Games Master’s Plan Key
It starts at 1100 1st
April 1892 an overcast threatening day with occasional heavy showers likely.
There is a light Westerly breeze 3”.
Dice each move D6
3+ draw a chance card and apply at GM’s discretion.
MAGIC!
Magicians,
that is persons having magic powers, have at least one unusual ability. This
could be fortune telling by various means, extra sensory perception or the
ability to recognise occult powers or beings.
Each Magician
is rated by their Maximum Magic Power (MMP) This is reduced if the Magician is
tired or wounded. After a spell has been cast, Magic Power is recovered at 1 per
move not expending a fatigue point or 2 resting, up to Maximum Magic Power.
Spell
Casting
If a player
running a Magician wishes him or her to cast a spell the Games Master will set
the Target (TS) of Magic Power Units (MPUs) needed for success. This may well be
beyond the powers of the Magician! Then D6 + MMP – TS = 1+ spell cast, 0
fails but Magician may attempt again immediately at a cost of 1 fatigue point
and deducting 1 from the dice, -1- fails altogether.
If failed the
spell may not be attempted again until another day.
Key
01
Track leading to main road. Entry point for D & B parties.
02
Alder trees
03
Alder trees
04
Alder trees & Stump on Crag the Barenhohe.
05
Cave with bear cub & Mother in it, awakening from hibernation, Hungry!
Cub
Nuserk 3” Mo 5”.
2/1/1, Ag -1, Me +1 Pst -3
Mother
Nuserk 5” Mo 7”, 3/3/3, Ag +1, Me +4 Pst -2
06
Stone being repaired by Dmitri Spak the road mender. He may claim that his wife
saw
the wizard who unleashed the Djinn. Christian upset by cross thrown over.
Dmitri
By, Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag +1, Th +1, Me 0
Shovel Bst -1,
Stone throwing 3” 3+, Bst -3,
6” 4+ Bst -3, 11” 5+ Bst -4
Cl II,
Respectable, MC 0-0-0, Speaks
Rumanian. Christian regrets overthrow of cross!
07
Alder trees
08
Alder trees
09
Vanu the Boat keeper’s Cottage empty.
10
Smoke house, Vanu and his wife Vanya tending fire & rows of fish caught in
Tiech. They are both Christians and were very upset when the cross was
overthrown!
Vanu
By, Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag +1, Th +1, Me 0
Dagger Pst -1,
Cl III,
Respectable, MC D1- 4q -8m, Speaks
Rumanian
Vanya
By, Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -1, Me -2
knife Pst -2,
Cl III (II),
Respectable, MC D7 – 1q – 3m, Speaks
Rumanian
Vanu
saw the Djinn’s magic bolt strike. “I was fishing in my boat as much of the ice
had melted that day. The Djinn’s bolt flew trailing fire from the Pestera Hohe
to explode against the top of the keep. It made a noise louder than thunder! The
Djinn must have been hovering over the Pestera Hohe when he cast his bolt!”
11
Tall Larch trees & clump of bushes
12
Clump of bushes
13
Locked Boat House. Vanu has the key. Two rowing boats, each can carry six
persons
Have two pairs of oars, using one pair move 3”, two pairs 4”.
14
Crag
15
Fir Trees
16
Fir Trees
17
Fir Trees
18
Dmitri the road mender’s cottage, with his wife Darya in it.
Her tale, “I was working at my sink peeling potatoes when I saw two men
and a
mule on the track. They stopped at the steps up the crag and tethered the mule.
One of them took a long staff up the steps and then threw a rope down. The other
tied it to a rolled up carpet and went up to join his companion. Then they
hauled up the carpet and carried it away on the top of the crag where I could
not see. Then after a while I heard this enormous bang and when I looked out
there was a big cloud of smoke against the Schloss. When it cleared there was
the big hole in it that you can see now! The wizard and his assistant then came
down the steps together, collected their mule and went back towards the road.
They were wearing blue clothes like the Turkish soldiers in the Schloss wear but
I expect that was a disguise.”
Darya
By, Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -1, Me -2
knife Pst -2,
Cl II (I),
Respectable, MC D2 - 0q- 8m,
19
Large crag the Peatera Hohe with difficult steps up it D6 +Agility -2” up
( 0- fall)
Searching Top D10
4- nothing 5+ scorch marks 8+ small Box marked in Turkish (Rocket Fuse)
20
Cave. Empty leading to a flooded passage. One time secret passage to the
Schloss!
