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Monday, March 19, 2012

Blood Ties - Session 04

Characters Introduced:
Rose - Father Soto's secretary
Mrs. Fieldstone - Old church lady, has friends who noticed Lucy's wounds one time in church

Dr. Mason called Daniela to warn her that the Diocese had approved her meeting with Father Soto, but that the meeting wouldn't last long.  Leaving Brother's Pawn Violet and Daniela got soaked as they rushed to St. Teresa.  Father Soto admitted them into his office and explained that he had counciled Lucy when she came to him with strange symptoms of visions and bleeding from her palms.

Father Soto mentioned that Lucy reportedly was visited by angels or apparitions.  Lucy was confused by their appearance and seemed reluctant to even admit that they were real.  Father Soto said that Lucy didn't seem to understand what was happening to her, which he initially interpreted as childish.  In the end he admitted that Lucy's insecurity regarding the wounds and visions were more likely evidence of their validity instead of it all being a hoax that was made up for attention.  Father Soto did know where Lucy may have gone and he hadn't seen her for three days before she was reported missing.  The Diocese cut the meeting short before anything further could be learned.

During a late lunch Beth called Daniela to tell her that Phil Gardner, a report from the Chicago Tribune, was at the apartment building with a number of other new reporters who were looking for Daniela.  Beth was able to put Phil on the phone and Daniela agreed to meet with him at a laundromat called Shiny Dime, that was just a few blocks from her apartment at 7 pm later that evening.

After talking with Phil, Daniela and Violet paid a visit to an old friend of Violet's family to see if she could get any more information about Lucy.  Mrs. Stonefield proved to be mostly unhelpful but she did mention that that last time she saw Lucy she was praying at St. Teresa and left after being interrupted clutching a rosary in her gloved hands.

Next session begins outside of Mrs. Stonefield's home

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Blood Ties - Session 03


Characters introduced:
-Josué Carrera: leader of the Familia gang, girlfriend was murdered
-Benny: Rudy’s brother, co-owner of Brother’s pawn

Daniela spoke with Dr. Mason.  He said that he would contact the Diocese to attain permission to speak with Father Soto, of Santa Teresa de Ávila, for Daniela.  He said he would call her back before lunch with the results of the request.

Violet invited Daniela over to Lucy’s place to discuss the events of last night.  Lucy’s name badge from work was found.  The badge indicated that she worked at Norwegian American Hospital on the 7th floor.

Rudy texted Violet.  He urged Violet and Daniela to come over to his pawn shop to talk with him about last night and about Lucy.  According to Rudy, Esme has been trying to keep him and Lucy from seeing each other.  Rudy also shared that Esme lives in Old Town now and doesn’t understand the Barrio anymore.

Rudy also shared that he was part of Familia.  To keep the gang satisfied Benny and Rudy need to give a large cut of their profit from the pawn shop to Familia.  Rudy laments his recruitment into the gang, at the same time he accepts the inevitability of the decision.

Rudy thinks that Familia is being torn apart from the inside in an attempt to wrestle power from Josué, their leader.  Rudy does not like Josué.  Rudy believes that he was followed home last night by someone from the gang, or perhaps the murderer.

When Violet mentioned Francisco Rudy was shocked to hear his name.  According to Rudy, Francisco was transferred to Utah sometime during his sentence and hasn’t been heard from in the Barrio for a number of years.  Rudy doubts that Francisco has anything to do with Lucy’s disappearance.

Beth texted Daniela to tell her that there was a headline in the local section of the paper about her trip to Logan Square.  The headline read: Vatican Investigates Stigmata in Logan Square.

Next session will begin again at Brother’s Pawn. 

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