Tale Weaver's Vampire: The Masquerade Game Board

[Tale_Weaver]

The Emerson Estate

As Koln walks he thinks aloud, "Feh, vampires really are pathetic. Judging one's virtue by the amount of centuries they have overstayed their existence on Earth. To a vampire, not honor, courage, love, wisdom, nor grace but only survival equals virtue. "

Koln leads the way as the group moves forward, Ruby and Clover hold hands as they follow Koln. You round the corner and come to a four-way intersection. The light you were seeing is coming from a small light bulb sitting above a metal door. The vent in the door suggests that it leads to the room containing the heating system for the house.

As you are looking at the door down the hallway a woman comes running past you, right in front of Koln from the hallway on the right (bottom) to the one on the left (top). She's wearing a white night gown and is panting heavily and is obviously in some state of fear.

The map

 

[ladyphoenix]

"Hey there wait!" Ruby calls after the woman, but she most likely is too scared to reply.
She grumbled slightly upon seeing the 3 split intersection. "Well, I guess this means we should split up and search the place. How bout when we each check a direction, we rendezvous back here again?" she said in a hurry. She could feel the air getting heavier around her in clairvoyance.
Being too impatient and stubborn at the moment to do anything otherwise, she started to slink to the left path, headstrong.

 

[Strider_Koln]

"Hey there wait!" Ruby calls after the woman, but she most likely is too scared to reply.
She grumbled slightly upon seeing the 3 split intersection. "Well, I guess this means we should split up and search the place. How bout when we each check a direction, we rendezvous back here again?" she said in a hurry. She could feel the air getting heavier around her in clairvoyance.
Being too impatient and stubborn at the moment to do anything otherwise, she started to slink to the left path, headstrong.

"Bad idea... if what we're up against is hostile to our presence it would want us separated. Alone we're nothing, but together we cannot be defeated!" Koln happily claims, only to watch Ruby head to the left. "Figures... the cute heretic chooses the left... the path of the forsaken and sinners... " Koln takes Clover's hand as if to guide her, and hurries down the left hallway with Ruby after the woman.

 

[izillama]

'Talk about a Gothic horror story...' The nightgowned woman reminded Clover so much of the damsels in distress of the dark novels she would sometimes read. What, was Dracula coming?
She felt Koln tug on her hand and begin to lead her forward. She had a mind to tug it out of his grasp, but it felt strangely comforting to not have to worry for a moment. To not have to be the first one forward.
She wondered where that woman was running to? And what she was running from? And, sincerely, she wondered if the three of them might just be walking straight into a trap. Wasn't this house "haunted," after all? What if it was some sort of apparition to lead them off course?
Typical.
She called ahead to Ruby in a voice that she knew no mortal could discern. However, she was sure that her friends could hear her clear as a bell, "Ruby! Stop and stay with Koln and I. Don't go running off by yourself. Koln's right, we should stick together. There's no telling what we're going to find down here. The last thing we need is for you to walk into a trap or something."
Though really, what would she have given to just bolt after the woman herself? She could catch her, easy. She could throw all caution to the wind and leave her friends in the dust.

 

[Tale_Weaver]

The Emerson Estate

'Talk about a Gothic horror story...' The nightgowned woman reminded Clover so much of the damsels in distress of the dark novels she would sometimes read. What, was Dracula coming?
She felt Koln tug on her hand and begin to lead her forward. She had a mind to tug it out of his grasp, but it felt strangely comforting to not have to worry for a moment. To not have to be the first one forward.
She wondered where that woman was running to? And what she was running from? And, sincerely, she wondered if the three of them might just be walking straight into a trap. Wasn't this house "haunted," after all? What if it was some sort of apparition to lead them off course?
Typical.
She called ahead to Ruby in a voice that she knew no mortal could discern. However, she was sure that her friends could hear her clear as a bell, "Ruby! Stop and stay with Koln and I. Don't go running off by yourself. Koln's right, we should stick together. There's no telling what we're going to find down here. The last thing we need is for you to walk into a trap or something."
Though really, what would she have given to just bolt after the woman herself? She could catch her, easy. She could throw all caution to the wind and leave her friends in the dust.

