrifying. Oh no. Well, so Grace is
like Ethan spent in my way Grace, and so he can vouch that she's
pretty handy, and she only gets more handier by the year as she spends
more time as a trades person. I'm not a bad plumber. I'm getting
really good at it. Actually, it's tangentially related to my job, and
so like I just kind of picked things up here and there, and it's
really came in handy since I buying a hell that's like over one hundred years
old ship, turns out everything needs fixing. Yeah, well so we can
kind of tag team a lot of problems together. So that's nice. Sorry,
deal, what were you gonna say? I was gonna say, what's
the name of the that they are or that them? Uh that phrase somebody
something's boat, someone's boat where once you replace everything within it? Yes,
is it the same thing for your house one hundred years old? I'm sure
most of the things except for like maybe the structure has been James. I
mean, we still have the original floors that has like like there there's a
lot of Reynolds that have yet to be done, a lot that have been
done, but the floors are still original. The walls and they show like
you can tell that those floors are one hundred years old. They're like some
like to wear on them. Yeah. Yeah, man, I kind of
want to see that, like you you got a bit of history. But
that's sick as fuck, dude. Yeah, So the date in my house
has three clauses in it because it used to be a church, And one
of them is that I'm not allowed to sell or I'm specifically not allowed to
auction off livestock. It's against the law. I'm also not allowed to charge
admission for the purposes of hosting a dance. And what was the third one?
No, it's not you think it would be something like that, but
it's not. I think it's literally like I have a limit on the amount
of horses I can keep on my product, which like my property is like
big, but it's not big enough to have like horses plural like, and
I also hate horses. Contract predates cards, you know, kind of says
something, yeah, yeah, in the eventuality where we all lose the ability
to drive a vehicle, you're gonna be over here with the only like one
of the few houses in the books that says you can't have that many horses
in your record space. Man, I think it's definitely double digit horses I'm
not allowed to have, Like I think I can have like two or three,
but I mean, yeah, well, and I mean if we go
all mad Max anyways, I'm breaking some laws, like you know, like
if if I have to fight my neighbor for food. I feel like I
got to break the law somewhere. I mean he cuts my lawn anyways,
Like he cuts a little bit onto my lawn. So whatever he's got coming,
he deserves. And of sorry, that was a long tingent, Dio,
you had a week, tell us about it? But stop stop c
J. Who are you playing? I play Myrie skale Kalan the leech.
She makes things. She's working on a projects. Now finally settle on something.
I do an amazing feature of the class. Wow you heard of that
before? Wow, there we are, And now, Dio, tell us
about your week, tell us about your character. I'm sorry to interrupt.
If only I could do a rewind, like a rewind noiser and that was
terrible. But regardless, man, a bit of a crazy week. Uh
so I could get into a bit of like the basically had a bad,
bad mental health week. Uh just everything was really hit in the van.
But uh, the funny part of it is that like my therapist and I
have been working on something called like a safe space, and I made it
into like this like uh kind of like the library that we went into and
we killed the vampire. But like the top of it actually funny enough.
It matches that, except mine was more of a galaxy thing going on,
like before I even knew about this. Now yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
uh which which now it's been invaded by bodies. And to add to that,
my safe space has my dog uh just kind of roaming around and put
because because I put away bad memories in books, that's the premise of it.
And my dog is the librarian. They're the ones that are putting away
all the books. And I've been making her like she like in my head
because it just kind of has its own head cannon. She just chucks them.
It's like, uh, I think it maybe it might be some subconscious
shit, but it's funny to me and it helps me feel better. But
it's uh, it always helps me whenever I deal with like panic attacks or
anything of that nature. So yeah, it's bit but it's just been hilarious
just because like my dog's personality is really just showing inside of the safe space,
and like it just leads to these moments where my wife and I are
just cracking up because we're talking about the stupid that she's doing in there to
put away books. Like imagine like a small little like docs and climbing up
a ladder with a book in their mouth, and they have like a mitten
specifically say they don't slabber all over it. I love it. I love
it. But I'm playing Oh sorry, oh I just that's awesome, pretty
dude, that's all. Who are you playing? I'm playing Abatross the Hound
and uh the guy who could still kill somebody even though he sucked up Barola.
I've killed a horse, I've killed the child apparently, and uh now
I've killed the leader of the Path I mean I helped. Yeah, Ethan
wasn't there for that session, but di O and c j H. That
is the second time you've witnessed a member of the Path of Echoes commits was
side in order to attack someone like you. Hello, my name is Ethan.
Uh oh what's up? No, I'm good, I can I can
drive on the zone. Hello, my name is Ethan. I'm running uh
vay Helker. He is a spider. In the last session, he went
to the Church of Ecstasy and really unwound by winding back a whip and whipping
a bunch of people, which was great. I'm really happy that that happened.
Is weird? Of the scenarios that was that was quite entertaining. And
then he also went and I believe it was last session he got new followers
to what's up? All right? Cool? Yeah, so we helped them
grow the the cult, which was pretty nice. And yeah, curious,
I want to see what type of heights we get on this session, so
I'll kind of give a quick thing. What a funny thing. So this
week, I guess like earlier today it was funny. It was just was
walking down the road with my partner and she saw this car coming up and
was like, she's like, oh, like, is that one of those
Google cars with the cameras? And I looked at it and I was like,
is that what you think it is? And and it was. It
was a car with like a Domino's pizza like top thing on top of it.
And it's just one of those funny moments where, like, you know,
my wife got really excited. She's like, oh, like, we're
gonna take the picture, and it's like, nope, it's Dominoes. I
should have at least for a pizza. Yeah, you're not gonna put me
on Google Earth. I would like a Pepperoni pizza something for smiling. You
know, I've we deserve it. Mm hmm. Well, I mean that's
a that's an exciting one. You are introduced character you talk about. I
did nice. I'm sorry, guys, I'm real tired, Tay. Maybe
maybe I need more I maybe I do need more Arcy cola. I have
still not been able to find a source, and I've been fiend and hard.
Yeah. My name is Aaron, also known as Poultrygeist. And as
my wife pointed out earlier today, I am, in fact a milf.
H I'm a man that she would like to frolic with. But no,
how did you say the word fancy? I mean I like to fancy?
Yeah, okay, fair enough. Yeah, that's one way of putting it.
Now, for the last week and a half, for some reason,
my wife has been calling me a milf and I kind of like it.
I'm not gonna lie, I mean the technical term would be gui. Well,
the thing is, I'm not I'm not a dad. Like, I
don't have any children. I've yet to sire a single person into this world.
You know, Okay, I'm a dad in spirit. I got a
lot of dad energy, but the excess dead energy in the world is just
shiphened off through you. Yeah, exactly, you know, you know,
for all those deadbeat dads, I'm just picking up their energy, just throwing
it out there. No, I don't know what what else to get up
to. This week. I worked a bunch. I didn't see any bears
this week. But the turkey vultures. Have you ever seen the turkey vulture
before? No, I've seen vultures before. Yeah, so they're like vultures,
but they're also like turkeys. It's it's kind of wild, but yeah,
they're they're scary looking. And there's like probably like a dozen or so
of them that kind of live like just up the road from us now and
yeah, so like I'll be driving and they'll be like going after the road
kill and stuff. I did see one. It was exactly these. So
it was in Florida. We went to a beach and there was a carcass
there and these guys were going to town. There was a bunch of them
and they were huge. I didn't expect to see it. I think they're
great. I love service animals like that that kind of just remove waste,
you know. Yeah that no, that's fair. Oh. I did have
a prompt for everyone real quick before we start, what animal do you fear
the most in the world? Starting with THEO spiders. Spiders you don't.
I don't need to explain. They're tangible. They are something that can't show
up. I want to explain it because I have a story for it.
Every single time I try to open the or close the garage, like it's
hidden behind a cabinet. So whenever, whenever like this, fighters are there,
Like I start freaking out because I'm like, oh am, I gonna
get rid of how my sister got so freaked out during this during the winter
times because she made a space to stay in the garage and she started freaking
out because it was spiders everywhere. So it's just like and I've seen a
black widow before, so I have like this tangible, like legit fear of
seeing them because I remember that, right M I hear that. CJG.
Are you afraid of any animals? I can't think of an animal if if
if we're going to bugs, and it'd probably be spider too. Like I
don't like going in like unfinished basements because I'm like, so Spider's gonna drop
on my head and I'm gonna have a bad time, Like I'm okay when
they're like I can see one just bying and if they're in the tank and
it's like shit whatever. So like I'm like I can like get up close
to what Tarantula's cage, but that transilla is not in a cage, then
I don't want to be near that thing. See Tarentilla's I don't got a
problem with. I do not love like the little ina baity spiders. Yeah,
we got a lot of orb weavers at the house. We actually cultivate
them because they help with the flies. So we just like keep moving their
net like their their webs to like the back room and then they just eat
a ton of flies for us. But yeah, they're they're disgusting to look
at. Those look like Japanese spiders. Yeah, those those guys are kind
of but and they get huge, like they do get pretty big. They're
like you know, like a baker around. Yeah, when they get real
big, it's like, No, there was one on my porch and it
was like hanging out. It was like a chonky guns Like no, no,
like ran out to like the story by like spider killers, Like I
would love to study one. I love the design of like it's like I
just like the legs. Yeah, no, they're they're kind of cool,
like we we need them, like inappropriate like old lady names like Beatrice Skirtrude
a traip. We always have one. I'm going to add one thing though,
I don't hate deaddy loves. They're not spiders. They're not spiders.
They're not spiders. They're not they only have six legs. They're just really
tall insects. Daddy long legs are not spiders. They just are spider like
in appearance. But yeah, but so do a lot of bugs. Okay,
like wasping flies, they're not spiders. Speaking of ethan, what are
you scared of most in this world that's also an animal? Ah, wasps
is pretty good actually, but I would probably go with I think bears.
I think as far as like animals go, Like, you know, I
haven't had a bad experience with the bear, but I do have camping often
enough, and it's like, you know, I've got bear spray, a
bear banger, and you know, multiple I've been on somewhere it's like and
there's it's like we got bear spray here, we've got bear banger there,
and here's the gun just in case a bear comes in the middle of the
night and you have to deal with it because it can happen, right,
And so it's like I haven't had a bad experience, but like, of
the animals that I could meet that would make me have a bad experience,
a bear is one of them. That's fair if you're going and like I'm
not going to disagree, Like I think bears are adorable, but also I
don't want to meet a bear. Oh, Like, if you go to
a dump, they're they're so great, Like I love dump bears. They're
like big crowd, Like it's like build a bear and they just didn't stop
filling it. You know, you should have gone company with a Scemaryland or
with my buddies from Maryland. Like we went down to southforg South or no,
West Virginia. We went to West Virginia, take me anyway. We
were singing to the way through. But like, these these are crazy.
They just warned this. They basically said, look, if you see a
black bear, just just do this. There's there. They are giant,
they are giant woses. They will run away from you at like moments notice.
And then one of my brother butdi'es like, yeah, but if it's
a if it's a a brown bear, you better fucking run. Well,
oh you don't run. No, no, no, you don't run.
I don't think there's a good solution for grizzlies or brown bears, but also
for black bears. It's like usually if you make yourself big, you're safe,
but not always. Like you can get maps where it's like, oh,
and by the way, this is where someone just got killed by a
black bear in like you know, nineteen twenty six, like like like that's
just it happens if you actually land between like a cub and a mother and
like you know, or a belf I guess is what you'd call them,
a bear like fancy like a chancy. Yeah, Weston, we've all been
on grander. For me, I think I'm afraid of any animal that flies
that's larger than a bee and smaller than an owl. Like it like it's
kind of like depends on the owl because some owls are tiny and they're terrifying
too. But I just have this thing where I used to think I was
just afraid of birds, but it turns out it's it's all like quote unquote
medium sized flying and I just kill It's the flat, you know what.
