Quicky Recap

• Pub Cellars in winter suck, actually. Let's brainstorm ideas for money
  1. Burgle a Train
  2. Gamble
  3. Find Work at College
  4. Sell Body for Money
• That train thing sounds dangerous, so let's try Gambling
  • We met a Changeling! John Stil. We need to meet him later to visit the Freehold
  • PC Jess Thornton is also bad and not good at Gambling, and has lost literally all of her Money
• Gambling is dumb. Let's go to School!
  • Met another Changeling in the Library. Nina Scribe. Agreed to ask around for translation work for PC Maelys
  • Met a boy nerd. Charles Thornton.
    • Possibly an ancestor to Jess
    • Possibly a sugar daddy for PC Harper
    • Probably an Alchemy Student
  • The Boston College teaches Alchemy, which seems odd
  • Jess Thornton has recorded a list of professors with offices in the Alchemy Building
• Met John Stil at 11pm to lead us to Changeling Freehold
  • A bunch of Changelings are introduced
  • The current leader is the Winter Queen, Lady Snow
  • The Changelings have been given a week to commit to a Changeling court or gtfo

• No Harper this session
  
• Feb 12
  • PC Maelys spends most of the day shoveling snow
  • PC Jess sells her body to science
    • She heads to the College looking for work as an assistant
    • She doesn't find it, but she does find work as an experimentation subject for one Professor Nikolas Knight
    • She returns to the College in the evening to meet the professor. He rambles about Alchemy, takes obsessively detailed measurements of Jess' body, and draws rather a lot of blood
    • Jess is instructed to return in 2 days after blood testing for the full experimentation suite to beginning and is paid for her trouble in the meantime
    • Jess uses this money to pay off her gambling debts
      
  • PC Laura steals a book
    • She tries to do history research in the Library, and is promptly kicked out of the Library for looking out of place
    • She steals a Farmer's Almanac on the way out
    • The Farmer's Almanac shows that constant blizzards and heavy, wet snow are to be expected from November through to March, and that torrential downpour is the norm for much of the rest of the year.
    • Oddly, this seems to be highly localized on Boston, and the further away from it you get, the more normal the weather becomes
• Feb 13
  • Timer Threshold: The town guards (read: British Soldiers) are looking for a group matching the party's description for questioning. It may be a case of genuine mistaken identity, but if the group wants to avoid being harassed outside they'll need to move stealthily from now on
  • The group meet a new person in the Slaughtered Lamb pub, an aboriginal woman who goes by Raccoon
    • Raccoon is acerbic and has some sort of mage shit going on. She catches Jess trying to do a magic and is not happy about it, but grumpily agrees to teach mage 101 in exchange for the party tracking down a contact for her
    • The party tracks down that contact, a courier named Avery Wolf
    • Raccoon and Avery talk, then Raccoon explains the whole mage thing to the mages
  • In the evening Maelys returns to the Freehold to get a job from Nina. She succeeds; turns out there's Arabic translation work to be done
• House Shopping:
  • Nina mentions that there's room in the student housing that the party might be able to afford with jobs
  • Laura, now that she knows what Hallows are, using Prime magic to track one down. It's a clock tower that could probably use a little repair in the 1st Ward

• Feb 14
  • Everyone goes to visit Willow White, Changeling, to learn about the courts
    • Harper is leaning towards Spring and advised to go visit Demeter, the Queen of Spring, in her House of Pleasure
    • Maelys is leaning towards Summer and is advised to ask a Summer Changeling where to find Auburn Coyote, King of Summer
  • Jess does some research in the College library on history
    • England Reconquered the US after the War for Independence was won, but before the Constitution was signed
    • England also conquered a large part of France during the French Revolution
    • Viscount Talbot has been in charge of Boston for the last 20-25 years
  • Harper goes on a date with Charles Thornton
    • Charles is an apprentice under Nicolas Knight
    • Charles is the youngest son of the Thornton matriarch, who is placing considerable pressure on him for the uplifting of the family
    • Charles is acquainted with Dawn Gold, who is trying to get an apprenticeship in the Alchemist Department at Boston College
      
  • Jess goes visit Nikolas knight to sell her body for science
    • Nikolas is nowhere to be found. Instead, Violet Waters meets Jess
    • Violet Waters implies she knows Jess is a Mage and that she and Nikolas are Vampires.
      • She wants the group to set her up a meeting with the commercial harbour master, offering money in exchange
      • She gives Jess a vial of probably blood labeled "Drink Me!", stating it can be used to signal her
• Feb 15 (Morning)
  • Avery returns in the morning to bring the group to meet with an anonymous party
  • They group meets Alyx Freeman, who is a leader within the Boston American Resistance (BAR)
  • Alyx is offering the group shelter and information in exchange for supplies; either weapons, significant materials or funding

