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Player characters · first: MM E1

Daisy D'umpstaire

Daisy D'umpstaire is an absolutely stunning raccoon, round as a ball, in a gorgeous dress and a sunhat covered with trash arranged like flowers MM E1·00:45:12. She sips a brandy daisy, her favorite cocktail and her namesake MM E1·00:45:12. Rekha says she was born Daisy Dumpster, daughter of Rusty and Tuna Dumpster of the South Carolina Dumpsters, and has rebranded herself as a woman of the world MM E1·00:45:12. When Sylvester's refund is applauded at the party, she does not cheer but downs her cocktail, and she breaks eye contact and leaves MM E1·01:42:08 MM E1·01:42:51.

Daisy is a raccoon con artist who, in a flashback to a train, snags a diadem from Mr. McCoy and then has it swiped off her by Sylvester MM E2·00:07:33 MM E2·00:08:12 MM E2·00:08:30. Brennan says she and Sylvester then go all over the world together and fall in love; Sylvester discovers documents hidden in a secret compartment in her Savoy hotel room that reveal the income she has been making from a mysterious American businessman, and in the flashback he stands alone at the altar MM E2·00:19:00 MM E2·00:26:17. At the squire's 1905 party Rekha says Daisy wants to manipulate vulnerable people into thinking she can help them channel the dead, so as to con them for money MM E2·00:30:10. Daisy tells Lucretia that she loves studying the stars and considers herself an expert MM E2·00:32:04.

After the squire's death she swipes a key from the body between her bosoms, and in the Seance Room she throws a crystal ball at Sylvester that hits him for four points of damage MM E3·01:47:36 MM E4·00:51:07 MM E4·00:51:16. She tells the party "This painting has eyeballs." MM E4·01:18:17. Through the portrait's eye holes she sees Colonel Hawkins rifling through the secret study MM E5·01:15:46. With a natural 20 on religion she sees a shape in the crystal ball MM E6·00:11:19 and hears a voice saying "I'm trapped. I'm trapped somewhere dark" MM E6·00:12:05, and in the secret study she carves open the bust of Barkus Aurelius and pulls out a powerful electromagnet MM E6·00:09:41 MM E6·00:42:09. She tells the room "Fletcher Cottonbottom has been alive this entire time." MM E6·01:20:12. She says she has seen him in Istanbul and Vienna, and "I deal in jewels. He deals in art." MM E6·01:21:21. In MM_07 she finds a trick portrait hiding electrical wiring and turns a breaker, finds Harding's black book of names and dates, and holds the book up before the police, who arrest Harding MM E7·01:02:57 MM E7·01:06:21 MM E7·01:26:10 MM E7·02:18:59 MM E7·02:20:06.

In MM_08 she hands her ledgers to Buckster, saying "This is my last ride, Buckster." MM E8·00:33:24. In MM_10 she says "One last ride. For Sylvester." MM E10·00:15:16. At the tower Connor McCabbage turns up alive and tells her "You were the woman I spoke to in the mirror." MM E10·00:32:05. On the roof she pushes Fletcher into the lightning rod, and Brennan says she has killed Fletcher Cottonbottom MM E10·02:11:40 MM E10·02:11:45. She tells Sylvester that Fletcher had threatened to turn over information about her, which is why she left him at the altar MM E10·02:40:35. She proposes with the ring from her necklace, and Ian marries them MM E10·02:42:18 MM E10·02:44:30.

Character sheet — Mice & Murder

Mice & Murder sheet of Daisy D'umpstaire (played by Rekha Shankar). Only what is said in play or shown on the on-screen stat cards; dotted values are derived from spoken rolls. Values shown are the latest up to your chosen episode.

