Ponecia Campaign Log:

See also: Ponecia Campaign

Session 1:

The party gets an e-mail from Priestess Twilight Skies requesting their help in freeing a number of prostitutes from the local brothel run by camel mobsters. The party accepts the job.

The party stops at a supply store and buys equipment for the coming mission. Back at their base, the party forms a plan for preliminiary scouting of the brothel for more information about its security.

The party takes public transportation to the brothel site and performs their initial scouting, then returns to their base. They make a plan for more detailed interior recon.

Session 2:

Sheep Clothing, a changeling from the hive of queen Supra Cerebra, wants the party to assassinate:

• Straight Lace, priest of the Sisterhood of the Moon.
• Heavy Load, union boss of the Zebra Ville storage workers union.
• Terra Cotta, Cybernetic Consciousness ceramics engineer.
• a Magisterium teacher called Spellcraft.

This job is declined. Bright Eyes, feeling insulted, kills and eats Sheep Clothing.

The party returns to the brothel. Bright Eyes infiltrates, posing as a customer. The prostitutes are smuggled out through a window, and taken to the temple.

Session 3:

The group returns to the brothel to eliminate the camels inside. The attack goes well, quickly killing all the occupant camels. The group swiftly loots the brothel, starts a structure fire to destroy the building, and escapes.

The party, back at HQ, receives D-mail from somepony named Isithunywa ("Messenger"). The party arranges to meet him in a diner. Target: Fire Proof. His operation goes under the name of Fire & Theft Home Insurance Co. 4 guards. Weapons confiscated at the door. Organized crime ties. Said to have approximately $25,000 cash on the premises available as loot. The loanshark himself is a unicorn. He has a donkey for a doorman. There may be a camel or a pegasus, but those are all that could be confirmed.

The party receives a useful d-mail from ACME corporation listing all their various products available for purchase and delivery.

Session 4:

The party signs up with the Varangian Protections Services. They head out to a museum to discuss a job offer with the curator. The group accepts the job of guarding some paintings for one night, for the price of $2000 / person (and a free poster).

The party returns to HQ to wait for the night. Candy goes to visit her family. Bright Eyes and Marshmallow go shopping for uniforms and equipment. Unity and Mistral repair Unity's damaged workstation, then take naps.

Session 5:

The party guards the museum exhibit. Zebras break in. The party attempts to talk them down, and one of them attacks and stabs another who wants to leave peacefully. The attacker is subdued and the injured zebra is stabilized and taken away my emergency medical services.

In the morning, Display Case tells us that Brunhilde wishes to see us in the Eyrie building. Marshmallow and Bright Eyes go on a double breakfast date with Purple Phone and his roommate, Burning Cash.

Session 6:

The party members wake up / return to HQ. An e-mail arrives from Brunhilde, to arrange a personal meeting. A second e-mail arrives from the assistant mage to Magisterium Archon Raven Mad, seeking to hire security to relieve a shift at a cemetry on the western outskirts of Equinopolis. The cemetery custodian is Raven Mad's nephew, Living Ashes.

At the meeting with Brunhilde, she reveals that she's looking for art thieves, more or less, to help her acquire certain pieces for her collection.

Immediately after the meeting, Unity gets a call from Living Ashes asking for an in-person meeting to discuss the details of the his job offer. It involves containing zombies and pays $3000 per person for the night's work. The party accepts the job, with a $1000 per person advance, and begins preparing by ordering some steel plate delivered to the graveyard while returning to headquarters to gather up their equipment.

Session 7:

The party gets some rest at HQ, heads back to the cemetery, and builds their wall. Ocelli scouts the cemetery while everyone else waits at the walled-up entrance.

A mist rolls in, necromancy is detected, and zombies attack. Ocelli manages to capture the necromancer, Soft Soil, ending the attack.

Session 8:

Ash returns at dawn. The party leaves the graveyard. On the way back, they encounter a severely wounded pegasus mare surrounded by a crowd who have attacked her, mistaking her for a changeling. The party calls paramedics and save her. Raven Mad pays the party. Ocelli takes Soft Soil to a spa.

