Session 8: Ghostly Dealings Part 1

 July 11th, 2013 

The motley got to celebrate the evening of the 4th of July by themselves, since Francois hadn't had time to prepare. Instead, he rounded everyone up on the 11th for a barbecue to celebrate dealing with Hopeless Jim's fetch. Eric didn't trust Francois cooking and the pair had a disagreement, leading to Eric grilling his own food over his fire-lit hand. Meanwhile Tia tried to teach Eric how to fold paper airplanes, and Chiara and Hanna played croquet. Goodness knows what Simon was up to.

Partway through the barbecue, the motley noticed a disheveled and injured girl trying to talk to people and being ignored. Tia went up to talk to her and brought her back to the group, and through deduction—and a lot of waving things through her, despite Francois' insistence that it was a very rude thing to do—the group determined the girl was a ghost. Or maybe out of phase or somehow stuck halfway in the Hedge. And her name was Rose.

Rose's memory was spotty at best and ended in her apartment back in December, leaving the group with little to go on. They tried taking her with them on the bus to the library, but she began to fade out so everyone else escorted her back to the park while Eric did solo research at a nearby library. The other motley members used her fading to deduce the center point of her visible area, where they found a Hedge gate between a pair of trees. Eric, meanwhile, came back with little useful information, other than the fact that Rose Montgomery went missing about eight months ago, her last boyfriend was suspected, and she had one boyfriend before that. Peeking through the Hedge gate, the motley found a heavily forested portion of the Hedge. Rose was able to cross the gate, but didn't recognize anything.

Meanwhile, the group asked Rose about what she remembered. She had broken up with her previous boyfriend because he “didn't seem himself anymore,” and rebounded with a “bad boy” type who owned a bar. Half the motley confused Tia with references to The Sixth Sense and determined that Rose might be able to teleport between certain locations, including her home, the alley where she “woke up,” and her boyfriend's bar. Chiara also took the opportunity to look up occult shops in the city.

The group decided to head to Hathi's Garden for dinner and to see if any of the other changelings could see Rose, but made a detour to the Dive (the boyfriend's bar) when Rose disappeared. Jake, the bar owner, wasn't very keen on helping Eric after Eric made some vaguely dodgy comments, and Chiara managed to look drunk by talking to Rose, who was only visible to Changelings as they discovered at Hathi's Garden when Pala could see her. The group discussed options prior to parting for the evening. When asked, Pala mentioned that the person to consult about ghosts would be Okiku, a member of the Parchment Pact (Goatskin's motley).

NPCs Met
Rose - the ghost of a murdered young woman.

Jake - Rose's boyfriend at the time of her death, owner of The Dive, a bar.

Enemies
None

Other Stuff
Eric's version

Session 7: Shadows and Secrets

Session 9: Ghostly Dealings (Part 2)