• Feb 15 Pt.2
• The group head to Demeter's House of Pleasures in the Commercial Harbour
  • The house is a converted warehouse dedicated to all manner of novel and illicit experiences. Food. Drugs. Gambling. Sex. It has it all.
  • Demeter, the Queen of Spring, has the proportions of a plump old woman, but the scale to be the largest person in the room by a considerable margin
  • Demeter accepts Harper's plea to join the Spring Court and officiates their oath.
• Jess & Laura head to the Harbour Master's Office, while Maelys surveys the docks and Harper tries to get information from a sailor bar
  • Jess and Laura
    • The Mages do some magic, find the Harbour Master in his office, and use slight of hand to feed him the probably-blood labeled "Drink Me!" left with Jess from Violet waters
    • The Harbour Master also mentioned an Old, abandoned Fishing barge that he's willing to look the other way on if someone can only get it the heck out of his harbour
    • They both also sign up to work as dock hands for the evening shift
    • Jess fails an act of Hubris, losing a dot of Wisdom
      
  • Maelys identifies some probable smugglers in the Wharf
  • Harper
    • Harper attempts to flirt with a man who they take to be an officer of some kind.
    • The man identifies himself as a Marine, and identifies Harper as someone who he's seen on wanted posters.
    • Harper insites bedlam to distract all the people in the pub and make their get away
• The group meet up and compare notes
  • They realize that someone followed Harper.
  • They try to lay a trap for the tail, but it doesn't work out, so instead Maelys tries to just grab her.
  • The Tail immediately wolfs out and tries to run away
  • Laura drops a white out blizzard on the girl as she's fleeing, while Harper renders her insensate. They then tie her up in an alley
  • The group fail to get the girl to say literally anything to them, until Maelys tries asking her something in French.
  • The girl, Molly, does not speak English. She's a Werewolf and after a brief exchange goes her separate ways from the group

• No Laura today
  
• Feb 15 (Pt. 3)
  • Jess works an evening shift at the Commercial Docks
    • She determines that a lot of bribery is going on at the Wharfs. Smuggling is definitely happening, but she doesn't know specifically what
    • Jess identifies a man of wealth who is paying the bribes for several different ships. She uses magic to track him to 2 merchantships in harbour (The Argentum and the Aurum)
• Feb 16
  • The group go to the Freehold to get info from Hingebreaker about where to find Auburn Coyote
    • Coyote is cleaning up a fight ring near the Trainyard
      • He sucker Punches Maelyn and tells her to hit him back
      • Whatever he's looking for, he finds it, and invites Maelyn tot he Summer Court
      • He tells Maelyn he'll have her in a fight in the next couple months to help her become a better fighter
  • Maelyn goes to the College Library to work. Meanwhile Harper tries pull Charles Thornton out of class to seduce him, and independently Jess goes to ransack Charles' flat.
    • Jess is seen entering the building, but manages to get in without too much trouble
    • Jess fails to learn about Alchemy, but does find a collection of letters to Charles from his family
    • She learns that Rose Thornton, Charles' mother and Thornton matriarch, is a cold woman who expects to be obeyed by her children and is pushing Charles towards collecting the tools needed to assume a position of greater political power
    • Harper shows up with Charles. There's a weird letter addressed "To the charlatan spying on me at Wharf 09 ", which Harper pockets
    • Harper and Charles hear Jess in the flat. Jess doesn't hear them. She walks into plain sight sorting through Charles' letters
    • Talking is done. Jess admits to being a Thornton from the future, convinces Charles of this fact, and convinces him to not tell anyone in the immediate future
    • Jess runs off, leaving Harper and Charles alone
    • Harper admits to being a changeling to Charles and makes a bargain with him for something non-specific but definitely lewd
      • A lot of seduction was involved
      • But first, Harper, used Waking the Inner Fae on him, making him Wanton and Obsessed
  • The group meet up with Violet Waters in a back room of the College Bar
    • Harper straight up admits to being a changeling, offers to feed blood to Violet, and harvests her emotions for Glamour
      
    • Violet congratulates the group on a job well done and pays them
    • Violet explains her organization, New Carthage, and states her goal as overthrowing the current Vampiric Order for a more egalitarian one
      • She is notably silent about the question "egalitarian for whom?"
        
