First hour was spent doing Downtime Activities.
8 COIN, +2 REP, +4 HEAT. Notable events:
- The party created a new Hidden Lair. They know that the Insular Rogues had not yet re-hidden their lair. They also knew that the fact they had made their lair hidden again, the IRs would know this..
- El Cid[Shane] over-indulged his vice (Pleasure) and pissed off Madam Lash, his vice peddler, so has to get a new peddler (from the limited supply).
- Dee Dee[Steven] over-indulged her vice (Pleasure) and shopped Moonlight[Chris] to the Knives (to a faction independent of Chung), and Moonlight got the snot beaten out of him. +2 HEAT.
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| William "Lammy" Lamb |
Then the group reviewed all the current jobs on offer:
- Wizards' Guild - recover the two missing Triumvirate witches Dalila Hornsby and Simone Ender. 20 COIN (10 each).
- Knives - Kidnap the third Triumvirate Witch Daisy Crown. 14 COIN.
- Knives - Vanish Michael Stringfellow (they suspected this was Jack Sparrow) from the Scabport Prison. 11 COIN.
- IMAG - Spread IMAG skulls about the city. 12 COIN.
- REAL - Locate the Wraith King's spawn in the Graveyard district, and call in the Paladin Strike Force. 9 COIN.
They decided that job 1 would be too difficult (even though it did pay 20), so they officially pulled-out. Correspondingly, they sent William Lamb to the Wizards' Guild to tell this to the Liaison Sly Dunbar. Lammy returned all the magic items that Dunbar had given the party: The 1G Conch, the 2G Brooch and the TP Beacon. Lammy also had his own brooch which he dutifully returned as well.
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| Daisy Crown; WG Triumvirate Witch |
The group decided to return to the Daisy Crown job. They knew that Lieutenant Chung was currently looking for another freelance wizard to fashion another anti-teleport device, but he had already admitted that it would be hard; the news of the death of Wilson had gone around town, and other freelance wizards were lying low.
But they thought that they might be able to grab Daisy without it. Capturing a teleporting mage is always difficult, but they did know that she used the Get Me Home spell, and thus, if they could guess where "home" was, then they could be waiting there when she next used it. They figured that there would only be two likely locations for this spell: One in the Wizards' Guild TP room, and the other at her home in Duke Street. Note that the Teleport spell requires a safe empty location for the teleporter to appear in; if the wizard appears inside an object, she dies. So wizards are very careful about making sure that this room is empty!
So, the plan was to stake out her home 24/7. Sorrow and Tylin were sent first. Sorrow hid in his new hidey hole in the adjacent property, and Tylin out the front on the street.
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| Vingt-et-un Priestess Camilla Longreach |
It was known that the WG used Vingt-et-un priests as contractors, so Huilam & Tylin went to the Ving-et-un temple (21, Goddess of Luck). Huilam made some subtle enquiries with Priestess Camilla [with Consort, assisted] as to significant heals on the day that Simone Ender was captured. Burrito had stabbed Daisy that day, so she would have needed healing. But Camilla could find no records of people of import injured that day.
However, it is known that 21s do make house calls, so maybe she got healed in the Guild (this wouldn't necessarily be recorded). Or, maybe Daisy got another flavour of priest, or she had potions, or other healing magic.
Back at the lair, Lammy had the idea of using a Clairvoyance spell to look inside Daisy's house from a distance. That way they could see if she had a Teleport-to room. And Clairvoyance was a wizard spell, but was far too difficult for Lammy to cast [3rd level spell]. So, they visited Lieutenant Chung to get the name of a freelance wizard who could cast this. Chung decided that it was an innocent enough request, so he gave them a name: Lance the Septum. "You lot can contract him yourselves." [Acquire an Asset downtime activity - debt.]
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