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Now I Have To Deal With Tier IV PCs
The Dead Setters’ player attendance lottery continued, this time with Deemo the Leech and Raven the Hound able to attend. The Setters had a lot of irons in the fire, but decided to go after the equipment they’d need to make use of the coin minting dies they forged from Charterhall Bank. They had an expert forger, Valeris, and they had a crew workshop in which to do the work, but they needed minting equipment. Not only that, but their loftly goals were to print money that ghosts could use. The crew had the Ghost Market ability, and given recent overtures towards the Reconciled, it seemed the Dead Setters were about to corner the market on some sort of spectral economy.
Making money was one thing. Making ghost money would require Sparkwright technology. Two crits in a row after that made the score a piece of cake. Their intel was beyond exceptional, and although a poorly-timed industrial accident inside the Sparkwright factory in Coalridge made moving around the building risky, the two scoundrels pulled off the heist. I made a clock to represent the PCs’ efforts to create an opportunity to get to the large, heavy minting press they needed. Deemo basically resorted to college pranks to keep the Sparkwrights distracted, while Raven Splinter Celled the shit out of a handful of too-curious-for-their-own-good engineers. One berserk crane and industrial hull exoskeleton accident later, and our “heroes” poured Drift Oil on the minting gear and floated it out the roll doors to their Rovers cohort, waiting in their boat.
We had a boat chase then, because you can’t steal a floating industrial-strength minting press and take it out the giant open side door without being spotted. The Setters exchanged fire with the Sparkwrights, who unleashed a horrible electric net prototype which prompted a whole mess of stress and resistance rolls, then Raven critted on her Hunt roll and shot the lead Sparkwright in his volatile backpack. Flinders of boat and ropy strings of gore rained across the canal as the Dead Setters made it back to their lair.
This was a quick, simple, and honestly refreshing heist. The crew looted 5 Coin worth of precision parts and expensive-looking prototypes as well, which filled up their crew Vault. The Dead Setters were at 16 Coin. Their Rep track had been full for weeks now. They had Lord Scurlock as a Patron (for now – they also had 2/4 ticks on Lord Scurlock is Annoyed With You).
The Dead Setters went to Tier IV and I cried silent GM tears.
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