19 Moons- Hunt For The Stolen Child (3rd Night, Trail End)

  --- Jon ---

  “Come on Pix, you’ve got a pillow with your name on it.” He told the fairy in his backpack, knowing she’d fallen asleep somewhere on the return trip between the station and his apartment.

  He could feel the little fairy shifting around in the backpack, but in the end she made little effort to actually get up and move to a more proper bed.

  Sighing to himself, he slid his backpack off before gently picking the fairy up in his hands and placing her on one of his pillows.

  With its more fragile contents removed, he proceeded to throw the backpack full of both his gear from the night as well as the money he’d… (requisitioned) from the Dealers’ warehouse into his closet, fully aware that he should go to greater lengths to hide the latter. But unfortunately, after the night he’d had, breaking into the warehouse and then later dropping evidence of the Dealers supply chain off at the station -while avoiding being caught on camera- he just wasn’t feeling up to the effort right now.

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  Tired eyes drifted towards the sleeping fairy on his bed, and a part of him was tempted to just collapse in his bed right alongside her, but another was fully aware of the sweat he’d worked up from both walking all over the city as well as the various adrenaline rushes that came with sneaking through an area he most definitely was not supposed to be.

  (At the very least I won’t have to worry about my morning workout.) He thought with a bitter chuckle, almost grateful for that fact given how he’d likely have just slept through said workout as late as it already was.

  Checking his phone as he started undressing for his shower, he saw that it was already around three in the morning. (Meaning I’ve got four, maybe five hours before I’ve got to get up for school, and that’s if I don’t mind running the whole way there.)

  Stepping into the shower, he could already feel the exhaustion that was going to be clinging to him throughout the day. (Probably because I already am that tired…)

  Pushing through the day despite being exhausted was something he was more than used to after Blackwell. Especially since by those last few weeks, when the Beast had finally deemed him a ‘problem’, there’d been an incident with the corrupted nearly twice a night leaving him to push through each day of camp counseling with less than four hours of sleep each night.

  (It’s nothing I can’t handle.) He (lied) to himself.

  Event Consequences

  Event Breakdown

  -Gained (D6=2) Heat and (2D6=8) Intel from interrogating Dealer.

  -Jon has taken a small amount of Mental Health Damage for torture interrogating someone for the first time.

  -Pix spent 2MP healing Dealer.

  -Jon spent 2MP summoning Wolf.

  -Wolf likes that Jon was willing to ask her for help.

  -Gained 2XP to Contracting for using Pix and Wolf’s assistance through the night.

  -Gained 2XP to Stealth for eliminating Guards without getting caught.

  -Gained 1XP to Archery for using Bow and arrows.

  -Pix spent 1MP putting Dealer under illusions.

  -Jon spent 1MP maintaining Wolf’s summons.

  -Pix’s Deception skill has leveled up to Lv. 4.

  -Gained ((3D6 = 13) + (Crit D6 = 3) = 16) Heat for eliminating guards without getting caught.

  -Pix spent 9MP healing Dealers.

  -Wolf loved that Pix and Jon healed the people they fought.

  -Gained (6D6=26) Intel from acquiring dealer ledger and files.

  -Weekly funds increased by $20 each week.

  -For stealing their money, gang heat doubled for this sub-event. (16x2=32).

  -Gained 1XP to Stealth for dropping off evidence to the police without getting caught.

  -Turned evidence over to the police generating ((5D6 =22) + (Crit 2D6 = 7) = 29) Police Heat for the district while directing them towards the Dealers.

  -For turning evidence about the Dealers specifically gained (2D6=8) additional Heat from the Dealers.

  -Pix spent 12MP

  -Pix’s Deceptions skill has leveled up to Lv. 4.

  -Jon spent 3MP

  -Gained 3XP to Stealth

  --Currently: Stealth Lv. 6 (7/14).

  -Gained 2XP to Contracting.

  --Currently: Contracting Lv. 3 (7/8) and

  -Gained 1XP to Archery.

  --Currently: Archery Lv. 7 (9/16)

  -Gained 34 Intel.

  -Gained 42 Dealer Heat.

  --Dealer Heat ranked up from F to D.

  -Gained 29 Police Heat.

  --Police Heat ranked up from F to E.

  --Police primary target has shifted to the Dealers for the time being.