The Story So Far
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Arc One - The Illusionist and the Alchemist
Assignment #1 - 12/02/23 "The Devil's Well."
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Assignment #2 - 12/16 "The Light Eater of Bridleborn"
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Characters: Piers, Lincoln Renfield-Murray, Nesta Acheron, Elizabeth Nightshade
GM: @jaelthejust (Mercedes)
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Assignment #3 - 12/21 - "The Gift of the Magi"
Assignment #4 - 12/31 - "The Night Plays On"
Session Tags: #NewYearParty
Characters: Steve, Lincoln Renfield-Murray, Orla Martinez, Warren
GM: @jaelthejust (Mercedes)
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Assignment #5 - 1/13/2024 - "Extra Credit"
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Characters: Piers Corden, Lincoln Renfield-Murray, Lula V, Steve Corden
GM: @jontheteach (JonTheTeach)
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Assignment # 6- 1/20- “The Hand That Feeds”
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Characters: Piers, Weasel, James, Tess, Laurence Awrkright
GM: @OGFlaya (Matt)
Important NPCs: Anthony Romano, Michael Romano, Maggy Ferguson, Martin Ferguson
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Human/phenomenon hybrid
District/Locations: South Soffit, Nine Irons, The Sidle
Important Things that Happened: Notorious mob enforcer and racketeer, Tommy Romano, was murdered by Martin Ferguson. A member of a family of mob enforcers possessing unique abilities due to being to having phenomenon intermingling in their blood line long ago in their ancestry. The youngest of the Ferguson's, Maggy had fallen in love with Tommy's nephew and the scion of the Romano crime family, Michael. The investigators diligently found, through an examination of Tommy's body in the city morgue that he was murdered, that he had been murdered rather than the purported suicide that that the Periphery was trying to say his death was. During a climactic confrontation with Martin and a flock of eldritch birds under his command, the investigators helped Maggy and Michael flee the city and place Martin into Grayslate Sanatorium for safe keeping and protection from the Romano family. The rest of the Ferguson clan watched as their son was taken into custody but did not end their relationship with Romano.
Assignment #7 - 1/27 - "Fairest of Them All"
Assignment #8 - 2/9 - "The Ancient Tomb of His Bride"
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Characters: Piers Corden, Steve Corden, Thomas MacCallum, Madge
GM: @jaelthejust (Mercedes)
Important NPCs: Jean Hawkeye
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered:
- Mr. Malcolms Alchemical Reference Guide (+1 Focus on rolls that have to do with alchemy or magick)
- Morphine Vial (Soak 1 Body, 1 use)
- Phosphenes' Lights (Handheld illuminators that produce a glow only the holder can see)
- Smelling Salts (Soak 1 Brain, 1 use)
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Assignment #9 - 2/17 - "A Prince’s Gifts"
Assignment #10 - 2/24 - "A Needlepoint to Hear Me Through"
Assignment # 11 - 2/25 - “The Illusionist”
Assignment #12 - 3/2 - "Auction Victors"
Session Tags: #Auction
Characters: Steve Corden, Lizzy Nightshade, Weasel, Silas Heartwood, Laura Grant
GM: @jaelthejust (Mercedes)
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Assignment #13 - 3/9 - "The Ring to Stand Strong and True"
Assignment #14 - 3/15 - "Lost and Found"
Assignment #15 - 3/23 - "The Allure of Perpetual Beauty"
Session Tags: Characters: Steve Corden, Silas Heartwood, Tess Henry, Warren Baxter, Laura Grant
GM: @wardenwinter (Talia)
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Assignment #16 - 3/27 - "Under the Truth"
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Characters: Piers Corden, Steve Corden, Silas Heartwood, Tess Henry, Lincoln Renfield-Murray, Nesta Acheron,
GM: @jontheteach (JonTheTeach)
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Assignment #17 - 4/6 - "The Kingdom in the Steel"
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Characters: Steve Corden, Silas Heartwood, Lizzy Nightshade, Madge, Laura Grant
GM: @jaelthejust (Mercedes)
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Assignment #18 - 4/13 - "The Gem to Persuade the Unwilling"
Session Tags: Characters: Steve Corden, Piers Corden, Lincoln Renfield-Murray, Nesta Achron, Montana Jack
GM: @jaelthejust (Mercedes)
Important NPCs: THE TWINS, Gio
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: The Gem
District/Locations: The Steel, EONs Headquarter
Important Things that Happened: Steve gets kidnapped opps.