    • Violet elaborates on what she wants from them: Highly Skilled Agents who can work in places that the Vampiric members of New Carthage cannot

• No Laura in this session
  
• Feb 16 (pt. 2)
  • The group discuss the letter Harper found at Charles, addressed "To the charlatan spying on me at Wharf 09"
  • They realize that it's definitely a mage thing and agree to select "Other"
• Feb 17
  • Jess goes to the post office, buys a PO Box, and then fills out the letter. This triggers a magical effect which includes space magic
  • Harper impersonates a Captain in one of the Ward Barracks of the English Soldiers slash Guards
    • Harper learns that the soldiers were originally looking for people matching their description for questioning related to a crime, but that it only actually became a problem when the Lord Steward of Boston took personal interest and ordered that they be brought to the Citadel to handle questioning personally.
  • While fixing up the Clocktower, Jess gets another letter from the Harbour Man
    • It congratulates her for treating the previous letter in a manner that denied information and invites her to the La Vie En Rose Restaurant to discuss matters in person
    • Jess only opens the letter in a local dinner, and immediately burns it after reading it
  • The group meet up and go to the La Vie En Rose, an extremely fancy restaurant which serves the ultra wealthy
    • There they meet the reedy man who first introduces himself as Mr. Fortune and, later, as Wheel of Fortune
    • Wheel of Fortune explains the Hexagon, which is an alliance of the Diamond Orders with Mammon and Paternaster
    • Wheel of Fortune attempts to recruit Jess to the Hexagon, says she'd fit in well with Mammon, of which he is a member, and offers tutorship in exchange for her joining
    • After some convincing, Wheel of Fortune agrees to meet with the BAR after stealing a ball point pen from Jess
• Feb 18
  • The group give the BAR contact info for Wheel of Fortune
  • The group determine via Kenning that Alex Freeman and Avery Wolf are not supernatural creatures
• Later
  • The BAR comes to a costly bargain for supplies and funding from Wheel of Fortunate
  • The BAR help the group escape notice of the common soldiers
  • The group finish making the Clocktower habitable
• The player of Harper left the game after this session

• New player! The new character is Natalie Kusomoto, a Martian Ship Mechanic from the Galactic Space Age, and also a Summer Court Wisened Helldiver Changeling.
• The group head to the fight pit, Maelys intent on impressing Coyote
  • In the pit they meet Natalie, PC, who's there fighting but quickly slips and accidentally reveals to the rest of the group that she, too, is time displaced
  • After a lengthy discussion, the group invite Natalie back to the Clock Tower. Victims of Timey Whimey Bullshit should stick together. It also doesn't hurt that she knows how to fix a roof
  • Meanwhile, Maelys absolutely wipes the floor with the fighters Coyote had lined up for her
• The group continue to talk to Natalie at home, but eventually they need to do other stuff
• Eventually Jess heads out to sell her blood to a Vampire
  • She exchanges letters with Professor Nicolas Knight before meeting him again in person. She agrees to sell him blood in exchange for tutoring in Alchemy, lasting until he "Develops a new Coil", whatever that means
  • Giving all that blood takes a toll on her though. She'll suffer from periodic exhaustion as long as the deal continues
• Meanwhile, Laura makes herself invisible and robs a Gunsmith
  • She steals a Breach-Loading 2-barrel rifle as well as the sales ledger
  • She also goes for some bullets, but the opening drawer is spotted and she decides to quite while she's ahead, and before she's damaged any minds
  • She latter tries to decipher the ledger she stole, but is unable to make heads or tails of it
    

• Natalie Fixes up the Clocktower
  • The tower is in real shit shape
  • Fortunately, Natalie actually has ranks in Crafting!
  • She gets the roof patched, the clock oiled, and the walls actually insulated
  • The mages learn that the tass produced by the tower is stored in the clock gears
    • Mana can be oblated by ritually maintaining the clock mechanism
      
• Laura stakes out a bank. Good thing she can make herself invisible
  
  • She finds out that the bank has a strongbox dropped off, and picked up, weekly on Monday
  • Day Time
    
    • There's at least 6 soldiers present during the day, maybe more during strongbox time
    • The vault is not locked during the day, but it is guarded by soldiers
    • The Day Manager is always near the vault, unless personally seeing to a wealthy patron, or called away by nature
    • The Day Manager locks the vault using a ring of keys at dusk
      
