Call of Cthulhu RP: Their First "Special" Assignment...

[Forever Zero]

2:00 PM, Monday

It was a start of another day. After the horrible events at the House, and the banishing of the Lurker, life has settled down for the Investigators. They have settled into their new jobs, and life living at the mansion is nice. It has been a slow week, with no random murders ti investigate like last week, and since The Night, everyone wondered about the Cthulhu Mythos. They didn't doubt it existed, since no one could after all that happened, but maybe it wasn't as prevelent as Merriweather had put on. Life was returning to normal, both for the Mythos Vets, and the poor unsuspecting new frineds that had joined since that fateful night and new nothing of what had actually brought all these individuals together as friends.

Some were resting in the Den when there was a knock on the front door. Business was always welcome since maintaining the Mansion and their wide assortment of equipment was no small change. When the door was answered, an older man entered. He had aged, tanned, wrinkled skin, and was balding, but still had thick brown facial hair and a keen twinkle in his eye. He was short and overweight, but not huge. He said, "I've heard great things about you all, great things. Let me introduce myself, the name is Clyde Walford, but you can call me Cal. Hmm, sorry, speaking a bit fast, just instinct. I am a landlord down at Bosten, and the police there tell me you are some of the best private investigators they've seen recently. Solved a nasty murder for them if I do recall, police found no clues but you all put it together. Well, my problem is a house I have. Seems I just can't keep it rented, odd stuff seems to happen. I don't really feel comfortable telling the whole story, but if you agree to take on the case, I'll tell you all I know. Just don't know if you'll believe me before you know some money is on the way..." The man shrugged apolagetically.

[Truce]

Henry glanced around at the others. Then, he looked back to the man, Clyde. Hesitation was in his voice, but it wasn't obvious. "Can you tell us what kind of 'odd stuff' happens in the house?"

[Dante]

Thomas Monaghan, or "Tommy", to his friends, sighed to himself as he walked towards the mansion, pausing only to glance at the piece of paper in his hand.

Again.

It always came back to this.

He had taken leave of absence about a month ago, for personal reasons. As a result, he had to leave his employer, Gabriel Valentine alone for a while. Of course, his master had decided to get involved with a group of strange people and a man called Meriweather... who subsequently died. It wouldn't have bothered him, not really... but Gabriel had been one of them, and he had been missing for almost a month now.

After almost two weeks of fruitless searching, Rachel, Gabe's secretary, had filled him in on the details that she knew, and according to her, the people Gabriel had last been seen with occupied this place.

So he had come, to find some answers to the mysteries.

Then, he noticed a man standing in the threshold of the mansion's door. Rather than barge past him, Tommy chose to wait quietly behind him, listenign closely to what he, and the other occupants, had to say.

[Forever Zero]

"Well, err... See, the last renters, they complained about "Strange" things happening in the house, and wierd dreams. Both of them... well... The husband had a nasty accident a few weeks ago and wasn't the same since, and just recently his wife went about as crazy as her husband, probably from taking care of her him..." He saw some people giving him looks after he mentioned the strangeness and he said, "Don't tell me you believe in ghost stories? The house was supposedly haunted, wasn't inhabited for a long time because of the rumors. I bought it on the cheap since no one else would buy it and recently refurbished it to rent to make some money. I need you all to look over the house and give it a clean bill of health for me so I can keep renting it out. Can you do that?"

[lazy man]

Paul was listening in on the man's explanation, but didn't feel like talking. He always had trouble thinking of good questions, but was generally good at keeping things in his head. Then he thought of something. "What exactly were they doing? Homicidal behavior? Hallucinations?" he asked.

[Truce]

Henry nodded, answering for everybody. "Yes, we can check out the house. However, we'll need to know a few more things. The first two, such as the monetary payment and location of the house, are of course necessary for us to investigate the house. Also, to help us in this endeavor, I request that you tell us more about the haunted house; its history as well as those of it's former residents. That information should include the stuff that my friend just asked about.

"No, we do not believe in ghost stories, and what happens to people who live in 'haunted' houses usually has to deal more with their mentality, and usually those around them. If they expect something to happen with full belief that it will, it usually will in some form or another.

"However, the stories are often fuel for these delusions people have. It would be ignorant to say that they have no affect on the people hearing them. Therefore, it would aid us in our deduction."

ooc-Henry made all that stuff up. Time to put up his bluff skills to the test.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

Doctor Marcus Looked up "Hmmm could you give us a little more info on the house Cal?"

[J Man]

Jim remained silent, but nodded in agreement to Henry.

[Forever Zero]

"Well, err..." Cal seemed somewhat flustered now. "I don't know much of the history, just what the previous owner said. I asked why he was selling the house so cheap, and he said it was because of a neighrberhood rumor about a haunting. Some old owner supposedly haunts it or something, no one really knows much, and the hauntings are only rumors. I don't know who the old owners are, just the last owner moved out of town shortly after selling the house."

"As for the location and price, I'll pay you $100 up front, no strings attached. If you walk, the money is yours. I'll pay you $20 an hour, and you get another $100 if the situation is resolved to my liking. Is that alright?" He puts out a hand, hoping to get approval of the deal, a hopeful smile on his face.

[Truce]

Henry once again looked around to his comrades, unsure what to do. He had a feeling that something was might happen if they went to that house, and that it would be dangerous; possibly more than the money offered was worth. However, if they pushed higher, it was likely that they would be turned away as the man seemed to wholeheartedly believe that nothing was going on, and they needed money.

More importantly, if something was up with the house, it was highly unlikely that the issue would not be resolved for many more years. Also, if the stories were true, then it might give them more insight to the Cthulhu Mythos, assuming it had to do something with it.

Then there was always the possibility that nothing would happen at all and that it was just a normal home with an unlucky streak of abnormal residents.

Sighing, knowing that if the others disapproved he could end up alone on this mission, he took the other man's hand and shook it. "You've got yourself a deal Mr. Walford. Now, where is this house?"

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

"Hmm I think we'll need the entire teams approval but it sounds good to me..." Doctor Marcus said

[Forever Zero]

The man smiled and said, "Oh thanks a lot! Don't worry, I am good on my word. This house will be worth every penny if I can get it checked out okay. Here is the address, in a nice housing area in Bosten, and here is the key. You can get started as soon as you wish, and if oyu have no more questions, I'll be going, alright?"

OOC: Ecurt now has the key and the address.

[Darth SS]

Neil peeked his head over from the library.

"What did I just miss?"

You could tell he hadn't slept well. Between his psych treatments, and his D.A.'s work, he wasn't exactly in an eternal slumber.

[lazy man]

"Just one from me. How did the people act when they went insane?" Paul asked.

[J Man]

"Henry, give me the address. Everyone, come along, we're going to that house now." Jim moved out the door to his car swiftly.

[CelesJessa]

Clara stood at the back of the room, not saying anything. She had been in another room of the mansion, tapping keys on her keyboard, trying to figure out a good tune for her next song, when she heard people takling about business in the other room. She had quietly turned off her keyboard and made her way to the room, staying quiet.

When they agreed to a new job, she was a little more than wary. She had still not completely recovered from the horrors of The Night. She had been a step away from getting killed as quickly as her other friends were. That's not something you can shake off that easily. But she decided that she would do whatever the rest of them did. If there were most monsters out there, like the one they had faced earlier, she wanted to make sure they were stopped.

She wasn't sure what exactly the group had agreed to check out, but she knew she wasn't going to just let them take care of it all on their own.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: So is J Man trying to be the new Demon...

The man was shocked to see the quick action of the one man but said, "Oh, well, the husband was very bad off. Poor man went through screaming fits and temperary amnesia on and off. He was completely incoherent last I heard. The wife was not as bad, but she suffered from bad insomnia, apparently didn't sleep for days after being taken in. Very quiet, just seemed... zoned out may be the word. Like the lights were on, but nobody was home... Doctors had trouble even getting her to respond to anything but essentials like food and drink..."

"Well, if that is all, I'll be seeing you tomarrow to see how things are going!" With a bow, the little man turned and left. He walked out to his car and drove away.

[IHateMakingNames]

Dave walked into the room just after the fat little man left. He had just moved in this morning, and had gotten lost in the large mansion. "This place is big..." He mumbled to himself and he made his way towards the group, not exactly sure what was going on.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

"Hmm somethings telling me I should of asked for more money..." Doctor marcus said sort of grimly...

[Darth SS]

"Hold up. I'll see if I can find the husband, and we'll see if there's anything we can get from him. Just give me some time and coffee. So we DON'T go rushing into this one clueless."

[IHateMakingNames]

"Rushing into what clueless?" Dave asked, only catching the end of this conversation. He barely even knew what his new job was supposed to be, let alone anything about demons and ghost.

[Dante]

Well, I suppose this is it.

Tommy picked up his suitcase as the fat man left, then walked up to the door and rapped on it three times.

[Krylo]

Frankie had been sitting there watching the whole thing silently, over the bindings of one of his books. "You go ahead and look at the house Jim. If you end up without a heart we'll know to drop this case."

[IHateMakingNames]

"Without a heart? What does that mean? What's going on?" Dave repeated what other people were saying and what he had said before, still not sure what was going on exactly. So far he assumed that some people were going to go somewhere to investigate.

[J Man]

Jim suddenly stopped. "Y'know, maybe I shouldn't go right now......." Then he turned to the door, which was being knocked on. Jim turned the doorknob and opened the door it to see who it was....

[Krylo]

Frankie chuckled a bit and held up the book he was reading. "Horror mystery. Just a figure of speech my friend... warning our impetuous friend against just walking into a house and situation we know so very little about..." He then turned back to his book, satisfied that the others would back his cover-up.

