Session Notes - Misty Investigates

Setting the Scene: London, 1934

• A cold, dreary afternoon around 5 or 6 PM.
• Smoggy and grim streets of London.
• People hustling and bustling. A general air of suspicion.

Character Introduction: Misty

• Wearing a Girl Scout uniform, possibly with a hat.
• Blonde, curly hair and glasses.

Misty's Agenda

• Meeting someone who wants to do business with "Vaginawa" (Vontemort), described as an absolute dickhead, at approximately 6:30 PM.
• Considering smoking a "candy stick".

Investigating Aunt's House

• Looking for suspicious activities related to Vontemort.
• Searching for hidden panels.
• Spot Hidden Roll:
  • Mechanics: Uses percentile dice (two dice).
  • Goal: Roll below 60 for success.
  • Hard Success: Below 30.
  • Extreme Success: Below 15.
  • Critical Success: Roll a 1.
  • Initial Roll: 96 (Failure).
• Options after Failure:
  • Accept the fail.
  • Spend Luck: 70 luck points available, spend 1 luck point to reduce the roll by 1.
  • Push the Roll: Reroll with increased risk; cannot spend luck on the reroll; failing the reroll results in something very bad.
• Pushing the Roll: Blindfolding to gain new perspective.
• Success after pushing the roll - Extreme Success

Discovery Behind the Wall

• Sound of something hollow.
• Wall safe with old hinges.

Contents of the Safe

• Small pouches.
• Old black and white photo of aunt and Vontemort.
• A feral-looking lake above the mountain aiming for the heart. Losing one point to sanity is the result.
• Sanity Check:
  • Maximum Sanity: 55.
  • Losing 11 or more sanity points at once leads to indefinite madness.
  • Losing 5 or more points requires an intelligence roll; failing it means the character doesn't understand and avoids madness.

Dealing with the Discovery

• Gripping an axe for comfort.
• Rationalizing the photo as a trick of the light.
• Date on the back of the photo matches the date the house was sold.

Leather Bags

• Contain rough, raw, untempered diamonds and other gemstones.

Inventory Management

• Adding pouches of gems to inventory.

Plans and Preparations

• Making weed brownies.
• Getting weed.
• Gearing up the car.
• Finding out more about the aunt.
• Arts and crafts.
• Getting another axe.

Crafting a Weapon

• Painting a piece of wood (door hinge) with a cute design and the phrase "Vantanoir is a dickhead".
• Attempting to sharpen it with a kitchen knife.
• Fumble: 99. A fumble on a scale of 100 is between 96 and 100. A success on the scale is below 50 and a fumble is between 50 and 100.
• Result: Splinters and one hit point lost.
• Current Hit Points: 8.

First Aid

• Applying plasters and bandages.

Research Project on Vontonoir

• Interviewing people.

Past Investigations

• Investigating the entire house.
• Reading letters.
• Conducting interviews in the library.
• Reading newspapers in the library.

Intelligence Roll on Busser

• Roll: 60; Intelligence: 75 (Success).
• Busser ran food from the kitchen and was laid off with many others - near and off to years ago for a long term.
• 15 worked in amount. 6 are willing to talk.

The Dumbwaiter

• Goes from kitchen to bathroom.

Interviewing Blake Crossbead

• Invited Blake for questioning a week ago.
• Blake is an important golden gentleman.
• Blake works for a woman in London.

Interview with Blake Crossbead

• Sits in an armchair.
• Pretending to smoke a candy cigarette.
• Slamming a glass on the table, then asking, "What do you know about Vansenoir?"
• Intimidation Roll:
  • Initial Roll: 64.
  • Spending 11 luck to succeed.
• Blake says he can tell bits and pieces but takes his job seriously.
• Dangerous to torture Vantamort as he can kill. Torture leads to no imprisonment but death.

Deception Attempt

• Attempting to deceive by acting as a girl scout.
• Deception Roll (Persuade):
  • Roll: 19. Persuade: 10.
  • Spending 9 luck points to succeed.
• New guy at the door; has to find out how he does the contract.

Additional Actions

• Pulling out vodka and girl scout cookies.
• Learning that Vontemort traveled to Spain.

Encounter at the Bar

• Slapping barkeeper after asking "How much?"
• Getting information about Vantemort.
• Contact - he'd try to get him in contact, as he's doing a galla.
• Tying Jagged Pieces of Wood to Car - not an option