Session 11

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Kuno keeps up on current events, Colby's congregation gains a member, and Asa gets recruited; Pax provides two leads.

## Characters

* The Party
* Kitty Vance
* Silas Vance
* Zacharie Toure
* Genevieve Warren
* Arlo Briar
* Fiorella Fells
* John Smith
* Pax Furyk
* 0-771534

## Summary

### **So Many Loose Ends**

The news has an update on the Hattie Cline investigation: her death is linked to the terrorist group that leaked King & Taikon information a month or so ago and have been organizing riots and bomb threats. Cline had been looking into the organization, which led to her death. The news provides no more information about the terrorist group.

Sam asks the Vances about the apprentice that went missing a few weeks ago, and they seem surprised he overheard, but say the apprentice got good at magic and left, which happens every so often.

Nyx has been trying to look into the drugs she heard about from Zacharie, with no success. She hears from Zacharie every so often: he hasn't been on his street corners recently, because he's been looking for the drugs, which haven't been on offer recently.

Kuno, wanting to know more about the poor riots, visits John Smith. John is a barkeep in the poorer district who hired Kuno once, back when Kuno was in the P.I. business. John tells Kuno the district isn't getting the food shipments they need, since about a month ago. The apparent cause of the shortage is cited as something wrong with the King & Taikon harvest recently. Also about a month ago, flyers with barcodes leading to information from the K&T hack showed up around town. While these flyers were quickly taken down, everyone heard about them. Kuno asks John about his family, and aside from the food shortage they're doing well.

##### **Sunday, November 22nd, 542:**

Colby is surprised to see a new person join his congregation, flanked by two suited men. She participates enthusiastically in the service, and ingratiates herself to the other members of the congregation afterwards. She introduces herself to Colby as Fiorella Fells, and mentions that she had heard about "the messiah" and knew she had to join his church. She is a bit disappointed with the state of the building, and thinks it should be grander.

##### **Monday, November 23rd, 542:**

Asa visits the address he was given by Genevieve, to join their organization. He is shown around by Arlo, including the jobs board and their fairly well-stocked armory, and is advised to not stop by after 10 p.m. when the more radical members of the organization show up. Apparently, these folks do good work, but wouldn't be too fond of Asa being a part of their organization. Atlas is mentioned as another name of a leader, though Arlo seems to mostly deal with Genevieve.

### **Pax has a Plan**

##### **Friday, November 27th, 542:**

Nyx texts everyone to meet up at her apartment, and for someone to bring Pax. Sam and Colby find Pax passed out drunk in a dumpster, and Sam carries him to Nyx's apartment, where Nyx throws him into her running shower--which is one way to wake up a upyr. Pax isn't inclined to give the party the information he learned from Cline, because the party was useless in the fight, but he does call it the "Faraday investigation," which is a reference to the local university. Kuno mentions that he works there, and Pax asks for his keys, which Kuno leaves to get while Pax does some explaining. According to his research, the next upyr on his list is a professor Deveraux of Advanced Mathematics at the university. The party aren't the most supportive of letting a murderous child loose on a college campus, but Pax was right about Cline, and unwilling to bring anyone along, so he gets Kuno's keys to the school and will get in contact with the party if he doesn't die in the process.

Pax asks what the party has been up to, and Nyx tells him about the red drugs she got from Zacharie. Pax is surprised she managed to get hold of one, since he's been looking into them, and recognizes them as capsules of upyr blood, which (according to Pax) must have bad side effects. There was a big supply of them on the streets, and then no supply; and COAST has stopped killing upyr (aside from Pax, he's still on the hit list) and instead started kidnapping them, likely on someone's behalf as hired muscle. Pax has a vague location they're probably being taken to, and draws the party a rough map.

### **Reinventing the Wheel**

The party, after some wrong turns, manages to find the building Pax directed them to. It's an unlabeled office building, with a secretary just inside the door, and impressively good security for this part of town. The party scout out the building until about midnight, finding a locked side door, and then head to their respective homes.

##### **Saturday, November 28th, 542:**

The next morning, Asa checks the board at the anti-supernatural organization he joined, which has nothing where the office building is. The party goes to visit Ollie to ask him for a way to get through the side door's electronic lock, but he has company over, and will be busy for a while. Eventually, after realizing the secretary leaves overnight, the party decides the best approach is to break in through the glass doors on the front and leave Colby on watch outside.

## Quotes

**Pax:** "Did you fuckers like, kidnap me?"

**Abby:** "We always go to Pizza Hut though." | **Parker:** "No one out-pizzas the hut!"

**Kellen:** "At least the ladder didn't require us to reinvent the concept of breaking and entering!"

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