Note: due to downtimes, it was decided to start this session a few days later than planned.
December 15th
-In the early afternoon, Sam, Virgil and Ophelia are meeting at Smacky's for business and a few moments of relaxation. The town has mobilized greatly in the past few days.
-Meanwhile, Corwin, Dutch and Lorraine are discussing the steadily-arriving mercenaries. Dutch will be in charge of them.
-Both groups see a strange, solemn group enter town and proceed to the cemetery, where they leave offerings and prayers at the grave of William Newton--they're a group of pilgrims.
-Corwin is informed that the outpost has radioed that they're under attack. He sends the militia out to retake it.
-Dutch leads one group of scouts on horseback, Virgil another, and Captain Sheridan a third. They set out and surround the outpost while Eva marches the main force to the outpost.
-Half an hour before the main force arrives, the bandits attempt to withdraw and blow up the outpost tower. The scouts engage and manage to stop them.
-Back at town, with most of Newton's forces gone, a group of about thirty bandits on horseback attack the town and try to burn down warehouses. Corwin, Anders and Lorraine barely manage to drive them off. Corwin arms and organizes defenders, Anders mixes it up with the bandits in the warehouse district, and Lorraine leads the firefighting and manages to take out several bandits with a fallen grenade. Sam helps save the day with sniper fire from his roof. In the end, only one warehouse is badly damaged, only two defenders die, many bandits are dead, and the returning scouts manage to take prisoners. Anders and Corwin are both injured.
-An impromptu meeting of council is held in the church, which is being used as a hospital. The council members are concerned that the bandits are acting in a strange manner. They aren't stealing anything, and have nothing to gain from their attacks. Furthermore, no one can think of a faction that would profit from what they're doing. The three surrounding city-states currently have more to gain from Newton's existence than its destruction. They agree to continue to ramp up Newton's mobilization.
-Dutch and Corwin discuss setting up an intelligence network. Lorraine suggests using Ophelia.
-Dutch breaks the news of Chris Wall coming to visit to his wife. His wife is upset and does not want the mob to become a part of life again.
-Corwin meets with Ophelia and hires her to start collecting information for the town's exclusive use--no resale.
-Ophelia talks to the pilgrims. They are Edenists from the city of Laurel, and revere William Newton as a modern-day saint. They reveal that more pilgrims from Laurel are on the way.
We jump ahead several days:
December 20th
-More mercenaries and equipment are trickling in. So are more pilgrims.
-Dutch interrogates (with a baseball bat) a bandit prisoner named Jay that he and Corwin have been keeping hidden in the basement of the town hall. He names someone named Philo as the bandit leader. He says they move around a lot, and are well paid. Dutch plans to send him back to the bandits to spy for him.
-Chris Wall arrives. Dutch is unappy but shows him around town.
-Later that night at the council meeting, Lucius takes the floor and proposes to claim the outpost as part of the town of Newton, and use the land to pay mercenaries.
-Anders, Grissom and White vote against the proposal, concerned that Newton is getting ahead of itself. The other three vote in favor, and the assembly votes in favor and the proposal passes.
-Jeff Newton wakes up and is upset about what has happened while he was unconscious. "This is not what my father would have wanted."
The session ended on the evening of the 20th. The next will begin in the afternoon of the 21st.
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Friday, August 15
Friday, August 8
Episode 2 Summary
December 9th, 2073
-The council meets. Masterson and Keller are gone, Lorraine and Anders are in.
-Corwin briefly addresses the crowd with the facts to stop rumor-mongering.
-Electing a temporary administrator is discussed. Croft nominates Corwin Gray, seconded by White. after no one puts forth a second nomination, Corwin nominates Anders, seconded by Grissom. They depart the chamber while deliberations and voting is conducted. The council votes to suspend a normal rule allowing 24 hours for nominations from citizens.
-Sam Newton visits Virgil Church in his cell, lowering a radio through the bars. Virgil is willing to keep Sam's secret as long as Sam is willing to make it worth his while. Virgil points out that Ophelia knows too. Sam leaves him some money and some tools to escape if he so desires.
-Back at the council, Lorraine and White speak in support of Corwin.
-Sam runs into Thomas Brass, community leader and leader of the local neighborhood watch. Tom asks Sam if he knows anything about the explosives. When Sam protests his innocence Tom reveals that Judy White (the councilman's daughter) saw another local dealer in illicit goods, Erwin Parks, meeting with strangers that night, and most people believe he's the one who sold the explosives.
-Virgil gets restless in the cell and decides to escape.
