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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6156716" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 81a - Obscurati-related events</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Bryn Tomazi</strong> - The unit went along to interrogate Bryn Tomazi. They had her file and had learned that she was a 43-year-old unmarried woman who had been a member of Stanfield's staff for many years. Following an internal investigation it had been discovered that she was leaking information from the Governor's office at the behest of a man known as 'Officer Porter' (!) who was particularly interested in the sensitive, sealed communications to which Ms Tomazi had access. Subsequent to her recruitment, she had had little or no further contact with Officer Porter, but sent her information to a man known as Belkin Mirze. Before being sent home following the investigation, she had claimed to be under the impression that she was working for the RHC. When the unit arrived at her apartment in Central there was no answer. Uru opened the door, and they found a crime scene: Bryn Tomazi had been murdered by a single, professional knife-wound to the heart. Before her were two full coffee cups, indicating that she was sitting down for a chat with her killer. When Malthusius tried to speak with her spirit, it was gone, indicating witchoil use. The knife-wound and the witchoil pointed to a Kell/Ob hit. Nothing could be found in the flat to incriminate Ms Tomazi further. Leaving her flat, they looked into Belkin Mirze and could find no record of him. An alias perhaps? Yet another job best left for Leon on his return...</p><p></p><p><strong>Wolfgang von Recklinghausen</strong> disappeared from Flint during the ninth week of Winter (the seventh week of downtime for the unit). Malthusius went to the residence he shared with Professor Lynn Kindleton, concerned that he had not heard from the good Doctor. The lock on the front door was broken; the flat was in a mess. Professor Kindleton was sat on a chair in hte midst of it all, distraught. She sobbed and said that Wolfgang was 'gone and it's <em>your </em>fault'. He had been seen running home through the streets, white as a sheet. He had entered the apartment building via the main door, taken a bundle of vital belongings he kept for emergencies (including false travel papers and foreign currency) and left through the window (two stories up). Despite his apparent haste, he had left an envelope on the table. Professor Kindleton was heartbroken because the note was not for her - it was for Malthusius! The envelope now lay opened in the middle of the floor, with a letter crumpled beside it. Malthusius asked Lynn why she had opened it. She had not, she said: by the time she arrived home, the door had been broken open, the flat searched (clumsily and perfunctorily), and the envelope opened. She had read the letter, she confessed, but it meant nothing to her, except that Malthusius was to blame. The letter, written hastily, read:</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><em><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">"Malthusius - he has found me and I must fly. Earlier today Norm made contact:</span></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><em><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">62nd Winter, Jackanapes theatre, three after noon.</span></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><em><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'">Sorry I cannot help you further, but you brought this on us both."</span></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><em><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"></span></em></span></p><p></p><p>Malthusius summoned the unit, who were on stand-by for such an eventuality. Uru made a beeline from the Nettles to the burned-out <em>Jackanapes </em>theatre - once occupied - according to local legend - by a rival of Lorcan Kell during turf wars in Parity Lake some twenty years ago. (A third theatre, <em>the Dreaming Harlequin, </em>also stood to the north of the district, empty and charred, as a reminder of the fate of Kell's enemies. Only Kell's headquarters, <em>Theatre of Scoundrels</em> remained, and that had been saved from a similar fate by the unit!)</p><p></p><p>By the time the others got there, he had scouted the building and found it empty. The time for the meeting had passed about an hour previously. The unit approached and investigated. They spoke to some rough sleepers who occupied the nearby buildings, sifted through the physical evidence, took inspiration from the skyseer visions of Malthusius, and used his <em>object loresight</em> on the teeth of a low-ranking Ob heavy, to piece together the following, alarming facts:</p><p></p><p>Andrei von Recklinghausen had followed Wolfgang home, having spooked him in the street. What drew him out of the Cloudwood was anybody's guess. Curiosty? Restlessness? Finding the note Wolfgang had hastily written for Malthusius, Andrei pursued him to the meeting place, unaware that Wolfgang had decided to flee the city instead. There, Andrei had met with whomever Wolfgang had been supposed to meet, and had been overpowered and abducted. "They were interested in the skills and knowledge of the doctor, but now they have possession of his greatest achievement," said Malthusius, shaking his head sadly, wondering at the same time what it would take to subdue Andrei, when the Pyrecat could not.