Hello, everybody, and welcome to Playing Strange with
Gamers. I am John. We're doing our Halloween
episode,
which is weird because this is gonna come
out before any of
the campaign 2 stuff. We've already recorded
campaign
2
episodes. So,
hello, and welcome to campaign 2, I guess.
I don't know. Or pre campaign 2, whatever.
I don't have the normal cast with us
because this is the Halloween episode. Who we
do have is Amanda
and Celeste and Josiah.
And then as a guest
who always seems to return whenever we play
something that's not Dungeons and Dragons,
we have
Dallas,
which is
Celeste's husband and my head row house husband
number 1.
That was the first time in
ever, I think, I've ever seen Dallas with
his hair not pulled back.
That was interesting.
Incredible, I think, is the words you were
looking for.
Such hair.
I like it.
Alright.
April 12,
1926,
8:15
PM.
The Beacon Island lighthouse off the shore of
Folly Point, Massachusetts ceased
to cast a slight over the region's dangerous
rocky waters about 15 minutes ago.
As a result, the s s Essex County,
a mixed passenger and cargo vessel on which
you are all traveling to Rockport has
foundered on the rocks and incurred considerable damage
to its hull.
The ship is sinking
and the crew hurries you towards one of
the many robo's acting as the ship's lifeboats.
As they load you in, they tell you
your best bet is to aim for Beacon
Island,
and they doubt that you'll make it to
the mainland as the storm is brewing.
You have just enough time to reach the
island before it hits.
Then without another word, they shove you off
into the dark, churning waters.
All you have to guide you is a
is a single small light shining at the
base of the lighthouse
towering silhouette.
So
go ahead everybody who is on this boat
together.
Let's let's go ahead and just describe your
characters
as you are getting in the boat. We'll
go ahead and start with Josiah.
Okay.
So as
we are getting into the boat, I'm you
see this guy, he's pretty tall, lanky.
He's got,
like, blonde hair, but it's kind of all
askew and and over the place. There's a
little bit of of gray in it. I
mean, you'd say he's probably early
forties,
maybe
43 or so. And he's got, you know,
a little bag over his shoulders, kind of
messenger style bag, and he's got a bunch
of notes and papers and all sorts of
stuff that he's kind of gathering as he's
getting into this lifeboat.
Alright. And then
Celeste.
Hang on. I have a I have an
idea of the voice I wanna do, but
I have to I have to trigger it.
You're just describing your character. You're not really
I'm not doing the voice yet.
Okay. You see a
tall furrow woman woman get out with
a classic
flapper trench coat, but she is wearing pants.
The scandal.
And
a button up shirt carrying
her her
sketch pad and artistry
tools with her.
And She
oh, go ahead. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to cut you off. No.
No. No. I just it occurred to me
that that
I didn't
that she has brown hair. No? Alright.
Dallas?
Yeah. So,
you see this character is, wearing a, like,
a suit, not 3 piece suit, but nice,
like, tight looking one, but he's kinda sketchy.
He's looking around, kind of nervous
like, and you could tell by just looking
at him, he's kind of like he's a
trained individual,
possibly some former military of some sort. He's
roughly 29 years old, and he's just super,
super aware of his surroundings.
And then finally, Amanda?
You see other short woman with mousy brown
hair wearing
a skirt with a tucked in white blouse
and a jacket over,
just sitting quietly well, following quietly as we
all get out of the boat.
Okay.
Get back to my notes.
Alright. So you all are ushered in on
this boat, and there's it's dark all around
you and you just have churning waters
as you as you the current starts to
take you away.
You see
the the you see the the crew trying
to
deal with other passengers and whatnot on the
boat that's
you're leaving behind you.
And all you outside of that, all you
see is just the brief glint off the
base of the lighthouse
on Rocky Point, which is a bit out,
but you do not see the mainland from
where you're at. So are you gonna make
your way towards rocky point?
I would say so. Yeah. Probably. It's the
closest land.
Yeah. Alright.
So I just changed the map so you
guys can see
about where you're at.
Yeah. Or the general area.
Mhmm. Perfect.
Alright.
So as you're rowing this rowboat towards the
towards the,
excuse me, as you're rowing this rowboat towards
Rocky Point,
you hit something hard in the dark waters
and twist the twisted metal has
become lodged in the nearby sandbank
while yet more seems to lurk below the
surface.
I need a
I need
a
no and spot hidden role, please.
Yep.
I gotta find my character sheet again so
that I'm rolling for.
No. Look at my character sheet.
What's no?
No. It pulls up. I'm I'm running a
module here, so I don't have character sheets
in front of me.
Yeah. D 100 for that? Yeah. Everything's d
100.
It's kinda weird that they asked me for
something that's not a thing.
Yeah.
Okay.
I rolled an 18 on my spot hidden.
Oh, hang on. Well, it's you don't need
to tell me what you rolled. Just tell
me if it's a success or not.
2 successes.
Alright.
No. We'll just call intelligence.
Okay.
Alright.
I have a success on my spot hidden.
And you said intelligence?
Yeah.
Gotta find it. I'm not very intelligent.
Nervous.
2 successes.
Alright. 2 success.
Well,
as far as any of that's concerned, you
you basically
when you hit it, it you
it the sound and how it
how it
affected your guys' rowboat
suggests that the metal may be part of
a ship, although you guys don't recall hearing
of a wreck around
here for quite some time.
And as you look in the water to
see exactly what what the metal was, you
do notice
a
sunk, you do notice that it is in
fact a sunken ship, although there aren't any
identifying marks on the metal.
And
judging by the relatively
small number of barnacles and general lack of
deterioration, it obviously hasn't been there for very
long.
Well, this is,
quite interesting. If it wasn't,
so laid out, I'd
go for a little swim.
I don't think that is a good idea.
Oh, I didn't say I was going for
a swim. I just said if it wasn't
so so late and dark out, I would.
Of course. Does it
Yeah.
Does anybody have a pilot boat skill?
Pilot boat skill. You know what? I probably
should. Let's see. Additional skills. Pilot. Yep. Boat.
Me. Go ahead and roll that for me,
please. Yeah. I do too. Goodness. Hard success.
Hard success. Alright. With a little bit of
effort, you're able to dislodge the rowboat from
the wreckage,
without crashing on the nearby rocks. Yeah. Here.
Let me just,
there we go. I'm just gonna take it
a little around this way.
Feels good to be out on the on
the water.
He says as the waves are getting choppy
and there's a inbound
storm, which is getting pretty close as you
can tell by now.
I don't know why you're so happy about
any of this. It is cold. It is
wet. We are not where we were meant
to be.
I'm not much of a boat person then,
I see. Yes, darling. But the inspiration,
it has to be here. You have to
see
that
that even in the midst of of the
tragedy
of not making it to our our location,
that there's inspiration
everywhere.
All this water does is damage things.
That's all I'm saying.
I'm just inspired to find some cover. Get
out of the storm. It's coming real quick.
As you say that, the 4 of you
can clearly see the lights at the base
of the combined cottage lighthouse structure that is
on this island
as you pull up to the adjunct
here.
Here we go. We can get on to
some dry land for those of you who
like that sort of thing.
Toast.
Great. Thanks.
I'm gonna get right out of that boat.
I'm gonna jump out and try to hold
it steady while people unload.
Okay. I'll be the last one off the
boat
gathering all, like, my papers and some
briefcases full of stuff as I try to
lug it ashore.
Alright.
Now where are we?
Well, clearly, this is an island.
You Probably more of a peninsula.
Alright.
Sorry. I'm reading notes here. I don't norm
this is why I don't normally do modules
is because I constantly have to read, and
I'm not very quick at it.
So as you get out on the pier,
it leads to a narrow dirt path hemmed
in by long grass.
It's a faint churning of machinery can be
hear heard nearby.
If anybody would like to
make a mechanical or electrical repair roll.
Repair?
Electrical repair.
Electrical repair. Or a mechanical roll.
I have mechanical repair.
I don't do that kind of thing.
So Mechanical repair would work. I have a
electrical
repair,
since it Nope. I don't notice anything. I
am disturbed.
Okay. Agent Mulder,
you
so the way that the way it sounds,
it sounds like the sound of an electric
generator that you're hearing.
Alright. So I'm gonna kinda, like, I guess,
lean into the wind.
It's like there's some sort of electric generator
coming out that direction.
Oh. Well, perhaps we
should head that way so that we can
be
in the warmth.
Yeah. I I I mean, the the lighthouse
there looks like a a prime spot
and, the light is still on, so I
assume things are still,
working in there. I think I have a
friend named Michael in that White House in
that White House, so we'll we'll we'll have
that direct. Yeah. You have a friend,
out this way.
Sorry. I didn't I didn't catch your name
when we, were on the boat. Yeah. Yeah.
I know. It's, it's it's Fox Muddier. That's
my name. Fox.
Kit. I'm sorry. Kit. Kit.
Kit. So mother was afraid of copyright. And
so
yes. Yes.
I,
I see how that is. Bernard,
professor,
a doctor,
you know, many titles, but, you can just
call me, Bernard.
Nice to meet you, doc.
And you 2 ladies are?
My name
is Buffy Chase.
Pleasure to meet you. Murphy Chase, the Murphy
Chase?
No. No. Buffy.
Buffy?
Yes.
Well,
I knew a Murphy Chase. Very, very, talented
artist. I have several
of her land seascapes.
Very beautiful work.
Oh, well, see, I am just now getting
into the artist scene,
so
I'm not really one to
to have much acclaim,
at least not yet.
Well, the Chase name is one of my
favorites so,
it must, must run-in the name or or
something like that.
Well,
yes.
That's,
just a little joke.
Well Yes. No. I don't think I've ever
heard that joke before.
Yeah. Okay. I'm just gonna walk up towards
the,
the lighthouse here. So it was. Probably was.
Alright. After a short walk along the path,
you
reach the lighthouse cottage entrance. The front door
is slightly ajar, and a steady glow can
be seen coming from within.
On either side of the door is a
window. Thin curtains are drawn over both, but
a warm welcoming light shines through those on
the left,
and the path itself continues
around
the back of the lighthouse.
Agent Muddyer,
can you roll a spot hidden for me,
please?
Where's my numbers?
Success. Barely.
Okay.
You notice a that small muddy animal like
footprints are in front of the main cottage
door,
but beneath these are distinct boot prints that
only
only they're partially obscured by the overlaying
track marks.
Can I tell what kind of animal it
is?
Make a
either a natural world or
biology or zoology role.
1 of the 3.
Well, sir, I don't see a biology.
It would be listed as science, and then
it would say biology or zoology after that.
Otherwise, it would be a natural world.
Alright. I
don't even see science, so we're gonna go
for a natural world. Mhmm.
And
I I missed it by one point. So
Yeah. You can't you can't quite make out
what species that the
the footprints are. Right. It's like,
alright. Well,
well, some somebody's around here and animals of
some sort. So
hopefully Michael's okay in there.
Now how do you know this Michael?
The old friends go we go way back,
work together,
way back, west. And so
he invited me to come out here. And
so I was like, yeah. So so you
are exactly where you wanted to be.
For right this second, I'd rather be inside
the building because it's, you know, rain coming
and Cold. Cold and
what she said. So let's
knock on the door. And
as as you said, as you're we're investigating
the footprints, the ocean does seem to grow
rougher as the storm
the sailors warned you about begins to roll
through. Rain begins to patter down from the
sky.
If the
so you you get the feeling that the
footprints are probably going to wash away
with the storm.
Are the footprints leading somewhere other than to
the door?
They do follow the footpath
around to the back of the cabin.
So
Okay.
Is the door are we just sitting at
the door?
Yeah. You guys are just right at the
door right now.
Okay.
And as you're as you're as you're standing
there in front of the door, you do
hear kind of some strange rustlings
that have nothing to do with the rising
wind
from
there's kind of a wooded area on this
island.
Oh.
Okay. Well,
that's, that's interesting, but,
I think I'm just gonna see if that
Michael, you said, is at is at home
in here.
You know, just, hello.
And I, you know, kind of
tap on the door and and open it
up.
As you tap on the door, it it
slowly
creaks as it pushes in just slightly.
We're just,
just had a little, shipwreck,
if you know what I mean, off the
off the shore.
I'm just wondering if we could come in.
There's starting to be a little bit of
rain. Not that I mind. Rain is Oh,
just go in.
Oh. Oh, yes. I'm gonna go right in.
Alright. So
beyond the partially open front door, the hallway
leads to the cottages
4 rooms. There's 2 on each side of
the wide passageway.
