Brew:44 Snowbody Knows What is Going on

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Starring: James, Reba, Becca, and introducing Miranda, Innogen, and Isaac
Guest Starring: Popeye, Sharon Kingsley (on the phone with Becca)
Challenge: Snowstorm that hurts some of the cast and figuring out why
Location: Cathedral of Learning, Brewed Awakening
Date Played: 20 June 2015

Spanish Study Group Gathers in the Cathedral's Commons Room

Reba: I hate snow. I hate cold. And now I have another flipping reason to hate the winter here in Allegheny. Burning, painful snow that nobody else notices. What gives? Thank Bondye for coffee.

I show up to Spanish study group and Becca had a dead faerie in her purse. It was so cute. And dead. She had to hit the road for some extra-curricular thing (Because doing magic isn't extra-curricular enough for her?). I tried talking with James in private, but then one of the new guys from study group is a telepath and he blew our cover. The Irish chick has got faerie connections (Who would have thought?), so she might help us get the little woman to proper rest.

Isaac: Spanish study group seems like a good idea since I need this credit to go on the dig in Argentina, but things get weird almost immediately. Reba comes in claiming she was burned by the snow (acid snow? frost bite?) I go to check it out with Becca because there's got to be a logical explanation for this. The snow feels fine to me, but Becca reacts like she's just touched a hot stove.

We head back inside and I "overhear" James and Reba talking about the dead faerie in her backpack and speculating about supernatural causes. I get a little overwhelmed by the sudden intensity of the thoughts swirling around, and I blurt out that I know about the faerie. They suggest we move the conversation to this coffee house called Brewed Awakening.

Popeye's Pizza and the Bathroom Explosion

Miranda: All I wanted was to finish study group quickly so I could move on to more important matters, like checking in on some of my favorite campus rodents. Instead, I got pulled into some kind of supernatural investigation with some of Becca's friends. She probably thinks I'll make a mistake and embarrass myself, but I won't give her the satisfaction. I'll prove that I can be as smart and useful as the rest of them.

It all started with an explosion coming from the men's room. For some reason, Innogen's first instinct was to run inside (gross!), but I didn't want to be left behind, so I followed. Inside, James was passed out on the floor, surrounded by pizza and empty beer bottles. Like any good first responder, I conducted a thorough examination and determined that he wasn't hurt.

At some point, somebody texted somebody (I can never follow these things) and we ended up in some kind of magic coffee shop, where Reba was doing what I'm pretty sure was a sceance. I tried to help, but Becca kept ruining everything. And then everyone kept saying I was a werewolf! She probably started that too…

Becca gets a call at the WUP Newspaper Offices

Reba: Becca sent me a text about a lecture by some disgusting racist confederate couyon who Sharon Kingsley thinks someone might try to off with magic. As much as I hate that guys face face, Bondye generally frowns on the whole grievous injury thing. I would have just made him a little misery (Jinx his microphone to make him sound like a squirrel?). Finding out who's trying to do him in will have to take a backseat to the murdery snow, though.

Backroom of Brewed Awakening

Reba: Between James getting sick, the dead fairy, and the murder snow I thought we should pass by Brewed Awakening to do research and make some magic in privacy. I'm suspicious of Miranda. She's got this whole animal affinity thing going on and she smells like a few skipped showers. Totally a were-something. I bet Isaac knows, he's all thought-read-y.

We got to Brewed mostly in one piece and got into the backroom. I called up the powers that be and did some dog-hair voodoo to try to figure out what about the storm was giving us so much hell.

I couldn't get who was responsible for this mess, but they were powerful. The snow storm was caused by some incompletely charged weapon designed to kill off anything magical in Allegheny, and it was connected to the egg we sold to Fe. I am so kicking myself for that now.

Isaac: I had no idea this place existed. I'm totally going to have to spend some time with the library here--maybe I can finally find some answers on this damn dinosaur bone that I can't get rid of. But for now I stick with the gang and we head into the backroom.

In the backroom, Reba starts working some sort of witchy ritual involving dog hair and a cup full of the (selectively) burning snow. Innogen turns out to be surprisingly knowledgeable about faeries and arranges the corpse for a proper burial. Meanwhile I sense some serious tension between Miranda and Becca and run some interference before it blows up. Whatever Reba's doing looks like it takes a lot of concentration.

Wiki Recap Aspects

• Reba—The spirit world has explained the snowstorm with one free invoke. This represents your collecting and analyzing the magics involved with the snowstorm.
• Miranda—Sciurus Conquisitio (latin for squirrel information gathering) with one free invoke. The squirrels have been putting the word out that you're interested in the snowstorm and anything out of the ordinary that might be going on.