Assignment #19 - 4/27 - "The Prince’s Final Curtain"
Session Tags: Characters: Steve Corden, Piers Corden, James, Lincoln Renfield-Murray, "Fives", Warren Baxter,
GM: @jaelthejust (Mercedes)
Important NPCs: Nathaniel
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Assignment #20 - 4/27 - "The Alchemist’s Final Call"
Assignment #21 - 5/28 - "In the Arms of the Evolved"
Assignment #22 - 6/18 - "Grant Me One Request [Player Catalyst Finale]"
Assignment #23 - 6/29 - "Long Lost Blood [Player Catalyst Finale]"
Arc Two - The Herald and the Fang
Assignment #1 - 06/15/2024 "Toll the Dead"
Session Tags: Divine Herald, Ascendency
Characters: James by Margarita, Gin Reynolds by Julia, Jamie Hayes by Amal,
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Important NPCs: Imelda Frances, Victor Jenkins the DEAD Divine Herald, Mr. Woods
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: List of next Divine Herald
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6 months after what happened in the theater has passed, newspapers has talked about :
- A deadly sickness, the dead rash, with symptoms of oozing red rashes on limps, cough, and fever. It effected 30% of population. Some people just… don’t get it.
- Recent death of the Divine Herald.
Candela was called by Ascendancy when Cardinal Reynolds, and Cardinal Zeroth died after ineracting with the Divine Herald corpse. Candela investigators went to shiverline to talk to holy mother
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investigators found:
- Bleed on body and the face itself. Not coming from the mask.
- Mask will let the soul out. Mask is fixed to face, will be hard to take off.
- MAKEUP ON HERALD. A specific woman does this. Leslie Daulphin.
- THERE IS. AT THE BASE OF THE HERALD NECK. An incision mark. NO BLOOD? connected to the artery. The blood is poisoned, they knew its gonna be removed.
/—/ Baxter the head of OUP came by and stopped Candela's investigation
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The team found this list for interviews. THIS IS FOR NEW HERALD DIVINE.
Aarons, Sawyer (Cardinal in the Eves districts), Howard, Levins,
Fournier(not familiar to GIN? Who is this? Not usual surname for new-faire)
They also found a necklace that has a bleed, this necklace is used by the hauled and high ranking church members. The team didn't touch or take the necklace.
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The team headed to Melody Wildes house in the sidle. WILDES Melody is new to the area, moved from the west. Lacroix, moved from there. Family is a refuge. Dad started the funeral business from Mister woods. Brother and husband live upstairs. Dad is old now.
The team went together to the house of grief, Melody is frozen in place, when approached, the team noticed a pair of puncture marks on the side of her neck. Not like the herald, this is more of….. bite…. Two teeth?
Picture of her and a man. They are shaken hands, this is Mr. Woods. He seems happy and sure. She looked…. Off.
Someone sneaking inside? The team try to hide from them, the older gentleman is now here. Asks why she’s here. She looks nervous talking to what it can be seen now as Mr. wood?
Mr. Woods, has the same bleed as melody, STRONGER. So strong. It radiates from him.
After going to his Mind Palace, Jamie figured out that Melody is under control from Mr. Woods. He must have been the one to miss with the makeup. When Gin left the house of grief, she noticed Mr. Woods watching the team at the top of the building…..
Assignment #2 - 06/15/2024 "The Ruby Rapture"
Session Tags: Red Rash, Fangs
Characters: Lizzy (Talia), Gideon (Nick), Luliana (Emma), Henry (Geoff), and Gin (Julia)
GM: Mercedes
Important NPCs: Harris/Lawrence, Pensive the Cat, Lorenzo of the Ruby Rapture, the Fanged Creature that Attacked Lizzy
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Pensive the Fanged Cat
District/Locations: Red Lamp, South Soffit
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- A worker from the Ruby Rapture has been sick an abnormal amount of time, neck still red, violent outbursts
- A doctor came to visit his home while he was sick and performed "blood letting", his roommate said it was A LOT of blood and the doctor didn't clean up
- The cat lapped up some of the blood and now also showing violent outbursts
- The doctor gave an address and contact to Lawrence's roommate in case he needed more info. He went to the address during the day and found nothing
- Going at night, they found strange symbols and then were attacked by a fanged woman who when shot, survived and ran away.
