# Session S03 > [!overview] > [campaign:: [[Blades in the Dark - The Silk Ties]]] > [session:: S03] > [prev:: [[2024-02-21_S02]]] > [next:: [[2024-04-10_S04]]] > [session date:: 2024-03-27] > [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.) ## Notes - [[Wraiths, The]] are pleased with our work from last session. - [[Andrei Valinsky]] goes to [[Nurse Waranda]] to get patched up. - We decide to gather information on the [[Ink Rakes]], based on the fact that [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2024-01 Blades in the Dark/04 PCs/Crowl "Hook" Slane]] tracked one who had been following us. - There is a print shop down the road that they may be present at. - Planning: Deception - Arden will go in the front door with a sales order for the Silk & Secrets, while the other two try to investigate what the [[Ink Rakes]] have on us. - 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) - +1 for our positive relationship with [[Wraiths, The]] - We start in position, and Arden walks in the front door. Gentleman at a desk, talking to a young woman with a quill & cap. Hushed conversation. Both look up, and the man welcomes Arden. The young woman scurries off. - Arden continues with the plan, asking to speak with an account rep. about getting new posters printed. - Andrei and Crowl are in the back alley; Andrei is working on the door. - A complication: someone is coming down the alleyway… Andrei's kit is jammed. - They just go in and leave the kit there… - The group of people are paparazzi. - The young assistant comes in, leading in an older woman (salt & pepper black hair, very fit), [[Tara Caldwell]] - Two weeks of test prints, etc… - Tara keeps throwing glances over my shoulder towards the front. - Arden asks to go in further, perhaps an office… and Tara takes her to her office. - Repurposed warehouse, with offices added in. - Centre of the building is paper storage and printing - Two hallways run along the edges of the building; offices around the outer ring of the building. - [[jethoof]] contemplates summon spirits as a distraction… or maybe blowing things up. - Instead… Crowl has a flashback to having been there the night before to scope out the facilities and find the office. - …so they enter the records room. And [[SlRvb]] rocks the dice with double 2s. Aaaawwww yeeeeeeah. - Crowl drops a dagger, blade first. - They both hear footsteps from the illuminated office. So Andrei wants to burn a trash can. - The spark powder goes off earlier than anticipated, and Andrei gets burned - Lots of smoke getting pulled into the machine room. - Arden is standing around in the hall with a teacup… but then I roll a 1 and Arden drops the teacup, and I get made for snooping. - I get escorted out the front door, out towards the 3 paparazzi, and photos are taken of Arden out front of the print shop (photographic evidence that "Vixen" is in the area) - I strike a pose to get the paparazzi's full attention, and draw them away from the building so that Andrei and Crowl can hopefully escape unnoticed. - A door opens and a man wonders what's happening. - Naturally, Crowl takes this as an opportunity to try and knock this man out…? And does. - But meanwhile the trash can is fully on fire, and it's getting bigger. (Whoops.) - Crowl doesn't find anything specifically on us… but fines a folder called [[Ataraxis Protocol|The Ataraxis Protocol]] (the Leviathan Hunters trying to acquire something…) - They decide to stage a crime scene and drag the unconscious man closer to the fire to make him look responsible… - Payout: - 1 coin - Downtime next time! - We have 5 coins, so need to spend one at the start of next session as part of downtime. - We decide after the fact that is was called the [[Cog & Quill Printing]]