Szczepan Kazimierz Wojciech
Backstory
Szczepan Kazimierz Wojciech was born to a poor Polish, catholic family who as soon as they became working age, worked for a local textiles’ factory. Szczepan’s mother died during his birth, leaving the family without one of it’s sources of income. The hard times did not stop there however, as Szczepan’s father was an alcoholic and a gambler and ran afoul of some local loan sharks, to resolve the debt Szczepan was sold to the Bratva.
The Bratva sold Szczepan to a human trafficking operation, but he was too sickly to be a good . He was tossed into Siberia with no food, water, or equipment.
Utterly desperate, Szczepan remembered of a tale he read about a witch who guided a merchant’s son to a mythical kingdom. Calling out, he was eventually saved by Baba Jędza in a deal. He used his new-found powers to animate a skull he found nearby where he was left. Eventually finding his way to Norilsk and leaving Russia.
Appearance
Has a slavery brand - from bratva dude that bought me. (red iron)
Szczepan wears a black shirt with purple trim, with the same colour theme throughout his whole outfit. He also wears black jeans, and a trench coat, which is quite effective in hiding his frame and maybe some weapons.
In Szczepan right hand, he holds a walking stick with an ornate metal handle and blackened wood carved to look like the grim reaper’s scythe.
Work Towards finding
Something to grow
Lives near AquaDuck FleaMarket. 591 Milford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11208, USA
Notes
Bratva:
Initial Knowledge
- Name: Laereth - leughtenant
- Location: Grenwich Village
Concentrated in the Ukrainian village
Russians at The Greek Kitchen
- 10th and 58th
- Sell drugs from the parks
- During the morning
- Give evil eye to greek kitchen
- Russians arrive
- First a few, then in streams
- Procession of small-time russian gangsters
- 2-5 a group
- Over next 20 mins, from 11
- As if meandering away from a theatre after a show finished
- Moving SSW along 10th
- A couple stop at Gteek Kitchen, just for lunch
- 5 guys set up at corner and loiter
- Follow 2 guys, disappear from washington street into west village around bank street
- Down bank street, crossing the playground:
- Magical equivalent of ears popping
- Vision shifts for a moment
- Arcane Shift
- Enchantment and Illusion
- Arcane in methodology, but not power source
- Line that bisects the park NE-SW
- SE Side of line, you are affected
- Approximately along 8th ave
Research
- Less connected the contact, the more helpful/willing they are
- Dude Unconnected, business in area:
- Low level bratva cells using eye as a tag
Eye:
- 4 lashes each on the top and bottom
- None of the existing eye cults match this one
- Baba Yaga’s information
- The eyes let him in
- Need to keep the eyes closed
- Must not be woken
- No name I would know or be able to hear
- Power radiates from the eye
- Find the eye, destroy the eyes
NYU occult stuff
- In the basement archives of my library:
- Spiral wrought iron staircase
- inlaid to the bannister is a crest:
- Open book with long quill down the center
- Symmetrical quill
- The crest like of a knowledge based secret society
- Also found carved in the apex of a relief in the back wall in the sensitive textiles section.
- Floor beneath starwell
- Sounds hollow
- Use marks around the base plate of stairwell
- Crest slides when raised bit is pressed to revieal button
- High Arched Chamber
- Simple stone tiling
- About the size of a private family chapel
- Single central line of working tables
- Center rised shelf, lamp-holder, quill, scroll holder
- Comfy leather chairs
- Very well furnished private working library
- Desks for reading and working with old documents
- Purpose built working area
- Single peace 12 sections, 6 on each side
- Notes taken have not been left
- Lantern holder on the left On top ledge holder
- Quill and ink in a slightly recessed on the bottom
- Notepads are in the drawers
- Completely empty
- Shelves are to the side of stairs we came down
- 2 doors on the opposite end
- Left & Right set fairly close to the wall
- Handles don’t turn
- There is a bar coming out from the frame preventing the handle from moving
- No Keyholes
- Solid wood doors
- Left Door
- Each corner of the door is a gem
- Green Emerald
- Purple Amethyst
- Navy Sapphire
- Orange Jasper
- Jasper, Amethyst, Emerald, Sapphire
- Opens
- Cozy corridor, wooden floors
- ~7 ft wide
- Door at the end
- Room as tall as the first room
- On the wooden floors and recessed into the stone walls
- Shelves full of books and scrolls
- Second level balcony wrapping the sides of the room
- Slidey Ladders around to reach tops of shelves
- Staircase in left corner across from the entry door
- Books:
- Very old schematics of parts of old new york tunnels
- Oddly detailed
- TOOK PHOTOS
- Oddly specific histories of select wealthy families of NY
- Comings and goings of certain libraries on certain dates
- Treatise on communicating with powers unknown
- In the minority of books here
- Attempt at a theoretical grounding
- Examination of traditional folklore methods
- Why, How, When, and Why
- Recommendations of things to try
- BAG THE BOOK
- Information that is very specific and not widespread
- Tome on the interpretation of arcane symbology
- Rothbart’s guide to the interpretation of arcane symbology, volume 2
- BAG THE BOOK
- As a writer, rothbart is a dry waffler, not an interesting one
- The eye
- Knowledge
- Power
- Focussing of power and/or knowledge
- Supplimentary
- Elements pointing towards and away from things can symbolise competition or cooperation
- Around a point emphasise a thing
- Number of things can have symbolic meaning
- Symmerty, horizontal and vertical
- Can often cause confusion when combined with number elements
- Radial arrangements often are about moving to or away from something
- Breaking up of areas into discrete spaces also does this
- 8
- Symmetrical, symbolises balance
- Resembling a cross-road to invoke decision-making
- Prosperity
- Tarot - justice or strength, reversed meaning insecurity
- 4
- Death and unbecoming
- Platonic elements
- Four pillars
- Four cardinal directions/ four winds
- Four of something in creation myths
- Four offspring
- Four horsemen of the apocalypse
- Very old schematics of parts of old new york tunnels
- Door on the right, half way down
- Series of scrolls and loose blank pages
- Bookbinding, Scrollmaking, Document Recording
- Sealing Wax
- Each corner of the door is a gem
- Right Door
- Relief on the door of a shelf with objects
- Lantern
- Notepad
- Quill and Ink
- Mirror the order and the bolt slides in to unlock the door
- Opens:
- Stairwell
- Up
- 2 Floors Up
- Top
- Ornate Heavy door
- Office
- Abandoned
- Hardwood floor, more highly polished
- Rich deep red carpet
- Heavy ornate desk with high backed chair
- Sparse books, a few shelves
- Cipher tables and tools
- Beeeg Loupe
- Desk has many drawers
- Array of notes
- Door:
- Main thoroughfare of the library building
- Yorick currently hidden on top shelf with nat 20.
- Mid
- Lecture room
- Amphitheatre
- Workbenches and comfy chairs in apmhitheatre
- Big double doors
- Lecture halls section of library, doors are tuckeed away behind stairwell.
- Down
- Leather-working is smelly
- Books half bound
- Text spilling from pages
- Scrolls being treated and rolled for storage
- Racks, benches, horses (wooden triangle thing)
- Relief on the door of a shelf with objects
- Left & Right set fairly close to the wall
- In the basement archives of my library:
Russian Baths:
- 1/10 tattooed people - emphasis on eye motif
- Eye often incorporated in something
- Potentially reworked to include eye
- Decent Slavic Clientelle
Other
Books:
- Turn of the century occult fascination (Probably useless)