- Later, the symbols were discovered to mean "Feed"
Assignment #3 - 06/21/2024 “The Last Lightkeeper of Seasway"
Session Tags: Eldritch Horror, City of the Resplendent , Local Legends
Characters: Tara (Sarah), Malory Harper (Matt), Cedric (Sam), Alexander (Jon), Mara (Anna)
GM: Mercedes
Important NPCs: The Lightkeeper's Doll, Gherman the Last Lightkeeper
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: The Lightkeeper's Doll
District/Locations: Seasway
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- There is an underwater city in the Glass Sea
- The People of Seasway seemed to be under some kind of hypnosis
- They are desperate to show you 'The Great One'
- The Lighthouse is destroyed and empty on the bottom
- At the top of the Lighthouse, Gherman has destroyed his entrance to the Pharos
- He begs to keep the Doll safe
- On the West side of the Island, the investigators see the remains of the Great One
- The child of the Great one waits to feast
- The investigators take barrels of oil and molotov cocktails to the child of the Great One
- While it feasts on the hypnotized villagers, the investigators fight it until it dies
Assignment #4 - 06/22/2024 "Interview with a Deaconess"
Session Tags: Knight of the Pyre, the Pyre, the Ascendency
Characters: Alexandria, Gideon, Jamie, Amaranth
GM: Mercedes
Important NPCs: Baxter White, Ariel Kelly, Diego Parris, Lorelei Pennywhistle
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District/Locations: The Sidle
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- A Deaconess is being held by the OUP after her brother Reggie called them when he found her missing
- The Deaconess touched an artifact and ended up gaining telekinesis and the Pyre wanted to kill her for it
- While interviewing her and trying to plan a way to help her escape, a knight of the Pyre appeared to kill her.
-- We met the knight of the pyre for the first time! Diego Parris.
-- Deaconess Lorelei was killed by him tho sad ):
Assignment #5 - 06/26/2024 "Something Different About You"
Session Tags: Developers.
Characters: Gin Reynolds (Julia), Lulianna Vaerstrom (Emma), Malory “Mal” Harper (Matt), Tara Lloyd (Sarah), Alexandria Aquino (Aerin), Cedric Margrave (Sam)
GM: Jon
Important NPCs: Set VII Experiment I
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: None
District/Locations: The Steel
Important Things that Happened:
- Investigators entered an abandoned factory and immediately felt off
- A mixture of pain, anguish, joy and malice were felt on the walls
- Bleed was felt from a hallway, and the door opened itself mysteriously
- A scream was heard from within the building, and the team began to look for the source
- They entered the hallway, which had several decomposing bodies of developers
- The end of the hallway had an odd green light, and a man was seen standing there
- He began approaching the group, rambling somewhat
- Dr. Aquino approached him, with Lulianna also offering a way to help
- He responded with "I am Perfection" and snapped the neck of the Doctor
- The rest of the crew unloaded and retreated, then leveling the building on top of the experiment
Assignment #6 - 07/06/2024 "Petals of Protection"
Session Tags: The Cure, Owl Wain, Local Legends
Characters: Gideon (Nick), Mal (Matt), Amaranth (Anna), Luliana (Emma)
GM: Mercedes
Important NPCs: The Owl Wain
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Timely Iris
District/Locations: Scarlet Woods / Bridleborn
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- The investigators are sent to retrieve timely iris to assist with making a cure for the fanged disease and red rash
- Scarlet runners are seen traveling this edge of the wood, tell you of a local legend of a ghost who requires you to be silent or she'll kill you
- When entering the area, if any sound is made, the investigators are quite immediately met with an attack of owls and among the owls, they see a young girl in a large feathery cloak, commanding the owls
- The young girl approaches when the investigators are brought to the ground but they all manage to get away to the Iris field
- They gather Iris and find a smugglers crate buried inside that contains the body of a young child, they think the same age as the Owl Wain's spirit appears. It is wearing a similar but less feathery cloak
- When leaving, the group attempts to console the Owl Wain. The Wain is distraught when Mara sings her the song and then when she goes to cry, she covers her mouth to keep herself quiet
- The investigators leave as the Wain is distracted and no longer attacking them.
