VAU: The Tale of Ivana Hoompalotte - Game Thread

[Bishop]

"What a twisted game this is, that we are forced to endure." the large man moves toward the table. "Still gotta eat though." He piles his plate up (though not quite as high as yesterday) and begins to eat.

Search - (My own) Lorenzo Moreitto - Bedroom

 

[Feast4Crows]

"My search of Erik's room turned up naught," says the doctor with a nod towards Erik. "Dr. Viktor von Ungeheuer, by the way, circumstances aside, a pleasure to meet you." The portly doctor looks at the remaining sausages on his plate, then at the leniency found in the platter of sausages. With a look of distaste, he dumps the sausages back onto the serving platter. He then turns to table 4 and begins searching through the kippers as he fills his plate.

Search: Table 4

 

[Cromenon]

Carlos examined all the books, looked into the little boxes, and searched between jars containing strange things in the left bookshelf in the hall and yet he could find nothing.

He sighed with exhaustion leaned on the library, when his eyes felt upon the strange-looking person searching the other library. Duality, it seemed, had managed to find the tongue of the poor fellow, which was used as a bookmark in a certain book.

Carlos sighed and said, almost to himself: "My search proved unsuccessful... time to search in another place!" And dazed off to the main hall.

In the table with the fruits, he snatched another apple and eyed round the chamber studying all the details. A certain tapestry caught his attention: the tapestry showed a well executed battle scene between two mighty armies. He decided to search behind this tapestry.

"Just for you to know, gentlemen, the libraries in the hall have already been searched. I couldn't manage to find anything but it seems that this bizarre two-faced-person (What was its name, again?) did find something belonging to our fellow Brand"

"I'm goint to search now in that tapestry over there"

Search: Tapestry (battle scene)

 

[KhazModan]

”Hey, this chicken is still raw”
Threeflower starts poking around inside the carcase of the chicken and pulls something out.

“What is this?”
He twists and turns the object trying to fins out what it is.

 

[Chaos_Born]

Kristof returns from searching Brand's bedroom carrying a small blood stained bag.
'I gathered up the poor man's teeth they-' He stops in his tracks as he spots the lifeless form of Brand still wandering around aimlessly in the center of the room.

'Still this thing sustains itself!' He strides up to the zombie, dropping the teeth bag as he goes and grasping the shaft of his warhammer with both hands. The zombie just turns in time to see the head of the warhammer plow full force into its face. All of the bones in Brand's head cave in and are followed by most of his face. His spine breaks as his head snaps back and the momentum throws him off his feet. As he crumples to the floor, Kristof retrieves the bag of teeth, then throws them onto the collapsed body on the floor.

Approaching the table laden with bacon, says calmly to whoever is listening 'Now his is ready for Morr to take him. How goes the search?'

 

[Nikos]

After being violently ill, Wilhelmina returns to her room to tidy her self up. Looking considerably better she returns to the main hall. "Look at the time already" she mutters "I must make some progress in my suspicions."

Search - Wilhelmina Moench bedroom

 

[Malochai]

"Well, there is nothing in the room of Duality!" Alessandro bellowed from the direction of the bedrooms, before moving off towards his own room, "I sincerely hope that nothing got into my room during the night ... The door was barred as it was last night when I awoke!" he said to no-one in particular.

Search - Alessandro Bartolome Bedroom

 

[Pietr Von Carstein]

Tormund gagged at the sight of the flesh found among the bacon
"Eugh, my appetite has left me all of a sudden."
He then stood up and walked to his room claiming not to feel well.
Search: Bedroom (Tormund Dondarrion)

 

[Raizi]

Throwing the tongue on an empty plate at the table, Duality comes back after the search.

(To everyone around the table)
"This was used as a bookmark. Someone has a taste for vampire lore, it seems. And thank you for sparing me the trouble of searching my own bedchambers, it was nicely thought. Or I am not entirely sure, if the intentions were nice at all. What made you target my bedchamber first, Alessandro? Most of the people seemed more concerned about their own bedchambers."

Then he proceeds to build a late breakfast from various fruits and a glass of orange juice. Again he's careful not to take any apples on his plate.

 

[Zephyr]

Ysolda drops the fork to the floor with a shriek.
"This is most definetly NOT a piece of bacon. Gods...what is it though?"

She carefully put it on a plate and set it down next to the other gruesome discoveries.

 

[NicholasLeMort]

Nicholas came out into the hall, looking satisfied that nothing had been hidden in his room.
"I presume our search must go on until we have all the pieces to lay this poor fellow to rest."

He then notices the lunatic (Duality) that he saw before, but never really talked to:
"Sir, or Lady, or what should I call you? Either way, I have been observing everyone here and I have noticed you never seem to eat apples, though you take all other fruits. Is this just personal taste or is there more to it, because I would advise not to take the grapefruit this morning."

Nicholas then makes a hand gesture for Duality to follow him, as he decides to inspect the magnificent tapestry decorating the walls.

Search: Tapestry - a lady at court in a bizarrely Egyptian-looking palace

 

[Duke Danse Macabre]

*Taking a seat next to the others, placing the bowl with the remains of the man below the table out of the way and pouring a Tankard of ale before draining it, dragging the back of his hand across the back of his mouth to dry the suds before reaching for a plate and cautiously checking the food he places on his plate*

So what are we missing?...

 

[Zephyr]

After staring at all the pieces already found, with a strange blank expression on her face, Ysolda rushes off to her own room.

Search: Room Ysolda von Richter

 

[Wolfen]

After the search in his room proved fruitless Abel headed towards the privy.

