Project MONUMENT 054-055: 31 August-2 September 2010, Paris, Monte Carlo
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Having returned to Paris from Nice and Lyon, the subjects continued to research the Doorknocker and her recent activities. Foremost among their concerns was ensuring the safety of the Mayor of Paris, who appeared to be the Doorknocker's newest target. Robert learned of a political conference happening over the weekend in Monte Carlo which would be attended by many French mayors; since security there would surely be very tight, Robert leaned on the mayor and ultimately persuaded him to go at the last minute. Of course, the mayor wanted Robert to accompany him, and Robert could hardly refuse - though he did convince the mayor to also bring Souna along as an assistant, to keep from being completely alone. Because Robert was also worried that the mayor's new boyfriend, William, might become a target for the Doorknocker, he arranged for Sébastien to assign a police officer to keep watch and inform Sebastian if anything suspicious happened.
Roland continued the investigation by asking his new contacts at VASCU for suggestions, and in turn shared what the subjects had learned from them. Roland discovered that VASCU had begun their investigation into the Doorknocker after the murder of a former Soviet double agent in the United States, and that they believed that the reason the Doorknocker seemed to pick disparate targets, some who were former spies and some who obviously could not have been spies, was because there were actually two killers at work. One was the Doorknocker herself, and the other was a person that VASCU had termed "the Handler" - a person who was guiding the Doorknocker and persuading her to branch out into other targets, by unknown means. They did not know whether the Handler was a slasher (the term they applied to supernaturally-powered serial killers), but Roland asked the changeling book in the catacombs about this and learned that the Handler was not a slasher. (Robert would later ask the book what the Handler was, if he was not a slasher, and got the rather cryptic answer of "Modified.")
Aðalsteinn also followed up on the death of the mayor's grandmother, who had been quite elderly but also healthy when she died in a Parisian hospital the week before. He went to the hospital and looked around with his ghost sight, hoping to find the mayor's grandmother's ghost. Though the mayor's grandmother did not appear to have left a ghost behind her when she died, Aðalsteinn encountered a disgruntled but chatty ghost of a former patient who nursed a grudge against a doctor he believed to have killed him through the doctor's negligence. Aðalsteinn denied the ghost's request to get involved in this conflict, but managed to learn from the ghost that the mayor's grandmother had seemed to be improving following her hip surgery when she suddenly worsened and died. The ghost also remembered hearing the doctors blame MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant infection common in hospitals, for her demise.
The subjects met that evening to discuss their next steps. Though the death of the mayor's grandmother did not fit the Doorknocker's MO, the subjects believed that the handler might have had something to do with it. To follow this lead, Bo and Souna decided to team up with Olympia Beriault, the police detective from Lyon who had just come to Paris on Bo's urging to track the Doorknocker for the Lyon police, since Olympia had the ability to arrange for a legal search of the hospital's records and security tapes. They contacted her and made all the necessary arrangements. Robert also informed the others of his plan to go to Monte Carlo with the mayor and Souna, though the rest of the hunters thought this sounded rather dangerous.
After the meeting, Robert met with Tarzan, one of the Free Council mages who seemed to dislike him the least. Tarzan allowed Robert to easily discharge his obligations by buying Tarzan a falafel sandwich from a restaurant he enjoyed, then agreed to Robert's request to be taught more about Fate magic. Tarzan said that he liked Robert and felt that the Free Council was treating him unfairly with all the restrictions they had placed on him, and said that he would be willing to teach magic to Robert in the future as long as Robert was willing to pay in mana or by other means.
