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--- dark_conspiracy:chicago_synopsis [2020/02/17 12:29] – mike_holmes
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-====== Synopsis 1 ======
+The first synopsis of events in the [[Chicago - a Cold Wind Blows#synopses|Chicago - a Cold Wind Blows]] campaign since its beginning until Spring of 2016:
 ===== Hot Winds Blow Things In =====
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 ===== Winds From the Depths =====
-That night, a curio store owner named Cas Vandal gets a call on a disconnected phone from a boy named Bobby Frank who asks for him to track down Mai Lewandon, so she can find him in the tunnels under Chicago. Cas sets out the next day to find her. Mai and Leo track Panix down at a synagogue in the south part of the "Downtown Dreamland," but as they are about to enter Cas approaches Mai and tells them about the call. They discuss it, and Cas agrees to go with them to search, but needs to go back to his shop to get some things first. In the meanwhile they update Panix on what has happened, and she admits she has information on the order of sorcerers to which Spenser belongs. They table that, and she agrees to help then with whatever Cas is up against.
+==== An Eerie Call ====
+That night, a curio store owner named Cas Vandal gets a call on a disconnected phone from a boy named Bobby Frank who asks for him to track down Mai Lewandon, so she can find him in the tunnels under Chicago. Cas sets out the next day to find her. Mai and Leo track Panix down at a synagogue in the south part of the "Downtown Dreamland," but as they are about to enter Cas approaches Mai and tells them about the call. They discuss it, and Cas agrees to go with them to search, but needs to go back to his shop to get some things first.
+In the meanwhile they update Panix on what has happened, and she admits she has information on the order of sorcerers to which Spenser belongs. They table that, and she agrees to help then with whatever Cas is up against.
 They head to Crafty's and Panix fills them in on The White Circle, warning that they may have to face Ann's mate, Matt. And she admits she was once a member of the order herself. They discuss what might be done about the circle, but come to no conclusions. They finish their drinks and head to Cas' shop.
-Once with Cas, they get another call on the dead phone from Bobby, who clues them in to the fact that he's probably in the sewer just a few doors down the street. Cas throws the phone away, and leads them into the street to a manhole cover with a lock on it. They proceed to break the lock and descend, They follow strange striations on the wall around a corner to a corpse covered in some sort of creeping fungus or the like. The striations on the walls seem to be drawing blood from the corpse which seems like it might actually still be a live person. As they get close, the corpse surges forth and tries to tackle Mai. Cas shoots it, and Mai is covered with gore. Panix is out of it, and Leo carries her to safety.
+==== Finding a Dead Boy ====
-After they calm down Mai goes back to get a box that was on a pedestal behind the corpse thing. When she touches it, she sees vision of a scene from the 1920s of the road above, and 3 boys in a car. 2 of the boys kill the other. After this, everyone exits the sewer. Cas, freaked out, runs back to his shop, and locks himself inside. They siphon gas from a car, intending to use it to burn the tunnel out. As they do this, they note a very slim woman in a DPW coverall making a cell call sureptitiously. They hide, and the woman goes down into the sewer. Mai can feel something off about her. Leo pegs her for a murderous sociopathic sort. They descend back into the sewer, and the woman pulls a gun on them. Mai drops the gas and shoots it, spraying it all over before it catches on fire and lights up the whole sewer, and they scramble to the surface and into Leo's car, speeding away into the night.
+Once with Cas, they get another call on the dead phone from Bobby, who clues them in to the fact that he's probably in the sewer just a few doors down the street. Cas throws the phone away, and leads them into the street to a manhole cover with a lock on it. They proceed to break the lock and descend, and follow strange striations on the wall around a corner to a corpse covered in some sort of creeping fungus or the like. The striations on the walls seem to be drawing blood from the corpse which seems like it might actually still be a live person.
+As they get close, the corpse surges forth and tries to tackle Mai. Cas shoots it, and Mai is covered with gore. Panix is out of it, and Leo carries her to safety.
+After they calm down Mai goes back to get a box that was on a pedestal behind the corpse thing. When she touches it, she sees vision of a scene from the 1920s of the road above, and 3 boys in a car. 2 of the boys kill the other. After this, everyone exits the sewer.
+==== Who is Behind It? ====
+Cas, freaked out, runs back to his shop, and locks himself inside. They siphon gas from a car, intending to use it to burn the tunnel out. As they do this, they note a very slim woman in a DPW coverall making a cell call surreptitiously. They hide, and the woman goes down into the sewer.
+Mai can feel something off about her, and Leo pegs her for a murderous sociopathic sort. They descend back into the sewer, and the woman pulls a gun on them. Mai drops the gas and shoots it, spraying it all over before it catches on fire and lights up the whole sewer, and they scramble to the surface and into Leo's car, speeding away into the night.
+==== A Long Drive ====
 Leo starts driving south without thinking about it much, heading into uncontrolled territory of the south side where it's good and dark on the streets. A cycle gang ends up pouring out and surrounding the car, so Leo stops. Things look bad until the leader of the gang turns out to be Pull, a guy that Leo has dealt with before. He demands they give up their guns to him, and Leo's badge, and then flirts with Mai. But he eventually lets them ride off.
 Leo goes back to the base, dropping Mai off at home. He has a talk with Snapshot about maybe working his way into becoming a second in command, capable of taking over leadership if she herself should at some point not be available for that role. He says he'll consider it.