</p><p></p><p>What had become of Wolfgang was unclear, though in the months to come, the unit would hear rumours of a foreign doctor working miracles of healing in the hinterlands of Ber...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 6156716, member: 79141"] [b]Session 81a - Obscurati-related events[/b] [B]Bryn Tomazi[/B] - The unit went along to interrogate Bryn Tomazi. They had her file and had learned that she was a 43-year-old unmarried woman who had been a member of Stanfield's staff for many years. Following an internal investigation it had been discovered that she was leaking information from the Governor's office at the behest of a man known as 'Officer Porter' (!) who was particularly interested in the sensitive, sealed communications to which Ms Tomazi had access. Subsequent to her recruitment, she had had little or no further contact with Officer Porter, but sent her information to a man known as Belkin Mirze. Before being sent home following the investigation, she had claimed to be under the impression that she was working for the RHC. When the unit arrived at her apartment in Central there was no answer. Uru opened the door, and they found a crime scene: Bryn Tomazi had been murdered by a single, professional knife-wound to the heart. Before her were two full coffee cups, indicating that she was sitting down for a chat with her killer. When Malthusius tried to speak with her spirit, it was gone, indicating witchoil use. The knife-wound and the witchoil pointed to a Kell/Ob hit. Nothing could be found in the flat to incriminate Ms Tomazi further. Leaving her flat, they looked into Belkin Mirze and could find no record of him. An alias perhaps? Yet another job best left for Leon on his return... [B]Wolfgang von Recklinghausen[/B] disappeared from Flint during the ninth week of Winter (the seventh week of downtime for the unit). Malthusius went to the residence he shared with Professor Lynn Kindleton, concerned that he had not heard from the good Doctor. The lock on the front door was broken; the flat was in a mess. Professor Kindleton was sat on a chair in hte midst of it all, distraught. She sobbed and said that Wolfgang was 'gone and it's [I]your [/I]fault'. He had been seen running home through the streets, white as a sheet. He had entered the apartment building via the main door, taken a bundle of vital belongings he kept for emergencies (including false travel papers and foreign currency) and left through the window (two stories up). Despite his apparent haste, he had left an envelope on the table. Professor Kindleton was heartbroken because the note was not for her - it was for Malthusius! The envelope now lay opened in the middle of the floor, with a letter crumpled beside it. Malthusius asked Lynn why she had opened it. She had not, she said: by the time she arrived home, the door had been broken open, the flat searched (clumsily and perfunctorily), and the envelope opened. She had read the letter, she confessed, but it meant nothing to her, except that Malthusius was to blame. The letter, written hastily, read: [CENTER][SIZE=4][I][FONT=Garamond]"Malthusius - he has found me and I must fly. Earlier today Norm made contact: 62nd Winter, Jackanapes theatre, three after noon. Sorry I cannot help you further, but you brought this on us both." [/FONT][/I][/SIZE][/CENTER] Malthusius summoned the unit, who were on stand-by for such an eventuality. Uru made a beeline from the Nettles to the burned-out [I]Jackanapes [/I]theatre - once occupied - according to local legend - by a rival of Lorcan Kell during turf wars in Parity Lake some twenty years ago. (A third theatre, [I]the Dreaming Harlequin, [/I]also stood to the north of the district, empty and charred, as a reminder of the fate of Kell's enemies. Only Kell's headquarters, [I]Theatre of Scoundrels[/I] remained, and that had been saved from a similar fate by the unit!) By the time the others got there, he had scouted the building and found it empty. The time for the meeting had passed about an hour previously. The unit approached and investigated. They spoke to some rough sleepers who occupied the nearby buildings, sifted through the physical evidence, took inspiration from the skyseer visions of Malthusius, and used his [I]object loresight[/I] on the teeth of a low-ranking Ob heavy, to piece together the following, alarming facts: Andrei von Recklinghausen had followed Wolfgang home, having spooked him in the street. What drew him out of the Cloudwood was anybody's guess. Curiosty? Restlessness? Finding the note Wolfgang had hastily written for Malthusius, Andrei pursued him to the meeting place, unaware that Wolfgang had decided to flee the city instead. There, Andrei had met with whomever Wolfgang had been supposed to meet, and had been overpowered and abducted. "They were interested in the skills and knowledge of the doctor, but now they have possession of his greatest achievement," said Malthusius, shaking his head sadly, wondering at the same time what it would take to subdue Andrei, when the Pyrecat could not. What had become of Wolfgang was unclear, though in the months to come, the unit would hear rumours of a foreign doctor working miracles of healing in the hinterlands of Ber... [/QUOTE]
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