Skills

Features

  • Investigator (feat) — Character feat shown on the stat card. MM E1·01:08:35
  • Investigator (feat): homebrew text — Rekha reads it aloud: "you can take the search action as a bonus action, you may re-roll a failed investigation check after taking a short rest. If this re-roll check fails, you may not re-roll it again." MM E3·00:15:38
  • Thieves' cant — Brennan: "you guys could actually speak in Thieves' Cant right now"; Gangie and Daisy talk so others cannot follow. MM E4·00:18:32

Items

  • Dress and trash sunhat — A gorgeous dress and a sunhat covered with trash artfully placed to look like flowers. MM E1·00:45:12
  • Diadem — She palms the diadem off her mark and stows it in her purse. MM E2·00:08:47
  • Diadem — lost: she realizes the diadem is not there anymore. MM E2·00:09:30
  • Deerstalker hat and note — Rekha: "I've left a little deerstalker hat" on Sylvester's doorstep, with a note that says "-D". MM E2·00:27:53 MM E2·00:28:05
  • Paper with Sylvester Cross's name — She steals the piece of paper with a sleight of hand roll of 17; Brennan: "You get the page." MM E3·01:10:48 MM E3·01:10:49
  • Key on red silk — She swipes the key and puts it "between my bosoms". MM E3·01:47:36
  • Key on red silk — She palms the key over to Buckster. MM E4·01:02:24
  • Key on red silk — Buckster hands the key back to her: "I'm gonna hand you back the key in case it's relevant." MM E4·01:45:48
  • Thrown knife — Brennan: "Daisy you fling a knife across the room, into the door to shut it". MM E5·01:17:50
  • Thieves' tools — Rekha: "I have thieves' tools apparently"; Brennan first says it is the same proficiency as stealth, then switches it to a sleight of hand roll with advantage (Vicar helps); she rolls 22 and 19 and carves the bust base with the tools. MM E6·00:41:18 MM E6·00:41:23 MM E6·00:41:44 MM E6·00:42:09
  • Medal of Honor — She swipes the medal from the secret study and puts it between her bosoms. MM E6·00:35:07
  • Ledger books — Rekha: "I'm gonna take those ledgers. I put one ledger betwixt my ass cheeks." MM E6·00:36:06
  • Ledger books — She keeps them hidden: "I think I leave the books in my ass." MM E7·00:43:38
  • Squire's address book — Brennan: an Address Book, kept by Squire Badger, with Grangie Green's London address written in Fletcher Cottonbottom's handwriting, found among the books in the bathroom. MM E7·01:01:03
  • Black book of names — She finds Harding's black book behind the velvet in a chest of cufflinks. MM E7·01:26:10
  • Black book of names — Rekha: "And I hold up the black book of names." MM E7·02:18:59
  • Sylvester's letters — She shows Buckster a letter from Sylvester. MM E7·02:13:50
  • Sylvester's letters — She holds up a piece of paper, "the letter I found on the Squire's desk"; Brennan reveals it is the page Sylvester saw disappear in the study at the start: Daisy took it (the paper of MM_03). MM E7·02:15:27 MM E7·02:15:37
  • Ledger books — She hands the ledgers over to Buckster, admitting one is still in her body. MM E8·00:33:17 MM E8·00:33:24
  • Squire's address book — Rekha: "And I pull this address book also out of my butt." MM E8·00:17:05
  • Squire's address book — lost: Daisy gave the book to the fake police; Daisy: "make him get the little address book back from the fake police, too 'cause that was my bad." MM E8·00:57:27
  • Ledger books — Rekha: "I still have one ledger underneath my folds." MM E10·01:39:44
  • Dagger and rapier — Rekha: "I have a dagger, a rapier"; weapon proficiencies: hand crossbow, long sword, short sword, simple weapons. MM E10·01:39:44
  • Dagger — She attacks Fletcher with the dagger: 24 to hit, 7 damage. MM E10·01:52:06 MM E10·01:52:12 MM E10·01:52:23
  • Engagement ring — The engagement ring she keeps on a necklace; she takes it off to propose to Sylvester. MM E10·02:42:18

