# Session S03 > [!overview] > [campaign:: [[The Friend, the Fiend, and the Shadow of the Night]]] > [session:: S03] > [prev:: [[2024-08-18_S02]]] > [next:: [[2024-09-22_S04]]] > [session date:: 2024-09-01] > [campaign date:: ] > [my pc:: [[Elsa Johansson]]] > [dm:: [[nellufy|Nell]]] > [player:: [[reyescion|Reyes]], [[elcucuy| El Cucuy]], [[jim0phee]], [[Leah Ferguson|Leah]]] > [pcs:: [[Dr. Niklas Windell]], [[Oskar Brodd]], [[Charles]], [[Elsa Johansson]]] > [active npc:: ] > [discussed npc:: ] > [active locations:: ] > [discussed locations:: ] > > --- > > (tldr:: Summary.) ### Starting notes: - Shifted from [[2024-08-25]] as [[nellufy|Nell]] wasn't available. ## Notes - [[Charles]] - The child was shoving bread in his mouth, and he takes a bite. - The bread… is the best bread he's ever had. It's amazing, even if it appears simple. He wants more. - He takes more and eats more. - [[Oskar Brodd]] is distracted and is looking out the window. - [[Elsa Johansson]] is trying to keep the children behaving in a civil manner - [[Dr. Niklas Windell]] and [[Charles]] notice [[Yokem Nielsen]] isn't actively talking with the group he's with. He's taken out a book and started writing, while listening to others. He looks tired and isn't paying attention. - Windell doesn't think he looks unwell… he just looks a little sad. He notes it, but doesn't want to pry. - [[Charles]] continues to fight the children for bread until it's gone, and then confronts [[Yokem Nielsen]] for more bread. - From [[Petersen's Bakery]], not [[Un coin de paradis]] - Currently closed, but open in the morning "when the sun is up" - Will take the children tonight to raid the bakery… [[Yokem Nielsen]] suggests to wait for morning. - Two bakers in the back, one large, one tall. And the young man who works the front. - Young man is a Swedish native. - [[Dr. Niklas Windell]] attempts to bake something for Elsa - He looks for a cookbook before Elsa comes in, and finds a frog with a top hat on the shelf who stares at him. - [[King Lord Plop]] requests more cookies. Offers to help. - The cookbook dates backs at least 200 years. Writing in the margins. - [[King Lord Plop]] suggests the sugar biscuit, because it's his favourite. - The biscuits are a success! - Elsa comes in and has a conversation with him. - She has hung onto every word he has said. - They are for both Plop and Elsa. - [[Oskar Brodd]] doesn't tell anyone he's sneaking off to drink at the bar ([[Black Kraken]]) - ([[Elsa Johansson]] looks for [[Oskar Brodd]] only after he has left.) - Goes back to his room for his coat and hat. - The streets of Uppsala seem extra dark on his walk to the docks. Shadows. - Failed [[Vigilance]] check. (Oh no.) - Feels something sharp into his back. Stops and tenses up. - Male voice. A mugging for money. - Mr. Brodd turns around. A 15-year-old girl with hair under a flat cap. - He tries talking to her, feeling sorry for her. - She presses him again for cash. Still has his knife on him. - Brodd shows her his pistol. (Pushed roll; he is exhausted after this) - He walks away; she warns him there's a group of men lurking around. - He tells her to do the same, tipping his hat. - He made it to the [[Black Kraken]] - Dimly lit dive bar with oil lamps and a badass mural of a kraken. - Large burly man with a thick beard behind the bar. - Brodd sticks out in this crowd. - Orders a drink. Barkeep gives him a beer. (It's stale.) - Says he's looking for a friend. A local baker. [[Tor Petersen|Petersen]] - [[Tor Petersen]] used to be a regular but stopped coming. - Hasn't seen him come in for two weeks. - Brodd says his nice clothes are for his day job, so he fits in there. - Since early October, lots of migrants coming in from eastern Europe. One was talking to [[Tor Petersen]] at some point. Became fast friends. - Quite tall. - Petersen acted like they were close friends after a single meeting. - His walking kind of changed? - Many people had died during a voyage here » from eastern Europe - Another man had come in earlier… A Sven? ([[Sven Hjaerkason]]) - Cruel. A murderer. Disappeared. ([[1864-10-15 Uppsala Posten]]) - From the article, he disappeared 1896-10-04. - Bartender: [[Magnus Olander]] - Brodd notices one stranger in the corner with a black dog. - Is drinking a beer. - Has a suitcase, overcoat. - Very pale, very thin (can see his cheekbones), appears to be of eastern European descent - [[Oskar Brodd]] follows the man outside of the [[Black Kraken]] on the streets - The man has a black horse and a black carriage (cargo, not passenger) - Opens the backdoors, and brings the suitcase up with him on the carriage. - Brodd tips his hat at the man, and the man returns the gesture. - Light conversation between them. - The man usually does the graveyard shift. Boisterous laughter at Brodd saying hopefully not at the graveyard. - Yellowed teeth, a couple missing. - The man's name is [[Niklas]] - He's going to… a church? - Just moved here a couple months ago… - Has moved around. Most recently in London. - Work: helps doctors with "particular" needs. - Respects the men and women of medicine. - [[Niklas]] offers Brodd a ride to the [[Linneas Botanical Garden]] - In the back, there are shovels… - Pushes the roll (Battered) but notices a crate in the back. - Jars filled with chemicals and