%% date:: [[2024-08-11]] %% # [[014_20240811 Lim Dae and the Monster Hunters]] ![[014_20240811.svg]] ## Session Summary > [!tldr] [[014_20240811 Lim Dae and the Monster Hunters]] > We talked to the third witness, Alma Baquiran, a timid, elderly woman who told us that she was with an activist named Callvo Nast when they heard a noise outside. But Elgar Twellington told her to withdraw her complaint. She also told her that there was a protest tomorrow that Callvo was going to, by The Holly, close to The Margin Pub. > > We went to The Clara House to try to find out why Elgar might want to take them down. Clara Bellecourt asked one of the girls, Tania, to give us a tour. It turns out that Lim Dae and his Monster Hunters, a group of boys who like to explore tunnels, had also teased Elgar about something some time ago, and he had never forgotten. Tania also identified the cigarette smoker as Eddy. ^summary %% ## Video [Video]() %% --- ## Recap ![[ttrpgs/The Great Dark/013_20240804 A scuttling horror in South Soffit#^summary]] --- ## Log There are some shafts of light coming in through the clerestory. (We now have a Roll20 game that we're using as a repository of notes.) We talk to the last witness: [[Alma Baquiran]]. - She is in shadow. She's closer to the south, so she doesn't get as much light. The more well-off people are towards the centre. - elderly woman - She's a timid mouse who doesn't make eye contact with me. Everything I say startles her. - She's wearing a wedding ring. - My appeal to courtesy and procedure get through to Alma and we get invited for tea. She likes to follow rules. - She's a hoarder. Faux antique furniture. Shelves are filled with porcelain figures of frogs. There's only one spot on the couch that has been cleared off-- she has to clear more off for us. - The teacup that I get is the used, nice one. And others get mismatched teacups. - Initial report: "We" saw movement outside the house, in the dark. She didn't want to do anything. When pressed, she says she was with a Wasp named [[Callvo Nast]]. He's an activist. He's a bit of a rabble-rouser, she says. He's made a name for himself advocating for better conditions up along the ceiling, right along [[The Eaves]]. He's called her his "Contact". She tells him stuff about the people here. He went outside, then came back looking troubled. He's a thin gentleman with a pencil mustache. He's a young man. It doesn't seem like there was anything romantic. - Callvo is not the cigarette guy. - Callvo Nast is part of an activist group. Alma went to a protest once. They're mostly young people that were there. - She relaxes when Eric asks if the noise could have been hooligans. (She clearly knows it's something else.) - [[The Periphery]] don't really pay attention to those on [[The Lawn]]. The Lawn has its own neighborhood watch. The further up you go, the less safe it is. Anyone up in the air could fall. she has a bit of vertigo. Her husband was the breadwinner of the family and he was a servant of one of the people in The Eaves for fifty years or so. It was the same family. They gave her a bit of a pension after he died. - Some of the dwellings are just bolted onto the pillars. Sometimes they hear of some dwellings actually falling. - There's going to be a protest tomorrow. At The Nest (the most visible place for all of South Soffit). It's going to be off of [[The Holly]], relatively close to [[The Margin Pub]]. When they're bold, they try to disrupt [[The Conveyer]]. They (including Alma) don't like tourists. - It wasn't Callvo who got her to retract her statement. It was Elgar! He came around and seemed to have had access to reports. He didn't want her to make waves. We go to where she indicated she'd heard the noises, but we don't see anything. It's like a gravel road, so all we see is that there was a disturbance. There are no tracks. We totally used our bleed detector at all three places. It was high at the fixture that was missing. At Mystaff's it was higher in the barn where a Lawn Creature climbed up. Alma's house is fine, but near the gravel there was a bit more (but less than the other two). We go to [[The Clara House]]. - It's built off the Oak: the large central pillar. On one side of it is The Conveyer. It's like a straight elevator that is a big box that just goes up and down. It takes up one whole side of [[The Oak]]. Anyone that has to build off The Oak has to build on the other sides. The top of The Oak is