# Session S05
> [!overview]
> [campaign:: [[Blades in the Dark - The Silk Ties]]]
> [session:: S05]
> [prev:: [[2024-04-10_S04]]]
> [next:: [[2024-04-24_S06]]]
> [session date:: 2024-04-17]
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> [my pc:: [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan]]]
> [dm:: [[deezy]]]
> [player:: [[SlRvb]], [[jethoof]], [[Leah Ferguson|Leah]]]
> [pcs:: [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan]], [[Andrei Valinsky]], [[Crowl "Hook" Slane]]]
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> (tldr:: Summary.)
## Starting notes:
- We get +1 for our engagement roll
- It needs to be discreet…
## Notes
- Andre studies [[Morlan Templeton]]'s habits
- Not much of a social life
- Is single
- Observed chatting with women at [[Kolomi's Teas]]
- Spends time in his apartment in [[Coalridge]]
- Has a door attendant
- Spends time at a tea house, [[Kolomi's Teas]]
- Two weeks from the apartment building
- Private enclosed adjoined garden » Morlan likes this space
- Plan: Plant evidence (the [[Ataraxis Protocol]] file) that he had set the [[Cog & Quill Printing]] on fire
- [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan]] to distract him at the tea shop
- [[Crowl "Hook" Slane]] to plant the evidence
- [[Andrei Valinsky]] to get [[Crowl "Hook" Slane]] in…
- Load
- [[Crowl "Hook" Slane]]: Light (1–3)
- [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan]]: Light (1–3)
- [[Andrei Valinsky]]: Normal (4–5)
- [[Morlan Templeton]] makes his way to [[Kolomi's Teas]]
- Only a young female door attendant stand between [[Andrei Valinsky|Andrei]] and [[Crowl "Hook" Slane|Crowl]] and [[Morlan Templeton|Morlan's]] apartment
- They decide to try and fake their way in as a maintenance crew but both jethoof and SlRvb fail their roles
- [[Crowl "Hook" Slane]] goes to hit her, and she runs and hits a button just as he connects… nothing happens other than a light goes off.
- Meanwhile at [[Kolomi's Teas]]
- [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan]] is waiting in the garden
- There's an older couple in the tea house garden, and they look scandalized!
- [[Morlan Templeton]] walks in, and sits down alone at the edge of the garden and begins reading from a book
- She reads the cover of the book from her table
- It's a history book… but unclear about the details
- He notices her looking, and she looks down at her book… a history of flowers
- They catch each other's eyes… (fail a roll!)
- He walks over and whispers that she has toilet paper on her shoe
- She wipes it of on the floor, picks up her tea, and boldly walks over to his table
- Smashcut to the apartment!
- His is apartment 315.
- Andrei carries the unconscious body of the guard…
- An old woman sees them at the top of the second floor landing
- [[Andrei Valinsky|Andrei]] had cased this place before, and had pretended to be a handyman and he had fixed stuff before
- She basically toddles off and goes back into her apartment
- They let themselves into the apartment…
- Smashcut back to [[Kolomi's Teas]]
- She sits down and thanks him again for letting her know about the toilet paper
- He is reading a book called Benthic Biology: Volume 9
- Flashback to [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan|Arden]]
- Conversational fluency in marine biology
- Volume 9 is dedicated to anatomy of megafauna (whales, giant squids)
- She begins flirting with giant squid facts
- ***Critical success on flirting with squid facts!!!*** ^critical-success
- **Powerful Predators**: Despite their name, giant squids primarily feed on deep-sea fish and other squid species. They are formidable predators, using their long tentacles armed with powerful suction cups and sharp hooks to capture prey.
- It's a wonderful date.
- …meanwhile, her associate get to the murdery and framing bits.
- [[Andrei Valinsky]] plants the evidence
- [[Crowl "Hook" Slane]] does the murdery bits to make it seem like [[Morlan Templeton]] killed the guard.
- (This also means the spirit wardens are on their way…)
- …and then [[Crowl "Hook" Slane]] looks to see if there is anything else worth stealing. Nope. Failed roll.
- They head downstairs to see people dressed in black leather with some electroplasm batons…
- Tell them to hold, and ask if they know anything about the silent alarm that got triggered
- They basically say "we've got to get going to our next gig…"
- But then the old woman on the second floor had fallen, which gives them the clear to enter the building
- They make their way to [[Kolomi's Teas]] as the spirit wardens make their way to the apartment…
- They're their talking, and [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan|Arden]] sees her companions…
- She leans over and kisses him deeply on the lips and then gets up and walks out
- Successful score: 3 coin!
- There are stories in the paper about a tax collector being a murderer
- Sentenced for the death of Darcy, the guard in his building… even if he confesses his innocence
- No mention of the specific responsibility for [[Cog & Quill Printing]]… but the information is there.
- As [[Crowl "Hook" Slane]] heads back to their home base… sees signal language
- Sees, in the coded language, a message: "We remember."
- Next week
- Deal with the 3 coins
- Downtime!
- There will be consequences to [[Andrei Valinsky]] and [[Crowl "Hook" Slane]] having killed the guard…