The Crack’d and Crook’d Manse Session 4
Chaz and Burney were only stuck in the secret room for a small bit of time. Chaz was able to find a small trap door in the ceiling. As they pushed it open…
An Irish bootlegger was driving down the road towards the Fitzgerald Manse. Noticing a car parked outside it’s gates, he pulled up and saw that the gate was closed and locked. After jiggling with the locks for a bit but unable to open them, he climbed over the fence, with his guns, and entered onto the grounds. Seamus O’Hearne had returned and he marched straight up to the house. Not seeing his companions anywhere, he made a stop at the study, where he found an open book entitled The Missing People: The Tribe that the Jungle Swallowed. Not one to pass up a good book, Seamus made himself comfortable and decided to skim the book for an hour or so.
Chaz and Burney emerged into the dust filled attic of the mansion. Chaz opened some of the steamer trunks they had found but they were only being used for storage. Seeing a bit of light from the far corner, Burney headed towards it but found another steamer trunk that appeared to have burst open from the inside. He cautiously poked at the trunk with his newly acquired axe, but nothing jumped out and devoured him. Inside were various jungle clothing, a pith helmet, a compass, a .45 revolver, and a machete. Which Burney picked up. Chaz himself picked up the .45 revolver and as he leaned down to pick it up, he noticed that one of the pants pockets had burst open at the seams.
As they exited the attic, they heard some cursing going on downstairs. Figuring it was Seamus, they visited the study, where Seamus gave them the gist of the book he had read. Finding nothing else here, they went next door to the storeroom. Finding it filled with junk, Chaz noticed that the floor in the middle of the room was covered in mold and wet to the touch. Checking the ceiling to see if there was a drip coming from the room above, Chaz barely had any time before he heard the floor begin to crack and crumble beneath him. Plumes of black dust flew into the air as he fell into the coal cellar, blocking out all light from the room. As he sat there in the black, he heard something crawling towards him, it's jaws chomping as it searched for food. Chaz fired blindly into the room, and as the dust cleared and light re-entered the room, he saw that there was nothing in with him. Just a door that wouldn't open.
Burney and Seamus threw a rope down for Chaz to climb out, and then they hightailed it out of there. Jerks. They went into one of the upstairs bedrooms and found tracks in the dusty floor. As they tried to find where the tracks led, they began hearing scratching sounds coming from inside the room. Specifically, under the bed. Seamus drew his rifle as Burney inched over to the bed to give it a quick kick. As he did, a horrific black beast with burning red eyes and hands like a human emerged from under it and backed itself into a corner. Though slightly startled, the two realized that it was a raccoon and Burney opened up a window to shoo it out.
Having climbed out of the coal cellar, Chaz proceeded into the dining room and found that the table had been set for one. On the floor was some broken glass and little black specks. On closer inspection, he saw that it was ground pepper. Through another door, he headed straight into the kitchen. There he found several canisters of dry goods; sugar, coffee, tea, and flour. The salt canister appeared to be missing. As he walked into the pantry, Chaz was hit with a horrific smell of rot. Looking around the kitchen for a broom stick or a mop, he then used it to pop open the ice box. The smell became infinitely worse as he peered into the ice box and saw rotting food and flies and maggots. He quickly shut the box and the pantry door.
Finding nothing but a raccoon in the bedroom, the two upstairs opened a door and found themselves in a luxurious bathroom, complete with a granite counter top, a ivory claw-foot tub, and clean towels. That wouldn't have been all they had seen if they hadn't glanced at the mirror and saw "NaCL" scrawled in the dust. "What's nacl?" Burney said. Seamus gave me a quick bop on the head and told him that NaCL is the chemical formula for salt.
Things are starting to heat up as night is beginning to fall for the three investigators.
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