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Session Four, Scarlet Traces Part 2

We had our fourth session, this time we managed to get the entire group to assemble;

Joshua H. Headlam (Nick) Lucian Gilmore (Adam) Agnew Uptil (Tori) Chud Hathbone (Tay)

We picked up from where we left off and paid Anton Sokolov a visit at his penthouse on Kaldwin Bridge. He stated that Greymane was 'discouraged' from his line of research before he was expelled from the Academy, but ultimately after Greymane left he ceased being Sokolov's concern. Though Sokolov did also say that Greymane's work concerned the summoning of the Outsider, a ritual that was one of many different ways to achieve that goal.

The players then proceed to check out Greymane's estate (after attaining a search warrant) and found the place initially to be abandoned and empty. Investigating they discovered that a fake dust (a mixture of flour, soot and Fuller's Earth) had been spread around the house's ground floor to make it seem abandoned. They also discovered an Outsider shrine in the basement, some old journals, some notes and that an attempt had been made to sedate the belated girls before they were moved elsewhere and had gone awry. In addition they found some old cart tracks round the back of the building that led off into the nearby woods and a lazy guard dog that was taken as a pet by Chud.

Back at the office they went over Greymane's notes, noted he had steadily become increasingly more interested in the occult and the Outsider. His journals stated that he'd brought tomes from the black market as well as relics found in the river by the mudlarks. Greymane also said about moving to another location to continue his research, seemingly some old ruins the players noticed previously.