You can see a room at the end of the hallway that the woman ran down. When you get there there is no one in the room. The room is rather bare except for some empty shelves and a wooden counter to the right of the doorway. There is an old newspaper lying on the countertop which Koln picks up. The girls can clearly see the headline being displayed on the front. The headline reads "Murdered Bank Owner's Hand Found In Dryer, Son Held As Prime Suspect". The paper is dated about one year ago but it looks brand new like it was just dropped there recently.

It is then that you hear a thumping sound like an object banging against metal. The sound is coming from a small alcove in the top right corner of the room. Sure enough there are two washing machines there. They are old front loading washers with windowless doors on he front. Only the second one closest to the wall is running and that is the one that is producing the thumping sound.

Map

 

[Strider_Koln]

You can see a room at the end of the hallway that the woman ran down. When you get there there is no one in the room. The room is rather bare except for some empty shelves and a wooden counter to the right of the doorway. There is an old newspaper lying on the countertop which Koln picks up. The girls can clearly see the headline being displayed on the front. The headline reads "Murdered Bank Owner's Hand Found In Dryer, Son Held As Prime Suspect". The paper is dated about one year ago but it looks brand new like it was just dropped there recently.

It is then that you hear a thumping sound like an object banging against metal. The sound is coming from a small alcove in the top right corner of the room. Sure enough there are two washing machines there. They are old front loading washers with windowless doors on he front. Only the second one closest to the wall is running and that is the one that is producing the thumping sound.

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"I'm coming to save you little Suzie!!" Koln screams as he bolts to the dryer and flings it open! He grabs whatever it is in the dryer and tosses it onto the floor before climbing on inside. "Don't worry Suzie! I'm coming!! Oh look, found a sock.. I dunno why there was a basketball in this cave, oh well."

 

[Tale_Weaver]

The Emerson Estate

"I'm coming to save you little Suzie!!" Koln screams as he bolts to the dryer and flings it open! He grabs whatever it is in the dryer and tosses it onto the floor before climbing on inside. "Don't worry Suzie! I'm coming!! Oh look, found a sock.. I dunno why there was a basketball in this cave, oh well."

Clover and Ruby look on as Koln jumps into the dryer, his feet kicking out the hole. Koln thinks he's grabbed a bloody hand and thrown it behind him but the object that Clover and Ruby see is an old key.

 

[izillama]

*hits hand against head*
"Koln, you imbecile, get your ass out of the dryer before you hurt yourself!"
Clover growled in annoyance as she bent down to pick up the key that had been tossed to the floor, turning it over carefully in her hands.

Inspect the key (gather information)
1d20+6 → [18,6] = (24)

 

[Strider_Koln]

*hits hand against head*
"Koln, you imbecile, get your ass out of the dryer before you hurt yourself!"
Clover growled in annoyance as she bent down to pick up the key that had been tossed to the floor, turning it over carefully in her hands.

Inspect the key (gather information)
1d20+6 → [18,6] = (24)

Koln grumbles, stumbling out of the dryer and gasps as he watches Clover handling a severed hand! "Clover! Let go of that thing! I- er..." As he speaks, the object slowly forms into a basketball before his eyes... then a severed heard.. then quickly back to a basketball before becoming a key. As Koln's vision plays with him he touches the object and contemplates...

Here Koln wants to use The Spirit's Touch for any psychic impressions left on the key from its owner. LETMEDOIT!

 

[Tale_Weaver]

The Emerson Estate

Koln grumbles, stumbling out of the dryer and gasps as he watches Clover handling a severed hand! "Clover! Let go of that thing! I- er..." As he speaks, the object slowly forms into a basketball before his eyes... then a severed heard.. then quickly back to a basketball before becoming a key. As Koln's vision plays with him he touches the object and contemplates...

Here Koln wants to use The Spirit's Touch for any psychic impressions left on the key from its owner. LETMEDOIT!

Clover
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From what you can tell this looks like a utility key. The key has a serial number engraved on it and looks a little tarnished.
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Koln takes the key from Clover and looks at it with a rather exagerated looking stare.

Koln
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Your strain your mind trying to discern the origin of the key. You squint at it, you stare it down, you growl at it. You see a hairy man in overalls walking through the basement. He goes to a metal door and produces a shiny key, ready to open it. Before he does though a man in a business suit with blonde hair comes up behind him and smashes him over the head with a microwave. He and the microwave laugh as blood pours out of the mans head and onto the floor in front of the door.
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You still don't actually have that ability you know