Helvetica Plot Threads

Here's what's going down in Helvetica:

Open Threads

• Elena: why does she try to get people to go to the waterfall, is she really a fate witch, what is her deal? Is she being impersonated/impersonating somebody? What is her connection to Trujillo, Raoul etc.?
• The waterfall: is there anything significant about it?
• Vampires: How did Lucille become a vampire anyway? Doesn't that imply another vampire?
  • And what does this suggest for Camilla, who was attacked by Lucille but survived?
    • Apparently if she dies within a couple months she'll turn into a vampire and have to be staked
  • Is trouble going to happen on her ride out of town to meet her potential betrothed?
• What happened to Brother Etienne?
  • What is he sneaking out of the monastery and missing classes to do?
  • Does it have to do with vampires? Or demons? Or blackwood?
• Who was the "Inquisitor" agent who threatened Stefan? Was it Edgardo? Why do they want the body?
• Stefan has orchids who drink blood, is that creepy or what?
• What's up with Guy Heimlich? Why is he such a jerk?
• Professor Trujillo is trying to animate dead bodies, right?
  • Is Pedro an example?
  • Is Dead Body #3 one? If so, why is it bloodless? Is that normal?
  • He stole Professor Schlegel's wife's body, right?
• Morgana is a tarot-reading robot Andre built with the head of Rosanna Scardanelli (with the help of Erich and Franziska to steal it)
  • What is this society/family (Ten of Pentacles) that Morgana (High Priestess) belonged to with eight other women?
  • Is Lucia involved somehow? Morgana identifies her as a High Priestess as well; Edgardo is a Knight of Swords
  • What does Judgement (bodies rising from the ground), Thief, Death mean?
    • Possibly graverobbing, since she mentioned that when we questioned her the first time
  • Does Morgana want us to steal the corpses of the rest of her (now deceased) matrilineal line of Fate Witches so that Andre can resurrect them in the same manner as herself? (Yeah, probably.)
    • Will we go along with that?
• Edgardo and Lucia: do we trust them (of course not), what are they up to, who are they hiding from, do we believe they had no involvement in the vampire?
• Nicolette's mother was a prostitute, who Antoinette recognized as an early victim of her auto-executioner.
  • The prostitute was involved with a lawyer -- who is he?

Not Yet Relevant (or perhaps totally irrelevant) Things

• Why was Justine upset with Albert des Amis at dinner?
• Adelheid's sleepwalking: does that matter?
• Lady du Sices has disappeared and couldn't collect her furniture, do we care?
• Arielle is depressed and suicidal about her future prospects -- can we cheer her up somehow?

Closed (maybe) Threads

• Why are we dreaming about a blonde Suzanna?
  • Answer: It's Lucille -- but why did he dream her older? And why did he dream about her at all?
• Suzanna and Pierre's family are scheduled to be executed, can we save them?
  • Answer: Yes.
• ...Except Lucille, where'd she go?
  • Answer: She got turned into a vampire and hid in the blackwood wardrobe somehow.
• Who killed the wagon driver?
  • Answer: Lucille.
• Pranks against Trujillo, do we support this?
  • Answer: Of course we do, except for Gert, who is a spoilsport.
• Erich/Franzeska's sister Agathe is scheduled to be executed in Bois-Franc, can we save her?
  • We can try: Mont Saint-Gabriyon Prison Break
  • Yes! Because we are the PCs, and therefore awesome.
• Why does hoity aristocrat Earl Matravers want a revolutionary for a son-in-law? Why does republican bureaucrat Armand Chevalier want an aristocrat wife? Why does everyone want to make Cat's life miserable?
  • So that Cat can get an extra 3 XP for the session. Hooray!
• What is Antoinette working on?
  • A contraption to allow Brawn 1 characters to lift heavy objects
    • Why?
      • To duel Hans and so be able to marry him, that's why.
• Why is Jean Dupin suddenly intent on retrieving fugitives? Who's manipulating him (Nicolette?) and who's manipulating her?
  • Dupin's adopted daughter (Nicolette) is secretly a Porte mage, and he didn't want her discovered. (She didn't know she was a Porte witch).
• Agathe's husband Raoul disappeared, can we find him (and do we want to)?
  • How did Raoul lay his hands on Gert's family wedding ring?
    • Who has the ring now, and can we get it back? (Probably, since Nicolette blooded it)
  • Is he leaving town with Elena?
  • Is he actually a Porte mage?
  • Answers: He is actually Gabriel Renard, and he has been stealing mail (including Gert's ring) and taking on different false names to marry rich girls and then vanish with their money, including Agathe and Camilla.