Nellie Finley
Bennington Abduction
1/2/2023
Mister Dewey calls is together. A family friend's daughter has gone missing - Jane Strong. Her father is Mister Lucas Strong. They have organized a group to investigate - located in Bennington Vermont. We are invited to help support finding Jane. Offers $25/day. Jane is 16 years old. There is a ransom! Mr Strong was going to pay the ransom, but something went wrong.
We make it to Bennington. People are all talking. The locals say that three gangsters were killed. Police officers were shot. Everyone is invited to a meeting at the police station. Mr Strong is willing to shell out $5,000. Briefing at the police station.
We get some food. The hostess recommends the Indian Burial Grounds. We are going to meet her tomorrow at noon. We're going to eat at the Blue Oyster. Sue Jorgensen. That is her name. We get some general info about the kidnapping/abduction.
An old guy comes to our table. He mentioned that he heard we were going to the Indian Burial Grounds. He says there are ghosts out in the woods. Civil War deserters. I checked some info about ghosts, this guy claims ghosts can go wherever they want, but I believe that to be sus information. An old lady comes over and grabs "George".
Next day, breakfast. We go to the police station briefing. Sheriff Jenkins is in charge. Lots of people are interested. What we know. Sidney Harris and his gang have kidnapped Jane Strong. A ransom was asked for and a handoff was arranged. Harris and his men got twitchy and both sides shot out. The men got away with ransom money. They are believed to be in the forest. Lucas Strong, is offering $25/day and $5,000 for finding. He would consider it a real kindness if Harris' dead body was brought back. Posters in town. They are in Nottingham forest - north of town. It is the forest with the Indian burial ground. The police are rude to women. Jane went missing from home.
Arthur J Spence's Hardware store in main street.
I try to get the skinny on the booze in town but to no avail. We find Sue and get her to meet us earlier to go to the forest. We meet her at 11. We have to go through where the shoot out was. She leads us to the shoot out site - newly cut clearing - 100 yards across on the edge of the woods. Logging the area. Dirt track from the main road. Discarded shotgun shells. It's really quiet. She hasn't been to this location before. She thinks it isn't safe to enter. She gives us rough directions. We have an hour head start on the group. She leaves us.
Brad, the new guy, sneaks ahead. He hears breaking twigs out in front of him. He tells us of some twigs making noise up ahead. We kind of stealth and hide from where the noise was. Some of us were noisier than others. We hear some gunshots. A bullet zips by Henry's head. The shots came from a man and a boy both carrying rifles and packs. The boy is shooting toward us. They walk forward slowly. Does not seem like robbers. We direct them to maybe hunt a different place. They are out there with neighbors. Hear an occasional rumble of noise -truck. There is a dig site up north. Have not seen an Indian burial ground. Their friend is a big ole Texan. Their names are Alistair and George. They note that west of the woods are some students from the university of Boston. Painting.
When We TPK
5/19/2021
We are in an oblong cavern. 40 feet long. 60 feet deep. I realize that the pickman, the artist, is very vain and is seeking acceptance. I start to smooth talk him. Reminisce about his art. Where did this art come from? Blah blah. There is some kind of corpse hanging in the south east. This stops the dogs.
Eliuhu and Randall come into the room and they get a bit spooked by the pickman and his art. Randall almost went insane.
The professor continues to lecture. Randall interrupts. Davies takes Randall out.
He comes back in.
I talk to the professor and discuss the art work in the hopes that he will be distracted. The others try to get the peeps out. Helen rats them out!
Pickman screams and starts running toward his art students. Randall starts shooting!
There is just so much death. The dogs attack. Elihu hits on Helen but she resists. The dog monster attacks Elihu and pretty much kills him. Randall is still shooting the Pickman. I'm running around. I try to shoot but I suck. Pickman falls. We hear more noises so we run towards the door. The dog things seem to be gaining on us.
Er.. we all died. Dead. Dead. Dead.
Jenga Approaches
5 May 2021
We go down the tunnel. Elihu spots an earring on the ground. The sewer starts to get wider. We start walking double-file. we notice that the floor of the tunnel is getting slick and smelly. The upper brickwork is super gross. There is a shallow puddle of gross crap all across the tunnel. Nothing sus about the puddle but we do have to cross it. As we cross through the crap, a torrent of raw sewage comes out on top of us, but we dodge out of the way.
In the mud in front of us, there are odd footprints. Hoof like. There are some people who are freaked out about the hooves. I am not. Malcolm scouts ahead and hears a noise like goblins. I take some pictures of the hoofprints. There are more noises behind us. We go forward and plan to quietly attack the monsters ahead of us as the ones behind us seem to be more.... We go down 100 feet and the side tunnel.. we see some more hoof prints that are fresher looking. We hear the large party behind us get louder. But then it gets quieter.
Malcolm scouts ahead and hears a different noise. He sees a mass of rats. He shoots it. The noise behind us gets louder! We run forward. Elihu and Randall have torches. I have a saber. They get closer. We forge ahead. I just stay behind Elihu. We try to get through the rats. They split around Elihu because of the torch. It attacks me. I kill it! The noise behind us gets louder. We fast walk ahead to put space. A noise behind us stops.
One of the walls ahead, on the left, some bricks fell out of the wall. The bricks indicate that something broke through the brickwork. The bricks were pushed out into the main tunnel and we see that the tunnel has a look of being burrowed out by hand or claw. We could walk down it. They found a small four-leaf clover bracelet charm. Ruth Hall's parents noted that she had a charm bracelet. Shod feet and cloven hoofprints. We walk for 45 minutes. Then we hear a distant rumbling. And then a squealing.
Another 45 minutes. We see a faint glow ahead. Around the bend. Steady lantern light. Opens into a cavern. Elihu sees two young women. And a man in his late 20s. They are seated on what look like wooden stools. Their clothing is torn and dirty. Artist canvas propped up before each of them. A selection of oil paints, crayons, and pencils are before them. Somebody speaking in a guttural voice.
I walk into the room. The art students and their instructor are in the space. He is a loathsome human-looking creature with rubbery canine features. He is sporting an artist beret atop his head. Long-handled brush like a pointing stick. Yips and such. He's talking about still life. He points toward a corpse. There is gross stuff on the corpse. I am an obnoxious student. I try to interrupt.
Oh yeah. Codeword is Jenga.
I knock over an easel. They ask us for help. There are paintings propped up. Inspiration. The paintings are macabre. Very disturbing. Forboding.
The instructor is very irritated with me. I am naughty. I ask about some paintings. I draw on it. He says that he needs someone removed! ME! Two creatures come in to remove me. I take pictures! "I'm trying to learn! I'm so into Jenga!"
Tracking down the Girls
4/14/2021
We go home for the night to get some rest. There is a call while we were out. Janine left a message for us. They managed to bust the ring in South Carolina. They managed to find Elihu's car but not Dr. Jordan's bag. Dirty Little Jimmy is going to drive the car back to Boston. Elihu will have to eventually testify. They arrested Ellie, Wraith Bodine. Not the Obea Man.
Night ---
Malcolm shares that he has the key from South Carolina. And everyone else. Everyone ended up with keys.
We get art supplies - chalk and stuff. It's drizzly out though. The morning art person doesn't know the "sus" person that we're looking for. We head to the alley. We attempt to track the path through the alley but it's kinda awkward.
Elihu is at one end of the string then we follow it one way. We do some mapping. Use notebooks. Chalk the buildings. A police office comes over because there were complaints but Elihu charms them. We spend a good two hours mapping. Thankfully - Malcolm finds the door! We find the building! And manage to unlock it! There is an oak paneled hallway.
There is a door on the left. Elihu goes into the room. It looks like an empty apartment. There is a door in the room, so we enter the apt. Malcolm stays in the hallway. We see some steps leading down. I stay upstairs. Randall and Elihu go down. They carefully investigate the downstairs. In one corner there is a brick curbed oval thing. Brick circular thingy is 6 inches off the floor. Has a heavy wooden disk across it. Like a well or cistern. There is another door in this cellar that leads out. Randall and Elihu pull the cover off the well. They see iron rungs on the side of the well. Looks like there is a tunnel off from the well about 20 feet down. They find another room that has discarded canvas and paint. Gas lamp. Randall comes up and finds myself and Malcolm. We lock the door to the apartment. Go down the stairs. We get the downlow.
