Part I: http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13796767
Part II: http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13808265
Part III: http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13868014
Part IV: http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13892779

If you're a newcomer I suggest you read them all because a shitload of things have happened and although I'll try to summarise shortly I won't be able to get all the details.

Skills:
Guns - all guns, rifles, semis etc
Bartering - The bluffing, the negotiating, the double dealing, it all comes naturally to you.
Intimidation (basic) - You can scare civilians if you give them the evil eyes.

Spells:
Summoning (Level Four) - you can now summon people up to 3 years dead, faster and with less energy than you used to.
Bind (Level Three) - You can bind a ghost or a spirit to your cause for 3 days.
Life Leech (Level Two) - you now have the ability to heal minor wounds. If you're already healthy and use it you get stronger, quite a bit faster and gain some stamina. Your target feels like they've run a marathon unless you decide to only take a little. You still cannot leech from magicians.
Rip (Level One) - essentially ripping out the souls of living people from their bodies by summoning them. Makes them unconscious for about 30 seconds since their souls return to the bodies relatively quickly.
Ghost Whip (Level One) - you can now cause untold amounts of agony to the newly dead, up to three days. As you get more practice at this you can cause more damage to older ghosts.

More like NEGROmancer, right? Ha ha!

Did they have heroin back in 1927? Because if they did we should totally get the drop on that Lucas guy fifty years ahead of the game.

Awwwwwwwwwwww yeah.

One thing I think may have been overlooked. We burnt down our speakeasy. Before we go to sleep for the day, we should start by getting the lot cleaned up. I doubt we have the money to start rebuilding right now, but we can at least take responsibility, show Olukwele our heads not up our ass - hire locals to help out the community, etc.

>>13928351
You...You...do know Van Gogh was a heroin addict , right? Shit's been around for a long time.

Items of Note:
Magic Knuckleduster, with ONE charge left in it. Each charge that connects is a killing blow. The kid was quite clearly an amateur so he could only throw the energy a few inches forward of the knuckleduster. You're experienced so when you use it you can punch from several feet away and the knuckleduster's energy will take a man down, permanently. You noticed the two times you've used it so far that it wanted to be used.
Happy Magic Juice - a high quality concoction that mystics use to power their astral wanderings: some laudanum, a some rare chinese opium, and a dash of Ghost. You've got enough in the bottle to get a mind and soul high and keep it there for a whole weekend.
Medium Physical Protection Amulet - This can take killing blows and spread out the attack evenly on the shield so you don't get broken bones or incapacitated. It can only take 3 killing blows before having to be recharged.
Medium Astral Protection bracelet - This will protect you from attacks on the astral plane, whether you're a sleep or you're awake although it does require a ritual in the mornings to activate it for the rest of the day.
Distraction Charm - This will allow you to walk through white neighbourhoods without having the police called on you or get undue attention. You're part of the background but if you do something out of the ordinary you will get noticed.

General:
- 1 Browning Automatic Rifle.
- 2 Tommy Guns with straight mags.
- Silver bullets for the colt revolvers and 1 mags worth for a Tommy Gun.
- 2 M1917 Colt Revolver's
- 2 knives.
- 500 dollars.
- 1 apartment.
- 1 office + sanctum.
- 1 car

Knowledge:
- Demon Etiquette and some basic understanding of their realms.
- Chess (GOOD)

Money generation: 350 dollars per night.

Sweet, I just logged on to look for this. Nat 20 on Timing.

But I have to go to work in 15 minutes =(

Your underlings are as follows:

- Randy, an innocent sounding name for a dangerously cynical 16 year old kid. Loyal beyond death, really, because you helped him kill the judge that sentenced his father to death. You've taught him a bit of magical theory but he's not your kind, so for now he's a low level elemantal magician until he gets some real training. But boy can he set fire to shit. Special Items: 1 Elemntal Booster stone. 1 Basic Physical Protection Amulet. (BONUS: Pyromaniac.)
- Big Jim, a muscular behemoth with no magic whatsoever. He resents the fact that he is the same age as you and yet you give the orders. Nevertheless he obeys because you've got the juice and he don't. He ain't all that smart but he's good in a scrap. Special Items: 1 Medium Strenght Amplifier necklace.
- Chandler Raymonds. A punk kid you killed that has agreed to work for you for a time as a ghost, to spy on your enemies for you on the understanding that you keep his brothers safe if he finds out they're in danger. Because he's a free ghost who you haven't bound he can show initiative and do things on his own away from you and for extended periods of time without having to constantly rebind and set the parameters of his mission to him. He's agreed to work with you on a long term basis now.
- O'Leary, a cop you killed. You've got him Bound for 3 more days at which point he turns into a free ghost.
- Patrick, the brother of O'Leary who you killed when he was trying to avenge his brother's death. You've got him Bound for 3 more days.
- The Three Amigos, three nameless henchmen who've been with you through thick and thin. (BONUS: Loyalty Level Two).

DISADVANTAGES:
DEATH LEECH - if you're mortally wounded and you get knocked out you will drain until death whoever is standing closest to you in order to recover and wake up. This disadvantage will stay with you until you gain better control of leech life (i.e. Level Four).

>>13928366
It was mentioned that there are a shitton of other speakeasies in town. Squeaky's just happened to be the biggest.

Its a trap. If I recall the movie, Dutch Schultz's gang will team up with the Black gang led by Bumpy Johnson to take over Harlem.

>>13928382
Oh and we can stop by Winter's on our way home to try and sell back those silver bullets.

>>13928369
Really? I thought it was just opium, not heroin. The more you know and all that.

I haven't read most of this, but I just couldn't resist the chance at that pun. Have fun folks.

Summary:
You're in the financial district. You've just had a conversation with Lenny Brokowitz about Lord Pitt's right hand man, a german werewolf called Erik von Henderschmidt, Henders for short. You've got the address of a nightclub he works from and his home address. Brokowitz has also informed you that Lord Pitt has protected the Wessler building somehow from ghostly attacks, and that should you find some way to disable that protection him and some ghost pals of his with a bone to pick with Pitt will help you attack his building.

