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Session Five, Scarlet Traces Part 3

After a four week gap, mainly due to the Easter holidays, we had a fifth session with the following in attendance;

Joshua H. Headlam (Nick) Lucian Gilmore (Adam) Chud Hathbone (Tay, though a late arrival)

The morning after investigating Greymane's estate and finding a few things amidst, Joshua and Lucian assembled at the Thresh Street offices and found that Agnew was off 'sick' whilst Chud was elsewhere on business. After a brief discussion the pair decided to go and scout out the old ruins, see what was happening there and maybe getting some help if needed. So they loaded up on some extra equipment, hired a cart and set off.

They arrived at the old ruins some time later, found it to have been an old abbey centuries ago and that somebody had cleared a path in the inside of the ruins to some spiral stairs that lead downwards. Keeping the coast was clear first they ventured down and soon came across a note (though on a high Notice roll) that read;

''Watch your footing, River Krusts have infested the old tunnel where it's flooded. Their spit stings like hell and we're out of potion for it.''

Our duo proceed with extra caution, Lucian almost acing his Sneak rolls whilst Joshua barely passed his own rolls. They encountered a couple of River Krusts who failed their Notice rolls completely to allow Lucian to pass unnoticed whilst Joshua decided to shoot one with his pistol at point blank range when one of them opened up. Couple of rounds of combat later the River Krusts were dead, our duo hadn't taken any damage and had gained a pearl worth 300 coin. Pressing on they explored the rest of the tunnels until they came across a chamber where the bodies of the unfortunate girls were stored until the tunnels flooded. Past a sandbag barred door they came across a much larger chamber that housed an Outsider shrine, two rows of pillars and a ritual altar in the dead center as well as another three passages leading off. They took the rune that was on the shrine and proceed to explore the rest of the chamber.

Joshua then failed a Sneak roll.

A man appeared carrying a lantern and a weapon from a passage where the duo had seen some light, though the man failed to spot the two Runners and went to circle down the large chamer. Joshua then sneaked over to the door from where the man had been, discovered it to be a study and a scholar working away at a desk whilst Lucian kept an eye on the other man. Joshua managed to sneak to beside the man, pointed his pistol at the man's face and barely passed his Intimidation roll. Though Joshua managed to convince the scholar to call the other man, called Gerald, which the scholar proceed to do whilst at the same time shouting out that there was an intruder. Gerald went to hurry to the study, shouting out a cry of alarm and rousing the other cultists before being shuffled off the mortal coil by a well aimed shot fired by the still hidden Lucian (he aced his attack and damage rolls).

Joshua attempted to knock out the scholar by bashing him over the head with the butt of his pistol, though it had very little effort if any. Meanwhile Chud arrived, charged straight across the large chamber and steamrolled down the passage from which the other cultists could be heard running down. The cultists fired off a couple of potshots that missed, Joshua tried to grapple the scholar but ended up failing and got pushed aside by the scholar who reached for a sword and took a wild swing at Joshua that missed. Lucian went to assist Joshua whilst the cultists again tried firing a couple of potshots at Chud, again failing to do anything. The steamroller that was Chud ballowed straight into the mod of cultists at full steam, managing to bash them all over like bowling pins before proceeding to tie each and everyone of them.

Back in the study Lucian fired a shot at the scholar who was engaged with Joshua, then aced his damage roll and inflicted three wounds (scholar was a Wild Card) and thus Incapacitated him. The scholar managed to just barely pass a Vigor roll and suffered a Battered result on the Injury Table. With the scholar down, the cultists tied up the Runners collected the scholar's research notes and congratulated themselves before bringing their prisoners back to the office.