# Session S04 > [!overview] > [campaign:: [[2025-02 Blades 68|Blades 68]]] > [session:: S04] > [prev:: ] > [next:: ] > [session date:: 2025-03-10] > [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 - [[Shaw 'Moth' Malvern]] pitches a score - Lounge Rats - 7 stacks, but big risk - [[Una 'Spectre' Vass]] in the hospital pitches a score - Red Torque second in command - Leader of the Leatherback Gang, creeping on Red Torque turf - Assassinate - Drag race in Barrowcleft in 1–2 nights - 4 stacks, but no tithe - [[Vespbot 'Sage' Rowan-Ellis]] does a reading - Card 1: The Hermit - Card 2: Judgement - Card 3: Justice - Card 4: The Fool - Card 5: Temperance - Card 6: The Sun - Score: Leatherback Gang - Called shot: Send a Message - Approach: Deception - Recon: - Leatherbacks Gang leader will be driving a motorcycle, bright red, can't miss it… but so do the rest of the gang - Moth stakes out some bars to check out the bike, get information on his specific bike - [[Nick Dumas|deezy]] rolls two 1s for his first roll ever as a player. Better luck next time, buddy. - The gang already thinks that [[Shaw 'Moth' Malvern]] is suspicious - [[Vespbot 'Sage' Rowan-Ellis]] gets information from [[Lord Scurlock (Faction)]], who is an ally of the Leatherback Gang - Wants to know more about the Leatherback Gang leader » habits, vices, etc. » 4 - Scurlock and the leader, Brace, are allies and close… - Brace loves to race dangerously, a special can of special nitro and likes to get a whiff to get high before he races - Engagement - Separate +1d - Bold +1d - Risky and public -1d - Moth got clocked -1d - Vespbot got info +1d - 2d6 = 6 + 5 - Moth disguises himself as a wrench and comes in - Vesper gets Brace's attention by walking in looking like Rizzo from [[Grease (1978)]] - He takes her over to show off his bike - Moth scans for the bike, since he isn't sure which once it is - Vesper puts her neckkerhief thing on his neck to make him stand out - Flashback ([[Shaw 'Moth' Malvern]]): - Moth asks Vesper to get Brace's attention, and then to draw him away - Vesper asks him to buy her a drink - Brace asks Jet, his second in command, to watch his ride - Failed rolls, and so it turns out the place is very busy - Flasback ([[Shaw 'Moth' Malvern]]): - He places an explosive device in a dumpster, an alley over » it has a remote detonator - In real time, Moth sets off the device - Desperate & Great » 6 - Huge explosion - Vespbot (6) for attune; could hypersense Moth clicking the detonator so knew he was doing it, but plays it up to make it seem like she's surprised - Jet is worried about his own ride, but is intrigued by the explosion… and leaves Brace's ride to join the crowd to look at the explosion - Moth dumps his whole stash of focus pills into the nitro fuel - Fails (3,2,1) and he tips over the bike after a crush of people - Resist the failure: make it seem like someone else did it - Flashback: [[Vespbot 'Sage' Rowan-Ellis]] - A powder on the handkerchef, and a liquid skin on her neck to keep it from absorping on her - The handkerchief is on Brace (4, desperate, great) - His throat is beginning to tense up, people start to crowd around him » he does die - Someone clocks that Vesper was with him, and the powder is visible… and her handkerchief - Resist: (1 stress) » she pops her collar, cats eye glasses on, and melting into the crowd - Vesper follows Moth out of the space - Inside the handkerchief is a message saying "snitches get what's coming to them" (Send a Message)