Meanwhile, time is running out for you to deal with Pitt because he's done a test run with the crystals against the Gambino family in Little Italy. And though people don't realise what happened, you do, and you know that the only thing that remains in the way between Pitt and total control of New York is you.

-----

I'll start in about 15 minutes to give people a chance to show up, and for myself to make a sandwich!

Yeah let's starting Selling heroin as a feel good medication.

>>13928414
Yeahhh I really hope there's no "no refund" policy. Should have seen those as a waste.

>>13928436
While drug dealing may eventually be a profitable enterprise, I feel like it wasn't really a thing in the 20's. Besides, we've got other contraband to worry about: liquor. Not to mention a ton of other things on our plate. We can work on implementing new racquets once we take care of the current issues and work our way up.

>>13928443
Or at the very least, convince him to give us a discount for the knowledge on how silver bullets are bullshit.

Unless he already knew, and is just making us pay for bullshit.

See, that's why I wanted to go for incendiary rounds last time. Can't be too hard to get some incendiary .30-06 for the BAR or something.

Or perhaps we can put little magical tracers on the bullets, and let Randy turn them into incendiary rounds mid flight?

Have we thought about setting one of our goons to always follow from a safe distance just to warn us if someones following? Its an easy way to cover our asses, also a little body armor or charms never hurt.

>>13928473
>Implying that alcohol's not a drug
>Implying marijuana, ether, tobacco, and opium weren't already established drugs by the 1920s

Not to bust in here and be a dick about drugs or anything...

>>13928432
For those that don't remember/weren't here: My suggestion is we ambush Henderschmidt while he's out on a Crystal Op. Then we don't have to assault the Wessler to get the Crystal, and take out Pitt's right hand man. We might even want to warn whoever hes moving against so they can help us.
I don't really see Pitt as the big deal, we are only interested in him because of the crystal, by taking it while its out, we get to avoid his fortress defense and then the pressure is on him. He cast to send out some second stringer, or make a move himself, revealing himself to ghost assault, which he hasn't done 5 years according to Lenny.

>>13928432
Henders is the first target. Then we can summon his ghost and see what he knows about the magical protection on the Wessler building. Take that down, and our ghost army can solve our problem for us.

Thoughts on whether we should go for the Home or the Nightclub? I feel like his home he'll be more off his guard, but it's also more likely to have his personal defenses and surprises. Then again, the Nightclub may have security of some sort that we'll have to deal with.

I want to propose the idea of setting up an ambush for him somewhere between the two. We have Chandler who can tail him, while we take our time to pick our location and get the drop on him when he's least expecting it.

Maybe we should try being a pimp.
In the 1920s , there were alot of immigrants coming from other countries to start a new lifei n america.
I'm sure pimping was somewhat easy backthen.


Plus it could get us in with people who wouldn't normally hang out iwthblacks as they would have to chat with us to fuck white hookers.

>>13928432
We need to ambush the dick out of Henders. Chandler should be checking on him still, so can we get access to a city planner's office and find blueprints to Pitt's building?

>>13928510

I actually meant that we're already busy handling illegal drugs in the form of liquor, and we don't need to branch out to what are currently less-profitable niche markets. But your point is taken.

>>13928515
Chandler is already staking out his home, ready to let us know when he sees Henders and if he hears about the crystal.

>>13928520
Read the threads, man. We aren't a pimp. We have pimps working for us.

>>13928520
+11

>>13928408
>>13928436
>>13928504
>>13928520

>If you're a newcomer I suggest you read them all because a shitload of things have happened

>>13928443
they are silver, its not like there wont be buyers. also I second the pay some locals to start cleaning/repairing the speak easy idea. tidy it up a bit, make sure it wont get any worse and figure out ow much we wil need to rebuild it better than before.

Right now in the way of protection we only have that amulet and that makes me feel a bit un-easy, I think we should get some more long lasting stuff.

>>13928603
We just upgraded the amulet, and its permanent as far as I know. What are you thinking of?

Alright guys, let's start this.

You have Chandler staking out Henderschmidt's home and he has yet to give you the signal for the arrival of Henders.

You're in the car in the Financial District with Randy, Big Jim and the ghosts of the two O'Leary brothers.

What do you want to do?

>>13928551
Ah. Well, that's perfectly reasonable. Boozehol was the biggest market at the time, yeah. Still might be, today.

>>13928652
Head over to a hall of records/assessors office/city planner's office to try and find blueprints to Pitt's building. Studying them in conjunction with an interrogation of Henders can help us find where wards are placed that we could destroy.

>>13928681
good idea but i think it might be a better idea to take out henders then grab the building plans on the way back to our HQ

>>13928681
There's a certain white boy you know with a taste for dark meat.

A few years ago, one of your underlings caught him going too far with one of the girls the Outfit was pimping out and you've had your hooks into him ever since.

He's come slightly up in the world since, some kind of middle manager in the City's offices. Tim Bradbury-James is the quintessential WASP. Tall, blond, and cheekbones that demand you follow them into battle.

You meet him in a little room inside a municipal building, and despite the ongoing storm and the dark shadows cast by the skyscrapers around you, it's still day and people are likely to be working inside.

Tim says, "Mr. Duke. I can show you the offices where architects have to register the blueprints of a certain type of building but I don't know how you intend to get them. They've got some special filing system and you'd need to get one of the people who work there to help you find the plans. How do you want to go about this?" His voice quivers, knowing he's in danger of losing his job and his social status if he's caught being seen with you.

>>13928632
I assume the amulet is equally defensible against human and magical attacks? It's just I have a bad feeling about the amulet, also are the dusters possessed? It said they wanted to be use and with one use left it might let something out.

>>13928787
Ask him more about the system

>>13928790
No, we have a medium PHYSICAL protection amulet, and a separate astral amulet. There isn't really any reason to be suspicious of our amulet, we bought it from Winter's. Jim or Randy has the one we got from Freeman.

well the obvious option is to throw money around and look scary enough that people decide they are better off not knowing.

