Possession is the Law

Echo, Jackal, and Vesper are in prison. The death penalty seems possible.

Plan

• Plan: Occult
• Detail: we'll try to possess the judge
• Engagement Roll: [5, 5] = 5 Partial Success

Score

• Nyryx has some intel on the judge

Vesper consults Nyryx

• it's all going down on arraignment day
• JB and Hex are disguised as blue coats
  • [2, 2, 6, 6, 5] = 6 Critical Success
  • enter the courtroom without being noticed

Echo, Jackal, and Vesper in court

• Judge reads the list of charges
  • "What do you have to say for yourselves?"
  • Vesper blames Rolan Watt for everything
  • Echo cites some case laws to reinforce his points
  • [2, 2, 6, 6, 5] = 6 Critical Success
• The judge says we made some good points
  • "Guess I'm going to have to let you go"
  • Prosecutor: "we're ready for your methods of persuasion. Gag that Man!"
• Prosecutor approaches the bench and converses with the judge
  • The judge seems to snap out of a trance
  • "Where was I? Oh, right! Sentencing you... To Death!"
• Echo gives a monologue about the judge's unfairness
  • so many others have been wronged by the same judge
  • calls up any spirits unfairly sentenced to come into the courtroom
• Vesper attunes to the ghost field
  • [6, 5, 6, 2] = 6 Critical Success

Spirits swarm the courtroom

• Ghosts enter the courtroom and possess people
  • Manacles are unlocked
• JB takes all of us through the wall using the ghost field.
• We see the Dockfront Bruisers protesting out front as we leave

Payoff

• crew earns 0
• crew earns 4 Reputation
• add 1 Heat
• 0 Crew XP
• Faction status
  • Faction +0

Entanglements

• [2, 2] = (lowest) 2 Bad Outcome
• Nyryx gets taken into custody
  • not available next session

Vices

• Jackal overindulges
  • brags about our accomplishments 2 at a bar

Downtime

• mastery 10

  • 6 coffers
  • 2 Hex
  • 2 Vesper

• Echo

  • reduces 3
  • sees a therapist about fear of alarms
  • 1 continues talking to therapist and makes a breakthrough
• Hex
  • reduces 2
  • reduces 1
    • bribes the bluecoats that Gex bribed [2, 3, 2] = 3 Bad Outcome
• Jackal
  • reduces 1 by issuing a retraction at the pub
  • reduces 1 by issuing a retraction at a different pub
• JB
  • sees Dr. Finklebottom to cure effects of Quicksilver
  • again
  • and again
  • reduced to level 1 harm
• Vesper
  • tries to get Nyryx out of jail [5, 5, 2, 5] = 5 Partial Success makes progress
  • tries again [5, 2, 6, 1] = 6 Full Success she's free

Epilogue

A woman walks into Rolan Wott's office. "Honey, it's time for dinner!" It's Hex's mom...

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