Assignment #7 - 07/07/2024 "Assisting the Gumshoe"
Session Tags: The Ascendancy, The Pyre, Fangs, Dive Herald, Knight of the Pyre
Characters: Lizzy (Talia), Tara (Sarah), Father Lorrian (Keller), Jamie (Amal), and Gin (Julia)
GM: Mercedes
Important NPCs:Jonathan Aarons, Sister Fournier
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: --
District/Locations: Shriveline, Briar Green, South Soffit
Important Things that Happened:
-- The people from the List are now dying! The team believes someone not on the list are killing them to benefit someone who is on the list.
-- Jamie Dies!
-- Candela managed to save the future Divine Herald!
Assignment #8 - 07/14/2024 "The Crimson River"
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Characters: Mal Harper (Matt), Amaranth Cyrus (Anna), Tara (Sarah)
GM: Nick
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Assignment #9 - 07/17/2024 "We Can Take Your Pain"
Session Tags: Developers
Characters: Mal (Matt), Tess Henry (Mercedes), Gideon (Nick), Verity Leòn (Aerin), Amaranth Cyprus (Anna)
GM: Jon
Important NPCs: Set VII Experiment II
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: None
District/Locations: Briar Green
Important Things that Happened:
- The party arrived at the college campus, trying to understand what happened
- Used bleed detectors to find the source of the phenomenon
- It was determined to be the dormitory building
- The investigators entered and felt cold oppression and it got worse the higher they went
- As investigators spread out through the building, each began to see images of their fears.
- These fears pulled them towards the top floor, or sent them away depending on the person
- Eventually, the group saw the experiment on the third floor, and he feasted on their fear and found it delicious
- He wanted to feast on more than just fear, and turned to advance on the group
- They immediately opened fire as he tried to get closer, but he managed to get close
- He was wounded severely, retreating through a rift in the Flare
Assignment #10 - 07/19/2024 “The New Divine Herald"
Session Tags: Divine Herald, The Ascendancy, Red Rash, Quarantine, Fangs, Vampyre
Characters: Gideon (Nick), Tara (Sarah), Father Lorrian (Keller), Gin (Julia), Mal (Matt)
GM: Mercedes
Important NPCs: Divine Herald Siobhan Fournier
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Vampyre Dust
District/Locations: The Shriveline, South Soffit
Important Things that Happened:
- The new Divine Herald states there will be a quarantine of South Soffit (indefinite), as well as a two-week hold on Hallowharbor, The Steel, and Red Lamp
- Desperate to find the reason behind the Red Rash, the investigators head to ground zero, South Soffit, before the midnight Quarantine begins
- In Gin's church in South Soffit, a few of those with the long version Red Rash state they got it from a soup kitchen where they saw the Divine Herald when she was just a Cardinal
- They are approached by a pair of doctors looking for those with long-lasting Red Rash to "assist" them
- Gin recognizes them as fanged creatures, like what attacked Lizzy
- They kill the pair, using symbols of the Ascendancy or a Ghostblade to turn them to dust
- They go the hospital the pair represented and find a "Vampyre Nursery" with a Nursery worker there, overseeing 5 newborns preparing to wake and 5 sedated humans, ready to be feasted on when the newborns awake
- The journal from the Vampyre Nursery states that they were going to wake up in 3 days. It takes 5 days fully from bite to awaking.