  • Night Time
    • The Night Manager is a Vampire
    • At least 2 Vampire Soldiers are also present at night
    • The Night Manager was able to detect Laura, despite her being invisible
      
• Maelys tracks down Molly
  • Molly lives in or close to the Boston Commons
  • The Commons are indeed open to the public
    • However, they are also full of dangerous predators and animals which have been imported for the nobility to hunt
  • Maelys talks to Molly
    • She tries to offer her help, and gives her some places she could hide out in
    • Molly talks about how she was caught by the count's hound master and brought here to be hunted. They've not managed to catch her yet
    • Molly does not take up Maelys offer of help. Progress was made, but not enough to overcome the distrust the group fostered in their first meeting
      
• Jess visits the Thornton family home in Salem
  • It's a day coach to make it to Salem or back
  • Jess finds out that there's an manor house in Salem belonging to a Baroness Heart, who spends most of her time away from her domain
  • Anyway, let's cast Incognito Presence and sneak into the Thornton farm house
    • The original farm building from Jess's time is here, but the surrounding facilities have not yet been built
    • The farmhouse itself is huge. The present family members are eating dinner, so Jess helps herself into the office
    • Rose Thornton burns all her letters, and only keeps books written by famous leaders in her office. There's not much info here, but hey, at least there's some keys
    • Jess steals the keys and uses them to get into the locked Cellar, where the original ritual chamber can be found
    • There's a small library of cult material and a few other odds and ends down here, as well as another locked door which leads to the actual ritual chamber
    • Key doesn't work, so time to try picking the lock
    • Inside the ritual room is an embedded iron circle, a whole lot of supplies, and 3 books of occult artes
      • A book on practices to mentally nudge people
      • A book on manipulating fate (lower case "f")
      • A book on summoning demons
    • Jess has enough time (and the right merits) to speed read 1 book. She chooses the Demon Book
    • The book details rituals to summon demons, the risks of doing so, precautions to take against your own summons, and some things different entities might be able to do for you
    • Jess is able to confirm that whatever these demons are, they are not Goetic or Supernal demons
      
• Natalie robs an apothecary to make thermite
  • She uses a contract to make a door in the wall of an apothecary
  • Steals everything that has Magnesium in it
  • Synthesizes some home made Thermite from that and a whole lot of iron rust
• The session caps off with the group talking about details for robbing themselves a bank
  

• It's time to rob a bank!
• The groups spends some time working out a plan for the job
  • The BAR is providing the getaway vehicle
  • Laura is the only decent driver, so she stays with the carriage
• Everyone else uses supernatural powers (Incognito Presence & Light-Shy) to go invisible and sneak into the bank
  • None of the inside team can perceive each other, but they manage to get in without too much trouble
• In the Vault Room, Jess uses Psychic Domination to put the guards to sleep
  • then Maelys uses Hostile Takeover to open the vault and get inside
  • The vault is completely unlit with the door closed behind the group. Good thing Natalie can "find" a light source with Hidden Reality
  • Maelys focuses on bagging loot from the vault, while Jess concentrates on maintaining her sleep spell and Natalie picks some lockbox locks
  • Natalie finds a weird, reptilian scale in a lockbox
• Maelys and Natalie get out with most of the money, but Natalie stays behind to push her luck opening more lock boxes
  • Too bad none of them can perceive each other!
  • Natalie gets lucky. She opens 3 more lock boxes and one of them has material related to the Thornton Family
  • Not that lucky though. Someone noticed the sleeping guards out front while she was picking locks
• Natalie closes the vault door with her in it
  • Thermite time? Thermite time.
    • Natalie escapes the vault with only moderate burns, which is actually pretty good for someone who just set off explosives in an enclosed space
    • The group outside hear the explosion and move around to the back
  • Natalie manages to reapply Light-Shy in an office, but the people looking for her have made her unable to "find" a backdoor with Hidden Reality
  • She tries to unsuccessfully pry the bars off the window, but she does get the attention of the others
  • Natalie slams shut the door to the office she's hiding in and barricades it, before becoming visible so that Jess can use magic on her
  • Jess uses Break Boundary to get Natalie out through the barred window, straight into a public street. Wisdom is for cowards
  • Natalie gets into the carriage and the group make their getaway
    • Jess decides one usage of public supernal magic isn't enough and casts Groundeater on the whole carriage
    • Meanwhile, Maelys uses Nevertread to cover the teams tracks
• After they get home, the crew lay low for a while
  • The BAR stops by to pick up their cut and dispose of the getaway carriage
    
