The Unappreciated Man Session 1

Having recovered from Hershel’s party, gnome mage Eric Smith, and child impersonator/thief Terry Grey ran errands in the heart of London, as consulting detective wolfman J. Wolfington III suffered a terrific hangover.
The halfling checked on the repairs to his armored coat, then researched sewer ghouls and underground societies of London at the library. Returning to the Mages Guild, Smith consulted various experts on the magical dagger he found, but they were all puzzled. The experts were able only to recognize that it was cursed, as Smith is unable to hand it over to anyone without it appearing back on his person immediately. He spent the night at the Guild hall studying a new spell.

Regrouping the next day, Smith and a newly rearmored Grey grabbed Hershel and headed to the Metropolitan Board of Works for a more thorough investigation.

Grey asked the porter for a listing of employees to look for a man named after a plant. The elderly porter left slowly to get it, as a man avoided them suspiciously. Grey followed the man up the stairs, and Smith left to cut off another exit, leaving Hershel alone.

The man stopped at a desk on the second floor, and began hurriedly gathering documents and papers into a leather case. Grey stopped at the desk and began to question him, but the man denied everything and quickly left. Smith returned to the lobby as the man ran into the street. Noticing that Hershel disappeared, Smith chased the man. He quickly outran the gnome, and disappeared into a horse drawn carriage. Hailing another carriage, Smith continued his pursuit. Racing through the busy London Streets, the chase ended by Smith casting Etheric Hand to pull the reigns of the horse leading the other carriage. He cowered the man, and lead him away, collecting his leather case as well. Together they traveled to Wolfington’s house.

Back inside, Terry searched the desk, finding a strange map with an odd geometric shape drawn over a map of London’s sewer drains, and scanned through a number of papers, discovering many new facts. The man at the desk is Jeffry Williams, a recently hired clerk. A number of purchase orders, and designs are signed by a long time assistant architect, John Mandrake, then approved by a Marcus Remmlton-Hill the recent somewhat unqualified chief architect. On the map of the sewer, a number of locations on the map line up with several familiar places in, such as Green Circle and Matheson Ratch’s house. The center of the diagram is somewhere in the heart of London.

The porter approached Grey and gave him a note. The note said, “If you want to see Hershel again, come to 12 Ratslop Avenue, St. Guiles”. Grey left the map and explanatory note at Smith’s home and headed to St. Guiles alone.