# Session S01 > [!overview] > [campaign:: [[Blades in the Dark - The Silk Ties]]] > [session:: S01] > [prev:: [[2024-02-07_S00.1]]] > [next:: [[2024-02-21_S02]]] > [session date:: 2024-02-14] > [campaign date:: ] > [my pc:: [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan]]] > [dm:: [[Nick Dumas|deezy]]] > [player:: [[SlRvb]], [[jethoof]], [[Leah Ferguson|Leah]]] > [pcs:: [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan]], [[Andrei Valinsky]], [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2024-01 Blades in the Dark/04 PCs/Crowl "Hook" Slane]]] > [active npc:: ] > [discussed npc:: ] > [active locations:: ] > [discussed locations:: ] > > --- > > (tldr:: Summary.) %% ### Starting notes: - %% ## Notes - **Heist prompt:** Steal a seed from a vault in an underground seed vault at the Radiant Energy Farms - Payout is 4 coins. - Meeting with our contact at the [[Wraiths, The]]. - Meeting place changes regularly. This time, it's a dark alley. - Directions in an encoded letter. - Hooded and masked figure. Slender. - Masks are a signature of [[Wraiths, The]]. - Voice is familiar to [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2024-01 Blades in the Dark/04 PCs/Crowl "Hook" Slane]]. It's Costas. - "We're owed payment." Secured some information for a "gardener" looking for help growing… her next crop. - Directions in envelope, and description of what they want and what they know. - Hand drawn maps leading through [[Barrowcleft]]. Leads to a small orchard south in the Radient Energy Farms of The Little Dosk River. - [[Ministry of Preservation]]; facility is a seed vault. - There's a lockbox. A number, a description of the contents. No information about the seeds themselves. - Lockbox 84 - There are patrols around the area, but relatively light security. - Radiant Energy Farms have sun lamps, powered by Leviathan blood. - "Real" food can be grown here. - Run by the [[Ministry of Preservation]] - Labourers - Before we jump in… - [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2024-01 Blades in the Dark/04 PCs/Crowl "Hook" Slane]] investigates below through the River Caves, but rolled a 2 so got lost in the tunnels - [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan]] successfully seduces a guard (Clave) at the Radiant Energy Farms while at a high society book club event with the wife of one of the ministers. - [[Andrei Valinsky]] plans a way to get in *and* get out of the place, including making a way to trigger a false alarm. - We go in above ground, and [[Andrei Valinsky]] cuts a fence (and himself) to enter. We find a series of shacks in the fields. - Load - [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2024-01 Blades in the Dark/04 PCs/Crowl "Hook" Slane]]: Normal (4–5) - [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan]]: Light (1–3) - [[Andrei Valinsky]]: Normal (4–5) - We reach the orchard (engagement rolled a 4 & 6) - Our lights show a shambling humanoid shape (a [[Hull]]) patrolling at a cluster of trees… it doesn't see us. - [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2024-01 Blades in the Dark/04 PCs/Crowl "Hook" Slane]] scouts for human patrols. - [[Arden "Vixen" Rowan]] attunes for the supernatural around. - [[Andrei Valinsky]] programs it to go somewhere else. It does. - We find a hatch, and below it is a deep pitch black ladder shaft. - Andrei says "ladies first" - Arden says she's good with shafts, and heads down… *smirk*