At the same time, Roland had returned home to continue decyphering Johann's message. This time, he worked through the night and got to the end. What he read shocked him. The final section of the code told the story of a young woman, Vera Tarasova, who had worked on a horse farm with her family in what is now the Ukraine. The KGB had suspected her of being a traitor to the USSR, so they brought her in for questioning, but she denied knowing anything. Johann and Roland had both been involved in the process of questioning her. Vera insisted she did not know anything, but the KGB did not believe her - so they brought in her family, her friends, her fiancé, and everyone she might have been associated with in any way. Everyone she cared about was questioned and in many cases tortured, sent to a gulag, or killed. Finally, Vera herself was sent to a gulag, and Johann did not know what had happened to her after that. Johann felt tremendous guilt about this episode from his past, and said he understood why Vera would later become the Doorknocker and seek revenge upon the intelligence community that had wronged her so profoundly. Roland was horrified to read this, and even more horrified to realize that he now understood the message that the Doorknocker had been trying to send to him for so many years.
The next morning, Bo and Souna went to the hospital with Olympia and went through the mayor's grandmother's records and the hospital's security tapes. They did not find anything suspicious in the records, but did note that a nondescript janitor seemed to be spending a lot of time going in and out of a medication storage closet on the mayor's grandmother's floor. Olympia and Bo agreed that this sounded very suspicious, and Olympia agreed to follow up on it. Bo then realized that Roland had missed their usual every-12-hours contact, and frantically called him. Thus she discovered that Roland had reverted back to his previous, mentally unstable state. He told Bo that he thought this had happened because he understood the message now (though he refused to tell Bo what the message was, lest the same thing happen to her), and that he thought it would pass only if the Doorknocker could be defeated for good. Bo tried to convince Roland that his being crazy was not helpful, but her attempts to calm him did not have any effect.
That evening, Robert was preparing to leave for Monte Carlo the next day when Sébastien came into his office. After some initial panic when Sébastien nearly walked on the demon-killing-sigil rug (and, when Robert revealed the truth about it, laughed and said he'd lied about that, though it might actually trap a demon), Sébastien told Robert that the officer he had assigned to keep an eye on William had not reported back at the appointed time. He asked the subjects to check up on him, so Robert gathered everyone and they hurried to William's apartment with all of their weapons and armor. Upon arriving, they saw the police officer's legs sticking out of a trash can in the park across the street from William's apartment, then saw him slam into the window of his apartment building and pull the curtains down with him. They also saw a dark shape inside the apartment attacking him.
While Roland set up his sniper rifle, the rest of the subjects ran to the door of the building, and Souna passed through it magically to open it from the other side. As they ran up the stairs, they heard a terrifying howl as the Doorknocker seemed to recognize Roland; Bo and Robert froze in fear on the steps, but Aðalsteinn and Souna continued on upwards. The Doorknocker then jumped out of the window and landed in the street four stories down, appearing unhurt. She was a nondescript woman in coveralls who carried a large sledgehammer in one hand and a sickle in the other, and she advanced on Roland with fury in her eyes. Roland's response was to say "I'm sorry" in Russian and then burst into tears.
Upstairs, Aðalsteinn noticed that William was still alive, and ordered Souna to stabilize him and call an ambulance. She complied, but was horrified when Aðalsteinn jumped out the window after the Doorknocker - and relieved when his parkour studies allowed him to make a safe landing below. Aðalsteinn and Roland first tried to reason with the Doorknocker, telling her they didn't want to fight and calling her by her real name, Vera Tarasova, but they got so little response that they were left believing she probably did not even comprehend language. When the Doorknocker began to strike both of them with her hammer and sickle, wounding them badly, they fought back, but their weapons had little effect. Roland even hit the Doorknocker between the eyes with a bullet and it seemed not to affect her at all.
In the meantime, Bo and Robert were recovering from their fear. Bo ran down the stairs while Robert ran up them. Robert reached the window first and immediately had to duck as a sniper bullet from a building across the way grazed him. Souna thought she had seen where the sniper was sitting, and told Robert to take over with William while she tried to chase down the sniper. Then she used one of the new powers she had learned in Korea to become intangible and pass through the floors of the building, heading for the sniper's location. Robert alternated between keeping his head down and drawing fire from the sniper while also using his magic to protect the other subjects and give the Doorknocker and the sniper a harder time.
