Blood on Broad Street

Scribe Notes

Summary

GM: Stephen
Season: Autumn 818 WK
Night: Tuesdays, starting 7pm on 14th March
Location: New Windsor
Level: Low-Medium

Party

1. Horton - Human Mind Mage - Errol - Party Leader
2. Kharmul - Celestial (Shadow) - Chris
3. Anooke - an Ice Mage Hobbit with experience of murder, played by Michael Haycock
4. Jaycey - Halfling Illusionist - Anne - Mil Sci
5. Sylvestor - Elf Water Mage - Justis - Scribe
6. Cipher - Dwarf Bunny Rune Mage - Beth
7. Pierre the Halfling - Halfling Illusionist - Ian

Employer & Mission

A low-profile group is required to discreetly solve a murder in Seagate on behalf of a relative.

Scribe Notes

TIMELINE

26th - Eurin and Boli were having drinks and a few games of cards before Boli had to go off to a "deal". Lost his Soul this day.
27th - Boli was chasing after someone with his newest greatest idea. Someone who could make him rich. Boli no longer had a soul.
28th - Eurin and Boli were out drinking in several taverns, Boli payed for drinks that night.
29th - Boli was supposed to have been acting in a show. Boli was murdered that morning
30th - There was again meant to be a show. Eurin learnt about his death on this day
Duesday

Sylvestor here, with the job of scribe this season. Today the party, which consisted of three Halflings, a Dwarf, A Human and me, an Elf. Sat in the guild meeting room waiting for our employer, a Human non-mage by the name of Aryan. The human seemed to be carrying far more weapons than a normal person, and his cape flapping in a mysterious wind which is only there for him.

My first impression was that this was a very powerful man. Which means that he has powerful allies and enemies… The latter turns out may be truer than we expected.

Aryan introduces himself and then tells us all about what he wishes us to do. Aryan informs us that he recently found out his nephew was in town… After his nephew was murdered. Guild security essentially told him that he was not allowed to go rampaging through the streets, murdering everyone until the murderer, was also dead.

Aryan reluctantly agreed to send a party of adventurers to discreetly investigate the death. Other important details to be noted included the soul was missing. The body had been dead for two days. Oh, and the guards had ruled it as a mugging gone wrong.

Payment was included of 50,000sp for finding out who the murderer was and generally more info. Another 50,000 SP for bringing them to justice. Aryan didn’t tell us what “justice” meant only that justice could be done as we see fit.

We then decided that Horton, our resident Human (and mind mage) would be party leader.

 Anooke - “You’re a mind mage you’re going to be telling us what to do anyway.”

I became scribe, and we set Jaycey as primary mil-sci, with Pierre as our secondary. Now onto those on the adventure. We had Anooke, a Halfling Ice Mage, Pierre the Halfling, an Illusionist, Horton our Human Mind Mage, next up is Cipher, a bunny Rune Mage- who has two years’ worth of experience and training provided by the guild. Then there is Jaycey, my friend Jaycey who shared my first adventure with me. She is an Illusionist. So, all up we have three natural thie…. I mean Halflings with the Halfling racial trait, two of which are illusionists. Inconspicuous group. Yeah, we got that covered.

We decided on investigating the body of Boliver, who was found in the early morning, dead on Broad Street, outside the Broad Street Theatre, by lead actress Anatalia, a 17-18-year-old Human Female from Brandenburg. We found that Boliver had a gash across his neck. Very professionally done. Right-handed killer, with a very sharp blade. Bruised arms showed some form of self-defense. No valuables were found on his possession.

Dragon company which is the day watch in Old Seagate reported the murder as a mugging gone wrong. Aryan has had disputes with Dragon Company in the past resulting in the Lieutenant of Dragon Company and Aryan having a duel. Aryan spec-rev and the Lieutenant lost his arm. Ever since then Phoenix company- the night watch- and Dragon Company have not been on the best of terms. And Dragon Company have a strong dislike of Aryan.