Mistral and Unity take apart the captured brothel computers: "The drives contain some boring ledgers, purchases, expenditures, customer data. But the d-mails contain some lurid gems. It seems the operators were thinking of drugging the prostitutes to make them docile and dependant. They'd get the drugs from another racket the camels run, a sisha bar named Hashishin's Garden. There are also some exchanges with a local slaughterhouse the provides meat to the city's carnivores. It seems the mares who have to retire from the flesh trade end up going there."

The party decides that they will take it on themselves to destroy the slaughterhouse and the bar to end the atrocities being committed by the camel gangsters.

Bright Eyes and rest of the party discuss the situation of Soft Soil and how to deal with it.

Session 9:

The party scouts out the slaughterhouse. They fake a chemical spill at a neighboring steel mill, causing the slaughterhouse to evacuate. The party enters the empty slaughterhouse, starts various fires, and sets the boiler to explode, destroying the building. Two mares are rescued and turned over to the Sisters of the Moon. Two camels are captured, one of which is also released to the Sisters of the Moon. The other camel, an underboss for the organized crime syndicate, is retained as a prisoner for interrogation and probably eventual execution.

Session 10:

Interrogation reveals: the camel underboss's name is Zarya the Small Hump. She is married to Tamir of the Wastes and is the daughter-in-law of the organization's boss, Sharif of the Wastes. Sharif operates from a mansion in the hills in the gated neighborhood of Hinnywood. After extracting various pieces of information, Ocelli kills Zarya.

The party receives an e-mail from Night Vision, who they go to meet near the sisha bar / drug den. They find out that Tamir of the Wastes runs the bar. It is a hub of organized crime logistical movement, including trafficking ponies. Tamir's mistress is Sultry Smile, an earth pony who runs a brothel somewhere in Oasis. They plan to contact Twilight Skies to arrange payment terms for eliminating Tamir and Sultry.

Session 11:

The party has an argument about ethics, instigated by Marshmallow's insistence that they should have none and Mistral and Unity insisting that they should. Unity nearly moves her stuff out of HQ, but is persuaded to stay by most of the party agreeing that they don't mind taking on the risks that Marshmallow perceives in doing charity work.

Candy and Mistral work out, while Ocelli, Marshmallow, and Soft Soil go to a movie night.

In the morning, the party plans. A d-mail from Twilight Skies arrives with intel from the rescued pimp, advising us that Markhal the Cactus Bloom is one of the other pimps currently recruiting new prostitutes to replace those lost, and might be a good target for infiltrating the organization.

Ocelli is chosen to volunteer as a prostitute and meet Markhal the Cactus Bloom to be recruited, while carrying a concealed suppressed pistol.

Ocelli assassinates Sultry Smile and escapes the Hanging Gardens brothel.

Session 12:

The party regroups back at HQ. A new d-mail arrives in which Twilight Skies informs the party that she's gotten them an audience with her high priestess, Eclipse.

Ocelli goes out to get some jewelery and a knife looted from Sultry Smiles appraised in the hours before the audience.

The party goes to their audience with High Priestess Eclipse. They learn that the drug den Tamir runs has been used lately to fence stolen consumer electronics and has a large basement.

Shortly after stopping in to a sushi restaurant in Dragon Town, four camels attack with automatic weapons.

Session 13:

The party defeats the camel attack, and discovers that they were only there coincidentally and were not the target. Intimidating the restaurant owner was the actual goal.

A zebra messenger is waiting for the party at HQ when they get back, and formally hires them on behalf of the zebra Emperor deal with the loanshark.

The party receives a d-mail from someone named Bonechiller (the Magisterium's expert on necromancy), wanting to talk about the cemetary job.

Session 14:

Soft Soil gets a pardon for necromancy in exchange for going to work for Bonechiller.

Session 15:

Candy gets hired by the loan shark as a guard. She is told she can bring one of her friends in for a job as well, starting tomorrow. Ocelli turns a pegasus guard into dust to take his place.

Session 16:

Unity gets a promotion at work and will henceforth be absent most of the time. Before she goes, she creates incindiary devices for the party to use in the loanshark and a larger bomb for use in destroying the shisha bar.

Candy, Marshmallow, and Ocelli report to the loan shark to begin work, while Mistral remains outside to conduct surveillance. A zebra comes in to the loan shark's office and pulls a derringer. His shot misses and he is subdued. Jamal the camel is sent out to dispose of the zebra, but Mistral and one of Ocelli's drones ambush him. Mistral is injured and Jamal escapes, but the zebra is freed.

