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02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte.

Posted by The KeeperFor group 0
The Keeper
GM, 92 posts
Sat 4 Apr 2020
at 01:22
  • msg #1

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte




It was good and quiet and peaceful in Maggie's room, the bed changed ready for Brigitte and bringing a fresh smell of washed linen to the place alongside that of soap. It felt nice to be clean and a little cooled.

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This message was last edited by the GM at 01:40, Sat 04 Apr 2020.
Brigitte d'Anjou
player, 49 posts
I can't drown my demons
they know how to swim.
Sat 4 Apr 2020
at 01:23
  • msg #2

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte

Having just finished up Brigitte was just closing the door when Maggie and Janey appear in the hallway. She opens the door again and then enters behind them, closing the door as she does. "I can give you a hand " She helps with the girl as best she can, but stops when she mentions "do strange."

Turning to Maggie Brigitte asks "Do you know what she means by that ?"



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Margaret Cleary
NPC, 12 posts
Freeholder's niece
Sat 4 Apr 2020
at 01:25
  • msg #3

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte

"I don't, ma'am...oh, Janey, don't fuss, please. Please?" Janey does stop trying to take to all fours and bolt under the bed, but puts her arms up over her head and growls quietly to herself, not liking the talk of strangeness.

Maggie cautiously takes a cleaned sponge to the girl's knees whilst Brigitte stops her backing off. "However did you get your knees so black? It's like you've been right in the ashes of sometin...oh, no...please tell me you weren't playing with matches, Janey, surely you wouldn't do that?"

Janey shakes her head emphatically. "NNnn...nnnnn...I didn'. I...I make a warn'n," she says. "Thurrs a bad, a bad rock. So I made eyt."
Brigitte d'Anjou
player, 50 posts
I can't drown my demons
they know how to swim.
Sat 4 Apr 2020
at 02:48
  • msg #4

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte


Brigitte put on her brightest smile and looked at Janey, "What a brave girl you were Janey, some smart to make a warning... So who was making the strange stuff ? Do you remember like a smart girl ?"

She tried not to be to condescending when she spoke to the girl.

Brigitte d'Anjou rolled 41 using 1d100.  Charm = 90%.


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Janey
NPC, 6 posts
Poor witless girl
Sat 4 Apr 2020
at 12:55
  • msg #5

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte

Janey gradually takes her arms off her head and relaxes a little when Brigitte notonly listens but says she's done well. "Thers'a bad fella, I wuz out...three sleeps 'go, I's out'n I, I saw hiim, in th' bush."

Maggie frowns as she listens, but takes the opportunity to wash and check over Janey's ankles and calves for any nicks or scratches (Brigitte had found a few more minor scratches on her knees than she could account for whilst washing herself, as though she had at some point crawled over uneven ground). Janey obsediently lifts each foor for washing when tapped, quite biddable with the distraction.
Brigitte d'Anjou
player, 51 posts
I can't drown my demons
they know how to swim.
Sat 4 Apr 2020
at 20:45
  • msg #6

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte

In reply to Janey (msg # 5):

"And had you ever seen that bad man before ? Were there others with him ?"

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Janey
NPC, 7 posts
Poor witless girl
Sat 4 Apr 2020
at 21:24
  • msg #7

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte

Janey nods for a while at that. "He come...c'm here b'fore..mm utherz."

She rocks on her heels a bit, not looking straight at anything in particular, letting Maggie clean her knees and turn the water in the bowl dark with charcoal. Her brows twitch into a frown. "He wazn bad, in, in the howse...but he come back, back bad, 'nis own.. Ah, I think he...he chop'm up, th'utherz." She twitches her head and left shoulder, agitated by the thought.

Maggie has slowed her sponging - Brigitte gets the idea Maggie wants to dismiss the story as a morbid fancy, but is equally afraid it might be true. She's started shaking again. "Janey-" she clears her throat, strengthens her voice, "-Janey, what did the bad feller look like?"

Janey fidgets. "Hnnn...he..like Jack, wid the hair'nn tall's me...he c'm back he hadda hair'n face, an...nnd he'n red." Janey pulls a hand down the entire right side of her face. "Red. Ana hans. nnn..."

Brigitte feels the girl tense against her steadying hand
Brigitte d'Anjou
player, 52 posts
I can't drown my demons
they know how to swim.
Sun 5 Apr 2020
at 02:44
  • msg #8

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte

Brigitte got down on her knees, "If we had to Janey do you think she could show me where this all happened ? If you are able I have a big bag of boiled sweets for being so smart." Brigitte looked across to Janey's foster-sister "If we have to of course ?"