I have this huborus about me that like if I saw a black bear,
I could kill it with my bare hands. I believe that in my hurt
of hearts. I'll never put it to the test, but I believe it,
bobcat, I could throw it in a ravine, you know, like
nothing, like nothing. Tarantulas are my buddies. I've actually pet like a
ton of transis. I'm not afraid of them. I had this lady with
dementia who used to babysit me, and we used to like feed raccoons and
they would just come swarming and I'd pet like thirty raccoons in it, Like
I just have no fear of most animals, but if they fly, I
cannot handle it. Like I'm not. I guess I'm not. I don't
want to admit this, but apparently I do because I'm gonna do it anyways,
and no one's making me do this. But every time there's a bat
in our house, because I happen. Sometimes it's usually me who's like huddled
up under blankets on the couch waiting for my wife to go and catch it
with a net and yeah, like I just cannot handle it. But I
have this hubris that I believe I could defeat any mammal in combat. I
try hard enough. Hopefully you'll never have to test it out. Well,
maybe we'll see. You said that remind me of my like distinct dislike for
chimpanzees, and I think, I like, if if putting it putting in
the fear category, then chimpanzee and guerrillas, I'm just like, uh uh
uh oh, absolutely not. In fact, when you start talking about bears,
even my first thought was, I'm like, I would love to hang
out with the gorilla, except that, like, I do not believe that
I would surprise that. M h. Yeah, they seem they seem so
cool. You know, you seem chill. But then like if you just
look at the wrong way, then not chill at all, Yo, bobo,
that's not a very chill thing to do at all. All right,
guys, we are in dust Fall. We are playing Blades in the Dark,
which is kind of meta that we went to dust Fall to play the
game about being a dust Fall. So last week we had a bit of
downtime. Before you guys had downtime, you had a confrontation with a man
that you still have not gotten the name of. He was a member of
the Path of Echoes, and he was also one of the people that you
met when you met with the Circle of Flames, one of the few that
didn't bother to wear a mask you definitely got. He was there specifically to
collect Myrie, and he seemed to be attempting to recruit her to his cause.
When things started to go a little bit, haywire h Jacob had some
sort of plan, but Albatross intervened with a bullet and things went crazy.
But you managed to keep Myrie within the confines of the library. The man
has died in his spirit traveled into the night, and then we proceeded to
clear out a bunch of stress. Myrine made really good progress on building a
ghost rail gun. She's almost done the planning phase. I'll the cross.
It was real, MVP. I was like in all those situations, I
mean like you successfully rolled out of like getting out of the things grasp and
then you made the l gun. So it's just like all right versus like
what I fucked up the shot? Uh? What was it? A terrible
with names? What was what was the other character that Adam plays Jacob Jacob
Bridgewater. Yeah, like he his whole plan with the ship because I took
the shot and then wow, And to be fair, I did. I
just wanted to make sure Adam was cool. But like, yeah, like
Adam's not mad at you. Jacob's mad at Albatross. And there's a very
big difference. You apologize as it was going through because it's like like in
Albatross's head, he's like, who the fuck are you? But like but
like, but he also apologized to me as he was saying all that stuff.
Was like, oh, seeing that in character, I kind of figured.
But at the same time, I'm just like, I'm not gonna lie.
I've definitely had games where I played as someone who my character was mad
at their character and also me Aaron was mad at like Jeremy. Oh,
you know, it's like you fucked up, and my character is really mad
about it, and I'm gonna say some things that are kind of mean about
your character in care Yeah, I've had that a couple of times in life.
Is it Is it like puppet therapy? You know? It does because
you resolve the conflict in characters so that real feelings don't get hurt. It's
I think it's helping, you know, as long as you do it right.
But yeah, what else happened after that? I don't recall. You
guys had a lot. It was an interesting session, but there was a
lot of things that happened, and I don't remember all of it. So
I'm gonna check Ethan's notes. I have a choice. Oh, yes,
you actually had a vision. You guys all had a dream the man sitting
under the willow tree. Who Ethan put in quote and in brackets that says
our God, which I do not believe. I've ever said, No,
you did not say I have spooky dream from man under tree, and I
have talked to him multiple times. He is my God. That's base interpretation
right there. And then and he he said to you all, and you
all heard it. Jacob Bludes, Myrie Fay, and Albatross all saw the
man and heard him say the hand, the eye, the heart, I
want them and I will have them, or something to that effect. And
when Albatross woke up, beside him was a jar of this water taken from
this spot of power underneath the city that his compatriots had discovered. Who put
it there? How did it get there. Albatros doesn't know, but it's
in his life, just just to make sure, like this is like where
he's staying, where he's sleeping. Yes, this is in your home mhm,
because I believe that's where you described you being. He's gonna stare at
it like not just a while, like he's gonna like the hours pass,
no thoughts in his head, contemplating what will I lose? Mm hmmm,
what will you gain? Mm hm h m hm. After some time h
yeah, slowly walks up to the bottle and picks it up. He switches
it around in the bottle for a little bit. M hm m hm.
He looks down with a bit of is there, but then he uncorks the
bottle starts drinking it down. You recall Leudes enthusiastically explaining that you have to
inhale it, almost drown on it. He let to take over. Okay,
As you do, there's a moment where you are legitimately just concerned that
you're going to drown, and then there's a moment where it just feels natural,
almost and as you cough and you sputter and work this water out of
your system, you're not going to take any harm. You're not going to
die, but you start to hear in the corners of your brain just the
thoughts very very quietly. You can maybe hear myrie, myrie, and phase
reaction to the dream that they just had, noting that this is a couple
hours later. You can hear the sound. You can hear Ludes, and
as Adam described it, Ludes kind of seems to be running a mile a
minute and has less control over this ability than the rest of you do.
And so you can kind of hear into his thoughts and he's maybe concerned and
then excited and potentially getting married. You guys can all hear this. I'll
do my best Ludes impersonation and it's like, I don't I don't know if
I want to get married. Uh. And there's a lot of that mute.
That guy in the group, Chad albatross Wood would actually keep his composure
even in this mental space and that salting that's fair, but yes, And
and as I described earlier, that kind of comes through like it's not loud,
it's it's it's like it's kind of being like through water, and so
it's muffled, and it's strange and hard to think out individual words. It's
just that Bludes is firing off like a mile a minute with his thoughts,
and so you pick up more words than you may to do with the others,
or that he would even want. Yeah, and and for the sake
of your character sanity, if you stop focusing in on this, it kind
of falls into the background, and it's something you can easily over. Sudden
relief overtakes up with jos yeah, yes, so like in group chats of
like well, like, you know, it's annoying, but it becomes more
of a it's so quick, so you can you can generally ignore it.
That background podcast, you know, it joins the other voices in his head
mm hmm, and not the ghost kind Matt, you had an interesting day
yesterday. You made a lot of progress on this new type of weapon that
you intend to bring into the world. Oh yeah, very very exciting.
And you also met a man named Flint, yeah, a kindred spirit.
And then you had a weird dream where a man under a willow tree,
uh, demanded that you give him, or at least keep for him,
the hand that's recently come into possession, which they still has on his person.
You also know that this hand is something that's been requested that you collect
on behalf of the circle of flats in exchange for quite a large sum of
money. Mm hmmm hm. And so I want to take a moment and
check in with our characters, Myrie, what do you want to do with
this hand? What does myrie think about this hand? Who does it belong
to? Right now? It belongs to us. Where it goes after that?
Where it goes after that, that's that's up for debate. The answer
is to attach a thing pollice system, so every single time that you pull
on the trigger, it just opens and closes the hand, and you could
use it to extend and grab things from high places. Oh don't don't.
Don't know that put that idea in my head, Like yeah, okay,
let's put it on a stick, and I mean like wrap people with it.
Yeah, it's like shit, the coldest steps out of line. Yeah,
okay, I don't think about giving it to the Circle of Flame just
ship. But I wed because Circle flames still chilling like they're neutral with us.
But this seems like good leverage. Actually, the bad guys, mister
Clint, Clint, that guy, because he's also in path of Bachos.
But he's also in Circle of Flame. Yes he is. He came to
your layer, and he did say something along the lines if I've come to
represent my other duties as the path of eoes mm hmm. That being said,
I will say you actually are allies with the Circle of Flame. Okay.
They are willing to extend favors towards you because they believe that you're going
to get them these things. Would we get the vaults. We actually haven't
discussed what we're doing for upgrades yet. That's coming up. Okay, I'll
be quiet. No, you don't have to be quiet, but I just
we we I get it. I'll stop talking. It's cool, it's cool.
Well, actually I need you to start talking because now I'm checking in
with they. They also had an interesting day. I mean, yeah,
you beat the shit out of a bunch of church goers for fun. They
had it coming. They had number on their card. Yeah, you,
unlike my irie, saw what happens when somebody interacts with this artifact, so
you kind of know firsthand what it could do. Yeah. But and and
a lot of the time, especially like the past two days, you know,
they's been been holding onto this hand and it's been you know, close
to him and then far but there's this like you know, protecting it and
wanting it to be safe, but also not wanting it to close to the
body. And so I think as far as like sleep is going and other
types of things, you know, I'm not really of the clearest sight in
mind at the moment, So dealing with a lot of stretch trying to deal
with that, and you know, would really appreciate some kind of safe place
that we could stow certain you know, loop like this fair enough. So
I'm going to ask you to do something for Niquentton. Yeah, I want
you to make a resistance for using result. Oh that's fair, or I
can offer you a consequence if you don't want to do that, we're going
to take the resistance. Uh, they's got a lot of resolve. And
also if it doesn't work out, that's fine. Let me describe why you're
making this resistance for a lot of So you said you've been holding it close
to you, and while you definitely noticed that like Ludes obviously had a very
strong reaction, you're furtive enough and you're attentive enough that you also noticed that
Albatross even seem to be like almost aware of it even before, you know,
like brought it to his attention, as if it's like calling out to
them and spending more time with it, it starts to kind of affect you
too. There's a part of it where like it's like Pandora's box. You
know you shouldn't open it, and you don't, then you suffer six.
Yeah, yeah, you got that six. So for zero stress, you
do it fairly easily. But there's a part of you that is like,
I want to open this box. Yeah. No, it's like I don't
know if it's like that easy thing. It's it's like, you know,
it's like having a pack of donuts on like a kitchen counter, right,
you know, it's just like it's it's like it's constantly on the mind,
and you're like should I And you're like no, I'm gonna I'm gonna leave
that and and and it's there and I guess big one today's battle. Yes,
you did without taking any stress, and that's the most important thing or
becoming grotesque like ludes. Mhmm, but yeah, something to keep in mind.
And so yes, as Ethan mentioned, and as Bay is maybe thinking
about getting we are at a point where we just upgraded your crew. You
guys hit enough crew XP that you guys could take either two upgrades or excuse
me, either two upgrades or you guys could look at getting another their special
ability. I personally would say that perhaps upgrades is what you're looking for.
Are you gonna recommend the bolt for maybe the third time to us? I'm
gonna say this, you're kind of run out of space to hold coin soon.
You got so much money, guys fucking rich, Yeah, have run
out of space. Yeah. But also let's see where's crew upgrades? There
they are? Where's called this so or dinged? Every character would get an
additional trauma that they could take and oh, okay, no, never mind,
that's one sung worth it ritual sank in layer if you want your cohorts
and stuff to start performing rituals under compendium. And there's crew upgrades, and
then there's a bunch that don't have any letters beside them. Those are the
ones that like anyone can get and like that's like things like hidden Layer,
which may not make sense, but you can also upgrade the quality of your
gear, tools, weapons. You could secure your layer. You could add
a vault you guys already have increased training for resolve, but you could also
increase training for personal experience. Insider prowess, could upgrade your cohorts or add
an additional group of cohorts. You could have a bunch of screaming goats.
