Event Three

The Hargrave Heist

At this point we had tracked Hargrave to a fortress he had built inside of the KNOT that had allowed him to remain there indefinitely - well beyond the usual limits. He achieved this using a combination of FABRILIS, STELLIFER, and the Fox Mask. The fortress was surrounded by followers, but we found some way to punch in and avoid them.

We split into three teams:

Team One was comprised mostly of the people with strong connections to Lacuna or Hargrave. They were the A-Team, with the best artifacts and a lot of knowledge about what was going on.

Team Two was comprised of all the underdogs with very little in the way of equipment. They did a great job of self organizing and getting those with extra artifacts to distribute them around so that everyone had a little of what they needed to operate effectively.

Team Three was a grab bag of all the lone wolves who didn't want to be in a team in the first place and was a disaster that dissolved almost as soon as we got into the KNOT when Isaac Blackstone left Tobias Blake to die immediately following Tobias' rescue of Isaac from a shade.

One team was responsible for breaking into Hargrave's control room by hunting down runes so we could disengage the doors throughout the fortress. Another team was responsible for solving a haunting that was blocking a major door that was an important choke point beyond which we needed to progress to reach the control room. The third group was responsible for defending the other group from shades (Team 3 was responsible for this and like I said it didn't go very well). In practice, roles got jumbled badly and coordination was poor.

When we broke in, Hargrave put on a huge speech about how we were fools and he was trying to stay safe. At this point however, followers broke in and overwhelmed the fortress. We had to flee back to the portal with followers hot on our tails, and several individuals were taken by the Followers including Riker and Enrich Tower. Most of the JAAs escaped with Langston.