Also everyone remember to mark faction when you are putting a face to a name, hitting the streets, or investigating a place of power. Once you mark all factions you can advance, though we will save advancement for a narratively appropriate moment.
Madam Chang is a reknowned fortune teller and oracle. She works out of the China Garden reasturant downtown. You heard she has a grand daughter named Lian, though you have never met her.
@Guardian Angel Haruki There are no immediate threats but you realise that if you step into Bed Bath and Beyond before returning to your car you will appear like just another customer to the CCTV cameras.
The red cap looks around but fails to spot you. He tugs his cap down and shoves his hands in his pockets and trudges around to the front of the u-haul, suddenly as non-descript as anyone else in the city. He climbs up into the cab and drives off into the night, leaving a tinge of exhaust fumes in the air.
The woman grows increasingly agitated. She takes a half step forward, realizes you are still blocking the door, then steps back, wringing the takeaway bag between her hands.
"My name is Lian, Lian Chang," she stammers.
"My grandmother is Madam Chang," she adds desperately, eyes still cutting left and right as though afraid a threat will materialize at any moment.
In your researches you have come across accounts of Red Caps. A malicious variety of winter fae who do murder and bodysnatching. You are pretty sure this is one of them.
"Ushapti," Dashel says with a bow. Nephren-ka and her people always call you that, refering to the statues with which the ancient Egyptian dead were burried with.
"The boss would like a word," he informs you, looking around nervously. As he does so you notice a police cruiser pulling in to a parking spot on the far side of the park. Two officers hop out and look around. You feel their eyes fall on you and they begin walking purposely through the crowd towards you and the two Natural History Museum employees.