  • Jess learns some things about the Thorntons from what Natalie took
  • The mages study the weird scale and figure out that it's something related to vampires, but little else
    

• March 22nd
  • The PCs experience something they've never experienced before on this day:
    • It is not snowing
    • It's pissing rain instead
    • Like really the weather is still pretty fucking terrible
    • It's not snow though!
  • The group wake up and basically there's 3 things to do
    • The BAR wants to meet with them
    • New Carthage wants to meet with them
    • The Freehold is changing over from the Winter to Spring Monarch on the next New Moon (April 4th)
  • Morning
    • The group consult the possibilities for the day and decide to head to meet with the BAR
    • Alyx Freeman greets them and tells them about their mission, should they choose to accept it
    • They want to recruit as many factions as possible to their cause for freedom against the Vampires
    • In particular they want to get the Boston Mass on team BAR
  • Afternoon
    • The group decide to follow up on that Boston Mass thing and head to the Boston Cathedral
    • Woops. Turns out it's a Brothel now?
    • Are we sure this is the Boston Mass?
    • No, as it turns out, it is not.
    • The group bow without partaking of the Brothel, though Natalie elects to return later for a job interview with the Dame
    • The group quickly doublechecks with the BAR.
      • It turns out they don't know where the Mass is?
      • But they know where they used to be: The 9th Ward (Near the Freehold)
  • Evening (Maelys & Jess)
    • Time to head to talk to the Revolutionary Vampires
    • Violet Waters wants the group to recruit as many factions as possible
    • ...Doesn't this sound sort of familiar?
    • In particular, she wants the group to recruit the Boston Cathedral (which is, again, a brothel) to her cause
    • She offers to pay for services rendered with information on Mages in the City, and offers a "bonus" magic item if the group recruits enough factions
  • Evening (Natalie & Laura)
    • Natalie returns to the Boston Cathedral in her sluttiest outfit
    • She and Laura meet the owner of the brothel, Baroness Amelia Heart of Salem
    • The Baroness identifies Natalie as a changeling
    • After some back and forth, she offers Natalie a job
      • Natalie accepts
    • The Baroness also offers to handle Natalie's "Legal Trouble" in exchange for a future favour
      • Natalie doesn't take her up on the offer
      • The Baroness states that the offer is still open, but that it'll be too late after she's already gotten into trouble with the law
      • That said, said troubles will not touch Natalie while she's working within the halls of the Boston Cathedral
    • While all this is going on, Laura has a spell up to detect lies
      • The Baroness is withholding some information, but she's not lying
• March 23rd
  • Morning
    • The group head to the 9th Ward and help the destitute there, asking them in the process for the location of the Mass
    • After a busy morning, the group successfully finds and helps someone who knows where to find the Mass
      • They are in the 4rd Ward, basically just down the street from the Cathedral
    • However, someone must have recognized and reported Natalie, because a whole squad of Soldiers just showed up
    • Laura and Maelys run around a corner, the later turning invisible
    • Natalie attempts to lead them off to another Ward, but don't do a particularly good job of it
    • Fortunately, Jess uses mind magic to impersonate a soldier and point them in completely the wrong direction, allowing the group to escape without further confrontation
  • Afternoon
    • The group head to the Boston Mass
    • The Mass is held in a gutted out old building
    • The group is greeted by a large man in simple vestments:
      • Brother Alexander Anderson
        

