Kerberos 10/02/2011

I used the Dresden File's Case File Night Fears, with its haunted house with the three Cranston ghosts. The three Kerberans and their friend, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, were asked to investigate, and the three ghosts were laid to rest.

Baby Ghost was particularly scary. Abraham Lincoln was particularly fearless when even Sophronia was (mechanically) frighted.

Some amused, condescending person from the Kerberos Club, probably Milo Pepperto, although we didn't name him for a long time, let Victor know that if he wanted his friend Abraham Lincoln to be part of the club, Mr. Lincoln needed to be tested. Fortunately for Victor, Milo just happened to know of a haunted house in London...

I'd translated the Cranstons from Dresden Fate to Kerberos Fate, and I cut the bit about the mother being a potential wizard. That did make her less sympathetic, but I was fine with that.

The house was indeed haunted. There were three ghosts: Father, mother, and baby. The father was Jerome Cranston. The mother was Margaret Cranston, and the baby was Tobius Cranston. The mother was the most hostile ghost; the baby was the scariest.

In the original scenario, the mother's magic is somewhat uncontrolled and leads to her killing her baby. But that element isn't needed. You only need the idea that the woman is depressed or feeling immense pressure, like, say, to survive in 1837 for a poor couple that now has a child.

So, the mother killed the child