[ALL PLAYER CHARACTERS] Lovecraft Hall, 1913 hours, 31 January 2012

Persona Non Grata
Act I: Revelations
First Movement: The Policy of Truth

Time: 19:13 (07:13pm)
Date: 31 January 2012
Location: Lovecraft Hall, Miskatonic University, Arkham, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA, Material Plane

You sit round a table, littered in books, snacks, papers, and dice. Jakubina "Jack" Vorshevowicz sits at the head, Dungeon Master Screen obscuring your view of the table in front of her. She rolls a D20, and smiles.

"You enter the Cavern, it is large and shimmering with gracefully carved stalagmites and stalactites. A complex system of mirrors illuminates the hall with sunlight from far above. Ornate columns form a row towards a large set of doors, although various other pathways lead from different sides of the room. What do you do?"

Spoiler:

Donald shifts slightly in his chair, and with a nervous look he replies,"I move forward ca-ca-cautiously a-and cast 'Detect Evil' towards the area past the co-columns."

Ken looked up from his laptop. "Yeah, ok, the pizza's on its way," he said. "But they were out of sodas. And the guy was a dick on the phone, so don't tip the delivery person when they get here." He looked over the table at the battlemap and picked up an elaborately painted pewter figure of a rogue-type character in leather armor, wielding a dagger. "Ok, what am i doing now?" he asked. The figure hovered in his hand over a random spot on the battlemap. "I missed what you said. What happened?"

Dayaram "Day-Glo" Chandrashekar takes his feet off the table, and whacks Kenneth in the back of the head "pay attention, mūrkha, we're in the Cavern. finally." He turns to Jack and grins "My Dwarven Thaumaturgist starts calling upon the local spirits, while telling the stories of his people, whether anyone is listening or not. He's completely oblivious".

Ken jerked his head away from Day-Glow's hand, his eyes squenching tight in anger. "What the fuck?" he exclaimed. "Seriously, knock it the fuck off. if you want to get twitchy over this, do it to someone else." Ken turned his attention back to the battlemap and plunked his miniature down in a random spot.

"Gentlemen, c-could we please calm down a, uh, bit? Ken, not to be an a-ass, b-but you did remember to put mushrooms on one of them this time, right? And Jack..." he picks up his prized Gandalf miniature and plants it firmly back on the board, two spaces ahead. "I have yet to detect any e-e, *sigh*, evil ahead of us. Right now we could be up t-to our hips in hobgoblins and I would have n-no idea."

"Hey, now. We're so close to the end guys, don't mess this up with escalated squabbling," Devon says with a bit of humor in her voice. She moves her paladin up to the ornate doors. "I inspect the doors for any religious markings."

Carol Ann walks into the room and sits at the table in front of the battle mat. She reaches into her purse and pulls out a few folded up pieces of paper and a miniature of a Minotaur, setting it on the mat. "Okay, sorry about being late I had to use the bathroom, have I missed anything yet?"

Day-Glo

Dayaram grins mischievously "d'awww you're so cute when you're angry Ken. Frankie says relax, I was only teasing." he turns to Carol Ann.

"Well hello there, Is tonight the night I finally get to take your delicious body out for some... nocturnal fun?" he waggles his eyebrows, in jokingly seductive way.

Jack

"Hey Carol, just entered the Cavern. big room, big doors, big columns."

Carol Ann rolls her eyes at Dayaram and replies "Only if I'm the one that gets to peg you. And I don't cuddle afterwards."

Spoiler:

Day-Glo pulls out his wallet, takes a card from it, jots down some notes on it and hands it to Carol "Number, Date, Time. Hope you like Indian Food. I'll pay" he winks.

the front of the card has professional printing in simple font, alligned to the left side of the card:

Dante Charleson
Professional "Problem Solver"
Cell #XXX-XXX-XXXX [Tech Number]

on the left hand it has a flaming skull design

on the back is has in large, scrawly, but legible, handwriting

Tomorrow night
7pm @ Tantric
17 Chance Rd, Ipswitch

Spoiler:

Carol Ann pockets the card after taking a look at the front of it and adds, "Make it China Buffet and I'll be there."

Wynn slouches in her chair, bangs in her eyes and hoodie pulled up. She scowls at Ken and murmurs softly, "You have to tip the delivery guy. It is not his fault he has a crappy job. You don't tip him, and next time he will do something horrible and gross to your order. And you will never know." She grins wickedly and moves her halfling thief forwards on the playmat. "Sneaking in first it looks like. I am going to search for traps."

As Jack rolls die in response to the players actions, the lights in the room suddenly shut off. an eerie silence fills the place as the white noise hum of electricity dies around you. the room is faintly lit by the campus lamps outside, as snow continues to fall lightly.

Jacks only response is "hunh" in an interested tone

As the lights go out, Wynn mutters. "Great. Just great." She pulls out her phone and flicks the screen to at least get at least a little bit of glowing light. "So who has candles around here? I know you guys smoke pot in here, so come on... break em out and lets keep playing. I skipped studying tonight for this game."

Ken's cell phone added its light to the room. He got up and went to the window, looking out onto the campus to see how far the blackout extended.

She sighs as she reaches into her bag, and pulls out two tall (fake) silver candles, plastic bases, and a new red cinnamon jar candle. "Here, we can light these candles. I'm almost afraid of what we might find in some of these drawers," she says sarcastically. "I guess it's kind of fitting, with how this game's going, at least. Sets the tone, ya'know?" she muses as she strikes a match and lights her candles.

Spoiler:

Several loud bangs are heard, followed by a scream. Jack goes to the door and looks out, only to have shock creep across her face. She turns to the others.

"Run, now"

MECHANICS

Everyone Roll Initiative.

Initiative Roll, plus Dexterity (2) and Composure (3).

The member 'Dayaram Chandrashekar' has done the following action : Die Pool

'D10' : 5

Spoiler:

Initiative Mod = +5 : Dexterity (3) Composure (2)

The member 'Devon Johnson' has done the following action : Die Pool

'D10' : 8

Initiative mod = +4 Dex(2) Comp(2)

The member 'Carol Ann Kaiser' has done the following action : Die Pool

'D10' : 7

Initiative Mod=6 (Dexterity 3, Composure 3)