Candy subdues and kills the zebra guard in the staff room. The party eliminates the remaining guards and captures Shakedown (the loan shark), then coerces a safe code out of him. The code doesn't work at first, but a different arrangement of the numbers provided successfully opens the safe. When interrogated under mesmerization, Shakedown reveals that some of his 'benefactors' are the "Camel mob, dragontown OC, Pegasopolis Revival Front, some lesser affiliates." Ocelli also obtains the address, keys, and security code to Shakedown's home.

The party sets fire to the building and leaves.

Session 17:

Having completed the loan shark job successfully, the party is invited to meet with the zebra Emperor.

A d-mail comes in from Brunhilde asking us to attempt to buy a highly collectable sword called Wrath from a dragon, and if buying fails, to steal it. Over d-skype, Brunhilde tells the party that retrieving the sword will pay $8000 bits, the dragon is named Longclaw and has a reputation as a questionable art dealer, and he lives in the upscale Hinnywood area in a mansion that should be soundproofed. Display Case is a friend of Longclaw, and Purple Phone used to work for him. A briefcase of money will be provided for the party at the Eyrie Building to make a final purchase offer to Longclaw.

Mistral goes out to shop for a car with the profits from the loan shark job, while the rest of the party skypes with Purple Phone. They learn that an art critic that criticized Longclaw's collection never made it home afterwards. His security consists of about six patrolling guards, but not very effective electronic security measures. Security cameras are recorded on a centralized server in a data room, noted as a weakness. This room also contains the alarm systems that are triggered if glass cases are broken or disturbed. All alarm systems are internal and not connected up to notify outside security, such as police.

Mistral returns to HQ.

Session 18:

The party drives to Shakedown's house to take whatever valuables can be found within. They discover Shakedown's significant other inside. Ocelli impersonates Shakedown, but after she mentions attempting to have a foal, everyone else feels guilty and backs out without robbing the apartment.

The party goes out to dinner and then sleeps.

In the morning, the party goes to their meeting with the zebra emperor. He asks the party to take on the task of delivering weapons to the zebra faction, and explains the origins of changelings in Ponecia.

Session 19:

The party picks up the payment briefcase for the sword from Brunhilde, who also gives them a day pass card into Hinnywood where Longclaw lives. The party diverts briefly to buy good-looking business clothing to help in their efforts to purchase the sword, then drives to Longclaw's mansion. Longclaw refuses to sell, and after talking him down from trying to steal the payment, the party returns to Eyerie building to return the payment briefcase to Brunhilde.

The party receives a d-mail from Bonechiller asking for their help in recreating the night of the zombie incident in which Soft Soil was found. Soft Soil agrees.

The next morning, the party helps Soft Soil move into her new home. Afterwards, Ocelli and Marshmallow go to their dates and Candy and Mistral go to the gym. It is learned that Longclaw has all the security and camera surveillance located in one server room, and not connected to outside entities such as police. Marshmallow also manages to acquire some (possibly old, but seemingly still accurate) maps of the layout of Longclaw's facilities.

Session 20:

The next morning is a rainy day. The party receives a D-mail from someone named Mending Hide, a lead engineer for the Cybernetic Consciousness, asking if the party is willing to help him acquire research for a project. Mistral e-mails him back and receives instructions for getting into contact.

Mistral develops a plan to place sedative gas in the ventilation to Longclaw's mansion security room. The supplier quotes a price of $600 for a suitable canister offering a half hour of time to work in, and $250 for suitable gas masks. Mistral drives to the Eyrie building to pick up these items.

The party plans to split up, with Mistral, Candy, and one of Ocelli's drones going to meet Mending Hide (taking Mistral's car), and Marshmallow and Ocelli staking out and abducting one of Longclaw's guards. Ocelli mentions that more of the party needs nonlethal options, and some consideration is given to buying tasers.

Ocelli and Marshmallow get a new day pass from Brunhilde's secretary.

