So, this is a bit of a cheat because no one actually *took* notes on session 5. Suffice to say, though, that it was mostly sleuthing on Verbena in the old Snow house.
In there, they found some tantalising evidence and a lot of sad family history. The story, as they were able to piece it together through broken crockery, empty rooms, a whole mess of dust, and one very interesting digital recording, is essentially this:
John Snow is the man who owed the late Kai 21,000 credits. John Snow lived in an awful fancy house on a backwater planet thanks to being a handsome rascal and marrying rich; specifically, the sweet Arabella Bael, daughter of none other than Jensen Bael, Manager of the Hao Yun Blue Sun Factory. Daddy dear was never much a fan of Johnny boy, though he could never refuse his only child anything she set her mind on; so, when she insisted on marrying John, Jensen set up his son-in-law on nice, quiet, distraction-less Verbena working at the Alliance armaments plant and hoped for the best.
All was well for a good spell of time, until John scored an off world business trip, and wouldn't you know it? Immediately sidetracked into the old distractions that his father in law had hoped to keep him away from, and burned a nice tidy hole in the family fortune while he was at it. Good thing Kai was on hand to bail him out - for a price. Only downside - besides a 21,000 credit IOU - is that while John was away, Riddick, the eldest of John and Arabella's 2 boys, got old enough to turn browncoat, and helped blow up the Alliance gun factory, perishing heroically in the doing.
After John got back to Verbena, it was all downhill... No more job, a child dead, and a sudden lack of financial security sent Arabella begging to her daddy, who just about snapped his crackers at hearing all the money had evaporated from his daughter's dowry, and he informed poor sweet Arabella of her husbands more... "exotic" extracurricular activities and begged her to hurry home.
Which she did, a couple thrown vases later.
The youngest (and only remaining) kid, Tomjon, stayed on with his dad and tried to help him make a go of things. Instead he learned the hardest lesson any boy can learn about his father: that he's a useless, shallow wastrel. Been probably about a year now, as such things are reckoned, that Tomjon took off after his mom. No one really knows for sure what happened to Handsome John after that, but from the look of the farm equipment, he certainly hasn't been on Verbena farmsteading.
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