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The Vampire Murders

Characters

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

2018-09-18

The gang is drawn into a new mystery: the Vampire Murders! But everyone knows that there aren't any vampires in the Empire.

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Doctor Amelie Fanu, administrator of the St. Benedict Community Hospital And Shelter For Vagrants
Dominique Laffin, vampire
Doctor Donald Martin, Assistant Medical Examiner
Anna Petronevich, Deputy Director, Société Impériale de Thaumaturgie

2018-09-25

The gang is given a tour of St. Benedict's by Dr. Fanu's assistant Olivia. She is helpful, and properly horrified to learn of what happened to the people for whom she had cared.

They then go to the impound lot to examine the van in which the Vampire Murder victims had been transported. Doctor Celyddon casts a retrocognition spell, and finds that in the past six months, the van had been used to dispose of dozens of bodies. The disposal points had been all around Camaret-sur-Mer, but the trips all began at the same warehouse in Crozon.

The gang goes to Crozon and stakes out the warehouse. It seems closed for the night, so they call Detective Segol and say that he should come and investigate it. While waiting for the gendarmes, the gang is attacked by a werewolf! Or is it a wolf-man? In any case, they make quick work of it (or at least Doctor Celyddon does -- everything burns). They discover that the warehouse is owned by none other than the upper level Parrains gangster Alexandre Montand.

After giving Detective Inspector Segol the information they have gathered so far, the gang retires for the evening. Unfortunately, Doctor Celyddon is intercepted by the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition. He is vigorously questioned until dawn, and then released, when the inquisitors decide that he doesn't know anything useful (being, after all, nothing more than a cheap huckster of amulets and potions).

In the morning, Carole Desjardin is invited to the home of Alexandre Montand. Montand is polite and charming, and makes it plain to Carole that he will kill her if she continues to investigate the Vampire Murders. She agrees to cease her investigations, and then reports the incident to her boss, Anna Petronevich, Deputy Director, Société Impériale de Thaumaturgie. Petronevich doesn't bat an eyelash, and commends Carole on her work so far.

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