Key Locations

AX.GHW.14.04.03

Sarah Okonkwo's Office (Stage 1)

Downtown, 14th floor of a commercial tower. A law firm with real estate as its primary practice. The office has the specific look of institutional success, clean, expensive, impersonal. The kind of space that projects competence rather than warmth.

The scene when the party arrives: police tape on the outer door, investigation winding down, Baskin present or recently departed. The body has been removed but the scene has not been fully cleared.

The file room is at the back of the suite, past three offices and a conference room. Floor-to-ceiling filing cabinets, organized by client. Forty years of a practice. The specific smell of a file room, paper, metal, recirculated air.

Whitmore PD / The Hospital (Stage 2)

The Okonkwo investigation runs through Baskin at Whitmore PD's downtown precinct, third floor, open bullpen, a detective's desk that is professionally organized in a way that communicates nothing. Marcus Chen is two miles away at St. Ambrose Medical Center, fourth floor ICU, Room 412. The party may visit both; they do not provide the same information.

14 Harmon Court (Stage 3)

A two-story commercial property in a transition neighborhood, the kind of block that was industrial thirty years ago, is vacant now, and is scheduled to become something else in six months. The building is structurally sound but empty. A demolition permit was filed two weeks ago. The permit paperwork lists the demolition contractor as a firm with ties to Kapoor.

From the street: standard commercial building, boarded ground-floor windows, a chain-link fence with a padlock that is not hard to bypass. Inside: the smell of a building that has been empty a long time, dust and cold concrete and the particular flatness of air that has not moved. Nothing has been disturbed in years. The second floor is accessible via the main staircase.

The landing at the top of the main staircase is the location of Connie's death. The building carries residual weight that characters with Psychic Sensitivity detect without a roll; it is not threatening, exactly, but it is saturated. A character with Psychic Sensitivity (Haunt, Dhampir, or Faeborn lineage) perceives it as a place where something did not end cleanly, the way a wound site carries memory in the body.

KRD Development Offices (Stage 3, optional research thread)

A mid-rise in the city's professional district. Glass and steel, late 2000s construction. KRD's offices occupy the ninth floor. The company's public-facing presence is confident and current, new development announcements, a lobby display showing Harmon Tower renders. There is a receptionist who is friendly and a PR coordinator who is efficient and nothing in the publicly accessible space that acknowledges the company's founding.

The company history is better accessed via public records and Lore research than by walking into the building, Kapoor's people will note any unusual visitors.

Harmon Tower Construction Site (Stage 4)

A cleared lot three blocks from the waterfront. The groundbreaking ceremony is set for 2pm in two days: a platform with a podium, a row of seats for officials, a general standing area for guests, and media risers at the back. The site is bounded by temporary fencing. There are two access points, the main gate at the front and a contractor access point at the side.

For the groundbreaking: city council members, a state representative, journalists from three outlets, photographers, and approximately two hundred guests. Kapoor's private security team (eight personnel, including Duchenne) will be on-site. The configuration is designed for maximum visibility. It is the worst possible location for a Revenant encounter and Connie knows that, which is exactly why she is coming.