- The investigators kill the Nursery Worker but not until they learn from him that the Divine Herald is a High Priestess from Lacroix, where she is known as the Countess Fournier
- She brought the Red Rash to Newfaire to show the vampyres who will be the most susceptible to being turned into a vampyre vs. who will be the food for those new vampyres
Assignment #11 - 07/27/2024 "The Owl Wain"
Session Tags: Local Legends, Owl Wain, The Cloud, The Cure, Player Catalyst
Characters: Lizzy (Talia), Verity (Aerin), Gio (Amal), Gin (Julia), and Gideon (Nick)
GM: Mercedes
Important NPCs: Owl Wain
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Timely Iris
District/Locations: Scarlet Wood, Bridleborn Mountains
Important Things that Happened:
- The investigators returned to put the Owl Wain to rest and also seek out more timely Iris
- They take a side road and find a cloud that is giving off bleed
- The cloud feels like it is watching them and then it creates a dust devil and slurps up a pair of wild stallions before dispensing the bones and blood in front of them
- Going back to the main road, they find the Owl Wain and use the nursery rhyme song about her to plea to her and Gideon uses a spirit board to have her speak without speaking
- She tells them she has to be quiet because of Pa and she is afraid of the passing Smuggler wagons
- The riders on the wagon tell the investigators of a man who used to have his children travel with him and was unkind to them if they were not quiet and one by one the children went missing before the man retired because no one would work with him
- The investigators find the box with the Owl Wain's body, Gin performing her last rites and her spirit being laid to rest. On the Box they see the name Hildebrand and a location
- Going to the location, they find a cabin and inside, the body of the man, Hildebrand. The evidence shows he was murdered by his eldest daughter's fiance after she told him they couldn't be married because her father was refusing to let her go.
- The investigator's find the Owl Wain's room and her name before she became legend, Mary.
- Her eldest sister, Vanessa, seems to have escaped with her fiance.
- There is a third bed with the name Alyssa on it. The investigators find no evidence to lead them to her demise.
- Heading back, they have adequate amounts of Timely Iris
Assignment #12 - 07/30/2024 "The Sunken City"
Session Tags: City of the Resplendent, Eldritch Horror, Local Legends
Characters: Gideon (Nick), Mal (Matt), Mara (Anna), Tara (Sarah), Alex (Jon)
GM: Mercedes
Important NPCs: The Resplendent One, Alex's Visitor
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: The Gift of the Resplendent One
District/Locations: The Glass Sea
Important Things that Happened:
- The Investigators delved into the sea to find the city lost below
- In the Glass sea, they found what was once an island town now sunken and still inhabited
- The Glimmers are jellyfish like folk who were gifted their undersea bodies by their goddess, the Resplendent One
- The Glimmers share with Alex and Mallory that they found the Resplendent One by digging in a well that brought forth the gift.
- The gift works like oil, but uses much less to burn brightly
- They heard singing at the bottom of the well and went on a campaign to dig until they could find *her*
- The resplendent one, uncovered, pulled the village of Anchorwash down to be with her in the ocean
- The glimmers take the investigators to see the Resplendent one who they have chained because she threatened to leave them. The investigators can tell she is not truly locked in place though, but playing along with her followers.
- Alex is called to take some of the Resplendent Gift but breaks free of it at the last moment
- Gideon uses the Aetherstone to force the Glimmers back when they try to force Alex, but as it harms the Glimmers, it angers the Resplendent One who frees herself from her bonds to chase the investigators away.
Assignment #13 - 08/03/2024 "The Fanged"
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Assignment #14 - 08/09/2024 "Happily Ever After"
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GM: Julia (Guest)
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Assignment #15 - 011/2024 "Shadow Protocols"
Session Tags: Intrigue, The Forge of Renewal, Disavowed
Characters: Gideon (Nick), Tara (Sarah), Amaranth (Anna)
GM: Matt
Important NPCs: Lucian Grim, Mockingbird, Magnus Thorne, Felicity Ashcroft, Jackson "The Jackal" MacKey
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Partial rubbing of an Oldfairen tablet
District/Locations: The Steel, The Eaves, Hallowharbor, The N.P.S. Aurora
Important Things that Happened:
- The investigators received unmarked packages that contained a very small cylinder phonograph with a briefing for an assignment.
- As well as a chest that containing:
- A device with a tag that notes the device as the Arcane Resonance Emitter (A.R.E.) - disables wards
- A pair of wire frame glasses identified as Spectral Identified Glasses - identifies individuals
- Each receives a first class ticket and an invitation to the gala aboard the airship Aurora during it's maiden voyage.