That one's so good, I think. So I'm gonna throw my two votes
in there and then I'll pass it over to de over c j HRS pick
it up. I think that we should do the vault, and I think
we should throw space on for a cohort. And so whether or not,
wait, are we full on the space we have for cohorts right now or
no? So the thing with cohorts is is they cost two crew upgrades that
and so like like if you look at the actual like a sheet in the
book and I'll post that chat here, I'm just gonna look it up,
you can see the actual pips better as opposed to on boundary here. Come
on, okay, actually I got it here and it's a PDF, so
I'm just gonna look at it. So crew upgrades specific to cull this is
cult rinking, which gives you two free load of documents or implements, which
adam of the joke that that was like the sever Deedon's hand ritual sanctim and
layer Elite Adepts or elite thugs is actually only one crew upgrade, so you
could upgrade your current cohorts to be either elite Adepts, like so they really
good good, like the weeping women could be weepier yeah, or elite thugs
and you just start handing them all hatchets and now violet. Yeah, there's
the upgrade. Another one to keep in mind is it takes four crew upgrades
to achieved mastery, which allows you to put four pips into any skill.
Yeah, that's fair. If you want a new cohort, it's two upgrade.
If you want to add a type to an existing cohort, it's two,
unless you want to add elite thugs or leaded demps. Okay, and
I guess we also don't have to spend both points for this, right,
we could go, we know we want the vault and then like hold on
if we wanted, yes, and so the way the vault works, the
first time you check it off, it takes you from four coin able to
store in your layer to eight and also makes it so that it's secure it's
like in a locked box of some kind as opposed to just in the layer.
And then the second one gives you access to store sixteen point. You
guys already have quarters in a workshop. Also, other upgrades you could do
is you could upgrade the quality of your items, so you could upgrade your
tools, your supplies, your weapons or implements, your gear, or your
documents. And that would mean that everything kind of punches up one tier higher
than you currently than your current tier. And where tier? What right now
are your tier one? Or rather you were before you went to war,
which is the next thing we got to talk about. Oh, they're going
to lower our tier. That's fair, it's it's temporary. You just got
to But yeah, if you guys don't have anything in mind, we can
hold off on these and then we can spring them out when you need to
use them. But I'll also give the opportunity to just let them out.
My vote if we were going to do yeah, I'm golfer the vaults otherwise,
either quality or quality one of the items or uh the defense one for
the layer secure layer, so that that's what But if we want to save
it up that most kind of that too. I feel like two fly sheet
for the window. Well, your layer has locks, alarms and traps to
thwart intruders. Maybe you guys just set up like a fucking like trap at
the ship. You have to pick it up that you have to move the
sheet at a certain angle for a paint bucket comes flying down and hits you
onto a bunch of you know. I was just thinking that there was like
a like a shotgun trap. But just come back in. Some guy's dead.
It's like, oh, hey, guys, it works. I can
just imagine like a situation where it's like you're finishing setting it up. It's
like, look, guys, here it is. I set up the security
like turret. So whenever somebody walks in and they open the door and someone's
like, yeah, that happens. M yeah. So is everyone agreement on
the vault because I can just drive them under your sheet now and it should
automatically add space. Yeah, yeah, I'm good with it all right.
Mechanically I am able to store the hand there right, Yes, if you
want to put the hands in the vault, just check off one of the
coin slots for that. Then we'll just keep that in mind. Okay,
I think that's that's a fair compromise. Should we have an accounting book specifically
for the items, and may keep a lagourner of our vault. Who is
going to be the your carriage Daniel Daniel Dereviso, Yes, that are Visio.
Yeah. And then for your second crew of grade we mentioned someone mentioned
securing the layer. That's not a bad idea by any means. You can
increase the quality of your stuff. I'm always a fan of screaming goats.
I would like my my opportunity to express my awesome goat impersonation. So I
like boats too, or a boat house. If you guys want to boat
house, I want a boat. I was looking at I was like,
God, if we could have a boat, you want a boat might make
sense? Right? That is true. We do go on the water to
go to the place, so a boat would make more sense than the goats.
Oh as like a way to connect up our our church to where we
pray. That's fair for our layer from the church. Yeah, it's getting
hard to steal gondalas every time you want to go to church. Oh those
ears, So we could say it's taking us the church bagman of church,
man man man all right. Otherwise, if you guys don't have anything in
mind, if you guys don't make a decision, then we can move on
and we'll just know we have an extra crew act point, which I will
put in notes. By the way, on the on the Creuse sheet one
unspent upgrade. But if you're not all excited enough about it, it's gonna
market out. I'm gonna move on. That is correct. So yes,
and like anything else in this game, if it turns out it would actually
be really handy to have something, maybe that's when you spend it. I
like that rule. Yeah, okay, you guys are at war. Let's
just take a quick look at our faction sheet. I know there's a lot
of stuff going on here. You guys are at a minus two with the
rail Tracks, a plus two with a Circle of Flames. You guys actually
are at a plus one with the Dimmer Sisters. I don't know if if
I mentioned that before or not. You are at war with the Path of
Echoes. Actually, no, you're not at a plus one with the Dimmer
Sisters or the Church in your gap. Church of Ectency is neutral. Weeping
Lady is negative. Bill Hooks is a plus one. Leviathant Hunters, and
the Horde are at a negative one, but the Docors are and Lord Skirlock
are at a plus one. They view you as acquaintances, people they'd be
willing to do business with, So we are more in the bread than in
the green. For this one, I've never played a game of but it's
in the dark. But that's not the case, okay, exactly. You
haven't exactly been trying to rub ettles with people. Yeah, I've only seen
one game that other people have played where they have managed to be so good
at being like thieves that they never acquired heat. But they also never grew
in reputation. They just kind of kept stealing shit quiet under the table.
Yeah. So they were a tears or crew that were like robbing the Ministry
of Preservation and stuff and that's it, you know, Like so they are
really punching about their class, but they did it well. Yeah. And
I don't forget the name of that podcast. I think it's called the Ghost
Leaves or it's by the people who did Ghost Leaves. I forget. I
will come back next week with my homework done on that one. But you
guys are at war. What does being at war need well, I dropped
it in the chat a little bit earlier, but let's take a quick look.
The faction will go out of its way to hurt you, even if
it's not in your best interest to do so. They expect you to do
the same and take precautions against you. When you're at war with any number
of factions, your crew suffers plus one heat from scores, temporarily loses one
hold, and PCs only get one downtime action rather than two. You can
end a war by eliminating your enemy or by negotiating a mutual agreement to establish
a new status rate. If your crew has a week old when they go
to war, the temporary loss of old causes you to lose one tier,
which is exactly what happens to you, guys, because you are so you
are unfortunately kicked down to a tier zero. And the way that this plays
out they when you go to pick up your supplies, because now that you
have quarters, you have followers people living there, you guys are having to
buy food and like things like that and bring it back to the layer.
You've been lucky enough ever since you guys moved up in tier that you have
kind of established these chains of like gathering supplies. You go down to the
whole sale store. But you go down and they see you and they say,
sorry, sorry, you can't come in beg your pardon. I just
we don't need your business here. I'm sorry, you don't need my business.
Mike is Mike Cooin not good enough for you with what's going on.
He leans a little closer and he's like, people have been coming by.
They held up a picture of my son. They didn't say a word about
it, but they said those two guys down at the university quoters were not
to serve them anymore. All right, Well, I see what's going on,
and I'm not happy, but I understand. And uh, you know,
if they those people think that they come in and start asking different protection
money, then I guess I'll have to go resolve that before I can come
back, and they will walk away walk off, all right, Yes,
And so you're finding that, like you know, that's happening all over six
hours, Like it takes you a while to find a place that's maybe the
first one is really polite, and then like by the end it's like okay,
yeah, funck off, like and yeah, and you actually end up
going to of all people, saw tooth. Saw Tooth has not been notified
that he's not supposed to serve you all the best supplies from him. Yeah,
and so yes, you find yourself back at like acquiring your two year
zero gear implements items. If you have fine quality stuff, it still punches
up a little bit. Nothing on your person goes down in status. But
yeah, times are tough again, just after you have just gotten so used
to this new lifestyle of yours. Myrie, what are you doing with your
day? This is like maybe a day or two after that dream that you
had, you're still kind of hanging out around the docks at this point,
you guys haven't actually gone back to your layer yet. Mm hmmkay, what
are you doing with your day? Well, now that this has been hean
on ors, he doesn't really like actually go out much. He's kind of
become a little bit more of a hermit, especially now that knowing a certain
someone went around telling uh, the leader of the Path of Echos about her.
It's just like doesn't want to get his attention either, So I think
it's more of hermitting and just kind of trying to plan her ship out,
like all right, Let's let's okay, like can't get back at the library.
Let's do a mental account of everything we've got, like we have on
hand. What what's the next steps? Also funck Jacob. Fuck. As
much as you don't like Jacob, something Jacob does do is the you're in
a Leviathan Hunter bar, right, yeah, and you see members that the
Path of Echoes come in a few times, and you maybe know to like
move to the back room, hide your head. You're hermiting away a little
bit anyways, but you maybe just see this through the window. These Path
of Echoes guys come in and they got their like hand drawn posters pictures of
you, and they a conversation. Some of the Leviathan Hunters get a little
bit riled up as they leave, and you see Jacob arguing with them,
telling them not to go into your room, not to go into Bay's room,
and he manages to kill them off for a little while, and you
guys moved down one level with the Leviathan Hunters to enemies, oh Man.
Mechanically or like narratively, that's what's happening. Mechanically, what's happening is the
Path of Echoes is finding ways to fuck with you guys, fuck wherever they
can. We gotta fuck them up and don't like them to stay one and
so a few days after this incident, you know you can't stay at this
bar with the Leviathan hunters getting on edge as they are. You venture to
go back, and sure enough, Daniel Dervisil's there, the weeping ladies are
there. It's like nothing ever happened. The body's gone, the space is
clean, and the three of you. Jacob decides to stay behind. Lud's
has been missing yet again. I have a question. Yes, ah Albatroz
wants to see if he could scout out to find on his own. He's
gonna scout out to see if they can find any of their supply chains.
Okay, sounds like a gather information on So tell me how you're gonna go
about doing that with scout when you when you gather in fro to, they'll
get a target. You get a plus one to an effect. So I
get that, and then he's gonna be training to hunt it down, find
members of the pack of Path of Echo starts studying their their routines where they
go. Okay, absolutely, go ahead and give me that hunt roll and
then he's gonna push would you rather assist he doesn't want to tell anyone,
Oh, secrets, secrets, secrets, and then so that's would be for
plus one and that's gonna be for greater effect. Yeah, I'm gonna say
that this is risky for great effect. Okay, you do it. It's
a success, Okay. Is there a specific kind of like you're trying to
find their supply lines, like how they like how they operate, because there
you discover like and you would know this to some degree just as a citizen
of Dustball the Path of Echoes, as much as like they maybe should be
considered like an illegal terrorist organization aren't. And they kind of operate freely within
Charter Hall. They have like a whole like series of classrooms, Like there's
a whole bunch of like old brown stone houses that have been converted into classrooms,
like walls knocked out between them, and it's like one giant like school.
And they they they actually kind of have a pretty good stranglehold on like
the philosophy wing of the Charter Haul Academy. And so the way that they
get supplies is they just buy them like normal like tas and professors will go
out. Not all of them are like marked as like path of Echos members.