By now, Roland had been injured so badly that he was no longer conscious, and Aðalsteinn was just trying to get him to safety while also dodging the Doorknocker's attacks. Bo then burst out of the apartment building, grabbed the Doorknocker, and began wrestling her to the ground, but the Doorknocker tossed Bo to the side and walked over to the door of a nearby building. She knocked on the door, then pulled it open and walked through. Bo tried to follow, but found the door locked. When she kicked the door open, the Doorknocker was nowhere to be seen on the other side. By this time, the police and emergency personnel were arriving, so Aðalsteinn dragged Roland back to "Sputnik 3" and took him to the catacombs while Bo and Roland gave statements to the police to provide plausible deniability later.
As this went on, Souna crept unseen to the building where the sniper was waiting. As the police approached, she saw him pick up his gun and flee, and followed him to a white van parked nearby. Souna passed through the floor of the van and tried to hide in the back as the driver (who was wearing all black and a ski mask) began to pull away. However, the driver saw her there and fired at her with a handgun - but of course, the bullet passed right through her. Upon seeing this, the sniper changed his tone and told Souna, "Tell your masters that I know what I am doing, and I will soon provide them with a great gift," followed by something that sounded incomprehensible to Souna. She decided to leave the van before anything worse could happen, but she did make a note of its license plate number.
The subjects met up in the catacombs and could immediately tell that Roland was in bad shape and would be out of action for some time to come. However, they were not sure if he could afford to take that much time to recover now that the Doorknocker had seen him and would presumably target his friends and family. They wondered whether it would be better to go together to Monte Carlo to protect the mayor, or to stay in Paris to protect Roland. Robert used magic to ascertain that the mayor would be attacked by the Handler at some point during his trip to Monte Carlo, which led the subjects to conclude that it was best to seek healing for Robert. At this time, Souna returned and told the other subjects about what she had seen in the van; they were able to identify the words the man had spoken as "Cthulhu fthaghn," which made them wonder if he was simply insane due to the fact that Cthulhu was, to their knowledge, fictional. However, they agreed that he was dangerous, and provided his license plate number to VASCU so that Patrick and the others could try to find out who the van was registered to.
Not knowing what else to do, Robert called Sébastien and asked whether he knew of any hunter who might be able to heal Roland quickly. Sébastien told Robert about a nun stationed at Notre Dame who was very powerful in the group of hunters attached to the Catholic Church, and that she had been known to heal other hunters for a price (for example, demanding that the person who was healed become a priest or nun in exchange for their life being saved). Robert thought this seemed like a fair trade and proceeded to have everyone take Roland to Notre Dame.
At Notre Dame, the subjects followed Sébastien's instructions and went to a side door, where they spoke to a woman behind a confessional-style screen who gave her name as Sister Philip. Sister Philip knew right away that Robert was a mage, and obviously thought he was untrustworthy because of it, but she heard him out. Finally, Sister Philip said she would heal Roland, but that her price would be for Robert to provide her with proof of the deaths of seven mages, and to do so by the Feast of St. Luke (October 18). If he failed in this quest, he would pay the price with his own life. Robert was obviously furious at being asked to do this, but he did not feel he had any other choice, and so accepted the terms. Sister Philip then healed Roland entirely of his wounds and sent the subjects on their way.
The subjects agreed that it was unwise to split up right now, so the next day they all traveled to Monte Carlo. Robert and Souna went as part of the mayor's entourage, while the rest of the subjects drove down in "Sputnik 3" and hid their weapons and gear under the van's floorboards. En route, they received a phone call from Patrick at VASCU, telling them that VASCU had discovered that the van was registered to a person named Hans Kuhn who also owned property outside of Paris. VASCU had gone to the property and, after working their way past many traps, had determined that whoever lived there had left in a hurry not long ago. They cautioned the subjects that Hans was probably ahead of them in Monte Carlo and that they should be ready for a fight.