[Dante]

As the door opened, Tommy looked Jim over. He didn't seem aprticularly angry or hostile or weird, so he decided to try the standard line.

"Good afternoon. I'm Thomas Monaghan, a friend of Gabriel Valentine. Am I right to say that he was with you guys about two or three weeks ago, when you went to see some guy called Meriwether?"

[J Man]

"Yes, yes, come right in."

[Truce]

Henry nodded, shivering slightly at the memory at what happened to Gabriel. "Yes, he was with us. Unfortunately, as you may or may not know, he's sort of...dead."

[IHateMakingNames]

"Dead? How did he die?" Dave asked, his voice almost cracking. What do these people do...

[J Man]

OOC: Oh, yeah, he is! That's right. Haha, sucker died on the first mission.


IC: Jim nodded solemnly.

[Darth SS]

Neil called from over the railing, "As I remember, he stuck his head into a room to check it out, and got his heart torn out. Glad I missed it."

[Dante]

Tommy barely contained the shock as he heard Henry tell him of Gabriel's demise.

Not again. Not another one.

He remained silent while Dave spoke, and at great length he forced a word out from between his lips.

"...Dead?"

Then he heard Neil call out the manner of Gabriel's death, and something inside him made him want to pummel the other man senseless. It passed, and he reminded himself that it wasn't his fault that Gabriel was dead. It hadn't been anybody's fault at all...

... Except his own.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: SS YOU FOOL! You're "other" jobs are a secret!

OOC: And that was IHMN anyway!

[IHateMakingNames]

OOC: And that is how David died, not Gabe. Idiot.

IC:

"..."

[J Man]

OOC: SS YOU FOOL! You're "other" jobs are a secret!

OOC: And that was IHMN anyway!
OOC: Yeah! What he said! *takes the side of the GM to perhaps avoid getting eaten by a cthulhu*

[Darth SS]

OOC: Hey, Neil never learned their names. And he's short on sleep, and caffeine. There's a reason for my stupidity.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Grrr, I'm gonna stupify you...

OOC: Anyway, the blunder was made. Have fun dealing with the consequences...

[Dante]

"So."

Tommy was rather surprised at how calm he found himself after hearing that his former employer, whom he had come to consider a friend during their brief time together, had had his heart torn from his chest. A feeling of nagging doubt crystallized in his mind, but he ignored it.

"So. He had his heart torn from his chest."

He glared at each of the people in the room in turn. Slowly, calm had passed... leaving only a growing resentment for these people who had killed his friend.

"What kind of people are you, anyway?"

His hands balled up into fists.

[CelesJessa]

(OOC: leave it to Clara?)

Clara nearly had a heart attack at what Neil had said. She quickly disguised her look of slight panic with a look of annoyance as she rolled her eyes and addressed the people who didn't have a clue... and SHOULDN'T have had a clue, "Don't listen to him. He's been watching too many late-night horror movies..." she trailed off, looking at the other people's faces, "Oh come on, don't tell me any of you bought that?" She said, quickly doing her best to cover up for Neil, "You're giving Neil waaay too much credit by believing his childish and ill-humored stories."

[Truce]

"Actually," he said, shooting a glare at Neil (for not only was he revealing a secret, it was the wrong secret as well), "We don't know what happened to him. Simply put...he basically disappeared. We believe that he, along with some other people, had been killed by some cultists a while ago when he went up to investigate a house, one that turned out to be used for ceremonies.

"My apologies sir."

[Darth SS]

Neil put a hand on his forhead. "No...wait wait wait...that was how someone else took it....I'm going to go to sleep. Wake me in two hours please." He promptly left their sight.

[lazy man]

Listening to what was being said about the death of a former investigator, Paul was starting to have doubts about joining this group. [I]My God, what do these people do in these 'investigations'......grrrrr, that money is worth whatever it though. And living here isn't that bad. Just the consequences of a perhaps nice life.

[Krylo]

Frankie nodded at Clara. "He's an idiot. We keep him around for amusement... but if he keeps talking about our dead friends like that..." Frankie's eyes narrowed and he cast a glare after Neil. "I really have no idea how he passed his bar exam. Anyway, much like myself..." Frankie stood up and pulled open his shirt a little, revealing the the remnants of his bite wounds, "Was the victim of some rather insane cultists."

[IHateMakingNames]

OOC: You should have blamed it on some kinky sex...

IC:

"Would it be to much to ask for a thorough explanation of what exactly happened on your last investigation?" Dave asked, standing up and pacing around a bit. He assumed that the 'idiot' was infact an idiot, but then there was that heart comment the book guy mentioned before.

[Dante]

Tommy let his breath hiss out from between his clenched teeth. Then he closed his eyes and mentally counted to three, trying to calm himself down the way he always did. When he opened his eyes again, he fixed Henry with a piercing stare. In a tone of mock respect, he spoke.

"Please, sir... do tell me more. Especially about those cultists and those... bite marks."

[CelesJessa]

Clara noted the tension in the room, "Hey, why don't we all sit down and discuss this in an orderly fashion, instead of looking like we're all about ready to..." She trailed off, almost saying "..kill each other." but at the moment, death was a touchy subject and she didn't want to cause any more problems than there already were.

She motioned for everyone to have a seat, "We will be happy to provide you with as much information as we are capible of." She assured the two who didn't know what had happened. <Of course... we'll be lying... but you don't need to know that...>

[Truce]

Henry shook his head. "No Clara...no. We don't have time for that now. Besides, I...don't want to remember what happened there.

"Sir...if you want the information, go to the police. They have a full and detailed report there. I'm sorry, but right now we're in the middle of an investigation, and cannot be bothered at the moment. I myself have to get going, I have important stuff to do, as do the others.

"My apologies again sir."

[Dante]

Tommy cocked his head at Henry, his small size not detracting one bit from the glare in his eye.

"You sound like you have something to hide. While I have no quarrel with any of you... yet... I want to know the truth."

[IHateMakingNames]

"I'm with him." Dave said. He took the closest seat to Clara, then turned to her. "Now, I was just hired as an investigator yesterday. But apparently there is something I do not know. You seem to be the most sensible one here, so would you like to inform me on what this investigation leading to this man's death was?"

[Krylo]

Frankie glanced up from his book and looked at Tommy and Dave. "Tell you what... if you go to the house, and do a thorough investigation for us. Every room... basement, attic, etc. Bring back anything of importance... and I'll tell you exactly how I got these bite marks."

[Truce]

Henry nodded, what Frankie said was reasonable. "I'll go with you two, as I'm the one with the key and the address. Jim...you drive, since you seemed so eager earlier. Unless, of course, you'd be willing to let me have the wheel.

"Everyone else...get prepared, okay?"

[Dante]

"What am I, your servant? If you were my employer, like Gabriel was, it'd be a different matter. But you're not. So there's no way I'm going to be your Stepinfetchit here. And what's to stop you from planting some guys there to knock us off for getting too close to your secrets? No, sir, I want answers. You owe his family that much, at least."

[lazy man]

After hearing that people were going to go to this house, Paul decided he would try to uncover more of what had happened at that house without going there. "I'll see what I can find out about the people who rented the house. If anyone wants to help, that would be great." He went to get his very few things and to get ready.

[Krylo]

Frankie glanced back up at Tommy again. "Well, you can go to the police, they have the full story. I've already told you what happened in abbreviated form... if you want the full story then you'll just have to do the investigating. Or you can leave..."

The night and the discussions of it had put Frankie into a bad mood. Who could blame him, though? After having been bitten half to death by a zombie, and watching people die in front of him... it'd only been a few weeks, and he was annoyed at having to deal with this belligerent thug.

[Truce]

He sighed, the whole conversation having given him a headache. "I'm going to the house now. It's still light out, so this is the best time to check it out. Come on Jim, let's go or, if you don't want to come, give me your keys."

ooc-Quick question, did Cal mention any of the previous owners?

[CelesJessa]

Clara sighed, "Hold on, It's not fair trying to take people into this without them at least having an idea of what happened... or to turn people down when they want to know what has happened to a friend." She looked at the others, then at the newcomers, "Alright, I'll tell you what I know."

"We went to see Merriweather on his deathbed, and he told us of something tormenting him. He wasn't completely sure what it was, but he wanted us to find out, so his 'soul could rest in peace', so he said. So, we were a little skeptical, but we decided to see out the old man's last wishes... after all," She added, "It was the least we could do." She sighed again, "And to make a long story a little shorter, it had been mad cultists tormenting Merriweather. We weren't sure why, but some of us have assumed it's because of his money, or some kind of debt he owed them." She sighed, sounding a little shakey, as if she didn't want to remember, and she really didn't, even though this was far from the truth, "After the cultists learned that we knew about them, they lured us into a trap... Perhaps so we couldn't report them to the police... or maybe because they were just mad." She said, glancing in the direction of Frankie, indicating that was how he got his wound, "They began killing, one by one, as if they were sacrificing us or something..." Her face looked sick, remembering exactly what happened in contrast to her story.

She motioned to the people sitting in the room, "The people you see here barely escaped with our lives." She looked down, "We're lucky that... that some of us got away." After her story she grew quiet and closed her eyes, resting them in a hand, as if she couldn't bear the memory of it.

[IHateMakingNames]

"Hm...", is what Dave said in response to that story. After hearing that, and thinking back about the getting lifted by head then heart ripped out, and remembering some one mentioning Clara was an entertainer, Dave assumed this was a big joke.

"Ok then. I guess I'll go investigate that house with you all." He said as he stood up, making his way towards the people who were planning on leaving.