By episode

MM E1: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

MM E2: A Scandal in Britannia

  • Flashback: sits at McCoy's table "You're about to." (persuasion 17 with advantage, deception 10), swipes the diadem (13 with disadvantage), loses it to Sylvester — 00:05:37, 00:05:51, 00:06:46, 00:07:26
  • Claims to be Virginia Chase; deception 10 fails; "a smitten raccoon" — 00:12:10, 00:12:29, 00:13:04
  • "I'm round as a ball, but my flesh is squishy" — 00:15:26
  • Ends the flashback by leaving a deerstalker hat and a note "-D" — 00:27:53, 00:28:05
  • At the 1905 party: planning to con the vulnerable with fake seances; wins Lucretia's trust by pretending to be an astrology expert ("Oh, yes, I love studying the routes of the stars") — 00:30:10, 00:32:04
  • Deception 14 against Buckster's insight 25: "Daisy is not good at lying"; Sylvester is "the one thing I can't lie about" — 00:40:34, 00:40:41, 00:41:04
  • Perception 19, investigation 24 find the seance room was retrofitted and the painting restored, frame bolted — 01:30:48, 01:31:53, 01:32:40
  • Persuasion with advantage (14 and 11) fails to get Lucretia to run paid seances — 01:28:51, 01:29:10
  • Meets Lars in the hall; "I can't tell if you're speaking my family's language is which is "mess"" — 01:34:06
  • Tries to be civil: "Sylvester, I just ask that we be civil." — 01:57:16
  • Wisdom save 6 after the dinner trade of barbs — 01:58:15
  • Perception checks; nat 20 plus 3 = 23 for the squire's quarrel, 6 later; insight "dirty 20" identifies the scream as Mrs. Molesly — 01:14:35, 02:05:17, 02:15:59
  • First after Ian in initiative with 22 and runs toward the scream — 02:12:54, 02:16:26

MM E3: A Time For Clues

  • Wants to find a secret passage into the study; investigation natural 1 plus 10; explains the roll as Daisy's being a bad investigator around Sylvester because she "was instead just in love" — 00:12:06, 00:14:33, 00:14:46
  • Insight 11 and perception 15 (Brennan: Gangie was "clocked by Lars") — 00:17:25, 00:17:41
  • Her past with the Cottonbottoms: "she has certainly done some work for them in her past" — 00:18:38
  • Looks at Gangie to ask for other ways into the study — 00:19:25
  • Perception (disadvantage; rolls 17 and 20, Brennan reads 17): from outside the study sees the name "Sylvester Cross" on the paper, not the second half, and knows Sylvester did not write it — 00:53:09, 00:53:14, 00:53:25
  • Steals the paper with a sleight of hand roll of 17 — 01:10:48, 01:10:49; privately tells Sam she swiped it — 01:27:41
  • Calls out the desk: "Is this motherfucking desk a trap door to somewhere?" — 01:15:26; Sylvester says she is wrong about the desk — 01:15:59
  • Stealth 12/13 (with Buckster's help), sleight of hand 22: lifts a key on red silk off the body between her bosoms — 01:44:58, 01:45:15, 01:45:44, 01:47:36
  • "Also, God kills people all the time, Ian, I've seen it happen." — 01:36:43

MM E4: The Stabber of the Evening

  • Slips out of the Study to check on the portrait in the Seance Room; stealth 12 and insight 10 — 00:20:18, 00:20:49
  • Investigation 11 on the bolted painting, re-rolled under the Investigator feat with advantage (14, then 25) — 00:45:00, 00:45:32, 00:47:19
  • "Daisy licks the trash off of her hands, she's so excited." — 00:47:45
  • Sees the eyes of the badger portrait swivel — 00:48:36
  • Hits Sylvester with a thrown crystal ball: unarmed strike 23, natural 20, 4 damage — 00:51:07, 00:51:16
  • "Do you want to go for round two?" — 00:52:00
  • Hands the key to Buckster with a sleight-of-hand roll of 17 — 01:01:29, 01:02:24
  • Shares the discovery of the eyes: "And there's one more little thing I wanna share. This painting has eyeballs." — 01:18:17
  • Theory: seance clients' dead are dug up and used for fake "returns" — 01:26:21
  • Questions where the police are — 01:16:30, 01:16:48
  • Tells Colonel Hawkins that Madame Lucretia "just gave the most marvelous seance tips" — 01:40:55
  • Group deception 13 — 01:39:08
  • Receives the key back from Buckster and goes with the Study Group — 01:45:48, 01:48:47