Search: male privy

 

[untitled_musketeer]

Looking at his plate of breakfast that was rapidly going cold, Borgo made a grim discovery.

"Friends, I think I have found his...*ahem* poor fellow."

Sickened to the stomach, Borgo handed his plate quickly to the priest and felt a sudden urge to go to his quarters and compose himself.


Searches Borgo Brewermann's Bedroom

 

[Raizi]

(To Nicholas)

"Why you can call me what you please, I'm but a fool after all. But when you see me talking from the right side of my face, I suggest you address me with an appropriate manner that befits a highborn lady. And should I be talking in a loud, booming voice, 'Ser' would be the correct title. And I did not make a jest out of this, no matter how it sounds and my intentions were not to aggravate you by telling this. I simply answered your question in the simplest, most truthful way possible. It was kind of you to ask.

About the apples though, I am careful not to eat them, because I saw the assassin picking one up yesterday and folding it in a cloth, hiding it away and not eating it. When I see assassins doing things like that, I become extra careful about the particular fruit. There are many queer things that I like, but being poisoned is not one of them."

Duality quickly takes a look at the female assassin.

"Not that I suspect her of anything, but I like to be careful. I believe there are plenty of ways to lose your life during these festivities. I aim to survive."

 

[KhazModan]

Threeflower dropped the stomach he found inside the chicken on the floor with disgust

“If I would have wanted stomach I would have ordered stomach”

He looked around the room. The rest of the guests where running around playing the vampires game or quietly poking around their food.

“Well if I’m going to die I am going to do it with a full stomach and being as drunk as I can possible get.”

Threeflower starts to fill his arms and pockets with food and bottles of wine

“Well I’m going to my room to get drunk. Don’t forget that we are not here to play some kind of treasure game, we are here to find a blood-sucking beast. My vote have still not changed”

Threeflower makes his way up the stairs towards his room.

Vote: The Masque of Death (Bravo_10)

 

[Feast4Crows]

Dr. von Ungeheuer looks up from poking around in the platter of kippers. "The halfling makes a valid point. We are wasting the day playing the fiend's game. I'm still loathe to toss around votes without validity though."

 

[Harland]

Frederick finally emerges from his room, his ashen face slightly less pale than when he entered. Coming into the main hall, he sees the discarded stomach. He blanches.
"As disgusting as this is, we should treat this poor man's remains with respect." Carefully picking up the stomach, he puts it in the bowl with the other organs, throwing a look at Threeflower.
"If we are going to survive this, we will have to play her game. Of course, there's nothing to stop her killing us anyway. But if we don't, our chances are exactly nil. But we must still lay this man to rest."

Yo dawg, I is searching da Ancestor Painting, nuumba 4

 

[Johnny-Crass]

Erik had finished off most of the fruit on the table and began looking around for Abel, and spotting him walked over "So how is he search treating you my friend?"

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Results of the second search:

Christof Oberstyre – Bedroom: Nothing!
Lorenzo Moreitto – Bedroom: Nothing
Table 4: a platter of kippers: Nothing
Tapestry - a battle scene: Still dribbling blood, the right kidney
Wilhelmina Moench – Bedroom: Nothing
Search - Alessandro Bartolome Bedroom: Nothing
Tormund Dondarrion – Bedroom: Stuffed as if in haste in the shirt drawer, the left lung.
Tapestry - a lady at court in a bizarrely Egyptian-looking palace : Nothing
Ysolda von Richter – Bedroom: Tucked away nice and neatly in the second drawer of the desk: the right lung.
Privy – Male: Though covered in excrement, a pancrease can still be seen.
Borgo Brewermann – Bedroom: Nothing
Ancestor Paintings – 4: As the painting is flipped up the left kidney plops out into your hand.

Places not yet searched:
Gabriel Lindergaard - Bedroom
Tuomas Lakchen - Bedroom
Bottomsup Threeflower - Bedroom
Alessandro Bartolomé - Bedroom
?? - Bedroom
Lirael Abhorsen - Bedroom
Fyodor Markov - Bedroom
Gurter Fallor - Bedroom
Kristof Lars - Bedroom
Dr. Viktor von Ungehuer - Bedroom
Carlos Rey - Bedroom
Edvard Hiide - Bedroom
Tapestry - an endless cemetery
Curtains covering the main windows – Left
Curtains covering the main windows - Right
Ancestor Paintings – 1
Ancestor Paintings – 2
Ancestor Paintings – 3
Ancestor Paintings – 5

Body Parts not yet found:
Heart
Liver
Large Intestine

All players may search again if they wish.

 

[Malochai]

Alessandro returned from his room, empty handed. "Well, there was nothing in my room ... Oh, Sigmar ..." he physically blanched as he saw the body parts that had been found. "That ... That is too grim ... I ... Have to ... " He suddenly stopped talking, and a grey pallor came over his face. Raising a finger to signal for the others to wait, he turned and ran to the male privy, and his retching could be heard from the main hall.

 

[Black Baron]

Fyodor walked up to a tapestry.

Search: Tapestry - an endless cemetery

 

[Wolfen]

Abel's face was white as he left the privy. Making his way to the main hall he was approached by Erik.
"My search hath proved...successful, there was a piece of him in there. I have no problems disembowelling a man on the field of battle but to see it done in such a way as this..."
His voice trailed off and his eyes went vacant for a minute. Regaining his composure he continued.
"Bah! How farest thou in this foul 'game'?"

 

[Johnny-Crass]

Erik pulled the testicles out of his pocket laughing lightly "You will never guess what I found floating in the soup my friend" Erik put them back into his pocket "I do not believe we should put all our items in the center unless the final part of this test requires us to have our item..." Erik trailed off