The Gangsters Campaign/Session 2

Harriet lied to the frog/snake people and they are angry she didn’t tell them about having an artifact with that interesting icon

* But they didn’t read her thoughts the first time??
* So there was extra info in her interxn with magisterial officers
* She claims she didn’t remember the thing until magisterial officers came in with another example, continues trying to talk her way into a sale

Ayham Vec visits Harriet

* Sees the reptilian guys leave her shop but basically forgets what they look like as soon as they leave his line of sight
* Ditto for the symbols burned onto her leg: forgets them as soon as he looks away
	+ There’s also extra metallic residue and strange blood movement in her leg
	+ Vec walks off with a sample of it in case it’s part of a secret government surveilance system. Harriet warns that “it may attract unwanted attention”
	+ “Let me know if your leg starts doing anything funky”

Molly having a conversation with three “individuals”

* One extra after they left the bar
* One of them is called Sergeant/Sarge
* They’re people she knows; she violated some deal by talking to Randolph
* Gertie & the thugs have a firefight
	+ one ded & falls into the fens
	+ It turns out (according to Ricky Shaw) that they’re upper west trenchies; they didn’t do the original murders, were just sent on cleanup to eliminate witnesses
	+ Ricky Shaw makes it out alive with a few bullet wounds and gets sent home
	+ Sarge is unconscious & tied up in Gertie’s friend’s car en route to Ayham Vec to get both of them patched up
	+ Gertrude makes note of the location for future use (no one came to investigate the firefight)

Back in the bar...

* Everyone piles into Aicitel’s car
* Bob gives Lenny some pastries & money and inquires after his dad
	+ He’s not dead
	+ Lenny eats the pastries
* Lenny picks the lock into the dead dock foreman’s apartment building (“it will never again accept another key”)
	+ We’re gonna Sherlock Holmes this. Wallpaper is well maintained; stairs are creaky; apartments are largely uninhabited (no nameplates, so any residents are transient); “active magisterial investigation” sign on the third floor apartment’s door
	+ There are rustling sounds inside the apartment
	+ Lenny, the community treasure, also picks this lock
	+ “Various expressions of human viscera” which are festooning the bedposts
	+ 2+ bodies, which were dismembered (lots of chalk outlines for limbs); little flags and notes around tracking evidence
	+ Whole place has been bathed in chemicals to make it slightly less gross
	+ Window left open
	+ Looks like foreman tried to go out door, then quickly turned around and tried for the window
	+ Randy decides not to tamper with the crime scene; he doesn’t want to get bloody
		- Well, ok, he tampers just a little bit. (adds a few random notes)
	+ Burn marks on the ceilings reminiscent of heavy warehouse ropes
	+ Opposite window is open and it’s also cordoned off

Ayham Vec’s shop

* Gertrude shows up bleeding slightly with a very trussed up Sarge who is bleeding a lot more
* The shot sent him into shock. Vec extracts the bullet; he’s pretty well hurt and ideally should rest up there for several days with consistent medical attention to prevent infection
* Gertrude is mostly OK; needs a few days of bedrest and she’ll be alright

Gertrude goes over to Harriet’s to use the phone

* Harriet is piling up mirrors, which are singing. There’s apparently a battery mechanism. Jeff is scared.
* Then the mirrors explode. Harriet ducks. Jeff does not duck.
	+ He gets impaled by the mirror and some acid-coated battery material, and also by a bunch of the tchotchkes in the shop
	+ Then while he’s bleeding, he lands on a medallion, which catches fire and burnes him pretty good
	+ Back to Vec’s place!
* Harriet immediately goes back to her shop, suspecting the lizardmen will come back, which they do, starting on the second floor (?)

Randolph goes up to the second apartment across the street that was also cordoned off

* Talks to a neighbor: there were strange lights coming from the apartment across the street (he thought it was a gas leak)
* Foreman had lived there for some years (not what they heard from the earlier neighbors)
* The buildings are CONDOS, neighbor tells us with pride
* The neighbor pulls up enough seats for him plus “the three of you”, but there are two of them…
	+ ...There are actually three of them, because there’s another person there, he realizes now...?????
	+ So all three of them walk out of the condo…
	+ Once Randolph mentions him, Victorio sees that he’s there… temporarily…. tries to tackle him, but instead tackles Randolph
	+ Third dude skeedaddles
		- WHO WAS HE
		- He was a person, but Victorio didn’t see what he looked like -- just projected Randolph onto him
* Victorio: “something really fucky just happened, and I don’t like it”
	+ VICTORIO IS REALLY REALLY CONFUSED (and Seth)

Spooksters show up in Harriet’s place, looking for the medallions

Notes on the creepazoids:

* They don’t seek out physical confrontation -- not aggressive
* They’re willing to negotiate (see Harriet’s experience)
* They basically erase themselves from your perception whenever you are not actively looking for them (not actually invisible)