-Sam meets with Parks and taunts him. Parks insists he was just selling drugs to the strangers. Sam plants money and dynamite hidden outside Parks' shed.
-Corwin is voted administrator with only Grissom opposed.
-Meanwhile, Anders notices a mob growing inside and outside Smacky's bar. Also, Virgil entering the bar despite being ostensibly imprisoned.
-Virgil meets with Ophelia and confirms that she's willing to keep Sam's secret too if it's worth her while.
-Anders goes to try to calm the crowd. Meanwhile, Corwin calls out Eva and the militia to help break up the mob.
-Anders, Corwin, Eva and the militia work together to break up the mob. Anders talks to them and eventually shoots somone in the leg, Corwin invokes William Newton ("I'm glad old Bill is dead tonight, because if he saw all of you it would break his heart, and then he'd break you"), and Eva expertly leads the militia in applying restrained force. At the last moment Virgil riles the crowd up again by yelling that he had personally seen Parks selling the explosives, but the situation is barely defused in the end.
-Anders tosses Virgil back in the slammer.
December 10th
-Anders releases Virgil and gives him his stuff back, knowing Virgil would probably just escape again/steal it back otherwise.
-Anders investigates Parks' home. He finds him gone and finds the money and dynamite planted by Sam. He thinks it's strange that Parks would leave money and hide his explosives poorly, but he has no other leads.
-Work begins on reopening the pass.
-Virgil and Ophelia pay a visit to Sam to discuss his secret. Virgil extracts a discount on supplies from him, Ophelia gets him to agree to feed her information.
-Mr. Hardy shows up with paperwork for Anders, who is faced with tons of work between his many new duties.
-The pass is opened. Corwin's shipment to Greer is the first out the door.
-Dutch gets an encrypted message from Chris Wall, a fellow mobster from Dutch's past who announces he will be visiting for Christmas and checking out Newton as a possible place to set up shop.
-Lorraine asks Corwin to bump up one of her horse caravans on the queue for outgoing shipments in exchange for her continued support.
-Lucius pays a visit to Anders, asking him to expedite the public auction of Edwin Parks' land so he can buy it. In exchange, he agrees to provide Anders with an able assistant to help him with all of his newfound work.
-That night, Corwin's shipment gets jumped by bandits in the pass.
-Corwin realizes this when the outpost fails to sight them. He sends his assistant to wake up Eva and hire Virgil. Anders, working late, sees the commotion and follows everyone to the fort to see what's going on.
-Corwin sends the militia out to try to find his shipment. Anders and Corwin get into an argument. Anders is angry that Corwin is using the militia for his own purposes, and Corwin insists that with Newton wealthier and more powerful than ever it's time to end the bandit problem once and for all.
Session ended late on the night of the 10th. The next session begins early on the 12th. The major plot arc for the next few episodes will be the bandit problem.
-The council meets. Masterson and Keller are gone, Lorraine and Anders are in.
-Corwin briefly addresses the crowd with the facts to stop rumor-mongering.
-Electing a temporary administrator is discussed. Croft nominates Corwin Gray, seconded by White. after no one puts forth a second nomination, Corwin nominates Anders, seconded by Grissom. They depart the chamber while deliberations and voting is conducted. The council votes to suspend a normal rule allowing 24 hours for nominations from citizens.
-Sam Newton visits Virgil Church in his cell, lowering a radio through the bars. Virgil is willing to keep Sam's secret as long as Sam is willing to make it worth his while. Virgil points out that Ophelia knows too. Sam leaves him some money and some tools to escape if he so desires.
-Back at the council, Lorraine and White speak in support of Corwin.
-Sam runs into Thomas Brass, community leader and leader of the local neighborhood watch. Tom asks Sam if he knows anything about the explosives. When Sam protests his innocence Tom reveals that Judy White (the councilman's daughter) saw another local dealer in illicit goods, Erwin Parks, meeting with strangers that night, and most people believe he's the one who sold the explosives.
-Virgil gets restless in the cell and decides to escape.
-Sam meets with Parks and taunts him. Parks insists he was just selling drugs to the strangers. Sam plants money and dynamite hidden outside Parks' shed.
-Corwin is voted administrator with only Grissom opposed.
-Meanwhile, Anders notices a mob growing inside and outside Smacky's bar. Also, Virgil entering the bar despite being ostensibly imprisoned.
-Virgil meets with Ophelia and confirms that she's willing to keep Sam's secret too if it's worth her while.
-Anders goes to try to calm the crowd. Meanwhile, Corwin calls out Eva and the militia to help break up the mob.
