The Carlyle collection

As Charlie rejoins us Bradley is explaining his traumatic experience, the bad dreams he is also experiencing. He shares a drawing with me of the thing that "came out of the wall" he seems to believe this. It is a scribble - a child like smoke monster. Bradlely explains he doesn't want to end up like Roger and all the mumbo jumbo he ended up tangled up in, and also seeing a psychologist. He sounded very horrified at the prospect. From this conversation we learn that Roger was "dating" both Miss Masters the photographer on the expedition and the negro woman whose "white name" is Anastasia. he believes that Roger meet Anastasia at the cotton club. After meeting Anastasia who refereed to herself as an African Queen, Roger developed a habit of disappearing for days on end and when he returned home he was disheveled and it was assumed he had spent the time in Harlem.
 
Bradley requests the goons to bring in "the books" they are a selection from the Carlyle collection.
Life as a god - Montgomery Compton
Africa's Dark Sect - Nigel Blackwell
People of the Monolith - Justin Jeffery
PNarkotic Manuscripts - late 1400's manuscript
Livre D'Ivon - Loose pages
Monsters and their Kynde -
 
I examine the Geode on the cover of Africa's dark sect, it is wholly unnatural ! The structure looks biological but definitely is not of this earth. The book has an inscription to Roger from Anastasia.
 
Bradley describes a break in to Charlie. This happened a few months ago - Joe interrupts with "the dogs ate well that night"
and "it was negro's that time". It may have had something to do with the Carlyle Expedition.
 
The Carlyle Expedition members
Roger Carlyle -
Dr. Robert Huston - Rogers Psychologist - assumption of continued treatment
Miss Hypanthia Masters - Photographer and Girlfriend
Aubrey Penhew - English - has a large family African collection
Jack "Brass" Bradley - Good friend to roger - dodged a murder conviction due to his connections to the Carlyle family. He met
Roger at UFC
Anastasia - Negro Lady - Other Girlfriend
 
We leave the mansion and once we are outside Ricardo (one of the guards) approaches Charlie and Bartholomew about disposing of "the bodies" and that he has some of their belongings which will be taken to Charlies office . It is decided to head back to the hotel and place the books in the safe after the attempted theft at the Carlyle's. I order room service for the group who is meeting at the hotel, while Charlie heads to his office downtown. When Charlie returns he has a letter from Antonio in which he informs Charlie that he is doing business with the Carlyle's and to stay away. As it is still within business hours I try the Offices of Dr. Robert Huston - the phone is disconnected. All Medical records are stored at the Medical Affairs board downtown, so this will be our best bet on finding out more information on Robert Carlyle and if he had a mental disorder.
 
Once Bartholomew, Charlie and I are back together and fortified with food I collect the books from the safe and choose a book each to read.
 
I have the People of the monolith and I find it is a collection of modern poetry similar in structure to some romantic nihilism and horror titles I have previously read. It has a stark and avant garde feel so much I feel there must be other works and wonder if Justin Jeffery - the Author is still alive this feels so current.
 
Barthomolew has taken the task of reading Africa's Dark Sects which is written is Swahili, when I peeked at one of the pages I can see it is written in Roman Characters. Bartholomew reports that the book once belonged to Harvard. The book talks of the African people leaving the church and returning to the worship of Hattoo (ecstatic cult) because of the treatment of the Africans by the Belgium immigrants. The Cult has an emphasis on the rights of the African people with no pollution from other religions. The "true" religion has the symbol which was carved into Jackson's body and links into the "Bloody Tongue Cult" from Kenya this is worshiped in the scared space at the mountain of the black wind and is heavy in blood sacrifices.
 
Charlie has the task of reading Life a God. This is the book which looks bound in leather but Elizabeth has identified it as human skin. Charlie reports that the book seems to be written by a crazy person in an asylum. It follows the author in Africa and outlines an illness and his recruitment into a cult and his recruitment of others on his return to England.
 
The further we look into this the weirder is becomes, the link to Africa and the cult from the mountain of the Black wind is clear. I feel as we follow this trail we may end up in Africa and I fear for my companions and my sanity after watching Bradley's irritation and certainty that he saw a monster, the memory loss of Bartholomew and Elizabeth for the same night and the bodies of their fellows having to be "taken care of"
 
I am very worried about what is to come.