• No Maelys this week
  
• March 23rd (Part 2)
  • Afternoon
    • The group meet with Brother Alexander Anderson of the Boston Mass
    • The group ask Anderson what he wants and invite him to meet with the BAR
      • He wants more funds for his church, and a bigger place to hold it as close or closer to the center of town as the current one
  • Evening
    • The group meet with Alyx Freeman and Brother Anderson at a pub
    • The barman receives a parcel addressed to "Dances with Flame" AKA Jess
      • It's a letter from Wheel of Fortune, telling the group that Hexagon Mages will be arriving in the city in a little over a week, unless delayed by bad weather
    • Anderson obviously dislikes Alyx and needs to be convinced to even let her talk
    • He eventually agrees to hear her out, and sets terms for allying the Boston Mass with the BAR
      • They need to guarantee that Catholics will be able to practice openly without persecution
      • They need to make a good faith attempt to kick the Vampire Brothel out of the Boston Cathedral
  • Later
    • Jess meets with Professor Knight and asks about Charles
    • He says that Charles is a good lab assistant but has not yet demonstrated much in novel ideas. However, he also notes that he likely has years of college left ahead of him and therefore plenty of time to find that spark of inspiration
    • Jess admits that she's distantly related to Charles and Knight comments that he should ask for some blood samples from him to look for commonalities between him and Jess
• March 24th
  • Morning
    • The group goes shopping and pick up several materials necessary to manufacture new bullets for Laura's Wild West Revolver
    • Natalie is spotted in the market while shopping due to her infamy
  • Afternoon
    • Natalie and Jess go to the Boston College Library while Laura stays at the clock tower, using different methods to research the artifact they recovered from the bank
    • While in the Library Nalatie is spotted again, but quick thinking and some magic from Jess hide her presence sufficiently to avoid problems from it
    • They learn the following information about the artifact:
      • The supernal realm it's closest to is Stygia, and it is related to the magic of Vampires and one other, unknown type of supernatural
      • It's called the Bloody Scale, and is part of a set of artifacts called Bloody Aspects
        
      • Bloody Aspects are used by consuming them and give discipline-like powers to Vampires who use them
        • It is unclear whether they will work for non-vampires
        • Vampires can "bleed out" Aspects they've eaten to remove them from their bodies, but this would probably be lethal to a Mage or Changeling
        • Eating one of these things is probably bad for integrity, but fine for Wisdom/Clarity
        • It won't turn you into a Vampire
          
      • Particularly obsessed Ordo Dracul can make new Aspects, but it's always fatal to their creators
      • They can learn what the first discipline/power is if they eat it
  • Evening
    • Natalie spends the evening at her new job, at the Cathedral
    • She talks to Baroness Carla Williams about Violet's request to join new Carthage
    • Williams is hesitant to agree to anything, but eventually agrees to hear out an intermediary of Violet's (Violet is banned from the establishment for another 13 years)
    • Williams wants the follow things from new Carthage (and by extension, the PCs)
      • She doesn't want her Brothel to be disrupted
      • She wants guarentee that they will protect the Cathedral, and the Brothel within it, from hostile forces
      • She wants to make sure Violet's plan doesn't get derailed in a way that'll kill most of all of the Vampires
    • The Baroness also notes that Violet Waters tends to make huge messes and often fails to consider the consequences of her actions, but can effect a lot of change in the process of self-destructing
      

March 24th

• Jess is exhausted from Anemia today
  
• Morning
  • The group finally head to the Changeling Freehold
  • They learn about the changing of of the courts. Winter will change to Spring on the first new moon after the Spring Equinox
    • The seasons are biased in Boston, with Winter having a longer reign and Summer a shorter one
    • The reason the seasons are biased is due to an interaction between the Promethean Guard, elite soldiers who cause the weather to storm, and the Viscount, whose presence lengthens and amplifies the harshness of winter.
  • The group check out some bounties while they're at the freehold
    • They investigate the bounty for "Brett Sadface", which is mysteriously lacking in details and Blood Money, the bounty board manager, has no memory of
    • Jess is able to use magic to determine that a connection has been severed from Blood Money, and the group assume this has to do with the whole Brett Sadface thing
    • They also look at other bounties, and decide to look into Seven Fingers, a Hobgoblin who has been stealing from both the Spring and Autumn Courts
      • Catching him will probably make convincing those two courts to join a political faction an easier sell
        
  • On their way out from the Freehold, the group is attacked by an huge, armoured individual
    • It's dicey for a little, but eventually Jess manages to use mental Domination to force the enemy to shoot itself
      • Repeatedly
• Afternoon
  • After the encounter with the presumed Promethean, the group decides to spoil themselves with a bath and spa treatment at Demeter's pleasure house
  • While there they also talk to Demeter herself about recruitment
  • Demeter lays out the following requirements to sign up:
    • A passionate political climate
    • Reasonable steps taken to protect places of indulgence in the city
    • Burn down the court house
  • Demeter also confirms that she's something like penpals with Baroness Amelia Heart
    • They are friendly business rivals, but mostly target different clientele from one another
      
  • The group then gets side-tracked and does some magic to track the body of the Promethean they killed
    • Like seriously they completely forgot to investigate Seven-Fingers, who's recently targeted this location for burgulary
      

March 24th (Pt. 2)

