# Session S02 > [!overview] > [campaign:: [[2025-02 Blades 68|Blades 68]]] > [session:: S02] > [prev:: ] > [next:: ] > [session date:: 2025-02-24] > [campaign date:: ] > [my pc:: [[Vespbot 'Sage' Rowan-Ellis]]] > [dm:: varies] > [player:: [[Nick Dumas|deezy]], [[SlRvb]], [[Leah Ferguson|Leah]]] > [pcs:: [[Shaw 'Moth' Malvern]], [[Una 'Spectre' Vass]]] > [active npc:: ] > [discussed npc:: ] > [active locations:: ] > [discussed locations:: ] > > --- > > (tldr:: Summary.) %% ### Starting notes: - %% ## Notes - [[Scorpion Syndicate]] » our efficiency at driving and moving items… - Move shipment of White Lotus around the city - Split the party: Una on an air ship, Vesper with the boss on the ground - Una » On the airship - Armed lieutenants explaining the situation - Vesper » Meets with a man known as Wallace at his lair - Blackbagged on the way there - Underground - Hear people nearby… packaging the product? - An explosion above the city; Una knocked off her feet - Gash torn in hull; decompresses… - Crates shattered - The other men get sucked out into the night sky… they grabbed for their weapons instead of holding on… - Una scans to see what's out there… (success, but complication) - There's one more person aboard than should have been… - Over to Vesper… - Well-appointed lair - Impress or intimidate with collections… unclear - Standing over a pit with a cage » 10' x 10' - 8' irridescent creature with 6 legs… a grinder beatle (rare) - Usually on the border of the deathlands… - They are disposal units… - We hear a dull thud. Distinct sound of explosion. - 2 armed individuals guarding the door - One goes to the hall; the other comes behind - Vesper plays it ditzy (6 & 5) to seem like she's not a threat - No windows and artificial lighting; assume underground - Led to private room with electronics & phones & radio unit etc. - She is asked to sit by the door (she does) - Security guard stands next to her; gun thing unclipped - Back to Una - She takes a bonk on the head - Lots of smoke… - Looks for a parachute, and then to go after the mystery person… - Finds no parachute, keeps hunting the mystery person - Vesper - Wallace talking to radio operator - 2–3 teletypes, once is lit up and printing… - She reaches out to the ghost in the machine - Feel echoes, not hear the radio conversation… "Mayday, Mayday, Lotus 1…" - The airship has had a catastrophe - A shriek of feedback in the radio » operator rips the headset off - Vesper hears it too, draws attention to herself… impacted more than anyone else in the room - Wallace notices - Vesper swoons (on purpose) and the guard catches her (6) - She pulls her hair pin out and jam it into his thigh (4) and catch him right in the artery - It's not instant death - He screams and drops her, though she's covered in blood… - Vesper runs out the door - Una - I made dinner - Vesper - Takes the guard's gun, decides to take Wallace hostage by asking him to escort her out - Random threats, of course - He does… (6 desperate) - She slips her arm inside his jacket, presses the handcannon to his spine, they walk together out into the hall… - One last obstacle: a security vestabule (6' x 6') - Yes, the guard notices Vesper is covered in blood… - Vesper whispers to Wallace, asking him to have the door opened… (6 command; desperate) - Flashback: a nice town car had followed her when she was black bagged, and pulls up to pick her and Wallace - Una is MacGyvering some shit, and I love it - The balloon burst. - Vesper makes a pitch to Wallace that this went bad for both crews - I rolled a one. Party emoji! - Wallace sneers at her and retorts if she's going to kill him or let him out… - She shoots him in the heart (6) and collects his soul in her locket - [[Nick Dumas|deezy]]: "Congratulations: You now have a crime boss's soul in a jar." - Una lands… and we discuss.