Mistral and Candy reach Mending Hide. He explains that he is working on a new alloy he plans to call bio-steel. He plans to use changeling bio-magic in it, but needs more data on changeling biology. The Center for Changeling Studies has this data. He gives us the location of the Center for Changeling Studies, and offers $12,000 bits for the job. Mending mentions that he "managed to penetrate into their computer network only once, and was locked out quickly." The structure is build like a tower, possibly with departments separated floor by floor, but this is not certain.

Mending: "I hope you're good at hacking. Or better than I am. It's probably easier from inside the building, having access to the physical computers and networks."

Ocelli, upon hearing the location of the Center for Changeling Studies, abandons the job to abduct a guard and tries to drive Mistral's car there. Marshmallow texts Mistral to tell her what's happening, and Mistral remotely locks the car to drive back to HQ instead. Marshmallow and Ocelli exit the car and approach the Center for Changeling Studies on foot, while the car returns.

Session 21:

Candy goes to meet Marshmallow and Ocelli. Outside the Center for Changeling Studies, they rescue a drone from Cerebra's hive, then go to a diner. After a meal, the drone explains that Cerebra had hoped to defeat the Center for Changeling Studies through the slower legal route of gaining more rights for changelings.

Candy, Marshmallow, and Ocelli return to Hinnywood and manage to capture one of Longclaw's guards, and bring him and his car back to the warehouse.

Emerald cameos, waking up and poking her head out of a fruitcart in the corner while remaining unnoticed. She soon goes back to sleep. Adorably.

The party interrogates the guard using Ocelli's hypnosis. The guard is disposed of afterward. The party discusses their scheduling and next courses of action.

Session 22:

Candy orders pizza and her and Mistral eat dinner. A d-mail arrives from Bonechiller reminding the party of their appointment at the graveyard. Raven Mad's assistant will be there with voting records that Ocelli asked for.

Ocelli goes to find and interrogate a scientist, Micro Wave, from the Center for Changeling Studies. The scientist's coltfriend interrupts Ocelli's attempt to interrogate her, and mistakes Micro's appearance to indicate that he had another stallion over. He attacks her. Ocelli intercedes, possibly saving Micro's life by mesmerizing the coltfriend and getting him to leave. Ocelli talks to Micro and learns some of the ways in which their agents spot and capture changelings, along with her schedule information, what she works on, and other information. Ocelli and Micro reach and agreement whereby Micro will be kept in Ocelli's hive until the Center for Changeling Studies is destroyed.

The party goes to the graveyard for the reinactment of events. They encounter Shakedown's wife in the distance, attending a funeral at the graveyard, and Marshmallow accidentally waves her over. Things get awkward.

Raven Mad's assistant gives Ocelli information about voting records on measures regarding changelings.

Session 23:

The party discovers a scrap of fabric from a necromancer's cloak similar to Soft Soil's stuck on a fence. Tracks lead to the tomb of Lunar Tides. When the tomb is opened, it is empty. Lunar Tides' body was apparently routinely exhumed and carefully preserved in accordance with her wishes. Bonechiller detects that advanced magic has been used. Further tracks lead to the tomb of Moon Walker, the first pony to walk on the moon. Her crypt has been opened, and her body is still there but with the medallion she was buried with, made from a moon rock, missing. Continuing through the cemetery, a statue of a pegasus has blood on it, along with some leftover fragments of bones (probably) from a zombie. Soft Soil detects that there was additional necromantic energy used in the graveyard, of the same type she used to raise zombies.

An alarm on Ocelli's phone indicates that it's time to leave for the attack on Longclaw's mansion. On the way Mistral buys a taser. As the car approaches the mansion, most of the party gets out and finds someplace to hide out and wait while Ocelli proceeds to park and go in disguised as Peepers. 'Peepers' touches a female guard (Maglight) inappropriately on the way to the security room, then offends Gerdie, a female griffon guard. Maglight leaves. Ocelli tries to mesmerize Gerdie but fails, so Ocelli love-drains Gerdie to dust and takes on her appearance, with a black eye and a gash on her head. Longclaw comes to the security room and finds 'Gerdie' pretending to be injured. Peepers, now nowhere to be found, is blamed for attacking 'Gerdie.' Maglight gets out a first aid kit from a locker, revealing where the gas masks are in the security room. 'Gerdie' is left alone in the security room and destroys the gas masks.

