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Journal/Adventure-Diary ttrpg, hc 2024-04-17 05 Staged Murder And Arson

Staged Murder And Arson

(OSS:: On the score to ruin Morlan's life: Andrei and Crowl have a wild afternoon, Arden has a relaxing afternoon.)

[!Metadata]+ Session: 5 Adventure Diary:: AdvD-OMG-BITD-000 - Obsidian Blades In The Dark Universe:: UNI - Blades In The Dark Campaign:: Played: Wednesday: April 17, 2024

DM:: @Deezy Players:: @Jethoof, @Leah, SlRvb Characters:: Andrei Valinsky, Arden "Vixen" Rowan, PC - Crowl Slane

[!Summary] Previously On AdvD-OMG-BITD-000 - Obsidian Blades In The Dark: AdvD-OMG-BITD-S04 - Naughty Nook Grand Opening

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  • Plan: Deception
    • Plant information to eject Morlan without killing
  • Loadouts
    • Crowl: Light
    • Andrei: Normal
    • Arden: Light
  • Engagement Roll: 6, 2, 2
Heist
  • Morlan leaves at prescibed time (afternoon 2:15) for tea
    • Blue coats are gone, but there is a woman standing
    • Wearing a blue-ish outfit, somewhat semi-formal
    • Seems to be an attendant for this door
    • Seems about 20-21
  • Building:
    • 4 stories tall
    • 3 units across
    • Brutalist structure, lifted from nearby mine
    • Iron grates over windows and iron frame around doors
    • Only front door, fire ladders
  • Crowl & Andrei attempt to walk in with janitorial outfits and a forgery (Group: )
    • The woman laughs in our face, we've got the wrong janitorial outfit
    • Crowl manages to knock her out after she sprinted away but pressed a panic button (Desperate: Skirmish)
    • Andrei picks her up and we're gonna stage a murder

  • Tea House
    • Metal sheeting on exterior, salvaged scrap from railyards
    • Intricate woodwork joining panels together
  • Arden dressed in a light blue dress & hair styled differently
    • Morlan enters and sits down alone in the garden with a book
    • Arden tries to read the name of book "History of...." something, but Morlan has noticed
    • Arden coily attempts to look shy with her own book on History of Flowers & interested in Morlan
    • Morlan catches her eye and walks to lean over to tell her she has toilet paper stuck to her shoe
  • Arden walks over to sit on his table

  • Get to apartment 3rd floor in the back, unit 315

    • Response time of silent panic alarm is 5-10 minutes
    • Interior is very spacious large stairwell open through the building covered in painting
    • Crowl and Andrei carry the woman extremely unstealithily
    • Old woman manages to catch them before they entered the apartment asking if they need help
    • Flashback: Andrei pretended to be a handyman for this building and had to deal with with her rambling about anything and everything (+2 stress for Andrei)
    • Andrei tries to convince her that the lady is just passed out from overwork and taking her into her apartment
    • She believes it and goes back inside to her apartment
    • Flashback: Andrei cased the key mechanism (+1 stress)
    • Andrei pulls out a key and we both make our way inside
  • Arden sits down and startles Morlan a little bit

    • Thanks Morlan for notifying her about the toilet paper
    • Arden now sees the book title: Benthic Biology: Volume 9 about deep see biology
    • Flashback: Arden's employee gave her the run down on that exact book
      • She learns enough to be fluent
      • Particularly on internal anatomy on megafauna
    • Arden mentions the book and drops facts about giant squids (CRIT SUCCESS: 6, 6, 4)
    • He is delighted, he is distracted enough to talk about his interest for as long as we need

  • Andrei assembles his stuff to frame Morlan for Arson

    • Crowl stages the scene of murder of this woman convincely (Desperate: Finesse)
    • Crowl cases his place for anything of note, but nothing of value
  • On our way out of the building and there's a congregation of people

    • 3 men in studded black leather
    • They stop us to ask about the silent alarmed triggered
    • Crowl just says that we're workers and we entered the wrong building (Group: Desperate: Sway) (+1 Stress)
    • Andrei really urges them to let us go (Group: Desperate: Sway) (+1 Stress)
    • One inside calls out to the other about a faller and hear the old lady yelling
  • We walk out of the building and head to the Tea House

    • We spot Arden talking animatedly on the table
    • Arden stands, kisses him on the lips, and she leaves
  • Receives a sentence 3-5 in the mines and Wallace's place is free to do their business

  • Crowl on the way back to the base, sees a type of script for discrete military communication I haven't seen in a long time

    • See in a jumble of debris near our base with a message
    • "You remember"

  • XP:
    • Playbook: +2 (Knockout, Murder)
    • Attributes: Prowess +2 (Skirmish, Finesse) Resolve +2 (Sway, Sway)
  • Stress: +3 (Group, Group, Group)