- An envelope of cash for use during the assignment
- As well as a chest that containing:
- The assignment is to intercept notorious smuggler, Felicity Ashcroft and keep her from selling an ancient Oldfairen relic to wanted war criminal, Lucian Grim. The transaction is set to take place aboard The Aurora. Little is known about Grim due to his military records being completely redacted. The investigators are to conduct the assignment with the utmost secrecy but are instructed to stop the transaction no matter what (short of damaging the airship or harming passangers).
- The investigators procure disguises and false identities from Candela's Junior Quartermaster, Quinnavyr Sinclaire.
- The investigators board the Aurora without incident.
- Mara and Gideon head to the dance floor to survey the room in an attempt to spot Ashcroft. Tara spots her and calls the team's attention to the bar where Ashcroft is being flirted with by several powerful members of Newfairen society.
- As Gideon and Mara head towards the bar, Tara notices they Ashcroft exchanges looks with a large man, Magnus Thorne, from across the ballroom then makes an excuse and departs to meet with him.
- Tara follows Ashcroft and Thorne and sees them disappear into a stateroom, guard by a formidable man in the corridor, Jackson MacKey.
- Gideon remote views into the room once Tara identifies the room number. He sees:
- A wooden crate sits in the middle of the living area of the luxury room. It has been opened, but Gideon cannot see inside of it.
- Ashcroft sits on a couch across from a man, Lucian Grim. A woman, Mockingbird, stands behind Grim - ready to spring into action if needed.
- Ashecroft demands more money, despite their prior agreement. This angers Grim and he refuses. Ashcroft pulls a gun on Grim in response.
- Grim approaches her in an attempt to calm her down and agrees they should renegotiate. Once Ashcroft lowers her pistol, Grim grabs her and breaks her neck.
- He tells Mockingbird to take care of MacKey and be quick about it.
- Tara sees Mockingbird make fast work of MacKey then quickly drag him into the state room and close the door behind her.
- Gideon tells Mara he is going to join Tara.
- Tara devices a plan and performs a song from the stage and wows the attendees of the gala. It is under the ruse that she is singing it to her fiance.
- Gideon and Tara encounter ship's security and act lost in order to remove any suspicion and keep the guards patrolling.
- During Mara's song, Gideon and Tara use the A.R.E. to disable a word on the stateroom door. As they attempt to quietly open the door, Mockingbird hears the knob turning and pulls the door open.
- Tara draws her pistol and shoots at Mockingbird.
- Using the shot at Mockingbird, Gideon runs past her to try and get to the crate.
- Magnus is preparing charges on the wall of the stateroom to create an escape route from the ship.
- Grim is wearing a parachute and has strapped a light green stone tablet to himself.
- Tara draws her pistol and shoots at Mockingbird.
- Gideon tries to bend a knife at Grim as Tara fights with Mockingbird. Thorne blows the charges on the wall and blows a hole in the wall to the outside of the ship, causing the exterior envelop of the airship to catch fire.
- Gideon's knife misses Grim, but it cuts a strap on his parachute and causes the tablet to slide towards the opening in the wall.
- Gideon dives for the tablet, but as the ship lurches, is thrown through the hole as well.
- He fails to get the tablet, which falls into the sea below the airship.
- Given manges to grab a hold of a metal rod to keeping from plummeting to his death.
- As Grim moves to the opening, Gideon spots a piece of paper hanging out of Grim's jacket pocket.
- Gideon tries to grab it but only gets a scrap of the paper, which is later discovered to be a rubbing of the tablet.
- He fails to get the tablet, which falls into the sea below the airship.
- Grim, Thorne and Mockingbird escape by parachute.
- Mara arrives in time to help Tara pull Gideon back into the airship.
- The airship returns to port and the investigators disappear into a crowd of evacuees.
- Later researching with their circle resources, they discover that the paper is a rubbing of the tablet. It speaks of something only named in part as "The Forge".
- Gideon spends several days researching The Forge and concludes it must be in relation to The Forge of Renewal. An ancient device capable of rewriting reality as the user of the machine sees fit.
Assignment #16 - 08/17/2024 "Missing Persons"
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GM: Mercedes
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Assignment #17 - 08/18/2024 "Engines of Compromise"
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Characters: Tess Henry (Mercedes), Cedric (Sam), Gin (Julia), Verity (Aerin), Gio (Amal)
GM: Matt
Important NPCs: Prof. Alfred Greene, Jacob Wallace, Mockingbird, Magnus Thorne
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: None, but the investigators encountered three pale men in black suits that emitted bleed and possessed some kind of psychic ability that remains unidentified.