We go to the well. There is a noise at the bottom of the well. Elihu volunteers to go first. The well is dry at the bottom. ACK! Elihu goes down. He sees a horrible creature down there. He runs back up. The monster makes noises. Elihu kinda notes that sometimes things are not as they appear. Elihu goes down first. Then Randall. Nellie. Followed by Malcolm. Weird monster is missing. We walk down the tunnel and I notice that there is a heel in the ground!
We come up to a huge junction! A large octagional room. Pipes spewing dirty water. Central cistern is very large. We have to walk along the rim of it. Randall goes first. He falls in! Sometimes touches him! Elihu falls in too! They go down the hallway. We are covered in gross stuff.
Tunnel 3 - seems to go for a ways. Longer than the second tunnel.
We get all gross in the muck. Try to track the tunnls. I only find that the eighth tunnel doesn't have tracks.
We head down tunnel three. There is some weird noise that Malcolm hears. He stops us. Elihu sees a 2 foot long albino alligator. It turns around.
Investigations!
31 March 21
We stake out the pawn shop. We look for food places. Randall gets takeout for the stakeout. The pawn shop dude eventually leaves the store and heads toward Washington Street. Malcolm follows him. We realize this guy is just walking and not really going anywhere in particular. He seems rather drunken. Takes a sip out of a bottle. Ends just south of Faneuil Hall. Comes out with a bag of stuff. Randall goes into the shop and persuades the heck outta the lady. Learns his name is Frank Thurber. Head to Prince Street - Constitution Wharf - enters an alley way between two ancient brick buildings. I follow way behind Malcolm who is super ahead. I try to remain behind just enough to see him up ahead. I enter the alley. It gets super confusing and I am lost. It's like a maze.
Malcolm arrives at a worm eaten wooden door in the brickwork. The guy stops. Takes one last drink of the bottle. Tosses it. Pulls out a key. Unlocks door. Looks to the sky. Steps through the door. Closes it. Malcolm and I are a little bit lost. We do some back tracing. It's super twisty and confusing. The guy comes out of the building. Malcolm comes out and tells me to hide! We follow him! Eventually we come out of the first alley. We see Elihu's car. Randall is missing.
Guy we are tailing heads SE. We get Randall's pencils and use them to mark the path. We eventually find Randall. And then eventually find the car.
We go to visit the Wilsons. They live on Newbury St. Very fancy neighborhood. Mrs. Wilson is at home. We go into the sitting room. Offers a chair. Heidi Wilson appears - her sister. Teenager. 16. Helen had a crush on one of the art school professors. He was handsome. Mr. Davies. She tried to seduce him. He wouldn't go for it. She intimates that she might be into Elihu. There was a creepy older man she met at the school. He was interested. They met at an ancient Egyptian gallery. He was interested in her funerary art. Djehutynakht's tomb was loaned to Boston's MFA in 1920 by the Egyptian government
Mom is kinda exasperated. Super dramatic. We check out her bedroom. She has etchings and aquatint. Not the greatest. Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe, Huysmans etc. We take some sketches.
Halls live in Belmont. We talk to the dad. He doesn't have a lot of info at first. He said she had an understanding professor. She's been into spooky stories and dark arts. She also had a friend at the school - didn't know the student's name. One older man, Thorton? Thurber? - he was a patron of the museum. Had seen a recent student art exhibit. Ruthie was exastic. He had a friend that would appreciate the painting. He points to some of her art work on the walls. Art work is suggestive of sinister - nothing outlandish but -- pair of children lost in forest. Tall lonely castle shrouded in mist. Wraithlike forms. We take a painting.
We go back to the house.
Okay.. so -- we're going to get some chalk. And some paper. And some rope or string. And pencils. Then we're going to try and map out the alley way.
Museums and Lockets
24 March 2021
We have a message when we go back to the hotel. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston needs immediate assistance. Freddy Bryden - he is in need of assistance. We take the train back to Boston. We meet Malcolm's dad at the law firm. He fills us in on the details - he wants us to check in on Freddy Bryden. His mom passed. Someone is missing a locket. We are off to Charleston, MASS.
We plan to get paid for this endeavor. We head to the museum to talk to Mister Forbes.
He says two of their students have gone missing. Ruth Hall (freshman, 18) and Helen Wilson (sophomore, 19) have gone missing along with a professor. John Davies. The police have not found anything. He has been working with a detective name Paul Ferell. He hasn't come up with any info. Two weeks ago prof. Davies stopped showing up to classes. They have maybe 100 students. Day school. Ruth lives with her parents. Helen lives with her family.
We follow up with some professors. They give us some more leads. John Davies' parents live in Providence, RI. Mr. and Mrs. James Davies. We also get addresses for Ruth Hall and Helen Wilson. Everywhere we go, a particular janitor (Roberto Silva) seems nearby. The janitor notes that the same man approached all three of them. He was a museum regular - he doesn't know his name. The man was in his early 40s, well dressed, drank a lot. Looked like he didn't sleep well. The Sunday before Prof. Davies went missing he was at the school. The janitor was listening to the fight and he saw Prof. Davies leaving toward the direction of the museum. This other man showed up suddenly and surprised the professor. They spoke a few words. Set off together. The professor wasn't coerced.
We head to Charleston to see Freddy Bryden. The tallish young man answers the door. He went to a pawn shot to get something and saw his mom's locket in there! It has his mom's initials on it. It was specially made for her. The shop is called... <insert shop name here>. His mom's initials are JAB (Josephine Bryden). Republic Loan Pawn Shop. Between Tremont and Washington streets.
We check out the pawnshop. Shadowy-looking courtyard. I go in with Randall (Jakob Marley). Lots of silver and gold jewelry. We find the locket. We buy it for $20. Randall and I go back to the office. I try some psychometry and try to read the history of the necklace. I get that the necklace was given to her by Frederick when he was 10 and that her grave was violated.
Finally Found Someone
3/17/2021
We are in Waltersborough. We try to contact Dr. Jordan or Elihu via the Oujia Board but - no luck. So, we do the old-fashioned evening recon. We come to the mansion. We are near the house... we see a light on in the den. Malcolm sneaks up to the window. Ellie is inside at the desk. I try to sense the location, but it's just awkward.
More lights come on and someone starts scanning in our general direction. They go back inside after like five minutes. Apparently, I give people the heebee jeebies. We stealth toward the first building. We decide that maybe we could start a fire at one of the sheds. Malcolm sneaks off to the tree line. I knock some stuff over as we are walking and trying to set the sheds on fire.
We start the fire and run towards the tree line. Kind of back toward the car. Lights go on in the mansion. Five people come out. Ellie comes out. The butler and maid also come out. The other two -- we're not sure. Actually, Malcolm is the one seeing things. I am not sure. Malcolm makes it to the house. He searches around and finds someone tied up in Elihu's room! What the heck! It's Elihu! AWK. He frees him. They start to get chased and run into the woods. They pull the planks from the bridge. It's a crazy chase! I get the car ready. Actually, I let Elihu drive.
Elihu tells us that Dr. Jordan got eaten. He also got eaten. But then he was reborn. Albert cuts him out of an egg sac. He keeps asking why. Albert wasn't Albert. They sacrificed Caleb. Miss Ellie seems to be in charge. They also killed the sorceress. Maybe.
We go back to the hotel and go to bed. Oh wait, I talk to Caleb using the Oujia board. He confirms that Dr. Jordan is dead.
We go back to the Sherriff. He is slightly sus of us but you know... Elihu explains that Albert is alive. The Sherriff goes off on his own to investigate. We have to wait for him to come back.
There and Back Again
3/10/2021
I meet up with Randall and Malcolm on the boat! I had a message from Clover just before boarding! She is concerned about her brother. I also relay a message about Johnson's house burning. Malcolm also notes that Dirty little Jimmy said that someone is re cooperating in the house. Maybe Albert? The men talk about getting glass eyes and recuperating. We plan to wander around the ship. I read we hang out. Things happen on the ship.
