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Valentine Investigations: We fix your problems, your way. Magic, evil, supernatural events our specialty. We don't do missing persons - too many bad memories.
- Rejected motto thought up by Mr. Valentine

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Valentine Investigations is a large firm dealing with mostly supernatural crimes and dangers. Mr. Valentine, a human, got tired of being asked to solve crimes he knew nother about and changed the entire agency into occult investigations. In that time, he's hired a lot of rather unique staff and made more enemies than he had in the past 20 years. He loves it.

The PCs should be investigators with the agency or friendly that it has dealt with from time to time. This allows a lot of character leeway and also ensures that most of the PCs have a paying job.

This Game normally plays from 8 to 11 pm EST Sundays in #game1 but other sessions can (and will be) scheduled in as needed. The information below is for player reference, and PC recall :)

Session 1

April 11th, 2010 (Evening)

Valentine Investigations occupies the third floor of a three floor building down a quiet street a few minutes soouth of the downtown core. The first floor of the building is a second hand store, the second a job placement center and small diner. VI occupies the entire third floor and consists of 7 offices, 2 meeting rooms and the receptionists desk and lobby.

It is decorated in soothing colours with nice carpets and fine wooden desks. Aside from Mr. Valentine's office, the other 6 offices rotate between staff members at need. You are currently in the smaller of the two meeting rooms, a romo that can hold about 20 people easily. The table has been shoved ot the side and has some drinks and food on it.

Mr. Valentine is a tall, ruggedly handsome man with blond hair, brilliant blue eyes and a quick smile. He is standing by a table at the end of the room that has 2 pairs of mens underwear on it in seperate bags, waiting for the PCs to all enter.

[PCs are introduced and such, then he gets down to business]

"Thank you for coming in what was for some of you rather short notice," he says in his warm voice. "I've asked you all here to help with a case we received recently. Actually, it was 3 cases, but this is the only client who offered proof of her claims - and could afford our services." He smiles but runs his hands through his pale hair, an uncaracteristically nervous gesture.

"The first client, a man, claimed his wife was cheating on him. The second was a woman who said her common law partner - a man - was cheating on her. The third, and our client, is Mrs. Emily Snaffer. She claims that her husband is cheating on her. In all cases, it didn't seem likely. However, at my ... request, she was ble to produce a pair of underwear that is recent and the other from about a year ago, to be examined.

"I took them to Old Gunthor, the were-bloodhound at the police station, and he smelled a difference. he couldn't say what, only that there was one and he wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't asked him to check closely. The end result is that the man with her is NOT her husband."

"Behaviourally, she hasn't noticed any signigifigant changes to him, but enough to thinkhe is cheating on her.." He consults some notes. "He still leaves the toilet seat cover up and such. She has noticed some odd memory lapses, but thought it was just old age. He is 60, she is 57."

He hands out pictures of a short, quiet looking woman in a pale dress sitting in a wheelchair holding hands with a tall, well built man with hard eyes and a no nonsense look about him standing beside her .

Experience: 1,500 each.

Client Information

This is the writeup done by an NPC investigator on the clients.

CLIENT

Birth Records: Emily Priscilla Snaffer was born Emily P. James, of the famous James Brewers. On May 3rd, 1953.

Life: Emily told VI that her line of the family fell on hard times due to an inter-family squabble and she was raised in the city afterwards. She attended Woodbridge Elementary, where she met Ronald Snaffer. They got married in 1974, when she was 21 and after Ronald returned from Vietnam. She is barren and they have never had any children. Emily was paralysed from the legs down in an auto accident in 2001 but luckily a family member died that year and willed her a cosiderable sum. She began noticing his odd behaviour last year and said she has asked if he was cheating on her, but he was horrified and say no, not at 35 years of marriage. However, she found viagra in his dresser three weeks later and eventually came to VI.

NOTE IN MARGIN: While she did not disclose it, we believe she has in excess of $1 million. It is likely willed to her huband in the event of her death.

HUSBAND

Birth Records: Ronald Snaffer was born in Trail, BC, Canada, in 1950 but his parents moved to the city when he was 8 and ended up attending Woodbridge Elementary with Emily.

Life: He served a tour in Vietnam by lying about his age and impressing the people who knew he'd lied with his instinctive grasp of tactics. He was a military consultnant during the Gulf War also but, oddly enough, wasn't called in for the 2001 war in Afganistan. His military records remain classified. After his marriage to Emily, he settled down into a job as a carpenter and owned his own small business which he sold when they retired.

1ST POTENETIAL CLIENT

Birth Records: Chris Carlson was born in 1974 in the city and has lived here all his life.