>>13928825
"How should I know? I work in the Waste Superintendent's office two floors above it. All I know is that every time I've been by there, those little geeks are puttering around bragging about how they're the ones building this city, making it what it is. They've got all sorts of vaults and locked boxes in there. I guess those plans might be valuable to a thief or something," he says, instantly hoping he hadn't said the last because he now suspects you of planning to pull a heist at a bank and wonders if you'll kill him if you realise what he suspects.

>>13928868
Ask him if he knows any of these geeks.

We could just leave it up to Tim to get the plans. He works for the city, so it wouldn't be so weird that he wants some building plans. Although I would rather the news that we are snooping for info on the Wessler didn't get out...
We could try to get our bargain on and make Tim a more secure asset...

We could have O'Leary and Patrick go on in there. See if they can't hear anything useful.

>>13928868
Happen to know any dead people that used to work here?

Should we loot some of the other plans too? They might be worth a fair bit of money if we know the right people.

Here's how I view our tech tree:

We need to train Life Leech up, until we learn how to Put life into things.
Then we need to learn to Transfer Life from one thing to another.

We need to learn Binding until we can rip souls out of one body, and then put them into another.

We need to find a source that can teach us how to craft Flesh Golems - essentially, animating corpses.

With this, we animate a corpse, transfer life into it, and then shove a soul into it - allowing for Resurrection.

--

Also, we need to see if we can spend some time in a Ghost form ourselves. Not leaving our body entirely, but seeing if we can affect the world as a ghost.

If we can manage to transfer OURSELVES into a body, after we're turned into a ghost, we've effectively gained eternal life.

But that's far in the future. For now ... we deal with the matter of the crystals.

>>13928879
"No, sir, not me. I just see them sometimes round the canteen on the 8th floor. They've all go the same look about them. Short, four eyed, dark haired freaks. At least they're not nig-" he coughs quickly, "Do you mind if we hurry this up? My team think I've gone out for some smokes, we've got a meeting to get to soon."

>>13928909
Nope.

>>13928952
Pretend to make a magic geas. Tell him it will kill him if he tells anyone about our conversation.

>>13928952
Sounds like a bunch of virgins. Maybe we should send some... friends up to their place.

>>13928882
"How about his, Tim. I know you have a taste for the ladies. You get me the plans for the Wessler building, and you've got yourself a friend in Harlem. Maybe even a discount." If he is amicable, "See you tomorrow."

>>13928952
Tell him he's been an excellent help and well make sure it was worth his effort(hooker waiting at his house)

Idea unrelated to the task at hand: Have we thought about telling the Italians what the skinny is about the crystals, and getting them to team up with us on Pitt? We could maybe con our way into using most of their muscle, and after Pitt and the Italians are weakened, we could make a play on both fiefs?

Also, about the silver bullets. If they were so readily available for purchase, they must serve some function. We might want to look into what that is before we sell them.

>>13928990
I'm gonna say that the fm has some werewolf action planned

>>13928943
considering we are facing a guy who is a expert at astral magic this is not a good idea.

>>13928863
I would like to repeat my suggestion. with our bartering and intimidation skills it should work well

>>13928990
Can't trust eyeties man. They get the job half done, then crap out on you.

>>13929014
Let's put some cash into thugs and some fancy looking guns and armor for them.

With a mixture of threat and promises you send Tim Bradbury-James away and he's just as afraid of you as he ever was, and more than a little titillated by the promises of women you've made him. He's already planning all the things he's going to do to them.

What now?

1) Go up to the 12th floor, try to bribe and intimidate someone into helping you out, like the one anon is suggesting.
2) Something else - make a suggestion.

>>13929073
Bribery and possibly needed threats sound good to me. If they are as big loser as they sound, the offer of women and fun may be enough.

>>13929073 promises of women
If he's getting something, did he agree to get the plans for us, and we can pick them up tomorrow, or what?

>>13929112
Man, read. He can't get us the plans. He got us here in the building and gave us a little bit of info on the ones who work in the right office. That, and for maintaining our relationship, is why we're promising him a woman or two for a night.

>>13929128
This.

>>13929096
You step into an elevator and a young black man in a red uniform takes you up to the 12th floor. He looks at you out of the sides of his eyes, as if something is out of place and he can't quite figure out what, but then he mentally shrugs to himself and tips his hat to you as you step off into a hallway. It seems the distraction charm is working just fine.

You follow sings that lead you to the City Planning department. Maybe it's because things are nearing the end of the day but as you step in you see only one middle aged man, almost exactly as Bradbury-James described the type, sitting at a desk writing notes on some sort of sheets. His dark hair is peppered with grey, and all his attention is focused on the sheets he's writing on.

He hasn't noticed you've entered the office.

Make your move.

>>13929154
If we were smart, we wouldn't have brought our heavy weapons in. Likely we each have a single pistol.

And as for staying low, we are using some charms to remain discrete. And if we need to come off as threatening, we could use someone like Jim with us.

But for now, I agree in that he should go alone. The other two shouldn't stay here though, they should just stay out of the office.

>>13929168
>>13929154
Noted.

You've entered alone, but with your personal knives and guns on you. You can turn off the Distraction Charm to increase the intimidation factor when you feel like it.

>>13929184
Let's remain discrete while we try to bribe. If it comes time to intimidate, we'll turn it off.

Man, I have a feeling these guys are going to be hard to bribe... and possibly celibate.

>>13929208
Alright. Gimme some dialogue and we'll see how it goes over on the guy.

>>13929223
Look for the one who seems more down and out, or rather, more of a push over.

"Well good afternoon sir, it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm looking to do some work and require seeing a certain set of blueprints for reference. If you wouldn't mind, that is."

>>13929261
"Of course," the man is surprised to see you there. He looks up at you and smiles, completely disregarding the colour of skin like. Charm still working like a charm.

"May I see your architect's license?"

>>13929261
If he isn't immediately looking to give us access after some pleasantries like that, lift out our moneyfold (I'm saying we use a moneyfold, because it's much more classy than a simple wallet), and say, "I'm prepared to pay all of the required fees, as necessary."

>>13929309
Hrmm. "I'm still an apprentice sir, my employer is the architect, and I'm afraid he's far too busy to come down here himself. You know what it's like. Day in, day out, everyone taking up your time while you've got work to do. Everyone just seems to keep hassling the men at the top."

