Season 1 / Arc 2
The old man looked smugly vindicated. Innerly, Connor took total advantage of the fact that Porter lost focus on him to get a chance to say more for the hidden camera. With this last bit, the man's reputation was ruined while Venegas' would be redeemed.
"Ha! I told you! Corruption!" the old man said, pointing at the safe and Porter in an accusatory manner.
"So that means all the things I heard from my various sources was true then. That you are the one who actually stole the comb from yourself, frame Venegas the security guard, and then told the world it was stolen and lost while you had it stashed away all this time!" the old man said.
"You let that poor young man's reputation get dragged through the mud, all because you thought that since he was Mexican that no one would care, so that you could also scam the security firm he worked for for legal reparations and free services. Especially since the comb itself was a stolen relic that actually belongs to the descendants of conquistador victims. Oh yes, I know all about the fact you and your family before you traffic in many stolen relics that were taken through illicit means. You're dirty and rotten, Porter. You, young man, ought to turn yourself in to the police or at the every least apologize to all of your victims."
And with that, while Porter was still trying to gather his wits, the old man - now no longer hobbling at all and moving at Connor's normal speed - quickly opened the door behind him, slipped through, and closed it swiftly behind him. The Poodle had followed this in an seamless, sinuous singular motion as well. There was the guard out there who was getting distracted by Galya, whom Connor silently signaled for her to turn around and retreat into the crowd of the Gallery. The plan was when he had to exit, she would exit a different way and thus avoid implicating herself as having any connection to him or what happened. She understood immediately what was going on, and stopped the guard and told him she had to go power her nose in the ladies room, and she took off the opposite direction and blended into the crowd and ultimately would exit a different part of the Gallery.
As he did so, the shadows around him depend while his presence in the scene seemed to...diminish somehow. He was there, his his sense of presence suddenly unnaturally decreased in an unnatural but subtle way. For Connor had wrapped himself in an invisible blessing of the Darkness Purview that muddled people's perception of him somewhat and enhanced his attempt to slink away!
00:25, Today: Connor Johnson rolled 1 success using 9d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s. Primary Pool. –
00:25, Today: Connor Johnson rolled 1 success using 7d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s. Dex+Subterfuge.
Connor is taking this opportunity to scoot. If Porter tries to follow after him, the guard tries to notice him, etc he and Fluffy are coordinating together and slinking away, melting into the crowd and exiting the building and from there, vanishing into the hustle and Bustle of Chicago.
Connor gets 1 base success. Fluffy attempts teamwork to aid him, which gives him 1 enhancement. I also claim his streetwise specialty to help him blend away. And finally...to top it all off, his blessing marvel grants him 2 more enhancement. For 4 successes total. Note that I don't believe he is pushing the 3 enhancement soft limit since his specialty is a "natural" sort of enhancement, one of those rare ones we discussed shouldn't count, like scale etc.
He imbues 1 legend for a blessing marvel for the scene.