====== 2022.04.12 ======

++++ Investigations |
  * Smart Guys:
    * Poke the Box
    * Lift the Box
    * Smell the Box
    * Listen to the Box
  * Let's hire a tracer
    * We gather things from the BlackLotusTong.
  * We retire to the smoking room
    * DoctorCharles invents skywriting*
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++++ The Tracer |
  * We hire a tracer
    * Small human (with dwarfism)
    * She has funny accent.
    * It takes them 4 days to narrow it down.
  * Meanwhile
    * DoctorCharles looks for a place to put his money
      * HouseKundarak - Band with big vault for swimming money
    * TheMarshall and I go looking for guards.
      * HouseDeneith - mercenaries and bodyguards. BlademarksGuild, DefendersGuild and BladeMarshals.
      * HouseMedani - young house that provides guards, inquisitors, spy catchers.  I like these.
        * I hire 6 sentries.  3 humans for day, half-elves for night duty.
    * DakotaSandman investigates the society.
    * CorvusTheValet goes shopping.
    * I get rings of Shared Suffering
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**A Watched Bear Never Boils**

++++ Seven, or head in a box |
  * DoctorCharles takes it to the Lab
    * It contains the head of the Tracer.  Black Lotus burned into her forehead.
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++++ Ride By Shooting |
  * The Earth Shakes
    * Maybe a bomb?
    * Oh, yeah there are the magical alarms.
    * The Scene
      * 7 casualties (5 customers, 2 security)
      * Sentries report a projectile.  Perhaps a Magic Missile?
  * Scouting
    * I get the HouseMedani sentries to call in some scouts.
    * CorvusTheValet sends his familiar to look at the scene.
    * He tells us he sees a couple of carriages diving away at an unsafe speed
    * DakotaSandman turns into a bird and flies in that direction.
  * Follow the carts
    * The birds follow them to a warehouse that they ride straight in and the doors are slammed shut.
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++++ The Warehouse |
  * DakotaSandman investigates (he has magic stuff)
    * Phases through roof. Upper story empty.  Lower story:
    * Lots of people running around, breaking the carts down.
    * He quietly watches them do their thing.
    * They are moving big boxes (like the box we found).  They are loading them into carriages and sending them out.
  * The rest of us arrive.
    * DoctorCharles: follow my lead:
      * Grabs sum stuff as a disguise and a sack of stuff
    * Someone recognizes him.
    * The place is pretty much empty.
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++++ The Elevator |
  * They won't let us in
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++++ A matter of National Security.  Fuck it, we attack. |
  - Round
    - TheMarshall holds
    - CorvusTheValet does the bladesong.
    - ...
    - I miss 4 times.
    - DoctorCharles magically locks a door where reinforcements are coming from.
  - Round
    - ...
    - CorvusTheValet ...
    - Guards
      - ...
    - DoctorCharles bluffs.

They retreat.

We follow the tracks to an unnamed mansion.
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**I'm here to fix your locks?**