District/Locations: South Soffit - The Monarch Theater, Briar Green - Professor Greene's home, Hallowharbor - Freighter docks
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Assignment #18 - 08/20/2024 "We Move in the Dark"
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GM: Jon
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Assignment #19 - 08/25/2024 "The Healing Church"
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GM: Mercedes
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Assignment #20 - 08/27/2024 "Blood-Starved Beasts"
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GM: Mercedes
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Assignment #21 - 09/04/2024 "... vestus ardeat debet"
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GM: Matt
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Assignment #22 - 09/12/2024 "Where My Brother Rests"
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GM: Jon
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Assignment #23 - 09/14/2024 "The First Lightkeeper of LaCroix"
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Arc 3 - The Shadow and The Dream
Assignment #1 - 01/18/25 "Nothing Left but Teeth and Bones..."
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Hook: Two weeks ago a gas explosion destroyed a bakery in The Sidle. Recently several residents report sightings of smoldering apparitions resembling loved ones lost in the tragedy. Lightkeeper Harrison Park has summoned you to determine if a phenomenon is behind the sightings and if they are related to the explosion.
Content Warnings: This assignment contains themes of death, grief and depictions of gore.
Characters: Feyre Acheron, Carmen Baxter, Dexter "Dex" Miller, Clarence "Clancy" Fields, and Mocking-bird
GM: Matt
Session Date: 01/18/25
Important NPCs: Harry Park, Clara Sutton, Eleanor Sutton, Nikoli Sorell
Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Sorell's journal, a magickal exlposive device (rendered useless)
Assignment Date: December 24, 36 CR
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The investigators are called to The Sidle by Lightkeeper Harrison Park to investigate a mysterious explosion that destroyed Merrick’s Hearth bakery two weeks earlier. The team begins their investigation at the ruins of the bakery, where they find scorch marks and shadows of the victims burned into the walls, clear evidence of the tragedy’s intensity. The remains of the bakery are unstable, with debris threatening to collapse at any moment.
Carmen places a bare hand against the door frame of the bakery and experiences past emotions of horror and malevolence. As the investigators explore the basement of the bakery, both Carmen and Clancy feel someone’s sheer terror and wicked glee through a psychic emanation.
Ultimately, the timing of the explosion and the appearance of reported sightings of the fury apparitions suggest some kind of connection, and that the explosion was no accident though things seem unclear at first.
A strange man is spotted across the street from the bakery, taking notes. Mockingbird manages to sneak up on him and discover that his notes are for that very night and time and that he is writing the description of someone - later discovered to be Feyre. The man makes a scene and uses Mocking-bird’s desire to avoid drawing undo attention to herself to leave.
During a visit to The Sidle Community Center, where residents have gathered to share their grief, the investigators learn from Clara Sutton, a grieving mother, that her daughter Eleanor, who died in the explosion, now appears as a ghostly figure following her wherever she goes. Eleanor’s smoldering form does not enter buildings or harm anyone, but her presence fills Clara with confusion and sorrow, as she believes her ghostly figure is the spirit of her beloved daughter. Eleanor’s flickering figure is spotted outside the window.
Feyre learns of the death of her brother-in-law, Lincoln Renfield-Murray, from Lincoln’s sister Ellie. He was one of the victims of the explosion.
Dex leaves the community meeting to speak with Eleanor - joined shortly there after by the rest of the investigators and Clara.
Clancy and Mocking-bird catch sight of the strange man that Mocking-bird saw taking notes walking past the community center’s park from where he was first seen across from the bakery. When he realizes he has been spotted, he runs. Both Clancy and Mocking-bird make chase and are joined shortly thereafter by Carmen.
Working together, Feyre and Dex piece together that Eleanor’s spirit is tied to the explosion and the unsettling presence that Carmen felt tied to Eleanor. As the rest of the team tackle Nikoli nearby in the street and wrestle him to the ground. Where Carmen enters his mind to determine who he is and why he was following them. In his mind, she sees glimpses of memories:
Terror on a bearded man’s face when he sees a tall, thin man. The tall man exudes a malevolent energy.