[Dante]

Tommy found the story rather far-fetched. But there was something about the way she said it, the faint look of horror... He'd seen it before, in the shell-shocked eyes of new recruits who'd just survived their first artillery bombardment and seen their friends dead, horribly so. Yes. Those eyes, his own, reflected in those of Lieutenant Blake, now dead like so many others.

He'd overcome it, of course, and eventually things had come full circle, and he was the one pulling the new conscripts out of their stupor. But he couldn't help but remember the hollow in his heart after the world had come to pieces in fire and pain, the deadness he had made into a wall to keep reality away.

And something inside him told him that she was telling the truth. The other man, the apologetic one as well. Perhaps it was worth hearing them out... And they might need muscle along the way as well. Muscle which only Tommy-gun Monaghan might be able to provide.

"Then again... Maybe I should go see for myself. All right. I'll bite."

He gathered up his suitcase and turned to Paul.

"Right. What do you want to do now?"

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

OOC I wish there was a way for that occult knowlege to come in and I guess for my bad post I think its time for you guys ot find out why my old nockname on a forum was the Martyr....

Marcus silent in thought Spoke aloud " I have been studying the occult Pheomenon for A while. I think maybe I should scout out for a day near the property and see what goes on there. If the group has no objections."

OOC. Yes I know I am probably dead as Michal Jacksons carreer...

[Demon with a Glass Hand]

The hotel lead had been a dead end. No one in town knew who Gabriel Valentine or any of Merriweather's friends were, or the just didn't want to bother checking the records.

It all linked to Merriweather, and that was with whom he had started looking. suffice to say when his son answered the door and saw Phillip again, he was livid.

But he had told him what he wanted to know. All the people on the list had been given a peice of property to them by his late father. If he wanted answers he should try there. Writing down the address he gave Phillip a cold smile and slammed the door in his face.

It wasn't a long drive to the house, but everything seemed to slow to a crawl. He had always thought that his first real case would be a challenge. He never thought he would be searching to find an old friend whom had just ... dissapeared.

He knew he was going to have a hard time keeping this proffessional as he drove up to the large estate. Walking up the driveway he was a little shocked to hear his heart beating hard in his chest.

Knocking on the door, he waited, trying to ignore the pounding in his ears. It didn't go away. When the door opened he thrust Gabriel's picture out.

"Have you seen this man?"

[Tor]

Tor walked down the stairs into the living room where everone was sitting.

-Hmmhm. Hvem er dere...? Oh, sorry. Who are you? Ah hi Clara, whatcha talking about?

Tor had finaly been treated for the psychik traumas that he had gotten from their last mission, and had finaly slept well.

[Squishy Cheeks]

ooc: You are still at the mansion right?

[Dr DR]

As always, Joseph had been seated in his chair, calmly mouthing litanies and philosophies to himself. But now it seemed to him that the game was afoot, and he would not be found lacking, he had to do it, to challenge the demons within himself.

"I will help anyone who needs surveillance done, that is after all, my forte. If anyone is leaving for the house to stake it out, I shall accompany them."

[Squishy Cheeks]

Father O'Hanrahan knocked again on the mansion's front door.

[Dr DR]

Joseph sighed, his conversation interrupted, and went to fetch the door.

He opened it warily, and stared darkly at the priest on the doorstep.

"Yes?" He said quickly and to the point.

[Squishy Cheeks]

"Yes I'm inquiring into the death of Father William McGruder. I checked with probate and it seems he inherited a portion of this estate. Were you aquainted with Father McGruder

[Dr DR]

"I suppose you could say that" said Joseph, continuing to glare at the priest, "you had better come in, there are others here could explain better than I could."

With this he opened to door wide, moving his arm in a sweeping gesture of invitation.

[Squishy Cheeks]

Father O'Hanrahan moved inside cautiously.

[Demon with a Glass Hand]

The crooked old lady that stood in the doorway glared at Phillip. He explained to her what he was doing and showed her the address that Merriweather's son had given him.

"That's on the otherside of town!" She exclaimed exhasperated. Shutting the door none-too-politely, Phillip scratched his head as to how he could have gotten so far off track.

(So when he actually does make it to the mansion, no one will be the to help him. La la la la la. I'm dissapearing for a week. Take that!)

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Alright, anyone not mentioned by name, you can join whichever team you want. If you are on the list in th discussion, you are on that team.

5:00 PM Monday

The Investigation Team arrives at the house. It is a two story, throughly average brick bungalow. It seems in decent condition, if not for the fact that it is in between two huge buisness buildings, throwing the comparativly small house in a permenant shadow. As you push aside the rust gate, you notice the small front lawn covered in weeds and thick grass. It probably wasn't taken care of even when the couple lived here you decide. As you approach the plain, wooden door, Henry notes the ominous shadows and the thick curtains drawn over every window give the house an ominous look. A shiver goes down Henry's spine for no good reason. The group now stands at the front door...

4:00 PM Monday

You searched around for a while, and found it easier once you reached Bosten to get directions here then the other team had getting directions to the house. You pull up in front and get out, looking at the Sanitarium before you. A plain building of harsh edges and plain grey stone, it seems stark and unforgiving as you approach the front doors and enter. You walk into an empty waiting room with nothing but sterile white walls and an unfriendly looking nurse/secretary behind a woodend table. She glares as you approach her.

OOC: Investigation team needs to make their way past the nurse first, whether they sneak by or fast talk her, then they will get a chance at the crazy couple.

[Truce]

Henry, being the only one with the key, unlocks the front door and then removes the key. Twisting the knob slowly, with the memory of David all too fresh in his mind, he pushed it slightly open. Slightly as in you cannot even see inside through a crack yet.

Backing up a little, and making sure that everyone's not crowded together, he then kicks the door open. Unconsciously taking a deep breath, he prepares himself to run/dodge in case he saw anything out of the ordinary there.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

ooc. Yours is better. But use my guy in there because he is a Doctor. It might make things easier...

[Krylo]

Frankie walked up to the nurse, conciously avoiding her glare and instead smiling amicably toward her, and extending a hand in friendship. "Hello there, Miss. I'm terribly sorry to bother you, but my friends and I have traveled quite a distance to see a Mr. and Mrs. Macario. They were instituted recently I believe... we're all family members, you see... and we came as quickly as we could when we heard about poor Vittorio and Gabriela. We would like to see them as soon as possible, and this... is a doctor we've paid for, he is suppose to be quite good," Frankie stated, gesturing toward Marcus, "Only the best for my dear aunt and uncle."


(OOC Repost: added your guy in, Spirit)

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

ooc Thanks Krylo

"Yes I am Doctor Arilius from Chicago. I have dealt with Pateints like these two poor dear souls before. I Really believe if I can have a chat with them and perhaps see their file I will perhaps be able to get a better sense of their logic and maybe put them on the road to healing as I have done so before with worse pateints. I also would like no interference from the staff except when needed to see how they act naturally..."
Mark knew that he had dealt with worse and was a very good doctor, he just hoped that maybe his official background would be good enough for the nurse and hopefully they would not interfere with the investigation...

[Tor]

Tor looked around himself, no one answered him.

-Ah crap tell me what the mission is and I'll go and do som surveilance and stuff since thats my job as a PI

[Squishy Cheeks]

Father ted groaned at the ham acting exhhibited by frankie. His stern look looked away at something going on behind the nurse.

[Dante]

As Frankie chatted the nurse up, Tommy slung the suitcase behind him. He had never been comfortable with jawing around - that was usually the prelude to a fusillade of bullets.

But that wasn't the only thing that made him nervous. Even in the day... this place seemed to have a creepy air around it. When he focused on it, it disappeared, but when he thought of something else, nagging doubts and panic slowly began to cross his mind.

He lit a cigarette, and continued waiting.

[Squishy Cheeks]

Father Ted followed Tommy he didn't really trust any of these 'aquantances' of his friend or the cock and bull story they gave him He oulled up a leg of his black trousers. Giving a cursory look about the room only Tommy was present and that man didn't strike Ted as being particularly civicly minded. He reached up the pant leg and pulled a hip flask from the outer rightsid of his pants leg, just above his knee. He uncorked the flask and took a belt of the outlawed whiskey.

"Pst!" Father O'Hanrahan whisperedso only tommy could hear him. "You want a belt?" Not trying to draw the attention of others but showing just enough of the small flask to Tommy to reveal what it was.

[Dante]

Tommy raised an eyebrow. This was surprising.

"Sure, I've been dying for a shot myself," he whispered back. "Damn nation's fine accept for this damn Prohibition..."

[Squishy Cheeks]

"I know what you mean laddie." the priest whispers to him. "I've been forced to transubstaniate grape juice since I'm not allowed wine any more. I'm not even sure if that works."

[Dante]

"'Tis a shame, a crying shame... What's the world come to when a man can't even get a decent drink any more?"

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Alright, originally you were with the investigation group Dante, so by the power of the GM *POIT* You are back with the investigators.

Investigation Team

Henry, Tommy, Dave, and Jospeh looked expectantly into the house as the door swung open. The hallway is strangely sparse. You see a plain table near the door with nothing on it, and a mirror over it, but for the most place the hallway is empty, and littered with dust and random bits of debris. At a glance, you see six doors, three on the right and three on the left, and at the end of the hallway you see a stairway leading down to the basement, and a stairway leading up to other rooms.

