Difference between revisions of "The Beachhouse Sessions"

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The group minus Dr. went into the basement of the row of houses on Mount Street in Mayfair. They went down and down and confronted some ghouls or something. Meanwhile, Matron Clara Lestrade connected with Dr. Dallinger and implored him to head to the house on Mount Street to meet up with his companions. The group battled the ghouls, and then had to battle skeletons somehow animated by the unholy energies in that underground lair. They moved further into the underground tunnel system, confronted many evil scarab beetles that Dr. Dallinger managed to kind of hold at bay with technology, and eventually found the lair of the murderous monster. The fighting happened.

They defeated the creature and it revealed that it was summoned and controlled by the witch. Pretty sure by this point you all knew it was Sophirona Wode even if the monster didn’t reveal it. Everyone used their skills and powers to kill stuff and/or find stuff out. It was terrific.

Here’s what happened night 2:

The characters discussed what to do next. They talked to the City of London police and discovered the bodies of some other victims, and using arcane knowledge determined a sort of pattern. They also figured out who the next victim would be and why (from the horoscopes discovered in a previous session; it was something to do with the victims representing the whole of humanity in order to summon some great evil power).

Anyway through the magic of Fate Points, Miss Green actually had a dress fitting with the next victim, an old rich woman named Mrs. Ricketts, IIRC. She ingratiated herself with the old lady and arranged to stay at the Ricketts’s house. Meanwhile Mr. Turnbull got in good with the staff, Miss Croft arranged for a bunch of people to go to dinner at the house across the street under the pretext of she and Miss Forsythe meeting some eligible high status bachelors, and many hijinks ensued. [I can’t remember the name of the family or the young men, so help me out here!]

During the dinner, Mr. Turnbull, in his guise as carriage driver, saw a doctor and a young woman (turned out to be Maddie Wode, one of Sophriona’s daughters) enter the Ricketts house.

Turns out that Mrs. Ricketts has a nice niece who is friend with Maddie Wode, and Mrs. Ricketts’s doctor, one Jack Seward, is also friendly with the Wode family. The three youngish people invited Miss Green to socialize with them. This started off too familiar and just got worse over the course of the night. During that time, Miss Green found that she very much liked Maddie Wode even though she knew Wode’s mother was an evil with and, like, Maddie probably was too. Then the niece kinda of went unconscious like she was drugged and it looked like Seward was going to try to take advantage of her in her weakened state, and Miss Green violently stopped this by throwing him against a wall. Everyone retired to rooms and Mary went to find her friends…

The dinner across the street had ended awkwardly because someone sent a message to Matron Lestrade that she was needed, and since she was the chaperone of the young women, and the dinner had been uncomfortable anyway, everyone left.

While approaching Ricketts house, Dr. Dallinger and Matron Lestrade (I think) noticed shadowy figures in the trees moving to the house.

While in the house they saw shadowy faces at the window.

They warned Mrs. Ricketts that there had been crimes in the neighborhood and they were going to keep watch. Then the witch fight ensued. The witches had on their unholy mantels, concealing their human identities! It was long and punctuated with weirdness like someone screaming somewhere in the house, Seward rushing out to attack the group, people being thrown out of windows, swords, fires, action, adventure.

In the end, two witches were dead and Ricketts was safe. It seemed that whatever ritual they had been attempting to undertake was thus foiled by our intrepid team of adventurers. What they would do next was in question though, as Croft had been warned by her contacts at the Diogenes Club that Wode was powerful and well connected, and that removing her threat as discreetly as possible was much preferred to attempts to operate publicly and within the confines of law and governance.