Some of them are just you know, playing close people. Some of
them are like heavily tattooed, and they have these like arcane and occult tattoos
like head to toe. You rolled great though. You see that they are
moving a lot of like it looks like casks of wine back and forth between
Silk Shore, and you track it down to a bar. It's just a
kind of like a small little it's it's a nice bar. It's a kind
of like a like a skinny little hole in the wall that seats maybe about
a dozen people there. Let's say, oh, wearing the map, is
that Silk Shore is all the way over here on the far left, and
and deal you you would remember this like Albatross wouldn't, but you would remember
this as the bar that the spirit Ordans went in and killed a bunch of
people inside it. Okay, it seems that they have some sort of like
yeah, like they do it somewhat openly. They just kind of move stuff
from one side the from charter Haul to Silk Shore and back. But you
roll for great effect. You see that you secure one of these casks when
they're when they're not looking, you open it. Inside of it are like
piles of black powder, void salt, and other arcane ingredients as well as
ingredients to make weapons, munitions and bombs. Per void salt, What does
the usual effect with it? What I know, void salt is what happens
when you distilled the inky black water, and it's something that people will use
to accelerate arcane spells and rituals and stuff like that. You can basically use
it like infuse it, like you can use it to like cut your hand
and then rub it onto leg rooms and it'll cause them to activate like immediately.
M hm. So I saw, I saw a whole casket. Yeah,
you open one of these casks and it's like it's divided into quarters.
And if you you pick up like the one and you smell it, and
it's clearly like black powder, like someone would use the load like a musket.
And then you pull out another one, it's this other black powder,
but it cuts the tips of your fingers because it's boid salt, which feels
like glass. And then yeah, like there's just other like then there's like
plain old like sea salt, and then there's other stuff in there, but
you would recognize it as like tools to craft munitions, bombs, and and
a cult practices in general. Mmm, I'm gonna take this great. I
was actually gonna take this create the myrin. Okay, yeah, bring the
crape back to myraw. We're in the library. Albatross brings in. It's
like a cask, so it's like kind of like a like a mini keke
that that'smirked like a wine on it. Inside is all this stuff I described.
He's carrying it over his shoulder, dropping another ground. All right,
yes, you tinker, I dabble. I would say, I double.
He looks up and sees the roulgun you're making. Okay, you do,
tinker. I have a favorite task here. Well, I think for the
guy who tried to shoot a man to save me, I need you to
make me ammunition, something that could spark a fire, something that's inchoice,
I'm untraceable, that has a bit of an interesting thing to check on,
but I could. Yeah. Yeah, I'll say this, because you have
the ingredients for it, You're still gonna take a downtime action to do that,
unless you want to pull that out in the middle of a score with
the flashback. Okay, so it's whether you want to pay for it now
or if you want to pay for it in spress later. Well, I
did have a coin that I said I wasn't gonna use. Damn, could
you like do a flashback spend a coin? I guess, I guess you
wouldn't need to. You're saying you spend the stress anyway, because he brought
back narratively discast of items to make it. I'm not going to make him
buy a coin. But this is a this is a tinker roll to craft
for sure. The like these items that he's describing, which I'm gonna once
again open those rules and see what that's all about. Hm hmm. Okay,
So what type of creation is it and what does it do? So
we have decided that this is like a munition, like a bullet. What
it might be mundane, alchemical arcane or sparkcraft. It would be more science
based. Maybe is that not sparkcraft. Sparkcraft, yeah, is like artificing.
But I could see it being a strange method because say, if you
got that, if you got that that salt sea salt glass, I make
more arcane. Uh, kind of like the idea was like a flint and
flint and steel inside of like what my initial thought was oil within like a
with with like the gunpowder itself. Well, just what you wanted to do,
like, don't worry about the technicalities of just what you wanted to do.
But but the ultimate premise is starting a fire. Because what he wants
to do and he's gonna it just till Mairie or essentially just what he wants
to do is he wants to burn their school down. Okay, I mean
I wants to bring they're they're getting in the way of the mission. They
need to be taken care of. You want to threaten them by burning down
have or like a third of charter haul mh. I mean it's where they
operate. It's not just charter haul that he's aiming for either there well,
and I think like that's maybe one place that they operate and we should maybe
try to find the more private location to stay off of the front of the
newspaper or I don't know how many weeks have been up the front of there.
But now hold on, I'm not totally against Brennan. Damn shatterhaul.
No, I'll right, We'll find somewhere else a bird. How about does
you ap plag? Yeah, and I like that and I think you know,
you know, we're being cut off from supplies, so I would very
much like to do that on the other side going back, you know,
and if we can do either cutting it off or you know, anything to
pinch it out and have it go somewhere else. You know, I'm wondering
whether or not this is the type of opportunity that we could get some some
sponsorship with, you know, maybe bring Lord Scorelock into into this to see
whether or not, you know, munitions trading is of any interest to him
as far as uh, you know, supplies going around town. If what
they're doing is good for the community, has it on time. I'm sure
they already noticed that the box is gone. I'm sure they're going to change
their roots soon, find other options. These materials are too high in price.
It's either we do this now whenever. I am m hmm. I
think that everyone would have some time while he's doing this to also do their
own gather information. No, no, like, because like I know what
I know that you're speaking as Albatross, and Albatross is very like I want
to do this, but I do want to give like the other players opportunities
to focus. Sorry, I want to make sure everyone's got an opportunity to
like think of like how they might want to approach it to And so,
yeah, like you mentioned you might want to like call in the big guys,
Mari, you would also know that this cask is actually not worth that
much money. These items are all pretty common bad No, no, no,
it's it's a dangerous combination of items for to be in the possession of
someone who might be labeled as a terrorist. It's like it's like, oh,
it's if you get like like it's normal if you're gonna buy like I
don't I can't think of the two dangerous chemicals. But if you buy vinegar,
that's fine. You buy baking, so that's fine. You buy together
and like you know you're gonna do something with that's like a big volcano.
Yeah. Well, it's like you go to like the store and you buy
some cops are no big deal. You buy like forty boxes of coughs are
you're probably making meth? Like there's like a certain like you can extrapolate there's
a real reason why you might have void salt, Like people use it for
rituals that are totally illegal and acceptable to do, you know, but then
like you have like barrels of it traveling across the city alongside like stuff to
make bombs. That's that's not great. Like it's not nothing. No one
thing in there is a crazy expensive It's just you're lugging at this and you're
like this is dangerous. Like like especially Minor, you would be like,
this is a dangerous combination of things to have. Well, this is a
dangerous combination of things to have. Ah yeah, yeah, but yeah I
think yeah, Like and like I don't want to say like no to Albatross's
idea because that isn't that is a score that we could totally do and it
would be very interesting. But I want to give everyone an opportunity to kind
of like find out some information and then maybe we can come back and like
this is what we want to do. I didn't mean to hijack anything.
It just because I'm trying to get into the idea of like the whole thing,
like and just what I found. Honestly, I was just going to
try to fucking wreck some shit out, like it was just like absolutely and
I just didn't didn't expect to fight such a good fucking score out of this
right off of that right, yeah, yeah, yeah, So like I
want, like, I want to jump in. I want to have a
quick chat with with Scarlock. You know, if we're getting strong armed and
push out of our territory, the one that like we're sponsored for, I
want to go talk to that sponsor and be like, hey, we're doing
this, and we're doing this for the community and ourselves, uh, in
order to you know, help out with that clout and then maybe good other
insight, right, you know, we can get an inn or a sideman
or a door or something, right, and then it just look the other
way a little over here, yeah, or distraction that's another one, and
then yeah, I don't know if CJ's got anything or if you're like,
no, we're good, let's just blow it up. Albatross would also if
they does go to Lord Skirlock, would give you one of his cards and
say, I'm tell Lord Scorelock, tell Lord Skirlock. Then we need to
push back that we can get his assistant if you're going to speak to him
to try to get him on her side. Like Albatross's work, I like
I assume like he's been working with him enough, trying to put a good
word in essentially, because I don't know if Lord Skirlock even knows that I'm
still and then I'm actually working with him, I assume you would know.
I mean, I feel like we're all on good terms when it comes to
Lord Skylock, and you know, if you want to come along with me,
and you know, I'm more than happy to have this conversation with you
know, the rest of the crew. He would want to make sure that
the fire, the ammunition itself would be made properly. And it's not that
he wouldn't trust Myrie. It's that he's worked with other tinkers and he likes
to be involved in the process. That's fair. I will say that taking
the card is enough to give you a plus one. Okay, I see
all the type of conversation. Yeah, yeah, like in your gather information
role that is going to come from a conversation with words girloc. And then
if you are going to do the crafting there, myrie he has enough Pipson
tinker that he would be able to assist. I think you'll think, I
think you only have one, but that's more than enough. Yeah, So
like yeah, Like it's one of those things where like Albatross is setting himself
up to assist a couple of people the next couple of actions. Don't forget
you guys also have cohorts if you guys want them to go and try and
find information or do anything during this time. But Ethan, you sound like
you want to go talk to Lord Scirlock, so maybe we do that.
Sure, let's go. He's going to make his way over to Lord Scarlock's
tower. It's a man it's a well. He owns like a lot of
businesses in the area, and he frequents the cafe. He also has a
manner m hm, I would love to go visit the manor. Okay,
yeah, you go to the manor. You knock on the door. A
lean, gaunt man answers, and he's wearing like the full butler suit.
He looks a little bit like Lurch, but like not beefy at all,
Like he's just very skinny. He looks stringed even oh looking down Yeah,
and with bags that put yours to shame. Under his eyes. He says
to you, yes, you've come. Hello, I'm looking to have a
quick conversation with Lord Skirlock. If he's available your name. It's a they
one moment and he just slams the door in your face and like yeah,
A couple of minutes pass and then the door opens and it's Lord Skirlock himself.
The other man's not anywhere to be found. He invites you in,
sits you down in a parlor room inside his house. It is not opulent
and it's not gaudy like you've seen so many houses in bright Stone. Be
like, it's this is wealth Godi really interested. He really came across as
a gaudy kind of person. No, this is wealth with class, and
he is a man of refined taste, surprisingly modern tastes as well, you
know, whereas like ten years ago, like red carpets were really in style,
so like a lot of people would have like those long like banner like
carpets, he has replaced it with like intricate mosaic thailand that represent you know,
like his his own kind of unique style. But it's like a very
modern design for the time, like like custom tiles that have like maybe maybe
even like specific kind of patterns that he must have worked with, like web
was tiling it and being like I needed to be this way so he could
match the walls and ceilings. He went full like, he went full designer
in the house. Yeah, well, like you can see that his his
family crest, which is like a like a raven on the on the crest
of a shield, like like embedded into the floor. But again like incredibly
expensive, well made, surprisingly not ostentatious, That's all I'm trying to say.
But he sets you down in the parlor. There's a fire roaring in
the hearth. You see that he has servants, many of them, but
they look like domestic servants. All of them look exhausted as they kind of
mill about and do their work. They offer you like a scone, like
a single scone, and it is the sweetest thing you've ever eaten. Bae.
It's got like two grams of shit in there. Say, holy shit,
this guy's got sugar. He's fucking loaded. Oh yeah, that's in
here. I thought I was only going to get a drink. Well,
count myself lucky. Thank you so much. Take a moment to remind you,
guys, you owe him to point. Oh you might want to take
that with you. Oh, they of course took that with him. Then
as I jump into the lashback to make sure we take two out. Bulb
flashback opens door, fucking something Cribs coined, runs back out of the door,
closed his door. I just didn't want you to forget. If you
don't, no, no, if you don't pay Lord skirlok, it should
be on purpose, because there are consequences for that. But yeah, presumably
you pay him. And so that's kind of like the first, first and
foremost Yeah to our blessed sponsor, thank you for allowing us to continue to
work in your fine neighborhoods. And slide the coin over on the table.
M I thank you very much. I appreciate that you came to visit,
but I am not a fool. I presume that you have something you've come
to ask for. Well, it's you could think of this one as a
request, but you could also think of it more as a as a consultation.
And so we have recently come into information of rival gang, the Path
of Echoes, who are encroaching in onto our territory and are starting to push
back. And we're finding this convenience, you know, a little finding this
a little less than inconvenient. But yeah, I think I just wanted to
inform you kind of let you know what type of negative actions are happening,
and to reassure you that we will do our best to help clean out your
neighborhood of the rats that seem to be encroaching in from the west. From
the west, we say the Path of Echoes operate mostly out of Charter Hall.