Research Team

The nurse is wary, but with a combination of the doctor's credentials, and a convincing story of being part of the family, the nurse agrees to let you see them. She goes into the back for a bit through the door, and come backs a few minutes later, saying that the Husband is in a rather bad condition now and perhaps shouldn't be visited, but Mrs. Macario is willing to accept visitors. She leads you down the hallway and through a twisting maze of stairs and halls, but eventually you all find yourself in a waiting room. After a few moments, Mrs. Macario enters escorted by a guard, and while she looks at you all, wide eyed and in shock since you obviously aren't her family, she also looks somewhat desperate and interested. She sits down in a comfortable chair set around a table in the small room, where the rest of you are already seated, and sits expectantly waiting to see what you strangers are here for.

[Dr DR]

Making sure to stay very quiet, Joseph checks the first door to his left.

[Forever Zero]

This room is some sort of storage room. You see piles of boxes stacked to the roof, two antiquated and rusted out old water heaters, and two rusty bikes. The only thing of interest seems to be an old, closed cupboard near the back wall and in the corner.

[IHateMakingNames]

"Why exactly are we here again?" Dave asked from his spot in the middle of the group.

[Truce]

Henry, relieved that nothing had happened, answered Dave as he headed into the house. "We were hired to investigate the house. Now, please be careful while you explore this place. Make sure to stay together, and if someone screams it would probably be best if you just ran."

Taking a quick look around, he motioned the others to follow him as he headed immediately down the stairs to the basement. "We might as well start from the bottom and work our way up from there. Guys, tell me if you see something suspicious."

[Forever Zero]

When you go to the basement door, you notice it has three locks on it. Strangely, they all seem to be locked towards the basement, with the locks on this side of the door. You open the locks with a few clicks and open the door. The rickety, old, bad stairs lead down into the darkness. You flip the switch for the basement, but nothing happens, leaving the basement in darkness.

[Krylo]

(OOC: Ecurt! IHMN! Dr Dr! Whoever else is there! RUN! RUN NOW! It's the spooky basement with no power... and the basement was locked THREE TIMES! Get out!)

Frankie smiles kindly at the old woman, and, at first, speaks loudly enough for the guard to hear, "Hello, Aunt Gabriella. It really has been so long... we brought a doctor for you." He then lowers his voice enough to be sure that the guard can not hear him. "Hello Mrs. Macario, I am sorry about the false pretenses, but the nurse did not seem to be in any mood to let investigators visit. You see, my friends and I were hired to look into the odd things that were happening at your old home. We were hoping you could tell us what had happened... so that we can be sure it doesn't happen to anyone else."

[IHateMakingNames]

"Let's skip the basement. No point in looking around in a large room where we can't see anything." Dave suggested from his spot in the middle of the group.

OOC: Always stay in the middle is my motto when in a possibly dangerous situation involving demons and ghost.

[Forever Zero]

"I... I don't want to talk about that thing... But, you seem to understand that it is real, you don't think I'm crazy... Perhaps you are just an illusion and maybe I AM crazy... But it still helps to get out things like this..." She says in a loud whisper. As you look closer, you note her haggard appearance, and her sunken face. She was probably beutiful once, but now it seems this gaunt woman has been through Hell.

"There is something in the house, something evil. It is a horrible, horrible thing. We didn't notice at first when we came in, it must have just observed us. But as we stayed there, terrifying events began to happen. I would wake up on nights to see a tall, gaunt figure leaning over me. It's face, it's body..." She shivers and seems on the verge of tears, but continues, "It was horrible. If we made it angry, it would throw things around the house, like dishes. It seemed to hate my husband worse then me, he suffered horrible nightmares night after night, and complained about headaches all day. Life in that house..." Now she does break down into tears and begins sobbing.

The guard now comes over and says, "I think you have had enough excitement for one day Mrs. Macario. Perhaps you all should leave since you are upsetting her." The guard escorts her out, and two more gaurds come to escort you all out. You know you have gotten as much information as you could out of the emotionally scarred woman, and agree to leave. You find yourself outside the Sanitarium before you know it. What do you do next?

[Squishy Cheeks]

ooc: I'm going to disney world.

[Forever Zero]

ooc: I'm going to disney world.

OOC: Don't think it's been invented yet... So in time dilation, you stand around in one spot for years until Disney is built. Your not in the plotline anymore, but you're call... I am, of course, kidding.

[Squishy Cheeks]

ooc: Well Father O'hanrahan would keep his sanity and he'd get really wealthy when Walt Disney bought the land.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: We need to take it to the discusssion, but he would be pretty old by the time he sold the land... Too old to profit from it one might think.

[Krylo]

Frankie stood outside thinking for a moment. He would do so out loud if not for Father Ted, whom did not know just how true the woman's story may be. 'I believe Henry was researching that latin tome... verii... something... and so he might know what this thing is. Besides, they need to know about this thing in that house before they go and get themselves killed.'

He then looked up at the others and voiced his opinion in a non-mythos related syntax. "Well, it seems we've learned everything of value here. Let's go and meet with the others at the house. We should tell them what she told us... those headaches and delusions may have been caused by some sort of gas leak in the building."

[Squishy Cheeks]

"If you need a latin translator I'm fluent in classical latin." Father O'Hanrahan added.

[Forever Zero]

7:00 PM, Monday

After working out what to do next, the Research Team decides that getting this info to the Investigation Team is vital, and head out to find them. By the time they get there, it is dark. A few of the Veterans look around worridly now that it is dark, remembering what happened last time they investigated a house after dark, but nothing unusual happens. After they enter, everyone is reunited in the house in the hall to give the good news, since the Investigators were waiting on the front porch for the others to arrive, temperarily halting their search.

[Krylo]

Frankie grinned in relief when he noticed everyone was still ok, and turned immediately toward Joseph and Henry, relating the story that Mrs. Macario gave them. "Ah... It's good to see everyone's still here... we came so that we could tell you what we learned from Mrs. Macario, the renter. She told us something about a dark gaunt figure breaking things when it became angry and would emotionally torture her and her husband," Frankie's eyes met Henry's and Joseph's when he mentioned this, letting them know that it was the part of the story that he deemed most important before continuing, "She also said that the creature hated her husband most and that he had constant headaches and nightmares. We were afraid there might be some sort of gas leak that you should be aware of..."

[lazy man]

Paul was confused from what Mrs. Macario had said. Her explanation had made it seem like they were being stalked, but somehow supernateral. He to feel less and less comfortable that place as it got darker, it kind of disturbed him. "Do you think we should get going? We do have alot of time to investigate this thing, after all," he said, trying to draw everyone away from the house.

[Tor]

[OOC]
Where am I?

[Truce]

ooc-I'm pretty sure everyone's at the house. Everyone who had been part on either of the teams that is.

Henry nodded, showing he understood what Frankie had meant. "The house seems normal. Except for the basement, no power in it and it's almost as if it's nothing human has been there for quite some time.

"More investigation on this place will have to be done, and if it is like you said, and there was a gas leak, then we'll need to do a bit of preparing before we reenter the house."

[Dr DR]

Joseph also nodded.

"I suppose we should obtain the necessary materials and return during the day."

[Forever Zero]

OOC: I sense you are all waiting for me to jump ahead in time again... I suck at picking up when that is necessary...

The Investigators decided that nothing more could be done tonight, and that they would search the house tomarrow. They all return home.

9:00 AM

It is now morning of the next day, and you are all back at the Mansion. Cal called to check up, and you gave him a bland report that covers up any potential Mythos connection. He accepts that, and hangs up. Now you must decide if there is anything more to learn about the house, or if you want to get straight to a complete investigation of the house right now.

[Krylo]

First thing that morning, Frankie hunts down Henry, who had been studying the Vermii De... whatever, with Dr. What's-his-name, and gets him alone in a room to talk.

"I understand that you were studying that book at the university... the one that had information on the lurker. I don't suppose that, by any chance, you read up on a humanoid monster that appears at night, and gives nightmares to people?"

(OOC: Don't worry about it too much FZ... everything seems to be slowing down lately, anyway. Including my ambition for making big posts.)

[IHateMakingNames]

"Should we check the kitchen first for a gas leak?"

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

" Yeah lets check for a gas leak first and foremost. It could be quite the hazard later..." Dr Marcus says with a worried expression on his face...

[Truce]

Henry searched his memory for something that matched Frankie's description. After a minute he shook his head. "I cannot recall something immediately. At the time I had been more interested in spells and not the creatures dealing with the mythos.

"Perhaps, though, maybe we should call Dr. Armitage right now? Maybe he'll have a bigger clue than I do, the doctor has studied this more than I have after all."

ooc-Bleh, it's school. It's annoying, long, boring, and tiring. We don't have as much enthuisiasm nor time to make the posts. At least, that's my excuse.

[Krylo]

Frankie nodded toward Henry at the suggestion. Dr. Armitage would most likely know what the creature is, or be able to look it up at the least. "Yes, excellent idea. You can ask him about it, as that you know the man better. Let's go to the phone..."

(OOC: I don't even have that excuse... I'm just having one of my 'down times'. It happens.)

[Forever Zero]

9:02 AM (What? Time passed...)

You call Dr. Armitage on the phone. He listens to your description, and he flips through his notes for a minute. After a while he says, "Well, I don't know of any specific monster that does all that... Actually, it sounds more like the work of some sort of sorcerer from the variety of effects. They are known for their servitude to the gods for magical strength, and perhaps one had bargained away something of his for more power and spells. I am not sure, but from what you describe, he must be in that house, since a sorcerer in the neighboring buisness buildings would be noticed, but it is a small house, and I don't know where he could be. That will be up to you all to learn. If you need any more information, call me." With that the Doctor hangs up.

[Truce]

Henry looked to Frankie, and with a heavy sigh he repeated what the Doc had told him. "Sadly, that doesn't tell us much, except that it might be a sorcerer.

