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F irearms & M argarineFirearms &MargarineD ramatis P ersonaeWritten by Captain Thomas OlamTranscription Performed by Mister J GrayWith Gratitude to Captain Michael Alyn PondsmithEditorial Insight by Lord Lucus Palosaari and Captain Troy E. DanielsIllustration and Layout Beautifully Rendered by Admiral Rick HersheyThe Members of the Gaming Society of the Fat Goblin are Ben Dowell, Eric Hindley, Ismael Alvarez,J Gray, Jason Owen Black, Jeffrey Swank, John Bennett, Justice Mora, Kalyna Conrad, Kiel Howell, KimFrandsen, Matt Roth, Michael Ritter, Rodney Sloan, Lucus Palosaari, Rick Hershey, and Troy DanielsGrateful Appreciation is Given to the Allies of the Second Compact, who include Docteur Julien Pirou(Scholar of Paris), Lady Roxanne Silver (Mistress of the Babbage Engine), Captain Tanya Evans (Lady PirateExtraordinaire), Miss Jennifer R. Povey (World Famous Author), Lady Tempest (Faerie Enchantress), LadyStephanie Gray (Official Muse of Falkenstein), and the Most Honorable Raquel Gutierrez (Marchioness ofSantos).The Developer of the Line is Mister J GrayThe Publisher of this Fine Work is Rick Hershey of Fat Goblin GamesFirearms & Margarine: An Adventure Entertainment for Castle Falkenstein 2017 Fat Goblin GamesC astle F alkenstein2F irearms & M argarine
C ontents4The Préfet De Police17Dark Doings In The City Of Lights4Other Suspects19Dramatis Personae5What Has Gone Before5How One Might Become Involved6Prologue:Chapter 3:20Closing In On A Killer20The Gunsmith207The Museum21The Scene Of The Crime7The Banks21The Sniper’s Perch7The Mesmerist21The Body On The Stage8The Commune Leader22Magick And Murder9Assaulted By Rogues23La Morgue2311The Denouement24Questioning The Suspects11Red Herrings, Assumptions, & Accusations25The Factory Owner11The Guards12The Commune14Host Characters27The Protest Leader14A New Type Of Brownie30History Gone Askew15Sample Dramatic Characters32Chapter 1:Chapter Two:26AftermathDedicated to Those Who Made this Possible, Mister Maximum Mike and Lady Lisa PondsmithAbout Fat Goblin GamesBased in South Carolina, USA, Fat Goblin Games was founded in 2011 to create Pathfinder Roleplaying Gamecompatible products. With a focus on high quality production values and providing a creative environment for ourwriters, Fat Goblin Games has quickly become a recognized force in the world of third party publishers.With hundreds of support books, visual aids, campaign settings, and quality stock art, Fat Goblin Games continuesto provide exciting content and fantastic worlds in which gamers can immerse themselves.Visit us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and check out our website at fatgoblingames.com.This game references the Castle Falkenstein Roleplaying game, available from R.Talsorian Games, Inc. CastleFalkenstein and all associated logos and trademarks are copyrights of R. Talsorian Games, Inc.Used with permission.Published under license fromR. Talsorian Games, Inc.Curious Creatures 2016 Fat Goblin Games andall related marks and logos are trademarks of FatGoblin Games. Unless otherwise stated, all interiorartwork, graphics, character names, and fiction areProduct Identity of Fat Goblin Games.C astle F alkenstein3F irearms & M argarine
F irearms & M argarineGPROLOGUE:reetings from Beyond the Faerie Veil!Back home, any discussion of the Victorian periodinevitably turned to murder mysteries. After all, SherlockDARK DOINGSIN THE CITY OFLIGHTSHolmes is as much a symbol of the time as Her Majesty herself !Of course, he’s not the only one. The science of solving crimes hasgrown by leaps and bounds in the last few decades here in NewEuropa. In the late 1820s and early 1830s, organized police forceslike Scotland Yard began replacing local constables. In 1833, the firstChaos reigned in the great city of Paris ashundreds of humans and Brownies blocked thestreets of the Fifteenth Arrondissement. As one,the protesters raised both their signs and theirvoices to protest the opening of a factory whichthreatened their traditions and their livelihoods.Officers of the préfecture de police de Pariswatched from the sidelines, forbidden to interfereas the protest dragged traffic, industry, andcommerce in the fifteenth arrondissement of theCity of Lights to a grinding halt.private detective agency was founded by Eugène François Vidocq, acareer criminal turned criminalist, who would later go on to foundand head France’s national police force, the Sûreté Nationale. Bythe time I was spellnapped and brought to Castle Falkenstein,professional police forces were the norm and consulting detectiveswere everywhere. In London we’ve got Sherlock