2022.04.12

• 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*

• 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

• DoctorCharles takes it to the Lab
  • It contains the head of the Tracer. Black Lotus burned into her forehead.

• 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.

• 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.

• They won't let us in

1. Round
   1. TheMarshall holds
   2. CorvusTheValet does the bladesong.
   3. …
   4. I miss 4 times.
   5. DoctorCharles magically locks a door where reinforcements are coming from.
2. Round
   1. …
   2. CorvusTheValet …
   3. Guards
      1. …
   4. DoctorCharles bluffs.

They retreat.

We follow the tracks to an unnamed mansion.