Session 3

Session 3: In Over Our Heads
"Yeah, one of them."

- The Bartender

Overview
Vic decides to search The Intrepid for any trace of Marcus and his crew. He breaks onto the ship but finds nothing helpful. After talking to the Dock Foreman he gets a physical description of Marcus and heads off to the Temple Cloud Bar to try and meet up with the Crew before the deal goes ahead.

During this time Logan and Nahtesh are approached by a man they believe to be Marcus and, despite Logan's hesitation, hand over the crate. Logan decides to stay on the Skiff while Nahtesh goes off to gamble and, after talking to some card players in a bar, gets himself invited to a higher stakes game after sundown.

Logan gets bored on The Daedalus and decides to try and find Rickmann but due to his terrible sense of direction proceeds to check the same few bars over and over before Nahtesh finds him. After Nahtesh successfully uses his Magic to divine that Rickmann is seemingly safe in the inaccessible upper tier, the pair decide to explore properly and visit Redley's Curio Stock. Here they are offered cut price Miracle Cores but quickly discover these are in fact fakes when one of them turns out to be a flashbang grenade (when Logan immediately grabs it and activates it in the hopes of gaining Core Powers) and they accidentally start a panic which draws the attention of the Peak guards.

Vic reaches Temple Cloud and encounters Rufalo, who is hostile and demands he leave, stating that the business with their crew is completed. Unable to get any more information he eventually leaves and arrives near Redley's Curio Stock just after the guards. Seeing an opportunity he sneaks off to the Upper Tier while they are away from their posts and discovers that the Upper Tier contains numerous growing flowers, an incredible rarity in The Dune. He successfully avoids the guards and discovers Rickmann talking to a man in a blue suit. He avoids the pair and discovers a store room where a form references the The Intrepid and "The Astonish", including a note to pass the message onto The Earl. Unable to speak to Rickmann and trapped in by the guards, Vic opens a doorway to a descending staircase and heads down....

Meanwhile Nahtesh and Logan have arrived at the card game (with Logan posing as a bodyguard) and realise that one of the players appears to be Earl Blue. Unable to back out, Nahtesh commits to the game. However the group play with several rule variations he is unfamiliar with and he is forced to resort to using his Magic to divine a strategy, a tactic that is immediately noticed by the man in blue. There is a brief moment of tension before he is sternly warned to not try Magic again at the table. Logan gets increasingly apprehensive about the situation they have put themselves in, knowing that swindling Earl Blue is effectively stealing from Baron Red, but that beating him might be just as bad. He warns Nahtesh to not provoke him while asking the bartender to confirm the man in blue's identity. The bartender confirms that the man is indeed one of the Earls, to Logan's confusion.

New Characters

 * Earl Blue
 * Redley

Notable Quotes
"Army maties!"