The cruise line arranges a car. Telegraph Clover again to check-in. We get ribs and stuff.
We visit the Sherriff's office. We remember that two detectives are missing. Bodies were found in the area. We try the police but they are very abrasive. We go to the newspaper back in Charleston. Fred Lynn is the news reporter who worked the story. We talk to Fred and schmooze him up about baseball. Then we talk about the Gist plantation. Increase of cult activity. The reporter notes that it's super creepy going out to the plantation. We ask about cults - he notes Obea.
We go out to Waltersborough and find a place to stay. I recite poetry and talk about jazz music. Then we go to bed and wake up. We meet Sherriff Trucks. We note that our friends are missing. He does admit that the detectives went missing at the same time as Albert and Caleb.
We go out to meet Rev. Hillson. He's holding court. We go to Waltersborough with the Rev. He's kinda thinking we are Sus because we disappeared. We have to convince the Rev. about how we disappeared. We kinda fast talk him. He does note that Cassie is free but poor Joe has passed away. The Rev. notes that Albert is recovering. Elly is running the household in the meantime. He thinks that Caleb has passed. Most of the sharecroppers are aligned with the Gists. He also heard they recovered someone from underground.
We discuss ways to connect with Dirty Little Jimmy. Leave a coded message for Jimmy at the general store. From the agency. Also, connect with the telegraph agency. Clover says she is busy and can't come but wants updates as needed.
The Bitter End
2/24/2021
I go up and try to get some help from above while the guys try to stave off the worms. This is dire! Things are happening while I'm crawling up the tunnel. I finally make it up the tunnel and talk to Elihu! Omg. We realize that Albert has double crossed us! He's at the altar and Caleb is tied up. I'm so annoyed. What the heck!? Randall comes up. We're trying to figure out what to do. Dr. Jordan also comes up. We want to call out Albert. Randall ends up shooting Albert in a stellar shot. Then Randall and I "Go Home."
It seems fine at first, but omg.. I'm just beset by snakes. It's crazy. Some of them look dangerous. They follow us everywhere.
Then -- ooof! All the snakes are gone. We find Malcom. He's super rough. But -- no Dr. Jordan.
ACK my Ear
2/17/21
It's 11 pm. We're all waiting for Cassie to show up. We start scouting to the side a little. It's swampy. Suddenly, snakes start to come out of the swamp and go towards the cultists. Lots of snakes. All of the places. Up our legs. There is a serpent man near the altar with Caleb and Ellie. A serpent walking on two feet. People are all excited about this serpent man. Serpent man heads back to altar area. Ellie, Caleb and someone else pour some weird shit from a cauldron onto the flames. Then they walk on flames. Still no sign of Cassie.
They start writing on the ground and snakes start moving around. Prostrating and such. Serpent man is up front with Ellie and Caleb. Randall disappears down a hole! Jordan and I go down the hole. We leave Elihu above. It's super narrow down the hole. We have to crawl and wriggle. Randall is dragged into a great hall. There is much yelling and attacking of people. He loses an ear. AWK! He's doing real bad. He loses his left eye! OMG! Lots of gun shots.
Dr. Jordan comes out of the hole. He sees Randal bleeding. Randall loses many body parts. It's bad. I try to shoot. But Dr. Jordan takes the final hit. I take pictures of the worm. The doctor fixes up Randall. We hear lots of screaming.
OMG! We're just waiting and like - I get attacked and lose an ear. Malcom kills it.
OMG. There is a huge serpent lady. There are more worm monsters.
We are in the chamber. We're going to make a shooting line with Randall up the hole. The Doctor is going to fix my ear but he hasn't yet.
The Ceremony Begins
2/10/21
Dr. Jordan seems convinced that we need to stay and talk. We go to the barn and talk. Dr. Jordan goes on and on about the tea. We suspect the tea was drugged. We go back and get Albert. Malcolm comes up with a plan. It's very elaborate. Albert explains that he learned from the sharecroppers that the Obeaman was in the spareroom upstairs. Albert went to the swamp to see if he could find the Obeaman. He thought it was odd that Caleb moves the man out of the swamp. He found a place that looked kinda safe to walk and picked his way through the swampy swamp. It's super odd. We're confused about why Caleb doesn't like us and the rest of the staff. Malcom tries to knock out Dr. Jordan with chloroform - it works! We carry him out to the car to Elihu. We drive out past the bridge and pull off the road. Some people walk down the road talking - Malcom sees them. He is sus of Albert still and Ellie. Dr. Jordan wakes up. He is still off but I can't quite figure him out. Randall tackles Dr. Jordan because he's acting sus. We discuss with him that literally our job is to investigate weird things.
No one knows what to do with Dr. Jordan.
I did a tarot card reading with Dr. Jordan. It's creepy and accurate.
We kill time. Then we get to the bridge -- to the house. We see 100 or more people going toward the swampy swamp. Very creepy. As we get close, we see some tables out in front of the mansion. Old Bess is handing out food and drink. I take Dr. Jordan's hand to make sure he doesn't stray. He's super insistent that he stays at the house. We finally convince him that we will go to the swamp and look for Ellie and we won't get into she-nay-nays.
We walk to the dock and promise we will stay back. Malcom and Albert are out in front. There are cultists out. They are camping and singing. It's odd that in front of Albert and Malcom there are two young white men whose shabby clothes don't look as shabby - they are clean. Lots of boaters and laughter and hugs and shit. Suddenly they look back at us. Caleb is coming down the path toward us from the house. He doesn't spot us. A cheer goes up -- we cheer too?
Most of the attendees are clustered around the table. Singing and stuffs. We hear some loud voices from behind us. Rev. Hillson is coming in. He is engaging some of the other worshippers. I get him to agree to hold back and wait. No sign of Cassie yet. Some of the merry makers shed their clothing. They have weapons. Ellie is in the mix. She still has clothes on. She has two massive rattlesnakes wrapped around her.
Kinda Sus
2/3/21
We try to get info about the box. Do Albert or Elihu know about it? Who is Yig? It seems evil based on the serpent? Albert suggests we go upstairs. We finish lunch and go upstairs to finish talking. Albert kinda picks at all our flaws. We come up with a plan. Albert wants to talk with the sharecroppers but he wants to talk alone. It seems a little Sus. We discuss if we trust Albert or not. We see Ellie. We chat her up. We go outside. I start taking pictures.
Malcom stealths after Albert. He comes back and says that Albert headed into the swamp. I change into my clothes and head toward the sharecroppers. We go down and talk to one person who doesn't want to give us the full story. Then we see Albert. He comes out of the swamp. We go into the swamp. We find Malcom.
Malcom says that they were prepping in the swamp. It's weird that Albert was there. So much crazy. We go back to the house and find Dr. Jordan. No one is dead. It's about 3.
Snipe Hunting and Jackalopes!
27 January 2021
Dr. Jordan cuts the head off the zombie lady. They do things. Stash the body. Come back out. We get the feeling that something is happening tonight. We send Albert, and Elihu to find the police. Joe wants to stay around town. We get to the woods outside. We see trees and bushes and shrubs. They ask about my key and I explain how I found it. We go back to the house.
We look for the house workers. Ben is downstairs in the living room. Bess is in the kitchen. We look at the Caleb's door. The key doesn't fit in the lock. We get Malcom to unlock the door. Jordan and I enter. We look around. We hear noise from the stairs. There is no where to hide. We run out the door and into my room. Dr. Jordan found a box! It's a 3" by 3" box with 4 keyholes in it. It fits in one hole! Randall has a key that fits one of the locks. But we still need two keys.
We try to devise a plan to break out Cassie. Also we take the box. We look for a holocaust cloak. No one has one. We discuss strategy. We finally leave my room. There is a strange man outside the door. He's the Obea man. He says we have been lured here by the God Yig. For many years, there has been a sorceress beneath the swamp who has been stealing the magical energies from ceremonies. We need to find the sorceress lair and slay her. Yig is upset. The man wants to be free of the place and can't leave until Yig is satisfied. We question the dude. We try to get as many answers as possible. There will be over 100 worshippers at the event. He suggests that we act poor and sneak into the ceremony. Then he leaves. He slithers out like a snake.