Really play into his inferiority complex, which I assume, he being an office worker at this fucking government office, he's got a bit of.

If he continues to block us, tell him how we're working on getting our license, and do as said earlier, take out our money clip and offer to pay all of the fees for a temporary license.

>Really play into his inferiority complex, which I assume, he being an office worker at this fucking government office, he's got a bit of.

I bet he's total Adeptus Munitorum style. Forms in triplicate or you don't get to move to the next stage in your application, where you shred said forms.

>>13929314
>>13929362
"You're...rather old for an apprentice aren't you?" he says, beginning to have some doubts creep into his mind.

Some of your patter creeps into his mind and works its way into the small part of him that's bitter that he isn't running the department yet at his age.

A temporary license? What a good idea.

LOSE: 75 dollars.

"Of course, of course. These things happen don't they?" he says amicably.

"Come with me," he says as he leads you into a separate room, opening the door for said room with three separate keys.

"What are you looking for?" he asks helpfully. Something a little out of the ordinary like this seems to have brightened his day a bit.

>>13929416
Plans to the Pitt building.

>>13929461
Wait. We don't know what the building's CALLED, do we?
Better just give the address.

Its called the Wessler Building.

>>13929416
We know the address for the Wesson building, don't we? If we do, add in the address for it here, "The Wesson building, down in the Financial District. We're supposed to be designing two things, an addition to go up to, but in order to do that, we need to know the layout of the floors beneath it, you know. And then we're supposed to add a roof top garden. Grass and flowers and benches to sit on, the whole spiel. My boss though, he doesn't know what he's doing. I've got so many ideas, just percolating around inside my head. I swear, I should be doing his job."

>>13929484
Shit, I meant Wessler, not Wesson.

>>13929461
>>13929471
>>13929480
>>13929484
>>13929498
"Ah, the Wessler building," the man says with more than a little recognition.

"What an ugly monstrosity. I can't imagine any gardens you add to it will make it any better."

"Nothing at all like some of the skyscrapers we have planned at the moment. You'll see none of that ugly blocky tower design, in our plans, we've got some real beauties on the way. Bauhaus mixed with the most tasteful art deco you can imagine. I tell you, friend, we'll have the most stunning skyline in the world. No other city will be able to compare," he continues, taking real pride in his part of the city.

"As for the Wessler building. I can only pray one day it will be demolished and replaced with something else. No offense to your own work, naturally."

He looks through several different drawers before coming out with the rolled up plans.

He spreads them out on a nearby table and then places some weights on all four corners so it doesn't roll up.

"And here you have it. You understand you can't take these with you? They belong to the city. You'll have to do your copying and tracing here and you can tell me when you're done and I'll put them back."

>>13929563
Woot woot, time to get out the tracing paper and straight edge. I actually find that enjoyable for some reason. Don't judge me.

>>13929563
so... are we skilled enough to trace/copy the plans or will we need to quietly sneakout?

>>13929563
"Don't blame me, my friend. I didn't design the horror, it's just my job to put a little spitshine on her. If I had my way, I'd gut the thing and put something new and fresh in it's place."

Go get some paper and sketch out some copies.

>>13929563
I imagine this could take awhile. Can we get the whole thing in an hour or less? If not we're going to have to look for points of interest.

>>13929616
>>13929611
Nope. In fact you don't have a clue about how to read these kinds of plans. But with the right words you can probably get the guy to go on at length about the Wessler building and exactly what's wrong with it. Through that you'll gain the knowledge you need.

Go for it. Give me words.

>>13929563
>You'll have to do your copying and tracing here
Well, fuck. For some reason, I thought we'd have photocopiers.

Have we got a spare ghost to watch our back while we work?

Even if he isn't a draftsman, he should be able to make a map based on the blueprints.

>>13929641
You've got the O'Leary brothers watching your back at all times until you give them other orders.

>>13929639
>>13929630
Go with that, and then this.

"But, we can't do everything we want, can we? Who knows though, maybe if we do a good enough job they'll hire us to do more remodeling. Lord knows the place needs it."

>>13929641

There should be a chemical photo copying serv ice available. BLUEprints were originally blue because of the photochemical process used to make high fidelity copies prior to photocopier machines being invented.

>>13929662
Some more "Maybe you could go over the floor plan with me and tell me what you think about the design. I can't do everything, but I'll keep it in mind."

While we're looking at the designs, look for anything we recognize as being a magical ward. Seeing as we work exclusively in necromantic magic and summoning, that doesn't give us much, but if we see any rooms that are specifically spherical, that could give us a hint. Perhaps the entire room has a massive ward covering the floor.

And I hope I didn't just give Ellington ideas.

"Absolutely, I couldn't agree more."

"The Wessler building is just so...untidy, you understand?" he tries to make his next words as inoffensive as he can, "I always thought you architects were really neat and detail oriented kind of guys but the Wessler gives you all a bad name. Just look at the basement and the foundations. There's a large exit into Frelling street for absolutely no reason that I can see, wide enough that you could drive two trucks through it."

"And then there's the arrangement of the floors. Look at this huge space between the 18th and 19th floors. You could probably fit two floors into that and it's not being used at all, according to what I've read. It's not like there's a power source being stored there or there's building maintenance shafts passing through."

"And you know what's most peculiar? Me and Jeff who works here went down there one weekend just to check it out, and the foundations are actually shaped like a star. If you walk around the room, it's this ugly cavernous space, the walls follow the shape of a five sided star."

"I don't know what kind of nutcase designed the building but they must've bribed the hell out of this office to get this approved."

"Before my time, you understand," he says to make sure you get that he's unbribeable.

GAINED: Knowledge of the Wessler building. I'll sprinkle more information about the place and the design if you go there, and we'll say you got that from your conversation with this friendly bureaucrat.

>>13929720
Or we could look for a specific spiritual arrangement of rooms and corridors (i.e. the corridors on the first floor make a pentagram etc.). If the guy is an astral hotshot, his HQ might be designed to every last bit to help him keep his status.