miscellaneous parts. (Lots of hearts for some reason.) One jar has a fetus. - [[Oskar Brodd]], passing through [[Vaksala Torg]] on the way to [[Castle Gyllencreutz]], sees a shadow passing through the alleyways - He stays in the carriage (realizing how beat up he is…) - Meanwhile, Elsa and Dr. Windell are still talking into the late hours of the night. - Elsa is waiting for Mr. Brodd as she had an idea for something. But he has forbidden for her to do it by herself. - Seance - [[Elsa Johansson]] wants to contact [[Milena Jerzek]]. [[Oskar Brodd]] was afraid of this. - Chalk circle, with Elsa kneeling in the centre with her crystal ball. - Having to push a roll for [[60 Games/61 Tabletop/Vaesen/Details/Talents/Medium|Medium]]. Frightened condition. - She goes unresponsive. - She screams. This time this process hurts. Both [[Dr. Niklas Windell]] and [[Charles]] hear this in their head. - Experiencing the perspective of [[Milena Jerzek]] - A tall dark man in front of her - Glowing red eyes, direct gaze. - Heart pounding, but his gaze is alluring. - Drawn forward. Feeling at peace. Feeling of safety. - Strong hands. - Fangs into the neck. No way to escape. - Elsa is feeling all of this. - Feeling of blood being drained. It feels like an eternity. - Milena screaming in the back of my mind. - Feels like both our lives have been extinguished. - Last thing Elsa sees is the man's red eyes. - A smoke engulfs the dead body - Another man. [[Brigger Holmlund]] exams our body. He knows he is too late. His body seems different. - Footsteps of a dog, not a man running away. - Fear check. This is more than she's ever experienced. - She doesn't usually experience it from the perspective of the victim as they die. - Brodd tells Windell through the door that it's a bad dream. That's all. - Brodd doesn't let them in. - Elsa is weeping. - Brodd comforts her, and they effectively comfort each other. - Brodd heals 2 conditions - Elsa heals 1 condition - The next morning. - [[Charles]] wakes up as early as he can, planning to send a child to the bakery. - The eldest child, Anna, is up and walking down the stairs. - Windell spent the night in a chair outside of Elsa's room, sleeping - A child running by wakes him up. Anna trips and catches herself. - Anna asks for money for the bakery. [[Petersen's Bakery]] as [[Charles]] needs bread. - Windell gives her money, but she wants an adult to come with her. - Windell reluctantly agrees to accompany the child. - Brodd slept in the chair beside Elsa's bed. - He's still exhausted. - She's embarrassed, knowing she screamed. - Brodd goes and speaks to Windell, tells him Elsa has dreams from time to time - She gets better over time. Elsa is unsettled by them, and is embarrassed by them. It would be better if Windell doesn't mention it. - Windell has concerns about Brodd being improper. - Anna yells up to Dr. Windell that she's ready to go. - [[Charles]] goes down to the kitchen once he hears children leave - He can smell the lingering smell of biscuits… but can't find any. - [[Algot Frisk]] gets him tea *and* coffee. - Charles asks about the bread, but there is none yet. - Charles asks about the screaming; Frisk didn't hear it. - Charles talks with [[King Lord Plop]]; the screaming is normal around the castle. - [[King Lord Plop]] has been around for 500–600 years, thereabouts. - [[King Lord Plop]] saw [[Oskar Brodd]] arrive home on a black carriage with a black dog. - Plop has a good sense of smell, and the man smelled weird. - Plop sells out Windell's secret of being a great baker - [[Dr. Niklas Windell]] gets ready to go with Anna (Frisk found her a proper coat and shoes) - [[Charles]] walks out of the kitchen - Windell *did* hear screaming too, so it wasn't just Charles - Charles takes someone else's trousers and gets ready to go out. - [[Oskar Brodd]] and [[Elsa Johansson]] discuss the seance - We both get 0 successes as [[Yokem Nielsen]] is talking with [[Algot Frisk]]. We hear nothing! - Decide to go speak with [[Brigger Holmlund]] - At [[Petersen's Bakery]] - They're early in the line, maybe a 15 minute wait - The line is mostly migrants - Windell gives Anna money, and they decide to go poke around the trash of [[Un coin de paradis]] - [[60 Games/61 Tabletop/Vaesen/Details/Skills/Stealth]] - [[Charles]] » 1 success - [[Dr. Niklas Windell]] » 2 successes (but pushed) - See the son, [[Gabriel Bellivue]], drag a full can of trash to the back and empty it - [[Charles]] has a successful [[60 Games/61 Tabletop/Vaesen/Details/Skills/Investigation]] check, sees that the drag marks seem to be daily. Drag the trash *in* and replace them with empty bins. - A [[Vigilance]] check… 2 successes for [[Dr. Niklas Windell]], but none for [[Charles]] - Windell hears chatter coming from the back. It's in French. - "Transmutation" » said by [[Celine Bellivue]] - Anna waves to them as they return, and they are next in line. - They enter [[Petersen's Bakery]]. It's a cozy place. - Young man at the front conversing with customers, but focused on the young woman in the couple. - Portly man in his 40s fills only the bottom shelves - Thin tall man only fills the top shelves - The sign above the shelves says: "Come freely, go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring." - I'm the nerd who recognizes this line.