Elihu and Albert come back. No sheriff. We go into town to get some clothes. And pickles. We see Rev. Hillson. We head back. Fill in Albert and Elihu. It's lunch time. Caleb comes in. Annoyed that we are still here.
Mystery!
1/20/21
Caleb leaves to check on the farm. Malcom notes that he found another door upstairs. We ponder options. We decide to go upstairs and check out the other room. Malcom picks the door. Randall is near him. There is a foul smell coming from the room. The maid came into the room. We stall for a bit and then go back. Dr. Jordan identifies the smell as reptilian. We find some items including human skull, old saber, bottle of wine, cigar box, and other items that are associated with Obea worship. I take pictures of the items.
Randall makes a noise. Footsteps come up the stairs. It's the maid. She is cleaning the rooms. We decide to go outside and look at what's going on in the woods. But -- Caleb comes back just as we are going out. How awkward! We have a ploy about Randall and his hat.
We go for a walk and arrive back at Joe's house. The guys are still there. We maybe try to be too shady and crafty. I talk about constellations. Malcom sneaks off. The other two get some weird indigestion. We finally leave. We keep wandering through the swamp. We wander down to the dock and see a path. The path is surrounded by swamp, which seems really sketchy. Malcolm goes ahead.
There is a rock -- a 5-foot high table -- covered with worn symbols. Dried blood on the top.
Doctor Jordan was bitten by a spider! We walked back and stopped by Joe's house again. Malcom spied into Joe's house while we distracted them. We wandered back into the house and arrive quite late. We setup watch. Dr. Jordan is first on watch. Then Randall. I have next watch and I use my Tarot cards in the hallway. Finally Malcom goes out.
There is a noise on my door and I notice a wooden key on my door. I take the key.
Caleb asks us our plans for the day. He's incredibly salty and kind of hints that he wants us to leave. He goes out for the day. We talk with Albert as we go for a stroll.
We think there is a full moon about six weeks from now.
WAIT! The GM is obviously trying to pull something over us.
As we're talking - Joe shows up! He thinks his sister is in the hut. He can't find out anything about his mother. No one is talking. Suddenly, from behind where Joe came from, another person comes. He's moving slowly. Oh, it's a she. It's Joe's mom. She looks similar to the person on the train. I take Joe and run off towards the house. I put Joe in the house and under the bed.
First Impression of the Plantation
1/13/21
We fix the bridge. Go through the body -- nothing is there. He's a bit rough around the edges. We move the dead body to the shade and continue driving to the house. Completing the bridge... We see some pretty rough people sitting by shacks. Large house on a low hill - the plantation. It obviously looked really nice a long time ago, but now it looks rough around the edges. The butler -- Old Benjamin -- we make arrangements to meet the sheriff. We get out back and we see Caleb Gist. Caleb shakes hands like a dead fish. Ellie the maid is sort of youngish. Maybe 20s. Aunt Bess - older lady - she raised Albert and Caleb.
To get to rooms. Dining room left. Living room right. Go up stairs. To right is rest room. Caleb's room is on right. Bathroom is also right. Left is three rooms. Nearest stairs is empty bedroom. Albert is middle bedroom. Front of house is another vacant bedroom. The three guys share the front room.
We decide to ask for a tour of the plantation. We talk a bit and drink Mint Juleps. They perform all tasks by hand. Very self-sufficient. Caleb takes us for a tour. Shows us a windmill. Constructed during the great war - pumps water into the barns and mill. Mostly cotton fields. We end up in front of the big barn. We walk along the road. Take a whole long tour of the grounds. Caleb goes back and we wander into the shanties. We look for the house with the blue door. There are four surly men standing by the door. We continue down toward the swamp. No one follows us into the swamp. The swamp is buggy. We spend several hours in the swamp. We make it back to the mansion. Caleb is out front. We borrowed a truck.
Deputy Sherriff Cars arrives. Talks to Elihu. We talk to the police. Go back. We see Old Ben who says dinner is at 7. The doctor did some recon before dinner while we go for the distraction.
We eat dinner. Try to talk to Caleb -- he no talky talky. Malcom disappears. We try to get more info about the sharecroppers. I read Caleb's cards. It's pretty legit. We ask about hunting.
Arrival at the Plantation!
1/6/21
FYI - Joe's sister's name is Cassy.
The cops show up. The speak to Randall and Nellie. The po-po goes into the room and sees the monster. I take some real pictures of the monster. Randall gives him our business card. He also lets us stay on the train, so bonus. The train backs up to retrieve Jordan and Malcom. I go with Randall to poke for the weird guy. We open the baggage car at the same time. We notice a crate that was busted apart. We bribe the Porter to let us know if the gentlemen shows up anywhere. We are taken back to our "new" rooms. The rest of the trip is uneventful.
Roll into Charleston at noon-ish. We have the day to hang out.
There are two people watching us across the road.
We split up into rooms. We also go to the Newspaper place.
We find some articles that seem to be interesting. We go back and talk to Albert. We do know that Officer Galloway, who was killed, was survived by family. We decide to go with Elihu and talk to the sheriff.
We go to bed for the night. We all take turns with watch. We decide that we need business cards. We have breakfast. Elihu is a little late. It's a bit odd. It gets to be noon. Still --- ooooohhhh... there he is? He arrives at noon! He needs to eat. He is quite the charmer. He also seems to be a little racist. Anyway, they pile in the car. He seems a little into Nellie. AWK. We talk to the police officer. He is very cagey and won't give us any details.
We drive out to the plantation. It's a humid day. The roads are dirt. There are large tin buildings. We see the Gist Country General Store. Part of the plantation. It's really hot and sticky. We stop at the store. Joe gets out because he doesn't want to be see. His house is the one with the blue painted door. He is going to try to sneak into it.
When we get to the mansion, past the sharecroppers -- there are a bunch of fields where they grow stuff. We agree to meet Joe in a few days. We tell him to go to the sheriff if he notices we aren't successful.
We go into the plantation. We meet Rev. Hilson. He seems a little skeptical of the plantation. Tells us not to go there. Bad juju there. We all eat pricy pickles. It's a thing.
We pass an old bridge. Once we cross the bridge we are on the plantation. The bridge is jimmied. We got out to inspect the bridge and shots ring out. We hide behind the car. I get shot! It's the worst! I pass out! Dr. Jordan saves me. We make it up to the house. We see a person passed out/dead? We make it over the bridge...
Train Shenanigans
12/30/2020
On the train - Albert, the professor, explains the plan. We will travel to Charleston. There we will meet his good, old friend, Elihu Winsworthy, who will provide us transport to the plantation. The car travel will be about 2 hours. There is no bar car on the train.
I bring my normal Ouija cards, tarot cards, and zener cards. We ask Joe about things he has seen.
We ask Albert about a library or a local constable. He was going to stop in Walterborough. The plantation has been in his family for years. It was a cotton plantation. It's mostly sharecroppers right now. They still raise cotton. They did well during WWI, but recently things haven't been so good. He rents to the sharecroppers. Seems to do okay. He used to have a house in Charleston, but that has been sold.
His brother and the help are mixed up in the magic. Obea stone -- obea is everything. Worshippers are obea. The world is considered obea. Everything is obea. It has many spirits and entities. Some are good, some are bad. Some are both good and bad. Doing something bad in the name of Obeah is a distortion of the religion.
While we are talking, there is someone peering into our compartment. They don't recognize the person. We chase after him. Randall catches up with him and tackles him. We interrogate the guy. The conductor threatens to throw us off the train. We convince him to not throw us off the train. We order some tea and then I go back with Randall to check on Albert. Malcolm and Jordan try to creep on the strange guy. They all mosey back in the end. We keep watch for the strange man. During the wee hours of the morning, the man appears. He walks into the luggage car and Randall follows him. I'm still sleeping.
The rest of us agree that we should find a Porter. And also check on Albert and Joe. Jordan and I go after Randall and find the porter.