Aðalsteinn, Bo, and Rolanld arrived in Monte Carlo that evening and, while Robert and Souna were taking part in a cocktail hour at the hotel/casino where the conference was taking place, searched the city for evidence of the Handler. Before too long they saw Hans's van parked in a garage a few kilometers to the east of the mayor's hotel. Souna used her powers to determine that the Handler was to the east and nearby, while Roland used his to discover that Hans had left his van about 45 minutes previously. The subjects hurried to the casino and warned Robert and Souna to keep an eye out for Hans because he was probably there already.
INTERNAL MESSAGING - LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED - EYES ONLY
To: O5-3/780
From: ADMINISTRATOR
M., I haven't heard much from you lately regarding the Project MONUMENT subjects. Not sure how I should take that.
INTERNAL MESSAGING - LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED - EYES ONLY
To: ADMINISTRATOR
From: O5-3/780
Sir,
If you take a look at the report I've attached, I think you'll see that they've been busy indeed.
Malus Sylvestris
[Attached Document: Project MONUMENT 054-055: 31 August-2 September 2010, Paris, Monte Carlo]
Again, obviously, this is two sessions in one. The first of these was quite some time ago, so please let me know if I've made any errors here, players. The break point between the two sessions was, of course, the moment before the PCs had to roll initiative to fight the Doorknocker for the first time. Very dramatic.
I have more things I could say about these sessions, I suppose, but I'm a bit reluctant to do so. My players were pretty displeased with the way that most of session 55 went and honestly I thought it could have been a lot better too. Now I am concerned that anything I say about it would either a) be too full of spoilers, or b) just make my players even angrier with me. Since I've been talking about the last session a lot for the past week and it hasn't been very pleasant (and because I'm running out of time before the session in which, hopefully, I can begin to set some of the mess I've made right), I'm going to beg out of rehashing those issues even further here. Sorry - happier plot notes in this space next week, I hope.
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To: O5-3/780
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Having returned to Paris from Nice and Lyon, the subjects continued to research the Doorknocker and her recent activities. Foremost among their concerns was ensuring the safety of the Mayor of Paris, who appeared to be the Doorknocker's newest target. Robert learned of a political conference happening over the weekend in Monte Carlo which would be attended by many French mayors; since security there would surely be very tight, Robert leaned on the mayor and ultimately persuaded him to go at the last minute. Of course, the mayor wanted Robert to accompany him, and Robert could hardly refuse - though he did convince the mayor to also bring Souna along as an assistant, to keep from being completely alone. Because Robert was also worried that the mayor's new boyfriend, William, might become a target for the Doorknocker, he arranged for Sébastien to assign a police officer to keep watch and inform Sebastian if anything suspicious happened.
Roland continued the investigation by asking his new contacts at VASCU for suggestions, and in turn shared what the subjects had learned from them. Roland discovered that VASCU had begun their investigation into the Doorknocker after the murder of a former Soviet double agent in the United States, and that they believed that the reason the Doorknocker seemed to pick disparate targets, some who were former spies and some who obviously could not have been spies, was because there were actually two killers at work. One was the Doorknocker herself, and the other was a person that VASCU had termed "the Handler" - a person who was guiding the Doorknocker and persuading her to branch out into other targets, by unknown means. They did not know whether the Handler was a slasher (the term they applied to supernaturally-powered serial killers), but Roland asked the changeling book in the catacombs about this and learned that the Handler was not a slasher. (Robert would later ask the book what the Handler was, if he was not a slasher, and got the rather cryptic answer of "Modified.")