During our investigations we discovered that four days ago Boliver had started his “life” He had no history past the last four days. Thus, from this we concluded he lost his soul four days ago. He then was murdered two days ago. Our next decision was to head into Old Seagate. Pierre cast Disguise Illusion on the party. And Jaycey took out her cart and Pickles. Walking through the streets of New Seagate we were pampered by market stalls and their owners, trying to sell phony Amulets of Elder-Daisy’s and Amulets of Copper- which become offered when Pierre pulled out his sock filled with gems. Pierre, to ditch the crowd threw a gem into the air behind him. A nice blue one. Anooke went off and pickpocketed some adult urchins. We then headed off to Old Seagate, and we passed many good taverns that I longed to enter mournfully.

Investigating the “crime scene” we found no traces of blood, but felt if we dug down enough… The current show playing at the Theatre was Red Hand Bandit. There was a note that read the Understudy was to be playing the bandit. Edward is the manager of this Theatre. We also discovered there was no show on tonight because of the Guild Meeting. There was however a wake for Boliver. We entered the Theatre and immediately came across a young man. Who was gloating about his amazing performance of the play. This was Pierta the understudy, who had taken on the lead role since Boliver’s death.

After a brief encounter with the energetic understudy, we moved off to speak to Anatalia, the lead actress. Anatalia and Pierre have a brief history with each other. We all got introduced to her. And we found out that she and Boliver had been “seeing a bit of each other” and she seemed “genuinely” upset about his passing. She told us that she saw a Ruffian bending over the body, then when she called out to him, the dude turned off. She went over to see what the thing was he was investigating and started shouting for the guards when she saw the blood. Later she realized it was Boli.

She also told us that he started acting weird two days before his death, right around the time we figured he had lost his soul. They had a fight and she was upset because he called her names.

Edward is a middle-aged man, who was currently writing a script about two star-crossed lovers that run away from their family to be together. They run away to the fey and get tricks played on them by the Fey. Edward tells us that Boli was a good actor, and that he worked odd jobs on the side. He also told us a girl came to see him, and that Gloriana may know more.

So, after saying goodbye we went and spoke to Gloriana. Gloriana was genuinely upset over Boli’s passing, she said that she thought Boli and her were in love. She told us that Rosie was one of his “fans” and that she came by the other day asking about Boli’s family. Gloriana kicked her out. Gloriana also told us where Boli had been staying. Something that no-one else knew about the kid.

Off to investigate Boli’s living arrangements. There seemed to be nothing of value, we even checked the hidden floorboard compartment and there was nothing there. One of the Boli’s neighbors told us of a friend Boli had, a foreigner with a sing-song voice and wearing a skirt. Which we defined as Caledonian.

A search of the docks revealed two ships, the one we were interested in was the Sea-Wave. At a nearby tavern. We sat and ate food and drank ale. Finding out that the “Sea-Wave” wasn’t in dock. As to avoid a tax. We then went to return to the Theatre for the evenings wake. However, Jaycey’s cart was now missing a wheel. Putting cart and Pickles away. We then went off to the Theatre. Here we met yet another suspect. Carlos, one of the actors, who was not very sad Boli was gone. We found out it was because he mooned after Anatalia. So, we would be questioning him. The Caledonian wasn’t there so it made for not a good friend scenario.

We were met up by Kharmul, a Celestial Shadow mage that the guild sent to join us during the wake. The wake didn't give us much more detail, there was no Rosie at this wake. We went off to a rough tavern at 3am after talking for an hour. Including catching Kharmul up on what we had learned so far. Followed by a conversation on Kharmul's abilities.

 Kharmul-"I can take on different personas"
 Anooke- "You can shape-change?"

W’ansday

Sylvester here again. Day two of our murder investigation continues, but now joined by Kharmul, with his DA ability, we might get a good start to the day. So after a breakfast, which we ate whilst drunk people were thrown into the alley and hay was replaced with fresh stuff.

We then headed down to the docks to find our sing-songy friend. Whilst the party argued about who would talk to the shipwright. Kharmul went ahead and called out. We dragged up the attention of a couple of people on the ship. We ended up going to have a drink in the nearby bar. We had to wait a couple hours until they got off duty to come have a drink. And we started aking about Boli and the guy in the front had no idea, but the guy at the back knew who Boli was. We had a chat with Eurin, who played cards with Boli and Boli bought drinks when he was having a good hand, and Boli would share his ideas or his most recently mooned after girl.