She turned again to the girl "Tell me more about this bad rock, what makes it bad ?"


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[[GM edit: Talking to people who are there.]]
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:48, Sun 05 Apr 2020.
Janey
NPC, 8 posts
Poor witless girl
Sun 5 Apr 2020
at 15:17
  • msg #9

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte

Janey sits, too, since everyone else is down there. Maggie quietly takes the opportunity to make sure there's no injury to the young woman's thighs and moves on to sponging down her arms, passing Janey a petticoat in the meantime.

Janey looks Brigitte over, unsure what a boiled sweet is but seeing no food immediately held out to her; the 'natural' almost visibly drops the memory of the offer from her current thinking and considers the rest, pulling on the underwear with some concentration. "I'nt want t'go back 'gain," she says, growling a bit.

"Well, I don't think there's need for that - James said our fellow Daniels and Henry Cotton went up to see whatever strangeness was about-"


"Wi' wi'...the haeds,"
Janey puts in. "Nn the bad write'n."

"Yes, he mentioned there were sheep heads," Maggie says, trying not to let her voice shake. "They probably saw the rest, too."

"No' the rock!" Janey objects. "I hhh...I hhide't. Made..th' warnen." She says the next bit to Brigitte since the Frenchwoman clearly understands she's the expert here. At least, she directly addresses Brigitte's neckerchief, not much liking to look straight at her face: "'s likea shael, an'...an' it hurts you, in...inside, in yr haed, an' th'bad fella, he put't inna pot. All in th' pot with th'stiicks nnna marra 'n bark'n red nn bad stuff...an.."

Janey grips her left wrist as though she could take the hand off at the joint. "Frm sm'nn chopt up, an' I, I run'n m'fort nn hide, but I ggg...go ho-ome an evrn doin strange." She looks back at Maggie as her foster-sister ties light stays on her, distress clear in her tone. "You wrr doon strange, Maggee...evrnn doin strange, on th' floor an' is days an' I cu'n wake up any'n but, but they'nt really sleep. I, I, I scare..."

The last becomes a tearful wail and she turns to hug Maggie, as though the tide of fear from her experience of whatever had happened in the last of those missing days were breaking over her all over again. It seemed that if no-one else did, Janey remembered.
Brigitte d'Anjou
player, 53 posts
I can't drown my demons
they know how to swim.
Mon 6 Apr 2020
at 22:24
  • msg #10

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte


Brigitte was having trouble following what Janey said, but she got the gist of it or at least she though she did. "Was there anything else you remember Janey ? What was the bad man doing while we were doing strange stuff or asleep ?


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Janey
NPC, 9 posts
Poor witless girl
Mon 6 Apr 2020
at 22:47
  • msg #11

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte

It's hard to raise a response from Janey for a while, at least until Maggie has rocked with her and shushed her a bit. After a few reminders about the question Janey does speak, however.

"I 'unno...back 'na mou'ns - I, I stay. I try...try help ev'rn, nnn...but sum thins I'nt know..."
She looks at Maggie. "I...I made you cook a eggs, when you god up off...offr floor," she tells her.

Maggie doesn't know what to make of that at all, but hugs Janey closer a moment. "Well...thank you. I'm glad you helped me cook. Surely makes me feel safer to know you'd look out fer me, Janey, that's very good. Th-thank you." She struggles to keep her voice even and reassuring.
Brigitte d'Anjou
player, 54 posts
I can't drown my demons
they know how to swim.
Mon 6 Apr 2020
at 23:54
  • msg #12

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte


Brigitte clasped the girls hands in hers "Well Janey when this is all over and done with I would like you to come to my house with Maggie and I will have some presents for you. How does that sounds ? For being very brave and smart."

It sounded as if Janey had her fill of remembering so Brigitte helps finish getting her dressed and then departs to join the others.


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Janey
NPC, 10 posts
Poor witless girl
Tue 7 Apr 2020
at 14:11
  • msg #13

02a - Ladies' Room - Brigitte

Janey isn't sure about having both hands annexed and takes one back, but does listen and quiet down as Brigitte holds the other. "Crismis presns?"

That proves distraction enough: Janey takes to interrogating Maggie about when Christmas would be, whether they'd take a trip down to Parramatta to get a goose or shoot an emu rather than eat one of their hens, whether they could make a "reeth" and plum pudding, and various festive enquiries that Maggie fields as best she can whilst getting skirts and a shawl onto the girl. Maggie shoots Brigitte a grateful look, though she's still somewhat shaken.

Aside from the lack of shoes or stockings, a little brushing gets Janey looking like a civilised human being fit for company.
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