Session 2 - Recap ================= --- ### Player Characters Character Occupation Player --------------------- -------------------------- --------- Eddie Erudite Reader Hunter Josiah Ghermlynn Mennonite Butcher Mason Haywood Hawthorne Libertine Writer Gabe Livingston Scholarly Archeologist Calvin ### NPCs ----------------------------- ----------------------- Luke LuDoux Longshoreman & Smuggler Grover Ave. Manor Guards Details Unknown James' Landlady Details Unknown ----------------------------- ----------------------- ### Story Log - The party began their day by heading to LuDoux's warehouse (Beaver Pelt Trading Co.) - Relling and Matis had told the party about LuDoux's background, and the name of his business - To find the specific address, the party asked locals until they found a dockworker who pointed them in the right direction - Two members of the party (Josiah & Haywood?) entered the warehouse, while the other two waited nearby - The party members feigned an air of confidence, and approached the administrative office of the warehouse - The party members asked for LuDoux, and were granted an audience - The party members told LuDoux that they were looking for James, in order to settle a score with him - LuDoux told them that he didn't know James' whereabouts, but said James had been "dealt with", and would give them no further trouble - Having probed for sufficient information, the party members left the warehouse - The party split into two groups to continue the day, planning to regroup at James' university in the early afternoon - Eddie & Livingston attempted to find the address of James' address - The party members searched town hall for records of James' residence, but came up empty - The party members left town hall early to search for more info at the University - They tried to get back into James' office, but found it locked - They failed to pick the lock discretely - The party members eventually spoke to an administrative secretary, who was happy to tell them the address - Josiah & Haywood went to find the Grover Ave. manor house shown on the newspaper clipping found in James' office - The party members travelled across town until they found the street, then travelled along it until they found a building matching the photo - The manor was in a less-developed stretch of the area, set back from the road, surrounded by vegetation and no other homes - From the street, the party members spotted two men (ostensibly guards) lounging on the porch, and decided to approach them - As the party members walked up to the porch, one of the guards rose to meet them halfway - The guard from the porch asked the party members if he could help them - Josiah claimed his father had been a resident of the group home decades ago - The porch guard cryptically responded by asking if Josiah knew "the Priest" - Josiah claimed that he didn't know much about the Priest, but that his father had said they could "have a good time" at the home - Having perceived little cause for suspicion, the guard told Josiah that he could join by returning at 6 o'clock the following evening - Josiah asked if his companions could also join him, and the guard obliged - As Josiah spoke with one of the guards, Haywoord noticed that the other guard (who stayed on the porch) appeared to be strung-out - The party regrouped at the University as planned, and exchanged information - Having discovered the address of James' apartment, the party decided to spend the late afternoon investigating the location - The party found the apartment a short distance north of the University, in a relatively dense residential part of town - The apartment was on the second floor of a two-story shared domicile - The party tried to open the door, but found it locked - The party tried to pick the lock, but did not succeed - Due to noise made by the party, an old lady came out from the first floor of the building, and asked the party what they were doing - In a panic, the party decided to ignore the woman, and forcibly break in to the apartment - During their quick raid, they grabbed several loose letters that had been on James' desk - Haywood spotted a calling card that had fallen of a small entryway table - They did not notice any signs of a struggle or major disturbances, apart from those caused by their own entry - The party fled the crime scene, splitting up into single members - The party saw police cars en route to the crime scene, but managed to avoid detection - The party regrouped at their hotel for the night - The party reviewed the items taken from James' apartment - The love letters appeared to be between James and his girlfriend, Abagail - but contained no major revalations - The calling card was the card from Bonnie that James described in his letter to Prof. Amos - They were greeted again by the cat outside the hotel - They gave the cat food, and went to bed \