For Argyle: A Piss-Soaked Coin Through the Skull

The party navigates the Black and White (Noire), solving sound-capture puzzles at a subway station, theater, and hotel to gather charges for the Voice Box. They meet Aut in a white void, who restores Johnny and Benny to life, reveals Pyre is an outer god trying to crack the Firmament, and gives them intel to ambush Hlarf. The party ambushes and kills Hlarf while he's drunk and urinating in an alley, with Anzu finishing him off via a piss-soaked coin telekinetically driven through his head. The party levels up to 4.

1. In the Black and White (Noire), the party solves the subway puzzle: Anzu experiments with complex levers, Johnny shatters the train windshield with needle darts, and Benny captures a moth's piano melody in the voice box.
2. The party restores the Soundscape Theater and Echo Gate Hotel by playing captured sounds into their exterior speakers. At the theater, they notice the film 'Song on Fire' with credits listing Helena Ashcroft (The Spark), Tywelwyn Leatherhide (The Kindling), Elara Vance (The Antenna), and Pyre (The Outer God).
3. The party navigates a complex speaker-charge puzzle in the Echo Gate Hotel, opening and closing doors by depositing and siphoning sound charges between speakers to escape.
4. Shades attack in the theater; the party defeats them (Anzu's telekinetic rend and Arctos's sword strikes are key) and harvests their moth-scale sounds into the voice box.
5. Depositing three charges at Save Your Soul Inc. opens the building. The party takes an elevator to a white void and meets Aut, who restores Johnny and Benny to life (painfully).
6. Aut reveals major lore: Pyre is an outer god trying to break the Firmament via destructive resonance using radar dishes; the Embercall is a knockoff of the Voidsong; Master Grayson has heard the Voidsong and evades Aut's predictions. Aut provides the location and timing to ambush Hlarf Skints, who will be drunk and alone in 27 hours.
7. Arctos receives an Aut symbol tattoo on his chest. Aut mentions friends in high places (Cardinal Weatherhead in the Church, contacts in Belvedere) but says the Pontifex does not approve of him.
8. The party returns to the real world, rests, and sets up an ambush in an alley. Johnny steals Hlarf's car keys while Hlarf urinates in a fountain.
9. Combat: Johnny stacks massive debuffs (Courageous Anthem, Bone Mow, Albatross Curse, Fear — Hlarf critically fails and becomes frightened 3 and fleeing); Arctos casts Enfeeble and strikes; Benny drops from the roof and attacks. Anzu finishes Hlarf with an amped telekinetic rend — a piss-soaked coin through the head — killing him instantly.
10. The party levels up to level 4.

Cliffhanger Hlarf lies dead in the alley; the party has his car keys and is ready to loot the body and the Aventine next session. They also level up to 4.

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