# Session S00 & S01 > [!overview] > [campaign:: [[Candela Obscura - The Great Dark|The Great Dark]]] > [session:: S00] > [next:: [[2024-05-12_S02]]] > [session date:: 2024-05-04] > [campaign date:: 1907] > [my pc:: [[Roberta "Birdie" Campbell|Roberta “Birdie” Campbell]]] > [dm:: [[Andrew Pontious|apontious]]] > [player:: [[Leah Ferguson]], [[Nicole van der Hoeven]], [[demonem|Emma]], [[bleepbloopdragon|Lisa]]] > [pcs:: [[Calliope Nightshade]], [[Eric Birtwistle]], [[Roberta "Birdie" Campbell|Roberta “Birdie” Campbell]], [[Tarrin Bellweather]]] > [active npc:: ] > [discussed npc:: ] > [active locations:: ] > [discussed locations:: ] > > --- > > (tldr:: Summary.) ## Notes - Links in the original pinned Discord post - Safety tools - No formal lines and veils but absolutely speak up if something is upsetting. - The comfort of everyone is more important than the enjoyment of most. - Discussion of the world - [[Newfaire]] knowledge is fair game - [[Fairelands]] knowledge is okay to know - [[Hale]] is not necessary to know at this point - [[Oldfaire]] knowedge will seep in - Organizations - [[Candela Obscura (Organization)|Candela Obscura]] - Lighthouses throughout the [[Fairelands]] - Predates even [[Oldfaire]] - We are new recruits to [[Candela Obscura (Organization)|Candela Obscura]] - Have gone through training - Have learned about the [[Fourth Pharos]] (the "headquarters", of sorts) - Storage locker for bleed stuff - Astrolab contains the bleed - We have only been there the once, and shouldn't really want to return - Extra from the starting lore - There is an interest in [[Jules Verne]]-style "space" flight - Haven't quite gotten out of the atmosphere - "The Great Dark" is a common phrase… - "May the Great Dark take you" is like saying "go to hell" - No one knows the etymology - Character creation - [[Nicole van der Hoeven]] » [[Calliope Nightshade]] - [[Face]], [[60 Games/61 Tabletop/Candela Obscura/Details/Specialty/Journalist]] - Doesn't work for a paper, but has private clients (more like a private investigator) - Has repeat clients by word of mouth only - Went to journalism school - Grew up in Newfaire - Came across magic during a case - Retrieving a family heirloom, turns out it was magical… - [[Silverslip]] - [[demonem|Emma]] » [[Tarrin Bellweather]] - [[Muscle]], [[60 Games/61 Tabletop/Candela Obscura/Details/Specialty/Explorer|Explorer]] - 23 years old, so pretty young - From [[Seasway]] (coastal village) - Tightknit community - Has to go into [[Newfaire]] at times, but prefers not to - Parents disappeared when she was around 7 - She was raised by the community - She became an explorer because she wanted to find out what happened to her parents - Stumbled into [[Everhollow Lighthouse]], saw a thing, and was mesmerized by it - The Lightkeeper pulled her back and saved her life - The Lightkeeper became a mentor, did small tasks for them - [[Tarrin Bellweather]] doesn't know yet that they were being sent on small tasks that became very dangerous work, even a very young age… - Discovered by other members of Candela Obscura by accident, and so *they* insisted [[Tarrin Bellweather]] gets training - [[Leah Ferguson]] » [[Roberta "Birdie" Campbell|Roberta “Birdie” Campbell]] - Lives in the [[Sidle|the Sidle]] - [[Brewed Enlightening]] in the [[Varnish]] - A family business - It happened when she was a kid - Six months ago, the papers were filled with stories about a new gang that has invaded Newfaire - Take a bank hostage, and then just steal *one* thing - Others call them the Phoenix Gang - Once the news started to come out, Birdie suspected she had seen them in her coffee shop - They didn't *seem* like hardened criminals - At some point they had had the map object with them at the coffee shop, which technically would have exposed her and the other patrons to bleed - When the cops came to ask about it, other patrons gave descriptions, but Birdie didn't give information - Another group came asking for information, and Birdie got a different sense about them - Got the sense they wanted to help them with additional magical things… - She trusted them, and told them about the people » [[Jezebel Moore]], a lightkeeper - Convinced of her sincerity, "youth pastor" vibes, little understanding of sarcasm/cynicism - Was told about [[Candela Obscura (Organization)|Candela Obscura]] - [[bleepbloopdragon|Lisa]] » [[Eric Birtwistle]] - A doctor who gets squeemish from blood - From a very well-connected family - Second-born - Has an older, more successful brother - Feels its his responsibility to be a good surgeon, because his father expects it of him - A colleague always seemed to be doing better than him, had an object, he had wasted away and got sick and died… - Eric would have loved to steal this amulet, but doesn't know enough about it to harness the power safely - Candela Obscura are looking to give him a pass since he comes from a family… could give them access to certain resources… - Relationships - Eric and Calliope both come from money, and met at a fundraising gala - Recognized each other at the training events - Eric may have been a patron at the [[Brewed Enlightening]] - [[Jezebel Moore]] is our lightkeeper, and the one who had taken us on our tour of the Fourth Pharos - Mid thirties - Lightkeepers are usually older or injured in Candela Obscura activities - We are in our circle's safehouse - We are a brand new circle, and going to have our first assignment - She leaves us alone at a table to talk - We chat. It's awkward. - She returns with a woman in her 40s, [[Madam Fidovich]], in a long black cloak - Does not look happy to be here, or to see us - Doesn't call her Lightkeeper, but madam - Your first mission is helping out [[Madam Fidovich]] - She lost one of her teams about a year ago (there's a grimace) - [[Madam Fidovich]] takes us to the [[Twilight Theatre]] in the [[Red Lamp]] district - A burlesque theatre that has seen better days - Low attendance - Cheap shows - Run by the proprietor, [[Hugo Garcia]] - Reports of strange things… people went missing… but they can't remember what happened in the theatre - We are there between the afternoon show and evening show - Only the periphery has investigated, not the OUP etc. - Questions along the way - Eric asks if there is an traces of people gone missing - Birdie asks if the team disappearance is related - The team disappeared a year ago - The disappearances have been during the past week - Birdie asks if there are any similar cases - Fidovich seems to take a disliking of Birdie as she asks inane questions - Makes a point to say that magick kills, but doesn't actually answer the question - Calliope asks to establish a pattern when people disappeared - No set pattern, but not every night yet - Does seem to be speeding up - Calliope asks for who the Periphery contact is, in terms of whose work we need to double check - [[Madam Fidovich]] leaves us a card if we need to be in touch - It's an address (we don't know it, but it's a messaging service) - Calliope and Birdie go to talk with [[Hugo Garcia]] - Eric and Tarrin go to investigate the theatre - The theatre is not locked… we just kind of… go… in… - Calliope tries talking her way into the theatre by looking for a job at the burlesque show - *Then* starts asking questions about missing people… and that gets his attention - She gets a 6 on gilded on sway (first roll of the game) and doesn't really think her questions odd… - People leave and don't give notice all the time… nothing all that weird. - To do for [[2024-05-12_S02]] - Name of our circle » but then later [[Andrew Pontious|apontious]] suggested we name *after* the first case? - Our circle ability » [[Stamina Training]] - What the heck Birdie is doing there!