Does that place look like anybody's there?
So far from
where you guys had
come in at?
Mhmm.
Not a special like, you don't see anybody
inside. It's the lights are on. The door
was partially ajar.
When, like, anything's happened inside the room?
Not.
Well, I mean, it's just like I said,
when you go in there, it's just a
wide passageway. There's 4 there's 4 rooms that
that branch off of that,
2 on each side.
So
you would have to go in further and.
Right.
Examined. But as you do, I will describe
the 4. There are 4 rooms, a study,
a bunk room, a kitchen and a larder.
And then at the end of this hallway
is a winding staircase that goes to the
lighthouse's service room.
The hallway
itself
is not currently lit,
so the light of these
so the light seems to be coming out
of the study.
Okay.
Amanda, what's your character's name? Did we get
your character's name? I don't think we did.
Y'all got so taken by the artist that
you didn't ask me in the end.
Well, I'm gonna
was it? You could see I wrote it
on my person's name. Can you see it
right here?
On my profile here, Hilda Frost.
When you look at my person on this
on
Never mind. People can't see your character on
role 20, I mean. No. But you can
see me right here in this video where
my name is. The word me for you.
It it says it does say Hilda, but
it's right above
the white space. The white space. Part of
your lamp.
Alright. So because we didn't catch your name.
I'm like You don't get to know. Or
I'm like, young lady, hold on a second,
please.
I know my friend, and he's he's not
one to leave doors unlocked. Let's
step behind
doc and I for a second, please.
Plus, it's it's rude to to enter without
an invitation. I mean, it it does look
cozy in there, but Yeah. So I
Cold and it's raining and we stand at
the doorway, please, young lady. And so I
kinda walk in, and I kinda place my
hand on my hip where I'd have my
revolver.
And we kinda slowly walk over to the
study where there is light.
Is the is the study closest room to
us?
Yeah. It's it's
it's the one it's the room I believe
it's the closest room on the left where
the where the window that the light was
coming out of.
Right. So I'm gonna kinda, like, slowly creep
up to the door
and just gently
press in and look look in gently.
I'm trying not to freak everybody out too
much, and I'm just gonna go, Michael? Michael?
Buddy, are you here? As
you push the door open, you see a
room that contains 3 armchairs,
which are located roughly in the center of
the room. In addition to
the doorway,
there is another door leading to the kitchen
in terms of furniture, besides the armchairs,
there is a table
to the left of the hall door
and a, and a roll top writing desk
on the outer wall, close to the kitchen
door.
Both have their,
both have their own wooden chair next to
them.
The one by the writing desk currently lies
on the floor.
And that is it what's on the floor,
the desk that was
by the chair that's by the writing desk,
the whole chair. Okay. Yeah. It was, it's
laid over on the floor as if it
was like pushed over.
Okay. I'm going to walk up to the
writing desk. Is there anything on it
Paper or etchings,
a dead
body tacos.
The roll top writing desk on the other
side of the room is closed, but it's
unlocked. So you would,
you can't see what's on it. Like it's
one of those roll top ones. Okay.
Okay. So I'm gonna get kind of cautiously
look around the room and lift the roll
top up. Okay. Opening it reveals a half
empty, but still warm mug of coffee and
a lot of stationary envelope stamps, paper bottles
of ink and pens,
a mess of invoices for coin appraisals from
a variety of Rockport antique stores, litter the
rest of the desktop.
The quotes range from 2 to $5
and all are dated in late February of
1926.
If the coins
have oh, sorry.
That's me reading stuff that
you shouldn't know. So
so, yeah, that's what you see on there.
Okay. I'm gonna look back in the hallway
and gonna look at the rest of the
crowd. I'm like, hey, it's it's warmer in
here. Why don't y'all come in here for
a second?
That's what I was gonna do anyway.
Nobody wanted to turn a light on in
the hallway,
nope.
Ah, well, but okay.
If you insist, I mean. I'm just giving
you a nudge.
No. I was I I I start walking
in
and, you know, just kind of out of
habit, I'll I'll I'll flip on
the the lights.
Oh. Here. Let me yeah. So bright.
Okay.
The first thing that you notice is 3
coat hooks
by the door. Only one of which currently
has
a well worn
oil skin hanging from it. 2 pairs of
galoshes stand in the shallow tray, just beneath
the coat hooks and there's space for another
pair
while a pair of indoor shoes sits by
sits beside the tray.
2 oil lanterns hang
from the hooks next to the oil skin,
and there's also an empty hook suggesting that
one lamp is missing.
And go ahead
go ahead and roll a spot hidden for
me as well, please.
K. Everyone or just?
Just you. Okay.
I will roll that spot
hidden, and that was a failure.
Okay.
As I I do go over there ah,
this is this is perfect. And I I
Well, hang on, bro. We're not done yet.
Okay. I'll hang up my bag
over there. That's what I
Alright. Also, you notice that spattered blood leads
from the kitchen door to the stairs upon
and upon discovering this, I need you to
roll a sanity roll, please.
Sure.
Let's do that.
I am totally
saying that's a failure. Alright. So go ahead
and, lose one sanity point, please. Yep. And
you notice 3 garish
large golden coins
lie
discarded on the floor next to those stairs.
Okay.
59.
Okay.
Nope. Wait. I think I did that wrong.
Anyway. So I go to hang up my
my bag on on one of the hooks
there.
And as I I start to do that,
I
look over and see the the blood spatter
and kinda let my my bag fall to
the ground.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, my.
Yeah.
Yeah. The ho ho ho. Oh, boy. Oh,
boy.
I start to spit it out. I
hear the doc muttering. I was like, are
you okay, doc? I come back outside. I'll
put into the hallway, and I I kinda
I guess Oh, there's a there's a there's
a a
pile there's some
There's a pile of dust? Nope. But blood.
Blood. But I it's splattered.
There's some some blood and and some coins
over
for right over right over there.
Well,
that's just
lovely.
No. No. No. No. I mean, it's it's
it's it's it's it's I saw it with
my my own two
eyes.
This is I'm sorry.
Freaking out a little bit here. Just getting
a little little unnerved. Do we all sense
at this point?
Do I he's pointed it out, so obviously
yeah.
Yep. Oh, calm down. I'm sure you're overreacting.
I'll stop
that way and go look at it.
It is a lovely
color.
Yep.
Can I tell if the blood is still
fresh?
Go ahead
and
Roll a
taste.
How does it
is it refreshing?
It's not good. We're not vampires.
Please do not put the blood in your
mouth.
This the twenties, everybody has a communicable disease.
I'm just taking a quick look at your
skills here at Dallas, so bear with me.
I have a level of reason. There's hot
coffee still in the other room and there's
blood, so I'm gonna assume that I could
probably just assume that it's fresh.
Yeah. It it
I mean,
you're not, like, touching it or anything. So
Yeah.
But, yeah, it it it does appear that
it is
not completely dry.
Right.
K. I'm gonna follow it up to those
3 coins. Is there blood past those coins?
Like, going up the stairs, up the walls,
coming out somebody's chest.
You heard her throwing stars, get ready for
throwing coins.
Funny, funny people.
Did you just describe the plot to the
medallion with Jackie Chan?
Probably.
I haven't seen that.
Most people don't. It's okay. Yeah.
I mean,
they use them in Mistborn.
I haven't played They do. They do, don't
they? Yeah.
Oh, I also forgot to mention one side
of the coin. Is anybody gonna no. That's
I said I was gonna go look at
it, but Okay. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. I got
earlier.
Filled a frost showing us attitude.
No kidding. Nobody asked my name. Nobody listens
what I'm doing.
I'm just here.
Yeah. I know I'm short, but come on.
I am here. We are here. We are
here. Here.
She's Dallas had Dallas asked me a question
that didn't that's not actually in the notes
here, so I'm trying to
figure out how to answer it, and I
got hung up on that.
It's okay. I'm sorry. I broke the game.
You did.
I'm not no. It's probably in the game.
It's just never where you need it to
be.
I lost the game. Appendix z.
Yep.
Thing is z blood.
Dang it. I knew I should look there.
Z coins?
That's the curse.
The blood doesn't seem to go beyond that
stair the entry to the stairs. It doesn't
seem or you don't notice any,
actually. And I'm gonna have you also roll
a spot hidden for me, Dallas, being as
you're in the hallway right now as well.
Double check my number again.
I should probably memorize this number because I'm
gonna use it a lot. I'm good. I
recognize
it. I passed.
Okay.
You also
noticed that there are 2 bullets lodged in
the hallway floor. Oh,
cool.
Are they by the coins?
They are not. They're in the hallway. They're
actually, they're actually in the floor. Go ahead
and roll either a firearms
handgun or intelligence
role for me, please.
And I can give you some more information
on that
firearms
hand
or intelligence,
whichever one you would rather roll.
I've failed the handgun.
Okay.
No, they're they're in the
middle of the
they're in the middle of the floor, probably
in the vicinity of the
blood trail comes out of the
kitchen
ask area
out of a kitchen area. Okay.
Now, Amanda
or rather
Hilda.
Sorry. Everybody decided to be cute in how
they named themselves.
I'd I literally just took it off of
a name generator.
That's
Fine. Hilda, when you examine
the coins
when you examine the coins,
I need you to roll It flips up.
Roll an appraise for me, please.
No. She just says no.
Did not pass an appraise.
No. Well, I got an 82 out of
55.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
Alright. Well, you'd notice that one side of
the point on on one side of the
coin appears a depiction of an obelisk of
some sort,
while the other is covered in some strange
sigils and disturbing designs.
Well, that's an ugly coin.
Oh, let me see. I love to look
at at things and see if they really
are as ugly as people say they are.
I don't that couldn't that could Oh.
I look at the doc. I'm, like, how
are you the only sane one in this
room? Buffy?
Yes.
Can you please roll an art craft
role for me, please?
Would you like art history,
painting, or
sketching? Do you want meconium art? I guess
it's all the same score, so I can
just roll.
Pass.
You are able to to determine
that this has some under has an underlying
aquatic theme to the coin's designs?
Well, isn't that cute?
It's on an island and it's water themed.
You seemed to like water. She looks at,
What's your name Josiah? Bernard.
Bernard. Bernard. You seem to like
the water, would you like to look?
No. I believe that would be the evidence
if this is some sort of, I don't
know,
murder,
home invasion,
kidnapping
perhaps,
battery. I mean, there's there's anything that could
be be going on in in here.
Oh, goodness. Do you see a little blood?
And all of a sudden, you get all
shaky.
Really, doctor. You think that you would be
more accustomed
to blood.
Oh, well,
I am more of a
conservationist
than a
the the the the alternative.
I'm not into,
slicing
things open, if you know what I mean.
In fact, speaking of open, I I think
I'm going to head back back out in
into,
the open.
I I really would recommend that, doc. That
storm's pretty wild, and we're we're better in
numbers,
at least for the moment.
Right. I just,
I just need, maybe something to calm my
nerves a little bit.
Let's go to a half drunk cup of
coffee in the other room. Just go sit
in one of those chairs,
breathe.
You know what? That, that actually sounds maybe
I should, sit down.
What
was that? What was Hilda's background or
job in life? No. That'd be something you'd
wanna ask her.
I I noticed that Hilda's pretty
noticing the coins a little bit. What do
you do, Hilda?
Well,
normally,
I deal in things like this, but these
are just ugly, and I'm not even sure
they're that valuable.
What do you mean you deal with things
like this?
As you say that, Hilda, go ahead and
roll and appraise for me, please.
I literally just said that earlier and failed.
Oh, did you? I'm sorry. Never mind. Never
mind. I didn't know how to do this.
The coins. I'm I'm sorry. My bad. I'll
I'll shut up. Think they're ugly. I'll shut
up. Never mind. My bad.
Yeah. So what what do you mean by
you you deal with coins? Are you dealing
with I just I buy and and sell
and deal in antiques, but these are just
garish.
Are you good at reading appraisals?
No. Normally.
In the study here, I found some
appraisals for some coins.
Why don't we all leave the murder hallway,
go into
the study here
Dramatic.
And you look at these and figure out
what these are.
Well, I suppose.
Don't suppose you, you know, have anything heavy
and you're good at protecting yourself or others
by any chance?
Have anything
heavy with me? What what? I mean Plastic
pipe,
a wrench. We already
Oh, I've I've
fisticuffs?
Close enough. Why don't you stay here with
the young lady, and y'all look at the
coins together, and you get a little bit
more color back in your skin. Yeah. I'm
I'm going to sit down in this, this
nice comfy chair over here.
