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Cat(atonic) The Dog Gets A New Chew Toy

Session Nine, The Brotherhood Part II

Nick's gone back home for the summer since university has finished and so we'll down a player for the next month or so.

Lucian Gilmore (Adam) Agnew Uptil (Tori) Chud Hathbone (Tay)

After the destruction of the MP's house the Runners split, Agnew and Lucian headed back to Thresh Street with the evidence they'd collected and were asked by the desk sergeant (who was clearing out some old paperwork) whether to keep the notes containing all the ramblings of the belated Oracle Evelyn Grimes (from the very first session). Chud took Catatonic the Dog to track down the bomber, finding that the bomber had entered the house through the servants' entrance and according to the housemaids the man had stated he was a carpenter who'd been commissioned to do some work. Chud was then led by Catatonic to the Morley district and the very same pub the first bomber had been tracked to. Though some rough looking blokes barred Chud from investigating any further and so he also returned to Thresh Street to file his own report before everyone called it a night.

The following morning they arranged with Magistrate Cathmore to raid the pub with the aid of the City Watch, going early in the day before the anarchists could get away. They arrived in the courtyard behind the pub, Chud yanked open the doors to the beer cellar whilst Catatonic charged in and found a new chew toy in the form of some poor bugger's throat. Chud then proceeded to pulp couple of the other men in the cellar, after which the remainder promptly surrendered. Chud and Catatonic then explored the rest of the cellar, finding a workshop where the bombs had been made and also a passage that had been cut into the nearby sewer tunnel. Lucian and Agnew were called down after first making sure that the rest of the pub was secured, then helped question one of the anarchists (with Chud providing some 'encouragement' in the form of unscrewing the man's little finger). They found out that the attacks on the refinery and the MP were just distractions (though the latter was also partially revenge), the anarchists were hoping to use the Royal Spymaster's own paranoia against him and think the Empress was the next target. Actually turned out the anarchists were going to bomb the Citadel and free their comrades currently being held captive there.

Chud then punched the man squarely in the face and knocked him out.

Agnew headed off to the Academy to fetch his Professor friend to examine the workshop/lab, also got informed by said Professor that the first bomb contained blackpowder mixed with whale oil to boost its explosive charge. Chud checked out the sewer at the pub, noting which way the anarchists had went. Lucian ran over to the Citadel, warned the guards of the threat and then climbed down the nearest manhole in hopes of heading off the remaining two anarchists by himself. He ended up fluffing his Notice and soon heard the sound of a pistol being cocked right behind his head....