Midnight Visitors
Becky caught the train to Inverness, her friend Roxanne had a small house just outside the town and Becky was able to get a taxi with no trouble, her other best friend Gabrielle Ross was there as well, she would now have three heads to think about the problem that her beloved Dad had given her.
On the train journey up to Inverness she had had time to look through the journal that her father had left, most of it made little sense reading it for the first time but enough to realize that she would be setting out on a difficult and maybe dangerous undertaking, and she was not sure where or how to start or even if she wished go at all.
They had a riotous evening catching up on each others lives since they last met which was all of 3 months before, the malt whiskey evaporated on the breeze, at least it seemed like it because the first bottle was long gone and the second following it when they decided that they had to rest their heads on a soft pillow. Becky had raised the subject of the journal briefly but a full discussion was set for tomorrow, if their hangovers would stand it.
Roxanne’s house in Scotland, not far from Inverness, but quite remote.
The heroines Becky, Gabrielle and Roxanne. That Kev White can sure sculpt a sexy bottom. Umm maybe I shouldn’t have said that.
Around about turn 2 the bad guys arrive at the end of the driveway leading to the house. Boris is one of the henchmen of Count Spaarkes, in the previous game it was the Biker that Becky asked directions from who was being paid to keep an eye out for anyone approaching George Phelpps house and he had immediately informed Boris of this. Then he and a number of his mates had caught the following train up to Inverness. Bad dice roll for Becky as it could have been 3 to 6 bad guys and she got 6, this was to be a bit of a reoccurring theme in this game.
There are 13 encounter markers on the board, for obvious reasons most of them are in the house, for each marker I turn over a playing card from a deck to randomise it and the encounters are:-
Ace – The journal and files that the bad guys are after, if they find this they will also drop a clue as to how the Girls can locate them.
2 – Nothing
3 – Nothing
4 – Nothing but they also drop a clue as to their whereabouts.
5 – Squeaky Floorboard, roll under awareness to wake up.
6 – Grandfather Clock chimes, roll under awareness to wake up.
7 – Dog
8 – Additional friend of Becky, there will be 6 friends written into the story eventually so this could have been between 1 and 3 people.
9 – Roxanne and Gabrielle’s guns, these are registered to them and would be locked in a gun cabinet.
10 – Becky’s guns, these are not registered and are illegal, would be still wrapped and boxed as received from her Dad.
Jack – Roxanne
Queen – Gabrielle
King – Becky
Turn 3 the guys arrive at the car parked in the drive, I checked the encounter marker and strangely it was a Jack, so Roxanne was in the car, as this was the middle of the night I thought this cann’t be right, so I put the card back and shuffled the deck and drew the top card and it was a Jack, so it must have been Roxanne, it transpired the following day that because of the snoring coming from Gabrielle’s room she had not been able to sleep, so went down stairs and tried to go to sleep on the sofa, but this time because of the dog snoring she still could not sleep and had eventually gone outside and fallen asleep in the car. The problem was that with the whiskey, and the snoring she was so tired at this stage that when the bad guys came creeping round she was dead to the world and did not wake until too late.
Turn 4 Boris quietly opened the car door and using a chloroform pad he ensured poor Roxanne would continue sleeping. She was bound and gagged this took them 4 turns and was only just achieved before she woke up and shouted to raise the alarm. Boris passed his brains test and decided to leave a guard, Big Dave, which is a shame as I had written a quick rule for anyone tied up to be able to escape.
Turn 9
Big Dave guarding Roxanne and the rest of the guys move on.
Turn 10 – because Roxanne had gone to sleep in the car she had left the house door unlocked and so the guys just walked in quietly. On the hall table was a box, this was Becky’s guns but as they were not after these the guys continued through the house.
Turn 11 – Boris nearly jumped out of his skin, the Grandfather clock started chiming, this woke Becky as she was not used to the noise but Gabrielle slept through. This now meant that any unknown noise would cause alarm until she fell back asleep in 3 turns from now.
Turn 12 Boris goes into the dining room and find the additional friends, this could have been between 1 and 3 of them, I threw a 1 so only Susanne Gunn, she had arrived later than the others so was still up, drinking whiskey no doubt, something has to explain her inertia. Dutch goes into the kitchen and finds Wolfgang the Wolfhound, he must have been drinking whiskey as well and Eight Ball goes into the Living Room and finds the whiskey but no one else. Ok this is when the sh*t will hit the fan.
Susanne wins the insight test and goes 1st, 1,2 she screams, 3,4 she picks up a candle stick and attacks, 5 she picks up a dinning knife and attacks, 6 she is stunned and does nothing. – she rolls a 6 and stands there, Boris advances hits her with a good punch to the stomach which knocks the wind out of her, and then he follows up with a quick crack to the head and she is down and out for 5 moves, plenty of time for him to bind and gag her, he is getting in some practice, it’s also becoming a bit of a bondage story I think, bit worried about that.
Wolfgang is asleep, 1,2,3 he wakes and attacks, 4,5 he wakes and barks, 6 he sleeps on. What do you know he rolls a 6 and sleeps on, Dutch quietly backs out of the room, closes the door and breaths a sigh of relief.
Turn 13, 3 of the guys go upstairs on to the landing.
Turn 14 Tank goes into the Bedroom, the door squeaks which alerts Becky but she is not in this room and so takes it for one of the other girls in the house, the room is empty apart from a locked gun cabinet, not what he is looking for. Billy Joe finds nothing in the bathroom, only two more rooms to go.
Turn 15 – Dutch goes into the 2nd bedroom and bingo, he finds the files and journal that they are searching for, he is so exited that he does not realize that he has dropped some paper from his back pocket, this is a hotel bill, and also a car rental agreement, if you remember there were 2 encounters where they would drop a clue that would give some way for the girls to find them if everything went wrong, both these encounters were in the same room and things were going very wrong.
Eight Ball goes into the last bedroom and finds Becky and Gabrielle in there. (In separate beds, crickey I know that there has been a bit of bondage but that’s as far as it goes. Becky is awake but Gabrielle is still asleep. “In here guys” shouts Eight Ball as he rushes across the room and gets in 3 solid punches before Becky disentangle herself from the bedding.
Turn 16 Gabrielle wakes but fails to activate, she is stunned from the whiskey and the deep sleep, Eight Ball hits Becky twice more and she goes down and out. Billy Joe and Tank run into the room and leap across to the bed on top of Gabrielle and with their combined strength easily overpower her, both girls are then bound and gagged.
The guys head on down stairs whooping and laughing, pleased it has been such easy money. They quickly leave the house having got the documents they came for without any real effort, Boris pays them off and they catch the next train south.
The girls ummm, well I said there were some rules to get free and eventually they did, but way too late, seems like a complete disaster until Roxanne finds the hotel bill for 5 people for 1 night at the Swan Hotel Inverness and a car hire agreement in the name of Boris Baedeker with an address of the Swan Hotel Inverness. Could this be a clue !!!! dern de d dern dern as the music goes in the movies. The scene fades to black. Will there be a next episode, is there a budget for one, who is Boris, is he really a KGB thug as Mark Copplestone would have us believe or is there more to him than that?
To be continued ......
27 June 2011, 04:35:43 AM
