Nameless Horrors A Message of Art

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Donatien Benoit : Alex Catton

Clovis Herbért : Jackson Heenan

Viviane Hainault : Art Hunter

#### Fit The First

* Noon in an absinthe house in the 11th in Paris during La Belle Epoque that's hosting an art Salon where the investigators are mingling
* There is going to be an after-party at the house of Joseph Peladan
* A famous realist - Antonin Pinoit, arrives late, and wants to talk to Clovis
* Antonin looks flustered.
* Antonin was working with Pierre La Rush, but Pierre is getting distracted with his new stunning wife
* Instead, Antonin is considering a series
* Jane and Viviane are plotting commercial opportunities
* Donatien persuades Antonin to take them over to Peladan's house
* They head down the road to Rue Pinon and the corner house of Joseph Peladan
* Antonin talks to Clovis. Antonin has a noticeable nose bleed, but he is eager for various materials to get started on his paintings
* A black carriage arrives and drops off two people. Pierre La Rush, and the most beautiful person anyone has ever seen.
* The woman is wearing spectacular costume jewelry
* Antonin comes out and spouts about the materials again
* Clovis starts to subtly sabotage him, mixing paints that do not dry, etc as Antonin gets working
* Viviane and Jane leave Antonin to his breakdown leading to Antonin locking himself in the bathroom
* La Rush goes to leave as he is followed by Clovis
* Mme La Rush takes Clovis' hand and says that his art should be not only true to life, but also about life itself, claiming that La Rush had said that about Realism. La Rush was carrying a book.
* The book is the Invocation of the Inner God
* The couple leave, and there is a little bit of a slump in the energy
* Immediately afterwards Pelada arrives.
* There is the sound of a door being broken upstairs
* There is a loud yell followed by a thud from the bathroom
* Someone at a window yells out that the Police have arrived
* Jane runs upstairs. Donatien stays down to find out why the Police have arrived, as does Vivane
* Clovis runs up towards the bathroom.
* Jane finds a dark figure holding a book breaking down the occult door and running for a window
* It's the horror writer, Maximillian Lavange, who jumps into the night
* Inside the bathroom they find Antonin's head exploded, painting everywhere
* Lots of police descend upon the scene as Peladan's carriage turns around in the street and departs
* As the session closes, Clovis feels the start of a building headache.

### Fit The Second

* Jane catches Maximillian bolting out of a window. She runs forwards and shouts for the police
* Donatien is going after Peladan's carriage that turned around upon seeing all the police
* Jane stays in the library to generally explore it
* By now the Surete have arrived and are starting to take charge on the first/ground floor.
* Donatien tries to sneak up on Peladan, but is spotted. Peladan leaves and Donatien returns towards the house
* According to Jane, there's more than one tome missing
* Jane, when speaking with Clovis, finds out about the tome that Pinot had placed back on the library table, but is now missing
* Jane shares her information with the Surete
* The police find the tome who La Rush returned in a woman's coat, that is identified as belonging to Aimee, who claims innocence.
* Jane believes the woman is innocent
* It turns out that the Surete were pre-warned by a member of staff around 15 minutes before anything actually happened
* The Surete takes a lot of people into custody / interrogation
* The summoned doctor is flummoxed
* The group leaves, with the aim of returning after dark once the Surete have (mostly) left
* As they sit down to dinner, Clovis' headache keeps getting worse, and he cannot let go of the image of Pinot's death - it needs painting
* Clovis talks to the officer on the door and the group is let in
* They head up to the library and start investigating
* They find a key that leads into a cult room
* Lots of the members of the salon are members, apart from La Rush who keeps getting knocked back
* Specifically they are interested in Beatific Vision
* Thinking back, Clovis recognized the tome as "Cosmic Illuminations" - a French translation of an Italian work
* They find a member / prospective member address book
* They leave, taking one of the keys to the cult room
* They decide to head over to Lavagne's address (which is over on the other side of the Seine) in the morning
* La Rush lives outside of Paris (in Poiry)
* Whilst the rest of the group sleeps, Clovis is painting
* Mme Aimee is now in hospital, complaining of headaches
* Donatien does his journalist schtick and gets a full update from the Surete
* Jane and Clovis go to the Hospital, whilst Donatien goes to try to get the book
* Aimee is in a bad way. She was in a state even before she got her hands on the book
* All she can think about is writing
* Donatien gets his hands on the tome and starts reading. There are annotations all over it from the Order of the Rose and Cross
* Linked to the founder of the French Masonic Order
* This book walks through the idea of communing with God through the process of Art
* Donatien learns the spell "Channeling God"
* It essentially summons a muse that spreads the passion to do art, above all else

### Fit The Third

* The scene opens inside Viviane's house where the group are gathered
* Jane has realised that both Clovis and Aimee spoke at length with Mme Bathsheba
* Donatien talks about what he found in the tome about the summoning of muses
* It is suspected that the "contagion" is spread by touch
* The group prepare and head towards the La Rush household on the Paris outskirts
* Jane persuades Clovis to come along with some threats of removing funding by Viviane.
* Clovis talks about how he needs human blood to perform his art
* As they reach the Rush's front door, Jane hears marble hoofbeats from inside
* They open the unlocked door and enter
* Jane grabs sight of something hoofed going up the stairs
* Vivians runs into Msr La Rush, and speaks to why the investigators are here
* Donatien is looking into the studio, and sees a number of statue pedestals that are suspiciously empty
* Donatien is of the mind that they've caught Rush mid-ritual
* Jane is trying to get up the stairs before Bathsheba starts to come down
* Jane sees Clovis running from the carriage towards the house
* Bathsheba is entirely marble as she heads down the stairs heading for Clovis
* Rush describes how they discovered how to bring down true beauty, true divinity as he's working on a minataur
* Other creations include a unicorn and a kraken
* Jane is accosted by Bathsheba who tells her to follow, Jane refuses
* Bathsheba goes to grab Jane, but misses
* Viviane keeps La Rush occupied with discourse on the nature of art and the human condition
* Donatien smashes his bat into the tail of the minataur, cracking it almost off, to La Rush's horror
* Jane tries to escape Bathsheba, and ends up in the bedroom. Cowering in the corner is a sculpture of a unicorn in fear of its life
* Bathsheba goes after Clovis, and grabs him by the throat breaking his neck
* La Rush strikes Donatien, and Donatien goes down unconcious
* Viviane turns and runs
* Viviane notes the disturbance in the water of the pond as she makes for the carriage
* Jane is running room to room looking for the secret room in this house to escape through
* The unicorn yells "What Am I??" at Jane as she leaves
* Jane manages to find the secret room and slams the door behind her
* In the room is a gathering of wonderous art, all the previous failed summoning attempts
* There is a sheen around most of them
* Jane feels the force of inspiration, as Bethsheba walks up behind her, reaches out, then drops her hand and wanders back into the house
* As Viviane goes to leave, she's intercepted by the wooden kraken, she escapes but the driver does not survive
* Donatien tries to derail the ceremony as she sinks into unconciousness and as the marble cracks half the statue falls onto them as the minataur is born
* Viviane goes to the Surete and does her utmost to implicate La Rush
* Jane starts to make a new masterpiece by merging the pieces in the room into one amalgam
* But she does not do a good job, and instead ends up being punished by Bethshaba - fatally

#### Trivia

* Fit the second was broadcast minus Art
* Fit the second also features Jackson from his childhood bedroom
* Art replaces Jackson in the Third episode
* In the Third episode, Jackson's rolls were made by Dave and Alex
* Dave finally gets his wish with a 100 on a SAN roll, although he then failed his INT roll