+==== Everyday Life? ====
 In her office the next day, Mai gets drunk and angry and destroys her computer. Linked to her now, somehow, Cas hears much of her rambling in his head as he sleeps, and they have a sort of conversation.
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 ===== Chasing Phantoms of Air =====
-After talking about it for a while, they decide that they ought to follow up on Mai's missing person's case, before that goes too cold. They drive to the CCEV, and demand to see one of the corporate officers, but are set in a waiting room to cool. They eventually say enough to convince the chief of security named Corsecci to come talk to them. Mai distracts him long enough for Leo to do a little digging in their computer files. Leo finds that Maria worked for a Dr. Seabach, and that Rosa was assigned to cleaning the area of the medical wing that Dr. Seaback oversees... and something about Seabach being in charge of something called Operation Teddy Bear, along with an assistant, head nurse Linda Patrick. They leave, feeling that the situation has gotten very dangerous.
+==== CCEHV ====
+After talking about it for a while, they decide that they ought to follow up on Mai's missing person's case, before that goes too cold. They drive to the CCEV, and demand to see one of the corporate officers, but are set in a waiting room to cool. They eventually say enough to convince the chief of security named Corsecci to come talk to them. Mai distracts him long enough for Leo to do a little digging in their computer files.
+Leo finds that Maria worked for a Dr. Seabach, and that Rosa was assigned to cleaning the area of the medical wing that Dr. Seaback oversees... and something about Seabach being in charge of something called Operation Teddy Bear, along with an assistant, head nurse Linda Patrick. They leave, feeling that the situation has gotten very dangerous.
+==== Investigating the Missing Woman ====
+They consider all of the [[facts of the case]] that they've been able to track down, while having a hotdog on the last nice day of summer. They decide to talk a bit more to Barbara Levi. She eventually does mention that Rosa and her guy ate at a Thai restaurant. There they determine from a credit receipt that the boyfriend's name was Victor Danielski who worked in IT at the CCEV.
+They find Danielski at his apartment, but he seems reticent to talk out loud, finally passing them a note that says he'll meet with them. They have a cloak & Dagger meeting at Denny's, where he's so paranoid he insists that they drive further to some place even more secluded before he'll talk.
+Once there, he spills that he was threatened not to look into Rosa's disappearance, and that he thinks he knows what she was up to on the day she disappeared. He had gotten her access to the files of Rosevelt and Judy Flyte, retirees, and adoptive parents of one of the children of the creche. Victor also says that Seabach is clearly bad.
+==== The Flytes ====
+They go to see the Flytes, and after questioning them for a bit, Roosevelt levels a gun at Leo and Judy's hand transforms into a blade somehow that she holds at Mai's throat. The tables turned, the couple start asking Leo and Mai questions about their investigation.
-They consider all of the [[facts of the case]] that they've been able to track down, while having a hotdog on the last nice day of summer. They decide to talk a bit more to Barbara Levi. She eventually does mention that Rosa and her guy ate at a Thai restaurant. There they determine from a credit receipt that the boyfriend's name was Victor Danielski who worked in IT at the CCEV. The find Danielski at his apartment, but he seems reticent to talk out loud, finally passing them a note that says he'll meet with them. They have a cloak & Dagger meeting at Denny's, where he's so paranoid he insists that they drive further to some place even more secluded before he'll talk. Once there, he spills that he was threatened not to look into Rosa's disappearance, and that he thinks he knows what she was up to on the day she disappeared. He had gotten her access to the files of Rosevelt and Judy Flyte, retirees, and adoptive parents of one of the children of the creche. Victor also says that Seabach is clearly bad.
+Mai mentally assaults Roosevelt with her memories of fearsome things she's seen, and he takes off running, clearly much faster than any septuagenarian could manage. Leo draws on Judy who surrenders. Judy tells them there's no child, and starts singing the praises of Dr. Seabach, and how he's creating great projects.
-They go to see the Flytes, and after questioning them for a bit, Roosevelt levels a gun at Leo and Judy's hand transforms into a blade somehow that she holds at Mai's throat. The tables turned, the couple start asking Leo and Mai questions about their investigation. Mai mentally assaults Roosevelt with her memories of fearsome things she's seen, and he takes off running, clearly much faster than any septegenarian could manage. Leo draws on Judy who surrenders. Judy tells them there's no child, and starts singing the praises of Dr. Seabach, and how he's creating great projects. She can't keep up with the repartee (clearly being somewhat deranged) so she lunges at Leo. Mai shoots Judy, revealing black armor coating under the skin. They shoot her several more times, including once in the head, which stuns her. After brawling on a bit more, Mai finally puts a bullet through her eye-socket, which puts her out, perhaps dead.
+She can't keep up with the repartee (clearly being somewhat deranged) so she lunges at Leo. Mai shoots Judy, revealing black armor coating under the skin. They shoot her several more times, including once in the head, which stuns her. After brawling on a bit more, Mai finally puts a bullet through her eye-socket, which puts her out, perhaps dead.
 When looking for a bit of rope with which to tie Judy up, Mai finds blood and gore in the bathtub. She takes a sample of it, and then scrawls a message in the blood in the front room for Roosevelt (and Dr. Seabach).
+----
+===== Other Synopses =====
+  * Synopsis 2 is not yet written
+  * On to [[Chicago Synopsis 3|Synopsis 3]]

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