• Afternoonish
  • The group investigate Demeter's house of pleasures looking for Seven Fingers
  • They get permission to check the storage room, where Demeter's goblin fruit are stored and have been burgled
  • Jess offers to try to scry on the last thing that was stolen using its container, which was left behind, as a sympathetic yantra
  • They get really lucky. Not only has Seven-Fingers not yet eaten the Fruit, but he's present in the House of Pleasure!
  • Jess does some more magic
    • Like, way too much
    • She ends this scene with all but one health box filled with resistant bashing from containing paradox
    • That's a lot!
    • But the spells all work, and she's able to quickly zero in on Seven-Fingers, bypassing several layers of defense and winning a clash of wills
  • They confront Seven-Fingers. The Hobgoblin tries to pass himself off as an innocent bystandard, but the group isn't fooled
    • He's clothslined by Maelys when he tries to make a breakaway and then dragged to Demeter
  • Demeter is impressed that the group caught him so quickly. She offers to immediately pay out his bounty to the group, bypassing the need to de-finger him (or drag him all the way to the bounty board) themselves
    • They get as much goblin fruit as they can carry (IE: 6) from a curated list of options
    • Catching Seven-Fingers pleases the Spring and Fall Courts, reducing the recruitment requirements for both
      
• Evening
  • The group sneak into the College to investigate the corpse of the Promethean they killed, which was moved to a lab on campus
  • They get in easily, but Natalie makes too much noise trying to steal the Promethean's armour and they are almost immediately discovered
  • They get away safely, but security around the corpse is increased and tension increases in the city
    

March 25th

• Morning
  • The group go chase down Coyote to recruit to their cause
  • They promise him some violence and Maelys cashes in her good status with the Summer King
  • Coyote agrees to go along with whichever faction they want him to support...just so long as he doesn't need to be involved too much in non-changeling politics
    
• Afternoon
  • The group decide to help Natalie track down some more supplies for making explosives!
  • They don't have everything they want, but they do have what they need to start making gunpowder...well, except for practice at making gunpowder
  • They manage to not blow themselves up this time, but the first attempt does not yield that much Gunpowder
    

March 25th (Part 2)

• Evening
  • The group meet up with Violet to deliver Baroness Amelia's message to her and also to ask for some explosives
    • One thing leads to another and Natalie challenges Violet to a Flare Gun Duel
      • Yes, really
        
    • Natalie loses, but no major consequences are suffered as a result, apart from a point of Agg damage
  • The group head home to the clock tower and find a trio of strangers with bikes outside
    • After a slightly tense introduction, it's revealed that the group are mages
    • They get invited inside to talk and drink tea
    • The group introduce themselves as The Finder of Ways, a legacy cabal who have been exploring NA to map out its Lay Lines
    • Their members are as follows:
      • Magellan - Spanish Mysterium Mage
      • Samuel de Champlain - French Woman of unknown affiliation
      • Rupert of the Rhine - English Man of unknown affiliation
    • The group showed up because they were planning to setup shop in the hallow and didn't realize it was already claimed
    • They head off for the night to find an inn, but first do some analysis on the group's node

March 26th

• Raining Again
• Morning
  • Jess does oblations in the hallow to recharge some mana
  • Everyone else works morning shifts in their day jobs
• Afternoon
  • The group decide to stake out the Lower Court House, which they need to blow up to fully get Demeter and the Spring Court on board
  • With some sneaky spell work they determine that they could probably accomplish their goal by sabotaging the heating, which is gas based and not really up to modern safety standards
    

March 26th (Part 2)

• Evening
  • Natalie gives a favour to Baroness Amelia in exchange for clearing up her notoriety
    

March 27th

• Cloudy and Sunny
• The city is filled with unrest, on the cusp of riots
  
• Morning
  • Natalie prepares a pipe bomb to detonate a gas explosion in the court house
    
• Afternoon
  • Time to blow up a court house
  • The group easily infiltrate the lower court house with invisibility
  • Natalie sabotages the furnace to flood the building with gas while Maelys turns off the gas lamps to prevent a premature explosion
    • The explosive is placed in the furnace to detonate the explosion; Jess uses Mind Magic to ensure it's not discovered
  • After the explosive is in place, Jess mentally dominates the soldiers in charge of defending the court house to clear it out
  • It takes an hour for the building to fully flood with gas before the explosion can be detonated
    • The group cut it close on this hour, but manage to make it without anyone trying to go back into the building
    • ...And then it explodes, igniting riots throughout the city
• The Navy has been called in, and they will be in Boston within days to restore order
  
