Session 19
General Summary
This session, the party decided to investigate the missing children's case they had been seeing in the papers. To do so, they traveled to the location from which the children were disappearing; the New World Orphanage. There they saw the abysmal condition of the orphanage and met with its headmistress, Mother Krakenshine.
There they witnessed the lackluster living conditions of the orphans and the seeming lack of care permeating from Mother Krakenshine. They gently questioned the orphans about the disappearances and they appear to know nothing about them, having been told that the children who disappeared had been adopted. They also asked about their opinions of the two caretakers, Mother Krakenshine and Mother Wolfstrider. It was univerally agreed upon that Mother Krakenshine is terrible and Mother Wolfstrider is kind and caring.
In their investigation, the party discovered that there are two nuns currently working for the orphanage (Mother Krakenshine and Mother Wolfstrider), but there used to be three. The third one, Mother Stoneridge, had been expelled from her service at the orphanage for insubordination. The party went to speak with her about it and discovered that Mother Krakenshine is not only neglectful, but forcing her underlings to be neglectful too. Mother Stoneridge compared the orphanage to a prison; the children are locked in their rooms constantly with barred windows and nothing to help them pass the time.
After some deliberation, the party chose to stay the night at the orphanage, as that is when the orphans were disappearing. That night, nothing happened. They then spent the day looking into the rat problem. Maybe it is related to the disappearing orphans? They saw fist-hand that the rats had gotten much bigger (ranging from the size of a boar to the size of a bear) and were appearing in greater volumes. They decided to commission the construction of a boar-sized cage made of steel from the famed local artificer, Soggy Steelballs. The cage only cost them 500GP and would be shipped to their home address in about three days. They then headed back to the orphanage to continue their investigation of that case.
Since the disappearnaces had not been happening every night, the party decided to stay another night: nothing happend. One more night ought to do it: again nothing. Nothing, except for a story from little Tim Tim about a shadow at the window watching him; not a lot to go off of. Nonetheless, the party investigated the window and noted that the bars on the window seemed to be coming lose; like something was unscrewing them from the outside. This was unlikely since they were on the second story, but not impossible.
Perhaps it was an inside job and the culprit knew not to attempt anything because the party was there. The party suspects Mother Krakenshine of having something to do with this, so they came up with a plan for Claudia to trail Mother Krakenshine while the rest of the party looks over the orphans.
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