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So this past time, the session was a lot like herding cats -- by which I mean mostly me trying to keep track of things, not my players. My boyfriend's kids were up and around for the first bit, and attention spans were wandering, and it was a challenge to keep any sort of focus or momentum going. We did eventually get started, though -- and for me, I think "started" comes down to when I played the evening's song (which I actually did a little ways in, but it really helped my focus at least, if not anyone else's). I will have to try to remember to do that first thing from this point forward.
So. Tonight's theme song is "Gone Daddy Gone," by the Violent Femmes. No, not the Gnarls Barkley one, though I like that one too. The original.
Danny's player was back tonight, so we ran a quick scene about what happened over the night before. She got a call from her uncle (who's part of the White Council) asking her to meet him. She took off and ended up meeting with him in an out of the way warehouse outside of town. He had the local warden with him, along with someone else on the council. They were robed and obviously here on formal business. Danny didn't come prepared, so she wore street clothes. They started the conversation up in Latin, making Danny even more uncomfortable about why they were all here, and they proceeded to explain that they were getting reports that lines of power were starting to shift in Baltimore, and they didn't know why. The also had other things going on, so they charged Danny with finding out what was going on and putting a stop to it if they could -- after all, she wants to be a warden, remember? If she needs help she can call for it, but otherwise she's to handle it herself. Her uncle gave her a hug on the way out and he told her to "watch her back." Given the cold stare from the other Council member and the lack of input from our warden friend, I think she suspects she might need to do that on more than one front.
She got home, realized how late it was, and got some sleep. That got her up in time to meet up with everyone else -- who, as it happens, was going off to the TKE fraternity house to see if they could track down that lead from the video.
Morris and Danny decided to stay in the car while Uno, Adia, Zeke, and Dylan went up to the frat house. The brothers weren't there, for the most part -- we are still a few weeks before school picks up again for the fall -- but the designated adult is on hand. He invites them all in and they tell him about the girl living in the library. He doesn't see what this has to do with TKE and is not terribly inclined to be helpful about anybody in the video, but then Dylan gets all "rapport challenge" on his butt, and he ends up deciding to be more forthcoming so long as it is clearly understood that the fraternity has nothing to do with this. He identifies the guy with the logo as Adam Josephs, a member in good standing. Adam formerly lived in the house, but moved out in the middle of the spring term, ostensibly to live with his girlfriend. (This information is confirmed by a friend of Uno's who's on vacation, but is also a member of TKE.) The guy doesn't have anything bad to say about Adam -- bright, handsome, has money, seems to have it all together barring a bad case of puppy love. The girl he moved in with matches the description of the other girl in the photo from the security feed -- apparently named Mary.
Their time on site also garners them a bit more info -- Uno spots two of the other guys in the picture in a group pic of TKE members from a couple of years ago. Further inquiry reveals that they're Matt and Jonathan Cassel, twins who both pledged. They were having money troubles and ended up going inactive. Matt in particular was rumored to have been stealing from the house or other TKEs, it wasn't clear which and no one could confirm it either way. It does come out that Adam is from the moneyed side of Boston -- not of Dylan's acquaintance, but his name would be familiar from the society pages.
Upon leaving, Zeke called up a friend at the police department and started looking for records. His friend Rosenstern confirmed that Matt Cassel had a record of getting into trouble -- a B&E, a domestic dispute, some petty theft. Nothing on Jonathan or Adam. Adia heads down to the library to check through back issues of the paper and see if she can find more info on Matt's indiscretion. Adia doesn't find anything in particular, although it apparently blew up into a scandal that hit TKE pretty hard back in the day. Matt and his brother both dropped out a year ago last April, and haven't been heard from since.
Zeke gets the info on who filed the domestic complaint 9 months ago, a woman named Jamie (I can't remember her last name at this point). For a while they hope that it's their library girl, but a fax from Rosenstern quickly counters that. They decide she's their best lead to at least two of the group, so they go down to the "gentrifying" side of West Baltimore, where they find her apartment. They go up and knock, and she lets them in, and starts informing them that her ex was a schmuck and an asshole and she kicked him out as soon as he laid hands on her. She says that John lived there too in the spare room, but that he followed Matt in a vain attempt to keep him out of trouble. She identifies the other guy in the picture as Mark, a guy with no money and no family to speak of who was the definition of "wanna be" and "hanger-on". She knew Adam too, said that she caught Mary sleeping with Matt, but that wasn't the only person Mary slept with and that Adam didn't seem to care. They ended up with a rough address for Mary, wherein they hope to find her and at least one of the other guys, Adam in particular since he seemed closest to our mystery library girl.
By this time it's getting on to evening, and the local color is starting to blossom. Morris and Uno were watching the back (and Morris is watching his car), Danny's getting chatted up as a fine piece of womanhood by a local player despite her best efforts to disengage (she chose to stay outside and see what would happen) and Adia tries talking to some alleged drug dealers, who look at her incredulously and tell the men she's with to take her home before the "fireworks" start going off. Everyone retires to their various vehicles and gets ready for the next step of the evening, which consists of the rave Uno found out about and/or storming the castle at Mary's -- and no, that is not a euphemism. So not a lot of action, but a lot of information.