Outside, Mistral tases and knocks out the only external guard, then places the sedative gas cylinder in the air duct. Ocelli accidentally traps herself in the security room. Mistral and Marshmallow don't find the sword on the first floor, so they move to the second. Candy breaks open the security room wall, freeing Ocelli, and the two of them rejoin the rest of the party. Mistral finds the sword on the second floor, breaks open its display case, and takes it. She also smashes open several other displays and takes other artifacts. Most of the party loads back into Peeper's car, while Ocelli steals Gerdie's car. Everyone leaves Hinnywood.

The party goes to the Eyerie building to deliver the sword to Brunhilde. Brunhilde is pleased with the party's performance and asks if they need anything from her. Ocelli asks for the assistance of her cyber security team in dealing with the Center for Changeling Studies. Mistral asks for intel on when the important camels usually gather at the Hashashim Garden in Oasis. Brunhilde mentions that Tamir, the son of the big boss, is often seen at the Hanging Gardens brothel. His father, the big boss (Sharif), has not been seen in Hinnywood lately and has instead checked into a hotel in Uptown (the Statesmare Hotel) where where a whole floor's been locked down by camel mobsters. Brunhilde suggests that something happening to Tamir would almost certainly force Sharif to take action, which may be exploitable.

Brunhilde also supplies the address of a mechanic shop that can 'legalize' the two cars the party stole. Ocelli takes Gerdie's car there and Candy takes Peeper's car.

Session 24:

The party draws graffiti on some walls that Marshmallow is about to cover up with reinforcing materials, then receives d-mails. One d-mail is from Varangian Protection Services intel department. They will help with the CoCS infiltration, and have a program ready to lift data from their computers if the party is able to put it on them. The d-mail also warns that the program is in fact a virus, so they're not including it. The party will have to come pick it up when ready. The second d-mail is from Supra Cerebra. Since the party rescued her drone, she is willing to have a meeting about the CoCS and offer assistance. Marshmallow arranges with Supra to meet in a club called "Pickles".

The party meets with Supra Cerebra. She offers the use of Grendel, the rescued changeling drone, to draw from her hive's love reserves to infuse captured drones already inside the CoCS so they will have the strength to fight and distract the facility's security. Ocelli can get the rest of the party inside by posing as the scientist, Micro Wave, and calling a supervisor to arrange visitor passes.

Supra Cerebra offers Ocelli a type of metamorphosis to gain more knowledge and abilities. Supra suggests that it take place later, but Ocelli accepts the risks of accelerating the process and moving up the timeframe to take place immediately, inside the champagne room at the club. The process takes several hours and leaves Ocelli very love-hungry.

The party proceeds to the Eyrie building to meet with the security staff of Varangian Protection Services and get the virus. They meet Sam, who gives the party two fetlocksticks with the virus (one for Ocelli, one for Mistral). He advises them to try to hit the most relevant targets, and without too much delay, since there may be adapative security in place: "Skip the assistant researchers, and go straight to the department heads. They would have the most juicy data. Of course, a maneframe would be even better, if you can reach it."

The party makes arrangements for the data extracted to be automatically mirrored to individual encrypted cloud storage accounts for every party member. Mistral also asks Sam to contact the individual owners of the accounts before making any changes to the arrangement to send the data to that account.

The party heads to City Sushi, having heard it's been repaired and reopened since the camel mafia shootup the last time they were there.

A d-mail is waiting when the party returns to the warehouse after dinner. It's from a shaman living in Zebra Town, Isikhulumi, claiming to be acquainted with both Grendel and the Emperor. The shaman claims to have been told by the spirits about a group of changeling friends who would be given a job by the emperor, and offers offers to give his spiritual aid to them.

Ocelli impersonates Micro Wave and calls the CoCS, obtaining three visitor passes. Grendel will need to hide to enter, so it is planned that he will take the form of the container the team uses to smuggle in their weapons and equipment. There will be two teams, one of Candy and Mistral and one of Ocelli and Marshmallow. Grendel will switch off between them until at least one other Cerebra drone is found and reinvigorated with love, at which point each team will have at least one drone. Ocelli will initiate the operation by pulling a fire alarm or otherwise creating a chaotic distraction.

