The Beggar's Bodega (Campaign)/The Story So Far

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GM James R

Case 1: The Case of the Corpse Astray

Client: Themselves (after being ambushed on a train ride)

Investigators: Ardemas, Roscoe , Mallen, Floux, Mauv, Dash

The Mystery: Pirates were being hired to collect corpses (that they themselves would generate in pirate-y schemes) and drop them off at Noble House in The Tangle.

Suspects:

• Precia Cointongue, famous pirate captainess and hired-hand.
• Donastra Valeri, resident and heiress of Noble House
• Lugo, the man the bodies are delivered to

Under the Mask:

• It turned out that the bodies were being dumped into the basement of Noble House, where they were being used to feed a massive tangle of flesh and bone. The sentinels snuck down and found Donastra entranced with a magical book named "Zelgrieb's Notebook of Dissection". Luckily for the players, they induced the inquisitors of Waukeen to enter the building, finding and arresting Donastra. The Book was then taken back to the Bodega where resident scholar Roscoe determined the book was influencing Donastra negatively with its own insidious magic.
• Follow up investigation and interrogation with locals of the area revealed the Valeri's dirty legacy, which resulted in Donastra's mother being banished from the family blood line and sent to live in squalor with her mason husband, who was actually the architect of Noble House. Sentinels believe the motivation was vengeance against her own family.

What they Missed:

• Donastra came across the insidious book in the first place thanks to a demon, Uxorioth, who was possessing her.

Case 2: The Case of the Dripping Throne

Client: Shawm Luzzechi (Jason Z. from Brooklyn)

Investigators: Mallen, Floux, Anastasia, Hari

The Mystery: A traveller in the city was killed seemingly at random. But soon it became clear that while Shawm was randomly picked, the murder was anything but spontaneous.

Suspects:

• Eel and Lee, Fisherman
• Crow the Beggar
• Julianna Fishhall the Guild Leader and Sorcerous Adept
• The Badlanders

Under the Mask:

Case 3: The Case of the Sin Drinker

Client: Nightwatch Commander Antonio Teldi (Sam M. from Baltimore)

Investigators: Floux, Ardemas, Mauv

The Mystery: When a Nightwatch Commander believes he is being hunted down, the team works together to track down the killer, but more importantly, the killer's motivations that lead the team to re-think everything they know about Commander Teldi.

Suspects:

• The Pickle Vendor
• Vampires?
• Teldi Himself
• Merano's Pickles

Under the Mask:

It was the wife of the Pickle Vendor! She's a Penanggal who's decided to be a vigilante in the north Harbor. Teldi was the next target on her crosshairs, but he was convinced to skip town and never come back, or the Beggar's would happily let the Pennangal take her vengeance.

Case 4: The Case of the Double Dare

Client: Adam Hersey (Jonathan H. from Texas)

Investigators: Floux, Mallen, Roscoe, Calvin

The Mystery: After being double dared to go into an abandoned prep school in Sag Harbor, Adam and his friend Blaine take the challenge....only to be ambushed by powerful dark magic that turns Blaine into a statue. Now it's up to Adam to recruit the city's best (and cheapest) investigators to figure out what happened, and see if the curse can be reversed???

Suspects:

• Bill Wessler
• Tanya Becker
• Adam???
• Joe Canning (Aka JOE MAMA)

Under the Mask: It was Joe Mama all along. He was over 100 years old and had been tricking school kids into going into the house every 19 years.

What they Missed:

• Quite a bit, due to nobody's understanding of sorcery or magic, and their lack of connections with the Sorcerous Cabal that they may have been able to call a favor from. Still not understanding the curse, or how this mysterious type of dark magic operates, they elected to keep Blaine's paralyzed corpse in the Bodega as a seasonal decoration.

Case 5: The Case of the Copper Door

Client: Marwan Aziz (John S. from Maryland)

Investigators: Mallen, William, Elara, Drip

The Mystery:

Case 6: The Case of the Missing Landlord

Client: Adrian Moore (Jayme A. From LA)

Investigators: Mallen, Ardemas, Mauv, Elara

The Mystery:

Case 7: The Case of the Darkson Princess

Client: Zelda Brandt (Ali M. From Harlem)

Investigators: Floux, Calvin, Mauv, Charlie

The Mystery:

Suspects:

• Harvey Cooper
• Dr. Coombes
• Security Chief Georgia May
• 1st Officer Kilkenny
• Cruise Director Thornhill

Under the Mask: It was a Deep Sand Scion who had snuck on board and was slowly absorbing the faces of all the important cruise ship members in an attempt to convince the captain to take the ship out to the badlands where a Kraken pit sat, ready to devour everyone on board whole.

Case 8: The Case of the Nymphsview Neighbour

Client: Leo (Craig R from Scotland)

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The Mystery:

Suspects:

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Case 9: The Case of the False Friend

Client: (Cody M. from Boston)

Investigators:

The Mystery:

Suspects:

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What they Missed:

Case 10: The Case of the Season Finale

Client: The Lich (Lich Omoi from the Void)

Investigators:

The Mystery:

Suspects:

Under the Mask:

What they Missed:

Mystery Outlines

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Mystery Outlines

To demonstrate how much more free-flowing (and difficult to run) RPG mysteries can be in the GUMSHOE system, here are a number of example mysteries from The Beggar's Bodega (Campaign).

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