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{{Summary=There has been minor sabotage and theft going on on the Castle in recent months, and some of the stolen parts were used to construct a new Hive Engine. Klaus (and thus, Gil and Von Pinn) suspects that there may be Revenants on board. In fact, this plot is a red herring: the problems have mostly been due to Wooster in his much more mundane capacity as spy.}}

{{Description=This is a plot idea that we can hang between almost any random characters, although it probably needs to involve the Wulfenbach staff on one side. They know (more or less) that there are now Revenants who aren't shambling monstrosities. (I'm at least willing to assert that [[Gil]] knows, even though, strictly speaking, [[DuPree]] doesn't quite yet.)

So we can have a plot that someone is suspected to be a secret Revenant. We'll need to do some hand-waving about *why* they believe this, but it's a fine chance to introduce a pure red-herring plot. (For instance, it would make *perfectly* good sense for Gil to suspect the Circus, since they lied to him about [[Agatha]] for *some* reason.) If we do this, though, the Wulfenbach party may need to have a Weasel in order to test it out.

LATER: Having thought about this a bit, I think it's worthwhile, and the people to apply it to are [[Von Pinn]] and [[Theo]]. The story goes like this:

Over the past year, a number of little things have been going wrong in Castle Wulfenbach. We need to work out exactly what, but they've all been small things that seem to indicate a spy in their midst. (In reality, this is correct, and the spy is [[Wooster]], but he's been subtle enough that [[Gil]] hasn't been sure it was him. Note that this cross-links to the [[Spies]] plot, and should be co-ordinated with it, as well as to [[Runaways]].)

Von Pinn knew about the possible saboteur (being one of [[Klaus]]' closer confidants), but didn't really think much about it -- until a couple of weeks ago, when she found out about the fact that the Castle contained at least a few Revenant spies. (At this point, they don't know how many: they've detected, say, three so far, but don't have enough [[Weasel]]s yet to canvass the whole place.) At that point, a horrible thought occurred to her: what if [[Theo]] is one of the Revenants? It makes a horrible sort of sense: as Head Boy, he had relatively free access to much of the Castle; he's a mildly talented Spark; and he ran off just when everything went to hell. Worse, he's related to [[Lucrezia]], and she's always been just a *little* nervous about him, as a consequence.

So she has a long-term goal of finding him and investigating this matter. She really needs to know: she is torn up with guilt about the idea of one of her children actually being a servant of the Other. If it's true, she'll just have to kill him. (And if he isn't, she damned well wants to know why he ran off.)

<i>Darker: Three thoughts: (1) I dimly recall that normal slaver wasps don't work on Sparks? I can't remember how commonly this is known. If Von Pinn (or whoever) would know it, they also ought to be concerned that these new wasps can affect Sparks (assuming the notional target is a Spark, as [[Theo]] is). (2) If you want a complication (which would help avoid having this plot resolved very quickly), the weasel could have escaped shortly pre-game. Perhaps it's roaming around the castle. [[Von Pinn]] is undoubtedly fast enough to catch it if she sees it, but it might be in small areas that only [[Dingbot Prime]] or other Dingbots could get to, at least for the first hour or two of game...after which the Replicators might flush it out, regardless. (Giving a failsafe to this plot moving forward, effectively.) (3) Do we have / can we get a prop weasel?</i>

Justin: (1) Hmm. I don't remember anything about wasps not affecting Sparks. Certainly, there are many reasons to believe otherwise. When Agatha and Gil are cornered at the Hive in volume 3, they clearly *expect* to be infected. The fictional stories claim that Klaus was once a Revenant -- not necessarily true, but clearly considered non-ridiculous. And at the beginning of the recent confrontation, [[Lucrezia]] is downright astonished that Klaus is *not* infected. So I think you're misremembering. (2) Not a bad idea -- worth thinking about, to slow this plot down a bit. (Although, that said, since it's mainly a red herring, I don't want to overdo it.) (3) I don't, but it's worth looking for.

LATER: Adding to this plot, and tying it across: it now relates to the reasons why [[Beetle]] has suspected [[Klaus]] for so long.

Two weeks before GG begins, Beetle's people found a Hive Engine out in the woods. This engine was suspicious for two principal reasons. First, it was relatively new. Second, after he dug deeply into it, he found Wulfenbach technology used in it, technology that Klaus assured him was only used on the Castle. So he came to suspect the most obvious conclusion -- that Klaus was behind the new Engines, for his own reasons. Combined with the fact that Barry had implicated Klaus as a servant of the [[Other]] (for reasons that are unknown, and outside the scope of this game), it seemed likely that he was a Revenant.

In fact, [[Wooster]] had been quietly dealing with the Geisterdamen behind the scenes, arranging an alliance between them and Britain should the need arise. He was providing them with various Castle technology, smuggling it off-ship during routine shipments. He knew nothing of what it was being used for, and didn't much care: it seemed reasonably innocuous, and while the Geisters were a bit creepy, there was nothing obviously dangerous about them.

When Beetle was apparently killed, Klaus brought his equipment and notes to the Castle, and pored over them during his spare time. He eventually discovered that Beetle suspected him of working on the Engine. He knew that was ridiculous, but it raised a new question: who *was* doing so? Combined with the activation of the Engine, this made Klaus realize that there must be revenants aboard, and that led to the creation of the Weasels. (Of course, Klaus was incorrect that the equipment had been arranged by the revenants; however, as it happened, several of them had been acting as Wooster's go-betweens with the Geisters.)

[[Gil]] and [[Von Pinn]] both know about the issue, and are aware that there may be Revenants among them.
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{{OldToDo=Do we want to introduce this plot? If so, who do we apply it to?}}

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