7-218: Bronze-Stepping’s Apartment
He looks Oliver in the eye, “I did see the wreck, as it happens. Was involved because he worked for me.”Oliver is welcome to make a contested Detect Lies roll if he wishes (Defaults...
Category: Module 07: An Illuminating Journey
7-217: Bronze-Stepping’s Apartment
The old man gives Fromm a long, intense, look, which the Doctor returns implacably.Bronze-Stepping says, “have you ever seen High-Peaks Road? It’s a long way down. That vehicle was almost unrecognisable at the bottom.”That...
7-216: Bronze-Stepping’s Apartment
Doreen returns to the living room with a tray of mismatched, steaming mugs and begins distributing them.Fromm picks up his tea, and says carefully and directly to Alec, “You seem very certain about Abbas...
7-215: Bronze-Stepping’s Apartment
Alec meets Oliver’s gaze, and for a moment Oliver has a sense that there’s quite an intense personality hidden within that old, frail body.“Abbas was not a killer in the sense of one who...
7-214: Bronze-Stepping’s Apartment
Fromm nods, “there are many possibilities it opens up.”He doesn’t seem to want to give much away in front of the Bronze-Steppings.Doreen is now in the kitchen. Oliver can hear an old-style jug with...
7-213: Bronze-Stepping’s Apartment
Doreen is quite frightened by Oliver, Fromm and Chris. It’s possible Alec told her to make tea for her benefit and not anyone else’s.When Alec says Abbas for the second time something clicks into...
7-212: Bronze-Stepping’s Apartment
Give me a Psychology roll for Doreen.She asks, “How do you all have it?”Alec says, “We were both contractors, like you, only to the Overlord’s Household, not the Vizierate. The permanent Household Staff didn’t...
7-211: Bronze-Stepping’s Apartment
Bronze-Stepping seems a little cautious about the Vizierate agents in his house, but tentatively willing to assist.Rather than get these interlopers out as quickly as possible he says, “Doreen, get these blokes a cuppa.” She...
7-210: Bronze-Stepping’s Apartment
“Abbas Lozenge-Sok,” he spells it out, as requested, “did cyber security work for me at the Black Palace. He died when the vehicle he was travelling in went through the railing and over the...
7-209: Bronze-Stepping’s Apartment
He wheezes; it might be a laugh.“Sounds like Lozenge-Sok. Worked for me for a bit as a cyber security expert. Dead now.”