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Laconic: How did the Cabal get Joan's notebook?

H22 wrote:Laconic: How did the Cabal get Joan's notebook?

They read the forum? They knew things in advance? Morgan was a physic too?

One of the Cabal (likely Moriarty; we never bothered to establish specifically whom) simply hired someone to pick it up for them. It's not hard to find someone willing to go to a restaurant, pick up a notebook, and give it to you for $50 or $100.

As for how they knew to pick it up - they were looking for other fictionals for possible recruitment, after all. They were keeping track of the therapist as well.

The Wild West Pyro wrote:Morgan was a physic too?

What's a physic?

Rick Healey wrote:One of the Cabal (likely Moriarty; we never bothered to establish specifically whom) simply hired someone to pick it up for them. It's not hard to find someone willing to go to a restaurant, pick up a notebook, and give it to you for $50 or $100.

As for how they knew to pick it up - they were looking for other fictionals for possible recruitment, after all. They were keeping track of the therapist as well.

Of course. It's just there were a lot of people at the time saying 'OH NO THIS MUST MEAN THE CABAL HAVE TENTAXKES EVERYWHERE!!!' We probably should have realised the prosaic answer. .

H22 wrote:

Rick Healey wrote:One of the Cabal (likely Moriarty; we never bothered to establish specifically whom) simply hired someone to pick it up for them. It's not hard to find someone willing to go to a restaurant, pick up a notebook, and give it to you for $50 or $100.

As for how they knew to pick it up - they were looking for other fictionals for possible recruitment, after all. They were keeping track of the therapist as well.

Of course. It's just there were a lot of people at the time saying 'OH NO THIS MUST MEAN THE CABAL HAVE TENTAXKES EVERYWHERE!!!' We probably should have realised the prosaic answer. .

Tentaxkes? Are those like tentacles with axe blades at the end?

I'm honestly fond of using the simplest solution for a problem. If we needed the Cabal to have hundreds of shadowy agents under them later, we could establish that later. But we're talking about them doing an activity that didn't require any stealth, anything illegal, or their personal involvement. It's really not hard to find someone - anyone, really - who'd do that task for them for a nominal fee.

On the other hand, I think your collective reaction showed that we were doing a great job with immersion and confusing the players, which was gratifying.

Rick Healey wrote:

H22 wrote:

Rick Healey wrote:One of the Cabal (likely Moriarty; we never bothered to establish specifically whom) simply hired someone to pick it up for them. It's not hard to find someone willing to go to a restaurant, pick up a notebook, and give it to you for $50 or $100.

As for how they knew to pick it up - they were looking for other fictionals for possible recruitment, after all. They were keeping track of the therapist as well.

Of course. It's just there were a lot of people at the time saying 'OH NO THIS MUST MEAN THE CABAL HAVE TENTAXKES EVERYWHERE!!!' We probably should have realised the prosaic answer. .

Tentaxkes? Are those like tentacles with axe blades at the end?

I'm honestly fond of using the simplest solution for a problem. If we needed the Cabal to have hundreds of shadowy agents under them later, we could establish that later. But we're talking about them doing an activity that didn't require any stealth, anything illegal, or their personal involvement. It's really not hard to find someone - anyone, really - who'd do that task for them for a nominal fee.

On the other hand, I think your collective reaction showed that we were doing a great job with immersion and confusing the players, which was gratifying.

Tentaxkes are awesome. Originally, someone tried a few rather dodgy GM experiments of Cthulhu, and it just got a bit out of hand.....