Aðalsteinn also followed up on the death of the mayor's grandmother, who had been quite elderly but also healthy when she died in a Parisian hospital the week before. He went to the hospital and looked around with his ghost sight, hoping to find the mayor's grandmother's ghost. Though the mayor's grandmother did not appear to have left a ghost behind her when she died, Aðalsteinn encountered a disgruntled but chatty ghost of a former patient who nursed a grudge against a doctor he believed to have killed him through the doctor's negligence. Aðalsteinn denied the ghost's request to get involved in this conflict, but managed to learn from the ghost that the mayor's grandmother had seemed to be improving following her hip surgery when she suddenly worsened and died. The ghost also remembered hearing the doctors blame MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant infection common in hospitals, for her demise.
The subjects met that evening to discuss their next steps. Though the death of the mayor's grandmother did not fit the Doorknocker's MO, the subjects believed that the handler might have had something to do with it. To follow this lead, Bo and Souna decided to team up with Olympia Beriault, the police detective from Lyon who had just come to Paris on Bo's urging to track the Doorknocker for the Lyon police, since Olympia had the ability to arrange for a legal search of the hospital's records and security tapes. They contacted her and made all the necessary arrangements. Robert also informed the others of his plan to go to Monte Carlo with the mayor and Souna, though the rest of the hunters thought this sounded rather dangerous.
After the meeting, Robert met with Tarzan, one of the Free Council mages who seemed to dislike him the least. Tarzan allowed Robert to easily discharge his obligations by buying Tarzan a falafel sandwich from a restaurant he enjoyed, then agreed to Robert's request to be taught more about Fate magic. Tarzan said that he liked Robert and felt that the Free Council was treating him unfairly with all the restrictions they had placed on him, and said that he would be willing to teach magic to Robert in the future as long as Robert was willing to pay in mana or by other means.
At the same time, Roland had returned home to continue decyphering Johann's message. This time, he worked through the night and got to the end. What he read shocked him. The final section of the code told the story of a young woman, Vera Tarasova, who had worked on a horse farm with her family in what is now the Ukraine. The KGB had suspected her of being a traitor to the USSR, so they brought her in for questioning, but she denied knowing anything. Johann and Roland had both been involved in the process of questioning her. Vera insisted she did not know anything, but the KGB did not believe her - so they brought in her family, her friends, her fiancé, and everyone she might have been associated with in any way. Everyone she cared about was questioned and in many cases tortured, sent to a gulag, or killed. Finally, Vera herself was sent to a gulag, and Johann did not know what had happened to her after that. Johann felt tremendous guilt about this episode from his past, and said he understood why Vera would later become the Doorknocker and seek revenge upon the intelligence community that had wronged her so profoundly. Roland was horrified to read this, and even more horrified to realize that he now understood the message that the Doorknocker had been trying to send to him for so many years.
The next morning, Bo and Souna went to the hospital with Olympia and went through the mayor's grandmother's records and the hospital's security tapes. They did not find anything suspicious in the records, but did note that a nondescript janitor seemed to be spending a lot of time going in and out of a medication storage closet on the mayor's grandmother's floor. Olympia and Bo agreed that this sounded very suspicious, and Olympia agreed to follow up on it. Bo then realized that Roland had missed their usual every-12-hours contact, and frantically called him. Thus she discovered that Roland had reverted back to his previous, mentally unstable state. He told Bo that he thought this had happened because he understood the message now (though he refused to tell Bo what the message was, lest the same thing happen to her), and that he thought it would pass only if the Doorknocker could be defeated for good. Bo tried to convince Roland that his being crazy was not helpful, but her attempts to calm him did not have any effect.
That evening, Robert was preparing to leave for Monte Carlo the next day when Sébastien came into his office. After some initial panic when Sébastien nearly walked on the demon-killing-sigil rug (and, when Robert revealed the truth about it, laughed and said he'd lied about that, though it might actually trap a demon), Sébastien told Robert that the officer he had assigned to keep an eye on William had not reported back at the appointed time. He asked the subjects to check up on him, so Robert gathered everyone and they hurried to William's apartment with all of their weapons and armor. Upon arriving, they saw the police officer's legs sticking out of a trash can in the park across the street from William's apartment, then saw him slam into the window of his apartment building and pull the curtains down with him. They also saw a dark shape inside the apartment attacking him.