>>13929742
>the foundations are actually shaped like a star
I think we are going to need some TNT.

>>13929742
>And you know what's most peculiar? Me and Jeff who works here went down there one weekend just to check it out, and the foundations are actually shaped like a star.

Bingo, there's our primary ward. Also, something hit me the other night while I was thinking about HarlemQuest. Pitt's a savant of astral magic. We've got a ghost army ready to strike.

We'd better weaken the fuck out of him, or else Brokowitz and hits buddies are gonna be staring down a fucking dragon. Maybe we can find someone who can give us an anti-astral magic ward or something?

>>13929742
We'll also be interrogating Hender once we kill him. Hopefully THAT will add some insight.

Thank our good man for his time and leave.

>>13929787
We haven't actually been told anything about astral magic, we just saw that he could kill Clarissa from across town when she was doing her thing.

Ellington, what does Duke know about Astral magicians and what they are capable of.

While you're saying goodbye to your new friend, you feel a strong tug in your core from a position slightly to the west.

O'Leary and Patrick are behind you, so it's not them.

With a nod to yourself you head down the elevator and then out into the waiting car.

What now?

WAIT.

You suddenly feel three tugs. And then three more tugs. And then three more tugs.

It's like an alarm has gone off in your stomach.

>>13929836
"Hender's pad. Fast. Run some lights if you don't see cops."

>>13929742
>entrance that can fit two large trucks side by side
>foundation is the ward

Anybody else thinking about an act of terrorism?

>>13929831
You actually do know that Lord Pitt deals in astral magic and elemental magic.

Astral magicians can travel through the astral plane, that's a plane parallel to the one that ghosts are one, through which they can affect the real world and gain foresight about the future. Powerful astral magicians can take on certain shapes and forms which will give them a boost when trying to affect the real world. An astral magician could probably destroy a ghost but since it's a being on a parallel plane and not the same one, it would take lots of effort and could not be done en masse.

>>13929836
Don't force Chandler back. Just go get the gang together and start moving that way. We don't want to call him back when he could be overhearing important information.

head over full speed. do we know if winters(sp?) has a supply of explosives?

>>13929872
>>13929845
You take off at high speed but you're frustrated by the traffic in your way. It's early evening now and it seems everyone who has a car in New York has decided to take this moment to drive home from work.

You occasionally shoot at another car to make it drive out of your way, emergencies call for extreme measures after all. However your mother taught you right so you tip your hat in apology at the cars you've shot at as you drive past.

You arrive on the street that Henders lives on and before you've arrived at the address, Chandler pops into your car looking flustered.

"Boss! The shit is about to hit the fan."

"Henderschmidt got home about 20 minutes ago with some woman, tall blonde and ugly. I heard him call her Evelina."

"He was talking to her about what they have planned for tonight. The way he spoke to her made it seems like she was an underling of his, some sort of magician but she didn't do anything in front of me so I don't know. Anyway. They're planning to attack all the other outfits in New York tonight."

"I think Henders took the crystals into Little Italy to fuck with their shipment but Pitt got himself some sort of magic amplifier so they can strike out all at once from the Wessler building without even leaving."

"Henderschmidt and Evelina are fucking right now but I think once they're done they'll make their way there to get started on the ritual."

>>13929917
Yes, he has. However you would have to drive through, Tribeca, Soho, the Village and Chelsea to get to Hells Kitchen at rush hour to get to Winters. Just saying.

>>13929974
We should take this opportunity to get the drop on Henders and Evelina.
Anyone got ideas besides kicking this off with an inferno targeted on his location? (as told by chandler to randy)

>>13929974
>>13929974
So they're both in there now?

Let's bust in, weapons drawn. Soul rip Henders and kill him while he's down. Blow away his girl. They're fucking, so they probably aren't wearing any amulets or shit for protection.

>>13930011
surround the building barracade the entrances and set fire to it, check for wards first.

we must keep in mind that werewolves are stupidly hard to kill and retardedly fast as well as strong.

>>13930101
Man, we can't set EVERYTHING on fire. They'll start to expect that

What we need is a good ole' Massacre.

Break down the door, soul rip the werewolf, then open fire with

ALL.GUNS.BLAZING.

>>13930101
Yeah, but Ellington made a point last time to say they weren't magicians. That means soul rip should work on him, rendering him unconscious for 30 seconds. We can bust in there and kill him while he's down. Take out his girl too, hopefully. Otherwise we burn the place.

Two wild options have appeard!

1) Bust in while they're fucking, guns drawn, soul rip the werewolf, kill the woman, set fire Henders' unconscious body.
2) Barricade the place and set fire to the whole thing, like you did at Squeaky's.

Vote.

>>13930128
1
I'd think that we'd bring too much heat burning down the building. There are probably other people in it.

1)
I like the idea of actually going in there, that way we can keep them from going for their protective gear, which would probably be what they reach for if we just started a fire.

>>13930128
1

>>13930154
In fact, give chandler orders to grab any possible magical gear when we start the assault.

>>13930154
Plus we could steal anything they have of value.

>>13930171
I don't think he can yet. He's only been a ghost for a week at most.

Big Jim gets his Tommy Gun ready. Randy gets his Tommy gun ready as well, while mentally preparing any fire magic he has to cast.

You get your BAR out of the car and like the badass you are. You've parked the car a few buildings down and are running quietly and quickly to the building you need to go to. You didn't want the noise of the car to give warning to Henders.

When you approach the building you see that it's a first floor apartment.

Chandler goes inside to check, comes back out and says they're both still fucking.

There's a straight line between where you're standing, and the room at the back where the fucking is happening.

You give Big Jim the nod he's been looking for for days. He says "Finally, I get something to do."

You see him turn the amulet you bought him in a certain direction, and it clicks into place. With that you see Big Jim's muscles get tense, even though he hasn't gotten larger he seems to fill up the space he's in completely. He's more -there- than he's ever been. He charges forward like a rhino and breaks down the front door with just his shoulder.

He continues to run in ahead of you and as you run behind him you can see him break down another door and open fire inside.