more built out. - If you're not on the Conveyer, they use ropes-- they kind of rappel up. There are no safety railings. - Clara House is older, made of stone. It's not as old as the pillar. The pillars are made of stone. - Eric looks for graffiti. There's a graffiti problem and are actively trying to combat it. - It looks like a classroom. There is a woman teaching and a group of students in chairs. Children of various ages. - A woman comes out to greet us. Mid-forties. Hair pulled up in a no-nonsense bun. Conservative long dress. Glasses. Brown hair. She looks pretty harried and busy: [[Clara Bellecourt]] - Eric says that we are here for a trip down memory lane because he has run with some boys from the Clara House a long time ago. It seemed dangerous to him when he was a child, but now it seems insane that he ever did it. - Clara calls over a student called [[Tania]], who's only too thrilled not to be in class. - She says she'll give us the lowdown if I give her the pack. I tell her she needs to tell us the scoop and then I'll tell her if it's worth the pack. - First floor - She shows us Clara's office on the first floor. There are like three locks. Locks have been broken and new ones have been added. Students have clearly found ways to get into the room. - Kitchen - Room for supplies - She says the people who get in the most trouble here are some kids, not her. - The kids here are all orphans. - They pull a lot of pranks. She seems to be a prankster too. Most of them seem harmless. - Second floor - Dormitory room. It's pretty packed, a bunch of people per room. Boys. - Third floor - Dormitory room: girls - The dormitories are locked, but there are windows. - Tania traded with someone to be over by [[The Oak]] (pillar). She has a wooden beam that she can stick out the window. There are handholds all up against the pillar. She is one of the main ways that the girls get out. - She says they sometimes go to [[The Lawn]], but they have to be careful. There's a neighbourhood watch. They will give you a spanking (she thinks it's not fun). The boys want to go down the old tunnels. She said it's [[Elgar Twellington]] (though she doesn't know his name-- she describes him). - I ask her about the smoker guy at The Lawn. She knows him. He was having a tough time on the outside. He fell in with some bad folks. A gang. This sounds more serious than the other pranks she's pulled. He's [[Eddy]]. He's involved in some sort of criminal activity. - Calliope ran away from her parents at one point, in an act of rebellion. She knows what it's like to be with kids of Tania's sort and not have much of anything. - Tarrin: goes to the classroom. - When the oldest group of kids is unsupervised: the boys are talking about what they're going to do tonight. - [[Lim Dae]], leader of tunnel explorer boys. But he's not a typical leader. Little kid, soft-spoken. Not assertive in any way. - Eric wants to take tea with Clara and ask about the neighbours and write a cheque and sort of just hold on to it whilst asking his questions. - Clara says she tries to keep the kids here but there are always some that get out. There are some people who will always hate the children. - Eric asks about [[Elgar Twellington]]. Clara says he's always had a bee in his bonnett about the House. Some of the boys a few years back were teasing him in ways that he didn't like. He's been trying to get them shut down for years and years. He holds grudges. - The Lawn is the place where the kids can run around the most. But there's a new neighbourhood watch thing that they're doing. The watch was bringing kids back up to Clara. But she doesn't think they're bad kids. They're doing harmless pranks. Anyone who does something truly bad gets kicked out. - The one place she tells them never to go into is [[The Eaves]], and they've been listening to her most of the time. There are guards there. If someone from The Eaves tells her to kick out one of the kids, she kind of has to do it. She doesn't know about the kids getting into the tunnels beneath South Soffit. Next session: Clara's going to quiz Eric on the tunnels because he told her about that. Then we'll see what Ash does at the Clara House. %% # Text Elements # Drawing ```json {"type":"excalidraw","version":2,"source":"https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/releases/tag/2.0.25","elements":[],"appState":{"theme":"dark","gridSize":null,"viewBackgroundColor":"#ffffff"}} ``` %%