Vanishing Point - Wake of the Plague - Episode 5 - A Simple Crime

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Starting out at St Mark’s Hospital the group decided to head to New London to gather more information first. 
Travelling through the byzantine and omnidirectional passageways they found themselves turned around. Trying to find a way through they found a cavern almost completely overgrown with a plant that Amelia identified as Devil’s Snare. A largely harmless plant that spreads and grows relatively rapidly. 
Inside the houses, they found all of them abandoned and nearly identical. With neat portraits of the occupants showing faceless farmers with 2-3 children. Under each bed was a small amount of cash and Andrew methodically cleaned them out whilst Albrecht found a knife and an axe in some nearby sheds. 
In the middle of the village, at a cross between the only two roads stood a sign saying “Newtown”.
More curiously in the overgrown gap between two houses was an occasional voice which seemed to be responding to something that only they could hear. The voice didn’t respond to the group and when they found it, it was just an otherwise ordinary rock with this voice attached. Creeped out they agreed to move on and keep heading back to New London, however the path was twisting in three dimensions and not very clear. 
As they found a dead end and tried doubling back on themselves, they noticed that a nearby wall was hot to the touch. A crack in the wall up ahead had black smoke pouring out of it and over the sound of cracking and burning rocks, they heard the sound of a man crying for help. 
Andrew and Albrecht broke down the wall and dove in to rescue him. Pulling him from the inferno and dragging him along to safety. Firuz however recognised the man, he was the figure who he met in the real world. Like then he was wearing his gown and had large modern hospital mittens covering his hands. 
He said his name was Mr Chandry and that he was in hell. 
Mr Chandry desperately needed water and treatment, however they had very little in the way of supplies that they could use for medical supplies. Coughing up black phlegm and with serious burns, they were able to carry him the remaining several miles to New London.  
Looking for somewhere that he could get treatment, they found a building with a simple cog design stencilled on it and the words “The Union”. It wasn’t a hospital but seemed more like a support group for the miners and factory workers of the area. When Mr Chandry is dragged in, they immediately call for help and Andrew gives about a pound of the money from the village to help pay for his treatment. They don’t have anybody as specialised as a doctor, but do have water and some supplies and they take him off for treatment, Mr Chandry refers to the group as “kindly demons” and seems mentally unwell. 
As they sit down and recover themselves, they are offered some soup and Andrew goes about contacting a local gang. He finds a group lead by Patricia Castle. She offers them an in with the rebellion. She can help provide money, safe places and potential work if he’s willing to help her out. She needs the group to prove themselves to weed out undercover cops. 
She pointed out the nearby Fortitude Valley Police station. A small two-storey station manned by only a couple of dozen officers. The station held important evidence against members of the rebellion. So she wants them to plant an incendiary device in the Constables Day room where evidence is usually stored. It has a 60 second fuse and once it goes off it should damage everything inside enough that the evidence is unrecoverable. They can provide a few clean work shirts for the group to use. 
They accept and they go together to scout out the station in the evening. Watching from across the street they can see that it’s situated on a corner and surrounded by a wall that’s barely taller than the people in the group and has blunt metal decorative spikes on the top that would make climbing over difficult and uncomfortable but not impossible. 
Albrecht has an idea and so goes and buys some sweet pastries at a nearby bakery for a couple of schillings. He takes it into the front desk of the station to be delivered to the red-haired Constable John Smith. He tries to fast-talk his way through but the desk sergeant is an overly fast-talking Fetch who thanks him, takes the pastries off him and comes back explaining that there was nobody of that description here and that it’s not possible to let people into the station. . 
Disappointed, they return to meet up with each other again and share the baked goods. 
They spot a lone police officer in a uniform and top-hat and decide to lure him into an alleyway, steal his uniform and use that to get in. They lure him in, but knocking him out takes a few blows and he nearly grabs his whistle, but it is thankfully removed before he can use it. 
Now unconscious they start stripping off the upper parts of his uniform. There is a discussion about whether or not they should cut off his tongue with the axe. But as they are having that discussion, a bystander peers into the alleyway. A blandly dressed faceless looks in horror and starts to run. Andrew tries to kill them, but the Faceless quickly escapes. 
They now have no time and so Andrew kills the cop with the axe and prepare to make their move. Unfortunately the sound of the axe and the fleeing faceless also attract a Gaunt to the scene, drawn to the moment of death. At which point they bloodily flee the scene, running through the streets to get away. Somebody must have alerted the police, because as they run, there is the sound of clanking steel and a bladekin made of of flexible saw blades comes charging down the street towards them bellowing “I AM IN PURSUIT!”
They try to lose him in a sweat-shop of a laundry, diving between lines of clothing and hung sheets, but the bladekin is not easily stopped and the laundry staff seem infuriated by the group, and begin swiping at them with brooms and other implements of cleaning. 
The bladekin slams into Andrew badly lacerating him. 
Amelia tries to throw a sheet over the officer which is simply shredded, and Andrew finds a glass bottle with some liquid, when thrown at the Bladekin this seems much more effective and the collection of blades starts to slip and slide over each other causing the bladekin to drop to one knee and his arm seems to almost fall apart. 
Thankfully this gives them the clearance they need to make it out to the edge of the city and lose their pursuers. 
Heading back to St Mark’s Hospital, this time with far fewer problems, they are welcomed in and their wounds are treated for a small donation. 
Also thankfully Major McBeth is there, he offers to transport the group home now if they’ve heard what the hospital staff have to offer. 
Andrew picks up some drugs from the orderly scrounger before they go and Amelia catches a glimpse at the newspaper which described a brutal murder of a police officer with an axe. 
They agree that they need to leave the Vanishing point and that they can do some good with the Hospital plan, so they grab the PGV that the doctors offered earlier. 
Major McBeth brings out a bullet and it hovers in mid-air twisting melting and spinning in more than the normal number of physical dimensions. 
They then find themselves waking up in the old Ballet studio adjacent to Tall Dave’s office where they first met. 
Andrew listens at the door, which has people on the other side of it. The only other door was the one into Tall Dave’s office. As they search the room, they find Tall Dave himself in a wardrobe, missing an eye and on life support. They don’t kill him as the life support system has an alarm on it. 
So they instead loot and steal whatever they can including:
* His ring
* His gun
* A bundle of money from his desk
* A valuable antique painting from his wall
* A pen
* Some more PGV. 
They immediately drink the PGV, but whilst it has a limited effect, they start to feel unwell and nauseous  Probably exceeding the recommended dose. But Andrew takes his opium derived drug as well, which seems to help. Albrecht gleefully grabs the portrait and hugs it, recognising it as a 15th Century piece and incredibly valuable, covering it in a dust sheet as he flees.
As they leave via the side door, that Tall Dave’s technical expert entered from last time, they find a stairwell that goes down to the public areas. 
As they do, they bump into two of his henchmen. The goons try to stop them, but as soon as Andrew draws the gun, they immediately back off, terrified by his drugged and crazed expression and the intimidating pistol. 
Finally they reach the casino floor, still carrying the stolen wares and dressed in victorian shirts. 
Albrecht shouts; “Somebody just killed Tall Dave.” Everybody in earshot turned to look at them with confused stares from most people and worried anger from those who actually knew who Tall Dave is. 
They then bundled out into the streets of London.
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