Forten's Illusion CH 3: Warehouse Op

[Jennifer Hazelton]

Jennifer reviews her notes from the plan making session with the Alder Prince and Lord Jack at the top of the evening. With a clear understanding, she moves forward by packing her small leather backpack with her camera with long range lens, a box of zip ties, a box of chalk, a fine notebook and expensive pen, an empty wallet with $500, a black scarf, a pin case with pins, a burner phone, a flashlight, and a small wooden dowel trimmed to six inches long. She dressed in average clothes that would pass in the area of warehouse - worn out jeans, broken in walking shoes, a oversize green sweater, a black coat and a black satin scarf, pinned in place to hide her gruesome injury.
A note was left with Liam.

Note

I am observing the warehouse as discussed with our meeting with Lord Jack. If I do not retun this evening, Liam is instructed to deliver this alert to your office, as something has gone wrong and I was not able to return to the Haven

Jennifer drove the older model Avalon and parked two blocks from the warehouse. She exited, put on her backpack, and slowly walked towards the warehouse. She took a moment to observe the area of the warehouse and those people walking around as she walked the two blocks. As she walked, so looks for a dark doorway. Upon finding one, she steps into one and pulls on the Cloak of Night. Just to ensure she was not a Breach, she remains Blushed.

5 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-01-21 14:21:29	Jennifer Hazelton rolls 10 to Obfuscate Cloak of Night- Fortens Illusion ch 3 (10 Again)	9, 4, 10, 4, 7, 1, 10, 10, 6, 9, 6, 7, 4	5 successes

[Jennifer Hazelton]

Book keeping -

[Seryna]

The two block walk was quiet. Two people were sitting on a worn out lawn chair area, drinking out of dented tin mugs. They were looking around, and appear to glance at you as you pass. The third is someone walking the opposite way of yourself, without many identifying markers on their person.

The warehouse was quiet when you arrive. There is a chain link fence around the warehouse and a parking lot. Two foreign model cars, each ten years old, are in the parking lot. The windows appear to be covered, as they are uniformly grey.

Make three perception rolls to mark the passage of time. I know it's weird for me to be interacting with myself, yet I want my character to have to go through the same making roll hoops and writing out actions in a scene as anyone else

[Jennifer Hazelton]

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-01-22 13:09:20	Jennifer Hazelton rolls 6 to Ch 3 warehouse observation (Forten's illusion) (10 Again)	5, 8, 8, 2, 6, 5	2 successes

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-01-22 13:09:06	Jennifer Hazelton rolls 6 to Ch 3 warehouse observation (Forten's illusion) (10 Again)	2, 10, 2, 7, 3, 1, 2	1 success

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-01-22 13:08:47	Jennifer Hazelton rolls 6 to Ch 3 warehouse observation (Forten's illusion) (10 Again)	6, 2, 5, 3, 4, 8	1 success

Jennifer remains as still as a corpse can manage from her hiding place, cloaked in Obfuscate. She remains vigiliant, her eyes scanning the warehouse. She looks for entranes and anyone entering or exiting the building. She checks for anyone making patrols and any cameras on the grounds.

[Seryna]

The warehouse has a line of windows that are very high, the bottom of the ledge at twelve feet. They all appear to be a uniform grey color. There are two doors within sight of Jennifer's perch, a small regular size door on the east side of the warehouse. There is a truck bay attached to the warehouse where large garage doors can be raised for trucks to enter the building. The warehouse opens the doors at 10 PM and a grey Dodge truck pulls out with two people, both women, in the truck. The truck departs and is not seen again for the evening.
One young man steps out of the smaller door, using a vape and texting rapidly on his phone. He is lean and well dressed. His skin is the darker shade described for Forten. After five minutes, a man similiar in build as the first young man steps out and joins the first. He appears a bit older, in line with the information gathered for Forten. With this second man, a large, wide man exits. This man stands apart from the two men and walks around the area about ten feet from the two men. He appears to be scanning the area closely.

What do you do?

[Jennifer Hazelton]

Jennifer remains as still as possible. Her mind is churning over the occult knowledge that she has about the common Gift of cloaking oneself. As far as she knows, it is a Gift of Kindred to pierce the Cloak. She studies the large, muscular man and the man she thinks is Forten for signs that they are Kindred. Although the information from the prisoners does not support this. Jennifer decides to use the mekhet gift Auspex to study Forten. The other two will be studied in due time, yet it is Forten who is the big mystery.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-01-28 14:27:09	Jennifer Hazelton rolls 10 to Forten's Illusion ch 3 Aura Perception Forten (10 Again)	2, 3, 10, 5, 4, 1, 3, 5, 4, 10, 5, 5	2 successes

[Seryna]

Jennifer studies the man for a minute. The minute stretches into five minutes. An overall color of light blue appears in the man's aura. Yet the most unique thing is that there are myriad sparkles in his aura.

[Jennifer Hazelton]

Myriad sparkles - magic user! Jennifer considered. Jennifer forces herself to remain calm. There were three people in hew view and she did not know what they were capable of. If Forten's associates were attempting to kidnap kindred, it was possible that they considered themselves able to handle a Kindred. Jennifer did not intend to be handled.
Jennifer turns her full attention onto the big man, who Jennifer has dubbed 'Body guard' in her own mind. She focusses all of her attention on delving into the man's aura.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-01-28 14:29:58	Jennifer Hazelton rolls 10 to Forten's Illusion ch 3 Aura Perception Big Man (10 Again)	5, 5, 7, 6, 9, 9, 6, 3, 1, 6	2 successes

[Seryna]

Jennifer concentrates for five minutes as the men converse. The two lean men turn and return to the warehouse as Jennifer's is able to make sense of the Aura of the larger man. His aura is the vibrant color of mortals. The color that is most prominent is bright green.

[Jennifer Hazelton]

Jennifer nods slightly to herself. Although the man was far away, she believes this to be the same man that she saw at Forten's night club. In the months since then, nothing has changed about his state of being. This is good information. Yet the men return to the warehouse.

Jennifer resumes her quiet stake out. She remains still. Her eyes playing from one entrance to the car entance, then playing over the east side of the warehouse to see if there is another entrance someone might be walking around the warehouse from. The next time, she will have to give a full walkaround to check entrances. Jennifer debates having Liam do this during the daytime.
Time stretches on. Jennifer remains quiet and still, keeping her eyes the only thing moving. East door, garage door, east corner of the outside of warehouse.