The Moloch: a setting sourcebook for KULT
Chapter 7: A Letter from Daddy
Kurt and Peter want to find out just why the old man who had guided them the night before had wanted to see their lower arms; they bribe some people into telling them. The old man is a certain Joseph Bern, the oldest man underground, and he had been an SS officer in a concentration camp back in WW II. He somehow escaped imprisonment or death penalty after the war but his conscience is still after him. He sees concentration camp inmates everywhere and fears they will some day come and take him. In fact that is what seems to keep him alive.
Kurt had decided the day before that he wanted to contact someone from his father's company and now goes to find out where the main accountant lives, a Mr. Textor, a man who has been with the company since the beginning. He talks to him and finds out that Mr. Textor has a key for him which fits a luggage locker in Essen train station; and he had a phone call by Kurt's father almost three weeks ago telling him to locate the key in the office and give it to Kurt. Everything would be explained in a letter to Kurt.
The company has already been shut down, all workers laid off. This is astonishingly fast for German procedures which should take at least a year.
Kurt and Peter then go to check Kurt's mail for that letter. The design of the letter box is such that the mail man often has to force the letters in, sometimes damaging them in the process. Now, the mail of three weeks is neatly sitting in the box, all letters right side up and address facing forward. Apparently someone is regularly checking the mail and not hiding the fact - something which my players spectacularly failed to ponder upon. Of course there is no letter from Kurt's father anymore - which means the Management probably knows where to locate him, yet the idea does not strike the PCs.
Next the PCs go to the train station and use their key. They find an envelope with EUR 25.000,- in used notes and a scrawled note saying 'Must travel. Explain later.'
The PCs stash the money in two further lockers in different places. Then they decide they want to find Hauptkommissar Lehmann, the cop who had been so strangely transferred.
They make some calls and are told that he was now in a precinct located on the border of a high-crime area. They go there and find a veritable fortress of a police station. They spend a bit of time loitering and see that Bellheim and Hans, the two cops who had twice let them go, come out, get into their car and use a card to leave the parking lot. The PCs subsequently abandon the idea of contacting Lehmann (who actually isn't a policeman anymore and is looking for them) and go back underground.