MM E5: The Eye of the Storm

  • Searches the desk, investigation 26: the desk is "for show"; gets a bookmark "p318" and is shocked by a live wire in a secret compartment — 00:26:43, 00:27:08, 00:28:04
  • Questions Ms. Crumb and persuades her (18) — 00:41:06
  • Investigation with advantage 25 and 21 while Ms. Crumb bends over; reads page 318 on five Roman emperors — 00:44:57, 00:46:28
  • Compares the squire's eyes to the portrait's; believes the body is a fake — 00:49:26, 00:50:41, 00:53:14
  • Investigation with advantage 23 and 17: a loaded pistol in a compartment of the desk; cannot shake her hunch — 00:53:37, 00:53:55
  • Stealth 23 into the seance room; turns the lights off ("I'm a raccoon bitch, I live in the night.") — 00:59:57, 01:00:33
  • Through the eye holes sees Hawkins in the secret study; throws a knife to close the door when Ian opens it; perception 9 earlier — 01:13:19, 01:15:46, 01:17:50
  • At the end rolls a natural 20 to summon a ghost — 01:38:35

MM E6: Busted

  • Asks whether she can summon a ghost through the eye holes to find the contract she is after — 00:04:53
  • "can I summon a ghost to go through the hole for me to find what I'm looking for?" — 00:04:53
  • Rolls a natural 20 on the religion check (frame overlay "20+5", 25) and sees a ghost; the DM: "I am ready to honor this nat 20 religion check." — 00:06:07, 00:06:36, 00:09:41
  • Begs the spirits for help; does not know if she believes — 00:10:24
  • "I don't even know if I believe in you, but please help me get into those eyeball holes, and retrieve these documents." — 00:10:24
  • Asks the ghost to peek into the office and then if he was murdered — 00:12:35, 00:13:20
  • Her nat 20 was religion, not persuasion; DM: "Not to direct said ghost." — 00:17:28, 00:17:38
  • Investigation 16 reveals where the library door to the secret study is — 00:19:57, 00:20:47
  • Recalls the thumping she heard from the library while Hawkins was alone — 00:23:39
  • Moves the busts in the order Ian gives; in the secret study finds the medal and ledger books, takes the medal and ledgers — 00:29:18, 00:35:07, 00:36:06
  • Carves the base of the Barkus Aurelius bust with thieves' tools and takes out the electromagnet (22 and 19 with Ian's help) — 00:42:01, 00:42:09
  • Says she has seen Fletcher Cottonbottom several times in Istanbul and Vienna; says the common belief is that he fell to his death at Reichenbunny Falls — 01:21:21
  • "my father never said to try to understand the mind of a bunny" — 01:21:12
  • Tells the room, sitting on a table eating cherries and grapes (Rekha's description), that Sylvester thought he was "goin' mad seein' ghosts" while Fletcher is, she believes, "runnin' amuck here at the manor"; Rekha also has Daisy smoke a cigarette — 01:20:12, 01:20:30, 01:23:42
  • "Fletcher Cottonbottom has been alive this entire time." — 01:20:12
  • [META] Rekha explains why Daisy tries the summoning: Lady Lucretia's seance reading earlier stuck in Daisy's mind — 00:08:42
  • Leaves the secret study tidy: turns the light off, closes the drawers, puts dust back — 00:39:35, 00:39:42
  • Lists what she knows to Ian: "I have five names of Roman emperors." — 00:21:50
  • Sees the bust base: the stone bust has a plaster base "disguised", and the bust is heavier than the others of its size — 00:40:27
  • Says she deals in jewels and Fletcher deals in art — 01:21:21
  • "I deal in jewels. He deals in art. We have an intersection of sorts. And the man is very much alive." — 01:21:21

