DnD Scifi Notes

SESSION 1 NOTES

Setting: The city-state of New Telluri was designed as a set of zones layered in concentric rings, like a bullseye. There are
six rings, with the first being the immigration, emigration and trade ring, the second through fourth being increasingly
classy residential zones, the fifth being the one-percenter zone and the innermost ring being the capital.

Party Members:

- Calamity Jane, Chaotic Good Tiefling Wizard, School of Enchantment
- Aima Hadarian, Chaotic Neutral Half-Elf Rogue
- Fennel Sweetgale, Neutral Good Halfling Cleric, Nature Domain
- Dwayne Johnson, Chaotic Good Mountain Dwarf Fighter, Eldritch Knight

Notable NPCs first session:

- Jane Brown, elf, New Telluri P.D. detective & unknown-class magic-user

Transcript of events:

- Party members individually hired by a private-sector casino in the Fourth Ring, start session on a bullet train inbound
for the city

- Party introduces themselves to each other; it is revealed that Calamity and Aima are partners in crime

- Aima and Dwayne notice a pair of suspicious-looking thugs wearing red rubber wristbands leave the car; Aima recognizes
the bands as some kind of gang symbol, and notifies Calamity that things might be about to go down

- Calamity summons her raven familiar and sends it after the two thugs; it follows them to the front of the train

- The thugs stop in the doorway to the last passenger car and start whispering in hushed tones to each other; the
familiar slips past to see inside the car and notices an old lady on her phone sitting alone

- The old lady notices the familiar and banishes it

- Aima decides action should be taken, gets Calamity to fake a purse-snatching by using Silent Image to create an illusory
"thief" to chase

- The plan is that the image will run past the guards and that Calamity will "accidentally" trip and fall into a thug,
disarming him in the confusion

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- Nat 20 on a check to manipulate image means it appears to leap between the thugs into the doorway

- Nat 1 on a check to convincingly fake a trip means she leaps sideways into the thug

- Nobody is fooled

- Aima, who has been recording this to put on the setting's version of WorldStar, decides to intervene and fails

- Initiative is rolled

- Seven rounds later and four thugs (there were two more waiting in the back of the train) are unconscious, the cops
have been called, the old lady turned out to be a detective, and she's revealing that the private-sector casino that
hired them was owned by the city of New Telluri

- Reveals that they're working for New Telluri as "specialized consultants" (read: basically the A-team)

- Also informs the party that the gangers they stopped belong to a mysterious group known only as the Red Bands, for their
wristbands that denote membership

- Detective then tells party that their first mission will be stopping a heist on the casino

- End session one

SESSION TWO NOTES

[Side note: Only Aima and Dwayne's players attended this session]

- Calamity and Fennel go off with Jane to settle living arrangements within the city whilst Aima and Dwayne go to look
up the former's criminal contacts in New Telluri

- Aima calls up his information broker, "Wheezy Jake", and asks for an "in" to the city's criminal network

- Wheezy directs him to a laundromat in the Second Ring which is a front for criminal activity

- The rogue and fighter are followed on the way there by three shadowy characters; Dwayne keeps an eye on them once the two
arrive

- The laundromat is an ancient brick building with bars on the windows; it has a distinctly uninviting air, and the inside
isn't much better, the cold, pale tile floors suggesting multiple washes with bleach

- The proprietor, a half-orc named Paul in a light blue polo shirt, leers down at them from behind the counter; Aima
speaks with him (while Dwayne sits in a chair by the window and keeps watch) and discovers that the wristbands contain
small chip drives inside that hold a small amount of "clean" (read: untraceable) credits, as well as a tracker that
detects other bands (there's not a buzzer or any visible indicator, however)

- Aima also inquires about "my suit", mentioned by Wheezy, and Paul enters the back room for a minute, returning with
a pair of bulky, packaged pieces of clothing, which he gives to Aima

- At this point, two of the shadies from earlier enter - an elf with sharp features and a pointy nose, and a human with
a buzz cut and black turtleneck; they confront Paul before talking to Aima

- The elf (calls himself "Spindle") knows of Aima, reveals that he knows of the party's affiliation with NTPD, and warns
that his sources say big things are coming for the city

- After the shadies leave, Paul tells Aima to look up someone named "Five-Eyes" in the Fourth Ring, and that the above
runs a tech store and can help them with the bands' trackers

- Aima and Dwayne visit the shop, Chevron Technologies, but Five-Eyes isn't in, so they leave a message with the manager

- Aima and Dwayne open their packages and discover some goodies within - Aima gets a fancy reinforced suit, a set of thieves'
tricks and tools, and a revolver named Hammertongue which used to be his

- Dwayne gets an armored jacket and a shotgun

- Aima and Dwayne are messaged by Calamity and told to meet them at an apartment; they arrive just as the detective, who
was waiting with the girls, opens the door to the apartment

- End session two

SESSION THREE NOTES

[Side note: Fennel didn't attend]