So. Tonight's theme song is "Gone Daddy Gone," by the Violent Femmes. No, not the Gnarls Barkley one, though I like that one too. The original.
Danny's player was back tonight, so we ran a quick scene about what happened over the night before. She got a call from her uncle (who's part of the White Council) asking her to meet him. She took off and ended up meeting with him in an out of the way warehouse outside of town. He had the local warden with him, along with someone else on the council. They were robed and obviously here on formal business. Danny didn't come prepared, so she wore street clothes. They started the conversation up in Latin, making Danny even more uncomfortable about why they were all here, and they proceeded to explain that they were getting reports that lines of power were starting to shift in Baltimore, and they didn't know why. The also had other things going on, so they charged Danny with finding out what was going on and putting a stop to it if they could -- after all, she wants to be a warden, remember? If she needs help she can call for it, but otherwise she's to handle it herself. Her uncle gave her a hug on the way out and he told her to "watch her back." Given the cold stare from the other Council member and the lack of input from our warden friend, I think she suspects she might need to do that on more than one front.
She got home, realized how late it was, and got some sleep. That got her up in time to meet up with everyone else -- who, as it happens, was going off to the TKE fraternity house to see if they could track down that lead from the video.
Morris and Danny decided to stay in the car while Uno, Adia, Zeke, and Dylan went up to the frat house. The brothers weren't there, for the most part -- we are still a few weeks before school picks up again for the fall -- but the designated adult is on hand. He invites them all in and they tell him about the girl living in the library. He doesn't see what this has to do with TKE and is not terribly inclined to be helpful about anybody in the video, but then Dylan gets all "rapport challenge" on his butt, and he ends up deciding to be more forthcoming so long as it is clearly understood that the fraternity has nothing to do with this. He identifies the guy with the logo as Adam Josephs, a member in good standing. Adam formerly lived in the house, but moved out in the middle of the spring term, ostensibly to live with his girlfriend. (This information is confirmed by a friend of Uno's who's on vacation, but is also a member of TKE.) The guy doesn't have anything bad to say about Adam -- bright, handsome, has money, seems to have it all together barring a bad case of puppy love. The girl he moved in with matches the description of the other girl in the photo from the security feed -- apparently named Mary.
Their time on site also garners them a bit more info -- Uno spots two of the other guys in the picture in a group pic of TKE members from a couple of years ago. Further inquiry reveals that they're Matt and Jonathan Cassel, twins who both pledged. They were having money troubles and ended up going inactive. Matt in particular was rumored to have been stealing from the house or other TKEs, it wasn't clear which and no one could confirm it either way. It does come out that Adam is from the moneyed side of Boston -- not of Dylan's acquaintance, but his name would be familiar from the society pages.
Upon leaving, Zeke called up a friend at the police department and started looking for records. His friend Rosenstern confirmed that Matt Cassel had a record of getting into trouble -- a B&E, a domestic dispute, some petty theft. Nothing on Jonathan or Adam. Adia heads down to the library to check through back issues of the paper and see if she can find more info on Matt's indiscretion. Adia doesn't find anything in particular, although it apparently blew up into a scandal that hit TKE pretty hard back in the day. Matt and his brother both dropped out a year ago last April, and haven't been heard from since.
Zeke gets the info on who filed the domestic complaint 9 months ago, a woman named Jamie (I can't remember her last name at this point). For a while they hope that it's their library girl, but a fax from Rosenstern quickly counters that. They decide she's their best lead to at least two of the group, so they go down to the "gentrifying" side of West Baltimore, where they find her apartment. They go up and knock, and she lets them in, and starts informing them that her ex was a schmuck and an asshole and she kicked him out as soon as he laid hands on her. She says that John lived there too in the spare room, but that he followed Matt in a vain attempt to keep him out of trouble. She identifies the other guy in the picture as Mark, a guy with no money and no family to speak of who was the definition of "wanna be" and "hanger-on". She knew Adam too, said that she caught Mary sleeping with Matt, but that wasn't the only person Mary slept with and that Adam didn't seem to care. They ended up with a rough address for Mary, wherein they hope to find her and at least one of the other guys, Adam in particular since he seemed closest to our mystery library girl.
By this time it's getting on to evening, and the local color is starting to blossom. Morris and Uno were watching the back (and Morris is watching his car), Danny's getting chatted up as a fine piece of womanhood by a local player despite her best efforts to disengage (she chose to stay outside and see what would happen) and Adia tries talking to some alleged drug dealers, who look at her incredulously and tell the men she's with to take her home before the "fireworks" start going off. Everyone retires to their various vehicles and gets ready for the next step of the evening, which consists of the rave Uno found out about and/or storming the castle at Mary's -- and no, that is not a euphemism. So not a lot of action, but a lot of information.
