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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

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

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

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 1πŸ”₯ Heat
  • 0πŸ“œ 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 2πŸ”₯ at a bar

Downtime

  • mastery 10

  • Echo

    • reduces 3
    • sees a therapist about fear of alarms
    • 1 continues talking to therapist and makes a breakthrough
  • Hex
    • reduces 2
    • reduces 1πŸ”₯
      • bribes the bluecoats that Gex bribed [2, 3, 2] = 3 Bad Outcome
  • Jackal
    • reduces 1πŸ”₯ by issuing a retraction at the pub
    • reduces 1πŸ”₯ 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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