"This doesn't sound good...how are would we fight a sorcerer anyway? If it has been haunted for years then that sorcerer must be very old, and probably powerful too. At least, more powerful than we are.

"I don't know what to do...do you?"

[Krylo]

Frankie shrugged casually. Truth be told, the ex-drifter was more than a little relieved that it was 'just' a sorcerer. "At least it isn't an invisible monster intent on eating our hearts, again."

His arms crossed, and he stopped to think for a moment about things. "Well... if it's been there long enough for all these ghost stories to pop up about it... I don't know if it's human. I guess we'll just have to go there and see what it is..." A look of concentration crosses his face as he thinks back on what Gabriella had told him. "Apparently the thing only came out at night... so I think we can assume that it, like the other creature, doesn't particularily enjoy light. I say we go and investigate during the day... search the house completely and send Tommy in any dark places first... he's big, so he might survive being smacked around a bit. Besides, his caustic personality annoys me." A chuckle escaped Frankie's lips at his last comment and then he headed toward the door to the room, so that he could rejoin the others, "Well, let's go see what everyone else has to say."

[Truce]

He sighed. "You really don't like that guy, do you?" He wasn't surprised...in fact, part of him wanted to follow that plan. However, the better part of him could not let people fall into danger they do not know off.

"We might as well tell them what's happening before we go," he said, following the other man. "If they decide to follow, they only have themselves to blame. If they decide to go, and tell people about it later on, then we'll simply say that that was a test to see if they were tough enough to be one of investigators, and that they had failed."

[Krylo]

Frankie shook his head as he walked. "You go ahead and tell them... they'll just think you're insane until they see something for themselves... would YOU have believed there was an invisible monster eating hearts before we saw David get killed? ...I know I wouldn't have."

[Truce]

"I didn't...part of me still doesn't believe it; that we're all together in one big nightmare that we'll eventually wake up from. I imagine that I'm still in the hotel, and I haven't gotten up yet; then it'll turn out that what was at the house was nothing more than a raccoon or something. Later, some of us will flirt with Clara, get rejected (except for me, of course), and go out to a bar before we go back to our normal homes and normal lives.

"However...that's not going to happen. We're now caught up in a current that's so fast that we can't escape. I have accepted that, but now I want to give these people a chance that we all willingly passed; an oppourtunity to walk away before this engulfs them.

"Heh...sounds sort of corny coming from someone like me, doesn't it? I just don't want to be the one to blame when something bad happens. What about you?"

[Krylo]

Frankie stopped and turned around to look at him, with one eyebrow raised and a look of complete incredulousness (I can make up words!) on his face, before breaking into a chuckle. It was odd to laugh when they were talking about something as serious as that, with only a month behind it... but his speech just struck Frankie as hillarious. "Sort of corny? That's, quite possibly, the corniest thing I've ever heard someone say."

He shook his head at the man and stopped for a moment before answering. "Well... I don't think warning them will do any good, and I'm not responsible for them. Like I said... you can do what you want, but I still say we just put that Tommy character on point if there's any dark rooms."

(OOC: And thus we see Frankie's irresponsible and somewhat childish nature, which lead him, in part, to being a drifter. "It's not my fault if they get eaten... even if I don't tell them about it. I'm only responsible for me, and that's it.")

[Dante]

Trailing behind the two of them, Tommy raised an eyebrow as he heard his name being mentioned, but thought little of it.

After all, ghosts, demons, monsters... just things to scare children with. Gabe was dead, and by God he was going to find out who did it. And once he did...

Tommy grinned as he smacked a fist into the other.

"Oh, yes... you'll regret that..."

[Truce]

He sighed, shaking his head at the older man's response. "Let's just gather everyone together in the lobby...then will be the time to decide what to do."

ooc-I just realized that Henry is a lot bossier than I had first planned. Of course, that's when noone else announces their intentions to lead.

[Krylo]

Frankie nodded. "Alright then... I'll just head to the lobby now." The man then left Henry standing there and headed down to the lobby, as he promised, to wait for everyone else, effectively leaving the 'gathering' up to Henry. While he waited he picked out one of his books and began to read it, albeit half-heartedly. He was really wondering what the sorceror in that house could be, and whether or not it was in the basement as Henry had suggested.

[Dante]

With nothing better to do, Tommy decided to follow Frankie down to the lobby. He shook the suitcase he carried, smiling inwardly as he felt the weight of the Thompson shift inside.

[Forever Zero]

9:15 AM

Everyone assembles in the lobby to discuss what to do next. Now, they have an idea of what to do, but not a great one. They can jump right into the investigation, or they can go and try to research more waht is going on.

[Squishy Cheeks]

"I would like to go back to the assylum and see if I can get any information out of the old tennets, or at the very least see what I can do to help them." Father O'Hanrahan offered.

[Krylo]

Frankie nodded toward Father Ted from his chair. "Yes, I believe you should go there with Marcus... he may be able to help as well. You might get more information, and you may also be able to help them along." His eyes then gazed about the room, as he thought over his next comment carefully, before deciding to go along with it. "Someone else also may want to look up ex-owners of the house. Go as far back as the ghost stories, and see what you can find out about the man who lived in the house before they started. In the meanwhile, another team of three or four of us should go to the house..." He then looked around the room at every person. "Is there anyone else here who knows how to find information like that, or will I be heading to the library?"

[lazy man]

Paul was very tired and yawned loudly. "What do you think I should do? Whatever I do, I'm not going to that house. I don't feel comfortable around there."

[Truce]

"That's because it's obviously not safe there." Henry had joined in the discussion, though he did so from a faraway corner of the room with his head slightly bowed. "Frankly, you'd have to be stupid not to sense the danger that house practically screams. I even saw animals intentionally steer away from that place, if I remember right.

"And that brings us to an important point..." Guess this is the best time...I guess. Damn Frank, leaving it up to me to decide and carry through. "Before we continue, I am offering everyone here an oppourtunity to leave now. I warn you, if you refuse this, your life will change forever and you will come face to face with a terrible truth; probably today if our hunches are right.

"Don't blame us if you get into any danger, there is a reason why this choice came up. We need to know who's with us and who must go; if you cannot accept the danger you'll be in willingly then you're definately in the latter group.

"So...umm, what do you guys choose to do?" Wow...I do sound corny.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

" Agree and I think I would be able to get more info." Marcus said.

[Dr DR]

"I know I'm going." said Joseph quietly, "this is my own personal jihad, I'm going to find out whats going on and obliterate it from existance. Even if no-one else is going to the house, I will. Research will only get you so far."

[Forever Zero]

12:00 PM House Team

Now that you knew exactly where the house was, it is easeir to find this time. You open the front door, and the same sight greets you, with debris all over. The only difference is whatever you cleaned away to walk along, and the fact that one of oyou looked into the first room on the left and didn't explore it.

10:00 PM Library Team

You head back to the Miskatonic University Library since it is the largest one in both Bosten and Arkham. You prepare to plunge into it's depths, but decide to consider your options on what to reveal more of about the house first...

[Dante]

Tommy cracked his knuckles, then discreetly unlatched his fiddle case. He had a bad feeling about this place, and he sure as hell didn't want to go in unprepared. Neither did he want to go in first. This place was giving him the creeps.

He hung back by the door, lighting a cigarette, looking at the others as though he was daring them to go in.

[Dr DR]

"Should we start looking around then?" asked Joseph, moving quietly and as discreetly as possible into the house.

[Dante]

"Suit yourself. I'll cover you."

Tommy slung the case behind him, only his hands holding it shut now. He let Joseph take a few steps before starting to follow the man in. He kept his eyes wide open as he looked into the darkened interior, occasionally glancing at the ceiling. It wasn't the first time someone had tried offing him with murder holes, and he didn't expect it to be the last either.

[lazy man]

Paul walked into the house cautiously, not wanting to go in in the first place. He had been forced to go, so he obviously didn't have a choice. He started looking around quickly as he got into the house, deciding to move towards one of the nearby rooms.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: *Sigh* Just as an update, there are 3 doors on the left, 3 doors on the right, and at the end of the hall there is a door leading down to the basement, and a stairway leading up to the second story... I will send you back to the first room on the left since you didn't choose one.

You look into the first room on the left. Like Joseph saw, you see it is full of junk. There are boxes stacked along the back wall, there are old rusted out water heaters, and there are the old rusted bikes. The cabinet sits along the back wall in a corner, unopened.

[lazy man]

ooc: Confusion....rising...

ic: Paul decided to open the cabinet, knowing there was the very slim possibility that something could help. Everything else was useless, so he just walked around it.

[IHateMakingNames]

OOC: If I accidently am about to do something which may result in death (Again), can you just nudge Dave another way?

IC:

Dave goes to the first room on the right and opens the door to look inside.

[Forever Zero]

You go to the cabinat and pull, but it seems stuck. You give it a few more good tugs, and it wrenches open. Three dusty books fall out at you feet. You pick them up and wipe the dust from one, to reveal the diaries of a mister W. Corbitt. You pick up the other books to discover that all three are the diaries of Corbitt, and they are numbered for the order they were written.

[Dante]

Tommy walked in behind the two of them, noting the books the others had found.

"So," he said, pausing to light another cigarette. "What do you have?"

[lazy man]

"Apparently something very helpful," he replied. "I'll see what I can get from them," he said as he sat down in a nearby chair(assuming there is one) and began reading.

[Forever Zero]

Dave goes and opens the first door on the right side. This is a very plainly furnished room, with two overstuffed chairs and a sofa all set up to promote conversation. There is a radio set up between the chairs, and a table in the center of the sofas and such. There are shelves along the walls with various nicknacks and collected junk on them.

