And Foxy said, "Can you get hold of dynamite?"
The PCs have gone to LONDON! This is a very big city, but fortunately Roderick was able to swing a place to stay for them, and a meal in the Holborn police station where they ended up. Roderick himself went off to stay at Claridge's. In the morning, they tracked down the working address of Dr Ravjit Singh. He was the landlord of the Church of the Starry Brethren in Brighton, and also the house in which their friend was killed. Singh sent them to his land agent, Harold Mael. Mael refused to help without a warrant.
Their Detective Inspector friend, Roderick, was late to pick them up, and came to find them on foot, having crashed his car. He either could not remember why, or would not tell them. (Foreshadowing!)
So they sent him to sleep off concussion, got a warrant, came back late at night, and knocked until the night porter opened the door to the building in which the land agent worked. They searched without witnesses, which was illegal as they were not police officers. The land agent interrupted them halfway through, but is stupid enough to lock them into the room while he calls the police, so they finished the search. Then they went back to the police station in Holborn to assign blame for the mistake and admit what they had done to Roderick, who promised to make a few phone calls, and soothe the judge who had signed the warrant.
They had found out that there were /five/ Churches of the Starry Brethren, including two in London. One big one in Holborn, and one smaller Chapel in Shoreditch, down by the docks. As they were looking for someone who ate a lot of fish and who claimed to be a Danish seaman, they decided to go to Shoreditch. They found that the Church was a converted synagogue, and that the local police and the word on the street was that it was a decent place that ran a soup kitchen.
They went to talk to the owner, another of the Templeton tribe. They mentioned (Taylor blurted) that they had been in Brighton, warning Mr Templeton of what they were after. and some other stuff as well. They wanted details of his religion and he gave them a plausible story, but Taylor was brought up as a gypsy (poor Roms!) and knew about the sect in question, because his mother was Coptic. He knew that Templeton was spinning a long yarn about a sect that had been destroyed.
They returned to tell Roderick. Templeton did a runner, which left them down several men including Foxy, the able and streetwise Lieutenant. They went into the temple, which was now empty. They searched the top floor first, because they don't like basements. Upstairs, they found the dome of the place (old synagogue) had been painted with stars, including several constellations. One of them matched the sigil on parchment that they found in the fish house, and into which Selwyn Morgan's remains had been placed.
So they went downstairs. And the GM played a nasty evil game, by pausing to look up the combat rules. So they sent two policemen in, instead of going themselves. Cue death-screams, and two headless zombie policemen.
Pte Jones was clawed, Roderick was hurt badly, and would have been dead but for a sergeant with some gumption and first aid skills, and they burned down the whole chapel to ensure the zombies were dead and anything underneath would be destroyed. At least, they hoped it would work like that.
And so there they were, with Foxy the man in charge, and they all looked at each other and decided, "We have to finish this. Let's burn down the one in Holborn right now."
And Foxy said, "Can you get hold of dynamite?"
They have sent off to Lt Gull, whom they hate, to deal with the place in Brighton. For this, they own the GM an IC letter to Lt Gull.
Their Detective Inspector friend, Roderick, was late to pick them up, and came to find them on foot, having crashed his car. He either could not remember why, or would not tell them. (Foreshadowing!)
So they sent him to sleep off concussion, got a warrant, came back late at night, and knocked until the night porter opened the door to the building in which the land agent worked. They searched without witnesses, which was illegal as they were not police officers. The land agent interrupted them halfway through, but is stupid enough to lock them into the room while he calls the police, so they finished the search. Then they went back to the police station in Holborn to assign blame for the mistake and admit what they had done to Roderick, who promised to make a few phone calls, and soothe the judge who had signed the warrant.
They had found out that there were /five/ Churches of the Starry Brethren, including two in London. One big one in Holborn, and one smaller Chapel in Shoreditch, down by the docks. As they were looking for someone who ate a lot of fish and who claimed to be a Danish seaman, they decided to go to Shoreditch. They found that the Church was a converted synagogue, and that the local police and the word on the street was that it was a decent place that ran a soup kitchen.
They went to talk to the owner, another of the Templeton tribe. They mentioned (Taylor blurted) that they had been in Brighton, warning Mr Templeton of what they were after. and some other stuff as well. They wanted details of his religion and he gave them a plausible story, but Taylor was brought up as a gypsy (poor Roms!) and knew about the sect in question, because his mother was Coptic. He knew that Templeton was spinning a long yarn about a sect that had been destroyed.
They returned to tell Roderick. Templeton did a runner, which left them down several men including Foxy, the able and streetwise Lieutenant. They went into the temple, which was now empty. They searched the top floor first, because they don't like basements. Upstairs, they found the dome of the place (old synagogue) had been painted with stars, including several constellations. One of them matched the sigil on parchment that they found in the fish house, and into which Selwyn Morgan's remains had been placed.
So they went downstairs. And the GM played a nasty evil game, by pausing to look up the combat rules. So they sent two policemen in, instead of going themselves. Cue death-screams, and two headless zombie policemen.
Pte Jones was clawed, Roderick was hurt badly, and would have been dead but for a sergeant with some gumption and first aid skills, and they burned down the whole chapel to ensure the zombies were dead and anything underneath would be destroyed. At least, they hoped it would work like that.
And so there they were, with Foxy the man in charge, and they all looked at each other and decided, "We have to finish this. Let's burn down the one in Holborn right now."
And Foxy said, "Can you get hold of dynamite?"
They have sent off to Lt Gull, whom they hate, to deal with the place in Brighton. For this, they own the GM an IC letter to Lt Gull.