"I haven't seen him for over a week now..."
"... he said something about being needed in New York ..."
"... he's been found ..."
"... how can one man sustain injuries like that and not die? ..."
"... my God... He's..... glowing!"
guest starring Judd Hirsch as MrFlanagan
A personal account of these events can be found in HayesJournal.
Episode 1
Cambridge Date |
24th February 2004 |
Unity Date |
9th - 10th February 1925 |
Participants |
DanielSilverstone (GM), RobHague (JackProctor), CatherinePitt (RebeccaSwarovski), VivekDasmohapatra (BenitoTorelli), Steve McIntyre (RobertJohnson), SimonBooth (HayesWebster) and BenChalmers (Lisa DaVinci) |
Jack, Rebecca, Benny, Robert, Hayes and Lisa are in the Unity society tea room chatting on Monday the 9th of Feb at about 2pm.
MrFlanagan brings a young man into the tea room saying that he was asking for Robert. The young man introduces himself as GeorgePadmore who is known to be, by at least RobertJohnson, the door man at AlexanderGreystone's appartment. George asks if anyone has seen Alexander in the past week or so.
George has letter. Rebecca rings bank, bank has letter, benny takes george to bank, 15 minutes later george comes out with letter, hands to jack doesn't like seal.
Lisa takes a rubbing of the mizpah pendant george has
Robert and Jack visit Professor ImmanuelGoldstein who translates the letter and then refuses to help more.
Lisa, Benny and Rebecca take George to Alex's place they find alex on the floor and take him inside. Lisa finds nothing to implicate Alex in any naughtiness.
The only doctor in unity who will actually deal with Alex, DrStevenson, explains that alex has been drugged and suggests they look after him until he wakes.
In the morning; while George and Robert eat breakfast; Jack sits with Alex and feels an irresistible compulsion to get and examine the seal from the nasty threat letter. He discovers something is embedded in it
They're discussing this when Joshua turns up and the curtain falls.
Episode 2
Cambridge Date |
3rd March 2004 |
Unity Date |
10th to 11th February 1925 |
Participants |
DanielSilverstone (GM), RobHague (JackProctor), CatherinePitt (RebeccaSwarovski), VivekDasmohapatra (BenitoTorelli), Steve McIntyre (RobertJohnson), SimonBooth (HayesWebster) and BenChalmers (Lisa DaVinci) |
The team and Joshua chatted about what was going on with Alex, handing over the cloth and the notes. Joshua explained about the HermeticOrderOfTheGoldenDawn. Then the team handed over the other bits and bobs (medallions etc) and Joshua scared RebeccaSwarovski a little by saying "You have something that belongs to him" (about the ElizabethEmai contract) when in theory there was no way Joshua could have known she had it.
The team retired to the tea room (a sensible course of action all told) and sat around chatting and being a little confused by Joshua from time to time until eventually Alexander screamed.
The team set about scaring the hell out of Alexander in an attempt to communicate effectively with him. Very little apart from GeorgePadmore seemed to register in alex's world. After scaring Alexander a little too much, everyone blacked out and ended up back in the tea room apparently unharmed.
After a little bit of "divining" the team headed off to Villers Hill for some good old fashioned investigating. They eventually found themselves in a room which had a strange oily shimmer and which plunged the team into darkness as they tried to reach an alter which seemed to have Alex sat on it.
JackProctor eventually managed to reveal a door in the far wall of the room and Hayes managed to get it to open with a bit of wire provided by Rebecca. Some shooting and loss of NPC life ensued.
Hayes and Jack found a third room in which more accolytes of the order were lying somewhat dead on the floor. Jack took a bullet (in the leg?) and Hayes bound his wound with some cloth from the robes of a female accolyte who bore more than a passing resemblance to Alexander.
The team got Alexander back to 122 and those that needed it went off to get prodded by the doctors in Unity. Alexander it seems could see ImmanuelGoldstein and proceeded to get extremely angry with him, shouting "What have you done with them?". Everyone blacked out and when they came-to, Hayes etc were in the TeaRoom again. In Alexander's room, Alex and George were out-cold and Goldstein was face-down in a puddle of muddy water, dead. Alex came-round and it appears could see everyone again.
The team eventually decided that Emai had twisted alex's cry for help, when he was abducted by the order, into a curse (as is her wont). Still all seems to be well in Unity again, and Joshua has promised to teach Robert about ReadingPastMemories.