Life: Chris has lived in the city all his life and met Jenny at a poetry reading in 1985. They married two years later and he has become an internationally recognised editor and still does that today. He began to suspect his wife was cheating when she stopped writing cold turkey after six months of dismal work. He was unable to pay VI's fee.

WIFE

Birth Records: Jenny McDaniel was born in 1974 also in the city but her father was in the military and they moved around the country a lot. She was at Woodbridge Elementary for 1 semester in 1980.

NOTE IN MARGIN: Yup, Val, they were stationed in Trail for 2 years. 1983-84.

Life: Jenny moved back to the city in 1985 and met Chris at a poetry reading. The two of them hit it right off and he supported her goals in becoming a writer but went on to become an editor himself. They got married in 1987. She achievd some local recognition and worked with all local papers, but stopped two years ago when for some reason her work wasn't accepted and her writing had apparently dried up. She turned to alcohol for solance for a time but Chris got her out of that.

2ND POTENETIAL CLIENT

Born: Tammy Baker was born in 1984 and is currently 24 years old

Life: Tammy attended Woodbridge Elementary and the locla hgh school. She is currently at the university, studying to be a doctor. She met Peter five years ago at a party and they have been living together for four of those years. She first noticed something odd about him six months ago and appraached us, saying that her computer specialist lover had quit his job was no reason and she was afraid he'd done something with the secretary at work. She was unable to afford VI's servics.

COMMON LAW HUSBAND

Born: Peter Parker was born in 1985 and this is his real name. We've checked extensively. Poor kid. He even has glasses.

Life: Peter was born in Vernon, BC, Canada and moved to the city in 2004. He began working for a computer company and met Tammy at a party the next year. Six months ago he quit his job and has done nothing since except walk around the city. He might be involved in selling drugs to a minor extent, and is very likely a user. His employer refused to explain why he'd been fired.

MARGIN NOTE: Val, he went to Trail to. Just after the Faline stuff. Tour, I think. Stayed for six months to help with the clean up.

WOODBRIDGE ELEMENTARY

This school was first opened in 1950 and closed in 2005 due to funding cuts, but became a private school with most of the staff still on it. Unfortunately, with the exception of the Mayors father, who went to school with Ronald, no one of any real special note has some out of Woodbridge Elementary that we've been able to determine. A surprising amount of them did tours of Vietnam in Ronald's day but other than that there are no discrepencies about the school's records.

An investigator was sent to check it out yesterday morning.

Session 2

April 12th, 2010 (Morning)

The Tailing of Ronald Snaffer (Valentines info given to pcs)

he buys some stuff to clean the kitchen sink etc. for spring cleaning and has lunch at the malls restuarant. One of the male waiters - on break - comes over and sits with him
* ArTiMus goes and orders some pizza and soda and sits about 2 or 3 tables away and listens in
Ronald: "My wife is beginning to suspect something, charles."
The waiter laughs. "Come on, your retired. You love her. Whats to suspect?"
* ArTiMus grabs a sale paper and thumbs through it
Ronald: "No, it might be serious this time."
The waiter nods. "We might have to do something about her..."
* ArTiMus takes a bite or 2 of the pizza and drinks some soda
Ronald: "Charles, no! For one thing, her stuff is willed to me! She has a fortune!"
* ArTiMus continues to thumb through the sale paper
Charles: 'Well..... I guess." He sighs. "But if she finds out ..... It could be bad. Very bad."
Ronald fingers his cup, then sighs "I ... guess so. Damn it!" He shakes his head. "If she wasn't so .. inquisitive..."
* ArTiMus eats another bite of the pizza
Charles: "Well, you're the one who married her."
Ronald shrugs "She had money, all right? And Money is needed. I never made much as a carpenter, damn it!"
He looks around, and lowers his voice "Sorry, the bitch is just getting to me.."
Charles: "Look .. " He looks around, nervously. "We can deal with her later, if we have to... As long as she doesn't suspect the truth....""
Ronald nods "I'd better go home. Tonight, 8." The waiter nods. "Good." He leaves.
Ronald Snaffer heads back home with the house cleaning stuff
* ArTiMus follows far behind
he goes home and spends the day pacing the home and reading. he looks nervous, but when Emily comes come in a paratranpo van be comes out and wheels her into the home, asks hwo her day was etc. Sounds like he loved her. His face, since she can't see it, looks disgusted tho
* ArTiMus heads back to VIA

Epxerience: 3400

Session 3

April 12th, 2010 (Evening)

Epxerience: None Yet.

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