I was pretty tired, but it was Spaghetti Scene time so basically The Decayed Elf wandered off with his Foundling...

I was pretty tired, but it was Spaghetti Scene time so basically The Decayed Elf wandered off with his Foundling Apprentice Sara, with the Chinese Masterchef's female apprentices in tow as chaperones, and was taught How Things Are Going To Be. All very proper too.

The others discussed visiting St Mary's Axe, and also what to do with the Architect Out of Time, Jonathon. It's been decided that everyone, aside from a couple of apprentices is going to check out 30 St Mary's Axe in the next session. But the party will include Eric and Sara and Jonathon...

There was some amusement had with the walkie talkies, TDE nearly hitting the roof when TES radioed. Then there was a bit of garbled/feedback that no one is sure is feedback, or someone else with the devices elsewhere ie high tech fishmen. Unlikely to be on the same channel, surely?

Usually I will run a session if I'm down a player, but not two. However, the Fakir is going to be the one who's missing, and they kinda might need the services of a master illusionist, as there's been a whole lot of illusioning going on.

Something of a struggle to decide what to do - you've got 5 out of 6 people present one week, and you could run the adventure by playing the player's character or you could wait until next week, and risk other people not being able to make it. This risks the impetus of your game falters, and you and your players, despite the notes forget things. How do other GM's work around it, I wonder.
I will decide on the night, as we might be down players anyway and on Friday night I was too tired to be making sensible decisions anyway by that stage.

Anyway, basically, the London Police came around and asked about the claw marks on the dozen or so Fishmen bodies in the street and were politely shrugged at. Unofficially, the constable was appraised of the situation differently. Subtle like. Whether he got the message that The London Shopkeeper was giving him correctly might remain to be seen.

The Decayed Elf also wants to catch up with Lord Saranathan at The Blue Flamingo but won't have an opportunity to do that until after the affair at 30 St Mary's Axe. Lord Saranathan ASSURED The London Shopkeeper that young Sebastian would come to no harm through him.

They haven't mentioned the fact that apparently there are transdimensional fishmen lobbing across back and forth from their London to another, more future one to the authorities, but whether that's intentional or just a by product of the swiftly moving times, is unclear.

It seems that the Fishmen want Jonathon in order to build a bridge from their London to other London, some sort of magical portal.

There are still missing people.

Nobody was attacked over night, but the Indian Fakir, having shuttered his upstairs window, would probably have been the most likely one attacked, as he lives alone - everyone else was accompanied in some form or other, and the Fishmen were, for the moment at least, probably reduced in numbers, having been severely tigered in the last session. But no one gets past a very annoyed London Boarding House landlady after she's been given a magical fright. Once she sets the newly purchased guardcharms for the night, no one's getting in without severe difficulties, and after that, they have HER to deal with.