MM E7: I've Been Here the Whole Time

  • Invites the soaked Catherine in; offers a drink — 00:06:25, 00:08:11
  • "Oh, also you can come in, it seems like you’re really wet..." — 00:06:25
  • Insight check, when Constance's eyes go wide, is a 4; she also has the ledger books hidden in her clothes (Brennan: "you got books in your ass crack"), and decides to remove Constance and Edwina — 00:18:42, 00:18:46, 00:19:31
  • Asks Rosalind Crumb whether she remembers "what we were talking about" and rolls persuasion natural 20 (24) — 00:22:04, 00:23:13
  • Tells Catherine she too has seen the ghost, in a seance, and that Ian was there — 00:38:31, 00:39:05
  • "For I too, saw the ghost of your late husband." — 00:38:31
  • Does not hand over the ledgers: "I think I leave the books in my ass." — 00:43:38
  • Excuses herself to the bathroom to read the documents: "will you excuse me while I take a D'umpstaire?" — 00:45:24
  • Constitution 11; investigation advantage (14, then a natural 20) — everything findable in the ledgers and "every investigation that could have been conducted in this room" — 00:59:09, 00:59:47, 01:01:03
  • Finds the trick portrait, three breakers and throws the third one; the mirror becomes see-through and shows the front of Loam Hall — 01:02:24, 01:06:21
  • Reasons (her theory) that Connor is alive and trapped somewhere in the house — 01:09:56
  • "Yes. He's trapped here. He's fucking alive." — 01:09:56
  • Tells Catherine her husband may be alive; Catherine asks how they would find him — 01:20:02, 01:21:23
  • Investigation 25 on the bathroom mirror: key hidden under a tile; unlocks the door to the squire's closet — 01:22:55, 01:22:57
  • Investigation natural 20 (29): finds Harding's black book of names and dates behind velvet in a chest of cufflinks — 01:24:50, 01:25:47, 01:26:10
  • Opens the squire's trick portrait: a dozen breakers and switches — 01:28:40
  • Rolls initiative 2 — 01:34:59
  • Acrobatics 19 up the chimney: moves the flue to a third setting and opens a secret door in the back of the chimney to the next room — 01:46:51, 01:47:07
  • Insight with advantage (natural 1, then 10): the secret passage would hurt the alibi of anyone kept in the room — 01:48:38, 01:48:56
  • Tells Buckster everything but the ledgers; shows him the Sylvester letter; later holds up the letter from the squire's desk — 02:13:14, 02:13:50, 02:15:27
  • Hands the black book of names to Constable Nettles — 02:19:05, 02:19:52
  • Shakes her head at Sylvester as he is led away — 02:21:43

MM E8: Outfoxed

  • Her state of mind after the arrest: shaken, having lived with Sylvester; hopes he is purposely imprisoned to reach the bowels of the house — 00:12:37
  • "she feels, she hopes in her heart that Sylvester has something up his sleeve" — 00:12:37 (Rekha, describing Daisy)
  • Keeps the ledgers from Buckster at first, saying they are "just for me to make private money" (and, in the next line, "Off of Armond") — 00:15:34, 00:15:39
  • Confronts Gangie about his address in Cottonbottom's handwriting; insight 19, concludes Gangie does not know, then offers: "perhaps it's a simple job recommendation" — 00:15:48, 00:16:51, 00:18:45
  • "Now, what in the heck would Squire Badger have your address in London in Cottonbottom's handwriting for?" — 00:15:48
  • Pulls "this address book" out of her butt — 00:17:05; remarks later that four police officers "or five" are here — 00:41:40
  • Reads Harding's list of exhumed bodies with Gangie (history 18) and speculates that a "switcheroo" may mean a mouse will die tonight, and that the sheep man in the kilt could be the next victim — 00:21:01, 00:24:51, 00:23:16, 00:23:55
  • "Connor McCabbage is absolutely in this fucking house. We knew it, we know it more." — 00:26:53
  • Tells Buckster she is done: hands over the ledgers from her butt and from under her bosoms, admitting one is still in her body — 00:32:52, 00:33:17, 00:33:24
  • "This is my last ride, Buckster." — 00:33:24
  • Rekha on the table: Daisy is rude to Gangie because she "rose from a lower class" and is "judgy about it" — 00:58:11, 00:58:24
  • Asks, through Buckster, that the little address book be retrieved from the fake police, since it was her mistake to give it to them — 00:57:27
  • Calls Rosalind Crumb with "Rosalind, come out here, do your thing!"; stealth with advantage 9 and 24 and runs — 01:07:16, 01:07:46, 01:08:00
  • Initiative 21; goes first and jumps into the elevator — 01:06:16, 01:15:31
  • Smiles to herself when Sylvester frees himself, knowing how he did it (the pick) — 00:51:05
  • To Sylvester at the end: "This is why we can never work together, Sylvester. Two big egos-" — 01:22:29

