The Dee Sanction

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4 sessions of Covert Elizabethan Supernatural Investigation in April, on Tuesdays at 7pm (GMT).
Put your treachery and heresy behind you and serve the Crown for a stay of execution …

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Tue 6 April: https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/event-detail/-MShhb3ZVU4kDlDQ1utp
Tue 13 April: https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/event-detail/-MShhla2mDmKVGeraKl_
Tue 20 April: https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/event-detail/-MShhuRwsSq3nBZmwZQz
Tue 27 April: https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/event-detail/-MShiB_SmPSN6Dp9L40Z

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The Dee Sanction (1/4)
Titus Froste the former Scavenger, Theophilus Clark the itinerant Friar, Tobias Slater former Courtier and Jesuit witch hunter, and Maximilian Schwartz a visiting Protestant Herbalist are spared immediate execution after agreeing to become Agents of Dee. They separately encounter a Mr Garland who is … unusual … before meeting outside the Theatre at Shoreditch and being sent north to Norwich in search of ‘an item of import’. There’s friction, rain and mud, a light in the darkness, and evidence of the decay of order in the Kingdom … and a death …

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The Dee Sanction (2/4)
When Tobias and Maximillian bury the hatchet for a while they successfully frightening the vagabonds (and Theophilus Clark) from the manor. Our ‘Everyman’, Titus, keeps the Agents on track as Dr Dee’s ‘compass’ leads them to a dilapidated farm. There they encounter a farmer who says he’s expecting them, find his wife, and experience strange events … then … a portal, the farm at a different time, and three ladies in a different ‘place’ … and the ‘item of import’ they had been sent to find …

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The Dee Sanction (3/4)
Returning to London the characters discover that Dr Dee has ways to keep them there so they retreat to the stews of Limehouse. There, Mr Garland tells them Dr Dee wishes them to find a Mr Gilbert and The Book of Dead Names said to be in his possession. Captain Slater assays some breaking and entering, while Friar Clark and Mr Froste use a desire for honest work to cover their interest in Mr Gilbert’s house; Herr Schwartz, though, disturbs a goodwife. There’s a house surrounded, dank passages, and a blood trail … then rats … so many unnatural rats …

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The Dee Sanction (4/4)
As they continue their search in the tunnels below Deptford, Titus Froste loses his good boots when he rushes headlong into the dark and Friar Clark offers absolution to a servant made mechanical, while Captain Slater and Herr Schwartz finally find something they agree on. There’s a Fae beast of blood, a mechanical horror, and a realisation that they did more than retrieve a relic in Suffolk … then the Book of Dead Names speaks, heretics burn a sinner, and a poet makes them an offer … but the fate of the ‘Necron Omicon’ … remains obscure …