SPOILERS BELOW - SPOILERS BELOW
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Saturday, September
11
But first… A
little something forgotten in the flurry of events (and, yes, the Investigators
are moving very fast…) – A visit was made to the home of relatives in Oakland
who have taken in the Macario boys.
·
The
boys have been psychologically shaken by whatever happened to them.
·
They
speak of a black figure that came in dreams with eyes like fire.
·
It
said “What’s yours is mine”…
·
The
children’s crayon drawings are mighty disturbing.
And then the
Investigators entered the old Drood house…
A quick look about reveals lots of scattered Catholic artifacts and other
signs of the hasty departure of the Macario family.
There were a
few scary incidents. Noises. Things falling over… A gramophone that started up
on its own and told them to “Get Out!” Nothing that the brave Investigators
couldn’t handle.
That funny
tingling turned out to be strongest in the master bedroom and again upstairs,
above it in what appears to have been used as a child’s bedroom. A wall panel
is broken out and a large wood inlaid version of the symbol found at the Chapel
of Contemplation is revealed – and rendered inert with a few strokes of the
pry-bar.
The
Investigators discover a hidden area at the back of the attic due to the vents noticeable
from the outside with only a blank wall inside… And didn’t that 19th
century drawing of the house have a balcony of some sort back there? A bit more
damage is done to the property…
Within are
discovered the various ducts and chimneys that have been channeled through the
space, presumably when the house was modernized after 1901… And… An assortment
of trash in corners and between beams.
· *
A
bent old tripod, such as might have been used for a telescope.
· * Part
of a Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris from 1855
· *
A
ragged fragment of old paper that appears to be a broadsheet from November 7th,
1853.
WEST END MONSTER!
THE
TRIAL CONFESSION AND EXECUTION OF THE SEVEN DIALS CHILD MURDERER
********************RY ANNE SMITH, THE LAST
*************M OF CHESTER ALLEN DRURY.
***********fty-five years old, had a history of
unprovoked
*********and erratic behavior. The location where
the murders
**********ce was a stable behind a large old house,
which facing
**********osperous street, backed upon a foul lane
of the Seven
**************ict. Drury, and his two unknown
companions were
*******************lled at least five small
children over a period of
*********************The two girls found dead
Conclusions are
drawn…
The basement
is searched and a hidden passage is uncovered – leading to a small room under
the foundation of the carriage house (which is no longer standing). Within are
a scribed circle of about six feet dimeter in the tiled floor and little else…
There is a wooden pallet at the far end with fragments of brick on it – The
largest fragment is clearly imprinted with part of that same symbol… A few rats
appear and attack… but are easily dealt with.
As a near afterthought the Investigators find and
destroy a stone disc concealed in the flooring near the entrance to the secret
room.
All’s well.
No more tingling in the house. Cakewalk.
That night
Sara has a bad dream… Someone seems to have broken into Dr. Marsh’s house and
slightly rearranged some of his possessions…
And, later in the night - An eight
foot humanoid horror with claws the size of carving knives turns up in Dr.
Marsh’s study and comes through the bedroom door, reducing it to matchsticks,
apparently bent on mayhem. The doc and his wife escape through the window.
Later
examination of the study reveals scraps of adhesive tape hanging from the
bottom of the doctor’s desk… And while the doc was fetching the police, someone
seems to have broken in again – jimmying the back door.
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