*bump*
So after a bit of a break, I'm going to start running Lost Souls again on a fairly regular basis.
Due to the shortness of sessions, and the fact that everything basically takes twice as long over IM (and for some other reasons I haven't identified yet) the campaign hasn't really taken the standard "adventure of the week" format. Anything that could be classed as an adventure in this game would probably be encounters by the usual analysis - mostly RPing encounters, I haven't attempted to run a combat yet.
The last session (which was some time ago) ended mid-encounter. The PC (Alex) was talking to a gypsy psychic woman, Madame Luludja. My favourite NPC Rashi works for her in some capacity - I'm thinking he may just do errands for her in return for bed and board since he ran away from home, or something.
He's been telling her about Anna. She is probably going to attempt to contact/find out about Anna using a crystal ball. This really ought to involve Alex and Rashi in a seance-type way. Trapped by a spell, she'll be almost unreachable by any "normal" psychic methods, and I think that the magic wards that 7-13/Landau has put up around everything he does will hurt some. (I use VP/WP, so it'll probably be 1d6 or 2d6 damage that goes to VP on a successful save and WP on an unsuccessful one. I'd appreciate a little help on the mechanics - Alex levelled last session, but he's not going to level mid-scene, so he'll still be first level for this. I'd like it to be a CR1 or CR2 trap, I think.)
I'd also appreciate some help on where to go after the trap encounter. I can deal with the immediate consequences of that just fine, but I'm not sure if it's too early for this activity to alert 7-13 that somebody is messing with his magic. (I guess that partly depends on how I'm working magic - I quite like the idea that a caster has a part of their awareness devoted to spells they have running, but it's way too early for Landau to get involved in Alex's life directly, especially when I have a villain who's so willing - eager, even - to kill.) On another note, maybe Anna will know what's happened, as it's her magic that's been messed with.
Any ideas would be massively useful here...