To Shimohi

I really wish blogger had PMs so I could just send a message...
Well.. any way, most of this is for Shimohi regarding me now realizing I should allow her to play my campaign. Whether you read it or not is your own choice

Any way, Shimohi, I take back in retrospect the idea that you should not play because of what you heard about the game.

The  idea was that I wanted a fresh group with legitimate reactions (besides my own character who I was thinking to make take a back seat any way)...
I wanted it to be as natural from all involved as possible.
I was also slightly worried about controlling possible reactions from both of us to various things you may have heard us talk about, however I suppose that's only a minor consideration and not likely to have any affect...

Since you insist on playing the campaign, which may very well be changed drastically from its original form any way depending on what I decide to do, I'll let you do that.

Turns out to not let you play it feels like a rude punishment more than anything else and you'd probably still be sitting at the table any  way so at least part of that element would still be there..

Besides, given that I'm new to this, probably have no idea what I am talking about or how it will turn out, and  also the fact that this campaign will mostly suck because of those facts, I am taking this too seriously.

Apostle: Prologue-ish (Week 1. in-game date: Monday, day 1 [EXACT DATES COMING SOON])

God I hope I did this okay.


STORY THUS FAR:

Crimes have been linked to a Catholic priest named Aaron Lawrence. Its been all over the national news.
Unfortunately, the media has gone more than a bit overboard on this case.
The story has been so muddied with exaggerations and rumours that even the crimes linked to this can be difficult to follow. Murders, kidnappings, conspiracies... All of varying degrees of veracity yet still even mostly staying within the far-far-fetched. There's even a chain-mail letter about it.
Here are the few facts mostly everyone feels certain of:
>Six children have gone missing. Kidnapping is suspected. Their livelihood is uncertain.
>Priest Aaron Lawrence has also recently gone missing.
>All of these six children knew and trusted Aaron Lawrence. Aaron Lawrence is the prime suspect, and by all (reasonable...) accounts the most likely perpetrator.
>Law enforcement is hampered by the attention given to this case.

At the Lucky Labrador bar in Portland, three men, ([Spazalicious Chaos], [Bravador], and [Mr. T]) are made witness to this news via muted plasma-screen.
By chance a couple had recently sat down at this bar and the three men had noticed their paling  expressions.
Spazilicous walks up to the couple to comfort them (and while doing so catches a glimpse at the TV mentioning substantial rewards for information leading to the location of the children and apprehension of the suspect. ).

Upon Spaz's inquiry, the man utters "Emily... they took our daughter...".
Spazilicious questions them about how she knew Lawrence and various other details... they respond in a somewhat bewildered fashion, not expecting such a sudden stranger to be asking questions about the recently realized  (improvise, they said...) disappearance of their daughter.

In this way, the group discovers the following:
>Name of one missing child is Emily.
>Emily and her family attended a church called Grotto of Our Sorrowful Mother, which Aaron Lawrence preached at.

The distraught couple then leave the bar.

The group agrees to go after the priest, though Bravador does this under the condition that he doesn't put himself too much at risk and to mostly do research that won't bring him any trouble. Spazilicoius then comments about this is why he's only earning 30%, but Bravador silently thinks to himself that this is not how rewards work.

 Finding a line to get their from the Lucky Labrador that takes 3 hours  (which is interesting considering that if you check Google maps it appears it may only takes about 45 minutes).

The group successfully doesn't miss their stop. Going inside the church, they see a clergyman heading towards the exit.
Spaz stops the man and begins questioning him about Father Aaron Lawrence. Without thinking too much about their motives, the absent-minded priest divulges his information quite willingly, and just as the group notices him pausing to think, they quickly exit the church, leaving the priest to stand their for a few moments before suddenly realizing his keys are missing and rushing back...

From the clearly very low wisdom priest - which is incredibly interesting for a priest - we gather the following:
>Name of one  missing child is Tim Belfer
>His mother is Karen Belfer
>Karen works at Horsepark Elementary as a schoolteacher
>Karen Belfer is a single mother
>He also gave us the address of Horsepark Elementary

It is now rather late.
The party all returns to their respective homes arriving back home quite possibly at past midnight.



NOTES ON APOSTLE:

This is mostly for me... I'll organize it all later.

*I also want to find a way to to keep track of your character sheets without having you actively hand them to me all the time... If I can get them in electronic form, that would be especially nice.. Granted, I still might have to copy them.
I have trouble keeping track of things but I do need a copy of your character sheets.. I suppose a physical copy may have to do.
This will be an interesting problem to solve. I suppose I have to go get a folder.