21
Bushes & Fir Trees
22
Bushes
23
Fir Trees
24
Fir Trees
25
Stone Bridge
26
Large clump of bushes
27
Wooden jetty
28
Overthrown Christian Cross with ashes beside it where Badamaru family get
cremated 29 Ruined Shrine of Saint Festus. Enchanted bath in it where Griseldis
& Leica can go in
Fully dressed to recover their magic powers AvD for Leica, 3x
AvD -2 for
Griseldis for MMP. Try out by drying themselves, MP 5 needed!
30
Area of reeds
31
Gatehouse not normally manned unless visitors expected as sentry on tower keeps
Watch. He will challenge and call for one of the guard on duty down
inside the
tower to unbolt the gate if necessary. Gate BS 8
32
SW Tower Militia sentry on top with Corporal and two other privates at the ready
Below. If not out on patrol the rest of
the Militia will be here off duty. This is the
Accommodation for the male members of the garrison & Ranger except for the
Muezzin Malik and the Eunuch Erdibrim.
33
East Courtyard. Has locked BS7 sortie door to which Malik & the Asa hold the
keys.
34
South Courtyard, ladder up to South wall parapet.
35
Keep. Ground floor Kitchen Cook Silliman 3 maids Farah, Halem & Grechya
Halem has a hand sized piece of Djinn magic! Cardboard black one side, red on
the other & brown in between.
Hall empty. Has the cremated ashes of the male Badamaru’s in the Kist
under
the Bogosigil slab.
1st Floor. Laboratory is bedchamber shared by Malik &
Erdibrim. The Kist in it
contains the ashes of loyal servants of the Badamaru family.
Maids bedroom is where the Maids and abigails sleep.
Ladies bedroom is where the concubines sleep
Master Bedroom is where the Asa Abdul sleeps when present.
Malik, Erdibrim, Farli, Lisbit, Judit and Sebag are in the last two rooms unless
Player C decides otherwise. Under
the Bogosigil slab in the Master bedroom are the ashes of the female members of
the Badamaru family. This is where the ghost of Lady Vladiva has emanated from,
haunting the concubines one at a time. She thinks that apart from being Magyars
they are immoral. However since the Djinn strike she has felt that perhaps they
have suffered enough. Griseldis has a good chance of calling her up providing
that she is alone in the dark when doing so.
Farli, Lisbit & Judit were in the main Harem chamber when the Djinn struck. They
say that following orders they were preparing to say Moslem prayers when the
bolt struck the wall between two windows. There was an enormous roar and flames
and smoke everywhere. The Concubine Karina and the abigails Vera and Bat were
killed and the others suffering burns and cuts from flying glass. (Now healed)
The curtains, pictures and carpets in the main chamber were destroyed but those
of the inner chamber were taken and used in rooms below. The two harem chambers
have been thoroughly cleaned up by the maids, which is not to say that nothing
can be detected by magical means.
On the Roof the Statue of
Sebastian Badamaru was blow over but the minaret which Malik was climbing at the
time was undamaged!
The cellars below the
kitchen have two secret doors leading to escape passages. One leads to the
flooded corridor under the lake to the cave No. 20. The other leads to the
Spider Cave No. 42.
36 Ploughed Field -2” to moves
37 Ploughed Field -2” to moves
38 Ploughed Field -2” to
moves. Irnu and Irliya planting root crops. Christians, they hate the Badamaru
family because the late Reiter Inescu took their daughter Marisa away to become
his mistress.
Irnu
By, Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag +1, Th +1, Me 0 Dagger Pst -1,
Stone throwing 3” 3+, Bst -3,
6” 4+ Bst -3, 11” 5+ Bst -4 (For crow scaring)
Cl II,
Respectable, MC 0-0-0, Speaks
Rumanian
Irliva
By, Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -1, Me -2 knife Pst -2,
Cl II (I),
Respectable, MC 0-0-0, Speaks
Rumanian can write!
39 Ploughed Field -2” to
moves, Boy Ivan & 2 girls Sveta & Ganika crow scaring
Boy
In, Mo 5”, Fa 2/1/1, Ag +1, Th +1, Me -2 knife Pst -2
Stone throwing 3” 3+ Bst -4,
6” 4+ Bst -4, 11” 5+ Bst -5
Cl I,
Respectable, MC 0-0-0, Speaks
Rumanian
Girl
In, Mo 4.5”, Fa 1/1/1, Ag 0, Th 0, Me -3 knife Pst -2
Stone throwing 3” 4+ Bst -4,
6” 4+ Bst -4,
Cl I,
Respectable, MC 0-0-0, Speaks
Rumanian
40 Ploughed Field -2” to
moves. Old Beru, Benyi and Berilya planting root crops.