Okay. As mentioned before that that chair those
chairs are situated
by a
table.
And the table does contain several books of
maritime tales,
a bird book, a repair manual for the
lighthouse,
a pipe and pouch of tobacco,
a pair of binoculars,
a sketchbook
pencils,
watercolor paints, paintbrushes,
and paper.
Well, I will as I sit down, if
if that's alright, I'll I'll notice the, the
pipe and tobacco there.
And I will take take a look at
it and say, do do you do you
think if your your friend would mind if
I,
just,
you know, calm the nerves a little bit?
You know, he often says smoke them if
you got them, but, you know, I don't
know where he's at right now or, you
know, that limit to his not being here.
But have fun.
Oh, okay. I'll I'll just, I
fill up the pipe with some some tobacco.
Did you say there were matches there as
well?
May as well be. Yeah. And I, I,
I light the, the pipe
and sit back in the chair and I,
I pick up the maritime
book as I'm,
sitting there.
As you reach for the maritime book, you
do notice that there is a recently finished
watercolor that also sits on the table beside
a neat stack of other paintings.
And
the piece does appear to show a window,
a dark shadow with wide eyes, leers through
the
glass pane
and the window can easily be identified as
the same one next to the artist's desk.
Can you please make a sanity roll for
me, please? Sure. I'd love to.
I was just going to say that's a
failure.
Go ahead and take one more sand for
one more point of sanity loss. Yep. Oh,
sorry. That I hit the wrong one there.
Sorry.
I'm going down quick, guys.
I am also going to walk over and
pick up the sketchbook. Oh.
Oh, what? Yeah.
That No. You won't.
Sorry. I I was
just about to calm down, and there's that
that that painting there. And, actually, Josiah,
because you would be the appropriate person for
this role, go ahead and roll natural world,
or if you have it, science of either
biology or zoology.
Yeah. I do have biology.
Zoology
is what a can I do zoology? It's
a little You can do what you you
can do either one. Which one's better? The
lower numbers or the higher numbers? I can't
Lower
So you want higher numbers because that gives
you more to roll underneath.
That's what I thought. Okay. So zoology then
in that case. Yep. It's a failure.
What's your what's your zoology score?
My zoology score is a 60.
And what did you roll? An 81.
Gee whiz. But I'm trying to get I
need to get my actual dice up because
Yeah. Have you have you been rolling digital?
I have. I have been. Oh, no. Yeah.
Here they are. I I will let you
reroll that because I know digital can kind
of Yeah. Suck.
Let's see. There we go.
There's the d
that I want.
That was a 41.
Alright. So So you are able to determine
that the shadow's eyes look bulbous and appear
placed almost to the side of the head,
similar to the anatomy of a fish or
a frog.
Okay.
Now now that looks,
sort of slightly,
aquatic.
What is what is that doing peeping in
someone's window?
It might not have actually been in the
window. There is
a style of art where it is surreal.
Buffy, are you looking at the painting as
well?
I'm looking through the sketchbook.
I I I mentioned it to her. Okay.
It's sir sir it's it it it
sir sure
it sure seems real to me.
Sure. We're real.
Sure. Sure. Sure. Real. It's a like, what
you said there. Sir real.
Yes.
I I I take the pipe and sit
back and start smoking a little bit,
and I glance over at that that window,
like, kind of
making sure that there's no fish thing in
it right now. Mhmm.
And then I'm just kind of smoking, smoking
the pipe.
So can I look at the appraisal things
now?
Yes. Okay.
I'm just sorry. I'm trying to.
Okay. I didn't want it. I just wanted
to ask
questions. I'm jumping all around in my notes.
It's okay. Either I hate modules.
You're looking
at those. I need you to go ahead
and roll an appraisal an appraise roll for
me, please.
See how that goes.
Oh, that's nice.
Does it change anything if it's a really
low number?
What do you mean? On a normal roll?
It's a 15.
It just means you you succeed. Okay. There's
not an extra success or anything? No. Cool.
No. No. So you you recognize that some
some of these stores
have charged what you would consider to be
a fair price while others have seemed to
be taking trying to take advantage of whoever
was having the coins valued.
And as you're digging through there under a
large coin catalog
are several letters
from further,
fields, antique stores,
librarians
and universities.
Each begins with dear Mr. Cassidy followed by
an apology explaining
that the sender is unable to determine the
origin of the coins described,
in the received
correspondence. However,
all the letters seem to state that they
are keen to see the actual sample
so that they can carry out a proper
thorough analysis.
Can you give me a library use role,
please?
Mhmm. Oh, no.
I was over by one point. Do you
wanna do you wanna burn some luck?
Yeah. It's probably a good time to just
do that. So let's Okay. Go ahead and
burn one luck point if you're over if
just by 1. Mhmm.
And
you see that the the letters are largely
in chronological
order. The first was dated March 8,
1926, while the
the latest letter is dated April 2nd of
1926.
The last one is from miss Anna's Hilton
on
from the Newsberry
port society.
And I am going to send you a
handout
so you can actually read said letter.
Yeah.
Kinda
like handouts.
Alright. So you should have How should I
get a handout? You should have that handout
in your library now.
Oh,
like
on my character sheet?
No. If you were but it's gonna be
in the same area where where you would
select your character sheet.
Oh,
yes. I haven't actually used that feature in
roll 20 before. Let me go there.
Oh,
it's in cursive.
It below it is, typed out. It's the
same thing. Oh, good. So you have a
picture It might just not do that. There
we go. You have a picture of it
and then you have the, it typed out
underneath. So
Okay. So I'm gonna start reading this, but
in a mumble, I guess, to nobody.
Mhmm. Dear mister Cassidy, Cassidy, I think you're
learning. If I write to my end, this
year, I do need to recognize coin is
correct,
or at least we're getting a solid decoration
for the face of failure.
This is
all that's holding the true worth.
However, if you value your immortal soul,
I strongly caution you against contacting any descendants
of that place. No good ever came from
dealings with insmith
Innsm
instead the Newbury Port Society be glad to
purchase any coins you have from rent mortgage.
Who's Pinna Tilting?
I don't know if anybody was near me
and heard any of that.
I'm Where are you at?
She's in the she's in the office with
the rest of you guys. Okay. Yeah. I'm
just by the desk. Okay. I didn't I
didn't remember.
Now what what what what what what's that
you say?
Innsmouth?
Yeah. Some
some place in in Smith.
I don't
know. Does that does that ring any bells?
Can I roll something for bell ringing?
Not really. This isn't n d.
Yeah. I didn't know. I didn't it's just
It must be nearby.
Yes. Yes.
Did did I hear something about the
souls?
Oh, no. Don't
don't worry about it.
I feel like
that if you say we shouldn't worry about
it, that is exactly what we should do.
Because you, my dear, are very
contrary.
Did you call it country? No.
No, I did not.
I
present that remark. But, anyway,
did you find how many coins did we
have of of those those ugly coins?
3? 3?
Wait. Let me see those.
I've pandered the coins.
Okay.
And these look like everything I saw on
the papers that I have here in front
of me. Mhmm.
Okay.
So what's with the coins.
Also,
the roll top desk also does have 2
drawers.
The left hand one is open,
but there is a key that is snapped
off inside its lock.
The drawer also holds an empty wooden box
whose green velvet lining holds the shape of
a revolver, and there are 6 bullets that
lie loose in the same drawer.
The right hand drawer is locked.
I'm sorry to understand. Is there do we
have access to this weapon, or is it
all locked away? No. No. That there is
no weapon. I'm saying that it the the
box itself was empty, and the green velvet
lining is it holds the indentation
of a revolver.
Okay. Then we can see
into it? Yeah. The box, the box, you
can open the box there's and now, like
I said, there's 6 bullets that lie loose
in the same drawer,
and then the right hand drawer is locked.
What caliber is that? Are those bullets?
Revolver caliber? It doesn't say
I'm going to pick them up and put
in my pocket. Okay.
So, so it's nothing,
nothing to worry about. Just, just some coins.
That's that's what I hear you saying.
I need to
to take this with me for
something else. I'm sure it's nothing to do
with
well,
who was it that you said lives here?
Well, I have a friend, Michael, who was
supposed to be here and he invited me
to come here.
Well, where is he?
That's great question. Fantastic question. Wondering that myself,
ma'am.
Well,
seeing that we
can't leave
and seeing that there is,
definitely
something
in the other part of the building, I
say we, shut the doors to this room
and we
just hang out in in here. I forgot
got a book, and I I tap the
book, and, you know, I'm just gonna start
flipping through.
And it's like, you don't.
Wait out the storm. The hallway, and then
there was one that went to a kitchen.
Yeah. The kitchen that is adjunct to this
current room.
Okay.
In correlation to the round where the steps,
the the principal and around the building on
the outside, where are we in correlation to
that? The front door.
Well, basically
like the pathway would have gone past the
front door and then around to the right
and then towards the back.
So you're on the left hallway. So it's
on the opposite side of the building.
Right.
I'm going to walk towards the kitchen and
see if there's a door to the outside
in the kitchen, in the kitchen. You see
that there's some dirty plates and a sauce
pan in the sink, the table with
a table with 3 chairs
and 3 doors. 1 leading to the outside,
one to the hallway, and one to the
study.
A small
wood fired stove is located on the far
corner. A still warm kettle sits on the
hearth next to it.
One of the chairs lies broken on the
floor, and there's a small pool of blood
on the floor beside it.
Oh, good. Go ahead and roll on intelligence
roll for me, please.
Ahoy.
What's my intelligence?
Your intelligence is gonna be at the top
of your sheet. Mhmm. I had to pull
it back up. Oh, gotcha. Gotcha. I was
looking for the map, and the map disappeared
from my screen. And so
but, yeah. I I passed.
Okay.
You realize that the chair may have been
used as an actual weapon.
Go ahead and roll either first aid or
medicine.
All right.
Skills.
I passed.
How, by how much did you pass?
I got a 25 and my
was maxed out at 30.
Okay.
You are able to tell that this pool
of blood is recent and probably
formed within the last hour.
Oh,
alright. Cool beans. So
I'm gonna
check the door and see if it's locked.
Okay.
It is not locked.
Okay.
Is there a deadbolt
or anything? Yeah. Sure.
I'm gonna throw the deadbolt. Okay. And then
there's a door to the hallway. Correct?
Is it locked?
No. Because this is a kitchen, and you're
inside a house. Right.
Just checking.
Some of us other homes do that. I
don't know if you knew that. So
I I feel like that's incorrect, but I'll
just take your word for it.
I'm gonna walk to back to the study,
and I'm like, so,
you know, murder hallway, murder kitchen. So
we should probably stay together.
Stay in here. Stay in this room. Yes.
Are you okay? You just knocked over some
of the pencils.
That was a knitting needle,
crochet needle,
crochet hook
from the other side of the room. I
wasn't gonna correct it, but
yeah. Actually, what what you heard was the
sound of
the only knife in the kitchen falling off
the countertop.
Right. As it had been propped
just off the edge like someone had been
grabbing for it before
insanity check. Oh, lord. No. It just it
just it just
from I do.
From settlement fell off the counter.
Okay. I do jump up out of my
chair, though.
Now you were saying
murder
kitchen?
Yeah. So
hold on real quick before we advance because
I need to catch up with Celeste because
she or rather a buffet,
you had been flipping through the sketches and
the watercolor paintings, correct?
Indeed.
You got spike in
it. While flipping through some of the wall
watercolor paintings, one more image grabs your attention.
It features the nearby thicket as
the lighthouse.
And one of the other small buildings can
be seen in it.
And in the darkness of the path leading
to the thicket is the silhouette of a
man.
Unlike the first painting that Bernard had seen,
this one is dated February 14,
1926.
There is a corresponding rough sketch with the
previous day's date in the sketchbook.
There is no matching sketch to the first
painting, however.
Okay. I'm going to
flip past that before the doctor can see
that. Okay.
While,
We don't have any of that information that
you gave her. Right? No.
Agent
Merle here. Below.
Okay. When he left the room and everybody
kinda stopped paying attention, I started messing with
the
locked drawer.
Okay.
Do you have
a locksmith?
No. No. Not really. You don't have a
locksmith skill?
I do, but it's a wand.
Oh.
I mean, you can certainly try.
You said the the key is, like, in
the other one, but it's It's it's broken
off.
Go ahead. Do you have go ahead and
roll an idea roll for me, please. Okay.
Where do I find that?
Oh, just a minute. This is what happens.