[Dante]

Noting the radio, Tommy moved over to switch it on.

"Too damn quiet here."

[Forever Zero]

OOC: There is no nearby chair, so you lean against the wall. You skimming estimates to read, from cover to cover, it will take 2 days to read the book. Also, the book contains one spell.

You skim very quickly through the books, reading random pages. You notice little bits and facts, things Corbitt does in his day. You stop on a page and notice Corbitt buying the house form a wealthy merchant. You continue on, noticing the writing becoming looser and harder to read over time. He describes research on another page. In the second book, he talks about the religion he has joined, although he doesn't say the name here. The text is downright unreadable now, a difficult to read scrawl. By the thirs book, without careuflly reading, you cannot understand waht is written, but it talks about something he did, or summoned, you aren't sure. You close the book, your skimming taking thirty minutes. You find the writing and progressing failing mental state of Mr. Corbitt disturbing to say the least.


((Dante, you just walked across the hall now, since Dave/IHMN was in the right room, and Tommy/You were in the left.))

You turn on the radio. Some static comes out at first, but it seems to work fine. You tinker with it until you get a tune to come out.

((You can choose the station, just keep in mind it is the 1920's...))

[lazy man]

The books sent a small chill up Paul's spine. He would have read into more detail later, so he carried the books with him as he went into the next room on the left.

[Forever Zero]

You open the door to the second room on the left. It seems to be just another storage room. You notice lots of broken and destroyed old wooden furniture. You decide that it is most likely old furniture or furniture that others have thrown out, and it was collected as fire for a fireplace or wooden stove perhaps.

[Dr DR]

"There's probably nothing useful in amongst that rubbish" said Joseph turning away. "Lets try the other doors"

[Krylo]

Frankie had gone with a few others to the library, on the basis that he didn't want to be the first person to see whatever was in the house, and that he knows how to use the library decently well.

After a few moments of looking around he found a librarian and asked politely if he could receive help finding information on the owners of the house in question, and any 'ghost' stories surrounding it.

[Forever Zero]

1:00 PM

After searching through the library, with help and suggestions from the librarian, you gather a collection of books that might help. You begin to go through with them, and two hours later, you have found some informarion of note. The house was originally built by a wealthy merchant in 1835, but he fell ill and sold the house and left the state. He sold the house to a Mr. Walter Corbitt, esquire. You learn more, in that in in 1852, Mr. Corbitt is sued by his neighbors to force him from the house and the area, "In consequence of his surious [sic] habits and inauspicious demeanor." However, you seem to be having some trouble finding the actual resolution to this case, and what may have happened after that. The librarian suggests beginning a new search for this new information.

[Krylo]

(OOC: Super short post.)

Frankie nodded toward the librarian and grinned. "That sounds like a most logical plan. Would you care to to lend me some more help?"

[Forever Zero]

2:00 PM

With some more searching, you are able to find what you are looking for. Corbitt wins the case and is allowed to stay in the house. You find another notation later on, of the death of Mr. Corbitt in 1866, and in his obituary it says how he lived in the house up until his death. With more searching, you find a second case was brought against Mr. Corbitt's estate to prevent the execution of his last will and testament, which allowed for upon his death, he would be buried in the basement of his home. You can't find who was to execute this last will, or if the case was ever resolved. The librarian now says, "Well, Dr. Armitage has told me to help any of you I see in every way I can, but you won't find anymore information like this in the library. You will need to go to the Hall of Records in Boston to find anymore information on this case."

[Krylo]

Frankie smiled and stood, nodding at the librarian. "Thank you. You have been a tremendous help already... I do believe I will head for the hall of records now." With that he waved to the librarian and left the library to flag down a cab.

[Squishy Cheeks]

Father Ted stood next to Frankie. "I doubt the basement was sanctified, which might lend to the ghost theory. I still think it's probably a gas leek." Father Ted says to frankie as they flag down a cab.

[Forever Zero]

5:00 PM

At the Hall of Records, you ask to look up court cases and resolutions. After you convince the clerk to let you in, he leads you back to the records room and leaves. You search for a while, finding out as much as you can on the case. You find that there was no recorded end to the case at all oddly. You also learn that Mr. Corbitt's final will was executed by a Reverend Michael Thomas, pastour of the Chapel of Contemplation, Church of our Lord Granter of Secrets. You decide to follow up this lead, and look deeper. You find the location of the church, that it was closed down in 1912, and that there were criminal actions involved with the church. You can't find the specific actions however.

[Squishy Cheeks]

"Sounds like we should go back to the library and look for a newspaper article on that church." Father Ted said after writing the important info down on a memo pad."

[Krylo]

Frankie nodded and stood, replacing the files in their proper places. "I suppose we might find something a bit more specific in the newspapers."

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

"I also think we should check ou tthe church. It sounds very unusual for a church, what do you think padre?" Doc said looking at Father Ted

[Krylo]

Frankie looked over at Marcus and thought for a moment before throwing in his two cents. "That seems like a good idea as well, although it's been closed for quite some time now, so I don't know what we will find. However, I believe we should go to the library first. The church will still be there later, while the library may close."

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Just noticed you went back to your old avatar, krylo. And since it's 2:1, back to the library you go...

6:00 PM

You head back to the library, and begin your new search. After putting some time into it, you find no records, or even mentions of this church anywhere. It's as if it never existed as far as the media was concerned. The librarian comes by and asks what you are looking for now. After explaining she says, "I never heard anything about that when it happened, but if it was true, they would have to have some sort of documents of it down at the Central Police Station. They document any criminal investigations there.

[IHateMakingNames]

OOC: Puh, he said in the dicussion he edited that out... And I know just noticed the edit in that post.

IC:

Dave went to the middle right room and opened the door.

[Forever Zero]

12:30 PM (I think that's where you all were at) House Team

You enter the dining room to find yet another sparsley set room. There is a long mahogany table in the center with 7 chairs of the same wood set around it. On the table, you see a tureen, and three unused table settings. You look in the tureen to see some ancient soup rotting. There is nothing more of importance in this room.

[Krylo]

Frankie nods and thanks the librarian before turning to his two compatriarts. "Well... this was a dead end. Why don't you two go and look at the church, I'll meet you there later... I think I'll have an easier time convincing the police to let me see their files if I go alone."

[Forever Zero]

Frankie nods and thanks the librarian before turning to his two compatriarts. "Well... this was a dead end. Why don't you two go and look at the church, I'll meet you there later... I think I'll have an easier time convincing the police to let me see their files if I go alone."

OOC: Wuss! You just don't want to run the risk of meeting some big, ugly, flesh-devouring monster...

9:00 PM

Frankie makes his way to Central Police Station. Once inside, he fast talks the clerk into thinking he is there to do a college study on the police. After the clerk lets him into the records room and leaves, Frankie gets to work. He pulls out docuemtns from the right year and begins to review them. After about an hour of searching, he comes across the proper files. There was a secret police raid on the Church, after multiple families in the neighberhood claimed that they were responsible for multiple missing children. The police struck the church at night, but the Churh members were well armed. In the ensuing battle, the church caught fire, and overall three officers were killed and seventeen cult members were eitehr burned in the house or killed in the gun battle. Oddly on recovered bodies, there seems to be little or no data on the subjects, almost as if there were no autopsies. 54 Memebers of the church were arrested, but only 8 were held and charged. Of them was the Pastor Michael Thomas. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison on five counts of murder, but he was able to escape prison in 1917 and fled the state. You learn that due to mostly illegal intervention from high, and unnamed, local officials, the story never made it to the papers and remained largely unknown to the public.

[Krylo]

(OOC: And what's wrong with that?)

Armed with this new knowledge Frankie begins to put a few things together. 'Corbitt was buried in the basement by Thomas, a member of a cult dabbling in powers much like those that summoned the creature before, much like Corbitt himself. The gaunt figure was humanoid... ghost stories... a sorceror. It seems that either Thomas or Corbitt is still in that house. Most likely Corbitt.'

He replaced the files and left the room, thanking the clerk for his help with his project, and then waved down a cab to bring him to the church, where Ted and Marcus should be waiting.

(OOC: and now I get to wait while the others catch up to 9 pm)

[Squishy Cheeks]

ooc: I'm assuming either we find a crack house now, or a bank.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: krylo, you'll probably actually arrive at the church at about 10:00 PM...

7:00 PM

Marcus and Ted arrive after dark at the burned out old church. You find yourself on the end of a dark street, with the ruins of the church in front of you. Since it is dark, it is hard to see, but luckily you both recieved flashlights and now bring them out. The walls were once of brick most likely, but over time they are now so overgrown with vegetation and worn with age, they almost look like natural stone again. As you walk towards where the old entrance used to be, the only cleared way into the church, you notice something on the wall. As you look closer, you see what it is ((See attachment)). The symbol has been freshly painted, and as you look at it you begin to develop a mild headache. However, you feel there may still be something of importance here, so you don't know whether to stop or continue.

EDIT: Oops, forgot the attachment...

[Squishy Cheeks]

ooc: Do I recognize the symbol by either a history, archaeology, or antropology check?

Ted looked about with his flashlight. He looked at the symbol and then crossed himself.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Nope, the symbol seems to have been made up just for this cult. You can think of no prior instance of seeing it.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

OOC. Does my occult check help me here. And I think I have seen something like that symbol in a campaign before...

IC "Good thing I brought my med kit." Marcus pulls out some asprin pops 2 pills from it and offers some to Ted "Lets look around for just a little bit not to long. I got a bad feeling about this place.Lets leave in about maybe ten minutes..."