I'm surprised you would call them a gang. My understanding is that they're
upstanding citizens, just like the rest of us. That's call me a second
the local newspaper, But I gotta say as far as upstanding goes, you
know, there's I feel like there's a little more boiling underneath than what data
have you think. I mean, that is the way you they they've been
bothering you, Is that what you're saying, they've been bothering us. They've
been bothering other local residents that that we work closely with, and so it's
been more than a nuisance. I would say, Oh, they've been bothering
people outside of your immediate purview. Yeah, exactly right. I'm going in
and I was walking through, and uh, just the local whole food sales
owner was telling me how he was being threatened and strong armed in the pictures
of his child. It's outrageous. Yes, I'm as a leader of six
hours, I think it's within my purview to do something about that. Thank
you for bringing it to my attention. Perhaps we could do each other a
vader. That sounds like a wonderful idea. There's a woman named Adelaide Greenwich.
She lives out in Bridestone. Her son is an artist, and also
a poor one at that. There is an exhibit happening in Bridstone in three
nights time. If you were to find a way to embarrass perhaps swap out
some of his works for what I know to be forgeries, this path of
Echo's problem could certainly be dealt with post taste, all right, I love
that. Now. I will say this, this is a personal vendetta of
mine, and you may not have the time. I will not take it
personally if you find something else to do in three nights time. But any
information you need you can ask my good man over there and he points to
the gaunt butler that introduced you at the door. Anytime. But yeah,
I certainly I will be having a word with some of these Paths of ecospeople.
I can do a little more than that, if you help me out
absolutely, and I thank you for your time, and we will be doing
our utmost diligence in order to deal with this distraction with without causing you as
much of you know, effort as you know you really shouldn't have to deal
with. I'm more so just trying to be a good neighbor and be just
as friendly and open to you as I think all neighbors should be. And
oh, I don't know, would you bow in that situation? What's the
what's the etiquette? Make a consort role before the like a good neighbor's luck
is there? Make a make a concert role? Sure? Yeah, you
know that if you were to bow that it would be a sign of subservience
that would almost be insulting to him as it would be embarrassing for you.
Gosh, I am so happy that there are roles to protect me from this
world as possible. And it's like you're acting like a bitch and he knows
it. No, that's that's just what I said. Because of the role.
You know that the proper thing to do in this situation if you want
to whole esteem in a man like his eyes, he's an old ACROSI gentleman,
and potentially from old across you know that he might be borderline and moral.
Shake a hand and he will respect you more for it, all right,
I will. I will shake Lord Scarlock's hand on the way out.
And and he slipped to one coin like he slipped, He basically without you
really noticing, has already counted out the coin and given half of it back
to you. I guess I'll put that back on the cult then and not
into my pockets now, honorable. Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have, all
right, And then with that, which I don't know if they would even
notice, with how smooth Scarlock was with that, but also before heading out
of the manner, they's gonna have a quick chat with the butler that was
pointed out. I'm not gonna do it now, but just in case there
was indeed for a flashback. They chatted and then they heads back out.
Yes, absolutely so, he Yeah, that that can be a gather information
if that's the road you decide to go down. Cool, Okay, myrie,
is there any information you will lack? Together? Yeah? Since the
path of Echos are tied to the Charter Hall, can I do like a
study role for like newspapers or like any kind of uh. Yeah, because
it says you can information from documents and newspapers. So I want to know
if there's like any like big events coming up that would like keep them distracted
or they're like attentions divided. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead and give
me that role study roll position controlled standard effect, take a four. Okay,
you're gonna get some information from that. You know that all univet the
thirteenth and today's maybe like the eighteenth, there was an editorial posted about the
path of Echoes from in the Dusk Fault Echo the Dust Fall Echo being the
editor seems to be a little bit borderline unhinged and not particularly concerned about what
he writes in his editorials, and he has spoken out against the path of
Echoes. So it seems like the path of echoes there are at least some
people who believe that they are leading the masses astray, that they are engaged
in activities that are untoward. And you read a few other newspapers over the
next like the last a little bit, you see that there is currently as
they was taking advantage of when he brought his last batch of followers, there
are a lot of students enrolling in Charter Hall Academy this time of year.
You also know that the leader, his name is Solomon Trice as the leader
of the Path of Echoes, is going to be in Charter Hall hosting a
large lecture. He says some sort of revolutionary thesis that he is planning on
delegating in this lecture and that it's something that a lot of people will be
attending. A lot of people are interested in him. Like when you went
to Charterhall Academy, people talked about him as a if he was like some
sort of visionaire. So there is that. Unfortunately, because you only got
a Ford, that's about a lot of the picture. Okay, wow,
you guys return, you're in this moment. Albatross is trying to encourage you
to commit person mm hmmm, absolutely as he does. And well, I'll
ask what are we interested in pursuing and we can talk about it in character
if you could. Well, so, so beforehand, what are the ideas
just to kind of have a pre notion of uh, because we know arsen
idea for for Albatross, but the other part was an artist, yeah,
art heist and then Scarlock will take care of it. The art heist seems
best or better, yet it's considerable. Where's loots? Well, you know
how he gets He just wanders off wherever he pleases. I'd hate to say
this, but and he used expertise on drugs. Oh, I know the
entire situation. You don't need to be getting high right now. Why would
it be for me? Mm hmm. I don't know what you're doing a
time off, I say, I don't know if you crackhead fuck close around.
I'm not judging. There's a lot of oh shit, uh okay,
so uh okay, getting back into character, but we could modify the bullets.
M maybe we can get some kind of hallucinogen we can fire at the
boy at the boy because of scene. Oh, I think the idea is
the painting ahead of time, so no one is the wiser if he were
to be drug I think he realized something is going on and then he wouldn't
present his painting. Listen. I love the idea of hallucinogenic, but let's
do not get me wrong. I just do not think this time or placed
that being said THEO if you want to do that, because there might be
a way that that's useful. Durd In this heist. You already have the
syringe gun mm hmm. You could just buy some transpowder and throw that in
there. I think, yeah, I'll do that. I think we can
keep that in a back pocket. You know, we can, we can
go ahead, and you know, overall, this feels like a pretty low
risk approach to kind of help solve a current problem. I like where you're
thinking, going into any plan with a backup when the first plan doesn't work
is generally a pretty good place to start planning a heist. Well, and
speaking of planning heists, let's talk about planning and engagement roles, guys,
because we're getting in the details here, and that's not how this game works.
The details show up when you want them to. Okay, so I'm
gonna show the players here, boom plan engagement. Here's the plan. You
don't have one. We are gonna decide on an approach now. If you
are comfortable picking an approach just yet, you want to get some information that's
totally accepting. I'm not even gonna make you roll on. Gonna tell you
a couple of things about this heist that they learned from the butler. The
target's name is is Elijah Gratwich. He is quote like air quotes artist who
works out of bright Stone. Is it like those artists that have like the
canvas sound like the rotating thing on the bottom, and they let the paint
to start freaking going on like gravity. He makes a combination of sculptures,
paintings and abstract like performance art. Thankfully, the next gala that he's planning
on hosting is in bright Stone, is in a gallery owned by Adelaide Greenwich.
Okay, that's his grandmother. He's he's got a little family in the
business. Yes, so Lord Skirlock mentioned Adelaide Greenwich as his mother. He
was incorrect. That's actually his grandmother. It's just fun fact I got that
wrong when I said it the first time. Either you're gonna say slotl.
He just kind of gets some of those things wrong sometimes, just like that.
No, Skarlock is sharper than I am. I'll say that he would
have got it right and I got it wrong. But yes, so you
know that there's a very good chance it's like looking at some of this art
or maybe having heard the name. It sells for a lot of money,
but it's almost as a way to garner favor with the Greenwich family as opposed
to because anyone actually cares about his art's a way of high art baby issues.
Yeah, they're they're buying Banksy right now and it starts to shred at
this moment. Yes, So you know that it's at a gallery. It's
so specifically an art gallery in Brightstone called the Greenwich Foundation. It is a
two story building with the second story being for storage and the main floor being
an art exhibit. You also know that in three days time that there's going
to be like a common nation of like a soiree slash art like silent auction,
but that because his stuff it's the highlight of the evening, it will
be in the back or be like covered until it's time to reveal. And
what Lord Skirlock wants is for that reveal to be tarnished because he is he
has given you access to forgeries that he wants in place, and so to
make Elijah look like a forger and a plagiarist, it will be a large
scandal. I love it. Any other information you want beyond that would be
evils. Okay, I was gonna ask them, is Elijah generally a good
person? Because those seem to be the heightst that you really kind of take
on. You know, I'll give you this for free. He's a rich
person in dusk Fall. I was gonna say he's rich. Well, he's
not evil. He has certainly probably never hurt another person or killed another person.
Okay, perfect, that's all I needed. Yeah, you know there's
a certain level of like, you know, let them eat cake that happens
in Bradstone. But yeah, anything else you would want to know would be
would be some gathered information roules. See, you can also do Yeah,
you can also do gather information rules after you make the engagement role to like
kind of fill in gaps and knowledge so you don't have to do them all
up front. Now, if you want to kind of like cater, like
we decide how we're going to do it, and then we cater the the
roles, like the gather information roles to specifically help out that plan. So
you said, we know for a fact that like the painting isn't going to
be in that second story story, it's going to be like in some backroom
like on the first floor being ready to be presented. No, no,
he was just saying, how like the second floor is storage, but when
it comes to the presentation day, all of his things are going to be
covered, and then halfway through the soiree they'll be like, oh, and
now the auction will start and like all the covers will come out top the
deal, right, Yeah, because it's an exhibition for his new series kind
of things, so like there'll be some fanfare around his work. Specifically,
I think before we get too far into like figuring everything out, we should
pick an approach assault, deception, stealth, occult, social, or transport.
I'm gonna assault the art through a violence on the art, through a
violence on the art, probably stealth, stealthy, stealthy deception, depending on
how Yeah, I actually think my pitch for this this is this might be
a social or deception score because there's a very fine window between when they're gonna
look at the art and bring it downstairs and then a lot of people are
going to be in the room. Like, I think that this is not
something you can do like three days ahead of time and they won't notice.
Oh I see. This is more of like you gotta do it while the
party's happening, because that's what the employees typically Yeah. Yeah, So I
was looking at this and was like, is there anything we could do this
as cult? And I'm like, probably not, So I make a ghost
word hear me out, Yeah, you and your social skills, I mean
there's they will definitely jump in for that. But like with deception, right,
it's like lower, trick and manipulate, And I can see all three
of those things lining up with Albatross, Bay and Marie. Yeah, and
I could definitely see some level of overlap two, Like there might be an
occult aspect to your deception, right, Like Marie might have like some sort
of like a cult thing that she does, or Albatross might assault someone as
part of your deception. Like it's not like it's not saying you can't attack
something just because this is the plan, just like one of those like oh
because like he started like uh like drunken fight, then like they turn that
way and then you kind of slip into the back door kind of thing exactly,
And so I guess we're so real quick. Then to the to too,
is it's like do we do social more likely to threaten pay off the
people, or do we want to do deception of like you know, maybe
some of them know, some of them don't. And there's trickery and slight
of hand, which one sounds more fun or more like your character could really
get into that slight hand slight of hand trickery has cost you the less money
too. Well, you know, we got a bulb ll we're not man
of money. And and that kind of leads right into the next section,
which is the detail. When you choose a plan, you provide a missing
detail like the point of attack, social connection, etc. If you don't
know the detail, you can gather information in some way to discover it.
