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Cordoba - death of hero
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Johann discusses demonology with Stacy and convices her to assist in summoning her demon… Rehtor proves to be the expression of her fears and nightmares - a centaur spider… Marco wisely suggests that Stacy, Carina (Warding specialist) and Tom (futurology artist) are exfiltrated by the Grey company...
On to Granada
Train journey from Santiago to Madrid - a rather quiet journey where our intrepid heroes slept gently after a strenuous day…
Madrid - Marco spends time on a private project… Convincing Vega with Johann's aid that the Five Rings wants him to invest in an Argentinian railway into the interior to the border of Chile… Marco puts himself forward as a silent partner...
Cordoba/Grenada
Visit to the Alhambra palace and Great Mosque of Córdoba (the Mezquita) - the party takes a guided tour - a skilled local boy picks the pockets of some of the tourists - Marco and Johann lose their wallets - Nell chases boy - precarious pursuit across the city demonstrating parkour… Nell finally catches up with her elusive prey and makes a new friend!
Sinclair visits the chapel - he senses that something is very wrong - a feeling of utter darkness and despair - he enquires further and find that Monsignor Tomas is a regular visitor - arriving before dawn every day…
Nell visits the gypsy camp with Carlos… Carlos was rescued by them when he was very small… The old lady who leads the group agrees that his time has come - her people knew he was special and trained him… Nell is told that the cards show that she will face a great danger/opportunity "after the hawks have flown and the whirlwind is reaped"....
Party is staying at the Al Kali hotel… Johann spots both rogues as they try to enter via the window (01)…
Given the clues found by Tomas when he was a young priest - Sinclair discusses Carthage and various secret cults with Tomas… Both agree that the sign of Tanit suggests that the fell rites of the Phoenician lunar goddess may be the reason for the murders that Tomas witnessed… It is possible that she is hunting heroes… Marco heads for a night club and learns that the gang know that they are being hunted…
The party head for the Monsignor's palace and are caught up in the cult's assault on the palace… Battle ensues - 4 bodyguards vs 3 truckloads of Algerians - Nell & Carlos head for the roof and soon bodies are dropping though the rotunda like rain - a sorceror is present and the dead are raised as zombies (who was that cowled figure?)… Johann takes over the largest and My Shambly lurches into battle… Sinclair and Tomas head for the chapel...
In the altar room there is an entity forming… One of the dreaded Elder Gods that infest the green weave Realm… Tentacles erupt from the floor and figure sheathed in blood steps from the writhing chaos - Tanit, the Carthaginan Goddess of death… Sinclair steps forward and Tanit snarls as she realises that destroying her mortal enemy, Monsignor Tomas, may prove a greater challenge than she expected (Sinclair gives the old priest his sword to defeat the cult leader, Diego Romano)… Marco leads charge by the Foreign Legionaire bodyguards through the mass of cultists… An epic display of swordplay follows as the party (- Nell on the roof) and Tomas take on the sinister Romero and his fell mistress… After Tomas strikes the final blow - Tanit screams as she tries one last attack in her true form and is cast back into the void...
The party depart Grenada - taking Carlos with them - and take a train to Nice / Geneva / Innsbruck and then Vienna...
The plan is to investigate the Austrian order (Manfred Faust, the Viennese magician is the main target) - Carlos and Nell entertain themselves - Acrobatics around… they discover a strange weave near the Musikverein Theatre...
Marco visits Dr Meissner - One of the most respected magicians in the city… Meissner's sister, Birgitta, is an albino… Birgitta keen to help but her brother is having too much fun playing the role of the elder magi…
Meissner takes Marco to see the observatory - the night's magic is revealed by weave lenses and proves more spectacular than usual… Meissner discusses the concentrations he has observed… One is above the Musikverein Theatre!
Nell is impressed by the magician's use of true magic to enhance his trickery… During the display he casts a finding spell and discovers two of his prey! Nell volunteers to join the next trick and agrees to get into a vanishing chamber… Sensibly she jams the lock uopen and as she drops manages to evade the two beautiful assistants! Carlos finds himself evading guards in a balcony chase! Both are lost in a maze of corridors until Nell finds her way back under the stage… Carlos lauches her upwards and just manages to leap after her with an acrobatic twist… The magician casts a paralysis spell and hits Nell as she runs through the stunned auditorium but Carlos catches her and they escape!
Sinclair is informed about a series of violent murders by Dept X… All the victims were crushed but they also suspect a hunting horror is in the sewers...
Judenplatz & Ghetto
Meissner recommends seeing Rabbi Eli - Sinclair's contacts say that there are two Elis, a young enthusiastic character and an old mad one - the party decides on the old mad one
Eli is less mad than expected… He suspects that someone has summoned and created a Golem… A jewish spell than animates a clay vessel that obey's the creator's written instructions… The golem attacks are very deliberate… Eli says that the golem has been seen in the ghetto - it's huge and made to be terrifying...
The ancient jewish sages pass down the secrets - a family in the ghetto must know the spell and have the talent to cast it… Eli won't reveal Jewish heroes...
Sinclair checks file - one of the indviduals recently killed worked at asylum as an alienist, Hans Clinger...