Christians & friendly to
Badamaru family.
Old Beru
By, Mo 5”, Fa 1/1/2, Ag -1, Th 0, Me -1 Dagger Pst -1,
Stone throwing 3” 4+ Bst -3,
6” 5+ Bst -3, 11” 6+ Bst -4 (For crow scaring)
Cl II,
Respectable, MC 0-0-0, Speaks
Rumanian
Benyi
By, Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag +1, Th +1, Me 0 Dagger Pst -1,
Stone throwing 3” 3+, Bst -3,
6” 4+ Bst -3, 11” 5+ Bst -4 (For crow scaring)
Cl II,
Respectable, MC 0-0-0, Speaks
Rumanian
Berilya
By, Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -1, Me -2 knife Pst -2,
Cl II (I),
Respectable, MC 0-0-0,
41 Grove of almond trees
42 Spider Cave mass of dense
webs stretching in 6”. To progress D6 + Me x (0.25”)
Or burn way through with torch at 3” per
move.
At the far end is the concealed entrance
to the secret passage to the Schloss. Step on stone against the wall. D10
Griseldis or Leica 3+, Others known 6+, unknown 8+.
43
Spinnehohe (Spider Crag) with a few pines on top.
44 Clump of bushes
45 Cottage empty, belongs to
Irnu & Irliva
46 Cottage empty, belongs to
Beru, Benyi, Berilya & 3 children.
47 Fir Trees
48 Fir Trees
49 Fir Trees & track leading
off table
50 Clump of bush es
51 Oak Trees
52 Willows beside Tiech
Ibrahim Tok
Learnt to speak English whilst working at a
chandlers at the Constantinople docks. Tolerant of foreigners despite being a
devout Moslem. His loyalty is to Asa Abdul rather than Malik.
Reuben Finkelstein
the chapman will sell his information to anyone
he thinks will pay him a fair (Extortionate) price. He knows that the peasants
Irnu and Irliya used to send information to Albrecht Grusman a German Merchant
in Sovata because he carried the letters. He suspects that Albrecht passed the
information on to Reiter Sigismund Von Hinterst head of the hereditary enemies
of the Badamaru family. This was because Reiter Inescu Badamaru made their
daughter Marisa his mistress and took her away. They believe this was done with
the help of a magic potion made by Inescu’s sister Griseldis. It was Irnu who
told the Asa Abdul that Griseldis was a witch. The information ceased when Boris
sold the estate.
Reuben sold details of the Schloss and
estate to the servants of Asa Abdul’s wives. He suspects that it was they who
achieved the ‘Djinn Strike!’ without knowing precisely how. He knows that the
idea of the Djinn came from Malik.
Occult Wards
Silver Crosses, Crescents or
Stars of David diced D6 within 6”.
Ghosts FV2, Gremlins FV3, Demons
FV4, Werewolves FV2, Vampires FV3.
The possession of a Ward Adds 1
to ADT dicing against occult Frights.
Clove of Garlic within 3”,
Werewolves FV2, Vampires FV 4
Wolf’s Bane within 3”,
Werewolves FV 3, Wolves FV4
Spells~
F= Factors $= success #= fail Vm =
Victim
Dry Clothes~
To dry soaking wet clothes on a
person D6 +MP+F = 5+ $
Summon a Ghost
by name D6 + MP + F, 2 people -1, 3 -2, 4 -3, 5 -4
SUN -6, DLL
-4, D/L -2, DDL 0, DDD +2 = 4+$
Call for a suspected ghost
D6
+ MP +F, 2 people present -1, 3 -2, 4 -3, 5 -4
SUN -6, DLL
-4, D/L -2, DDL 0, DDD +2 = 6+$
Summon a suspected Gremlin
D6 + MP +F, 2 people present -1, 3 -2, 4 -3, 5 -4
SUN -3, DLL
-2, D/L -1, DDL 0, DDD +1 = 5+$
Summon a suspected Demon
D6
+ MP +F, - Rank of demon (1-6) 2 people -1, 3 -2,
4 -3, 5 -4 SUN
-3, DLL -2, D/L -1, DDL 0, DDD +1, Silver ward -2 = 5+$
Lay a Gremlin Curse
D6
+ MP +F, Victim present +1, Vm close 0, Vm within a league -1, Vm distant -3,
SUN -3, DLL -2, D/L -1, DDL 0, DDD +1 = N-5 gives rank of the Gremlin
Lay an evil eye Curse
One that deducts 1 from every dice throw for character
D6
+ MP +F Victim present +1, Vm close 0, Vm within a league -1, Vm distant -3, SUN
-3, DLL -2, D/L -1, DDL 0, DDD +1 = 5+ $
Reveal Occult Presence
D6
+ MP +F, 2 people present -1, 3 -2, 4 -3, 5 -4
SUN -6, DLL
-4, D/L -2, DDL 0, DDD +2 = 6+$
Lady Griseldis’ communication with the ghost
Alone in the Asa’s bedchamber
Lady Griseldis incanted the old words of power. As she had expected he spell
succeeded and an apparition of a woman materialised the other side of the table
from her! The outline of the mirror behind her showed through.