I am also going to pitch that Hutchins might be the kind of person who
attends such a Swarry Hutchins. You haven't heard that name in a while,
I haven't. Who's Hutchings again? Hutchins is your crew contact. He's the
one who got you in connection with the Circle of Flames. He's also an
antiquarian. He collects antiques, or rather, he is a house poor noble
that is selling off his family's antiques in order to appear more wealthy than he
is. Okay, and he's Mary's friend, yes, but he is someone
that you would all have access to, like Hutchins would be willing to work
with all of you because he's a crew contact and not a specific character.
Yeah, M And I assume a lot of the people that are in the
room here would be kind of like people that we wouldn't want to mess with
anyway, just because they would be kind of like just because they're here specifically
to buy art, right. And part of this, yeah, a lot
of rich people like they have the wealth, they have enough wealth that they
don't have to be awful people, which is kind of like a weird thing
in dust Paul is a lot of people are really shitty and it's because of
economic disparity, the proletarism. Mhmm. You know, something to keep in
mind. You may have negative feelings about them, but they really haven't done
much. Albatross is going to go through a bit of a wardrobe change just
for this. Absolutely. I think it's yeah, yeah, we can't show
up their scragging things. Glasses exist in this world. But do contact lenses
actually and what contact lenses made? Drops of ecto? Right, that would
like ecto. I will say this, Takosi, people are people and they're
allowed to go places like you don't have to pretend you're not take rosie if
that's what you're getting at it's that the problem isn't being takeosi, it's it's
identity itself. You are more distinct than the average meat such as they very
quickly before we get into what you're wearing, item load outs, any of
that stuff, the detail and then we're going to go on because I have
to yearny, guys. So do we want to make the missing detail how
we get into the or do we want to make it how we do the
swap? I feel like the swap is kind of like that. I think
the swap is the most important thing. Yes, and so for that we
will make a gather information roll to when we get return from our break to
learn a little bit about that moment that swap when how can we make that
spot? Okay, But like I said, I have to yearny, ladies,
and show me at home, drink Arsy cola and urinate freely. THEO
brought orsi cola specifically for this, he did, and I got to urinate
now apparently, well you do it freely, so you can do it as
as you please. Fair enough, But yes, we'll take about five minutes
here, guys, and we will be back right to the lu yet not
yet. Welcome back, ladies, and gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed your
artist Ciccola. If you aren't drinking artisy Cola, what's wrong with you?
Yeah. At the top of the show, I kind of just hop right
into it because I'm tired as hell, but I did want to call out
and just say it a big old thank you to us. Sidney Fable,
who composed most of the music that you've been listening to throughout this episode and
most of the music we use in this particular show. They also have a
lovely band called the blam Blams, the glam rock band. They got some
stuff on YouTube and you can check out like their other stuff if you just
search for the Bland Blames do do. What else have you got going on?
We're gonna be at gen Con uh coming up in August, and unfortunately
we are all sold out on every single one of our games that we're running.
It's not really unfortunate, it's it's it's good for us and it's exciting,
and we hope that you guys managed to get tickets, but they did
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If you're a fan of the show and you happen to see us, or
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say hi to do. Other than that, I think we're good to just
get into playing again. Do you have any Dragons Freed gaming? Uh?
Swag on you. I don't. So we're in the process of changing up
the logo. I put out a couple of of quick designs out to to
Chrys to look at. He really liked one of them. But then he's
like, put it on a pile of treasure, wouldn't that be cool?
And it turns out it's really hard to draw a lot of treasure. I'm
not very good at drawing to begin with, so, like everything takes me
forever, you know. But uh, yeah, so I'm I'm working on
that. But I got a ton of stuff I'm working on. So,
like for the new logo for Dragon's Green, Yeah, yeah, I threw
out a couple of things, but yeah, and then once we have that
done, my plan is to get some vinyl stickers made up because I got
like a machine looking cut them. I had I had formal training for graphic
design. I started it for like about a year and a half. Oh
yeah, if I send you some some mock ups, do you mind like
taking one of them? And I mean, I think because I have I
have a commission that I'm doing now. But I can look at them and
see, okay, fair enough, Yeah we'll talk clear, Yeah we'll talk
later. But yeah, no, we don't know exactly what we're hoping that
there might be able to even get shirts. I have access to a printer
that does shirts for like a pretty reasonable amount. I just am not sure
if I can carry them across the border without complication. I think it's fine
as long as I don't plan to sell them. But they won't know that.
No, I just travel with thirty of the same shirt, just in
you know, various sizes extra large. My weight fluctuates a lot. Sometimes
I'm a women's small and sometimes I'm a man's double excel. It's a seasonal
thing. But yeah, no, we we will be at gen Con,
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I throw a couple of coins in the Dragon's hoard, as Chris likes to
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look into Chris's life. I am like fascinated now that I'm like on the
Patreon and kind of looking at his posts. I learned stuff about him every
month, and it's like it's actually kind of interesting. But we are playing
Blades in the Dark tonight, guys. We chose a plan where we're going
to decept slash social our way into uh swap out these art pieces made by
a man named Elijah Greenwich for forgeries provided by Lord Stirlock himself in order to
settle some sort of personal vendetta that he has. We were kind of stuck
up on the detail there, the missing detail of how we do this,
and I think there's actually two parts. We were talking about a bit on
the break. I think that there's a point of entry where you guys are
going to have to move the art so that it's not just sitting beside and
also just when are you guys going to do this? And so I think
we should gather some information. Any would have a plan for how they would
like to gather information about either of those topics. Well, you mentioned our
one friend. Yeah, we could have a little conversation with that guy.
Think you can't convince him to add some of our art to the possible collection
to get it in. Look, I've been looked. I've been trying to
branch out my hobbies. Like I don't know, I believe that she does
birk sniff you know what, it's been a while. In episode two,
I believe it was of this series. You promised Hutchins that you would have
dinner with him, and like a friend, you never remember that either,
And so yeah, you maybe take them up on that offer. I know,
Myrie, I want you to have dinner with Hutchins. Okay, let's
do it. You meet him in Charter Hall kind of on the eastern side
of Charter Hall. There's like a it's like like an Italian bar, like
if you like when I say the word bar, but like specifically like an
Italian bar. They sort of like lunch fair and stuff like that that turns
into like a bit of a bistro in the evenings. And you're sitting there
and he's he's ordered some looks like a mutated fish, almost out delicacy.
Yeah, it's like an eel and like a hattock combined with two heads and
it's all one piece. But he's ordered it before you arrived because you're late.
But it's designed. It's a large fish. It's designed to be shared
with a close friend. Wow. So as you take a seat, you
smell this fish. It does smell good. Maybe not to c J,
but to Marie. Marie, this is good fair. What do you say
to him? I'm so terribly sorry. It's been so long to see you.
I'm sure you've seen around town. It's been a bit a little icy
for me. But you know, it is so good sail again? It
truly is? It? Truly is? Please have a seat, have a
seat, Eat this weird fish with me. I would love to eat this's
aware ass fish with you. Yeah. I was surprised, actually, I
thought maybe you were avoiding me. I was really looking forward to dinner together.
So I'm glad that we finally made that happen. There's a lot of
people I'm trying to avoid the like you are not one of them. It's
a matter of avoiding them that made me have to not but a little bit
of a rain check. That's all understandable, understandable. We all get busy.
You know that Hutchins is the kind of man who is frequently not very
busy. I hate to assume, but it's perhaps like an ulterior motive that
you might have for setting up this dinner, something I could help you with.
Well, I well, first let me say it is truly great to
meet you again, but I wouldn't want it to mean Your intelligence a very
very sharp within. You could see through the those inky black seeds. You
could. Wow, that's the best compliment I've gotten in a while. I'll
take it. Well. See, I know you're a man of the town.
You know the how the Upper Cross likes to live. There's a certain
art show happening lately, happening soon the Greenwich, the Greenwich Foundation. Yes,
yes, that's the one. Oh, yes, yes, I will.
I'm going to be there. I'm selling some of my great grandfather's paintings,
and I'm sure they are lovely. But you see there's that Adeline.
I believe her name is her grandson. He's a seeing a bit of work
in there too. Ah, Yes, Elijah, a man of a refined
taste. Mm hmm. Now, I'm sure you wouldn't want his art to
upstage your art too badly. I'm sure you'd want to be sure you get
some good returns on your paintings. And if he steals the show, that
would be absolutely terrible for you. I suppose it would interesting. I didn't
know that you were interested in this world of art. The girl's got his
able fair enough. What do you have in mind? What we were wanting
to make a little swap as it were? His eyes grow wide, he
gets excited. He's kind of cluing in on what you're putting down, and
he excitedly kind of leans in conspiratorily, and he's like, is this a
caper? Oh? You know it's oh my and yeah, I want you
to roll something with a plus one from hutchins from while you guys kind of
talk through this plan. How much information can the two of you kind of
figure out for your caper? Okay, Well, if it's information gathering and
not talking, I would like to not do something with talking. That's fair.
You don't have to convince Hutchins, right, You're not winning him over.
He's like your best friend in the world. Yeah, that's the from
the other best friend who we've never brought up at all. Don't worry about
it. I offered for you to meet Stagia. You said no, I
feel like, God, can we do study? No? Absolutely, okay,
yeah, let's you guys can study your way through it. It gets
you different information than a different kind of role. I'll say that, Okay,
do survey if I'm doing survey plus one good to study control all yeah,
controlled for standard effect. Yeah. Wow, you can't beat this Myrie
Hutchins duo. And so Hutchins is surprisingly helpful because I feel like that second
sticks came from him. Yeah, And so he gets really into it.
He's just like yeah, like, oh my God, and the two of
you discuss. And there is an artist entrance for sellers that's at the back
of the building, so like most of the guests would come in through the
double front doors, there is it's being catered by a group of Tiger Rosi
who run a restaurant out in Coleridge, but they serve Takarosi Fair, and
so all of the catering staff are from Pickeroes. You also know that that
they they basically are moving all of the art pieces down during the day.
Security is watching it basically from like noon until midnight, and midnight is when
they're planning on unveiling Elijah's pieces. So unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be
a time where it's not going to be actively watched by at least some security.
But he also says that the security is an outside group. It's not
like a it's not someone it's someone hired by the foundation or the yeah,
the foundation, and they're not like employees of the foundation, and you actually
know that they are. The Great Cloaks have been hired. The Great Cloaks,
being former Blue Coats that were fired for corruption and other misdeeds, have
formed a criminal enterprise that offers protection at a cost, and so they may
be amenable given their history of being corruption, corrupt and taking bribes to being
negotiated with. Hutchins is also very excited at the opportunity to double dip because
he says that if you guys can do this and give him the real paintings
that he is able to sell them outside of the city. Oh, offer
and offer you a substantial cut, like a great job on that double six
by the way, CJ A pappy with that. Yes, yes, yeah,
So you know that the that there is an artist entrance, that the
gray Cloaks will be working security, and that they are almost notoriously corruptible,
and that that the that the the catering staff will all be Tekeros wink quick
nudge nudge luge. Well not necessarily, more like, maybe don't go that
route if you're not Tekeros, because that could have been a bad spot to
start, is it, Like, uh, bull staff would be take her.
So there's a restaurant out in Coleridge that is made up of Taikherosi refugees
and immigrants that serve like explicitly only Taigerosi fair, which a lot of people
think is like very exotic. If a little frightened and because yeah, albut
Tross would immediately dievn he would start talking to the rest of the Taikerosi and
start figuring out who they are, where they come from, their families,
everything. Absolutely, do you want to actually, I don't even say you
need to make a role. I think that you would be. You learn
that there's a woman named Raquel, and Raquel is the owner of the establishment.
She is like an orphan that made her way like on the caravan,
and you actually figure out through the way that she talks that she would have
been like maybe ten years old when you arrived and you were actually not on
the same carriage, but she was part of your caravan on that trip.
You don't know that any of these people also do what you do for the
Taigerosi government. That you don't know if any of them are military, but
there's a lot of them, and you can kind of make the connection,
maybe recognize some faces. These people all were with you on that journey,
or a lot of them were. Some of them are younger and like wouldn't
have been old enough to have gone. But do any of them recognized me.