You hear the wail of a woman but before you can even get to the same doorway so you can cast Rip on Henders, Henders with his freakish speed has attacked Big Jim. In the time it takes you to take two steps into the apartment you see a naked man with the huge claws of a wolf bat aside Big Jim like he's a child. You see Big Jim's throat bleeding heavily as he flies through the air, through a brick wall and into another room.

You have one move to make.

Rip?

>>13930255
Shit yeah motherfucker.

Oh goddammit Jim's dead.

You rip.

And boy does it work like you wanted it, and just in the time at that. Henders is running towards you, you haven't even had a chance to blink yet since he tossed Big Jim aside like a broken toy.

You can tell he's about to lunge at you when you finally, instinctively, pull his soul from his body. His body loses consciousness instantly and tumbles in front of like an out of control clown.

You see the spirit of Henders looking confused for a second, trying to choke you and stab you with his claws but it does nothing and just passes through like cigarette smoking breaking up when something solid passes through it.

However Henders is already being pulled back to his body. You have 2 movse to kill him somehow before he's up and at you again.

Meanwhile Big Jim is in the room next door bleeding to death. You have 3 moves to save his life.

>>13930279
not yet, but if we dont take henders down everyone will be

>>13930316
Get Randy incinerating Hender's body while we Leech life from him. If we can, send it to Jim, but if its more efficient to bring it to us, then do it that way. We've got to keep Henders down. We can give Jim a soul transfusion once Henders is dead.

>>13930316
Drain the werewolf, try to give the energy to Jim. shout for the others to kill the woman and shoot the fuck out of the wolf.

>>13930369
If we don't kill the woman we might be able to use her life energy to help save Jim.

>>13930354
Make sure Randy knows that we need some bones or residue or something so that we can summon Henders after he's dead. None of that incinerator-level stuff, please.

>>13930369
>>13930354
Both will do.

>>13930413
We're in Hender's house. We can look for a hairbrush in his bathroom or whatever. Incinerate him.

>>13930454
Hmm. Point conceded.

What we're doing here makes me wonder if we shouldn't start employing a half-dozen bodyguards at all times. Our ability to walk into random houses and slaughter their inhabitants is somewhat disconcerting when one considers that there are probably a couple dozen persons of our level if the city, if not more.

Randy sets fire to the werewolf's body while shooting into it.

You meanwhile begin to leech the life from the werewolf's body and send it to Big Jim. You can't tell what effect that has had on Jim yet.

In front of you though you see the werewolf's body constantly healing the gunshot wounds, continuously. Every gunshot wound closes up almost instantly with new flesh. The fire seems to be working though. Randy keeps piling on the heat and the body just can't deal with that.

Randy has finished incinerating the werewolf. He's smiling because he knows just how valuable he was to you. He saw how little affect the bullet wounds were having and gains the satisfaction from a job well done. Henders is officially dead.

You can find hairs to summon on the pillow in his bedroom or in his bathtub. Werewolves are hairy fucks that drop hair all over the place.

You take a few steps forward and see two things. To your right is Big Jim, still bleeding to death. The energy you sent him slowed down the flow of blood but he's still leaking hard, while in front of you is the room that Big Jim fired into.

In it is the woman that Chandler described as Evelina. She's naked and lying on her back with all sorts of wounds all over her chest and face. Jim sure did a number on her. There's a massive Sun tattoo going round the bottom of her stomach, the top of her thighs and centered around her vagina. Despite the disgusting state of her mashed up torso, somehow your loins are stirring and you want to tap that.

Her grotesque, blood covered, skullcracked, head turns to look at you. It says "Fuck. Me. Fuck. Me." in a ghastly whisper. You take a step towards her without knowing why. Are you seriously going to fuck that? What's wrong with you?

>>13930522
If you fuck her it will end poorly. Steel your will against whatever compulsion she's using.

Drain every last scrap of her remaining life and send it to Jim. Immediately.

>>13930522
"O'Learys! Kill this bitch now! Randy, stay back, she's effecting my mind!"

>>13930560
You try to leech from her to send to Jim and it doesn't work. She's a magician and despite how close she is to death her natural barriers are still up and you can't drain her energy.

Meanwhile you've taken another step towards her.

>>13930566
The O'Leary's jump to your command try to attack her but it does very little. They're still too new at being ghosts.

Her vagina continues to call to you as you take another step forward.

It doesn't matter however because Randy heard the call you made to the O'Learys and jumps in front of you, setting fire to her before she can begin using here succubus-lite powers at him.

Before you know it your favourite little pyromaniac has set fire to another of your enemies. When she's dead and the fire continues to rage on the bed, he coughs briefly and then inhales all the flames in one go.

Randy looks drunk now.

Big Jim continues to bleed out you have 2 moves to save him because the blood is starting to spurt out quickly again.

I forgot to say, for anyone who has to leave soon, we're now archived and you can read here when you have time:

http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13928333

and

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13928333/

>>13930626
Get some cloth on the wound to stem the bleeding, then pump half of our own life energy into him.

>>13930680
By half, I mean as much as we can without dropping unconscious.

>>13930626
Start giving Jim some of our life force. Slow his death.

Order Randy to get other people over here. Any other people. Fast. The more the better. Ghosts are to help him.

>>13928333
>You're an enforcer called Duke, you're a midlevel guy in one of the three black gangs

What? No, i'm a university student, and i sure as hell am not in a gang. I'm not even black.

>As well as being a black man, you're a black magician

I'm not black, and i don't know any magic tricks. Try again.

>Welcome to Harlem.

I don't live in America, sorry.

Please get your facts straight OP before talking about me.

>>13930680
You hold back the bleeding with the cloth and close your eyes as you begin sending Jim your own life force.

You can feel it working, knitting the skin around his throat back together, putting the displaced spinal column back into place.

Big Jim will live. But he's very weak from the loss of all that blood and on the borderline. You've done what you can for him but it will take several weeks for his own body to recover from the trauma it went through.

You're also very weak. You feel like you've run two marathons while struggling with the flu. It takes all the energy you have not to just collapse on top of Jim.

You slowly step back and sit down. You're exhausted and have trouble moving your own neck.