“Who are you?” demanded Griseldis.
“I am or perhaps was the Lady Vladiva
Badamaru of long since. Now I ask who are you that have summoned me?”
“I am Lady Griseldis Badamaru and I am
come to ask you certain questions.”
“What! You can hear me! It has been over
three centuries since any could understand my speech! Pray before you question
me, and I tell you there are things that I must not reveal, let me tell you my
story. I am under a curse and it may be that telling it could end it. Many
agonies have I endured over the long years but to have a Turk own the Schloss
has been almost the worst! But you are a Badamaru, tell me is our family to
return here?”
“Alas lady Vladiva I fear not. My
brother Boris sold the Schloss to the Turk. It is him that you should be
haunting!”
“Perhaps but you must hear my tale
first. My father Reiter Potrivet Badamaru married Lady Elena Vreau and I was
born here as were my three sisters. My mother died when I was ten so I had to
take her place caring in many things. In those days the Steward was old Iasi and
he showed me much of the running of the estate for my father was mostly away at
the court. I was engaged to Limpidi Simplu but he was killed fighting the Saxons
a year after the betrothal.”
“The Hinterst’s no doubt?” interjected
Lady Griseldis.
“Not as far as I know though they may
well have been with the enemy army. Anyway I then became engaged to Reiter
Bolnav Risipi which was thought to be a very good match. But he fell sick of
some ailment that came and went. In fact it dragged on for three whole years
before it was decided to call the engagement off. Two of my sisters had married
by then. Next Zsadiva my youngest sister and I became engaged to the Umfla
brothers, who were half Magyar.”
“An advancement of importance at that
time?” queried lady Griseldis.
“Some thought so. Alas they were
involved in a bad sledging accident and my fiancé was killed. Zsadiva’s survived
and married her. He had been crippled enough to debar him from advancement at
court so it did not do the Badamaru family much good. They now regarded me a
jinx and no more offers for my hand were made. My father had had magic powers
but I had none. However Iasi was becoming decrepit and I had taken over most of
his duties running the estate. My father had married again and alack, had now a
son called Boris eighteen years younger than me.”
“An evil omened name!” commented Lady
Griseldis.
“Boris was indeed evil. My father spoilt
him and allowed him to fall in with bad company at court. I saw little of him,
what with my duties around the estate and visiting my married sisters around
their castles. Under my control the estate prospered despite the money wasted on
finery for young Boris. Even his gambling debts though heavy failed to damage us
unduly. I thought that in time Boris would join the army and I would remain as
Steward running the estate for the rest of my life. In a way that became true
but not as I had envisaged it!”
“I never did like Boris who
was a spiteful little toad. On that fateful day my father had returned with
Boris for the ceremony, that would accept him as his formal heir to Grausbad on
his sixteenth birthday. With them were some of Boris’s slimy court friends who
were vain and insolent in their manner. I went up to the keep roof the get some
air and get away from them. Unfortunately Boris followed me with some of them.
You have shown disrespect for my friends Vladiva! I think you ought to know now
you will be going to Greva Convent when I inherit. Degraba there will be Steward
in your place!”
“Well father was sixty and
still hale but few lived so long in those days. That worthless twerp Boris could
inherit only too soon. Degraba had lived all his life in the city and knew
nothing of farming or forestry! The Greva Convent up in the mountains was where
all the disgraced girls were sent, because it was so strict! Some thanks for my
years of building up the estate’s turnover! I saw red and pushed Boris straight
over the parapet. His scream of terror was followed by a thud and then silence,
broken by my cheers of triumph. Alas I was seized by his friends and cast into
the dungeon.”
“I was tried for murder by my
father in the Schloss Hall. Of course Boris’s friends made the case against me
as black as they could. My father was heartbroken at the loss of his favourite
and turned against me. He did not want the true story to become known elsewhere.