While Roland set up his sniper rifle, the rest of the subjects ran to the door of the building, and Souna passed through it magically to open it from the other side. As they ran up the stairs, they heard a terrifying howl as the Doorknocker seemed to recognize Roland; Bo and Robert froze in fear on the steps, but Aðalsteinn and Souna continued on upwards. The Doorknocker then jumped out of the window and landed in the street four stories down, appearing unhurt. She was a nondescript woman in coveralls who carried a large sledgehammer in one hand and a sickle in the other, and she advanced on Roland with fury in her eyes. Roland's response was to say "I'm sorry" in Russian and then burst into tears.
Upstairs, Aðalsteinn noticed that William was still alive, and ordered Souna to stabilize him and call an ambulance. She complied, but was horrified when Aðalsteinn jumped out the window after the Doorknocker - and relieved when his parkour studies allowed him to make a safe landing below. Aðalsteinn and Roland first tried to reason with the Doorknocker, telling her they didn't want to fight and calling her by her real name, Vera Tarasova, but they got so little response that they were left believing she probably did not even comprehend language. When the Doorknocker began to strike both of them with her hammer and sickle, wounding them badly, they fought back, but their weapons had little effect. Roland even hit the Doorknocker between the eyes with a bullet and it seemed not to affect her at all.
In the meantime, Bo and Robert were recovering from their fear. Bo ran down the stairs while Robert ran up them. Robert reached the window first and immediately had to duck as a sniper bullet from a building across the way grazed him. Souna thought she had seen where the sniper was sitting, and told Robert to take over with William while she tried to chase down the sniper. Then she used one of the new powers she had learned in Korea to become intangible and pass through the floors of the building, heading for the sniper's location. Robert alternated between keeping his head down and drawing fire from the sniper while also using his magic to protect the other subjects and give the Doorknocker and the sniper a harder time.
By now, Roland had been injured so badly that he was no longer conscious, and Aðalsteinn was just trying to get him to safety while also dodging the Doorknocker's attacks. Bo then burst out of the apartment building, grabbed the Doorknocker, and began wrestling her to the ground, but the Doorknocker tossed Bo to the side and walked over to the door of a nearby building. She knocked on the door, then pulled it open and walked through. Bo tried to follow, but found the door locked. When she kicked the door open, the Doorknocker was nowhere to be seen on the other side. By this time, the police and emergency personnel were arriving, so Aðalsteinn dragged Roland back to "Sputnik 3" and took him to the catacombs while Bo and Roland gave statements to the police to provide plausible deniability later.
As this went on, Souna crept unseen to the building where the sniper was waiting. As the police approached, she saw him pick up his gun and flee, and followed him to a white van parked nearby. Souna passed through the floor of the van and tried to hide in the back as the driver (who was wearing all black and a ski mask) began to pull away. However, the driver saw her there and fired at her with a handgun - but of course, the bullet passed right through her. Upon seeing this, the sniper changed his tone and told Souna, "Tell your masters that I know what I am doing, and I will soon provide them with a great gift," followed by something that sounded incomprehensible to Souna. She decided to leave the van before anything worse could happen, but she did make a note of its license plate number.
The subjects met up in the catacombs and could immediately tell that Roland was in bad shape and would be out of action for some time to come. However, they were not sure if he could afford to take that much time to recover now that the Doorknocker had seen him and would presumably target his friends and family. They wondered whether it would be better to go together to Monte Carlo to protect the mayor, or to stay in Paris to protect Roland. Robert used magic to ascertain that the mayor would be attacked by the Handler at some point during his trip to Monte Carlo, which led the subjects to conclude that it was best to seek healing for Robert. At this time, Souna returned and told the other subjects about what she had seen in the van; they were able to identify the words the man had spoken as "Cthulhu fthaghn," which made them wonder if he was simply insane due to the fact that Cthulhu was, to their knowledge, fictional. However, they agreed that he was dangerous, and provided his license plate number to VASCU so that Patrick and the others could try to find out who the van was registered to.