Session 25:

Grendel shows up at the warehouse not long after the party returns from City Sushi, wanting to show the party the place where he got abducted and introduce them to the zebra he talked to, which turns out to be Isikhulumi. Grendel, Mistral, Candy, and one of Ocelli's drones drive to his shop.

A zebra mare at the shop named Speaker greets the group. She offers Mistral a private "measuring" to Mistral, during which she performs a small ceremony. She says she can create a talisman that "gives good mojo", but will need certain ingredients: the feather of a bird of a feather, another pony's treasure, rubber of a wheel of time, and sand from the hourglass of timed travel. She explains that, "It is a talisman of winds. It often is associated with weather magic and flight. Basically, it is perfect for pegasi." She also warns Mistral not to reveal the ingredients to anyone else.

Grendel stays at HQ in Ocelli's hive overnight.

In the morning, the party plans for the impending attack on the CoCS. Mistral orders 20 blank fetlocksticks and clones the virus onto them.

The party drives to the CoCS building. Ocelli poses as Micro Wave and enters. The party poses as 'potential customers' brought in by Micro Wave to get entry badges. A mare named Oculus Prim escorts them into the building. A directory indicates the floors of the building: Stasis Scan, Love Energy, Hivemind, Transformation, Regeneration, Secretions, Mesmerization, Carapace, Consumption, Classified 1-3, and Management.

Ocelli goes to Micro Wave's office on the 6th floor and infects two computers.

Mistral requests to go the the 7th floor, Carapace research. While riding the elevator, Mistral tases Prim, and ties her up. Grendel impersonates her. The party stashes her on top of the elevator with their gear that is no longer concealed inside Grendel. Mistral leaves a virus stick in the server on floor 7. The party proceeds to floor 4.

Ocelli finds and kills another scientist, Trance Gender, and impersonates him. She uses his keys to unlock the floor 6 data room and plant a virus on its server. Ocelli then goes to floor 4 to meet back up with the rest of the party. She picks the lock to the floor 4 data center.

Ocelli splits off again and goes to floor 2, Hivemind research. She finds changeling pods. The rest of the party goes to floor 2 to join her. Ocelli goes off alone again to find the floor 2 data room. She finds it, picks the lock, plants a virus, and is spotted by Tattle Tale, a junior researcher. Ocelli pushes her down and proceeds to floor 3 (Transformation). Ocelli pulls a fire alarm to create a distraction. She is accidentally hit by the opening door to the head researcher's office.

On floor 2, the party hides in an empty office to avoid security escorting everyone out. After the guards leave, they free the changelings in the pods. The party then gets their gear back from on top of the elevator and proceeds to the top floor, Management. They infect two computers there. Ocelli moves to floor 5. The rest of the team moves to floor 11 and infects a random computer. Ocelli starts a fire on floor 5 after infecting the server there. The team moves to floor 10 and finds four pods and a strange device. Ocelli moves to floor 8. She finds two pods and unlocks the data room. After infecting the server on floor 8, she joins the party on floor 10.

Marshmallow finds a more portable device on floor 9 and takes it. She also infects a computer there. Mistral finds two more pods on floor 1. Ocelli unlocks and infects the floor 1 server. The ground floor has no data center, but has four more pods.

The party puts their suits back on and walks out of the building to join the evacuated crowd. They get in the car and drive away as a wave of changeling drones bursts from the building and scares the crowd.

Session 26:

The CoCS data becomes available. Mistral makes a copy of the small amount that Mending Hide needs and arranges a time to deliver it. Candy goes to her parents' house to drop off the party's smoky clothes for cleaning. Ocelli tests the captured prototype CoCS stun device down in her hive.

The party drives to the foundry to deliver the data to Mending Hide, including the information that Terra Cotta was paying off the CoCS to block his access to information. Mending Hide offers Marshmallow some heavier servos to upgrade her strength.

Mistral gets a d-mail advertising a race track, and goes to visit it. Ocelli and Candy go to the Magisterium to investigate Spellcraft's sister, Lovecraft.

Mistral goes on a tour of a racing facilities and manages to gather some materials that might be useful in making her talisman. Ocelli and Candy try to see Lovecraft and are denied by a security guard, but end up meeting Soft Soil instead. Soft Soil gets them into the private residence area to see Lovecraft. Mistral meets one of the race car drivers, Hot Rod, a pegasus who is currently too injured to race.

