# Session S23
> [!overview]
> [campaign:: [[2025-02 Blades 68|Blades 68]]]
> [session:: S23]
> [prev:: [[2025-08-04_S22]]]
> [next:: [[2025-08-18_S24]]]
> [session date:: 2025-08-11]
> [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]]]
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> (tldr:: Summary.)
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### Starting notes:
- [[Setarra]] time…
- “You think he can keep me. You think _you_ can keep me. I am the tide that swallows the shore.”
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## Notes
- [[The Docks]] » Blackpier
- deezy wants to do this while on transport
- Looking for a new vehicle » [[Red Torque]] » 6
- deezy: Something bulky, box-truck… to crash
- SlRvb: Mystery Machine
- One they are willing to part with
- It's loud and obvious
- Prep:
- Una wants to know about car and route
- Time: 0400h, code word "waterbed"
- Called shot: make it happen at the alley way
- Both going loud
- Dice:
- +1d Bold & daring
- Not super complex… smashing a car into a thing.
- +1d Targeting a vulernability
- -1d They're prepped
- +1d Ally: Scurlock will be there
- -1d Enemies interfering
- -1d Tier
- +1d District
- = 2d = 2 3s!
- They prematurely hit the vehicle, but the hearse goes off a bridge and into the water.
- Hix/Moth dives into the water
- Tarot card reading
- Past — The Tower
- "A proud house struck by lightning. What was built high has been split, and its stones scattered."
- **Meaning:** %%The Rowan–Strangford split in Vesper’s family history, and the long-reaching consequences of that old feud.%%
- Present — The Hanged Man
- "The one in the center is bound, yet the world turns around them. The rope is choice, the rope is fate."
- **Meaning:** %%Vesper’s current role — apparently passive, but central — and the way she’s being maneuvered by the Strelai, Scurlock, and others.%%
- Future — The Moon
- "The road ahead is silver-lit and shifting. Faces will change. You will see your enemy’s smile — and your ally’s shadow."
- **Meaning:** %%The coming double-cross, Padeen’s reveal, and the blurred lines between threat and protector (Setarra, Scurlock, Rowans).%%