He bribed the courtiers to say there had been an accident in which both Boris
and I had died. My name was to be struck from the family annals as much as
possible. I was walled up alive in the secret tunnel with my father’s curse laid
upon me. You thought I was in one of the cremation urns but they all sleep at
peace. I alone exist on.”
“So what questions do you want to ask
me?”
“What do you know about the ‘Djinn
strike’ in the harem?”
“There was no supernatural agency. It
completely surprised me and I can only suggest that it was a power unleashed by
developments in alchemy. I questioned the Concubine Karina’ spirit, as I had
been offended by her presence in what had been a respectable establishment. She
said that she had been sold to agents of the Sultan by her family. But at the
Tokapi Palace she with others had been rejected as less than worthy. She with
Farli and Lisbit had been bought by the Asa. She had no idea why they had been
targeted.
Lady Leica’s consultation with Reuben
Finkelstein
“Now it may be that Lady
Griseldis may learn about it from the ghost but otherwise I could sell you my
information. I fear that it will be as much as ten Dirham because by telling it
I may well receive a Djinn strike myself! What do you think of this offer?”
asked the Jewish Interpreter.
A sum having been eventually
agreed Finkelstein started. “As I say many people in great mansions pay me for
information. Mostly they just take what I can tell them but occasionally they
actually ask me to find something out. Just as in England you pay detectives
like Mr Finder to discover things. Well it has been such a request that has
given me the clue that may explain the Djinn strike. That is if was such a
strike?”
“The story starts back in the
town of Sovata where there is a fine mansion owned by a prominent official.
There he lived as did his father before him with his strong-minded mother. His
father although a man of considerable power had always been
guided by his only wife. This did not stop her from marrying her son up
to the four wives permitted within the Ottoman Empire. She chose them all for
the political influence their families could muster.”
“After the death of the father
the mother for a long while established her dominance over the four wives. Her
son however was restive and spent as much time as he could away from home.
Despite having four wives he had no children. This was a sore disappointment to
both the wives and the mother. For a long time there was some discord between
the wives because if one had a child she would become the most important and
have the most favour.”
Leica said “I have heard that
in Turkish families there are such rivalries between the women. I take it that
this was a Turkish family?”
“Yes the family of whom I speak is
Turkish. Well the mother began to ail and the daughters-in-law grew restive.
Their husband neglected them and told them little of his activities. Further he
stated ignoring his mother as much as possible. The Mansion became an unhappy
place made worse when they heard certain news.”
“What was that news?” demanded Lady
Leica.
“They heard from a common rumour that
their husband had spent a lot of the family’s money buying a large property
whilst telling them nothing of the transaction. Through their servant Torag they
commissioned me to discover how much he had paid, who he had bought it from and
where it was. It took me several weeks to discover all these items but I did so
in the end.”
“Where was this property? Was it here?”
demanded Lady Leica excitedly.
“Let us not rush too far ahead of
ourselves. Once I had furnished Torag with the first facts the wives then asked
for yet further information. How was it furnished and they wanted details of
everything the carpets the curtains the bedding everything. They took great
interest in the pictures and tapestries because being Sunni Moslems they were
not allowed such things! And yes the property was the Grausbad Schloss and
estate!”
“So the wives found out their
husband had set up a love nest in the Badamaru Schloss?” commented Lady Leica.
Under the Ottoman system it would be hard for them to do anything about it!”
“Yes it is very easy for a husband to
divorce his wife if she does not please him.”
“So I would guess that it must be one of
them who decided to strike against the concubines rather than the husband. So it
would be one of them that called up the Djinn to strike! Say is that not so?”
“I am afraid it is not that simple. It
may have been as you suggest but from what Mr Finder said I have another
theory.”
“What is your other theory?”
“Well it occurs to me that all the wives
of Asa Abdul Abu have powerful male relatives who might feel offended by him
neglecting them. Neglecting them for Magyar women of no account moreover! Yet if
one of them bore a child, one of the wives would be ejected!
I think that if the strike was from an artillery rocket, then it was very
likely fired by one of those relatives, or someone hired by them. There may be
others involved but I do know that one wife’s brother serves in the Sultan’s
Artillery Corps.”
“Phew, this information the Asa is not
going to like!” exclaimed Lady Leica.
“No, you can understand why I am so
afraid of a possible Djinn strike against me! Of course what is told to the Asa
will be for you people to decide. But whether by magic or by artillery rocket I
believe that one or more of the Asa’s own wives is responsible! Of course you
may decide to declare that it was by the machinations of your Uncle Boris after
all? We must wait for what the lady Griseldis and the Detective Mr Finder have
found out.”