SBR 2.3: Secret

"'Sam gets a call from Kitty, and Oliver tries his best to be of service, but it's not entirely welcome.'"

Events of Note

 * Sam finds an arcane seeing glass and uses it with the True Arcanist Tarot
 * Sam asks the deck about the Man in the Flat Cap

Summary
The segment begins with Eggroll being a bastard. Sam talks about the theories proffered by some of the faithful listeners regarding the journals that he found. Eggroll continues to be a menace, and Sam finds an engraved wooden box. Inside is a strange wooden cylinder, identified by a recently awoken Oliver as a sort of arcane seeing glass. Oliver gets Sam to spread the True Arcanist Tarot out on the table, and look at the Unrelenting card through the glass. Sam is surprised that they can see Oliver in the image of the heart on the card.

Oliver goes on to talk about the history of tarot, specifically the True Arcanist Tarot, and as he finishes his explanation, Sam decides to ask the deck what Scourge is. Oliver begins to scold him, but is interrupted by the phone ringing. Sam answers to hear Kitty on the other end of the line. She tells them that she's leaving the country to conduct some investigations on the Inconvenient Sins. She mentions rumours of arcanists gathering together, something that Oliver finds surprising.

After Kitty hangs up, Oliver decides to go get ice cream, and Sam continues looking at the cards with the glass. Revel is incredibly helpful in this process. Sam asks the cards what the journals are, and pulls a blank card, an Echo card, and the Grinning Face. Sam then asks the deck what the Man in the Flat Cap is, and realises that the Grinning Face card is representative of him.

Shaken, Sam asks the faithful listeners if it's possible to set up a program so that something is always searching for the Flat Cap Man, and then he bids the listeners goodnight.

Characters Featured

 * Sam Enfield
 * Oliver Boleyn
 * Kitty Enfield (phonecall)
 * Eggroll (Cat)
 * Revel (Cat)
 * Madame Marie (mentioned)
 * The Flat Cap Man (mentioned)
 * Scourge (mentioned
 * Bliss (mentioned)
 * Indi (mentioned)
 * Ingra (mentioned)
 * Ingra (mentioned)

Listeners writing in/mentioned:


 * SirTomato, regarding the journals Sam found
 * Karl, regarding the journals Sam found