MM E9: The Belly of the Beast

  • Her questions before the doors open: the gyroscope, the Medal of Honor (a piece of metal in an electromagnified house), the "no arms" creature (she thinks of a snake) — 00:18:20, 00:19:14, 00:20:14
  • Insight 10: Brennan reminds her that the desk breaker was hidden in a bathroom and that Rosalind Crumb said they often had to return the Barkus Aurelius bust to the library — 00:20:35, 00:21:36, 00:22:53
  • Sums up the theory aloud for the table (Fletcher found out the squire had debt and a bone to pick with Sylvester) — 00:24:48
  • "Cottonbottom offers Squire an opportunity to assassinate Sylvester Cross's character through an elaborate system of magnets that can be installed in his home, yes?" — 00:24:48
  • At the padlock she asks whether the wrong years of the bust are the code, then drops the idea because they were three digits; later asks "Does Loam Hall have an address?"; Brennan says she guessed right "in .5 seconds" and then said it was wrong; she enters the date herself — 00:31:42, 00:32:02, 00:38:43, 00:38:58, 00:40:18
  • Investigation natural 20 in the treasure room: a network connecting Squire Badger and the belongings to years of work with the Cottonbottom organisation — 00:41:39, 00:41:56
  • Postulates that the bodies are not one-to-one replacements but a store of parts from many species — 00:52:38
  • "What if the amount of bodies isn't here to replace people on a one-to-one basis, but it is to add to any of the possible people they encounter to accumulate clues from species all across this land?" — 00:52:38
  • Investigation 16 plus d4 3 = 19; medicine 21 — 00:49:54, 01:02:32
  • With Bless and advantage: investigation 18 on both; sees the letter D scratched in the elevator baseboard with a beak — 01:22:51, 01:24:10, 01:24:33
  • 26 on the D (investigation or insight, skill not stated) — 01:37:19
  • Natural 20 investigation in the ritual chamber; uses it on the question whether Fletcher is Harding — 01:42:09, 01:52:30
  • Investigation 15 on Gangie's cottage — 02:01:50
  • Wants to get to the tower, and goes to the front door with Buckster and the Vicar — 02:04:52, 02:05:58, 02:06:59

MM E10: Unfinished Business

  • Helps Buckster (advantage); slips out with Stealth 22; picks the tower door (Sleight of Hand 21) and relocks it — 00:04:44, 00:15:23, 00:18:20
  • "One last ride. For Sylvester." — 00:15:16
  • Rekha: Daisy is rattled after "the password snafu" and thinks "this is exactly why I can't be with Sylvester"; Daisy is "almost 60 years old" — 00:14:34
  • Medicine 20 finds Shellcrest, Longfoot and McCrae alive; wakes Lawrence Longfoot and has him write a headline — 00:19:47, 00:22:10, 00:24:14
  • "The police are bad, Sylvester's good, I need to go upstairs." — 00:24:14
  • Opens the attic door at the exact moment Sylvester reaches the window; Connor McCabbage says she is "the woman I spoke to in the mirror" — 00:30:02, 00:32:05
  • "For once you simply must shut up." — 00:33:52
  • To Sylvester: she ran because she was always the right hand and they are "two magnets facing each other" — 01:27:54
  • "I think we're almost two magnets facing each other, pushing each other away." — 01:27:54
  • Sees Longfoot's broken camera at the window with an Investigation of 21 — 01:30:29, 01:31:42
  • Cushions Sylvester's fall by defecating out of the window; hits Fletcher with her dagger (24 to hit, 7 damage) — 01:45:16, 01:52:12, 01:52:23
  • "Mr. Cottonbottom, I assure you there's nothing nasty about me, even my shit is gold." — 01:52:56
  • Climbs on the roof and pushes Fletcher into the lightning rod; Brennan: she killed Fletcher Cottonbottom — 02:06:44, 02:11:25, 02:11:45
  • "Fletcher, you were always a wily one, the one that got away from the famous Detective Cross, but I've always known you are full of shit!" — 02:11:25
  • Tells Sylvester she left him at the altar because Fletcher Cottonbottom threatened to turn over information about her; proposes with the ring from her necklace — 02:40:35, 02:42:18
  • "I want a life and I want a life with you." — 02:42:34