The inhabitants of Ventrue Mansion have been very busy as of late. Poor Lady Aidan McCody has recently had an unfortunate mishap involving the kitchen pantry sink and her forehead. It would appear that Sir Paddy Le Cur, an Irish Wolfhound, playfully nudged her buttocks and sent her into the porcelain receptacle, rendering her unconscious.
Upon discovery of his wife’s body, Major-General Montague McCody, a Ventrue neonate, scooped her up from the floor, only to have his gallant rescue interrupted by the interference of Gavin Mowat, a Bruhaj kindred hired as a stable hand, who deposited his wet, dirty handkerchief on Lady Aidan’s brow to calm the swelling of her newly-formed goose egg.
The Major-General carried his beloved Aidan to their bedroom where he left her atop the bed momentarily to retrieve a basin of cold water and fresh linens from Rosemead Spooning, Aidan’s long-term governess-turned-personal-maid. In his absence, Aidan regained consciousness and saw the faint grey figure of a woman standing mesmerized at the foot of her bed. Unbeknownst to Aidan, this figure was the resident, unnamed mansion ghost who was taken unaware by Aidan’s simple “hell-o,” and who fled to the attic upon hearing Montague’s impending return. It would appear that Aidan’s accident empowered her with the gift of clairvoyance.
Gigi Devalier, the new housekeeper, was startled when she found a broach wrapped inside a page of her secret diary, which Paddy had mysteriously brought with him to the mansion. In her own pen, Gigi had described a murder of passion that she and her former lover, Manuel, committed upon his wife, Lady Beth. While Gigi lay asleep in her bed, Gavin plotted to steal the paper, the contents of which were unknown to him. However, Paddy foiled his attempts and lifted the diary page from Gigi’s pocket and went off with it before Gavin could get to it.
Aerynne Walker, a new maid, left the kitchen in silence to quench her curiosity over the contents of a box in another room of the mansion. She was one who neither of the other maids trusted; however, to date she has not proved herself unworthy of their trust. In the meantime, Paddy ran to the kitchen where Rosemead scooped two bowls of stale stew from the garbage pail and offered them to Paddy and Ryley, the 300 year-old wolf companion of Lady Rionach O’Gallagher, also a Ventrue kindred. In his exuberance over finally eating dinner, Paddy dropped the diary page from his mouth and kicked it under the butcher block. Ryley shunned the stew, leaving it as a good-will gesture for Paddy.
Lady Rionach, meanwhile, went out to the stables to tend to her horse, Cahan. Upon her exit from the kitchen, she instructed Ryley to behave and to find her trunk, which had been left on a wagon. Frustrated with a foiled attempt to bathe Paddy, Rosemead sent Ryley and Paddy outdoors to tend to their business; however, they both caught scent of jackrabbits and went hunting instead. The two instantly became good acquaintances, and Paddy was especially grateful when Ryley told him that he would surely make friends with the humans if he brought them dead hares. Each animal caught one hare, and Ryley gave his to Paddy before setting out to find his mistress’s trunk in the darkness.
In the meantime, Rosemead rushed up to the attic where Pasha Phallic, a mystical demon statue sat waiting for her to pleasure herself on his stone-hard, oversized phallus. Rosemead, it appears, is the reincarnation of Pasha's princess, with whom he had never had the good fortune to consummate their marriage centuries earlier, due to a curse imposed upon him by a mystic from India. Fortunately for Paddy, Rosemead had left the kitchen door slightly ajar, so he scooped up both dead carcasses and let himself into the house, where he ran upstairs with the intention of depositing one dead jackrabbit in Aidan’s lap and the other one at Montague’s feet, knowing this gesture would befriend them both.
While Lady Rionach tended her horse in the stable, Fenwick Fluck – chief inspector with the London Met (police), arrived unexpectedly and asked Rionach for refuge from a threatening torrential downpour while eyeing her lasciviously.
As of this penning, Lady Scarlet – American Voodoo Practitioner, sits in her buggy in Woodchester Village pondering her fate, while the whereabouts of Tryson Warclaw, Jonathan McMasters – mad Malkovian artist, Vicar Sean Donnegan, and Kaileen Mackenzie – scullery maid, remain unknown.
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