With Blood Rune locations in possession, and war coming to Shan Fan, posse decides to head South to try and avoid possible complications
At request from Lacy O’Malley group travels to Shannonsberg to investigate possibility of Andrew Lane – a union official – coming to Confederate territory
On the way down, stopover made in Dragon’s Breath to sell Trevor’s stolen goods from Shan Fan
Dr. Lee and Augustus Klein III negotiate the sale surreptitiously, but notice a lot of military activity in the town
Completion of journey to Shannonsberg. Asking around town reveals rumours of a few outsiders, but nothing concrete.
Hank Sanders takes opportunity to have a doctor amputate his ghost-rock powered arm, as he believes it is an abomination
Fergus O’Brannigan challenged to a fight by a Chinese kung-fu master. Fergus wins the brawl, and is recruited by Red Petals Su as a replacement body guard
Augustus finds rumours that Black River railway personnel are also spotted in town
Fergus sends a telegram to Dr. Vanessa Hellstromme informing them of their location on a hunch, receives a return messages saying leave town immediately.
Everyone panics.
End of Play – May 4th, 1880th
h2. Time to Church Gathering – 110 Days
Trevor commands rune to possess body of guard, they have a conversation where the Rune swears vengeance at the party having made it take a life.
Hank asks the Rune to bring Blackburn back to life – which it does.
In an attempt to placate them, the posse destroys the rune, then Hank re-draws it in his own blood – costing him a part of his own vitality in the process.
To prevent Blackburn from further experimentations, Dr. Lee uses Mad Science to seal the cave, and then create a new one which the posse re-decorates to look like the original dig and blame the whole thing on ghost rock madness.
Dr. Blackburn’s journal retrieved, revealing the location of three more Blood Runes.
End of Play – April 30, 1880
h2. Time to Church Gathering – 115 Days
Party gathers information and supplies to journey to the Isle of Ghost’s Tears, in search of a Blood Rune.
Big Ears Tam informs posse that the island was to be home to a palatial retreat for him, before mysterious deaths of his workers stopped that plan. He hired exorcists and sends disloyal minions there, none have returned
Group loads up on salt and other ghost-banishing materials at Augustus Klein’s recommendation
Early the next morning, group lands very close to a cave on the island. Dr. Lee believes she can hear singing, the rest of the group cannot
Posse meets Genjia, an exorcist who claims to be able to repel ghosts that emerge at night. Dr. Lee notices odd arcane flashes from birds
Group travels to pagoda at the centre of the island. Trevor first notices spectral shape of woman in the middle of the first floor, none can hear.
Fergus suggests burning down the pagoda, and a rock barely misses his head from outside. He retreats.
Augustus carefully ventures to the second floor to find a long-dead woman lying there, but is attacked upon trying to investigate
Group returns to Genjia’s cave, and Fergus attempts to swim through a pool at the back to find the rune. He is successful, but also finds ghosts who try to kill him.
Posse splits. Augustus, Hank Sanders and Genjia go to fight ghosts. Trevor, Dr Lee and Fergus try to swim to the Rune during the distraction.
Genjia quickly overcome by ghosts. Augustus and Hank fight them off with ghost rock and prayer bullets, but the woman from the pagoda awakens and fights them.
Genjia revives during the fight, and swallows the soul of the woman. He then fights Hank and Augustus, but is defeated.
Ghosts fade from the island, the Rune infiltration group are successful.
Dillinger also gives a telegram from Lacy O’Malley that Andrea Baird has taken Guardian Angels on a trip North.
Rune to the East of Shan Fan sought as it is the closest to their location. Edgar Thornby re-hired to escort them to search the area.
Team splits into two. Contacts two ranches, the Conway and the Hester ranches.
Hank Sanders and Trevor locate a crashed train in the middle of the desert that the group decides to investigate the next day
At night, Fergus O’Brannigan and Dr. Lee successfully help to fight off a group of Gyonshee – Chinese vampires
In the morning, the train is a crashed, experimental Wasatch train, with Black River operatives lying dead nearby. Other than the dead conductor, no other Wasatch personnel found
Tracks found leading away to another group of dead Witches. Augustus Klein III finds indication of a collapse into a fissure – a likely hiding spot for a Rune
Daniel Conway found spying on them nearby. Afraid they’re going to take his injured father away from them. Half of group goes to talk to father, other half goes into cave.
Fergus and Hank descend into the Cave to find the Rune of Soul buried under the ground
Remainder of the group meet Daniel’s father – a Hellstromme Automaton that seems to be acting as if it was once alive…
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