Fraser30 at 20:20, 21 June 2012

2012-06-21T20:20:45Z

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After the kidnapping and murder of the last session... The injured [[Fotheringshaw]] and [[Victoria]] are taken to Edinburgh Hospital to be treated for gunshot wounds sustained in the firefight with the cannibal kidnappers. Everybody else is released after being interviewed by the police and their story corroborated by a number of sources. The police are now aware that the players are mixed up in all this one way or another and are assigned a police escort in the form of Jamie [[McNish]], a young officer just out of the academy.

The players all had the same dream again, this time the dream went further than before with the newborn baby being lowered into the pit. They all awake suddenly with the feeling that something dreadful was happening.

Once everyone wake from the dream Professor [[Douglas]]’s phone rings and Fu Wong informs Douglas that there has been a break in at the department. After the sleep deprived investigators arrive at the department there is already a police car and an ambulance there. The night watchman has been found dead in his cabin with a look of terror on his face and the door locked from the inside. It gets more interesting when the cause of death is revealed as drowning.

Once inside the yard, Mrs Crabtree is found unconscious and when she is brought round she tells the players that two bears were inside the building and that they were carrying large sacks and filling them with books. It looks like the department has been searched but all that seems to be missing is books, the ghoul thieves stopped short at the door leading to the restricted area. Augustus has an idea that perhaps the ghouls are territorial and have been put off by the smell of the stuffed ghoul in the room behind the door.

The players work out that someone must have had a key in order to get access to the department from the yard and head off to the security office and the only other key. They find out that the key is missing and the man at the desk was snoozing on the job. Professor [[Clarkson]], a theology professor is spotted by an on duty cleaning woman talking to some strange figures, including a portly man with a slick haircut and a moustache in the courtyard last night so the players head off to his office to speak to him.

They don’t find him in but manage to talk to his colleague, Prof. Lewellan, he informs the players of Clarkson’s increasingly erratic behaviour and that he hasn’t seen him for several days. He also mentions that Clarkson has become increasingly obsessed with astronomy and also with a group known as the [[Tuesday Night Club]]. Lewellan gives the investigators the address to Clarkson’s Broughton flat.

The investigators gain access into Clarkson’s stairwell and proceed up to his top floor flat, Stevenson picks the lock and the investigators proceed in. As soon as the players enter the flat they are charged down by two starved Doberman dogs who savage a couple of the party. Once the dogs are subdued the players get a chance to search the flat, they manage to turn up a land purchase receipt for an area of land in the pentland hills and a map with an area circled. They also find an interesting letter [[Letter for Clarkson from Winchester]] addressed to Clarkson from a Professor [[Winchester]] of Glasgow University. As they are about to leave they notice a glowing ball of fire floating up the middle of the staircase burning and blackening everything in its path. The players retreat back into Clarkson’s flat and close and block the door behind them. They start tying bedsheets together and look to climb down to safety from the window. Augustus sticks his head out to check the coast is clear and promptly takes a rifle round to the forehead reducing his head to a puff of red mush. A terrified Victoria runs to the next window down and manages to shoot the cultists outside just as the fire creature bursts through flat door. After a frantic climb down the wall all the remaining investigators survive and decide to have a look in Greyfriars Cemetery where they followed the ghouls on the previous night.

Once in the cemetery the players detect a lot of ghoul activity and stumble upon the mangled corpse of one of the ghouls they were tailing. The ghoul has been torn limb from limb possibly by other ghouls. This backs up the theory that perhaps ghouls are territorial and the ones residing in greyfriars didn’t appreciate the newcomers.

with a number of leads to follow the party have a number of decisions to make...

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Auld Reekie Session 4 - Revision history

Fraser30 at 20:20, 21 June 2012