Randy and the ghosts have dragged in Henders' neighbours, about 6 of them. Several men and some women. They look at the carnage that's happened in the apartment, and at the scary black men with the scary weaponry and decide that following orders is the smart thing to do.

You look them over and you can't even tell what they look like. All you see is their inner energy and....you're hungry.

You feast. You're back up to 100%. The neighbours aren't nearly as strong as you though so they all fall unconscious, one of the men banging his head against a table, neck broken and now dead.

What now?

>>13930724
What? This is a murder scene. If the transfusion gets Jim stable then we don't want to invite anyone else around, if it doesn't then maybe suck life from someone nearby for another go.

>>13930795
Welp, disregard that, cocks, etc.

>>13930788
>one of the men banging his head against a table, neck broken and now dead.
Well, that's inconvenient and random. I was really hoping to avoid collateral damage.

You know, I think it would have gone quite a bit better if Randy just cauterized Jim's wounds with fire. That is possible, right?
I'm sure we could have gotten some info out of the girl too, but you win some you lose some. Glad that Henders is dead.
First things first, we need to quickly search the house for important shit that could tell us about where the crystals are.

>>13930839
Eh, we just stole enough energy to save a friend from dieing, some consequences are necessary.
>>13930788
Grab a werewolf hair, and blond hair if any are available, search the house for valuables, then have Randy wear Jim's strength amulet so he can help you carry him to the car. Then I vote we head back to Harlem to drop Jim off, and if we need to get to Wessler today then pick up the Amigos while we're there, one of them gets Jim's BPPA while he's out of action, the strength booster could go to one as well, I suppose, since Duke and Randy probably won't be mixing it up in melee.

>>13930886
>>13930903
>You know, I think it would have gone quite a bit better if Randy just cauterized Jim's wounds with fire. That is possible, right?

Yep, but the werewolf's blow also did some serious damage to Jim's spine and that injury probably would have set and crippled him for life if you didn't give it that boost immediately. No amount of boosting would've been enough to put it back into place if you'd just stopped the bleeding alone.

You get up and with the help of Randy ransack the house. You find some stashes of money hidden in the walls and under the floorboards (GAINED: 5000 dollars), but nothing magical and no notes or any work to give you a hint where the crystals are, and certainly not the crystals themselves. You grab the werewolf hairs, which you're happy to see there are many of, and a few strands of longer blonde hair which is clearly from a woman. A few decent additions to your grimoire.

Randy puts on the strength amulet and single handedly carries Jim to the car, very carefully.

You drive back to Harlem and drop off Jim at Doc Green's. You then pick up the Three Amigo's, give their nominal leader the BPPA and the strength amulet, and then sit down together for a planning session in the car.

You've got a few hours before Pitt begins to suspect that something has happened to Henders, at which point he'll panic and do the ritual alone because he suspects someone is out to stop him.

What do you want to do?

>>13930903
As we go driving around, we should be able to pull life force from random people and pump it into Jim. It might not get him back up to 100%, but it can't possibly hurt.

>>13930960
As much as time is an issue here, I think the amount of help that Henders would serve as a bound ghost will be phenomenal. He must know all the details of the plan, along with the location of the crystals, so I'd say it's worth the time.

summon henders ghost and get the information about the crystals and details about Pitt's defences

>>13931020
>>13931008
You take the time to create a circle in an alley behind Doc Green's.

You summon Henderson and unlike any other ghost you've ever summoned before, he appears before you in the form of a wolf.

The wolf speaks to you.

"Vat do you vant?"

Speak to him or bind him?

>>13931080
"I want your will, wolfy."
Bind him.
Then ask him what Pitt's weaknesses are, the location of the crystals, and whatever else.

One question: "How do you feel about me taking down Pitt?" If there isn't a positive reaction then bind him. We don't have time to fuck around.

>>13931080
definitely bind him.

>>13931120
>>13931118
>>13931112
You give Henderschmidt a chance to join you but you can see by his wolf smile that he's sneering at your offer.

And so you bind him.

GAINED - BIND (LEVEL FOUR). You've used Bind often enough that you've gained a new level of mastery. You can now bind a ghost to your cause for 30 days. You've also gained the ability to bind a ghost to items in a manner of ways. You can bind a ghost to a container, in order to imprison them, or you can bind a ghost to an item like a knife, dagger, amulet or what have you in order for the item to gain magical characteristics. For example, binding the spirit of a war veteran to a rifle will give you a sentient, bloody minded rifle with an offensive bonus that speaks to you and wants to attack all Germans on sight. And so on and so forth

The wolf eyes you and after a few moments he says, "Ze crystals you require are in ze Vessler. Herr Pitt has offices in ze top of ze tower but his magical work space is right above ze 18th floor. Vat else you vant to know?"


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>>13931191
How does he plan to do whatever the hell he's planning to do tonight?
What is the quickest way to his sanctum?

>>13931191
How do you get to the space between the 18th and 19th floor? Do you know anything about the Wessler's defenses? Any weakness of Pitt's that could be exploited?

>>13931191
We want to find out all we can about the wards/defenses on the Wessler building

>>13931191
Who or what is in place to stop us from walking right into the Wessler?

What wards are on the Wessler aside from its curious construction- and do those need any kind of significant supplement that could be somehow disrupted shot of blowing holes in the building foundation?

>>13931191
Also, Werewolves. How do they work!?

Would Evelina know anymore about the Wessler or Pitt?

>>13931318
I'm pretty sure they work like this:
1. Take werewolf ghost.
2. Insert into brass knuckles.
3. KILLER GHOST WOLF CLAWS OF FURY

"On the 18 floor is a small office vith library. Behind bookcase in the back is entrance to take you up into his sanctum. Or on the 19th floor, there is a similar office with a similar book case that you take to go down into it. There is also a balcony in the sanctum that overlooks the city. If you can fly you can entere through there."

"The wards are in the foundations. The wards are defensive and keep out ghosts, spirits, and astral meddlers. They also affect the minds of people hoping to attack the Wessler building. They find themselves turning on each other and attacking other, or if it is one man the man becomes so paranoid he attacks himself. It is not instantaneous but the effect builds up over a few minutes."

