In game time: October 31, 1924
The Victims: Bernard, Nick, Early, William
Summery: The mysterious
victim of murder during the seance is quickly reveealed to be magician
Blake Lime who had crashed the party. Nick assists a doctor in trying
to save him, but it's too late. Barnabus is moved to a bedroom upstairs
and the investigators attempt to unlock the mechanism that has trapped
them and the other party guests in the house with a killer. William
notices a man wearing an inverted ankh searching the library for something
and tries to confront him about it, but the man knocks himself out.
William goes to get the doctor to help assist the injured man and as the
doctor is checking him over, the doctor is shot and killed as well.
While searching for the possibilty of a secret door used by the killer
to evade them, the investigators discover a plastered over niche with a
note inside informing them that "the book" had been taken. Everyone
except William goes downstairs and while they're down there the killer
attempts to smash William's head in with a bit of morter. The attempt
fails, but as William tries to find the killer he gets stabbed in the back.
Nick rushes to his rescue to wind up in a knife fight with the murderer.
As they are fighting William is able to shoot the killer in the back who
is then revealed to be Barnabus Pilkington.
Plot threads: What is the Book of Veils
and why was the man looking for it?
Most Valuable Character: William for taking
out the killer despite being seriously wounded himself
Biggest Blunder: William mugging one of
the party goers and beating them senseless
Resources for this session:
Map of the house
A brief write up of the scenario for other game masters
Some historical information on the history
of spiritualism
The Book of Veils
