Post by Adminenkainen on Oct 14, 2017 23:57:36 GMT
Session 3
For much of our game session, we were resolving issues from the week of downtime.
First, the Heroes had to resolve the issue with Jack Gunnell. Jack had offered to ally with the Heroes instead of with mobsters like Nick’s gang. Batman, Gracie Heart, and White Knight met Jack at his restaurant to talk to him about it. Jack didn’t seem to care who he sided with as long as he had protection for his restaurant and employees. He envisioned law and order breaking down if the village’s imprisonment in the Fog Wall lasted too long.
White Knight wanted details about Jack’s alleged time spent working for The Shadow, but Jack refused to talk about that period of his life and countered that he was not prying into the Heroes’ privacy.
Indeed, privacy was one of the main considerations that made the Heroes ultimately choose to ally with Jack. It had been difficult sneaking in and out of the plane without drawing attention, since it was in the middle of a long field surrounded by houses and was supposedly off-limits. People still came and went often from Jack’s, allowing the Heroes to come and go any time they wanted when out of costume without drawing suspicion. Jack gave the women an upstairs guest room to share, while the three men had to settle for bedrolls in the wine cellar. The Heroes agreed to pay him $25 a week in exchange for food, lodging, and the use of his secret gym. Curiously, the door to the gym only opened for Jack.
Then there was the issue of Joe Dreschler, the director of public works, operating as a taxi service for mobsters leaving the south region for the village. Batman, Gracie, and White Knight trailed Joe’s van the very next night and saw him pick up a single hoodlum and deliver him to the Fischer Farm on the west side of town. Batman and White Knight finally discovered that they had both been to this same farm before -- it was both the farm where White Knight had broken up a dog fight ring before the Fog Wall fell, and the farm where Batman had rescued the comatose farmer from his crazy wife and taken him to the doctor’s office.
The Heroes surrounded the house. The hoodlum got the drop on Batman, but was still defeated by Batman. The crazy farmer’s wife, Mattie Fischer, held off both Gracie and White Knight with a shotgun until Batman joined them and they defeated her together. They rescued Mattie’s niece, Dorothy, who was hiding in a bedroom. The pretty young niece tried to give White Knight a kiss, but he wouldn’t take his full helmet off. Gracie claimed Mattie’s shotgun as a trophy.
They never did do anything about Joe, who drove away before all this started, nor did they find out what the hoodlum, George Merrick, was doing there. The Heroes were more interested in getting some positive news coverage out of this, so they called for the police and went back to Jack’s to wait for the next day’s issue of The Prospector. Sadly, the paper reported it as a break-in at the Fischer Farm, said Batman and White Knight were at the scene, but did not specify their involvement.
Batman dealt with the German Soldat (soldier) Wolf Tanzer very quickly. He turned Tanzer over to Police Chief Wittenberg. Wittenberg was incredulous that this was an actual German soldier, but agreed to hold him for questioning. But Wittenberg brought up an important issue -- that there was no courthouse within the Fog Wall and he could not legally hold prisoners very long. He had already released Nick Acconcio (the Nick who had the hots for Dark-Lash). But Batman didn’t care about that and made no effort to question Tanzer.
Thursday, January 15, 1942
Blaze and Dark-Lash were still out with the cold they had contracted from Gracie and White Knight (Blaze would be aware that he doesn’t, as an android, normally get colds, but he has not told the others this yet). Batman, Gracie Heart, and White Knight decided they needed to get some answers, and the best place to find them would be the strange cellar under the abandoned house in the hilly region.
For much of our game session, we were resolving issues from the week of downtime.
First, the Heroes had to resolve the issue with Jack Gunnell. Jack had offered to ally with the Heroes instead of with mobsters like Nick’s gang. Batman, Gracie Heart, and White Knight met Jack at his restaurant to talk to him about it. Jack didn’t seem to care who he sided with as long as he had protection for his restaurant and employees. He envisioned law and order breaking down if the village’s imprisonment in the Fog Wall lasted too long.
White Knight wanted details about Jack’s alleged time spent working for The Shadow, but Jack refused to talk about that period of his life and countered that he was not prying into the Heroes’ privacy.
Indeed, privacy was one of the main considerations that made the Heroes ultimately choose to ally with Jack. It had been difficult sneaking in and out of the plane without drawing attention, since it was in the middle of a long field surrounded by houses and was supposedly off-limits. People still came and went often from Jack’s, allowing the Heroes to come and go any time they wanted when out of costume without drawing suspicion. Jack gave the women an upstairs guest room to share, while the three men had to settle for bedrolls in the wine cellar. The Heroes agreed to pay him $25 a week in exchange for food, lodging, and the use of his secret gym. Curiously, the door to the gym only opened for Jack.
Then there was the issue of Joe Dreschler, the director of public works, operating as a taxi service for mobsters leaving the south region for the village. Batman, Gracie, and White Knight trailed Joe’s van the very next night and saw him pick up a single hoodlum and deliver him to the Fischer Farm on the west side of town. Batman and White Knight finally discovered that they had both been to this same farm before -- it was both the farm where White Knight had broken up a dog fight ring before the Fog Wall fell, and the farm where Batman had rescued the comatose farmer from his crazy wife and taken him to the doctor’s office.
The Heroes surrounded the house. The hoodlum got the drop on Batman, but was still defeated by Batman. The crazy farmer’s wife, Mattie Fischer, held off both Gracie and White Knight with a shotgun until Batman joined them and they defeated her together. They rescued Mattie’s niece, Dorothy, who was hiding in a bedroom. The pretty young niece tried to give White Knight a kiss, but he wouldn’t take his full helmet off. Gracie claimed Mattie’s shotgun as a trophy.
They never did do anything about Joe, who drove away before all this started, nor did they find out what the hoodlum, George Merrick, was doing there. The Heroes were more interested in getting some positive news coverage out of this, so they called for the police and went back to Jack’s to wait for the next day’s issue of The Prospector. Sadly, the paper reported it as a break-in at the Fischer Farm, said Batman and White Knight were at the scene, but did not specify their involvement.
Batman dealt with the German Soldat (soldier) Wolf Tanzer very quickly. He turned Tanzer over to Police Chief Wittenberg. Wittenberg was incredulous that this was an actual German soldier, but agreed to hold him for questioning. But Wittenberg brought up an important issue -- that there was no courthouse within the Fog Wall and he could not legally hold prisoners very long. He had already released Nick Acconcio (the Nick who had the hots for Dark-Lash). But Batman didn’t care about that and made no effort to question Tanzer.
Thursday, January 15, 1942
Blaze and Dark-Lash were still out with the cold they had contracted from Gracie and White Knight (Blaze would be aware that he doesn’t, as an android, normally get colds, but he has not told the others this yet). Batman, Gracie Heart, and White Knight decided they needed to get some answers, and the best place to find them would be the strange cellar under the abandoned house in the hilly region.