Rough Magic:Chapter Two

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The Girl With Death In Her Eyes

Characters

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  Dr. Edwin Celyddon, black market magician
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  Carole Desjardin, administrative assistant, Société Impériale de Thaumaturgie
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  Johnny Diamond, American restauranteur
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  Leosliath, faerie musician of the Summer Court
   Leosliath, faerie form
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Game Sessions

2018-07-17

Dr. Celyddon is approached my Monsieur Thomas, "The Egyptian". Thomas wants to hire Dr. Celyddon to retrieve an object from the local offices of the Direction Générale de l'Armement (Directorate General of Armaments, or DGA), the research and development service of the Ministère des Armées (Ministry of the Armed Forces). Unfortunately, Monsieur Thomas' previous contact in the DGA, Gaspard Clerc, has been murdered.

Meanwhile, Johnny Diamond is approached by the sharp-witted and gorgeous Marguerite Degan, head of the Kaufman & Degan real estate development and construction company. A month ago, after being missing for almost a week, Marguerite's sister Hélène was found by the side of the road, catatonic. Hélène was dressed only in a slip, with cuts and bruises that appeared several days old. The police performed a cursory investigation, but found nothing. Marguerite wants Johnny's help in finding out who did this to Hélène.

Dr. Celyddon performs a day-long ritual to reach into Hélène's mind and find out what happened to her. The memories are faint -- Hélène's mind has retreated from the world to defend herself from a sorcerous assault most foul. But he sees two men, and a large rock in a brass case. Marguerite identifies one of the men as Michel Galabru, a casino owner to whom her father, Édouard Degan, has often been in debt since her mother died.

YouTube recording of game session

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  Arlene Bellefleur, Maître d'hôtel* of the Cafe Azure Americain
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  Hélène Degan, victim of sorcery most foul
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  Marguerite Degan, head of Kaufman & Degan
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  Michel Galabru, owner of the Alegria casino (Parrains)
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  (Unknown), the man with the brass box
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  Monsieur Thomas (Ptahmose), "The Egyptian", reclusive Parrains gangster

* A Maître d'hôtel is responsible for all front-of-the-house operations, manages staff who give services to customers, and allocates the duties of opening and closing the restaurant.
** The Degan's butler's name is Laurent.

2018-07-24

The gang tracks down Édouard Degan, the father of Hélène and Marguerite Degan, and interrogates him in the back of a car (he thought they were driving him home). Unfortunately, the old drunk doesn't appear to know anything of relevance to Hélène's condition. However, they do learn that Hélène Degan has been seeing Michel Galabru, owner of the Alegria casino and Parrains gangster, for about six months. Édouard Degan denies knowing why Hélène would be dating the gangster.

Carole digs into the SIT's files and manages to put a name to the face that Dr. Celyddon found in Hélène's mind: Thierry Lhermitte. The gang confronts Lhermitte at the garage he owns, and they catch him in the act of beating someone to death. They subdue Lhermitte, rescue Lhermitte's victim, and retrieve the Nightmare Stone. Thierry Lhermitte tells them that a Pieds-Noirs gangster named Bernadette Blanchard coerced him into using the stone on Hélène Degan. They let him go, and start making plans to confront Ms. Blanchard.

YouTube recording of game session

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  Édouard Degan, disgraced former head of Kaufman & Degan
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  Marguerite Degan, head of Kaufman & Degan
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  Michel Galabru, owner of the Alegria casino (Parrains)
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  Thierry Lhermitte, owner of Lhermitte's Garage

2018-08-07

The gang tracks down Bernadette Blanchard, the mid-level Pieds-Noirs gangster who hired Thierry Lhermitte to abduct and assault Hélène Degan. They confront Ms. Blanchard at her place of business, the commercial pâtisserie "La Madeleine". The conversation is interesting, but not satisfying. Dr. Celyddon later uses sorcery to surreptitiously lift facts about Lhermitte from Blanchard's mind -- this is more productive.

Blanchard appears to know nothing about Lhermitte's occult activities. As far as she knows, he is a maker of alcool de contrebande -- moonshine. He told her he had a concoction that would make someone lose their memory, and she has paid him to do this to several people whom she had preferred not to have murdered. From her point of view, she was being merciful.

Dr. Celyddon learns a few other interesting tidbits of information. First, Ms. Blanchard has been buying youth potions from Dr. Celyddon for over a year (the fact that his magic was literally in her blood is what allowed him to read her memories with such each). Second, she has been putting leverage on Michel Galabru to get a cut of the Alegria casino (currently under the control of the Parrains) -- he has been selling Lhermitte's moonshine as "Russian vodka" (this is how she learned of Lhermitte's existence). Third, she wants to keep her machinations concerning the Alegria casino from her superior, Jean-Jacques Verchere. Her reasons for that are not entirely clear, but the general impression that Dr. Celyddon gets is that Verchere would not approve.

YouTube recording of game session

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  Henri Galat, local Mileu boss (Parrains)
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  Yves Dupont, gangster (Pieds-Noirs)
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  Bernadette Blanchard, mid-level gangster (Pieds-Noirs)
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  Bernadette Blanchard, mid-level gangster (Pieds-Noirs)

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