-Anders, Corwin, Eva and the militia work together to break up the mob. Anders talks to them and eventually shoots somone in the leg, Corwin invokes William Newton ("I'm glad old Bill is dead tonight, because if he saw all of you it would break his heart, and then he'd break you"), and Eva expertly leads the militia in applying restrained force. At the last moment Virgil riles the crowd up again by yelling that he had personally seen Parks selling the explosives, but the situation is barely defused in the end.
-Anders tosses Virgil back in the slammer.
December 10th
-Anders releases Virgil and gives him his stuff back, knowing Virgil would probably just escape again/steal it back otherwise.
-Anders investigates Parks' home. He finds him gone and finds the money and dynamite planted by Sam. He thinks it's strange that Parks would leave money and hide his explosives poorly, but he has no other leads.
-Work begins on reopening the pass.
-Virgil and Ophelia pay a visit to Sam to discuss his secret. Virgil extracts a discount on supplies from him, Ophelia gets him to agree to feed her information.
-Mr. Hardy shows up with paperwork for Anders, who is faced with tons of work between his many new duties.
-The pass is opened. Corwin's shipment to Greer is the first out the door.
-Dutch gets an encrypted message from Chris Wall, a fellow mobster from Dutch's past who announces he will be visiting for Christmas and checking out Newton as a possible place to set up shop.
-Lorraine asks Corwin to bump up one of her horse caravans on the queue for outgoing shipments in exchange for her continued support.
-Lucius pays a visit to Anders, asking him to expedite the public auction of Edwin Parks' land so he can buy it. In exchange, he agrees to provide Anders with an able assistant to help him with all of his newfound work.
-That night, Corwin's shipment gets jumped by bandits in the pass.
-Corwin realizes this when the outpost fails to sight them. He sends his assistant to wake up Eva and hire Virgil. Anders, working late, sees the commotion and follows everyone to the fort to see what's going on.
-Corwin sends the militia out to try to find his shipment. Anders and Corwin get into an argument. Anders is angry that Corwin is using the militia for his own purposes, and Corwin insists that with Newton wealthier and more powerful than ever it's time to end the bandit problem once and for all.
Session ended late on the night of the 10th. The next session begins early on the 12th. The major plot arc for the next few episodes will be the bandit problem.
Saturday, August 2
Episode 1 Summary
December 5th, 2073
-Heavy snow. Pass closed.
-William Newton succumbs to illness and dies surrounded by friends, family and townspeople.
December 7th, 2073
-Heavy snow continues. Pass still closed.
-William Newton's funeral. Friends and family speak of what he brought both to themselves and to the town of Newton:
-Corwin Gray: Force of Law
-Anders Leigh: Order
-Lorraine Newton: Focus and Direction
-Lucius Lessard-Newton: Wealth and Prosperity
-Dutch Williams: A New Life
-Eva Cervantes: Safety
-Samuel Newton: Something from Nothing
December 8th, 2073
-Heavy snow continues. Pass still closed.
-William Newton's will is read by Mr. Abrams, the town lawyer.
-The estate is divided up, most friends and family only get small bequests.
-Isabel Newton has gone catatonic following the death of her father, her husband also having recently died. Lucius takes over the management of her property, including the new bequest of a substantial area of farmland.
-Lorraine Newton gets the Four Winds Ranch, making her effectively the only game in town for horses.
-Anders Leigh is surprised to be given all of William Newton's warehouses, valued at nearly 30% of his total estate, along with an injunction to protect them as they are the lifeblood of the city.
-The council unanimously elects Jeffery Newton as the new administrator, though Corwin is skeptical of Jeff's ability to lead. Concern is expressed around the council about the upcoming shakeup due to the changes in land ownership from William Newton's will.
-Anders meets with Mr. Hardy, the manager of the warehouses, and discovers how much paperwork is involved in running them.
-A stranger shows up at Smacky's bar looking for information on where to buy weapons. For a small fee Ophelia points him to Sam Newton.
-The stranger buys plastic explosives and dynamite from Sam. Virgil shows up just as the man is leaving, fresh from a bandit attack right outside town and complaining of a jammed weapon Sam sold him. On his way out, he notices the stranger turning off the main path into the wilderness by the Masterson farm.
-Virgil sells this information to Ophelia, who then sells it to Anders.
December 9th, 2073
-The snow dies down. Captain Sheridan, 2nd in command of the militia, reports to Commander Eva Cervantes that it's possible the pass could be reopened, but only if the weather holds.
-Anders asks Eva for help investigating the stranger who bought explosives.
-Jeff Newton gives a brief public speech promising to uphold his father's legacy.