I have no ideas.
Roll an intelligence roll for me. Okay.
2.
Oh, yeah. Definitely.
Roll
while
looking at the drawer and then having heard
that knife fall off the counter, you get
the idea that
with enough force
and a tool like said knife to pry
that you could probably pry that door that
drawer open and break the lock.
Okay.
Then I shall go get the knife.
Okay.
So everybody sees
everybody sees our resident antique dealer
walk into the kitchen, pass the pool of
blood on the floor, grab the knife and
come back into the,
into the study. No. I'm not making
Seriously, the the doc is the same person
in the room.
Murder kitchen. You don't go into the a
murder kitchen.
Go ahead and roll a strength roll for
me, please.
Alright.
Oh, can I spend some luck? You sure
can.
67
out of 65, so I'm just gonna spend
2.
Yep. That's the perfect one.
That's the perfect time to do something like
that, I in my opinion. The drawer contains
a small journal belonging to George Cassidy.
I'm gonna send you another handout.
Yay.
Getting all the handouts.
My character's grumpy, but Amanda's
happy to get reading material. Normally,
the cursive really did my eyes in for
a second.
Well, if if it when I send these,
if they're in cursive, there's gonna be there's
gonna
be text text below it if you don't
wanna play the cursive game.
It will normally, I don't mind, but it
is so blurry. And so you have to,
like, click on it and zoom in and
No. I get it. Like, oh. Alright. It
should be it should be in your
need a a degree in hieroglyphics to read
it.
It should be in your files now.
Cool. I
As you're reading that there's also a rough
sketch of an obelisk on the journal's cover,
and the same image can be the same
as the image that you noticed on the
coins.
And then the last entry cuts off abruptly
as if Cassidy was interrupted while writing it.
And you do recognize Cassidy's handwriting.
What did you do?
I didn't do anything.
I just walked into the kitchen and said
murder kitchen, and and
you went in there to make a sandwich
and bring a knife back, and now I'm
very confused.
What what's what's that you have there?
Not the knife. The other thing.
Hilda's just reading.
Totally ignoring them.
A book?
Clearly, she is ignoring you.
What's everybody else doing during this time?
I followed, but I'm still looking through the
sketchbook.
Okay.
It doesn't seem to be much more of
interest in that sketchbook.
Says you.
Okay. Well,
Bernard, what are you doing currently?
Well, I'm standing up. I'm starting to kinda
pace back and forth
in the room, and every now and then
I'd look over at the window again
just to make sure
that nothing's
in it.
I pick up the chair
that was turned over and set it back
up
if I if it hasn't already been picked
up. It hasn't. So, yeah, you go you
can go ahead and set that up. Yeah.
I start kind of
if it like,
if there's papers and stuff or anything, like,
I I just start
organizing a little bit while I'm in the
in the room. Sort of just like a
nervous shuffle.
Yeah. Yeah. Right.
And Kit?
Yeah. I'm just very confused to why everyone's
just real chill.
Like,
look, guys guys, look, I know
I don't know. Maybe this is a Thursday
for you guys and
but this isn't this isn't normal, and,
you know, I I have a friend here
hopefully still alive somewhere.
I I'm I'm not chill. What what
chill?
You didn't you say Michael Michael somebody?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Michael somebody. Well, it sounds
like he left.
Oh, that that would have been happy for
him to to have told me that before
he sent me an invite to get on
the freaking boat and come here. So where
did he go? Did he leave a, like,
a, hey. I owe you, you know, be
back with the milk later. What's happening?
Wait. I'm sorry. Is did Michael live here,
or was he visiting here? I'm just trying
to clarify.
I am too, bud.
Well, see, there's this there's this
associate
that I may be kind of used to
know. It sounds like that they him and
Michael knew each other.
Oh, and who was his associate?
What
I mean, his his name is Cassidy, but
that's not important.
What is important is that he did keep
a diary
because he's silly like that. But
I don't like a diary.
That's not important.
So
and does anybody know a Smith?
And Whiston?
Good grief. I'm gonna sit down in a
chair and toss the
the art book to the side and pick
up another book.
A Smith. Well, there's
like, are you referring to a
Smith as a person who is a Smith
or like a Smith as a surname
or
You know, sometimes I don't know what Cassidy
means in some of these, but I do
know he talks about a Smith and a
Michael.
1 looks like Smith left,
and then
Mike left after that, but but then it
just cuts off right after
Where where did they go? Does it say
that they went somewhere or or
At the time, it was just to look
at something outside. So it wasn't really a
long trip.
Look at something outside,
like the like the boot prints?
Just just something
odd.
Is Smith the name of a dog?
No. He just talks about a lousy rat,
but I'm pretty sure he meant,
well, he did call Smith a lousy rat.
Is Smith
a pet rat?
I don't think a pet rat fixes radios.
Radio? Is there a is there a radio
in here? I did hear a story about
a rat that helped some guy cook kitchen
cook in the kitchen one time, but that
was weird. So
I looked around to that one. That one
was weird. It was very popular in France.
I look around to see if there's a
radio in the room.
There is not.
I could go for
a little music, a little relaxation right about
now.
Probably means like a two way radio. We
are in a lighthouse there, bud.
A two two way radio. So we could,
contact the the authorities and and tell them
that there's been a a murder here. Now
that that is a that's a plan I
can
get behind.
Possibly. So
The the thing about
about this Michael person leaving is that this
particular entry is dated
for today.
Oh,
okay.
So Mikey was here today.
Where did he go?
Well, and I don't have Cassidy here either,
and I didn't even
realize he was here.
But
I think we look for this radio. We
call the police,
and, that that's that's Well, the radio is
busted.
It's busted.
Yeah.
Well,
I have dabbled in communications.
It's important
out on the sea.
So so perhaps
something I could
see my way to fixing?
Is it in Oh, sure. One of one
of the other rooms?
Would, one of you
mind
coming with me? I just for safety,
I'm just gonna pop my head in This
is
and grab a radio and bring it back
in here.
I'll go. They're not normally things you just
carry.
I don't know if you noticed this this
is you know, they're big.
In the future, they have these small things
I hear that are, like, real quick and
portable. Oh,
come on now. I heard right up. Thank
you for your help.
You know, I could that's some really cool
stuff.
I could probably
just, you know, just yeah. I don't really
wanna be in
murder room.
Well, we're not in a murder room yet
that we know of. That's the kitchen
over there. That's the murder kitchen, and then
right outside this room is the murder hallway.
So right now, directly, you're in the safe
space. Who are you doing right now if
there was a murder if there's no body?
So but there was a chair that was
on the floor. Who picked up the chair?
Sorry. I,
organize when I get a little nervous.
Noted. Antsy.
So who who is Cassidy?
Like I said, just an associate. But here,
I mean, you know this Michael. Just take
a look.
Alright. Let's see here. Alright.
Let's see here.
This is on February.
Interesting.
Let's
see
here.
See you found a coin. Oh, good. Zelda.
I kept walking and found another,
then another.
I know it's gold. Oh, you found a
leprechaun. Great. Okay.
Who's right in this journal? Whose handwriting is
this?
That's my my associate. This is Cassidy? Okay.
Alright.
Keckle Park.
So, Aquinas, what kind of how how close
are you guys? Someone I used to know
made some not great decisions. I moved on.
I don't think he did.
Something that I used to know. I was
in the same thing.
I was in the same place. You didn't
have to
wash me off.
Let's see here.
Looks like it might be from a ship.
Must have gone down
recently.
Did did Cassidy live here?
I
I'm not sure.
Not sure what he had going on exactly.
He just
I got a contact from him and thought
that I would
see what he got into,
and it sounds like a mess.
Yeah. So was no one other than me
actually going to Rockport?
Well, I was I was still going to
Rockport,
but
I thought he was at Rockport, and he
was clearly not.
So so, should should we go, look for
this radio now?
See if we can get some some help?
Well, there's a storm going on. Did you
not remember that part?
Well,
yes.
Kit reading.
I'm a slow reader in real life. All
right.
Well, I was going to help you out
in flipping through this journal.
You
find
I would suggest you start towards the April
3rd
entries.
Yeah.
I see that.
So that Michael's watching him, so he bought
a gun. Oh,
okay.
Cool. And Mike's a nice guy. I'm not
sure why you need a gun.
I'll leave the lighthouse tomorrow. He says it
doesn't care if
it voids his contract?
Wow. He does not really like Michael. We
call him a sneak and everything.
I as well.
Wait. Hold on. It's up here that he
was gonna fix it before he leaves.
Well,
I I I doubt it. But
if we find the radio and it works,
then great. If not, I jump
out. Sure enough. You surely did not fix
the radio.
But we did find some mechanical parts earlier
here, it says. So maybe they're upstairs where
it is.
Well, Cassidy was going to fix it after
Smith left, but it but that was today.
So So the radio is upstairs.
Great.
Who's going with me?
I'll go.
Right. We can carry it down together.
Hold on, doc. Did you
did you, how much of that pipe did
you smoke?
Just a little I mean, a pipe full.
Okay. Are you feeling okay, bud?
Fine. Okay. Just checking. Alright. So
I'm all for leaving this room together.
Okay.
What's on the bottom floor? Is it just
the Yeah. Across the hallway, you have the
larder and the bunk room.
Alright. Pretend like I'm an idiot. What's a
larder? It's like a pantry? Yeah. It's like
a food storage space.
Okay.
It's okay.
Is it, like, a big walk in space
or is it just like a Yep. I'll
bet.
Alright. Cool. So let's leave the
this
zone, the what we hope is a safe
zone.
Let's make sure we don't have a a
a murder pantry.
And what was the other room?
Yeah. The larder and the bunk room.
The bunk room.
Now let's check those rooms real quick carefully.
Ow. Just pulling yourself.
While I'm keeping my knife.
You know, that's, that's wise. I recommend that.
It looks like you're a woman who knows
how to deal with sharp things for some
reason. Alright. If you're keeping that knife, just
for your information,
in case you ever have to use it
other than a tool,
the knife deals 1 d 3 damage,
plus any bonus you may have.
Nice.
Say
Doc, what's in your bag? Anything, you know,
that
could be helpful
for I've
got some
there's some some,
you know,
the usual stuff, journals,
pitch pencils.
I I do have
a scalpel.
I don't like to use it, but I
do have one with me.
I have paintbrushes.
Right. Okay.
I do have this this this hefty little
tube that I keep some larger
sketches and maps and and stuff in and
it's all
hefty. I feel like I'm walking around with
Scooby Doo gang. Right.
You have a magnifying lens
and a knife.
Right. So I would like for us to
leave
the the room and check the pantry real
quick and then the bunker if you guys
are all in game for it. Yeah. We'll
just I'm just gonna follow.
Alright.
Bam.
Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Alright. You
guys head to the larder, and the lighthouse's
food store is full of shelves all neatly
stacked with all manner of dried, canned, and
preserved foods,
enough to see 3 people through
if cut off from the mainland for several
months.
So we'll be fine.
Sure.
Anything
of interest that we're seeing? Not especially.
Okay. Is it a closed room, or is
it there's a door to it also?
It's just the single entry to it. There's
not a second door there. Okay. Good. Another
safe room.
This is this is comforting.
Got 2 places.
In fact, this one might be more safe.
Maybe.
Less entryways.
True. Also less escape routes. So just keep
that in mind.
So
We're also negative. We haven't even found a
body.
So we're gonna walk over now to the
the bunker.
The the bunker room? Bunk room. All right.
As you walk in there, you see 3
neatly made beds. There's a large pile of
books that are stacked tightly in one corner
of the room. There are also
3 large cupboards, each holding soap towels, fresh
bedding, and extra blankets.
Those belonging
to Turner and Cassidy contain various articles of
clothing along which
a few small personal effects.
Who's Turner?
That would be Michael Turner.
Oh.
And then there's one belonging to Smith that
contains only linen and towels.
Kit, go ahead and make a spot hidden
role for me, please.
I'll pass.
Okay. In
searching
Michael's bunk,
you find 1, another one of those gold
coins,
6 loose bullets
and a pocket sized
notebook stuffed
in Turner in his mattress.
You said 6 bolts?
Yes.
Okay. I'm gonna pocket those bolts,
and then I'm gonna flip through the notebook
real quick.
K. So while he's reading,
can I
look at Cassidy's bunk more and see if
there's anything else I find?
As you check
Cassidy's bunk, you just
notice mostly just
personal effects and toiletries and things of that
nature.
Miss Hilda,
what kind of business were you involved with
with Cassidy?