Mistral exchanges contact information with Hot Rod, to possibly do some investigating on Hot Rod's attackers who she thinks were sent by one of her competitors who wanted her eliminated.

Ocelli learns from Lovecraft that Spellcraft wants to discredit love based magic in all its forms. He may have worked with CoCS to develop their mesmerization weapon. Lovecraft says that "he is the black sheep of the family. Arguing for further restrictions on a viable field of magic study." There is a long-running feud of character assassination ongoing between Lovecraft and Spellcraft. Ocelli wants to try to reconcile them somehow in order to defuse Spellcraft's condemnation of love magic and its impact on changeling interests.

Lovecraft tries to seduce Ocelli, and Candy leaves to give them privacy. As soon as they're alone, Ocelli mesmerizes Lovecraft before performing erotic activities with her and feeding extensively on her love.

Candy helps Marshmallow work in fortifying the walls of the warehouse.

Mistral flies to Isikhulumi's magic shop. Speaker takes the talisman components into the back, and there is a slight chill while Mistral waits. Speaker returns with a necklace made of the feather, rubber and titanium part strung together along with some other feathers and beads. Mistral "can practically feel a surge coursing through her wings. As if magic has become ever so slightly more tangible just by wearing the talisman."

The party receives a d-mail from Hot Rod asking for their help in investigating the attack against her. She offers a 4000 bit reward for proof of who attacked her. Hot Rod suspects one of the top contenders of the race circuit may stand to benefit from her injury, but doesn't know any well enough to say who's suspicious. The party finishes up arrangements with her, saying they'd like to finish a couple other jobs first but will get to her soon. Mistral and Candy eat dinner and go to bed.

Session 27:

In the morning, Marshmallow and Purple arrange a date for later that night. Candy starts building a trophy wall. A d-mail arrives from Night Vision, the Sisterhood of the Moon spy: The pony prostitute the camels recaptured was sighted in the brothel Sultry Smiles used to run. She also confirms that the underboss has relocated there recently. Mistral d-mails Eclipse asking for an offer on Tamir's father, and Eclipse responds that his elimination would be worth the same $10,000 bits as Tamir.

Mistral proposes the general outline of a plan for dealing with the camels to completion: Capture Tamir, use Tamir to lure out and kill his father, then pack Tamir into a container with the bomb that Unity provided the party with and blow up the camel's drug den and Tamir at the same time.

Mistral asks Candy if she knows anyone who might be a contact with the dragon mafia, to see if they're willing to pay anything for the elimination of Tamir and his father. Candy knows of a dragon named Sharktooth who frequents a seafood restaurant called Ocean Pearls. The party goes to look for Sharktooth, with Marshmallow staying behind in the car looking at something on her phone. Although they arrive in the morning while the restaurant is still closed, they find Sharktooth at a small grocery store. Candy introduces the party.

Sharktooth and the party go speak in private in a hotel room. Mistral explains that there is a plan formed to get rid of the camel mafia. Sharktooth goes to make a phone call in private, then returns. The dragon mafia will discreetly offer a payment of $500 bits if something happens to the camel mafia in the next few days.

The party drives to the car sanitizing shop. Ocelli and Candy pick up their 'new' cars and drive them back to HQ. Candy goes to pick up the party's clothes from her mom, who has finished washing the smoke out of them.

The party plans for their operation to abduct Tamir and another camel: "<Ocelli> So, the plan: We approach the whorehouse. We taser and interrogate a guard to learn where Tamir goes if the place is attacked. We keep the guard as a messenger to use later. Probably need to get an extended knockout drug for that. Anyway, I infiltrate as a Sultry Smiles look-alike and try to get Tamir to a room with a window. I knock him out, we leave via window. If plan A fails, Candy attacks and I retreat. Mistral and Marsh stand by to <Ocelli> intercept Tamir while I and Candy move to back you up."

Mistral buys a supply of several sedative injection pens from a local clinic, to be picked up on the way to the job. Ocelli readies a drone. The party drives to the Hanging Gardens brothel, in Mistral and Candy's cars, and is ready to begin the infiltration.

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