Bakers, dead on the ground near the ovens of the bakery.
The tall man, joined by pale men in black suits walking out of the bakery as the tall man snaps his fingers and causes the bakery to explode behind them.
As Carmen explored the man’s mind, Mockingbird maintained an iron hold on the man’s neck so Clancy could frisk and search him. They find a notebook showing that he had been following someone referred to as “L.M.” under order from a person known only as “K”. In the journal they see that he was notating:
Lincoln’s day-to-day activities, business meetings, transcripts from recordings of personal conversations in Lincoln’s home with his family and friends and photos of Lincoln.
In total, there is nearly three months of data leading up to the explosion. As well as an entry stating that, “...the package is in place.” with a date from the night before the bakery explosion. The evidence points to Lincoln being a target in the explosion, raising suspicions that it was not an accident but an assassination.
Comparing the photos in the man’s journal to his memories, Carmen shows the photos to Feyre and asks if the photos are of her brother-in-law, Feyre helps Carmen confirm that L.M. in the journal was, in fact, Lincoln.
Carmen is also able to determine that the man was trying to crush a poison tooth in his mouth but Mocking-bird’s hold hand locked his mouth open so he could not bite down.
The investigators destroy the remnants of a device that is covered in Oldfairen markings, dispersing the residual bleed energy and freeing Eleanor’s spirit from its tether to the physical world.
Found in the man’s satchel is also a wallet with documents identifying him as Nikoli Sorell and a small key ring with three keys.
Key #1: A vehicle key of some kind
Key #2: A deadbolt key
Key #3: A padlock keyNikoli is rendered unconscious by Mocking-bird and taken to the headquarters of The Circle of Whistles and Whispers to be held in their vault for identification and removal of the poison tooth and questioning.
Assignment #2 - 01/19/25 "In The Light of the New Year"
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Hook: With the new year rapidly approaching, invitations are being sent out for the dozens of First Light parties being hosted around the city. Piers Corden has received several for one of the most famous and most coveted- the one hosted by Metamorph Industries. What a better way to celebrate First Light than go to a famous party?
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Assignment #3 - "Cornered"
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Assignment #4 - "Heart of Steel"
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Assignment #5 - "Good Night, Sleep Tight"
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Assignment #6 - "The Devil Doctor of South Soffit"
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Assignment #7 - "Vanishing Act"
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Assignment #8 - "Faulty Memory"
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Assignment #9 - "No Rest for the Wicked"
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Assignment #10 - "Hot off the Press"
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Assignment #11 - "Behind Closed Doors"
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Assignment #12 - "The Root of All Evil"
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Assignment #13 - "The Purple Plague"
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Assignment #14 - "Displacement"
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Assignment #15 - "Now You See Me"
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Assignment #16 - "All You Ephemera"
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Assignment #17 - "Smoke and Mirrors"
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Assignment #18 - "Head in the Clouds"
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Assignment #19 - "Liber Aeternum"
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Assignment #20 - "So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish!"
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Assignment #21 - "A Door of Bones"
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Assignment #22 - "This Concludes Our Broadcast Day"
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Assignment #23 - "The Devil's Minion"
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Assignment #24 - "Beneath the Surface"
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Assignment #25 - "As Above, So Below"
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Assignment #26 - "To Be Announced"
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Assignment #27 - "Scibbers and Scrabbles"
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Assignment #28 - "For if Dreams Die..."
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Assignment #29 - "Once Upon a Dream"
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Assignment #30 - "Perchance to Dream"
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Assignment #31 - "What Dreams May Come"
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Assignment #32 - "A New Dawn, A New Day"
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Assignment #33 - "Deus Ex Oculo"
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Assignment #34 - "Not a Dream, but a Nightmare"
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Assignment #35 - "Resonance"
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Assignment #36 - "East Hills"
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Assignment #37 - "To Be Announced"
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Assignment #38 - "To Be Announced"
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Assignment #39 - "To Be Announced"
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Assignment #40 - "To Be Announced"
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Assignment #41 - "To Be Announced"
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Assignment #42 - "To Be Announced"
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Assignment #43 - "To Be Announced"
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