The Legacy of Doctor Genissi
Vailhinger Detective Agency gets a visit from police inspector Tristan Kargash. He has convinced the newly widowed Marina Genissi to begrudginly hire the agency to deal with the haunting that has plauged her home after the death of her husband, doctor Zoran Genissi. The widow had other, more prominent ghost hunters, in mind but were on Kargash' insistance willing to give Vailhinger's a chance. The police inspector had an alterior motif; before his death, doctor Genissi was sectretly under investigation due to a suspiciously high number of his patients dying, and the Inspector want the Investigators to keep an eye out for any malpractice.
Inspector Kargash has also found another curious coincidence. Doctor Genissi has a connection to the Carsival family that Calor and the other Investigator have a vested interest in since haunting of the Ravenheart Tavern. According to the Medical Institute 1840:s, Genissi were an assistant to Orevia's sister Rowena de Carsival during the latters tenure a director for the Shadeshill Asylum
The Haunting
In a meeting with the Widow, the Investigators get the details on the haunting. Doctor Genissi had passed from a heart attack recently and were buried on a plot in the garden. Soon after the haunting began. After one of the servants were found drowned in the uppstairs bathroom and the doctors assistan Darla Renoir got ripped apart in the sitting room, the Widow fled the house. She are now willing to pay handsomely if the Investigators can clear her house, but she is only willing to give them one night - ortherwise she will take the case to more reputable agencies.
Genissi's Masterpiece
Going through the house, Genissi's hournals and his grave, the Investigators puzzle together the true cause of the haunting. The doctor, with help of his adoring assistant, had become obsessed with perfection of the mortal form. The reason why so many of Genissi's patient hade died were because the doctor were harvesting the "best" part of them in order to create his flawless masperpiece. The doctor naturally intended this form of physical perfection for himself, and had prepared a stone skull as vessel for his soul after death so it could be transferred to the created flesh golem.
However, Genissi's heart failed before everything was ready and his soul got stuck in the skull, hidden in the basement while the flesh golem body were inte attic laboratory. Without the doctor and his arcane knowledge to keep them in check, the spirits of his many victims started to haunt the house. When Darla the assistant tried to complete the process, the haunting visited their vengeful rage on her.
In the end, the Investigators managed to destroy both the skull and the flesh golem body, which sated the angry spirits and cleared the house.
A Revelation
During the investigation of Genissi's laboratory they find that he has based a lot of his works on the research Rowena made into Delerium and her use of that to create an elixir with marvelous properties for the body and mind.
This prompts Morielle to a confession. She beleive herself to be Rowena de Carsival, but have not visbly aged and she have no memories since 1842.
Further Mysteries
- When exhuming doctor Genissi's original body, the investigators found a gold ring with an inset black gem in shape on an eye - a ring similar to one Dahlia had seeen worn by the nefarious Valerius de Malagant. When questioning the widow about the ring, she expalined it was the mark of membership for the gentleman's club her husband frequented.
- Genissi, in his laboratory, had works of Roderick de Galvanis - the inventor of galvanism. Gednissi had based a lot of his reanimation experiments on the galvanic research.
- In Rowena's book Lapis Delerium (which Morielle had no memories of writing) there was a mention of Ezekiel's lillies as an importand catalyst for her elixir.
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