There is a monster in the luggage car. We're in the dining car. We exit the dining car and run back to our car to get our supplies. The monster looks like an undead human.
We come up with a complex scheme to attack it in the hallway. I try to take pictures, but they come out blurry. So many blurry pictures. The monster takes Dr. Jordan out the window! The conductor tries to throw us off because we're trouble, apparently. So, now we're on the side of the road, waiting for the po-po, because the train conductor thinks we are trouble makers.
A New Adventure
16 December
We spend a few months downtime.
Then, in a few months time, we were out running an errand for Mr. Dewey. Mr. Corbett is now in an asylum. Mr. Dewey has us pick up some sensitive documents. He suggests that Malcolm bring his little friends with him. We hit some gnarly traffic. In the midst of the traffic, a middle school age kid runs out! The boy has a badly brusied arm and shoulder. The little boy is looking for Master Jist/Gyst. He's a professor at Arkham University.
The young man's name is Joe. Just Joe. His sister in trouble. He came from South Carolina. Master Caleb is up to no good. Master Albert Gyst.
We go to the University. He's in the Square Building but he's gone home for the day. Master Caleb lives four miles south of town. Visiting professor. Four miles out of town. Back towards town. Gives us the address.
As we head there, we talk to Joe. He seems to know directions. Suggests we are going the wrong way. Hey! We found it! Door opens. Dr. Gyst opens the door. He invites everyone in. Offers us coffee and tea for helping out little Joe. There are a number of psychology books in the house.
Joe says that Master Caleb has been playing with a Mojo man. There is talk of doing a special ceremony down by the swamp by the Obea stone. They have Joe's mom and sister. The professor's face turns white. He sends Joe to the kitchen. He apologizes and says his brother has made some errors in judgement. His brother studies ancient forms of magic. Joe and his family has worked there as sharecroppers. Joe visits once a year. Joe's people are very superstitious. Caleb is terrorizing people.
Someone at the door. Albert answers the door and there are raised voices. Someone is arguing loudly with Albert. Claims that Joe owes him money. Randall tells them to leave. Bullets start flying. I get hit by a bullet. The brutish guy is running away from the house! I take cover. Another round of bullets from the back of the house. We hear doors and a car take off.
Little Joe says that man was Big Rafe Bodine. He oversees the plantation in South Carolina. He works for Master Caleb. Sirens start blaring. The Po-Po want us to stay in Arkam overnight. We need to go back to Boston. The Po-Po use the hard sell to make us stay. We stay at a hotel. We have Professor Gyst and Joe stay with us. Get Joe some clothes.
The car has some gun shots but Professor Gyst fixes it.
The police come by the next morning. Strange people arrived the other day and stole a car. They let us go. We head back to Boston and pack our bags. Gear up for South Carolina.
Going Home!
12/2/2020
Randall and I miss our appt because Randall is recovering on the couch. Cars with men in trenchcoats arrive across the road. One of them knock on the door. It's Bill Nye from the US Bureau of Investigation. We identify where Corbitt's office is - they are looking for him. Mr. Nye seems to think that there is an infection of some sort. Not COVID-19.
We strategize. We're going to blow off the meeting and go to the other meeting. It's only 8:30 in the morning. We decide to drive to the warehouse. There are three or four vehicles out front. We go to the warehouse on the premise that Corbitt told us to meet him here. Seems like a big bust. We're going to sneak into the warehouse?
We go to Corbitt's. We try to sneak into his warehouse. Lots of boxes.
People with odd clothing went into Bonecrusher's warehouse. Okay.. so do we knock out the next people? Steal their robs? Figure out what they do to get in? I can't quite tell what occult they are from. However, I convince them to stay for a Tarot card reading while the others knock them out.
We don the robs - which are brown. We enter the warehouse. We awkwardly go through the warehouse. We walk through the warehouse and enter the ceremony space.
OMG! Nellie uses the Go Home spell to grab the amulet. The others stay back and fight it out. They run to Randall. They all get shot up. It looks really grim. Dr. Jordan is out.
Nellie arrives in the house. She calls the Boston police. Malcom also arrives. She first aids Malcom and they stay the night and then they go back to Boston. They learn that Jordan and Randall are okay and in the hospital because of the phone call.
Secrets Discovered!
11/18/2020
Mr. Dewey asks us to hang out at his place while he goes on tour. The party ended and he totally just busted out. We try to decide what to do. Do we break into Malcom's house? Do we stalk the house? He ends up going to bed. Do we want to break in? We stake out the house overnight. Nothing happens. We head to Aunt Jenny's at 7:30 am. Corbitt starts to head over toward Mr. Dewey's house with a big bag.
Randall and I hide. He has a delivery for Mr. Dewey. He delivers some vegetables. And him to bring in the mail. Malcom asks about how Mr. Dewey got into his business - he inherited it from his father. He's heading to New York. We check out Mr. Dewey's house.
As we get close to the house, we hear the crash of breaking glass from the basement. We all go in! There is something manlike in the basement! It enters into a hallway. Stairs headed up and stairs headed down. A door to our left. It's a coat closet. Door on the right. Guest room. We go down the hallway and go downstairs. We turn on the light. We go down the stairs. We reach a door and listen. We hear some noises. Jordan opens the door slowly and he hears a door at the other side of the room slam shut!
Jordan executes the suspicious door being open. There is a thing in the back of the room that's made from human parts sewn all together. It hisses and spits at us. I try to walk into the room. The stitch monster is unfamiliar. We investigate all sorts of spaces.
I have a headache.
There is a monster! It's like pudding and bones and stuff! It was cooing before they shot it! It has 10 legs. Brown goo. Bones.
Lack of Leads
11/11/2020
We go to case out Mr. Corbitt's house. Dr. Jordan waits outside the front of the building and Malcolm picks the lock to the building. I guard the door. Randall and Malcolm head inside. They aren't super stealthy. Dr. Jordan hears someone and starts making a ruckus to let us know. He talks about his missing dog! We abort -- but Malcolm and Randall go back in. They find bills and such in the office. Also an address for the warehouse he uses -- 123 Fake Street. In South Boston. We head back to Aunt Jenny's.
We go to bed. Jordan and I go to our business/apartment and get our fancy clothes - freshen up. We meet at noon for the party at Malcolm's dad's house. I drink a SideCar. We schmooze peoples. Malcolm goes looking for Mr. Corbitt. Malcolm tries to schmooze Corbitt -- he has an important errand to run. Malcolm's dad announces his candidacy. We borrow the car to follow Mr. Corbitt. We follow badly in a car. He seems to be driving oddly. We pull over, wait, and then proceed to 123 Fake' street.
We can't open the door, so we're stymied. I think they finally ram open the door. We go in and there is a guy who opens the door and mentions Mr. Corbitt. We look around and don't find anything suspicious. We finish searching - Dr. Jordan looks at another warehouse - tries to distract. No luck. We think about going back to the office, but remember that Ouija board said that it was in the warehouse. What to do? We decide to split up....
We drive back to the office. It's closed. No one is there. WTF we do? Who knows? Stymied.
Jordan and I wait at the warehouse. Randall and Malcolm go to his house. They talk to Dirty Jimmy. People start bringing stuff into the warehouse. We hide the car and then hide and wait for them to leave. We sneak up on the warehouse. Crowbar open the lock. Doesn't work. A truck rolls up. We scatter. Between the warehouse. We feel like we get away.
We go back to Mr. Dewey's. Randall and I go over to Corbitt's. Look for Corbitt. We hear gurgling and crackling from downstairs. Randall drags him out. Cons him out. We get nothing. We make a plan to meet him at 9 am sharp.
Finally - a breakthrough!
11/4/2020
Jordan talks to the orderly while we try to slip past. We definitely slip past like we know what we are doing. We see Randolph, but not Tom, who we are looking for. Randolph starts fighting with Randall. I take some pictures of the fight. He sees us and starts running up the stairwell. We chase after him. He runs up to the roof and threatens to jump off. We try to talk to him but he climbs over the side and ends up falling. I look over the side and see that he fell off the roof.
