The incident with Flynn (Captain Liberty) and his grandson was kept out of the news, probably to discourage giving any other villains the idea of attacking the man's family...

But it leaves the heroes with disturbing knowledge...

Blackjack (at the very least) was planning to meet up with one or more other people on the 20th, just a couple of weeks away.

There is a theory that it could involve the Washington Irving High School...

What will the heroes do to find the exact location of the intended meeting, so as to have a second chance to catch Blackjack (and who knows whom else)?

(Possibilities include:
--asking people questions?
--investigating the school?

Which could involve:
--one or more new Insightful rolls?
--undercover work?)

Goodwill making a public appearance at the high school would be a minor publicity stunt event/photo op. He could use that to try to snoop out some connection to Blackjack....

(Hmmmm... make a Charming roll to set that up in advance. You'll get an extra +1 on that roll, if you want (because you're freakin' Goodwill, for goodness' sake, that's why).

Or, you can just drop by unannounced, without a roll...)

Goodwill would probably try to set it up in advance, rather than drop by unannounced. (In fact, he's probably done this sort of thing with other schools in the past... because he's freaking Goodwill, and he does that shit.)

Goodwill rolled 10 using 2d6+2 ((6,2)).

Finally, a Charming roll that WORKS.

Diana works for a newspaper, so she’d probably ask around her co-workers/superiors if anything interesting or notable had gone on there in the past days or weeks.

Additionally, Lynx would probably look over some maps to see if there was anything relevant to 40 or 19. Like a 19th street or something. And then go around the school and look around, possibly at the school or at some intersection of Irving Place and 19th street.

The school's principal is charmed by Goodwill's call, and thus is very interested in having Goodwill drop by (with or without Scraps, but he would be welcome "as long as he's properly housebroken").

It turns out that Washington Irving High School is, these days, a sort of technical high school-- it's for young women only, it turns out, and specializes in preparing them for the job market-- typing, bookkeeping, stenography, office management, bookbinding, commercial filing, printing, journalism, and especially nursing.

All Goodwill has to do now is show up...

Well, the sensible thing here for Cosmic Girl would be for her to go undercover in the school as a student. She's the right age and demographic.

And letting Scraps run loose in the school area for a few days might, MIGHT(?), lead to him sniffing something out.
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Should I begin...?

Goodwill came down from the sky slowly —this was a visit, not a battle— bathed in his customary golden glow. The light faded as he touched down. There was a photographer there already, a reminder that Goodwill's publicist was still doing her job.*

Setting down Scraps, Goodwill mounted the front steps of the school and reached for the front door.

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* = Yes, a publicist. A necessary evil, but one whose customary percentage was also donated to charity, like all of Goodwill's proceeds.

It took very little effort to get Cosmos into the school - the authorities could pull strings, and she more than met the criteria. Good background, good results in previous schools, and she was the right demographic. She was also good at fitting in, and having been the popular cheerleader in school before, she knew how to play the game.

She also studied hard, and did her best to come across as a good student. She tried to make friends, and pick up all the gossip. It was hard to hide things in a school full of girls who were extremely bad at keeping secrets. If someone was up to something, word got around. If there was  room that was locked up, the girls would know. They knew which teachers were creepy, or up to no good, or - shock horror - having a fling!

Put simply, there was no force on the planet quite so good at getting their noses into the business of other people as a bunch of teenage girls. All Cosmic Girl had to do was play the part, be accepted, and start milking everyone for information. She adopted the role of Peggy Potter - Secret Agent! almost too eagerly. But even if she did not learn a lot about what the villains had planned, she would learn shorthand. So, her time was not completely wasted.

She greeted the day of Goodwill's visit with some anticipation. Hoefully she would get time to report properly, and his own investigations could help clarify exactly what was going on.

And she got to see Scraps again. She liked that crazy pooch!

19:56, Today: Cosmic Girl rolled 3 using 2d6+1 with rolls of 1,1.  Charming Peggy Potter, snooping around the school... Oh. My. GOD!!!! I told you. Dice DESPISE me!!! That's just excrutiatingly bad!!!

Goodwill entered the building to no fanfare. It was a surprising but welcomed change of pace. He was popular, but his publicist made it seem even more so, in order to drive his popularity even higher. There was a British music group — the name escaped him at the moment — that was rumored to pay girls to scream in their audience. One girl screamed, they all screamed. Fortunately, his publicist wasn't quite that manipulative. But it was a little surprising that she hadn't arranged some sort of official greeting at the door.

(As he entered the building, he noted the address on the brick facade was 40 Irving Place. Was that the 40 from Blackjack's note?)

The administrative office was nearby, and clearly marked, thankfully. Goodwill went in and introduced himself.

"Hi," he said to the receptionist. "I'm Gil Woods."

(Welcome to the Snake Eyes Club. Other members include Scraps and White Lynx... possibly Goodwill, but the Dice Log results only reach back so far)

Not only does Cosmic Girl not find out anything that would help the investigation, she is humiliated when Becky Brennan hands her a soda that turns out to be all shaken up and it explodes all over Peggy's clothes in the lunchroom.

Gossip overheard afterwards in the ladies' room suggests that Becky thought Peggy was "too pretty" and "tried too hard to make everyone like her" and "thought she could waltz in here and be the new queen of the school instead of just the new girl."

 (Cosmic Girl will carry this shame for a while. She gets a -2 penalty to her next roll while out of uniform, or in uniform but in the presence of one or more other local teenage girls... but gets 1 new xp.)

Girls everywhere in the school start stopping what they're doing, jaws dropped, unless you count "making an effort to not faint nor scream in excitement" as doing something.

The receptionist also seems very impressed. "Go right in, Mr... Mr. Goodwill..."

(I'm gonna leave it to you: make either an Insightful roll or a Charming roll...)