The Gangsters Campaign/Session 23

Last time:
*Hired Slimy Bill
*Found some investigative leads to the cult (Reddick agenda; casino; boardwalk – which is basically a pirate fortress)
*Big objective of the cult is to resurrect/reanimate Hieranthotat himself, whose remains lie in the lees of the East Fens Dam
**Priest is the one whose sarcophagus we’ve seen under the water
Pontooners don’t have a contract w/ cult of Hieranthotat. Instead, it’s a buying relationships: they protect and assist the cult’s dredging activities
*Pontooners *have* to work for the cult if they want to be a Pontooner. Special bonuses for getting the medallion; several senior members have been driven mad, won over, or replaced by cult members
**Cult members also have a monopoly of access to East Fens
**They’re also controlling the dam, meaning they know when to expect high tides and low tides. 
**So cult has also infiltrated, or is connected to, General Etheric
*Where do medallions go?
**They used to go to the warehouses (Molly & co had unloading agreement)
**Now they go to the boardwalks, or wherever else needed, under Trenchies’ guard
Everyone debates what to do next, and Criss doesn’t want anyone getting near Judge Reddick, so Vec knocks out Criss with a dart gun. Vec & Cilla are ready to go crash the Reddick meeting with superintendant of GE, but Icheb stops the boat and says, we’re going to need Criss, so I’m not starting again until this disagreement is resolved. 
*Cilla, definitely entirely without inspiration from an unconscious Criss, suggests that perhaps Criss could go to the meeting instead of Vec & Cilla. The plan eventually evolves into a “friend” of Criss’s who works for GE delivering a potted plant with Watson to the GE Superintendent’s office
*They do this. Cilla gleans that EITHER Criss OR the GE assistant is fucking their boss… Criss promises the scoop if Cilla doesn’t kill anyone in her stakeout. 
*Cilla stakes out in a dentist’s office next door to keep an eye on Watson. 
*Some NPC rolls a nat 20. Worrying. 
Warehouse expedition (Criss, Iko)
*Medallions generally go to the boardwalk, but go to warehouse if they’re to be used for activities in the West Fens. could occasionally be re-routed
*They delivered a letter to the head 
Stakeout
*Reddick’s car is dented; he gets out with Slim Frank
*Frank is limping; limbs moving independently
*Would need: medallions, ritual location, hour, and a distraction
*Slim Frank could talk right into the minds of Reddick & the superintendent
*Reddick was being pressured, but was still being deceptive.. Superintendent was talked into something, but Reddick paid her off
*Inspection in GE in a couple of days; stationing permanent branch of local constabulary; gaining access to landing areas near the dam. Part land deal, part private security, part inexplicable access to the place
*Asked her to make sure
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