We go down and try to find the body. Jordan examines the body. He examines the body and looks for the amulet. We go to his locker. Jordan finds a doll and medicinal mushrooms. The police come. Other people note that some people were chasing Randolph.
We go back to Aunt Jenny's. She did some research and found out that her amulet is used to worship some deity. She also went to the police station. The car belongs to some hood member who works for the Irish mob. His name is bonecrusher Smith. He's a hit man. Malcolm's dad is having a get together Sunday at noon because he's going to be a district attorney or something. He wants to gather the common folk. Today is Friday. FYI.
The weird doll is something to do with Satan Worship.
We decide to stake out Corbitt's house. Aunt Jenny does also mention that Tom has a connection to the Bonecrusher character. We go Mr. Corbitt's house who has a car in the driveway. We stop in at Malcom's dad's house. His dad isn't there but finally he arrives. We talk about some of the people. We learn that Bernard Corbitt's wife died 12 years ago during childbirth.
We find a speakeasy or a dive bar. Randall goes to find a game. The rest of us find some drinks and music. I drink some Absinthe. Everyone mentions Bonecrusher and we mostly get kicked out.
We go back to Aunt Jenny's. I try some Ouija board but there isn't much to gather. We go to the library. I look up the amulet. We find that it used by a cult in the Boston area and then it disappeared.
The doll is used by Satan worshippers to honor and worship Satan.
The look for legal notices and papers for Bonecrusher. He has a record. Seems like a shady guy. Moose Barns is his associate.
We go back to investigating things. We go to the police station and report Tom as missing. We explain about the car that was missing and Tom. She says she will get in touch with us in a couple of days.
I ouija board Tom. He is dead. The amulet is in a warehouse. He is in the ocean. He was killed by Smith over money. We think Corbitt knows where the warehouse is.
It's night. Saturday.
Stumpted?!
10/28/20
Malcolm remembered some stuff about Mr. Corbett. Malcom stops at the bank after getting one of his dad's people to watch the house. We go to the hospital and look for the orderly. Apparently the orderly is Randy Tomazuski. He works in the evenings. We go look for Dr. Ramone. He's going to Aunt Jenny's room. Tom, Jenny's son is there! Jenny has a son?! WTH! Also - Colonel Sanders is her cat!
We meet with Dr. Ramone. He claims that people said Aunt Jenny was acting very strange. The Doctor hasn't observed any strange behaviors. Dr. Ramone didn't know anything about Mr. Corbitt with the broken arm. We discuss strategy and perhaps using someone as bait for the hospital.
We head to the house. Someone is there and he's hurt. We bring Aunt Jenny in while the doctor and Malcolm stay with Mr. Bartholomew. We see some bits of blood on the floor. It leads to the kitchen. There was something on Colonel Sanders that is now missing. A piece of jewelry.
I take some pictures of Colonel Sanders. We ask Aunt Jenny questions about the jewelry. We suddenly realize that Tom is missing. She last saw Tom right after her trip. We decide to go down to Mr. Corbett's business and see if we can go "amulet shopping". We bring Dirty Jimmy and his brother Luigi.
The four of us go down to Corbett Importers of America. Malcolm goes in first. Randall and I go in but he doesn't have any green amulets. We go back to Aunt Jenny's. The guards are there. The report nothing strange. We talk to Aunt Jenny and have her look around the house. Doesn't seem like anything else is missing.
Aunt Jenny went to the Amazon. That's where she found the amulet. She was looking for the missing Kinsman / tribesman. I take some pictures of the tribesmen that Jenny had drawn.
We stalk the hospital. And we find the weird guy. We make a deal to meet this guy in 2 hours. We stake out the building for two hours to make sure he doesn't leave.
Malcolm talks to the orderly. He tries to bribe the orderly.
Back to Boston!
10/21/20
We investigate the key. It's a skeleton key with a skeleton head. We ponder what to do.
Dr. Jordan received a telegram that his Aunt Jenny is sick in a mental institution. We check in with Ernie. No one is familiar with the key and what it does. We offer to come back after the tunnel is finished.
We take the train back to Boston. We also ponder what to do with the key. Malcolm suggests hocus pocusing it - but I suggest waiting until we get to Boston.
The train is like a TARDIS. Time shifts. Jordan's aunt Jenny is usually very sharp and not normally very crazy.
We think the key has something to do with the Occult. I don't think it goes to a door. Definitely magical.
I accompany the Doctor to the hospital to see his aunt. She seems very nice. She tells how the interesting objects in her house maybe drew some men who put her in the hospital. She claims the men want to steal her stuff! Dr. . Ramone is her doctor but he is gone for the night. We would like to take Jenny out. We all really suck at persuading. We decide to go to the house and see if we can clear it out.
Malcolm stops to talk to a friend of his father.
We arrived at Aunt Jenny's house. Someone is parked outside the house in a car in a weird car. The car drives off when we pull up. Her front door is ajar. Malcolm sneaks around back. He sees someone but isn't able to catch him.
We go inside the house and look around. There are some crazy paintings. We look all around the house and investigate things. I go upstairs and the rooms to the right look disturbed.
We hear sirens in the background. We keep looking upstairs. I don't find much. Just artifacts and paintings that look tossed about.
We talk to the police who take our names and tell us not to leave town. We stay at Aunt Jenny's house for the night. We investigate the basement. We see nothing. The guys leave the house for a few hours and I stay there. Nothing happens. We sleep it off.
We make plans to talk to lots of people tomorrow.
The Mystery Tunnel
December 1889
We return to Boston to check in on our paranormal investigation business. There is awkwardly a time warp. It's now... 1889. Which is weird. Anyway, it's Decemeber. Malcolm's father knows the lead architect of the Hudson River project. Malcolm's father volunteers him and his friends to check out the project. They have some inventions -- head tunneling shield. Protection for diggers. William Moore had invented an airlock we might be interested in seeing. We all take the train down to New York City. We go to a hotel and a carriage brings us to the site.
Mr. Ernest William Moire "Ernie" - architect - welcomes us to the project. We also meet James Greathead - the engineer - invented the shield. They invite us under the river. Phillip Barlow - managing contractor of the project - civil engineer. Michael Calvert - foreman. The tunnel goes from new york to new jersey. They are about halfway complete. 300 feet from the NY side and 2,000 feet from the NJ Side. Ernie notes that they brought them in when they were able to convince the Yanks to bring in the English ingenuity. They have 100 or so workers tunneling for 12 hours at a time! It takes a few minutes on the elevators to go down 65 feet down a pressurized air shaft.
I take some pictures.
The site is muddy. We get on the elevator and go down. There was a noise! Apparently from the other elevator. Randal and Malcolm heard a strange creaky sound that was strange and unusual. Then -- we all hear a large crash! And an Explosion! When we get to the bottom, we see that the other elevator had fallen. There were no problems with the tunnel. There were about -- 20 or so -- injured people. 18 men appear dead.
I help some people with first aid. One of the workers comes up! He says that "Tommy is going crazy! He says this place belongs to me!"
Tommy is down in the tunnel. Ernie and James deem that the one elevator is okay. Apparently Tommy had cut one of the ropes on the elevator. Tommy has a hacksaw! Tommy is at the door. He says it's his tunnel!
Chaos ensues! I try to talk him down but Doctor Jordan attacks him.
We meet Jeff Acorn at the elevator. We are all going inspect the tunnel.
We go through the airlock into the tunnel.
We all think that the tunnel looks good and secure. We go toward the end of the tunnel near the shield. Ernie thinks something is off down in the tunnel. Tom was at the head/front of the shield. There is a glow in the sand up ahead. There is a whitish mound of transparent flesh up ahead. Cow-sized.
We approach it slowly. I take some pictures of it.
Randall and Malcom go ahead. It makes Randall crazy. Malcom shoots at it. The pellets bounce off the blob. There are screams at the other end of the tunnel. Everyone wants to burn the blob.
Malcom burns the blob. James said he saw every color in the rainbow and in between. Now he is blind. I take his hand and lead him away. The oil seems to have charred the creature.
I check the remains. I notice that there is a key. I grab it.
