# Session S02 > [!overview] > [campaign:: [[Blades in the Dark - The Silk Ties]]] > [session:: S02] > [prev:: [[2024-02-14_S01]]] > [next:: [[2024-03-27_S03]]] > [session date:: 2024-02-21] > [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 - We descend the ladder, and find ourselves in a repurposed sewer, which has been sealed off (i.e. no active poop flows…) - In the room is a wooden desk, with a young woman writing in a book. There's a candle. (Chief Chalworth, head of security) - Has only been working here a couple months. - I claim I'm Dr. Tesslyn Welker, here as a seed inspector, and I hand over my documentation. - Chalworth believes us. - Chalworth leads us down a corridor, directly to the seed vault. Chalworth opens the door. 2" steel door, mundane locking mechanism. - "Dr. Welker" says they need to inspect the seals for security. - Andrei says they need to test the seals to simulate a break-in. - Chalworth doesn't like this, as touching them is against protocol. - "Dr. Welker" speaks up to assist, with a memo from the Director concerned about humidity control in boxes 69 and 84. We have permission to review those. - jethoof rolls a partial success, so takes a level 1 harm and gets winded… Andrei is stronger than he expected. - Arden tries to convince Chalworth we need to open the box to confirm if there's humidity issues… and I roll a 1. - Chalworth asks us to leave and start pulling out a baton. - Crowl goes to headlock her, and knock her out. And does. And Andrei used the lock box as a weapon… - Inside the lockbox is a single large seed (palm-sized, like an avocado seed size…) with veins of gold in the husk - Andrei tinkers and gets the box able to go back into the alcove, but it will not re-seal - We drag Chalworth back at her desk, and relock vault door behind us - Arden leaves a very saucy book called "Seeds of Seduction" for Chalworth and leaves it open as though she were reading it. - Crowl goes up the ladder first, and surveys the area. (Rolls a 3; failure) and doesn't see anything. - Andrei will go second, followed by Arden. - We all fail a group roll as we start leaving the fields… - Crowl is first out through the fence, and sees a figure dart around the corner of the alleyway… they are wearing a cap with a quill - The group disbands, and Crowl decides to chase down the figure, but loses them in the crowd. - They are a member of the [[Ink Rakes]] and peddle "yellow journalism" - We deliver the seed per the instructions (dead drops across different neighbourhoods) - Payoff: - +4 coins - 2 rep min. + 5 rep (because [[Ministry of Preservation]] was way higher tier) - +2 heat (left a broken seal and knocked Chalworth out) - Entanglement: - Crowl is stalked by a spirit… a face they can't remember. - Downtime: - Long term project: Arden develops an officer's club at the Silk & Secrets to be able to learn secrets from the [[Bluecoats]]. - Clock: 3/6