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Still nothing. You both remain clueless to the symbol. And you may be mistaking it for another symbol that is similar to, but not the same as, this one. Only a Mythos check could reveal the other symbol this one looks like, and you both failed it just to let you know (You have a 5%, what do you expect...) And I assume you are now investigating...

You both walk through the door into the church. As you step under some hanging debris, you find yourself in a large, fairly empty space. You look at the old shattered columns around, the bowed and collapsed walls, and random bits of natural debris that have gotten in here.

[Squishy Cheeks]

ooc: What do I smell? Remember dead things Reek. If something evil is killing and eating people and such it would smell here.

Ted sniffed the night air. He was tempted to go for a drink. "No thanks. I have my own medicine if need be." He did not like the feel of this place. It felt 'evil' to him.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

ooc. Give me an honorable death. I don't want to die by fallen debris (that happened to me once.)or a homless bum who is crazy. But I would preferably not want to die to soon.

IC"I bet there is a secret passage somewhere see if you can find anything like a lever or a book or something. Also look for some sort of book or someting that looks suspicious." Marcus tells Ted carefully looking around.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: No smells, but the vegetation on the walls and the night air...

[lazy man]

ooc: House team's moving too slow and I need something to do, so what the hell.

ic: Paul moved on to the next room on the left.

[Forever Zero]

House Team

You have entered the third room on the left, the mud room. In it, you see a few pairs of hats, shoes, coats, and umbrellas littered about or hanging on the walls. You see the side door that people are supposed to come in through if it rains, and notice it is covered in multiple locks and deadbolts.

Church Team

As you take a few steps away to begin your search, all of a sudden they heard an ominous crack. Suddenly the flimsy floor, which was only a thin layer of wooden boards put down after the fire that dirt and vegetaion had settled on it, gave away. The wooden floor crashed down into the room below them taking the investigators with it, but while Marcus was able to grab a hanging vine, Ted fell straight to the bottom with an OOF. There might be some nasty bruising, but he would be alright.

OOC: Marcus passed his DEX roll, Ted didn't... And now you are both in a new room, better look around...

[Darth SS]

Neil was fingering his gun nervously.


"This...this is kinda' creeping me out. Just the abandonment part, though."

He looked over Paul's shoulder, checking for anything out of the ordinary.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

OOC Well who didn't see that coming from a mile away? oh Yay dex roll!

IC
Marcus climbs down the vine to Father Ted "Are you alright? he says dusting off Ted whislt taking a look around from where he is standing...

[Squishy Cheeks]

"I've been in millenia old ruins more stable." He said dusting himself off. He fumbled in the dark for his flashlight. The light was out. He shook it and it flickered then blazed forward. The light blazed forth. "Now how to get out of here."

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

"Umm lets try to be careful and who knows what else is here, down in this basement." Marcus said looking around with a flashlight he took from home.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Oops, forgot the update. At the end of this post.

As you look around, you first realize the exit is blocked by tons or rubble. The only way back out will be the vine that leads down in this hole. Next you beams falls on two skeletons, still with scraps of silk around them and on them. They must have been cultists who chose to hide down here and die in the fire over leaving. Next the beam falls on two cabinets that haven't been covered in rubble. Finally it falls on a mouldy old table with a large book sitting on top of it.

[Darth SS]

OOC: I was not included in that update. *cries*

[Squishy Cheeks]

"Hold up I need a courage builder." He reached into his pocket and pulled out his silver Flask. The flask was still in good condition. "You know I use holy water to make this." He said refrencing the flask. "It makes the gin taste sweeter, knowing it's blessed." He takes a hit of the flask and offers Marcus a hit.

[lazy man]

Paul walked into the room and began to look through the pockets of the coats, being careful not to miss anything in the room. Seeing Neil's strange look, he said, "Well you never know."

[IHateMakingNames]

Dave leaves the second right room, not wanting to smell the decaying soup anymore, and opens the door to the third right room.

[Forever Zero]

The Pockets contain some spare change and lint, nothing of interest.


The third room on the right is the kitchen. You look around and see this room, like all the others, is very sparsly decorated except for the essentials. You see an icebox, a wood fed stove, and a small larder. On investigation of the larder, you see some canned foods, rice, and dried meats that survive, but it seems everything else has been devoured by rats from the chewed up boxes and left over chewed scraps. In the drawers you find standard kitchen implements such as knives, forks, spoons, etc. Nothing special.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

" I need it" Marcus says taking the hit. "I wonder what this book is for. I think the team might want this for later." he says going over to the book and picking it up but not reading it.

[Forever Zero]

He gives a tug, but realizes the book is chained to the desk. As you feel the odd texture of the book, you suddenly carefully look at it, and examine it. You drop it in horror when you realize the book has been bound in human skin.

OOC: You may have a high DEX, but your high Medicine trait came back to bite you...

[Squishy Cheeks]

ooc: I wonder, does Alcoholism give you an advantage in Sanity checks, I mean to say. If you see something horrible while drunk, you could logically assume you immagined it, or better accept it as being your less inhibited.

Ic: "What is it?" Father Ted said. He put his flask back in his pocket. "Something wrong?"

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

OOC yeah I know in call there is a downside to everything good.
Marcus droped back then he knew what he must do no matter how disgusting it was. He felt the chain down to the base pulled out his handcannon looked at father ted and said "When I get the book free you carry it out okay?" Then aimed at the chains base at the desk at close range. EDIT "You are pure of heart cause your a reverend so it is best if you carry it out..."
OOC I am going to attemt to free the book by shooting at the base of the chain where its kept. But if this is the book I think it is we're screwed either way...

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Not sure which book you think it is...

You decide to save a bullet and start by hitting the base of the cahin with the butt of your gun. The old, rusted chain yields and snaps, freeing the book into your possesion.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

OOC I forgot its name not the Necro though.
IC
"Father you up first I will just give you a boost up if you want." Marcus hands the book by the chain to Father Ted "Do not read it... just hold on to the chain." Marcus says giving him a boost onto the vine...
OOC I hope this works...

[Forever Zero]

The Father takes the chain, and with the help fo Marcus and the hanging vine, is able to get out. He then helps Marcus out of the hole. You are now both in the main room again, with the constant headache getting worse.

[Dante]

Tommy looked as Dave opened the door.

"Anything yet?"

[IHateMakingNames]

"It's just a kitchen, nothing important." Dave said as he went back into the hall towards the rest of the group.

[Squishy Cheeks]

"Can we just get out of here. This place and this book are giving me the creeps." He felt the sudden urge to draw a cross over the symbol

[lazy man]

"Did you even check carefully?" Paul asked as he walked into the kitchen.

[Forever Zero]

As Paul enters he notices something on a wall in the corner, partially blocked by the open larder doorway. When the larder is closed, it reveals a fuse box in the wall.

[lazy man]

"I know we won't be staying here at night, but at least this place still has power," he said as he looked at it.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

"Yeah lets just leave. Enough weird stuff has happened." Marcus said exiting the old church.

[Forever Zero]

As Paul looks at the box, he notices some of the fuses have been taken out. He looks around but doesn't see any more fuses in the kitchen.

[lazy man]

ooc: You must really love to screw us over FZ.

ic: "Or maybe we don't have power, in some of the house at least," he said, making a mental note that they could turn on the the lights in some of the house.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Hey, I'm just follow the Scenarios in the book until I build up some experience... That doesn't change the fact that it's funny though...

[Squishy Cheeks]

"Hold up this symbol bothers me."

He pulls out his Flask and splashes the symbol with Holy Gin. and picks up a concrete stone.

"In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.

Pater noster, qui es in caelis,
sanctificetur nomen tuum.
Adveniat regnum tuum.
Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.
Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie,
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris.
Et ne nos inducas in tentationem:
sed libera nos a malo. Amen."

He marked over the symbol with a chalky celtic cross as He said the prayer.

http://www.avalonvisions.com/images/celtic-cross.gif

[Forever Zero]

OOC: That's a bit intricate...

As the father approaches the symbol, it's almost as if it is staring at him. Whan he puts the cross over it and says the chant, there is an increasing mental pressure, and one last spike of annoyance, then the feelings passes. The headache is gone, as is the symbol.

[Squishy Cheeks]

ooc: He's Irish and proud.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

OOC if I die from this I will laugh my ass off

Marcus Goes up to the church and on the side Marcus says "Hold on a sec, I must do something as well...

As he slowly traces the symbol wiith a chalky debris He says a little something in latin

abnocto ere unicus unicus ere abnocto

[lazy man]

Paul slowly walked up the stairs to the second floor and opened the door closest to him.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: BLARG, U R DEAD! Just messing with you, here's what you really find...

You go up the stairs and see that there are four rooms, all along the left side. You open the first one on your left it find yourself in the bathroom. You see the usual: a sink, a bath tub, and a water closet. You look in the bathtub and find it partially full of old brackish water from the dripping faucet that won't fully close.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

"Hey Revrend Ted you think we should head to the house and check up on the guys or drop this book off at the mansion first?" Marcus says heading towards the car. "That is after Frankie shows up of course..." He says...

[Forever Zero]

10:00 PM

Marcus and Ted waited for Frankie to finally arrive. When he did, everyone explained their latest discoveries to each other, then decided what to do next with their new knowledge.

[Krylo]

Frankie looked up at the sky and thought for a minute. "Well, I'm guessing it's pretty late... probably somewhere between nine and eleven. The others are all probably back at the mansion... but you guys said there was a cabinet and some other things, but all you got was that... book?" A slight shiver ran down his spine, remembering that it was bound in human skin, but he quickly shook it off. "There might be something else down there worth looking at."

