Black Carriage, Bloody Steps
1)Its been barely a couple hours since we captured Gorfels et al. His getaway driver got away, but thats it; we captured the rest of his crew. In order for this ambush to happen, several prereqs
i) They had to get information to someone with the power to make a decision about killing or attempting to kill a warlock
ii) Said person had to know or have enough access to our decisionmaking process to predict we'd come here
iii) They had to have access to a trained marksman and scoped rifle at short notice, and be able to rush them across town
iv)They had to know where Harry Dresden lives, and to have pre-scouted sniper positions overlookimg the approaches
None of this is a trivial exercise. And combined it represents a significant amount of contingency planning and resources.
Conclusion:
We're dealing with an organization, and a reasonably well resourced and competent one at that with access to skilled minions.
Illnois Nazis it is.
2) The monks have been under Molly's eyes all along, so there's no chance that any of them is a mole leaking info on our activities.
Marcone's gofers, however, have not. And they have cellphones. That narrows things down to either a leak in Marcone's organization, or someone on the other side who is preternatuarally competent and prepared.
3)They tried to assassinate Gorfels.
That means he has information they want to deny us from extracting from him.
Valuable information worth keeping him alive for.
So we need to keep him alive.
4)The Valkyrie with destiny magic doesnt recognize what we are, just that fate has no claim on us.
I wonder if thats Hendricks driving.
She takes one look at the prisoner and her cool professional smile twists into a looks of revulsion. "Maðkar ganga erlendis og kalla sig úlfa," she mutters under her breath.
Icelandic for "Caterpillars pretending to be wolves."
The way Exalts dont get to recover Essence is a real bummer.
At the beginning of this update we had 6 Essence. Burned 1 Essence for Tool Constructs.
Remaining 5/10 Essence. -1 Wound Penalty.
Burning 1 Essence for the sword and another for an Excellency should get us to Harry's door and threshold.
Leaves us with 3 Essence.
VOTE
[] Run for cover with the others, you did promise your dad not to take as many risks
Need to write a stunt.