If they do, they don't say anything like nods of approval. Yeah,
a lot of like tech Rossi solidarity. It's not very often you see
this many tech Rossy people in a room speaking to the manager. He would
he would go to the manager. You speak with Raquel, oh Man.
Terrible time that they have the guide of a crazy vocabulary that Ed has made
let's see, m it's got to make up a whole bunch of new words,
salutations, the bleeplop. Let's see. I don't want to go about
this. I'm not say that I was. I was actually about the same
one. That was kind of appropriate, but no, okay, I would
trust approach, approach, the enter the establishment and greet himself like he did
many of the rest. Let's say, so, you're the one that runs
this fine establishment. Yeah, that's right. I'm glad to see. I'm
glad to see your food is being served. Yes, it's good. Yes,
many of the the locals find it to be a novelty of some kind.
But if anything, it's a place for our community to come together.
And that's really why I started to know. It smells definitely reminded me.
Yeah, not of the reminiacing. I have a request. Yeah, you
pique her interest, and a third eye opens on the center of her head.
She looks up to you. Yes, I require one of your Stephenville
and possibly I would like to join in, if possible, help with your
catering services particular evening. I'm assuming eighth for the Great Tonatuur. I suppose
I could the Great that's you by the way, right, that's how you
say your name. Do not no what it's it's a do not do it's
it's a uh sorry, it's the way that I've pronounced it in my head.
But like, apparently I met somebody who had that name. It's uh,
it's supposed to be the sun god for or one of the song like
one of the sun gods for uh, the maka or the astag culture,
so that I kind of given the premise of this story, I named him
after the sun. Fair enough, fun fact, I like that. But
she does say your name ton of tu sounds like I'm bionically funny enough,
but uh yeah he he nods in respect, uh to someone actually acknowledging his
name and a very long time yes, yeah, And that maybe is the
first time someone has called you by your building in a while. And she
lifts up her sleeves and she has a tattoo on like the nape of her
elbow, the interior of her elbow, to signify that she was part of
the eighteenth caravan, which is the one that you were part of. Not
everyone got the tattoos. You don't have to have a tattoo, but she
does recognize you. She is letting you know that she recognizes you. In
this moment, you will bowing respect. Let's say, beyond this if you
are didn't need anything, yea my cod and she does. She kind of
nods her head. You can tell that she's not she's not a classy person
or like someone who puts on a lot of airrors. But she seems respectful.
Certainly if a little bit like she would be a commoner for sure.
Yes, And she puts the card in her pocket and she says, if
you want to join us that evening, go ahead. We just ask that
maybe don't be wearing our uniform if you start committing crimes in public. So
when you start shooting people, take off the jacket. I will make sure
not to talk at your name. Appreciate it. Good day to you,
sir. I am. I have work to do, but I will see
you on the on the eve at the twenty third, you can just meet
to some bright stone. Thank you, good, thank you for the information.
I will do that. I will very much do. Oh. And
she gestures to like one of the other chefs, and she's like, get
them a coat, get them a coat, and and they just hand you
the uniform before you leave, so that you have it all right? Is
there any other information we want before we get into item loadouts and the engagement?
I guess we'll just wing. I'm like, oh, I'm like,
how are Bay and Myrie going to get into the establishment? But hey,
maybe we'll just it. That's fair. I mean, depending on your engagement
role, that might be the first obstacle that you come up against or blow
through, depending on how well that goes. Speaking well, actually, first
item load outs, how are you guys going in? Oh? I think
we're gonna have to go light? Oh? Absolutely, yeah, all three
going light. That does not mean that you can't use a flashback to have
items stashed, especially with Hutchins and the the restaurant owner having like some it
would make sense that maybe you have like a dolly with like a gun on
it if you really want to as an example. That just as an example,
but like that'll come up as a flashback in the moment. Yeah.
So this time I'm gonna try to keep you guys to the rules as much
as possible. Don't pick your items. Don't pick your items until you need
them, because you get stuck. Major advantages and disadvantages. You always start
with one die because you all are just so lucky. Is this operation particularly
bold or daring? No, I don't think so. This is pretty mundane
for our normal Usually we're like, you know, it's it's high and this
is like, all right, we're gonna just like change some paintings. You
know, we're gonna we're gonna take it down a notch. We're gonna ruin
someone's day like that. Is it overly complex or contingent on many factors?
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think it's overly complex. You're right,
like, yeah, I think there's kind of one thing you need to
do and you just need to do it well and pay someone a dollar,
switch some paints, walk out, you know. Does the plan's detail expose
the vulnerabilities to the target or hit them where they're weakest. I don't think
so. These are socially savvy people, but it's also not their strongest,
Like they're not they're not particularly well defended against this, So I think it's
kind of a wash. There. Can any of your friends or contacts provide
aid or insight for this operation? Yeah, Hutchins was. Yes, Hutchins
was, and so you can take a plus one D. There no enemy's
arrivals interfering in this operation. No one was expecting you guys to go here.
Are there any other elements that you want to consider. Yes, you
guys are at war, and so the path I've echoes, if they were
to catch when that you're doing this would try and fuck it up. And
so you're gonna take a minus one D for that. And so that is
one for luck straight one, isn't it? That's two? Okay because of
a Hutchins And so we will roll an engagement role. But to die c
J. Well, I mean you just you just kind of reached up all
your luck on. Yeah, maybe you're all good, but that's also like
the Tilley world of luck win. That's fair. Do you want to give
a shot an engaging role? Yeahs an engaging role, okay, guys,
to die, no stress your tier one zero, your tiers zero. But
no, no, no, it's an engagement role. So it's just too
die. It doesn't matter what your tear is. All right, you're still
hoping. It's good. You are in a controlled position when the action starts.
Oh well, so the evening of the heist begins or well this is
really a heist. The art swap begins and Myrie and Bay are dressed up,
well, they have cleaned themselves up. They're looking something with her hair.
Yes, you're still wearing that hat that Jacob gave you, because why
not. But you also have maybe have on like a nice I don't know
if you're a dress wear or if she would be wearing like a pantsuit or
whatever, but you're wearing something. Yeah, let's talk fashion for a second.
What's ma you're wearing. Let's see, yes, for this specific thing,
since this is a heist, I think she would go pants suit because
I think the more formal attire that would be expected of higher class up for
women would be a little too constricting for her. Her how she would want
to move? Yeah, Hutchins lends you his ex wife's like he's got like
a like like an old blazer, like an a nice white shirt for you
to wear. I'll try not to read into it. Yeah. Yeah,
and so you're wearing that they they I'm not gonna single j what do you
wear? Who you were? Who? Oh? Man, that's a good
I can't think of a pun with ectoplasm and like Louis baton Louis Yeah,
yeah, Louis ectoplastn that just rolled off the time. No, yeah,
I mean for this type of thing, I think they's gonna have something.
It's gonna be mostly simple looking, but then maybe like one or two pieces
are a little more extra than he would have maybe want and be kind of
comfortable in. But that was kind of wearing that nice brass watch you got
from your ship ass boss. Absolutely, yeah, with with with brass,
tough links and in a brass you know, what's the not a badge,
what's a approach? Yeah, yeah, the working man's formal and the two
of you go in. You don't have tickets, you orientitations or whatever would
be at the door, but they and Minory kind of moving together slip in
just kind of as like a group of like already drunk partygoers. I start
trying to pass all their tickets at the same time to the ticket taker for
the invitation security guy. At the beginning, he's a storm or he's a
gray cloak, and he is wearing a gray cloak. It's not raining currently,
but you can hear the rumblings of thunder in the distance. You know
it'll rain a little later. This evening, but you managed to slip into
this auction. You see a lot of people standing around with like flutes of
champagne. People. There's there's taiker rosi men and women walking around with trays
that have like delicates delicacies such as salted snails like mhmm yeah, and and
and such other various taiger rosie food. I'll do some research and I'll describe
it more next week. But you you get into the party, you see
kind of rows of various art. You see Hutchins is kind of off to
the left doing his best to chat up some people and express how amazing his
great grandfather's artwork is. And to be fair, it is a very fine
piece of art that he's trying to sell tonight. You also see at the
back of the room there are three paintings covered in like canvas sheets that will
be revealed, you know, at midnight. Oh, they've already been brought
out. I see. Oh, I guess okay, because we're getting there
when the party starts. Ye, yes, I think that's your best opportunity.
Yeah, so you guys are in the party there. Albatross is somewhere
around. He is working as a career or potentially at least got in and
that the guys will be a career. He's somewhere in. We got a
little bit of time, so I'm gonna let you do your first action.
I think we're all sitting here going like, all right, what do we
actually do? So maybe real quick table talk. How are people feeling?
Any any thoughts on approach? Okay, So I had an idea just like
pop up in my head. So we got those three things up on up
on the there's being displayed so like they're out and open, and I'm I'm
assuming that there's probably like they got some guards in here too, nearby the
arts and stuff, keeping an eye on it. So I think what we
gotta do is like kind of like pay off a guy, be like hey,
you know, like go take a smoke break, here's a little here's
a little twenty for you. And then I'm thinking if we could get like
the lights to like flicker off our time so that we can make the swap
swap then while after the guard's been bribed and then we can get out in
that time, then the lights come back on. And to be fair,
if you don't want to bribe them right now, you could have already done
it via a flashback. That's true. Okay, when the lights go off,
just kind of Oh man, I don't know what's going on. How
about that? What's what's she'll think about it? I do like that.
I'm wondering if we need any other steps as far as like getting the real
art out as well, because I love that whole idea of double dipping and
getting even more money if we can for this whole thing. It might add,
you know, a little more chaos and stress, but like money is
money, mm hmm, yeah, I mean like he uh, because Albatross
is with the cantering guys, he can take it back through the kitchens or
whatever. Oh oh, that is interesting. As you guys walk into the
room, you hear a voice within the waters. This is the beginning of
the mission. We will purely communicate through here. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
we can do that for good cha ah. All right, So I
guess how do we want to divide and conquer? Do you wanna? Based
on what you described, if you're going to have bribe the guards, you
either need to do it now or activate a flashback to have already done it.
I think that's the first thing we got to settle. I think that's
you man, You're you got the social skills. It's social. Yeah,
no, that's fair. Okay, Yeah, I think I think we should
absolutely do a flashback to you know, like the morning of and you know,
they walking around the the grounds and maybe catching up with a few of
the great cloaks back having a smoke or a drink or just kind of prepping
for things. Yeah. And so I'll give you the freedom. They said
bribe, but you don't have to bribe them. Maybe you spike their drinks,
maybe you do something else like you like, you can't totally bribe them,
but I want to. I want to stimulate your creative juice. Oh,
get juicy with it. Okay yeah, actually no, Like I like
that. I like that way better. Instead of like driving them ahead of
time, I wanna I want to go have drinks with them when I when
I get to the party. Yeah. Or and I'm like yeah, okay,
yeah, yeah, yea, let's let's play through that. I want
to do that. That sounds fun. Okay, So are you doing this
in the moment? Yeah, so I guess. Yeah, they's gonna walk
in and as he's going in, you mentioned these flutes of champagne, and
he's going to grab three of them and throw in what is it, use
a vial of slumber essence in order to spike two of the drinks, and
it's gonna walk over and just start start talking art with the with the great
cloak and hopefully convinced them to have a dream evening, gentlemen, hope you're
having an exciting night. I can just imagine the amount of excitement y'all get,
just standing here watching these fine pieces of art or cloth over top.
Ah, it's not really my scene, but money's good, almost too good.