-Eva reports to Jeff Newton on the pass. Jeff leaves the pass to Eva's discretion, and retires to the Newton house with his son Andrew to meet with community leaders the rest of the day.
-Corwin insists to Eva that the pass must be reopened tomorrow so trade may flow. He sends Dutch Williams, his assistant, to observe Jeff and Andrew for the day.
-Eva hires Virgil and a few of his band to back up herself and Anders.
-Eva and company track down where the stranger went, and find a campsite a couple men from outside the town, and an empty dynamite crate. Questioning and threats reveal that other men from the camp took the explosives into town to blow up the Newton House. Eva takes off to warn Jeff and Andrew, and Virgil immediately kills the two outsiders, angering Anders.
-Eva arrives yelling just in time for Dutch to get clear of the Newton House. Jeff and Andrew hear her warning and attempt to escape but are caught in the blast. They survive, but both are horribly injured. They are moved to Fort Newton where the town doctor manages to stabilize them, but both are in comas.
-Corwin calls an emergency meeting of the council.
Session ended around noon on December 9th. Next session will begin on the evening of December 9th, at the emergency meeting.
-Heavy snow. Pass closed.
-William Newton succumbs to illness and dies surrounded by friends, family and townspeople.
December 7th, 2073
-Heavy snow continues. Pass still closed.
-William Newton's funeral. Friends and family speak of what he brought both to themselves and to the town of Newton:
-Corwin Gray: Force of Law
-Anders Leigh: Order
-Lorraine Newton: Focus and Direction
-Lucius Lessard-Newton: Wealth and Prosperity
-Dutch Williams: A New Life
-Eva Cervantes: Safety
-Samuel Newton: Something from Nothing
December 8th, 2073
-Heavy snow continues. Pass still closed.
-William Newton's will is read by Mr. Abrams, the town lawyer.
-The estate is divided up, most friends and family only get small bequests.
-Isabel Newton has gone catatonic following the death of her father, her husband also having recently died. Lucius takes over the management of her property, including the new bequest of a substantial area of farmland.
-Lorraine Newton gets the Four Winds Ranch, making her effectively the only game in town for horses.
-Anders Leigh is surprised to be given all of William Newton's warehouses, valued at nearly 30% of his total estate, along with an injunction to protect them as they are the lifeblood of the city.
-The council unanimously elects Jeffery Newton as the new administrator, though Corwin is skeptical of Jeff's ability to lead. Concern is expressed around the council about the upcoming shakeup due to the changes in land ownership from William Newton's will.
-Anders meets with Mr. Hardy, the manager of the warehouses, and discovers how much paperwork is involved in running them.
-A stranger shows up at Smacky's bar looking for information on where to buy weapons. For a small fee Ophelia points him to Sam Newton.
-The stranger buys plastic explosives and dynamite from Sam. Virgil shows up just as the man is leaving, fresh from a bandit attack right outside town and complaining of a jammed weapon Sam sold him. On his way out, he notices the stranger turning off the main path into the wilderness by the Masterson farm.
-Virgil sells this information to Ophelia, who then sells it to Anders.
December 9th, 2073
-The snow dies down. Captain Sheridan, 2nd in command of the militia, reports to Commander Eva Cervantes that it's possible the pass could be reopened, but only if the weather holds.
-Anders asks Eva for help investigating the stranger who bought explosives.
-Jeff Newton gives a brief public speech promising to uphold his father's legacy.
-Eva reports to Jeff Newton on the pass. Jeff leaves the pass to Eva's discretion, and retires to the Newton house with his son Andrew to meet with community leaders the rest of the day.
-Corwin insists to Eva that the pass must be reopened tomorrow so trade may flow. He sends Dutch Williams, his assistant, to observe Jeff and Andrew for the day.
-Eva hires Virgil and a few of his band to back up herself and Anders.
-Eva and company track down where the stranger went, and find a campsite a couple men from outside the town, and an empty dynamite crate. Questioning and threats reveal that other men from the camp took the explosives into town to blow up the Newton House. Eva takes off to warn Jeff and Andrew, and Virgil immediately kills the two outsiders, angering Anders.
-Eva arrives yelling just in time for Dutch to get clear of the Newton House. Jeff and Andrew hear her warning and attempt to escape but are caught in the blast. They survive, but both are horribly injured. They are moved to Fort Newton where the town doctor manages to stabilize them, but both are in comas.
-Corwin calls an emergency meeting of the council.
Session ended around noon on December 9th. Next session will begin on the evening of December 9th, at the emergency meeting.
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