Oh, just, you know, buying and selling of
valuable objects and items.
Legally?
Sometimes.
But Cassidy has a way of getting into
things he should not.
Mhmm.
So I'm picking up.
Do do do you think these are these
coins that you said were just
junk,
would have anything to do with with this?
Oh my goodness.
They definitely do. He says as he knocks
some of the toiletries off of a book.
Sorry. I am just
rather clumsy.
Clearly.
They may be.
I'm reading here
the year was a did we come in
off the North Shore when we came into
this island?
Yes.
K.
What I'm reading here from gathering
that the Would your hands stop shaking?
Sorry.
The debris that we ran over on our
way in,
that might have been a boat that contained
these gold coins.
That's what it sounds like.
Very interesting.
So
that said,
I think we should probably move on a
little quicker to this radio. How many stories
are there to the lighthouse?
You don't know.
It's a lighthouse
till the stairs stop.
Alright.
If it's well Up we go. Come on,
Scoob and gang.
Are you guys good? Hey. Stairs.
Yes. We do. We do. Okay.
As you're climbing the stairs in the the
hallway,
the stairs
from the hallway, you eventually read reach the
lighthouse's service room, which is located immediately below
the lantern room.
The mechanism used to turn the lamp can
be
seen mounted in the ceiling.
From the noise, it appears to still be
working,
and a separate set of steps
leads up through the trap door into the
lantern room above.
There are several boxes stored here. Each contain
a repulse a replacement
bulb for the lighthouse's beacon.
There is also a small workbench
and a tool bag. On the workbench is
a log of the various service checks performed
on the lighthouse.
Okay.
Okay. This,
this looks
like we're getting close. I'm gonna grab the
the tool bag.
Okay.
Now this this might come in handy for
for the radio.
I'm gonna look at the, the log of
the service checks on the lighthouse.
Okay. Go ahead and give me either a
mechanical or electrical repair role.
All right. Let me pull my character feet.
All right. Passed
with electrical repair. Okay.
You're able to determine that the majority of
the checks were purely routine. However, one entry
stands out on February 12,
1926.
Wiring problems had caused the lighthouse's
lamp bulb to prematurely
burn out. The log records how the electrical
short caused the bulb's failure,
coupled with
a severe storm hampered
which hampered the repairs,
meaning that the lighthouse
was in darkness for several hours in that
time period.
Opposite of this workbench, you guys notice that
there is a table with a radio set
in a semi state of disrepair.
That's
that's what I was looking for.
Is it supposed to look that way?
No.
Not really.
Have you used one before?
Of course. I've used a radio before.
Can I roll for mechanical repair?
You can roll for electrical repair.
I don't have electrical repair. Then
probably not. No.
Here, I got the 2. I do have
electrical repair. Oh.
So I'm having problems. It's the
was this suggesting that the
short circuit that took place was with the
light intentional, or was it just a freak
accident? It just says that it was an
electrical short that caused the bulb to fail.
Mhmm. And then
and then because of a severe storm at
that time period, it hampered the repairs causing
the lighthouse to be out for several hours.
Right.
I'm gonna use 2 points of luck to
pass my electrical repair. Okay. Yeah. You're able
to repair the 8 the radio with ease.
Well, that yes. And
well done. Well done. That's exactly how I
would have done
it. And yet
you didn't. And also, as you were report
or approaching the radio
to do the repair, you do notice that
the radio's table and chair
have been tipped over,
and you had to you had to
you had to kinda push it aside to
get to the radio.
I I pick up the chair and set
it up right.
Someone really has a thing against chairs.
Indeed they do.
Well, it seems like of late Cassidy very
much liked long walks.
On the beach?
Hopefully not a short pier.
So yeah. Yeah. You now have a currently
a working
radio.
Alright. Wow. Well, doctor
Show us how it's done. Should,
call the the local
authorities
by turning this
knob here
and,
this this one here. I mean, attempt to
contact the
local authorities in some way. Okay.
Having used a radio before, you set it
for the coast guard
Mhmm.
And you do have a strong signal to
call out with.
Hello?
Coast Guard. This is,
is there, like,
anything that would tell,
like, what the the name of this location
is? Like, if there's any designation or anything?
No. It would be the Just the It
was the Rocky Point. Rocky Point. Okay. I
was just Or no. Beacon Island.
Beacon Island. The Beacon Island Lighthouse.
Hello. This is a Beacon Island
Lighthouse requesting
assistance.
You you hear a crackle back, crackle back
and hear someone say This is Admiral Sullivan.
How can we assist?
Yes. It it would seem that the
caretakers
of
the Beacon Lighthouse are in some form
of trouble.
There has been,
we've discovered blood in in several places
inside the the the White House, and we
are not able to find
the said lighthouse keepers
at this point.
Alright.
So to
understand you properly, you have found blood in
a lighthouse,
but
nobody's there?
I that that is correct. We we are
currently here,
and
there has been some sort
of foul play.
Of what variety? We're we're not
exactly certain.
Okay.
Are you certain of
well, foul play is a very specific
thing without seeing well, we're we'll we'll definitely
be able to get somebody out to you
as soon as we are able to. Right
now, we are currently
in the throes of quite a bit of
a storm, I'm as I'm sure you've noticed.
Yes. We're we're well aware. To to get
somebody out to you at the moment would
be impossible. But as soon as we are
able, we will definitely send somebody on out
there for you.
Well, you
sure no no one's sooner than
later?
Again, soon as soon as safely possible to
get out to you, we will definitely send
somebody out there to you. Right. Right. Okay.
Yeah. That's it. Thank you very much.
And then I kinda switch it off
well.
They're gonna be a minute, aren't they?
Back to the larder.
You're hungry now?
No. It just seemed like a good spot
to
hold up. You know?
I would like to if I remember correctly,
there's a ladder to the actual light itself.
Mhmm.
I would like to kinda, like, kinda climb
with the ladder and just peek to see
make sure that, you know, there's not a
dead body up there.
Okay.
Is anybody else going with him?
Up a ladder?
How many people can go up a ladder
at one time? Well, I mean, is anybody
else going up there?
No. No? I'm not.
Alright.
So,
Kit,
as you climb up the ladder and enter
into the lantern room,
you're greeted by a wet bloody scene. There
are 2 panes of glass in the in
the lantern room windows
that have been broken somehow. Their shattered remains
crunch underfoot as you go up in there.
And rain blows in through the gaps, making
the metal decking slippery underfoot.
Adding to the slipperiness is the blood from
the corpses of 2 men along with
that from 2 bizarre fish creatures
which
lie inside the room's narrow
confines.
One of the dead fish things is
latched onto
one of the men's necks
by its teeth. Even in death
even in death, period.
Witnessing the score tableau,
I need you to roll a sanity roll
for me, please.
55. I passed somehow.
Okay. Then you only take 1 you only
lose 1 sanity.
And then I'm also going to show you
a picture of
the mysterious corpses.
Okay.
So you should have that now.
Hold on one
second. Just in your memory forever.
I'm just.
Those are the 2 fish creatures, by the
way. Not
the 2 regular men.
Wow.
There. Are they dead?
Yeah, they're dead. Okay.
Cool.
Dig it. It's a trap, and so
It's a it's a what?
Hey. I y'all back up the dock. Hey,
doc. Remember you told him there was no
bodies?
Yeah. Yes. Yes. You might wanna you might
wanna change that.
What? There's there's 4.
44 bodies.
4. There's only 3 men.
Yeah. Count again.
No. There's 4 bodies. I found 2 men.
Do I recognize the other men?
There's one Michael?
No. One of them is not Michael. It
doesn't appear to be. I'll let you know
if that changes as I
read anymore.
Okay.
I hollered back down at at Hilda. I
was like, how's your constitution?
Because one of these may be Cassidy,
but Mikey's not up here.
But there are there are 4 bodies.
Def definitely 4 bodies.
Well, I guess let me look.
Definitely. So I can see if that's Cassidy.
I start climbing the ladder.
I kinda, like, brace her as she kinda
comes up because it's slick and windy and
and gross.
So
as you come up the ladder,
you do see
the same scene.
I need you to make a sanity roll
for me, please.
Mhmm.
Pass.
Okay. You also take only one point of
sanity loss,
And you do notice that one of the
dead people
is Cassidy.
Oh, Cassidy.
What did you do? What is that? What
are those?
I'm not really sure. What's going on up
there?
It's a little fishy.
Just stay right there.
Can I loot the body?
Well, yeah. You can definitely search the body.
Searching the various corpses reveals several points of
interest.
The body nearest the stairs is very strange
looking. The man garbed in heavy hooded raincoat
appears to have a
narrow head and pronounced flaps of skin around
his neck and jowls.
He seems to be suffering from some sort
of a skin condition. Going by his gray
rough complexion,
his bulging watery eyes stare sightlessly in the
direction of Cassidy's corpse.
Go ahead and make a first first aid
or medicine roll for me, please.
But,
where's my first aid?
Alright. I'm gonna use
3 points of luck. Okay. It's a 30.
Okay.
So in assessing the spotty, you're able to
to confirm that this thing this person has
been shot twice,
and it's from these bullet wounds that led
to his death.
A dead fish creature lies besides besides that
strange man. Both it and the one attached
to Cassidy's corpse have been shot as well.
One through the eye and one through its
belly.
Beyond the creature's,
obvious fish like appearances
and
amphibious
nature,
the species of fish
is not recorded anywhere
in any book known to you
and
the bizarre
piscine things look like they would be extremely
mobile on land
due to their muscular legs and perfectly at
home in the water due to their fins
and gills.
Is there anything in the pockets or
coats
about to do a spot hidden?
Give me a moment here.
I can't believe you're just handling them like
that. You know, hidden Cassidy's
shirt
is a heavy purse
full of
more of the strange gold coins and tied
around his neck,
which is actually tied around his neck on
a thick leather cord.
You also find a 6 shooter, which is
a Colt m
1877,
which is held firmly in his still warm
hands,
and all the bullets in the chamber have
been spent. The revolver
appears to match the size and shape of
the one that was missing from the desk
drawer downstairs.
And
yeah.
Okay.
I look at Hilda and said, well, here's
the deal.
This is kinda what I do.
I work for the bureau, and,
yeah, this is this is kinda my thing.
So this is why I'm okay with dealing
with dead bodies. Fish bodies, that's that's new.
That's a new thing.
Don't normally work with Atlantis, but here we
are today. I shut down at the dock.
Hey, doc.
You were looking at some marine
book downstairs. Right?
Yes. Yes. Sorry. I, was, trying to get
the radio to work again.
Was there was there any strange drawings of
fish people?
There was there was definitely a watercolor
of a
amphibian.
But in the book you're reading, did he
did you actually read the book? Were you
Yeah. I I looked through the book.
I don't know that there was.
Okay. John, was there anything that I would
know from that book that I was looking
through? If there was anything that you should
know, I would have told you about it.
I assumed as much. So That's good. Yep.
No. No. Nothing in the the book, but
there was definitely a picture of
some
amphibian,
large amphibian
eyes
looking through the window, but that's just, you
know, make believe stuff. You know what I
mean? So
Should we tell him?
Doc, I don't think it's, imaginary, bud.
Not Why did you say that?
Well, I have 2 options. I could tell
him that or I could drop the body.
Which one you want me to do, Puffy?
A body. How about you lie?
So we're gonna come down out of the
well, there's glass all inside
of the lighthouse. Right?
As this was it busted in or was
it busted out?
It was it doesn't say.
It's on the floor, so it's at least
partially busted in because the lighthouse is tall.
So if it was out, it would be
outside.
So what do you do? I will say
this.
Roll
a roll a spot hidden for me, please.
Past with flying colors.
You also notice that it the lens and
bulb of the lighthouse
has been busted as well.
Wow.
Are there parts to replace this in the
below
us? And to to be fur to further
identify
that with that with that success,
you don't it's a bullet you you recognize
that it's a bullet hole through the lamp's
lens.
The which which caused it to appear to
have appear to have shattered the bulb
before carrying through to smash
one of the lantern's rooms missing
panes of glass.
So that is one of those panes was
it was broken with a bullet,
which explains
why the lighthouse's beacon stopped working at 8
this evening, which can easily be summarized
with the
second
pane was destroyed by the other bullet.
Okay.
In relationship to Cassidy and the dead bodies,
how are you in the dead bodies between
Cassidy and the and the and the the
lamp
that's shattered from the bullet
as if he was shooting at something he
missed?
