Play@YSDC

OOC,That sounds like a good precaution. Once we get settled in, our first stop should be that safe deposit box.

OOC,after asking for directions to three or four different locations ;)

OOC,If it becomes necessary, I'll use Bureaucracy to cut through any red tape.

Bureaucracy,You're quite sure the warehouse is manned 24h. Burlington is clearly trying to get rid of you as quickly as possible, but you could probably get him to make a phone call and allow you to access the safety box later today. A 1-point Bureaucracy, Cop Talk or Flattery spend is required, depending on how you wish to apply pressure on the man.

OOC,Spending a point of Flattery.

Dave,While Shadowing is used to succesfully follow someone without being noticed, the ability needed to realize you're being followed is Sense Trouble. While Clarence has no points in it, you can still roll 1d6 against an opponent's Shadowing roll (you obviously don't know if there's any, but you roll anyway as a precaution). In general, points can be spent from the ability pool to boost the roll (i.e. I spend two points from my Sense Trouble pool and get to roll 1d6+2 against the opponent's Shadowing roll, that can be boosted as well). Usually, there's no need to spend points to succeed an uncontested action, especially if that action is routine. If your character has Shadowing, we can expect him to know how to actually shadow someone, and any trick that might be useful. You don't need to spend any point right now - your private investigator simply knows how to do his job. "Spends", as they're referred to in ToC, are needed only in particular situations. By the way, if you feel you want to move some points around on Clarence's sheet, change his abilities a little, this is the right moment. You can find a list of all the abilities on the quick start rules. They're straightforward, but if you have any doubt feel free to ask me.

Holly,The photos are perverse and disturbing pictures, clearly taken from concealment, each one capturing between three and a dozen people engaged in depraved sex acts in a variety of interior and exterior locations. Even to someone like [b]Holly[/b], that has studied all kind of deviances, seeing this kind of stuff - actually seeing it, not reading about it in a book... It's enough to shake her. Perhaps some part of her never thought things like these were actually happening, somewhere. [spoiler][ooc]Roll against a Stability loss.[/ooc][/spoiler] Slightly more than than half the photos were taken in one or more residences of opulent yet tasteful decoration and costly furnishings. A couple more interior photos were taken in a much more mundane working class apartment, or servant's room. A few of the photos were taken outside, in private gardens. The people in the photos are well coiffed, and some wear elaborate jewelry, but there's no piece of clothing in sight to help determining their social status. You notice one man, apparently of Latin American descent, appearing in all the photos. He is the only one featuring in all of them, and he is participating with gusto in all the "group activities". You also notice that [b]Edgar Job[/b] is present in a couple of the photos. He looks much younger than when you met him, and he is also apparently quite enjoying the situation. You look around the photos for [b]Olivia Clarendon[/b], but can't seem to find her anywhere. There's another face that strikes you as familiar, though... a man that appears in three different photos. You try to recall... and finally it comes to you. The man is [b]Richard[/b]... Richard something. Used to feature in B-movies back in the early twenties. You can't quite make up his surname, or any other useful information, after all these years, but you're sure a few minutes in a public library will be enough to dig up all you need to know about his life.

OOC,Stability roll: [dice]0[/dice]

OOC,I think nobody should go anywhere alone. I'll go to the library with at least one other person. We do need [b]Cameron[/b] to work on the notebook.

OOC,I'm going to the library too, so the other two should head elsewhere. I think we should also hold off on the farm for now, as we might get more clues of what to look for there from the notebook. Plus, we might all want to go out to the farm when it's time. That location could be dangerous.

OOC,Do those B-movies (and [i]The Twins[/i]) have anyone else in common aside from the two of them? Who produced and directed them?

OOC,I'd like to see what information we can dig up on the shootout at the farm in August 1924, most likely by looking it up in the periodicals. The local papers should have more on it than what we found on the East Coast. I'm particularly interested in knowing the names of anyone involved that I didn't know previously and identifying any survivors.

OOC,Let's just ask for a copy.

OOC,Actually, could [b]Clarence[/b] simply photograph them? It would probably be faster to develop the pictures.