We tell Ernie it's probably okay to let the workers back in.
We ask where they took Tommy - the local Sanatorium.
Dr. Jordan asks Tommy about seeing a creature. He doesn't fully remember. He saw a blob. We talk to get him released.
We do a few more things but end up going to the hotel for the night.
Outwitting the Monster
9/16/20
Still fighting the beast. I am unable to hit it. We keep trying to fight the monster. Pamela starts chanting. Her parents think she is casting a spell. I try to talk to the parents and see what is going on with Pamela. Also, the monster hits me pretty hard. Pamela shoots a fireball out of her hands! Her parents had encouraged us to duck - which I did, but not all of my compatriots. The monster is now on fire. I am able to dodge past the flaming monster!
We all run out of the house and get out of the house. Malcolm shoots it one last time. We head back into the original house. The parents think that they can get us all home. They make a group circle and teleport us home, although Malcolm has many questions. Questions that need answers.
We talk with the parents. Food is made. Healing happens.
We heal up and we all take the train to Boston.
The Story Unfolds!
9/2/2020
We split up and start trying to open up cages. Randall opens up the cage and lets the Johnsons out. A huge lint ball creature appears and, in our minds, says, "Oh! It looks like we have visitors!" The Johnsons explain that the lint ball man has a no-magic shield around the cottage. The lint ball monster man sends us back to normal reality before we can do anything! We debated a number of options. We meet Sally and the little girl. I decide to go back using the portal to find Malcolm, who is missing. I realize when I get to the other world that the little girl has followed me. We don't find Malcolm. Awkward.
We go out to the cottage. We see Ben in the cottage. We also see Randall and Jordan appear inside the cottage. I try to shoot the cottage to no avail. Problem. We go inside the house because I literally have no other choice. I don't know how to get the little girl home. I don't know what else to do. The weird monster is very unimpressed.
He wants the little girl. He is not impressed with me at all. He tried to hit me. I learn that he does not like fire.
We got a solid plan. We are going to bring fire into the house. Randall and Malcolm will pick the cages/ try to open them. Jordan and I will distract the monster. The kids guard the door outside. It sorta works. We do get the parents out. Shooting at the monster. Hitting it with fire. Missing. Things happening!
Portals?
9/2/2020
Randall suggests throwing a chair through the portal. Or tying a rope around someone. What happens when you open a portal? I can also learn the summon demon spell and draw the demon to us. I then realize that the summon demon spell is really hard to learn and would take a long time to learn. I try the spell, but it doesn't work at first. Malcolm also tries. Then I try again and it works! They tie a rope around me and make a plan about tugging the rope for various situations. I take a flashlight. I go through the portal.
I am in the same closet but no one else is here. I open the door slowly. I explore the whole house. No one is here. I explore all three floors. I look outside. It looks all crazy and prismatic outside. I look in the tree house but it is empty. Then I look at the guest house. I can see movement. I can't really hear what is going on, but I know there is movement. I try to look in the windows but I can't see much. I crouch in the bushes and I listen in the room. I'm about to do something, but then I hear Randall shout out! - Hey is anyone there!?!
I meet up with Randall. We strategize what to do. We felt a spirit or something pass by us - something familiar. We decide to take some furniture outside and burn it near the outside of the cottage. The fire goes out. We relight the fire. It goes out again! EESH! I go up to the door and knock. "Hi! It's the police!" There is a voice that says - Hello. Welcome! The door opens mysteriously. We go in the door and it shuts. We hear a noise! It's the doctor! We reunite with him. We go up the stairs. The rooms do not look familiar. We continue to hear screaming from up the stairs. We hear noises from the end of the next hallway. We listen at the door but I can't hear much.
I open the door and slowly open it. There are cages in this room. Inside the cages are creatures and 2 humans. They are at the far end of the room.
Unraveling the Truth
I do a seance with the Ouija Board to talk with the Johnsons. Instead, I become connected with Azbul. He tells us that the Johnsons are not available. We learn that they are not dead, and are being held in another dimension. We also learn that Azbul is not possessing Pamela.
We go down for breakfast and eat breakfast. We talk to the kids about stories, ghosts, and the occult. We try to get information out of them. I tell them about the camera and how I take pictures that are magical.
This what the good doctor found out from Sally. Sally knew her parents practice magic and she caught them in the act of teleport. She has watched her parents travel through portals. She says that ordinarily her parents come back. She knows that her parents need their own portal to travel in. Sally knows the spell to bring you home, and might be willing to teach us. She also said that her parents were not killed in a car crash. She covered up the story of them missing.
We brainstorm options on what to do.
Randall talked to Ben who doesn't know anything about the occult and magic.
I learn the return home spell from Sally before we can attempt to use the portal.
The Magic Book
5 August
We come back from the library. We spruce up from the library and get ready for dinner. We scope around the house and see what's there. There is a back door that is open. There is also a door (bulkhead) to the basement that is locked. Randall and I look but we decide to go in for dinner. I freshen for dinner.
Malcolm found a book in the parent's bedroom. It is written in English. It looks like a diary. I peruse the diary - it's a journal of the parents. I find out that they were a witch and a warlock. We talk in my room about its importance. When the dinner bell rings, we put the book in Dr. Jordan's bag of holding and he puts it in his bedroom. We go to dinner.
It's chicken cordon bleu. We chit chat in general. Then, after dinner, we move to the parlor and chit chat with Ben and Sally. They explain that they normally bring her into the common room every night so they can watch her more easily. They note that she talks and sits there when she is the state. It's clearly not English that she is speaking. The episodes last about an hour and then she goes back to sleep.
I go up to my room and read the book. It is quite curious and there are many interesting things inside it. I spend some time with the journal.
Randall and Malcolm stop by and check on me. I explain the contents of the book and that I am working on memorizing a spell.
I come downstairs around 11:30 and I give Randall a Tarot Card Reading.
I go to the parent's bedroom and look in the parent's bedroom. There is a suspicious closet but I don't notice anything.
We go back to the common room.
Using the Oujia board, I ask if there is someone we are speaking to someone. She appears to be possessed. I take pictures of Pamela. The monster doesn't like the bright light. We take her to the parent's room. We walk her to the spooky closet. She points at the closet. We take her in the closet - see seems interested but not able to connect with the closet. Ben is not impressed and thinks it sounds creepy. Randall asks if we can clean out the closet. I take pictures of the closet and clothes on the bed.
New Adventure
9 pm 1920
We have parted ways, but get called back by Mr. Kline the attorney we met with, has recommended our group help with a situation. They also are working with a guy named Randall Krabbe. We all travel to the Johnson house in Mass. The oldest, Ben, meet us at the door. The other two siblings, Sally, and younger sister, Pamela. They inherited a bed and breakfast from their parents. His younger sister at night she appears possessed. We talk with the family and learn about the sisters.
Pamela goes to school. Has the same classmates. Helps out a little when she can. Doesn't get out much in the summer. Plays in the yard on the property. She has a tree house. Mr. Jordan and I check out the tree house. Then we all walk to the library.
Mr. Jordan found a journal. I check it out. She found a book in her parent's room. It was strange.
House has been in the family for a few generations. The grandparents had it built. The land was part of a larger plot owned by a land grant. Nothing odd. The car accident was caused by a drunk driver. They slid off the road into the river. There was an article that was a little odd that was before the kids were born. An explosion at the house. The newspaper said it was a natural gas explosion.
The Magic Genie
9 pm 1920
I continue hacking at the monster holding the Doctor. It smells bad. Like rotting eggs.
"I will be free! The Ring will bind me no more! -- that is what the creature says!
We free Jordan but he gets grabbed again!
"Your blood is cursed. All Blackwoods must die!" -- this is what the creature says!
I suck so bad with the saber that it gets stuck in the ground.
--Your digging shall not avail you -- Monster
Pottery flies toward me.
I finally find the ring after asking for grandma for guidance and using the compass to help me find the ring.
Malcom stops the genie.
The genie killed Rosemary.
Malcolm names the genie THREE.
He has served the Blackwoods 200 years.
The genie was summoned by a Warlock.