Holmes andIgnatius Paul Pollaky. In the United States, there’s the Pinkertonsand the original girl detective, Violet Strange. C. Auguste Dupin,though elderly, still solves the occasional crime in Paris and evenPrussia has a famous detective, in the form of Doctor Franz XaverWindmüller. If I left out your favorite Victorian detective, fictionalor historical, don’t worry. They’re probably over here in NewEuropa, sleuthing up a storm.Meanwhile, three stories above the streets ofthe arrondissement, a sniper slowly adjusted therifle’s scope. Each turn of the knob was workedout with painstaking precision and part of acareful calculation. A calculation where the onlypossible solution Heck, even I’ve had a chance to solve a murder mystery or two!Not too long after the Battle of Königseig, Marianne, Morrolan,and I were dispatched to Paris to investigate a protest movementbeing led by a charismatic French Brownie and look for possibleUnseelie involvement. When the protest leader’s assistant wasmurdered by an assassin’s bullet, it was up to the three of usto solve the mystery! The whole case was so interesting was murder!and full of unusual intrigue I later turned it into one ofmy first Adventure Entertainments.And that’s what you’ve got in your hands.Enjoy!Tom OlamC astle F alkenstein4F irearms & M argarine
D ramatis P ersonae inA lphabetical O rderby S urnameTwo decades ago Tom Olam was spellnappedby a sorcerer and a Faerie King. He traveledthrough time and space to an alternate, Victorianworld where fact, fiction, and fantasy co-existed.A gamer at heart, Tom turned his adventures inthis new world into a roleplaying game which hearranged to have delivered to an old friend backhome by “Faerie Express”. The legendary MikePondsmith and his company, R. Talsorian,published Tom’s game in our world as CastleFalkenstein. Seven books, including the core rules,were published before the line went silent for atime. The thing is, though, not everything TomOlam sent to our world was published. Plentyof material was carefully stored away, awaitingtranscription. Fat Goblin Games was happy tovolunteer for the job. Thank you for joining us.Monsieur Michel, Brownie and Devoted Assistantof Mademoiselle BenditMademoiselle Danielle Bendit, Brownie Leader ofthe Protest MovementMonsieur Martin Hoog, Factory OwnerMadame Anne Jaclard, Newspaper Owner andCommune SympathizerDocteur Jean Alexandre Le Mat, Physician andFirearms InventorMonsieur Eugène Varlin, leader of the ParisCommuneDocteur Auguste Voisin, Psychiatrist andMesmeristYour humble servant.Mister J GrayPréfet Félix Voisin, Prefect of the Paris PolicePrefecturetheir hand-churned butter in city markets. Theyare joined in their worries by Brownies. Thesehard-working Faeries look at factories like theone being built by Hoog and see a world in whichtheir ability to do the work of ten men in a singlenight will fall by the wayside. When machines canwork as quickly as Brownies, what need is therefor Faerie labor, especially when they cannot standto work in factories stuffed to the brim with ironand steel?WHAT HAS GONEBEFOREProgress marches ever onward, caring little forwho or what it crushes beneath its feet. In Paris,industrialist Martin Hoog nears the openingday of his factory. Once completed, the factorywill become France’s premiere producer ofmargarine, a butter substitute made with refinedvegetable oil instead of cow’s or goat’s milk.Monsieur Hoog touts his achievement as a victoryfor industrialization and a symbol of mankind’sconquest over the seasonal vagaries of nature.One Brownie in particular, known by humansas Danielle Bendit, has declared war onindustrialization. This charismatic Faerie womanhas gathered together hundreds of her fellowFae, as well as a number of human dairy farmersand laborers, and marched them right up to thedoorstep of Hoog’s factory to protest the marchof progress. She seeks to slow it down or halt itbefore it steps on the neck of the common manand Faerie.Not everyone, however, sees Hoog’s factory ina positive light. Dairy farmers in the countrysideworry factory-produced margarine will displaceC astle F alkenstein5F irearms & M argarine