- Detective briefs party on their mission - the Grand Royale Casino is going to be raided in two days, and the party is
needed to stop them

- They will be visiting the casino in the morning to scout the area and form a plan

- After Jane leaves, the party goes to sleep

- In the middle of the night, someone attempts to spy on Aima's room but is discovered and flees; party gives chase

- He is eventually cornered on a rooftop and hauled back to be interrogated; he reveals that he was hired by Spindle to
plant a bug to listen in on the party's conversations

- Party threatens to have the spy's failure revealed to Spindle unless he f*cks off and lies to Spindle about their actions

- The spy is then shooed off and the party returns to sleep

- End session

SESSION FOUR NOTES

SOLO SESSION W/ AIMA

- In the middle of the night, about two hours after the spy leaves, Aima gets an anonymous text telling him to come to a
club in the Fourth Ring called The Glow

- Aima arrives at the club, which earns its nickname with all the neon lights, and meets with a cloaked, hooded figure
using a mask with a machine to disguise their voice

- Stranger reveals that they know of Aima, and asks him to assist them on a mission to hijack a deal going down not far
from the club, where medicinal drugs will be illicitly traded for large amounts of money

- Aima agrees, meets the stranger hiding at the target location - a T-shaped alley intersection between two streets

- Three people emerge from each side of the T - one group well-dressed, looking like something out of The Godfather, and
carrying a briefcase

- One group less well-dressed, looking like something out of Malibu's Most Wanted, and one guy carrying a large plastic
container (think Sterilite)

- The Thugs trade with the Mafioso guys - the thugs leave with the cash, and the suits with the drugs

- Aima and the stranger follow the suits and ambush them; there's a struggle, the stranger tries multiple times to pin
a suit and fails every time, Aima just shoots them all in the legs and runs with the package

- Stranger is hit with a bullet in the fight, mask damaged; gets dizzy and vocoder dissolves into static

- Once the two are away from the scene, the stranger texts their contact while Aima mocks their poor combat skills

- When the contact - a gaudily-dressed man in an equally gaudy SUV - arrives, Aima reports his involvement while the
stranger affirms statements by nodding

- The man is disappointed in his "employee", but pleased that things worked out, and gives Aima a sizable sum for his
assistance, before taking both wounded and package and leaving Aima to his thoughts

- End session with Aima back in bed, putting his phone on "silent"

HEIST PLANS

NOTES

- To pass the gate to the vault elevator two keycards are required; the guards each have one

- Once inside the vault room there is a pressure-sensitive floor disarmed by a keypad. The code is only known to a few
(security officer, managers, owner) but someone with a high Knowledge (Technology) or hacking tools can force it or even
disarm it by rewiring it

- Vault has a standard combination lock on the door. ONLY the managers and owner know the code, but, again, someone with
high checks (Arcana to sense the imprints of someone who opened it, Investigation to search out hints on the knob,
Sleight of Hand/Perception to simply crack it) can safely ignore this. HOWEVER after three failed checks the knob opens
to reveal a Glyph of Warding inscribed with Hold Person, and an alarm goes off

- One of the guards is corrupt and accepted a bribe of 20k credits to go along with the heist. The party can learn this by
talking to the guard or viewing the camera records. He can be ousted,  or counter-bribed (40k cred) or persuaded (DC18 Speech,
DC15 if blackmailed) to do his job anyway

- The vault cameras are bugged to loop on a sixty-second period once a trigger is activated. The bug can be discovered by
performing a Perception (DC17) check on the cameras themselves or a Knowledge (Tech) (DC16) check on the computers in the
security room. Knowing about the bugs via the latter makes it easy enough to find them on the cams without a check.
They can be removed (DC12 Acrobatics to reach them without a ladder), deactivated (DC12 Tech/Hacking), or rigged (DC16
Tech/Hacking) to never start the loop, and alert the camera user when the bugs are triggered

- The rear entrance door has a keycard lock, but the lock doesn't work anymore. A DC15 Perception check can spot this, but
the party doesn't have the tools to fix it. The maintenance man can be informed, however, and he'll have it fixed by the
end of the day

ENEMY HEISTERS

- Thomas "Spindle" Pindell, Elven Warlock (Archfey)
STR 10, DEX 15, CON 9, INT 12, WIS 12, CHA 18, 23 HP

- Arcadia "Nimble" de Rosa, Tiefling Rogue (Arcane Trickster)
STR 12, DEX 18, CON 10, INT 14, WIS 12, CHA 10, 28 HP

- Elliot "Five-Eyes" Bree, Halfling Wizard (Technomancy)
STR 8, DEX 14, CON 10, INT 20, WIS 12, CHA 12, 22 HP

- William "Piper" Hamelin, Half-Elf Sorcerer
STR 10, DEX 12, CON 12, INT 12, WIS 12, CHA 18, 27 HP

- Jake "Hammer" Delaney, Half-Orc Fighter (Champion)
STR 18, DEX 14, CON 14, INT 10, WIS 10, CHA 10, 44 HP

- also five Thugs