He can leave the building only by killing a Blackwood and another human.
Take pictures of sigil, monster, skulls, bones, etc.
Genie is from plane from Schism Existence.
We talk to the cousin. He was chopping wood when Rosemary died. He only knew that the ring kept the genie in the basement. He never used the genie's powers.
We call Mr. Kline. We explain that we investigated and we found the remains.
I develop the pictures - they come out AWESOME!
We go to the district attorney and share our testimony when Kline shows us.
Maine Adventure
9 pm 1920
We travel to Maine. We are investigating Arthur Blackwood who is accused of killing his wife, Rosemary Blackwood. We are picked up at the train station. We are picked up by Mr. Kline, the attorney handling the case.
Today is March 2, 1929. It's been 8 months since Arthur was arrested.
Box with strange wheels and row of buttons on it on the desk. Magnetic voice recorder.
Arthur has a message for us. The Blackwood family line is cursed. There is a genie in the house. He dropped a ring in the cellar of the house. We are given a key to the cabin and a letter that gives us permission to search the cellar.
Trial within a week.
I finish the book.
Find that the family has a history of good luck. Land was titled back in 1717. Been in the family in a long time. Find an article from 1901 where a young Arthur Blackwood was struck by lightning but lived. Article says he was digging up an old tree stump.
We head to the cabin the next day. The floor has been cleaned. Trace amounts of blood splatter.
Something odd about the place.
Take some pictures in the basement but they don't come out clearly (bad roll, low light).
Moldy old box on the shelf that looks interesting. Photographs, drawings, and journals of stern looking man, with black jeweled ring on his finger.
Wizard Milton Blackwood.
Portraits' eyes are following you. Can't really discern anything from the photograph.
Journal and scrap of paper.
Journal is dated 1725. Written in archaic script. Journal of Milton Blackwood. Find a section where Milton Blackwood made a pact with a creature. Price is Christian Blood that has been defiled by sabot rites.
The scrap of paper - until the very ground I have found the demon to the Blackwood blood line. The ring needs to stay on a Blackwood's finger.
I find an interesting calvary saber.
Mr. Thomas found some bones. Some bones appear quite old, but a female skull with tooth marks of the surface of the skull with flesh.
Take some pictures of the bones.
There is an audible crash.
Some of the bottles fell on shelf 6.
I also find a wrench.
I take a picture of Dr. Jordan fighting an invisible monster.
There is a symbol in the floor. Ornate sigil on the floor. Characteristics meant to be a ward to keep something in this space.
Also a trowel with very sharp edges.
I take a picture of the tentacle on Dr. Jordan's leg.
The Wrap Up
9 pm 1920
We go back into town and pick up Latube and some other people in town. We bring the back up to the clearing but NOTHING is there. We look around town and don't see anything. It's strange. We go to bed. Wake up in the morning and look again -- still nothing.
ACK!
We are meeting in the constable's office when Malcolm gets a message to deal with a family matter in Maine.
the fight
9 pm 1920
We have a plan, we're going to try and draw the strangers down the road but we hear someone come down the road. It's Latueb. We send him back into town for reinforcements. I feign that my dog Skippy is missing. One of the baddies comes down. Malcom tries to sneak up on him but he sees him. I try to shoot him, but I am unsuccessful. We chase after them - Malcolm goes into the woods and I go down the path. Jordan somehow manages to get free and I chase after him but I get SHOT! What jerks! I try to talk to the shooter but he shoots me again! I yell at them in Latin and try to shoot them! We see the Leader chanting. I try to move and see what he is doing, but that's when they shoot me again! I run into the woods and regroup with everyone! We make our way to the car to get Jordan's shotgun. We were planning to make it around the clearing, but we hear a pulsing creature. We run to the clearing! I look and it's a wyrd creature! I lose a little sanity! It kills people upon touch. We start shooting and another monster flies out of the monster towards us! I lose some serious sanity! We run to the car. There were monsters all over. They try to shoot us. I run to the car. I shoot some. We wait for Malcolm, who is surrounded, to escape. I punch one. Finally, we get in the car.
The Peeps
9 pm 1920
We wait around and it isn't long before people show up. Three people. They seem to be looking for people. We hide upstairs while they search and we hide. They seem set to leave, but we accidentally on purpose make noise. One of them comes upstairs. We convince him to drop his weapon. Another person comes in but we don't convince him to drop his weapon. He runs off. I handcuff the guy to the radiator. The guys run off after the other two. I try to persuade the guy to talk, but it doesn't work. We bring the guy to the jail house and strategize. In the end, we feign a fight, and the good doctor releases the prisoner in an attempt to figure out what they are doing. Malcolm and I are dropped off at the Hill House to follow. We watch the woods - Malcolm looks for paths while I practice my chickadee sounds. The constable car goes by and the horn blares. I call over Malcolm and we follow on foot down the rood and up a logging path. There, Malcolm sees the doctor tied up, guarded by the two thugs, with several others close by.
Take a picture of idiot 1
Hill House Adventure
9 pm 1920
Take the company car up to the Hill House. The house is not visible from the road. We park the car, reverse like, and attempt to approach the house. Jordan is going to into the bushes, on the side. Door is on the left hand side of the house. Malcolm goes around the backside of the house. I knock on the door but no one is there. Upon opening the door, there is a dusty dining / living room. Out of the back of dining room is a hallway. There is a door on the back wall of the living room. We investigate the bottom floor. There is a sound from the basement. We investigate the basement and find a locked room. Nevellius Neas is tied up. We untied him. He talked about being a sacrifice for a group and how they were going to meet up with a head boss tomorrow night.
Mr. Mitt is taking the constable car while we investigate the upstairs of the house.
We decide to camp out in the house and wait for the baddies to come back. Our plan is to catch them when they come back for Mr. Neas.
Journal 1
9 pm 1920
I'm investigating with Dr. Nivek. We took his car to the bridge. I was able to spot some footprint going beneath the bridge. After some careful investigation and help from Dr. Nivek, we noticed that the footprints ended at a cement abutment. This led me to discover a hidden door that we entered. We opened the door and heard gun shots. I went down the stairs and encountered a three people fighting a horse like monster. They dealt a parting blow to the creature.
I investigated the creature, but I didn't recognize anything Occultish about it. There were also three dead individuals: Coon West, Frank West, and Billy James. The bodies had gashes on them. Billy had a note on him that said: Get the book and meet me at the Hill House.
We further investigate the cavern but didn't find much other than a bunch of bones - they are human bones.
I do recall that there is the Hill house on French hill.
The Farmer who is missing cows is out in East Johnson.
The book is mostly odd poems.
We travel in the morning to the Farm in East Johnson. Old Navillus Mit. Navillus is missing since the middle of the night.
The others see marks of a scuffle. Drag marks in the road.
We talked with his wife. We questioned her about her husband, and enemies, etc. She couldn't recall anyone. We offer our condolences. Talk to the hands. Visit the dead cows - we're all perplexed.
We go back into town. They talk about what they find in the library - the book of crazy poems.
We pick up the Constabulary Car and prepare to go up to Hill House.
Pre-game
9 pm 1920
You’re resting in your abode around 9 pm drinking your favorite prohibited drink when there is a knock at your door. Being a deputy constable, you of course answer. It’s not totally uncommon to get disturbed in the evening. You recognize the individual as Dr. Nivek, the town Vet. He tells you that three of his friends are in town and are at a medical conference at the elementary school (long story, not important) when another person told them three boys had broken into the town library. Two had run but one was being held by the cleaning staff.
Before this happened, Navillus Mit, local farmer, had shown up to speak with Dr. Nivek complaining the some of his cows had gone missing and a few were found dead. Thinking they might possibly be related the three acquaintances went to question the library intruder. The one who was caught was Coon West, a local troublemaker. All he would say was that he was researching a high school paper. When the team went to investigate the room the intruders were discovered in, Coon somehow got past Dr. Nivek and the janitor. The team chased him and Dr. Nivek followed as best he could but he lost them near the covered bridge at the end of school street.
Someone had gone for the constable but he is out of town. Dr. Nivek lost his friends and came straight to me.
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