F irearms & M argarineA party of Dramatic Characters might find themselvesinvestigating the murder in any number of ways. Mostobviously, they might be Agents of the Second Compact orthe French government, sent to investigate the protests andcharged with finding a way to defuse the situation withoutgiving the Unseelie the excuse they need to start a war.At the behest of the Emperor, the police havenot yet acted to quell or disperse the protests.Napoleon the Third worries Madmoiselle Bendit’sorganization represents a large enough number ofFaeries that to attack it will be considered a breachof the First Compact, which prohibits humans, theSeelie, and Unseelie Courts from openly warringwith one another. The Emperor is concernedaction taken by the police today may result in awar between humans and the Fae tomorrow.Of course, not everyone works for such organizations.Another way to involve Dramatic Characters might bethrough their professions. Anarchists, Brownies, or laborerscould be sympathetic members of the protest movement.Journalists might be covering it for their newspaper.Diplomats, gentlepeople, or nobles could be engaged bylocal merchants to negotiate a cessation of hostilities.Consulting detectives might have been hired to investigatethe protesters for a third party.The third day of Mademoiselle Bendit’s protestfinds the members of her movement gatheredtogether in a plaza outside of Hoog’s factory.A makeshift stage has been built from pallets,barrels, and crates. Mademoiselle Bendit hasjust begun her speech when a shot rings out,loud even above the chants of the crowd. On themakeshift stage, a body falls and the protestersbegin running blindly and in panic.H ow O ne M ight B ecomeI nvolvedIf these options don’t suffice, never underestimate thepower of happenstance. Many a murder mystery was solvedby an amateur detective who happened to be at the right placeat the wrong time!C astle F alkenstein6F irearms & M argarine
her voice so all can hear. She promises the age ofindustrialization will not arrive only to break thebacks and the wills of the laborers and farmers.Those who work in the fields and in the barns willnot allow their way of life to be destroyed by ironand machines. She begins to outline plans forthe movement’s future when the unmistakablesound of a rifle shot echoes across the plaza. Onthe stage, both Mademoiselle Bendit and Michelseem to fall. A silent, stunned moment passes andthen the crowd begins to panic, screaming andrunning in every direction. Further complicatingthe chaos of the scene, a fog begins to fill the air,obscuring vision.CHAPTER 1:THE SCENE OFTHE CRIMEIn which a Brownie is murdered by sniper shot during aprotest rally and panic ensues.Were it not for the din of the protesters and theangry cries of onlookers, this would be a beautifulsummer’s day in the City of Lights. The sun hasrisen high in the sky, boiling off the fog which hadmarked the morning.Assuming they are neither panicking nor tryingto flee the scene, the Dramatic Characters havetwo possible paths to follow: they can attempt toascertain where the shot came from and find theassassin; or they can attempt to fight their way tothe stage and the fallen protest leaders.Going on its third day, the protest againstMonsieur Hoog’s margarine factory hasoccupied all of the plaza in front of the factoryand overflowed into the streets, blocking trafficthrough the arrondissement. The protesters are amix of human dairy farmers and Brownies, whohave used their shapeshifting abilities to makethemselves taller and more noticeable. They carrysigns angrily decrying Hoog, margarine, and theindustrialization they feel is destroying theirlivelihood while chanting slogans in anger andsolidarity. Along the edges of the protesting crowdare close to a hundred police officers, armed withthick clubs wrapped in iron bands. Thus far, theauthorities have been content to watch the protestand not interfere.T he S niper ’ s P erchDue to the size of the plaza and the noise of thecrowd, pinpointing the shooter’s position won’tbe an easy task. Dramatic Characters attemptingto locate the origin of the gunshot can do so inmultiple ways. An Exceptional Perception Feat reveals theglint of a possible rifle scope behind an openwindow. A Great Education or Tinkering Feat allowsa Dramatic Character to calculate the mostlikely location based on mathematicalcalculations involving trajectory.A makeshift stage constructed haphazardlyfrom scrap wood, old pallets, and barrels hasbeen set up on one edge of the plaza. The crowdgrows silent as Danielle Bendit, a Brownie andthe movement’s leader, takes the stage. BehindMademoiselle Bendit stands her faithful assistant,the Brownie Michel. Mademoiselle Bendit beginsher speech, using a bit of Glamour to amplifyC astle F alkenstein A skilled shooter can intuit the most favorableshooting position based on years of experiencewith a Great Marksmanship Feat.7F irearms & M argarine
F irearms & M argarine A Good Marksmanship Feat allows anyoneto recognize the rifle as a Whitworth rifle.Whitworths are a single-shot, muzzle-loadedweapon which shoots .451 ca
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