Narrenturm Asylum
Sinclair visits the asylum - Johann and Nell sneak into the record's room - Sinclair prends to be an exorcist and starts a ritual to remove a possession on a troubled prisoner - Nell finds records - the alienist showed a jewish boy to Faust - Sinclair and Marco battle a man possessed with a powerful demon - lots of screaming - Sinclair in circle of salt, Marco circles round outside - Sinclair grapples the body, Marco hog ties him - finally the poltegeist is dismissed…
Carlos searches for Faust's house but while he doesn't live in the city but never leaves…
Karlsplatz sewers
The party takes a guide to the area under the Musikverein theatre - they encounter a nightgaunt - Marco weilds whip and lasso - Johann uses magic to disguise the party as friends and the creature is utterly confused! Marco does some wrangling…
The party continue under the theatre and enter the illusionist's lair - a chamber filled with the arcane tools of an illusionist's trade - Johann opens 3 cages and releases three children… Manfred appears on the balcony flanked by his two assistants (with delightful costumes mostly consisting of strategically placed feathers)… "Welcome..."
fireball sweeps palace
Nell visits the gypsy camp with Carlos… Carlos was rescued by them when he was very small… The old lady who leads the group agrees that his time has come - her people knew he was special and trained him… Nell is told that the cards show that she will face a great danger/opportunity "after the hawks have flown and the whirlwind is reaped"....
Party is staying at the Al Kali hotel… Johann spots both rogues as they try to enter via the window (01)…
Given the clues found by Tomas when he was a young priest - Sinclair discusses Carthage and various secret cults with Tomas… Both agree that the sign of Tanit suggests that the fell rites of the Phoenician lunar goddess may be the reason for the murders that Tomas witnessed… It is possible that she is hunting heroes… Marco heads for a night club and learns that the gang know that they are being hunted…
The party head for the Monsignor's palace and are caught up in the cult's assault on the palace… Battle ensues - 4 bodyguards vs 3 truckloads of Algerians - Nell & Carlos head for the roof and soon bodies are dropping though the rotunda like rain - a sorceror is present and the dead are raised as zombies (who was that cowled figure?)… Johann takes over the largest and My Shambly lurches into battle… Sinclair and Tomas head for the chapel...
In the altar room there is an entity forming… One of the dreaded Elder Gods that infest the green weave Realm… Tentacles erupt from the floor and figure sheathed in blood steps from the writhing chaos - Tanit, the Carthaginan Goddess of death… Sinclair steps forward and Tanit snarls as she realises that destroying her mortal enemy, Monsignor Tomas, may prove a greater challenge than she expected (Sinclair gives the old priest his sword to defeat the cult leader, Diego Romano)… Marco leads charge by the Foreign Legionaire bodyguards through the mass of cultists… An epic display of swordplay follows as the party (- Nell on the roof) and Tomas take on the sinister Romero and his fell mistress… After Tomas strikes the final blow - Tanit screams as she tries one last attack in her true form and is cast back into the void...
The party depart Grenada - taking Carlos with them - and take a train to Nice / Geneva / Innsbruck and then Vienna...
The plan is to investigate the Austrian order (Manfred Faust, the Viennese magician is the main target) - Carlos and Nell entertain themselves - Acrobatics around… they discover a strange weave near the Musikverein Theatre...
Marco visits Dr Meissner - One of the most respected magicians in the city… Meissner's sister, Birgitta, is an albino… Birgitta keen to help but her brother is having too much fun playing the role of the elder magi…
Meissner takes Marco to see the observatory - the night's magic is revealed by weave lenses and proves more spectacular than usual… Meissner discusses the concentrations he has observed… One is above the Musikverein Theatre!
Nell is impressed by the magician's use of true magic to enhance his trickery… During the display he casts a finding spell and discovers two of his prey! Nell volunteers to join the next trick and agrees to get into a vanishing chamber… Sensibly she jams the lock uopen and as she drops manages to evade the two beautiful assistants! Carlos finds himself evading guards in a balcony chase! Both are lost in a maze of corridors until Nell finds her way back under the stage… Carlos lauches her upwards and just manages to leap after her with an acrobatic twist… The magician casts a paralysis spell and hits Nell as she runs through the stunned auditorium but Carlos catches her and they escape!
Sinclair is informed about a series of violent murders by Dept X… All the victims were crushed but they also suspect a hunting horror is in the sewers...
Judenplatz & Ghetto
Meissner recommends seeing Rabbi Eli - Sinclair's contacts say that there are two Elis, a young enthusiastic character and an old mad one - the party decides on the old mad one
Eli is less mad than expected… He suspects that someone has summoned and created a Golem… A jewish spell than animates a clay vessel that obey's the creator's written instructions… The golem attacks are very deliberate… Eli says that the golem has been seen in the ghetto - it's huge and made to be terrifying...
The ancient jewish sages pass down the secrets - a family in the ghetto must know the spell and have the talent to cast it… Eli won't reveal Jewish heroes...
Sinclair checks file - one of the indviduals recently killed worked at asylum as an alienist, Hans Clinger...
Narrenturm Asylum
Sinclair visits the asylum - Johann and Nell sneak into the record's room - Sinclair prends to be an exorcist and starts a ritual to remove a possession on a troubled prisoner - Nell finds records - the alienist showed a jewish boy to Faust - Sinclair and Marco battle a man possessed with a powerful demon - lots of screaming - Sinclair in circle of salt, Marco circles round outside - Sinclair grapples the body, Marco hog ties him - finally the poltegeist is dismissed…
Carlos searches for Faust's house but while he doesn't live in the city but never leaves…
Karlsplatz sewers
The party takes a guide to the area under the Musikverein theatre - they encounter a nightgaunt - Marco weilds whip and lasso - Johann uses magic to disguise the party as friends and the creature is utterly confused! Marco does some wrangling…
The party continue under the theatre and enter the illusionist's lair - a chamber filled with the arcane tools of an illusionist's trade - Johann opens 3 cages and releases three children… Manfred appears on the balcony flanked by his two assistants (with delightful costumes mostly consisting of strategically placed feathers)… "Welcome..."