Witch Hunt

From Gothpoodle

Contents 1 Sessions 2 Plot 3 Connections 4 New NPCs 5 Scenes 5.1 Hard Questions 5.2 Assignment 5.3 Scared Witness 5.4 Winter Court Ambush 6 Trial 6.1 Trial (Monday) 6.2 Trial (Tuesday) 6.3 Trial (Wednesday) 6.4 Trial (Thursday) 6.5 Trial (Friday)

Sessions

• 2011-01-08
• 2011-01-15

Plot

Liv Vandenberg goes on trial for kidnapping and attempted murder, but pleads not guilty, claiming her husband was the ring-leader and she was abused and forced to participate.

Connections

• The evil in the city working to get Liv out of jail so she can do the Imperator's work.
  • SOMETHING'S ROTTEN IN FRISCO (City)
  • COLD, CALCULATING BITCH (Liv)
• Maddy begins her apprenticeship with Eva and asks some hard questions.
  • WORRIED ABOUT DADDY (Maddy)
  • MOTHERHOOD'S A BITCH (Eva)
• Daisy is drawn to court to support Tina, who's credibility as a witness is attacked.
  • ALWAYS THERE WHEN YOU NEED HER (Daisy)
  • HOMELESS FORMER JUNKIE (Tina)
• Tolliver is bound by the Laws of Magic but Deirdre has no such limitations.
  • WHITE COUNCIL PATRIOT (Tolliver)
  • LOYAL SERVANT OF THE FAE (Deirdre)

New NPCs

• Liv Vandenberg, diabolist and host of Lilith
• ADA Kevin Chan (Scholarship +3, Presence +2, Rapport +2)
• Ricardo Perez (Scholarship +3, Deceit +2, Rapport +2)
• Experts (+3 on appropriate skill)

Scenes

Hard Questions

• Location: Eva's apartment (Sunday morning)
• Participants: Eva Dubois, Maddy Barnes, others?
• Setup: Maddy arrives for the beginning of her apprenticeship. Asks about magic fixing her father. Needs help constructing foci to help her Evocation control.

Assignment

• Location: Shrine of Vinyl (Sunday afternoon)
• Participants: Tolliver Pritchard, Robin Wheeler
• Setup: Robin asks Tolliver to attend Liv's trial as his first Warden-in-training assignment.

Scared Witness

• Location: Daisy's backroom (Monday night)
• Participants: Daisy Mae McGraw, Tina Yates
• Setup: Tina is terrified about testifying tomorrow and her junkie instincts are kicking in.

Winter Court Ambush

• Location: Nevernever (Tuesday night)
• Participants: Hector Salazar, The Reaper, Four Malks, Troll
• Zones: Path (x5), Forest (x10+)
• Aspects: MOONLIT NIGHT, ELDRITCH WOOD
• Setup: Hector and the Malks sneak up (Stealth +5) and attack the party. The Troll and Reaper appear on the road in either direction and move in. Hector and the Malks will retreat as soon as they take anything higher than a Mild Consequence. The Reaper and the Troll won't retreat.
• Initiative: Hector and Malks: Epic (+7), Reaper and Troll: Fair (+2)

Trial

All rolls are modified by Scholarship, but are generally social rolls (Rapport, Empathy, Intimidation, Presence, Deceit, Performance). Opening and closing remarks allow direct influence of the jury (Obstruct and Move Another). Otherwise, they focus on the witnesses (Attack and Maneuver).

Trial (Monday)

• Opening Remarks (lawyer vs lawyer to influence the jury)
• Bo's Testimony
• Prosecution Forensic Experts (set the scene, dead man)

Trial (Tuesday)

• Liv's Psychiatric Evaluation (Severe Consequence: Enthralled by Liv, consider a defense witness)
• Stefan's Testimony (if Liv's allowed to touch him, +6 lust block to testifying against her)
• Tina's Testimony

Trial (Wednesday)

• Defense Forensic Experts (question autopsy and dead man, pick apart scene)
• Character Witnesses Against Tina (heroin junkie, mentally ill)

Trial (Thursday)

• Character Witnesses For Liv (shattered after death of her child)
• Liv's Psychiatric Evaluation (battered spouse syndrome)
• Liv's Testimony

Trial (Friday)

• Closing Remarks (lawyer vs lawyer to influence the jury)
• Jury Deliberation:
  • [ ] Guilty (an afternoon)
  • [ ] Guilty (a day)
  • [ ] Guilty (a few days)
  • [ ] Hung (a few days)
  • [ ] Hung (a day)
  • [ ] Hung (a few days)
  • [ ] Innocent (a few days)
  • [ ] Innocent (a day)
  • [ ] Innocent (an afternoon)