Not knowing what else to do, Robert called Sébastien and asked whether he knew of any hunter who might be able to heal Roland quickly. Sébastien told Robert about a nun stationed at Notre Dame who was very powerful in the group of hunters attached to the Catholic Church, and that she had been known to heal other hunters for a price (for example, demanding that the person who was healed become a priest or nun in exchange for their life being saved). Robert thought this seemed like a fair trade and proceeded to have everyone take Roland to Notre Dame.
At Notre Dame, the subjects followed Sébastien's instructions and went to a side door, where they spoke to a woman behind a confessional-style screen who gave her name as Sister Philip. Sister Philip knew right away that Robert was a mage, and obviously thought he was untrustworthy because of it, but she heard him out. Finally, Sister Philip said she would heal Roland, but that her price would be for Robert to provide her with proof of the deaths of seven mages, and to do so by the Feast of St. Luke (October 18). If he failed in this quest, he would pay the price with his own life. Robert was obviously furious at being asked to do this, but he did not feel he had any other choice, and so accepted the terms. Sister Philip then healed Roland entirely of his wounds and sent the subjects on their way.
The subjects agreed that it was unwise to split up right now, so the next day they all traveled to Monte Carlo. Robert and Souna went as part of the mayor's entourage, while the rest of the subjects drove down in "Sputnik 3" and hid their weapons and gear under the van's floorboards. En route, they received a phone call from Patrick at VASCU, telling them that VASCU had discovered that the van was registered to a person named Hans Kuhn who also owned property outside of Paris. VASCU had gone to the property and, after working their way past many traps, had determined that whoever lived there had left in a hurry not long ago. They cautioned the subjects that Hans was probably ahead of them in Monte Carlo and that they should be ready for a fight.
Aðalsteinn, Bo, and Rolanld arrived in Monte Carlo that evening and, while Robert and Souna were taking part in a cocktail hour at the hotel/casino where the conference was taking place, searched the city for evidence of the Handler. Before too long they saw Hans's van parked in a garage a few kilometers to the east of the mayor's hotel. Souna used her powers to determine that the Handler was to the east and nearby, while Roland used his to discover that Hans had left his van about 45 minutes previously. The subjects hurried to the casino and warned Robert and Souna to keep an eye out for Hans because he was probably there already.
INTERNAL MESSAGING - LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED - EYES ONLY
To: O5-3/780
From: ADMINISTRATOR
M., I haven't heard much from you lately regarding the Project MONUMENT subjects. Not sure how I should take that.
INTERNAL MESSAGING - LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED - EYES ONLY
To: ADMINISTRATOR
From: O5-3/780
Sir,
If you take a look at the report I've attached, I think you'll see that they've been busy indeed.
Malus Sylvestris
[Attached Document: Project MONUMENT 054-055: 31 August-2 September 2010, Paris, Monte Carlo]
Again, obviously, this is two sessions in one. The first of these was quite some time ago, so please let me know if I've made any errors here, players. The break point between the two sessions was, of course, the moment before the PCs had to roll initiative to fight the Doorknocker for the first time. Very dramatic.
I have more things I could say about these sessions, I suppose, but I'm a bit reluctant to do so. My players were pretty displeased with the way that most of session 55 went and honestly I thought it could have been a lot better too. Now I am concerned that anything I say about it would either a) be too full of spoilers, or b) just make my players even angrier with me. Since I've been talking about the last session a lot for the past week and it hasn't been very pleasant (and because I'm running out of time before the session in which, hopefully, I can begin to set some of the mess I've made right), I'm going to beg out of rehashing those issues even further here. Sorry - happier plot notes in this space next week, I hope.
What is this?
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