Adventures in Beast World - Session 22 - Lost Memories of Lost Children

Session Date: 2024-04-30 10 Saattaa 1365 The crew wakes the next morning and gathers at the Rusty Nail to meet with Fennek. Stacy is suspiciously absent from breakfast, due to illness. Finding Fennek enjoying breakfast at a table in the corner, when the crew makes to join him, things go a bit sideways. Fennek tells the crew he has no memory of ever speaking with them before, and certainly not of inviting them to breakfast. When the crew explains how they met and saved Ghemli, Fennek starts to get agitated and insists that he has no son. As the crew continues to press, Fennek becomes more agitated. The crew steps away for a private conference, at which point Fennek gets up and leaves. Butch, the bartender stops by the crew as he clears plates giving them a little warning about making impressions on important people in the city. He does also mention that Castillian, a reporter at the Daily Scoop has been "bothering people with baseless stories of nonexistent children." While all this is going on, Charon, can't help but overhear what the crew has been inquiring after. While a little surprised at first to encounter a jackal, the crew engages with Charon, who has been in town a few days and been looking into these disappearances. After sharing some coffee, they decide to continue the investigation together. The crew, with the addition of Charon head over to The Daily Scoop to chat with Castillian and see what he knows about what is going on. Upon arrival at the offices, the female tradewind receptionist basically ushers them strait in to see Castillian when they mention missing children. Upon entering the office, it is clear that this reporter is somewhat obsessed with this story he is chasing. He is very interested in any information that the crew has, and also eager to share with other people who actually recognize that something is going on. He shows them his "murder board" and as the crew shuffle through notes and clippings around the office they discover interesting bits of information. It becomes apparent to the crew that only people with little to know relationship to the town or the kids remembers that they existed. This seems to explain why the crew and Charon remember these children. They find a newspaper clipping that dates back multiple decades, talking about similar occurrences, and El finds a photo in a smashed frame on the floor of a child whose name appears to be Harley. When They ask Castillian about the photo they see that he can't really focus on it at all and says he has no idea who it is. El also picks up a file about the stable boy. The crew does also uncover more signs that could point at this Church of the Black Rose that they keep hearing about. Feeling like they have enough to go on, the crew regroups and makes a plan to continue their investigations. Fynn wants to head over to Fennek's house and do some snooping and the others make a quick trip to Fluff's shop in town. Fynn is able to do some reconnaissance as he polymorphs into a spider. He discovers that Fennek's hose does indeed have a room that appears to belong to a young pup. The crew reconvenes at the Inn, finding Stacy is up and about, they take a moment to fill her in before heading out to their next point of interest.