Look at him go and he seems to have clocked you as not like
the rest, if that makes any sense, he says, Yeah, I
don't know. Working stiffs like us, we gotta make a living, even
if we got to do it on the backs of these assholes, you know
what I mean? Absolutely, And it's gonna kind of look over and it's
like every I'll tell you, none of these aristocrats are worth the salts in
in the metal and the blood, sweat and tears we gotta go and put
down every day, uh, just to stay afloat. Meanwhile, they're living
up there on top of their castle and the other one. That's because there's
two you're talking to two of them mm hmm the other one and he's like,
sorry, what, well, I can tell that both of you.
You know, as much as I'd have fun chatting with the rest of the
folks in in this party, I gotta say, I think I'd much rather
go and you know, just have a have a chat with you. You
know what you say? That pays good? You know how you know how
good is it is? It is it worthwhile not to work anywhere else and
not looking for specific answers here? But I guess they just kind of starts
going down the rabbit hole of chatting and you know, getting to know what
are their names? Oh yeah, my name's my name is Ralph, and
this one over here is Winston. How Winston? Yeah, I figured out,
well, Ralph, I can I can tell you the brains of the
operation. I can really, I can really appreciate that. And you know
one thing that's it's it's too much of a shame, is uh. You
know how often we just gotta stand around doing, you know, doing nothing
at all. Meanwhile everyone else just gets to potty and and hang out and
drink and you know, it's a cry and shame if you ask me.
And at that point, you know, Vey is gonna just drink, you
know, a decent amount of the of the champagne, not quite finishing it,
but just definitely having that little quick enjoyment to it. Okay, And
I'm assuming you're going to offer them the things, maybe now would be the
time to make a good sort of that is exactly it. I'm gonna say.
I guess it's controlled because this is a control. You started in a
controlled position and it's not ultimately all that risky. Uh. They're gonna say,
no, that's kind of the worst case scenario for standard effect. Okay.
And just because our dice rolls have been way too good this entire session,
it's it's so scary, it's like all the same and then you go
up to our last session and it's like red red red. So I don't
want to be the one to do that. So I'm gonna push for two
stress to just on one extra day to this because this game I don't trust
it. Yeah, it's out to kill me. Oh good success, Can
I a you a drink? Ralph takes a drink and he's like, oh
no, but Winston's life. Hell yeah, and terrible, terrible accountability buddy.
Yeah, he chugs it and he's like, come on, Ralph,
Ralph, Ralph, Ralph, do it. Do it, Ralph, Ralph,
Ralph, and then Ralph's just like shut the funk up and he just
drinks it. It's like you and you doased it a little bit better than
when you just blew it in the face of edwin the other day, a
little more. Yeah, So well, you know that you kind of have
like five ten minutes before they start to like pass out. So it's not
gonna be incredibly obvious. They're gonna maybe think they're sick or that there's something
weird like you got because of the success you got it. So it's not
going to be incredibly obvious that like you have poison them. H And they
said it all says to you, and then it's it's good talking. I
appreciate it. I don't know what you're doing after this, but down at
the Owls Butthole, uh, we we let the party, you know,
play a couple of game rounds of cards and drink some some hard whiskey supposed
to this bubbly stuff. You're welcome to come down if you want, I
could tell you that's that's a lot more my speed, Ralph. And uh,
I appreciate that. I'll see you live tonight anyway. As much as
I would love to spend the night chatting with, you know, people who
I actually care about their opinions, I gotta go mingle unfortunately, and check
out some of this gatty Gotti art. And uh, he's gonna walk around
absolutely And as you're leaving you you hear Winston attempt to quietly say, Ralph,
I'm tired. I would like to go to bed. How much longer
do we gotta be here? Ralph? Shut up, mimsy and you leave
them. You know, you got a couple of minutes before like they start
to kind of react a little appro really like this is an appropriate dose of
slumber essence, so that you're not just like booth knocking someone out, but
they will pass out in a couple of minutes. Myri, you mentioned that
you might be looking to like set up some sort of like turning off all
the lights out a set moment. Okay, So in this room, they
have electroplasmic lanterns that are powered by basically electroplasm like the essence of spirits doesn't
mean you can't interfere with that, but it's not going to be like a
light switch on the wall necessarily. Yeah, you would either have to go
to every single one individually or find a way to interfere with the electroplasmic flow.
How many are there individually, I don't know. Let's say there's a
dozen. Oh, okay, you know if they're being powered by spirits.
I have a thing that can rebel spirits. I would say that that could
work. I can say that, Yeah, I think this is gonna be
the last role of the night, and let's see if it sets you up
for success or a little bit of rushing in the next session. Okay,
we're definitely going to push it with a little stress on that for an extra
day, and it's gonna be risky. For standard effects. You're going to
be able to turn out the lights or at least set up the device so
that when you're already the lights can go mm hmm, what are you rolling?
We go scored. I don't have an area of arcane substance of methods,
so that either ethema, okay, so actually, if you're doing that,
I'll make it, I'll make it risky. Oh, go ahead,
like otherwise, like because we studying the place beforehand, Like would I know
how to deal with the like lights? Would I be able to have like
some other fool I pull out in a flashback? Oh? Absolutely, you
wouldn't know how to do that. You might not even need to be a
flashback. It might be an item loado like and so mechanically wise, I
was wondering, like, is this the type of thing where you can have,
like you know, some alchemist simpole on like a napkin or like piece
of paper that you like, you know, throw out to like the corners
of the room that would like do something like It's like like are those types
of a bill here or is that too like full metal alchemist? No?
No, I mean it works how you want it to work in the moment,
like how we agree it will makes sense to work, right, So,
like all four of us in this instance are figuring out how electroplasmic lanterns
work right now, okay, and that becomes canon. It helps part of
the experience too, And you're not just telling us we're right or wrong.
Yeah yeah, yeah, Like like so like I can put something out there,
and you'd be like, I don't like that. I wish it worked
like this, And then I'll be like, yeah, you're right, that's
better, Like that's fine. Like, but I I speak in a very
authoritory and authoritative way sometimes I've been told so I sound more confident than I
am. But myrie, if you like, because you have gadgets, is
something that you have access to. Maybe that there's like, like, because
you know that people turn off and on and prepare these lamps, there's got
to be a tool that people use. Yeah, and if you want to
do it as a flashback, so it all happens at the same moment,
maybe you set up a bunch of these and you just have to connect like
a like a like a switch or something. Yeah, okay, but you
but that would definitely be something you set up beforehand if you want to be
able to do it like that. If you want to be able to go
around and turn them off or damage them, that's that's something you can do
as well. It just changes whether or not it all happens at once,
or if it's something actively have to do to go to a dozen of these
lamps and get them to go off or track a dozen people. That is
a party popper and to all set it off at the same time. Hooray.
I mean that's something I like the game Get rid Of We get everything
to go off at once. Okay, so I will do that as a
two stress flashback. Yeah, that marked off because you did this as a
flashback, you don't. I would say that just check off. Gadget to
be the thing that sets it all off when you're ready, and then I
will say that it is controlled for standard effect. Okay, so it's probably
be a tinker roll instead then tinker well, I gots either way. Yeah.
Rec would mean that the lamps won't turn back on. Tinker means that
you can control whether they turned back on or on control because if they if
they don't ever come back on, then they can't continue and it can't be
embarrassed. True m hmm. Control. Okay, So it was a it
cost stress to flashback, but I could also do it again to push it
right, Yes, you you have it tossed stress to do the flashback.
You can put spend more stress to push to either increase effect or or or
give yourself more diet. Okay, getting real high on the stress. But
you know what let's let's do it all right, gotta stress. It got
stress. We haven't gotten traumas yet, so we need to see exactly.
I'm just like, you know what, I feel bad. We were also
getting super traumatized and I'm sitting here like I'm fine. Guys. You know
I've been doing some crazy ship. I've been taking the trauma for all of
you guys. So far. We know you got two more controlled standard ah,
yes, control for standard Okay, hesitate with tray, haven't approach.
A minor complication occurs as you're walking around the party. You're kind of checking
your work that you did like the night before. Maybe you and you and
somebody else snuck in and you set up these devices and all you have to
do is kind of like click this device that you have in your pocket,
and it's like like a tune fork almost, and that'll turn them all off,
and then once it stops resonating, you know they'll come back on.
However, you notice that there seems to be an issue with a couple of
the lanterns towards the back of the room where the art is, and it
seems like maybe specific mm hmm, maybe the gray cloaks noticed and removed them.
Damn, we do their job. The lights that go off, it's
a spotlight on deal with the patents. And what I'm going to do is
I'm going to make I'm gonna make it an eight second' clock, so I'm
just gonna change it here. This is called suspicion and I am going to
put that onto or guys's cruise sheet so that you guys can see it zero
all right, Sorry, I just had to set that up, so yeah,
yeah, you know, sorry, one second dry the wrong one out
or whatever. I'll change the name out here. M hm. But you
know that this one that you're gonna have to do something if you want all
the lights to go out, because it's gonna be hard to hide what you're
doing unless you fix this. Okay, albatross, what are you doing to
get everyone set up? Or you may be setting up like the smuggle route,
are you? Yeah? This is this is less than optimal circumstances.
That's GROSSI were probably very and himself were ready to take the painting upon the
lights going out, but because the lights are still spotlighted, are completely spot
spotlighting. The hasn't happened yet. Oh okay, we were saying that,
Like I, because I was casing around, I noticed that, like some
of them are missing, and so we've got a little bit of time before
spread to get fixed before this all goes off. This is like this is
you setting up your stuff beforehand, and maybe there's some looks going on between
the three of us of like mm hmm, oh wait, we got our
we got we got our magic talk. He looks amongst you guys to but
Albatross and the rest of the takeosi all serving are all serving food serving,
They are all being professional. They are all you know, bowing, handing
the food out, asking to see how they enjoy the food. He's walking
up to these risks and basically saying, are you enjoying the meal? Would
you like to know about what are the things we are serving? We have
these kind of entrees. Like he's going into all of it because he knows
the food, he knows what's being given to them, and uh, it's
easy for him to talk about it. So it's like he's blending in.
But would my re say it through the the mindscape, I suppose, Oh
yeah, just slight complication. There is a couple of my devices missing,
but I am working on a solution to this, so everyone tried to buy
me a little time. What's missing my device is where do they need to
be placed by the lamps, by the by the lamps, by the paintings.
Do you have any spirits? No? Maybe, I don't know.
We'll find out all I'm willing to take to make more I can't make.
Oh, I don't know. I got to say, you're you're limiting yourself
a lot. There. You could second, I don't know a second.
Wait, second, actually, next role, we'll figure that out. Wait,
actually, maybe give me Yeah, I think we are heading towards the
end of our session. Here deal, I'm going to put an obstacle in
your way. And the obstacle is a man that you might recognize. His
name is Valerious, a kindly older gentleman that you recognize as an ACROSI spy.
And when he sees you, he gets the biggest grin on his face
and he winks at you, and I'll but Dross nods back, and we
will leave it there until next week. Guys that the stakes are not as
high I'm waiting for like the Cliffhander moment, and I realized I'm like you
guys stole a tring. We jumped the clubs people with the vampire fight.
Like there's kind of like, hey, we need to like kick it back
down to like a two so that we can ramp up again, because like,
you can't just keep going at like seven and eight time. I mean
you can't. But I think this is I'm actually really excited for this score.
I think it's it's a fun one. But we've it's Aromyeah, it's
a wrong you guys had Winston. That was fun. We're definitely using our
resources on this one. Yeah. No, you guys need to win every
once in a while, a win that doesn't traumatize everybody in the world.
No, I've only got one pip left. I mean, honestly, given
given your role in the whole process, like the one that should be stressed
about this, it would be like is everything working out? Wait, no,
it's not. Ship. Yeah. And so that minor complication, by
the way, accounted for one tick on an eight segment clock called Suspicion.
The Great Cloaks noticed that something was there and they and they're like, ah,
something's weird, it's happening here. But we'll see, we'll see what
happens next week on Sins and Consequences. Do Do, Do Do, And
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