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

Marcus looked at Frankie "I will go down again I guess..." Marcus said with a little hesitation. "Just remember that the floor is extremely unstable and that you might be shoced by some of the things down there... Mark said heading back to the Church.

[Krylo]

Frankie nodded and followed Marcus into the church, being careful to watch his step, as not make any more holes in the flooor. Particularily ones he would fall through. "Were there any other rooms that you could see besides the two you were in?" He slipped a hand into his coat, keeping it on his gun. He remembered that the symbol had been freshly painted, and he decided it was better to be ready than dead.

[Forever Zero]

Once you return to the hole in the floor room, you look around. Debris and rubble covers any other potential openings. The only places to explore are this main room, and the room underneath this one through the hole.

[Krylo]

"Guess not..." Frankie shrugged and hung his legs off the side of the hole before hopping down into it, not bothering to play with the vine as that it wasn't that deep (I would assume seeming as Ted only got a little bruised). Once down the hole he looks around in the dark. "Hey Marcus, toss down the light, or come down here, would you?"

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

"Okay." Marcus tosses down the light whilst climbing down the vine..."Here ya go."

[Krylo]

Frankie grabs the flashlight and turns it on, glancing around the room, and finding the cabinets first. He walks over and attempts to open them.

[lazy man]

Paul walked alittle further into the second floor and called out to the first floor, "You know, alittle help would be appreciated." He then opened the next door on his left.

[Forever Zero]

Church Team

You rip open the cabinets to find stacks and stacks of papers. You pick over some and while they seem encrusted with mold and decaying with age, you can make out that these were church records. Pehaps searching through them will reveal something of use...


House Team

Paul opens the second door on the left and looks inside. There is an ancient bed frame with bare bed springs on it, and a dresser on the opposite wall from the "bed". The room obviously hasn't been used in a long time, yet from the sounds of it there were multiple owners of the house over the years...

[Krylo]

"Do you have anything we can keep these things in?" Frankie starts leafing through the papers quickly, not really taking the time to read them. "I don't want to read them in the dark here, but we can look through them back at the mansion... besides, I don't want to take the time to read anything in this place."

[lazy man]

Paul walked over to the dresser and began to open all the drawers. While he was opening them, he yelled out to the downstairs rooms, "Can one of you please help me?"

[Forever Zero]

You open the dressers to find they are all empty. The layer of dust on the floor and the dresser speaks that this room has seen no inhabitants for years.

OOC: As for the documents, your on your own there...

[Dante]

Tommy heard Paul shouting for him and decided to go keep him company.

"All right, all tight, I'm coming..."

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

" My doce folder in my med bag will work." he said pulling it out.

[Krylo]

Frankie grinned back at Marcus and took the folder from him, stuffing it with papers, being careful not to tear any, and then handed it back to the doctor. "Thanks, that'll make things easier." His flashlight beam then went around the room once more, checking carefully to see if there was anything else of interest.

(OOC: If there isn't you can just make your next post thing us going back to the mansion, so far as I'm concerned, FZ)

[Forever Zero]

OOC: BAM! You're back.

12:00 AM - Mansion

You arrive back with all your gathered loot from the church in tow. You drop it off in the sitting room, the frst place you pass, then decide what to do next.

OOC: I can assume, but just making sure...

[lazy man]

Paul looked at Tommy, the only willing person to go up to the second floor. "You go in there," he said, pionting to the first door on the right, "I'll go in here." He opened the next door and walked into the last room he would be checking out for the day.

[Dante]

Tommy shrugged and walked up to the room, not knowing what to expect. He turned the knob, threw the door open, then took two steps back.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: As Tommy opens the door, Cthulhu eats him! Game over! J/K...

Tommy opens the door the first room and looks inside. He sees two small beds, scattered toys and children's trinkets, and models on a table. The previous family must have had children Cal forgot to mention. Otherwise, the room seems without anything of interest.

Paul opens the other room. He reveals an ordinary bedroom, with a double bed, a bookshelf, and a bedside table. As you look around, you are somewhat surprised to see Catholic crosses, saints, statues, and pictures everywhere in the room. There is a rosary and a breviary on the bedside table and multiple small statues of crosses and saints as well. The bookshelf has multiple pictures of Christ and various saints. They seem to have far more religious symbols then you would expect of even the most devout of Catholics...

[Krylo]

Frankie looked at Father Ted and then at Marcus and a wry grin formed on his face. "So... who wants to read the human skin book?" He then thought for a moment and looked at a clock before adding an afterthought, "Or maybe we should just hit the hay and do this tomorrow..."

[Dante]

Chastising himself for his weakness, Tommy decided to poke around the room. After all, it looked harmless enough. He moved over to the table, looking at the stuff around it.

[lazy man]

"That makes everything but the basement...." Paul said, walking out of the room. He walked downstairs, a wierd look on his face. "Uuuhh....Should we just leave or go check out the basement..." he said. The tone in his voice made it sound like he obviously didn't want to go down there. Hopefully there's still power down there, he thought.

[Forever Zero]

The table simply has some models on it, and random trinkets of no importance.

[Squishy Cheeks]

"I'm going home. I have a class to teach tommorrow afternoon." Father Ted went to his car and drove home.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

OOC If I lose sainity for this I am going to be a little irked. Which means I will light it on fire. Then I will commit sepekeu with a frisbee.

Marcus went over to the book and said " I am not tired...Maybe its from getting the bejesus scared out of me. I will read it first since I know latin. I will also go through the church Documents..." Why do I thik this is a bad idea Marcus thought to himslef as he opened the book using a pen to not touch the cover...

[Dante]

Tommy shrugged and left the room, heading over to where Paul was.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Your good Spirit...

The book is massive, and will take days if not weeks to read, but you immediatly read the title as Liber Ivonis. You begins to flip through, reading random bits here and there, but not reading straight through. You soon the book is in terrible condition, with many burns, torn pages, deep cuts, and blood stains running pages deep and ruining large areas of the book. You flip over large areas of ruined book, to gain random bits and facts from the book. When you are done skimming the book, it is 1:00 AM, you have gained very little information from it, but you have judged their may be one or two complete spells in it after you have read it and learned more aobut them.

[Krylo]

(OOC: If you even get NEAR it with a lighter Frankie will shoot you, shoot you dead)

Frankie nods at Marcus and allows him to look through the human skin book alone as that the ex-drifter only knows how to speak or write bad english. Instead he picks up the church documents and begins going through them.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

OOC Hmmm next chance I get I will study that for a while. Anyhow What about the church docs?

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Last one was to Marcus, this one it to Frankie.

As you flip through the massive amounts of documents, you come across many ruined documents. Some crumble to dust in your fingers, others already disintigrated just by moving them into the box. However, by sheer luck, you come across one packet of papers in mostly good condition. As you read through, you only find one notice of importance in the deeds of this bizarre cult. It says, "... and also today the Reverend and some others went and buried Mr. Corbitt in the basement of his home, in accordance with his wishes, and the wishes of the One Who Waits in the Dark..."

[Krylo]

Frankie looks over at Marcus after reading the last passage. "Is there anything in there about "One Who Waits in the Dark?" ...These papers mention 'his' wishes... namely in Corbitt being buried in his basement. It worries me and I'd like to know who this "One Who Waits in the Dark" is."

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

OOC Posted By Forever Zero "... and also today the Reverend and some others went and buried Mr. Corbitt in the basement of his home, in accordance with his wishes, and the wishes of the One Who Waits in the Dark..."
...AWW FUCK!

IC "not that I konw of..." Marcus said "why?"

[Krylo]

Frankie read the writing directly from the page, "... and also today the Reverend and some others went and buried Mr. Corbitt in the basement of his home, in accordance with his wishes, and the wishes of the One Who Waits in the Dark." He then looked up at Marcus and stated simply, "That's why."

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

OOC Roll the occult even though I know who it is dammnit...

EDIT
Marcus with a Grim look looked at frank and droped his coffee mug "Thu Thu...Thats what the Tribes people called him, although there is no refrence to him in this book " He puts his hand on the Human Skin booke "I know of who you speak. And if he has anything to do with this then the other group could be in danger..." Marcus says now sitting down..." I think I am going to search my library and personal files for this...

[lazy man]

Paul regained some composure and decided he would check the upstairs bedroom some more. He walked into the room and checked out the bookcases and anything with a drawer or cabinet he could find.

ooc: Do you think we could get a time warp after this? It's taking way too long.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Well, are none of you going in the basement? The new investigators should have no reason not to actually, I am tempted to force every non-vet into the basement...

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

Marcus Went up to the library and pulled out ALL of the Occult books he had been studying earlier that month,and started to read some of them until

OOC. Its up to FZ if my guy finds the refrence or not.

[IHateMakingNames]

OOC: Fine.

IC:

Dave goes down to the basement and opens the door.

[Forever Zero]

OOC: Oh sweet lordy, ALL of them at 1:00 AM?!

3:00 AM

You finally find the reference in one of your books.


1:00 PM House Team

Dave throws back the door to the basement and looks down in. The rickety, old stairs once again lead down into the dark basement. You flip the switch, but nothing happens again. It isn't much different from last time.

[IHateMakingNames]

Dave pulls out his flash light, turns it on, and shines it around the basement.

[Dante]

Seeing Dave go down the stairs, Tommy decided to follow him. However, he unlimbered the fiddle case. For some reason, he was feeling very tense.

[Darth SS]

Neil noticed Dave had gone down to the basement.

Paranoia at an all time high, he slowly started down the stairs, gun-levelled, and said "Dave, see anything?"

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

Once marcus finds the refrence he writes it down in his journal and takes a nap...