In in looking
at
the bodies, the
you you investigate further, and you noticed that
some of the bullet holes were through and
through.
So if it's it stood to reason that
it was it was just collateral damage
from from
an exchange of
fighting in such a compact space.
Right.
Hilda and I get down from up there.
Well, I mean, she can sit there if
she wants to. She's a she's a grown
woman. She can play what she wants to
do. No. Woman power. Do your thing, love.
But
I look at the boxes.
I'm looking for replacements
to the lens and bulb.
Go go ahead and roll a spot hidden
in
the lighthouse service room.
Did he take the gun off of Cassidy?
I did not because it was empty.
You're welcome to take it. I got spares.
Bullets.
You picked up the bullets. I have at
my gun. Places. Yeah. But other persons could
have a gun. I'm taking the gun and
the coin purse because
points.
Alright. Go ahead and put those in your
inventory.
K.
Do I know she grabbed all those things?
Were you there for it? That's what I'm
did you You had already said you went
down, and she can stay up there if
she wants to. So
Alright.
So I I I passed for the the
spot hidden. Alright. Yeah. There's lots of boxes
of bulbs, but there's no
you don't find a lens in there at
all.
What's what's your mechanical?
It's 50.
Okay. With your mechanical repair, you know that
without a replacement lens, there's no way that
the lighthouse can be brought back to full
working order.
However, replacing the bulb would
affect a temporary
repair,
and it would take about 40 minutes
to do. Is it a 2 person job?
No.
Okay.
Alright. So I'm gonna look at
the crowd here. Look. Look, guys.
We the
the lighthouse is down.
So even if the storm passes,
help can't just get over here without being
in danger.
So we've got to replace this at least
this bulb, so there's at least some sort
of light for them to get to
the coast somewhat safely and figure out where
we're at.
Yes. That that makes perfect sense.
Do we know how to to fix this?
I mean, I've I've changed the light bulb
too.
Yeah.
I feel like this is more than just
a light bulb.
So
I think we can I think we can
handle it, though?
We I don't know if we need to
send anybody else up there to that
that
mess.
I mean, it it it can't be that
bad. It is it?
Giant fish.
Giant giant fish.
Okay. Good one.
Way way to keep the mood light.
Right. Yeah. No.
I'm gonna do a spot hit and see
if I can see,
Hilda's gun, unless she just wants to, like,
tell me she brought the gun down because
she's got some I would I I would
deny you that role only because you wouldn't
know to look for it. Right.
Cool. Alright. But I don't plan on overly
hiding the fact that I have a gun
with no bullets in it. Did you Right.
Did you stuff it in a purse or
are you just holding it in your hand?
Like,
are you just holding it or do you
just like put it in a bag or
something so I could get down the ladder.
Okay. Yeah. So when I'm But I'm not,
like, hiding it either.
Right. What's your spot hidden score?
Mine Yeah. Is
65.
Okay. You noticed
butt of
the pistol
poking out of her bag.
Alright. I'm gonna I'm gonna stop as I'm
I'm taking the lens out. I'm like, did
you grab the gun? You don't have a
lens. There is no lens. You don't have
the bulbs. Well,
I'm gonna stop and go, did you grab
the gun?
Yeah. Why why wouldn't I grab the gun?
What are you gonna do with it? The
same thing I would do with the knife
if I had to.
Bludgeon somebody?
Defend myself?
Bludgeon somebody?
Wait. Do you bludgeon people with knives?
You're not very good at using knives. You're
not gonna stab anybody with a gun.
No. So you're gonna blood you through the
gun. Myself.
Do you want bullets?
Do you have bullets?
I got a few. Do you know how
to shoot?
Maybe.
I need a yes or no.
Come on. My lady needs a new original
point and click.
Yep.
I need to know if I can trust
you. I mean, I've I've I have some
experience.
Right. I kinda look around nervously, like, okay.
It's I feel like I can trust you
better than
the squirrely doc over there.
Oh, I know. Do not give him the
gun. I I mean, if yeah. I I
would,
probably say that I am not the safest
person. Do you handle a a firearm?
Gonna give him like a knife?
I don't think that's a good idea either.
I'm gonna stick with my little
document tube.
I'm gonna hand
Hilda 6 bullets,
and I'm gonna go, okay. I'm gonna go
up there and change this bulb. Ladies,
guard the dock, and I'm gonna climb up
the ladder. With the dog?
Scooby?
What?
Where?
Where where where where?
Okay. Go as you go up the ladder,
I need you to make a mechanical repair
roll, please,
for to replace that light bulb.
I I'm amazing at changing the light bulbs.
I am the grader.
Why would you roll?
A 7.
Oh, yeah. So it's gonna take you 40
minutes to replace that bulb. In the meantime,
what's everybody else doing?
Eating tacos.
First, I I try to call back the
the coast guard.
Okay. They answer?
Yeah. Yeah. Does yeah.
Does the coast guard? Yes. This is, the
the white house again.
You may have remembered me. I called a
little bit earlier.
We actually
have found
some bodies now.
2 bodies, is that that correct that one
day? I believe they said 4.
Four bodies. Four bodies.
Yes. Dead dead bodies
in the lighthouse. There were only there were
only 3 men stationed at that white house
lighthouse.
They had a guest.
They had a guest,
it seems.
So
we're working to, repair
the lighthouse
and
hopefully you could, send someone sooner
than
was originally.
I I know about the storm but,
just a little,
you know,
nervous.
I I understand.
But let me reassure you,
they're dead, sir. They can't hurt you.
Oh. Oh, yeah. They are dead, aren't they?
That that that but, someone
deaded them. I mean, killed them, you know?
They're
no longer alive, and
maybe they're still around. Here,
how how should we best defend ourselves?
Just some tips,
tricks. Sir,
I assure you we'll have somebody out there
as soon as we can
safely
get to that island.
Until then,
we are unable
to
do anything any faster than we had
previously said.
Best we can say is stay somewhere where
it's safe
until we are able to get there.
Oh, okay. I can I, I can handle
that?
Hi, miss. Heading down to the larder.
Then I'd turn off then.
Well, when you heard it, the the coast
guard said to head into the water, stay
safe.
So
that's that's what we should do. Right?
I think we should
stay here and wait for
what name again? Kit. I feel like we
should wait for Kit to come back down.
I agree. We still don't know where
that Michael person is.
I assumed we'd find him with Cassidy.
You never knew.
No. He wasn't up there.
Well, unless he grew
fins.
Fins?
Like a fish?
Maybe they
used some glue.
I don't think so.
Why why do you keep saying that they're
fish people
up there? I mean, that's that's funny and
all. But, you know, this really
is the time for for accuracy,
for
making sure that we are chronically in the
facts correctly.
But are we are we chronically in this?
Is this going somewhere? Are you a reporter?
No. I mean, I just when the authorities
arrive, we need to give them an accurate
description of of what's going on and and
everything that we found and
yes. Well, if they get here soon enough,
then the bodies will still be there.
Not at all decomposed.
Very fresh.
Well well, that that that is that is
a good point.
Just wanted to
make sure that we are,
you know, not
I don't know.
Oh, there's no exaggeration. They're they're people
who were fish.
Fish people?
Yep.
Again, must we tell him
he has overreacted
to everything?
Not everything.
Just most things.
You know what? I'm going to go look
for myself,
fish people.
I I gotta get it. Ask him how
long he's gonna be.
How much time has passed?
Like, 5 minutes. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm
I'm just allowing them to have an opportunity
to do stuff while you're doing that, my
dude. Right. It does say it takes 40
minutes. So, I mean, I'm not gonna go
40 minutes IRL,
but
there that that's that's some time that some
stuff can happen if they Yeah. Get stuff
to happen. Right. I'm gonna head up the
the ladder real quick.
Kind of defiantly
thinking that they're as he walks up. It
was such thick as you like, pay I'm
not paying attention. I'm just putting light up
there, and I'm just singing myself.
I'm like,
have a have a have a look. 1
pound fish. Have a have a look. 1
pound fish. Very, very good. 1 pound fish.
Really, dude. Alright. Go ahead and roll a
sanity roll for me, please. Sure. I would
love to do that.
Please survive.
I think I did. I think that's a
65.
Oh, good. He's getting used to it.
6 a 65. What's what's the
58.
Oh, no.
Can you roll a d 4 for me,
please?
Sure. Oh, no.
That's a 3.
Okay. You take 4
sanity loss. Okay.
How much sanity have you lost now?
As I started out at 60.
So
6
wait.
68. You lost 2 and then 4. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. You're you're you're still okay for
now.
Good.
But, yeah, you you see the same scene
with the
2 fish creatures and
one strange looking man on the floor. One
of those fish creatures is biting into the
corpse of a dead human that I I
don't know. I don't as Cassidy.
No. No. No.
I head back down the ladder,
and then I actually
head down the start heading down the stairs
as well to the Okay. Larder. So you
2 ladies watch as your marine biologist friend
runs down the ladder and then proceeds to
not even acknowledge you as he starts to
go down the staircase.
So much for staying together.
I told him. I told him, and he
didn't listen.
So, Bernard, you run down the stairs
and get back down to the hallway. Where
are you going?
To the lager. Okay. Are you closing the
door behind you?
Yes.
Okay.
And,
Buffy and
Hilda, what are you doing in response to
him running down the stairs?
I'm going to look at Hilda.
Well,
do we stay with the one that's up
there, or do we go with the one
who's there who just left?
Do you want a knife?
Yes.
Take the knife,
but I told him, so
I told him what was up there. He
didn't have to go look,
and he did.
And the larder's probably safe enough for him
anyway.
You're right. What's he gonna what kind of
trouble is he really gonna get into?
Eating a can of sardines?
Wouldn't you think you could after seeing that?
It was the first thing that came to
mind.
So you guys are staying in the in
the lighthouse repair room?
Yes.
Okay.
So after an indeterminate amount of time
kit, you are able to get the light
back on
and installed in there. It's a temporary fix
to a greater problem, but you don't have
the means to
replace the lens on top of the bulb.
So you did the best with of what
you could
with
the means that you had, so to speak.
Right.
And
as
as the light comes on, a few seconds
later, I need everybody
to
roll a listen
check.
Josiah, I'll give you bonus because you're on
the ground floor.
So
Thinking
good. Yeah. I passed.
Passed.
Alright.
As I didn't pass.
You did not pass. Okay. With the exception
of Hilda,
everybody after the a few moments after the
light comes on,
you hear the sounds of skittering feet within
the college,
Kyle, the college, within the college.
Great.
Coming coming from the entry hallway.
So, like Why don't it like that?
Like, it runs past Like what? The door
that I'm at. Right?
Did you not just hear that skittering? No.
To
answer Josiah real quick, what was the question?
I asked if it ran, like, running down
the hallway, like, where the larder and stuff
is. It's not it's not running.
It's more of, like, a clickity clickity sound,
like, you know, the sound of when you
hear a a dog walking on hardwood.
Mhmm.
Sort of like that.
But it would go right past my door.
Correct?
It's in the vicinity of your door. I
wouldn't say it's gone directly past. I start
trying to pile
food stuff in front of the door. Okay.
Whatever I can get.
So now? Now? Oh, no.
And I need a volunteer.
Who wants to die first?
I will go. Okay. I need you to
make a luck roll for me, please.
Okay.
What do I have to beat? What my
current luck score is? Correct.
Oh, stay on the table, please.
Oh, good. I was dyslexic. I did. I
I I'm good. You're good? Okay. I'm good.
I thought I wasn't, and then I was.
Okay. That's all I needed.
Alright. So yes. You hear
you hear
rummaging around in the downstairs.
For those of you who are upstairs,
You hear and, Josiah, you hear
almost
guttural
noises,
kind of like
a cross between a girdle and a frog's
croak,
except
deeper like it's coming from a larger being.
K. Now
fish people
start putting more stuff in front of the
door.
Even which way does this door open? I
have this is just not that I've
thought about it. I would say I would
say given
how hallways typically are, the doors gonna open
in.
Okay.
So I am doing the doing it the
right way. Right.
I thought I thought about being mean, but
then then I opted not to.
I would be fine with either way, but
I would still do the same thing.
So, yeah. I just I just I'm
panicking
putting more and more stuff there as I
can emptying the shelves
in a big stack. Okay.
What are the other 3 of you doing?
What kind of how did you get into
the room that the girls are in? You
just go down the ladder.
You're, like, directly above them. Right. But I
can hear something, so I'm kind of look
down
and looking around. So because I can hear
something. So you're just kinda hanging your head
down looking around?
Mhmm. Alright.