• Evening
  • The group talk to Stoneface, the Autumn Court Monarch
  • Me asks for the following in order to secure the court's support (Catching 7 Fingers lets the group bypass one of these requirements)
    • Get new clients for the Autumn Market
    • Expand the Autumn Market
    • Protect the Autumn Market from Hobgoblins
      
• Late Evening
  • The group skip out on a good night sleep in order to get more done today
  • They use their extra time to talk to the BAR
    • The players have given up on the Catholics. The BAR isn't happy about it, but Maelys and Jess try to sell them on on everyone else they've recruited
    • They bring up working with New Carthage, but Alyx Freeman is less than enthusiastic about it
    • They also bring up the Autumn Court and successfully convince the BAR to set them up in the Abandoned Printing Press as a new location for their market
      

March 28th

• Raining
  
• Early Morning
  • The Cathedral is attacked by members of the Boston Mass
  • Natalie is present and helps repel the attackers
  • Only superficial damage is done, and no one dies
  • Helping defend the Cathedral makes good on the team's promise to help protect it
• Morning
  • Jess & Maelys double-time it to Salem to bargain with the Thornton Matriarch to attempt to recruit her
    

Missed the recap for Session 16, Woops.

The short, short version is that Jess and Maelys went to talk to the Thorntons about joining the rebellion to a non-committal response. Then Jess and Natalie had a run in with Brother Alexander Anderson in which he nearly killed Nat.

March 28th (Part 3)

• Late Afternoon
  • The group reconvene at the Clocktower long enough to properly bandage Natalie and let her wait up
  • Afterwords they head to Demeter for a chance to quickly heal Natalie
  • Demeter gives them a discount (It still costs a lot!) to use a Changeling Power to allow Natalie to power through 2 weeks of healing in minutes
    
• Evening
  • The gang head to Violet sell her on the people they've recruited, get paid and find out what New Carthage are doing next
    • Violet's happy with their results and pays them in full
    • Violet gives them enough money to upgrade the clock tower
    • Violet gives them a special dueling gun which fires flaming bullets
    • Violet gives them a Vampiric Artifact called The Bloody Heart-Stone
    • Violet says that her plan is to wait for the ships to leave or explode and then begin her rebellion in earnest
      

Faction Recruiting Final Tally

• Boston American Resistance
  • Raccoon (She was on-side before this whole thing started)
  • Wheel of Fortune (Sponsor)
    
  • Autumn Court
  • Agreed to ignore New Carthage so long as Vampires be killing Vampires
    
• New Carthage
  • Boston Cathedral
  • Spring Court
  • The Thornton Family (Nominal)
    
• Aligned to Party
  • Summer Court
    
• Not Recruited
  • Molly the Werewolf
    
  • Winter Court
  • The Finders of Ways
    
• Hostile
  • Boston Mass (AKA The Catholics)
    

March 29th

• Two Naval Ships arrive in harbour, guns pointing at the city to quiet down the rioting
  
• Earlier
  • Maelys spends the day talking with Dawn Gold. She wants to figure out what she wants and how to get her into a better place to live
    • Dawn Wants:
      • More Knowledge about Magic in general and Changeling Magic specifically
      • She wants to go to the college
      • She wants to live somewhere better
      • ...But she doesn't have the money to pursue the things she wants, and she needs to live near the Hospital for her work as a Nurse
      • She also mentions that she's been extra busy at the hospital lately, both treating people hurt in the riots and preparing for an expecting increase in patients should the ships bombard on the city
    • Given this information, Maelys decides to try to get Dawn a Scholarship or, more likely, a patron, that will allow her to attend Boston College
• Later
  • Maelys and Natalie sneak onto The Red Lady, one of the two ships currently pointing guns at boston
    • Maelys turns into an owls and sneaks invisibly into the armoury while the ship is dealing with a comotion
      • She steals powder and a gun while there
    • Natalie climbs in through a gun door, is immediately spotted and causes a commotion
      • She gets away after cutting up a guy and being beaten half unconscious with a stick
      • She decides to head for the captains cabin, where she reveals herself
      • She is immediately shot by a lieutenant in the room
      • Despite all this, she manages to bluff her way into a private talk with the Captain (while he's in the process of locking her in the brigg)
      • She reveals that she's a changeling from the future to the Captain, George Kampfer, who's the ancestor of Natalie's CO in the Martial Navy
      • Against all fucking odds, George is receptive to this information, believes her and even asks what he can do to help
      • Natalie sneaks off the ship after they're done talking, the Brigg left unlocked by a sympathetic Captain