The train rocks gently through Detroit, and the corner booth gives Thadeus and Marla a small island of quiet. The ledger lies open between them, its pages blue-white under the dim car lights.
Marla
Look at these entries. Same names, same routes, over and over. They are not just moving the Peacebringer, they are circling it.
Her finger stops on a marked line, then another. Thadeus can see where the notes turn from logistics into obsession.
Marla
I found one detail that made my skin crawl. The Revenant is not just a cult with a cause, it reads like a group of undead people. Whatever they are, they keep coming back.
Thadeus Jovanović
The ledger keeps naming the Peacebringer like it is the center of everything.
Marla
And they want it destroyed. Not hidden, not traded. Destroyed. Every note around it sounds personal, like the weapon is the one thing they cannot let exist.
Outside the window, city lights smear into long streaks. Marla eases back in the booth, still watching the pages, but her shoulders lower a little now that the words are finally spoken aloud.
Marla
If you want, I can read the worst of it out loud, or we can just sit with this for a minute.
“Thadeus asks Marla if Elias found out anything else about Peacebringer and what Trevor knew”
SUCCESS (Legendary Reasoning, rolled +0)
Thadeus Jovanović
Did Elias find anything else about the Peacebringer? And what did Trevor know?
Marla does not answer right away. She draws the ledger closer, the train swaying under her hands, and scans the margins like she is checking her own memory against the page.
Marla
Elias knew enough to be scared, but not enough to name the whole shape of it. Trevor knew more. He knew the routes were a hiding place, and he knew the Peacebringer was not just dangerous, it was proof someone had been waiting for the Revenant for a long time.
Marla
There is one more thing. These initials in the ledger, the shift supervisor, they keep showing up wherever the movement changes. That means somebody inside the warehouse was feeding them information, maybe without even knowing how deep it went.
Thadeus Jovanović
So the trail is not just the weapon. It is the people around it.
Marla
Exactly. And if Trevor left that note for Elias, he was not guessing. He was trying to keep the right hands on the right facts, before Revenant could swallow them whole.
She folds the page back with care, then looks up at Thadeus with a steadier expression, as if the story has finally stopped being rumor and become a map.
Marla
So, yes. They want the Peacebringer gone, and they have been organizing around that fear for a long time. Do you want the rest of Trevor's note, or have we heard enough to understand what we are dealing with?
Quest Complete
Learn what Revenant wants with the Peacebringer
New Gift: Conflict Mediator
Quest Complete
Bring the ledger and notes to Marla
New Gift: Hard-Won Insight
“Thadeus reviews the ledger, trying to find out more about the shift supervisor. He finds the initials "EB" constantly coming up. EB must be this supervisor.”
SUCCESS (Good Investigation, rolled +1)
Thadeus lowers his gaze to the ledger and works through the columns line by line as the train rocks beneath them.
Thadeus Jovanović
EB keeps appearing in the movement logs.
He traces the same initials through the margins, then the inventory entries, then the transfer notes, each mark tying to a change in route or timing.
The pattern sharpens. EB is not just present, EB is the supervisor who keeps redirecting the flow.
Thadeus Jovanović
That is the hand inside the warehouse.
Marla watches him read, then glances to the page when his finger stops on a final cluster of initials near a recent entry.
The same name sits at the center of the delay, the reroute, and the vanishing case. Whatever EB is, the ledger makes them real.
Marla
So now we know who to look for. EB is the one moving pieces around.
✓ Quest Accepted
Identify EB, the shift supervisor
“Thadeus, after noting who he should look for, asks Marla about what appears to be coordinates in the ledger. Could this be another Revenant facility?”
SUCCESS (Good Investigation, rolled +2)
Thadeus Jovanović
What are these coordinates in the ledger? Could this be another Revenant facility?
Marla turns the page toward the aisle light, and the train jolts hard enough to make the numbers blur for a second.
Marla
Yes. That looks like an address grid, not a name. Someone is pinning moves to a second place.
She taps the columns, then the notes beside them, where EB's initials sit next to a loading time and a truck route.
Marla
If the ledger is honest, this is where they were sending the case, or where they wanted it to look like it went.
Thadeus Jovanović
EB is not just moving inventory. EB is moving the story.
Marla folds the notes once, carefully, and points at the final coordinate line with a steady finger.
Marla
Then we have a route. If you want, we can check it as soon as we get off this train.
Quest Complete
Identify EB, the shift supervisor