You just see the 2 girls in the
room.
Do I see anything outside?
You do not.
It is very with the light pouring, with
the light going through the
where the windows used to be Mhmm.
You can see sort of your surrounding thicket
and
paths and whatnot, but you do not see
anything of particular
interest. Right.
Is
alright. How do they get into the room
where the girls are at?
So Hilda and I are in 23,
and he's up in 24. Right.
20 That's not a ladder.
Just read what the paper says, lady.
I think That's a staircase.
Yes.
It's a ladder in our game.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm in the lamp room. You girls are
in the service room. There's nothing barring that.
So is it just wide open? There's no
there's not even
a door blocking where we're at?
No.
Okay.
Can we hear it coming up the stairs?
Make a listen roll.
What's my listen?
Hold, please.
Kit mother.
Hey. Listen.
Ugh. Navi can go die in a fire.
Also very nice. I'm not gonna use
this.
About 3 points of luck. Okay.
Hold, please.
Celebrating.
I have to math. Okay.
So I I'm hearing.
You are hearing. Okay. So
what you
hear is a lot of wrestling downstairs.
Like, something is going through rooms.
You aren't certain if it's Bernard that's downstairs
that's going through the rooms or what particularly
is
until a few moments later, Bernard, that you
especially would take notice of this.
Your door
rattles.
And as it does not open because you've
barricaded it, you start hearing a pounding on
it like something's trying to break through.
Okay. I definitely take notice of that. You
hear
some foreign
grumbling noises, and
I would say that you,
Kit, would not hear some steps coming up
the stairs as you hear more pounding downstairs
on said door.
Right. Are there places that the girls and
I can hide, like, a boxes where these
lamps and stuff were at? I mean, you
can certainly try.
I'm gonna look at them like, I think
somebody's coming. We should probably hide, scramble,
or parachute. If you have one of those,
we do that.
I don't believe I do,
but, hiding sounds like a good idea.
Where would we be hiding?
Let's,
was were there any anything
in the room other than the bodies?
Well, there should be, like, large boxes of
it because these are big lamps and big
bulb.
Something we could hide in those.
What about The boxes themselves are probably about
2 by 2 by 2.
Oh, never mind.
I am a large I mean, I'm
not that big, but
Perhaps if we stacked
them
on top of each other?
How are they already arranged in the in
the room? I mean, they're neatly stacked against
a wall.
Mhmm.
Perhaps if we go out on the balcony
in the storm
and hide away from the door.
Is there enough space that we can position
them where we could hide and not be
easily seen? I mean, you can certainly try.
I feel like
just hiding out of sight isn't going to
be good enough.
What would you like to do? Because something's
coming up.
I'm gonna load my gun.
I'm all for that too, but
wait. You haven't loaded it yet?
Well, it's, like, 40 like, an hour ago.
Yeah. Well,
it's loaded now, so there.
Alright. So what are you guys doing? Because
it's gonna be a few seconds and then
it's gonna be time for a boogaloo.
Well, I'll finish loading my gun, have a
lovely little, like, pose behind a crate peeking
out, and wait for it.
Right. Am I still carrying one of the
coins?
I would imagine so unless. No. Wait.
You gave your coins to To Hilda. To
Hilda. Yeah.
I have all the coins.
Right.
Hilda, I'm gonna recommend you toss those coins
to the side that I gave you. Why?
I have a bad feeling they belong to
these fish people.
Well, they're not really worth that much anyway.
Well, they might be worth something. But if
they're worth something
Just toss them down the stairs.
We can get them later.
Alright.
I'm gonna give them a really good chuck
from where I'm at to down the stairs.
To down the stairs?
Yep. Okay.
I'm chucking the coins
out the doorway.
Goodness.
That's what I was told to do.
Goes my money.
You're the ones that they weren't worth anything.
Well,
somebody thought they were worth something. They're ugly,
though.
Can you argue about the ugly coins later?
As you throw the thing the bet coins
down the stairs,
you hear some more guttural rumbling that's, again,
sounds like
a little bit like a croaking sound
with a gurgle, but from a much larger
creature.
And you hear a slight jingle as something
picks up that purse that you had thrown
down the stairs, but then you'd hear the
footsteps still approaching towards the top.
Josiah, the door I mean, sorry. Not Josiah.
Bernard, the door that you have barred shut
is beginning to splinter from the force that's
being hit against the store. Great. As soon
as someone comes through the store, they're getting
a can of beans to the face.
Okay.
Refried or white beans. What do you got
there?
Probably not refried. I don't think we can
Baked. Can
they're probably baked beans. Mhmm.
Alright. So as
the
fish pea as as as the steps get
to the top of the door,
the 3 of you
in the maintenance room
see
3
of those
fish people that you saw above except,
Buffy, you did not see these. So this
is your first time seeing them. I need
you to make a sanity roll for me,
please.
Weather,
I pass. Okay. Go ahead and take one
point of sanity loss,
and it is time for us to have
a boogaloo.
A what?
A fight. We're gonna fight. Is that what
they're called in Call It Cthulhu?
No. I just
Oh, okay.
I thought there was a cool term that
I had no idea about. Nah.
Hilda.
Mhmm. What is your deck score?
75.
Kit.
75.
I'm short and fast.
Buffy.
45.
Uh-oh.
And Bernard?
45 as well. Oh no.
We all knew Bernard wasn't getting out of
this life. We always don't know that.
Although, I don't think Bernard's really armed though,
are you? Oh, you got a scalpel, I
suppose. He didn't take them in. I have
beans. I'm using my beans.
So wait. Amanda, do you have both a
knife and a gun?
I gave Buffy the knife. I offered it
to the doc, but he was just like,
nah.
And then
KITT, because I believe
you have the higher
attack rating
I do have a high ground too.
You will be going you break the tie
between Buffy.
I mean, between you and Hilda. Buffy and
Bernard, you both have 45.
What is your attack ratings?
Never mind. I'll just look at your sheets.
I can tell you. It is
none
bonus.
Would that be on combat?
I've got a Dodge of 25.
I got a Toyota.
I actually have a a Nissan,
so
What?
A cube.
Oh, wow.
Got the cube. Got the cube. K. So
the younglings are gonna go first.
There's one for each of you, so they're
gonna all gonna attack
the What does that mean? What?
You said the younglings.
They're the creatures that came up there. I'm
the younglings. Good. We're shooting children now.
Okay, Anakin. Monsters. They're just called younglings.
The head and body of these are similar
to those of an anglerfish.
It has elongated spiny fins, muscular arms, and
hands that pose 3 sharp claws. In addition,
it has
large muscular frog like legs,
clawed webbed feet like those of a duck,
and
a long thick finned tail.
So like the fish guy from Hellboy?
Something like that.
Abe?
Yeah. Abe. Abe.
Abe was cool. I don't think these are
Abe.
I have no idea what we're referencing, but
that's okay.
You not seen Hellboy?
Nope.
Don't watch the new one, but both the
original one's fun.
Alright. So
the first one will approach
you, Kit, and he's gonna take
a swing at you
How?
With his muscular
arm.
Just one.
Okay.
Give me a moment, please.
I have to roll my dice, and I
am rolling digitally.
I use shadow step, and
it's a 45. So that's a success.
Oh, good.
Yay.
I just got fish slapped.
Where's the veggie tail guy when we eat
him?
To fish slappies.
I once had to give a report on
the Jonah movie for my 3 d modeling
class I took in college.
You took a 3 d modeling class. That's
really cool.
It was fun. It was interesting.
I built a pineapple.
I don't think people usually build those.
I didn't glass.
So, and it was on fire.
Oh gosh.
And so,
no, not point R.
I have a Dodge
kind of Dodge or just it's just cause
that's their initiative. I have no options. He
missed. You you were able to adapt
definitely dodge this scaly fist as it came
by you. Shut the camera. However, the second
one does hit Hilda pretty good. So
I was behind the crates, so that's why
So they came all the way wherever it
was that I was. Girl, you're in a
fight.
Yeah. But Buffy was in front of me
with a knife.
You do take, however,
those three points of damage because he got
the 3 on that d 3.
And then,
Buffy.
Yes.
The fish slayer.
You also take a whack.
Okay.
A thwack or a whack? Also, if they
get points of damage Would this go against
my head points? Yes.
You said 3? 33
against your hit points.
Does the sound effect pop up when they
get hit with big bold letter?
No. This is not a Batman episode.
Oh, no.
And then the
fish creature downstairs has finally broken through that
door, Josiah. So you're gonna have to deal
with him in the next round. Can I
throw beans at him? Well, you can't on
your turn. K. That's what I'm gonna do.
Kit, you're up. Yeah.
I'm just curious. How many are in the
room?
3.
Okay.
How far am I away from the fish
that swung at me? He's directly in front
of you.
I'm going
to point my gun at his,
I don't know,
face and
pull the trigger. Okay. Go ahead and make
that attack roll for me, please, with that
handgun.
Okay. It is a
1 b 10, I believe. Nope. That's for
damage.
Oh. You have to roll to succeed. Oh,
okay. Am I rolling the
The handgun.
Let's see what's happening now.
Now see what is happening. It's so much
easier in a video game.
Yeah.
It's it's a success. That's a success? Okay.
Go ahead and roll damage. Okay. Does it
matter how much of a success?
No. Good. That makes me feel better.
Got a 9?
Nine points. Nice.
Jeezy, crazy.
I mean, I'm right there, like, in his
little eyeball. You killed the one in front
of you.
Score.
Who wants up sushi? I yell out.
All right.
Hilda,
you're next. What do you want to do?
Guys, shoot him in the face. You shoot
him in the face.
Go ahead and roll that for me. Please.
I cast fireball.
I did not hit them.
This podcast is brought to you by Smith
and Wesson.
Mark yourself Dallas, mark yourself down 1 bullet,
by the way, as well as you, Hilda.
Yep. One bullet down.
So there's a lot there's a loud concussive
bang in the room as Hilda pulls the
trigger,
but seemingly misses this beast that is directly
in front of her.
It occurs to you that maybe Hilda is
not as experienced with this pistol as she
led you to initially believe.
God. Buffy, you're up next.
I just rolled it. I am going to
take the knife. Mhmm.
I am going to then I'm going to
stab him. Go for it.
And
I did not succeed. Oh, no.
Trying
also, Kit, you noticed that Buffy is
fumbling the knife and looks like she's about
to throw it, and then she's like, oh,
yeah. That's not how a knife works. And
then
by that point, she'd missed
horribly.
Bernard, you're up next.
K. What do I do for throwing beans?
I'm I'm
gonna treat that as a brawl.
Okay.
Great. Because, I mean, it's basically the same.
Yeah. They were jumping beans.
But You if you have throw, I'll allow
for that.
I don't know that either one. I'm trying
to see which one's better, but
I'll just use crawl. Yeah.
K. So I'm gonna try to get a
45.
I got a 6.
Okay. That's gonna that's gonna hit. Go ahead
and roll that brawl damage.
K.
Assume it's d 3. So I'll just roll
this, actually.
1.
Alright. So it rolls. So
Oh, yeah. Yeah. It it takes a hit
to the face and it it starts to
bleed from what you assume is its nose.
Hey. That's it.
Stay stay back now.
And you did hear 2 concussive blasts from
upstairs. So Yeah. You you you are aware
that there is a fight going on up
there as well. It is the youngling's turn
again.
The one that is in front of Hilda
turns and sees that its counterpart has
taken a shot
from you and has killed over and died.
It starts to assault you
specifically.
It it turns away from Hilda and goes
towards you, Kit, and it's gonna take a
swing at you.
I pulled up the wrong one.
He's attacking me, and I'm like, you're trying
to guilt me into something, buddy? Let's go.
Guilt. Guilt.
I was like, what?
Alice is trying too hard to make jokes.
Carpe diem.
And it fails Double fun. To make contact
with you.
The what? It fails to make contact you
with you when it swings. The one in
front of you, Buffy, is going to take
a swing at you.
Okay.
Also fails to make contact.
Oh, thank god.
As far as you, Bernard, down downstairs,
the one in front of you is still
struggling with the barrier you have up in
front of the door. Yes. Good.
This this shutters its arm and it shoots
a knee a projectile needle towards you. Holy
crap.
And That sounds more terrifying,
actually.
It doesn't wanna roll directly for me. So
It sounds fantastic.
Fantastic.
Yes.
It kinda no. It it does not hit
it. But it this
projectile
needle
lands, like, right next to your head.
It lodges itself
pretty deeply into the wood.