Eurin doesn’t have a good memory of all the things Boli had told him about. Ale tends to do that to ones memory, and we learnt there was always a fair bit of it. Eurin was telling us all about this one girl that Boli had been sweet on recently, if we weren’t as smart as he was he might have thought it was love. Her name was Rosie. From what Eurin remembered was that Rosie was a seamstress, but that was all he could remember. He also remembered that Boli had a patron in the theatre who kept giving him money for good clothes and other things. We made plans to talk to Eurin again later that night and try and “hypnotize” him. We had to head back to the theatre and see the show as well, and there was a comment made about the Thespians.

 Kharmul- “You afraid of the Thespians?”
 Pierre the Halfling- “Yes. They’re bigger than me.”

Horton wants to purchase jewelry to give to the thespians instead of a couple of copper pieces. We sat in our tavern and discussed several options for the evening. Kharmul wanted to know if our employer was paying for all our expenses. He also wanted to know if we could illusion him to look like Boliver, a way to draw out the killer.

 “Fake the fake death.”

Making a checklist of what we need to do, Talk to Rosie, Interview Carlos, watch show, and have dinner with Eurin, who ensures us he doesn’t swing that way. We went and collected Eurin for dinner and took him to our tavern for drinks and cards. Him and a few mates came. Horton payed for drinks, and food for the group. Then whilst we all distracted the others Horton hypnotized Eurin and we learnt the five days previous 26th to the 30th. He also now remembered that Rosie was a seamstress at a fancy tailor. Eurin also dislikes the theatre, but has the hots for Gloriana one of Boliver’s ex girlfriends.

We went off to a play and saw a play about a boy he joined merchants travelling along the roads, who led those merchants into traps and ambushes set by the red hand bandits. The leader of the bandits was Red Hand himself, he also fell in love with the sister of the man who led the merchants into traps. The brother was leading merchants into traps trying to get his sister back. Towards the end of the play we discovered the real plot when the sister poisoned red hand and took over the bandit company. The brother lured merchants into the bandit’s ambushes, and the sister led the bandits.

After the play we went home. Or to our inn. Except Jaycey who had picked up a Halfling thespian from the show. Who kept claiming he was “Good with his hands.” The two went off for drinks and ale at a tavern and Pierre got nominated to make sure she was safe. Jaycey learnt that he was good with his hands that night. And Pierre got to watch it all.

Thu’rsday

Sylvester here, today we head over to New Seagate to find this Rosie and see if she can help us at all. After three hours we found a little sewing shop, and inside worked a beautiful young woman, that is, after you snatched your eyes away from the woman’s well-endowed body. Most of the males of the party desperately struggled with that. I looked into her beautiful Hazel eyes, and knew that Boli probably didn’t love her, but lusted after her because of her figure. Rosie was very upset about Boli’s death and the only things she could tell us, were that she knew he had a rich uncle around Seagate somewhere. That she and him were going to make a new cloak made from wolf pelt and seaweed, very waterproof. Rosie was very nervous, and her boss was very bothering on her taking to long with some customer’s.

Boli had good news, he had plans with this new type of cloak. A Raincoat. The two had been seeing each other for four weeks. We end up inviting Rosie for dinner. She accepts. Kharmul sets the Halflings on watch along with himself. Horton and I went off to the tavern. We heard later that Kharmul had sent Halflings to tail the boss and Rosie when they left the store. Up until Rosie left for the evening dinner.

Calendar

Autumn 818wk: Fruit (4)
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday		Th'rsday		Frysday		Reapsday		Sunday
	Lugnasad		1	Guild Meeting	2		3		4		5		6
	7		8		9		10		11		12		13
	14		15		16		17		18		19		20
	21		22		23		24		25		26		27
	28		29		30		1		2		3		4
Autumn 818wk: Harvest (5)
	5		6		7		8		9		10		11
	12		13		14		15	Equinox	16		17		18
	19	Harvest Moon ..	20		21		22		23		24		25
	26		27		28		29		30		1		2
Autumn 818wk: Vintage (6)
	3		4		5		6		7		8		9
	10		11		12		13		14		15		16
	17	Blood Moon	18		19		20		21		22		23
	24		25		26		27		28		29		30	Beerfest