If someone wants to question Tom Bailley's friends who were with him that night. Each of them has been sick and is unwilling to be involved in any sort of investigation. (Mobsters are involved after all. and they were breaking the law too.)If the Characters can manage to make it past this wall of reticence. They discover that Tom Bailley was in fact a good boy who had never really gotten drunk before and so he decided not to fool around with his little "Experiment" as he called it. Bailley drank at least one whole bottle by himself and sampled some from each persons bottle. he also drank most of his date's bottle too.

The High Tone is in Cicero County. This outlying area of Chicago is famous for being almost entirely corrupted by the mob from the county seat on down to the local cops. Chicago police will throw up their hands and say it's a jurisdiction issue. Police will be particularly useless in helping with this investigation.The Cicero County attorney has been cowed into utter submission too. Barney Murphy is actually living in Cicero at present mainly because it's close to an airfield that IDA uses. While Barney does not know exactly where the place he can ask around a bit and find it without too much trouble at all.

There are only 3 entrances to the High Tone Dance Club. One is an unmarked and easy to miss stage door. The front door is made of heavy oak and practically shouts the words "Go Away" it has a sliding door for the gorilla minding the vestibule. so getting by this guy requires a bit of fast talking (However this is not hard because this gorilla is not all that bright The High Tone does have a dress code though...White tie and tails are called for, and on this score the Gorilla will not budge.) The last entrance opens onto a raised loading dock out back where the trash cans are.

Near the loading dock there are a number of crates and broken glass and a smell of champagne. Further investgation will yield the fact that many of the bottles have been broken and poured out. Both Sean and Barney have actually tasted champagne and this stuff is not it. It's actually a combination of twice distilled cider (called applejack) and a bit of moonshine mixed in for kick. Maurice,if present, can smell something very wrong with the "Champagne" and will start barking at anybody who looks like they are going to drink. This is the "Champagne that is responsible for the tragedy that befell Tom Bailley. It appears to have been discarded unceremoniously.

The vestibule opens into the club proper. There is a double staircase going down into the club floor. To the right is the Bar and to the left is an area that is screened off from the main floor by a high rail. This is where the gaming tables are. The main floor of the place is dominated by rickety round tables surrounding the thrust stage. There is an unmarked door to the right of the stage area which leads back into the stage area of the club. Occasionaly hanky panky goes on here.

At the end of the bar, there is a door that leads into the kitchen area and pantry and also the aforementioned loading dock.

Red has a table in the area of the gaming tables. It is in an area of it's own and is raised off the ground floor by it's own staircase.There is a door marked "Office" which is a cramped little office where Red actually looks over the books of his tiny empire. Red holds court at his round table with his boys. There are couple of automatic pistols taped to the underside of the table. Each mook has a pistol and the bartender has a shotgun. If the Gorilla is active when a gunfight breaks out he will come in with a tommy gun and look for likely targets. Red has a total of 10 extras in the place at any given time. 4 at the table and others elsewhere. There are also at least 2 serious mooks with an average combat dice pool of 8 dice. Even the waiters are packing heat.

Handling Red Shaugnessy:

Red does not take kindly to being threatened at all. Any players that feel that they can walk into Red's club and push him around are going to get the crap kicked out them. Red will become mulish and then violent with people who try to muscle him.

If the characters put the beatdown on him and his boys and begin shaking him until he talks...he'll start talking. after all ,all of this is bad for business and his image as a hard guy. Better these people should kick the ass of the supplier. Of course once he starts talking Vito shows up and things can get hairy.

If Red and his boys start to get the better of the players or interrogation bogs down then Vito shows up and starts shooting up the place. Red offers a temporary truce to the characters and they can try to put paid to Vito and his thugs. afterwards he'll tell the players anything they want to know.

If Father Michael gets involved with a heavy guilt trip or the Characters try charm or friendliness. Then Red will be far more forthcoming. Characters asking about the "Champagne" will find that Red's attitude is fairly open.

"That crap? I had to get rid of it. People started getting sick. It was bad for business. Some dumb kentucky hilljacks make that stuff and drive it up here every couple of weeks. No. No. I'll tell you anything you want to know about those goofballs.Their leader calls himself the Imperial Wizard or some dumb crap like that. I can tell you exactly where that stuff came from...

Which is of course when Vito shows up. See the pattern?

Vito shoots up the place.

Vito Stefano has been given orders by his Capo to shut down Red Shaugnessy's club. Stories about the poisonous champagne has been getting around and has been damaging business in Cicero. Vito and ten extras have shown up to shoot the place up and run off the clientel. This will also involve shooting Red until he is quite dead. The players are therefore thrust into the unenviable position of having to defend Red and attempt to drive off Vito and his boys. If things start to go badly for Vito he will decide to ditch the party and try again later. Please note that he possesses Death Defiance as one of knacks so he'll probably get away or appear dead. Vito may actually play a role later in the adventure, So it's important that he bail.

If Red takes one bullet to many, There is information that may be gleaned from the ledger laying on his desk in his office. Which happily has a window that the characters can go out of if things are sufficiently pressing. No one will call the cops if there is a massacre but the players don't know that. So play the running gun battle as a race against time.

The ledger list regular payments to a group called the Harlan County benevolent society. This is perhaps the only entry that refers to the champagne supplier. However, it should be noted that Red wrote everything down in this ledger. The notes in the margins alone can send hundreds of people to jail. Red, of course won't part with this willingly.

Harlan County is the next real destination. Some little burg called Lynch. According to Red. That's where the suppliers are.