Kit, you're up.
Going to shoot
again. Okay. Which the one in front of
you?
Is it the closest one? Well That was
just a swung attack to me? Yeah.
Yeah. Alright. Go ahead.
And I'm going to use luck.
Nope.
Dang it, Bobby. I missed it. Alright. I
got, like, a one.
What did you roll?
I'm I I got a
51. Oh. Oh, I see what you're saying.
I thought you said you rolled a 1,
and I'm like, no, sir. That's something completely
different.
No.
Alright. So yeah. You a lot a lot
allowed
concussive blast again goes off in this enclosed
room as your ears ring, but you've noticed
that you
did not make contact with the creature in
front of you. Hilda, you're up. You don't
have one in front of you as one
started going towards
Kit after seeing its
compatriot fall. What do you do?
Don't shoot Kit on accident. I'm just gonna
I usually
seeing that she yeah. I I don't, I
guess I don't remember how to use a
gun as well as I thought. So I
am gonna take option number 2 and try
to bludgeon the back of its head.
Okay. Gun.
Go ahead and Brawl.
Roll that.
Okay.
I succeed.
Okay. Go ahead and roll damage.
I didn't have that die off.
I don't have a d 3.
You go ahead and roll digitally then.
What the heck is a d 3?
It's
an irregular die.
Did it roll it? Well, yeah. It it
rolled. You got 3 damage
for that brawl. So
Nice.
So, Kith, as you're standing there, Hilda jumps
across the room and does exactly what you
were mocking her for and bludgeons
this creature in front of her and smacks
it so hard that it forces a black
ichor
from its what you would assume its nose
as it kind of spatters across your chest.
Ugh. His head's gonna hurt really bad.
And then,
Buffy, you are up.
I am going to
use my other arm.
Not the one that has the knife, but,
like, swing with the other arm. Okay.
So let's see what did that do. You
rolled a success, barely, and sealed 2 damage.
So emboldened by watching
emboldened by watching
Hilda
just bash the head in on the previous
youngling.
Hilda, I'm and Buffy does a uppercut to
the jaw of the one in front of
her and causes its mouth to plant shut
on its own tongue
as it begins to bleed profusely from its
mouth.
And then, Bernard, you are up.
I grab a can of tomatoes and throw
it at him. Mhmm.
Just don't wanna touch that scalpel, do you?
Okay. Go ahead and roll.
66.
That's a fail, by the way.
Yeah. So that just clangs against the frame
of the door, and you think to yourself,
mom was right. I should have went into
baseball when I was younger.
Note to self, beans work better than tomatoes.
Youngling's turn. So the youngling Help.
So the one in front of you, Kith,
is going to take another swing at you,
and that is a success. And you take
6 damage, my dude.
What the crap?
So it pounds you hard
as it It's a major wound. As it
makes connection with your face and you begin
to bleed from your nose, and you've you
you're pretty certain that you just broke your
cheekbone.
Oh, good.
The one in front of you, Buffy.
No. Buffy? Yeah. Buffy.
It's gonna swing
but it again, it misses because it's it
because its eyes are still blurry from the
swing that you took at it.
And
the one that's in the doorway is gonna
start to climb through the hole it's made
rather than trying to shoot projectiles at you.
Bernard, so it's going to use its turn
to close the distance on you as it's
cracking in through the door.
It's singing. I can go distance.
So you're up.
I'm going to my head's obviously ringing, but
I'm gonna try to take a shot
at the fish dude.
It's, like, right over me. It's,
like, pushing up,
and it's a success. Alright.
I'm like, Hasta la vista, baby. Roll damage?
And the 7? Oh, yeah. This,
that that gunshot kind of
is the the bullet hole enters the size
of a regular bullet hole, but it exits
the size of about a grapefruit.
So the exit wound is something spectacular as
this thing slumps down.
Next up is
Hilda.
Well,
the guy just whacked in the brains, got
his brains blown out.
So
I guess I will
turn, I guess, aim and shoot at the
third one. The one that's still there. Okay.
Go ahead and Bye, Buffy.
Oh, it's an 8.
Oh,
roll that beautiful bean damage.
That's what Josiah is
doing. He's trying to anyway.
Oh, that's the 1 d 6. I have
that one.
Is it 2?
You it makes contact, and this thing looks
pretty
ungood, if that's a word.
And it turns its sight towards you realizing
you're the bigger threat in this situation.
Buffy, you're up.
I'm going to attempt for the knife again
now that it's got its back to me.
Okay. Go ahead.
Oh, no.
I did not.
It it the knife must have slipped. Yeah.
You see you see Buffy juggling this knife
again.
Hilda, you start to
wonder if maybe Buffy
isn't as familiar with knives and how they
work as you had previously thought when you
gave her said knife. She's giving her a
paintbrush.
Bernard, you have this horrific fish creature crawling
across these boxes toward that you had propped
in front of the door towards you. How
do you wanna deal with this situation?
I
get I'm as close
as I can get to the back wall.
Okay. You know, and I'm gonna take how
close is he now? Is he, like, right
up against me? He's gonna be up he
he's gonna be as close as however you
want it to be in the situation.
Yeah. I mean, I'm he's gonna be with
it next round he's gonna be with him
striking distance. I'm gonna try to
yeah. I'm gonna grab a can of beans
and try to hit him over the head
with the can of beans. Okay. I'm I'll
accept that as as, like, with the damage
of the knuckle duster if you wanna go
that route with it. Let me look up
what the damage is for that real quick.
Okay. Well, we'll see if it even matters.
22, so that should hit. Yep.
I far as you haven't, like, pulled the
shelves down on them yet.
I assume these are, like, wooden shelves built
ins, you know. Yeah, man. That's gonna be
1 d 3 plus 1.
Do you have a damage bonus by for
your brawl, by the way? No. I don't
think so. Okay. So then, yeah, 1 d
3 plus 1. Yep.
That is what it is,
I think.
Oh, it didn't do it. 1.
It's 2.
2 damage. You rolled a 1? Yeah. No.
So okay. Still, 2 is better than 0.
Yep.
I'll take it. So it it's on a
scale of 1 to 6, it's looking about
a 3 right now if you catch that.
I've been him over the head. You've beamed
him. Yes.
It is now the youngling's turn.
Again, this youngling has turned towards you, Hilda,
and it Mhmm. It's not
very happy at the moment.
So
it takes a swing at you.
It's rolling so bad
and misses. It it appears to be its
dexterity seems to be affected
by having been shot and punched to the
point
that it has been.
And then the one in front of you,
Josiah, is finally within reaching distance and it
reaches I'm ready. To pound on you.
It's got nothing. And it makes I got
solid contact with you.
It grabs your face and slams it into
one of the shelves next to you. You
take 7 damage.
Great. Ollie.
Your your eyes go blurry with the contact
against the shelf.
Kit, you're up.
I'm going
to put my gun and and shoot at
the fish dude swinging at Hilda. Go ahead.
And it's a hit. Alright. Give me that
beautiful damage.
It is a 4. Yeah.
Again,
gaping hole.
Wow.
You're you're you're you're feeling pretty proud of
yourself that you've, managed to clear out 3
of these things with the help of your
trusty sidekicks here, but you might you might
be developing a a bit of
a superhero complex.
King 1 point of all I care about
right now.
You you guys do hear a bit of
a tussle still coming from downstairs though. So
how you wanna respond to that is up
to you.
Do you think we should go help the
doctor?
If he's still alive.
I hear him screaming.
If he's still alive.
I will say it's gonna take you 2
rounds to get down the stairs.
I mean, the the Start doing now then.
The nature of who my character is, he
would want to go, but can I go
this round or I have to wait? I
I'll I'll allow for movement
in the rounds.
It's same same way that I would in
D and D.
Mhmm. Before or after your action? Yeah. Before
or after your action. So that's fine.
Yeah. My character would,
by nature, go have to rush down to
try to help him and but he would
be stumbling around Yeah. Because my jaw's broken
and
my ears are ringing. I I would say
that the girls would could probably get there
in one round if I if they wanna
use their,
like, if we were playing by d and
d rules, if they wanna use their action
as bonus, you know, their action as a
dash.
Run down the stairs. Mhmm. My coins.
They were ugly, but they're mine.
So is that what you wanna do is
dash down those stairs?
Yeah. I'll I'll go. Sure. Alright. So so,
Kit, you're gonna make it about halfway down
in one round. The rest of you are
gonna get all the way down in one
round, but it you can't do anything until
the next round. Wait, Buffie. You know not
to run with knives. Right?
It's a little late for that. Don't worry,
Buff. You can't seem to hurt anything with
a knife, let alone herself. So
Come to find out it's a And these
are the people coming to rescue me. Right?
Bernard, you're up.
I'm gonna
do, like I mean, he's got my head
down into
the shelves. Right?
Sure.
I mean, that's what you said. He slammed
me into the He he slammed your head
down on there. I he's not necessarily holding
your head head down. Okay. But if that's
where you want if that's how you wanna
start your scene, we can definitely do that.
Yeah. I mean, that's how I envision. I'm
just gonna try to, you know,
do what I can to get on you
know, scratch at him, you know, try to
get away from him.
How about you
mule kick backwards being as you slam that?
That sounds great. Yeah. I'll go ahead and
give me that brawl.
Nope. That's a 67.
Turns out that our doctor is more of
a lover than a fighter.
The mole kicks backwards, but it seems to
go off to the side of this fish
creature
as he
reciprocate reciprocates
the beating. He tried he tries to pick
your head up again and slam your head
down into that Mhmm. Shelf again.
Making another contact.
Take 4 more damage.
Yep.
And now you are bleeding quite a bit,
and you're certain that you have tick you
probably are concussed at this point.
I would think so.
Oh.
Kit, you're up.
I'm gonna continue to stumble down the stairs
trying to get to the the the the
wailing from downstairs. Alright. You make it to
the base of the stairs at that point,
so you are now on the bottom floor.
The girls are ahead of you, so you
won't have an attack on this round.
Hilda,
you're up.
You you you make it to the door
with your movement.
The door of the
the door of the
larder. The larder.
And
you see a hole broken through, and there
is a bunch of boxes in the way
of the actual door to get it open.
But you see that the a beast has
gone in there, and you see a very
mangled Bernard as this fish monster is smashing
his face into a shelf.
Alright. We're gonna aim and shoot at his
eyeball. A big fishy eyeball. Go ahead and
roll to hit.
I did not.
Alright. So there's a loud Bernard, do you
hear a loud concussive bang go off in
this room as your ears you're not sure
if your ears are ringing because of the
damage that you're taking or No. No. But
it it certainly did not help this headache
that you have acquired. Yep.
Buffy, you see the same
scene as previously described.
If you want to enter the room, it's
gonna
It's gonna be the turn. It's gonna be
the turn or you can throw said knife.
Throw the knife. Let's try to throw the
knife. Alright. Hang on. Go ahead and
I'll allow you because we don't have that
knife set up as throw in there.
Oh, I do now. Oh, go ahead.
Hey.
Okay. So, Buffy in the clutch.
This is what you see happen.
Hilda comes to the door and fires off
a a loud
blast in this door.
Beans go everywhere. It Firing on your ears.
Fly everywhere but it doesn't seem to affect
this fish creature as it as it's trying
to beat the life out of doctor Bernard.
And
Buffy comes to the door,
looks in the hole, and just reaches back
and throws this knife that she's been fumbling
the entire night.
And it just lands right in the fish
creature's eye as it slumps as it's trying
coming back down with Bernard's head, but
it seems the ghost its ghost seems to
leave
it mid swing as it just collapses to
the floor
As you have killed this
4th creature
and combat is over. Bernard, you are having
a hard time keeping yourself upright at this
point. With 4 HP. Yeah.
I've I've fall to the floor.
Did we win?
I think we did.
Well, you're not dead, aren't you? Or aren't
you?
What It's hard to tell right now.
Right at the point that you killed this
last youngling,
you hear a a loud bang as the
door flies open and you see
several
coast guard come in through the door.
And you hear them say, we heard something
about a body. Is there a body here?
What's what's what's going on? And and they
turn and they see
the 3 of you the 3 of you
standing in front of that doorway, 2 of
you holding guns.
And and they they begin to raise their
rifles at you.
No. It's not what it looks like. I
hold up my my FBI my bureau shield
going, hold up. We're
the good guys. I'm, like, just exhausted.
And at on on that point, the camera
pulls back
as the credits begin to roll on this
little
macabre tale of ours.
As the sun comes up and the storm
begins to subside.
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