"The only way to disrupt the ward is to completely take out one of the walls that make up the StarWard in the basement. Once that gap is there, it is disrupted and useless."

"I know no weakness of Pitt himself. He is a strong and cruel man. A powerful man. There is a reason I follow him."

>Sorry for the wait but I've been trying to post this for the past 25 minutes and it just wasn't going through. Tried posting on other boards and it was the same there.

Evelina wouldn't know a thing about Pitt, she was an underling of Henders and he kept them apart.

>>13931368
OH FUCKING SHIT, I LOVE THIS! WE MUST DO THIS ONCE THE KNUCKLEDUSTERS LOSE THEIR POWER! OH FUCKING GOD YES!

"Hey, what's that you got round ya' fist, boy?"

"These? These are just my wolf paws." KA - POW!

And is anyone else having trouble posting?

>>13931430
Well, that's inconvenient.

Do we know someone who can get us enough boom to take out a basement wall? And a mental defense strong enough to stand up against whatever shit the building tries to do to us.

>>13931430
"Got explosives stashed anywhere?"
Also, is Winters selling any high explosives?

>>13931491
We could conceivably get some from Wilson. But to get a lot of dynamite is something I think we're short of funds on.

I think it would be better for us to get on the phone and call one of the other lieutenants. Could try Smokey, see if he could help us. Think we should still have his number. He was working out of the back of that barber shop on 8th, last we heard.

>>13931430
>>13931476
Also had trouble posting.
Anyways, we need to take out a wall of the basement. How is the Frelling street exit arranged exactly? It must not interrupt the wall, is it a downward slope that goes into the basement?
>>13931491
I'm guessing Winters has plenty of boom, and if we are fast we can probably set the bomb and leave before the mental ward effects us too much. And the Amigos' loyalty bonus gave them some mental resistance as well, I think.

>>13931541
We've got $5000.
Sure we could!

>>13931541
We got 5k from Henders' place.

I'm trying to post this at 11 minutes past the hour.

We could just pack a truck full of explosives and set the car down with a rock on the peddle.

Posting at 19 past the hour, let's see if it goes faster. Maybe the site was getting DDOSed?

Forgot about the 5k. Let's call Smokey anyway. He might be able to hook us up and help us with this operation.

>>13931543
Let's take down the entire building. We've got around 7k IIRC; that will buy a shitload of dynamite. Plant it, and bring the fucker down.

Then, have Randy eat the fire from the ashes and see what it does.

>>13931368

this Idea gets a +20

Right now.

As for explosives, Did the nice German Fellow have a car? If so I believe that we need to grab it on the way back, Fill it with explosives and then Rig it so it takes out the basement in a suitably Awesome way.

Oh, and I was thinking, maybe we want to LET Pitt finish the ritual, if we think we can take the crystals. In that case we are the only ones with booze in NY.
23 past the hour

>>13931645
Something like that would probably burn him out.

We should also have a back up plan, seeing as it may be possible he has a ward preventing explosions or damage to the building, or some such.

>>13931660
Our outfit's booze would be gone. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of crates turned to water.

If we just take it, we can turn plain old water into high quality wine.

>>13931674
20 story long grappling hook, maybe?

>>13931674
Taking out a subterranean wall quickly is pretty hard. Think a tractor could do it?

I really hope Ellington is still here.

Is anyone still here?

Post, I demand ye' Work!

>>13931804

Posting is back up to reasonable times. My vote remains that we....

Actually, whats on Either side of the Wessler? we could use a neighboring building for a Dynamic Entry

If Ellington's not here, looks like nothing else will happen.

I hope he soldiered on, LIKE ALL WE LOYAL PLAYERS DID.

>>13931849
Subtle, mate. Very subtle.

Whilst we wait for Ellington to return, I thought i might as well throw out some Idea for our new mastery of Bind.

Things I have thought of/Agree with.

Knuckle Dusters - Henderschmidt seems like a fairly good choice for this when you think about it. I am assuming that a Spirit bound into an attack object will not give any defensive bonus's and while we may lose his fearsome regeneration capabilities, we would gain a fraction of his superhuman speed and strength, as well as having his bad Ass accent to keep us company, making these "Wolf Claws" come in very handy.

Drawback: None that I see

Amulet - Henderschmidt (Again) On the flip side, it seemed that this Werewolf bastard was practically indestructible to bullets, and whilst binding him into an amulet would probably not give us anywhere near this amount of regen, it would certainly come in handy,. plus it negates some of the ill aspects of the Death leach perk. One could also assume that binding him into an amulet or ring could give the Duke a flat speed bonus while running or just plain walking.

Drawback: Possible added aggression from our new formerly furred jewelry accessory.

>>13931693
My point was that, if we let Pitt succeed, then recover the crystal, no one else would have any booze, while we would have a crystal capable of turning water into wine. We would be the only ones capable of supplying demand until new shipments came in. It destroys our current stock, but destroys many times as much enemy stock.

>>13932194

cont'd

Colt 1911 - Patrick O'Leary think about it, Dukes already formidable gun slinging skills combined with the supernatural and Enhanced luck of the Irish. Perfect for giving us an extra edge over those magic barriers and general hard to accomplish feats of gunmanship.

Amulet/Ring ect... - Patrick O'Leary (Again) Once more however, I find that the soul of old paddy boy here may actually be of more use to us In a defensive rather than offensive role. Having bullets miracously only graze us instead of hitting a lung, Knowing to suddenly step aside to dodge the car that just screeched out of no-where. Watching the fear in your enemies eyes as the knife aimed for your hear becomes hopelessly entangled in the fabric of your suit. Once again, a particularly tasty perk.

That's all i had prepared, but I do have a few more good (at least in my mind) ideas forming.

>>13932215
These are some great ideas. The Wolf Claws duster is just too good to pass up, but having a Lucky Amulet is something that gets my wholehearted support.

I'm going to bump again, even though I know it's futile.

WHERE ARE YOU ELLINGTON, COEM BAAAACK

Well this was a disappointing way to end tonight. I hope he's back tomorrow.