Chapter 4, Case #1: Finding Howitzer.
The Scene
Howitzer sits in his living room, dead. Several Flowers Spill from his corpse.
The Apartment has 3 Rooms. A Kitchen/Living Room Hybrid, A Bare-bones bathroom that has a Toilet & a Shower with no walls or a curtin, and A Bedroom.
A pair of Redcoats arrive shortly after the party finds 3 leads.
Perception & Investigation Rolls
Rolling a 6 or above in Perception
Rolling a 10 or above in Perception
Rolling a 14 or above in Perception
Rolling an 14 or above in Investigation or Nature on the Desk
Rolling a 2 or above in Investigation or Insight when investigating the framed Photo's
Rolling a 12 or above with Investigation, Nature or Arcane on the kegs
Rolling a 12 or above with Investigation on the Cup
Leads
The adress is a lower down style Pub, beneath anouther building. The inside of the Pub is filled with a Variety of Rowdy Men and a banner hanging above them screaming "GUTS FORGER UNION". The Union workers distrust the party members and will only give them information if they beat it out of them. IN BAR GAMES! The Games are: Arm Wrestling, Pool, Wrastling, Beer Pong, PlØK Checkers, Drinking Songs and Poker.
The Building is shut and locked. Someone is lokcing the very last lock. It's a tall 7'8 Steel Stitches named Frank. He says they're closed and that the boss-lady wasn't in today, maybe tommorow.
Plot points/Scenes
You arrive before a thin building, in-fact it's so thin, that it only measures about 3 meters wide. No buildings stand beside it. The street leading to it is in considerable disrepair. Soot rains down from the heavens and has not, it seems, been cleaned in a very long time, resulting in great piles that have been pushed aside to provide a thin walkway. Behind the Apartment Building is a massive factory, no doubt responsible for the soot. The Building itself seems to be wedged between 2 separate plots of land, having been built so that the land is in legal use and as a middle finger to some other land lord.
Give players time to ask to approach the door.
The Front door is made of a dark wood with an iron knocker and peep-hole set next to it's handle & locks. Beside the door, to it's right, is what one may presume is meant to be a mail box for all of it's inhabitants, however only one name is on it. "Floor 4 - Howitzer Browning"
Give players time to knock, no-one responds. Players must say to open door.
The Inside of the building is poorly built with a dim light on the staircase. Said Staircase is so thin that you are forced to climb it single file. Eventually, you get to Floor 4. Howitzer's door is grey, constrasting with the light wooden brown of the walls.
Players must ask to knock, after the third knock, Marshall barges in waving his champaign bottle around like a flare
The smell of Dust and Still air hits your nose like a hammer. Light barely makes it into the room through the soot blackened windows. You smell Flowers.
Across the room from the door, A Large Metal Man missing a Hand sits behind a desk in a simple wooden chair. Several Red Flowers burst from his face like a flower bed & several more various other places around his body. Stems, Leaves and yet more of the Red Flowers spill down onto the desk and around into his surrounding enviroment. The Flowers look to be in poor health as they are wilting and most likely soon to be dead. Dried Red stains tint the floor around the Man, nectar most likely. The Man is Dead. He has been for quite some time.
Marshall stands in the doorway, frozen. He drops the bottle of Champaign. When it hits the floor it does not shatter, no that would be too merciful. The Bottle's Cork Pop's and a fizzy, frothing liqour poors out in malicious celebration. Marshall does not move, he sends Eugene to get some Redcoats.
Shut-Up & Leave time for Players to start talking again.
Lead Results
Marshall & Bertie drink and Mourn throughout the night. Time Progresses & Bertie Lives.
Brew Lord Trench's Brewery is currently Closed
The Union members note that Howitzer was the Event Organiser for the Union and Second in Command. He Often kept Members from being to overzealous or violent. Time Progresses & Bertie Dies.
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