In which five Investigators, members all of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, head north to Derbyshire and involve themselves in the ancient Curse of the Black family.
Present for this Session:
Celestia Adams (Jen)
Lily Farthington-Smythe (Des)
Dr. Miles Hume (Bill)
Oswald Finnegan (Shal)
Padma Daschel (Jade)
And…Edie the Dog.
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[The Veil of Isis] Session Four: Hell Hath No Fury (Part I)
In which five Investigators, members all of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, head north to Derbyshire and involve themselves in the ancient Curse of the Black family. Present for this Session:Celestia Adams (Jen)Lily Farthington-Smythe (Des)Dr. Miles Hume (Bill)Oswald Finnegan (Shal)Padma Daschel (Jade)And…Edie the Dog.
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The Veil of Isis, a Cthulhu by Gaslight, Golden Dawn actual play, with David Larkins as the keeper of our Cain lore. Why would I surprise Miles of Hire like someone just as dickish as he is? I'm not paying him. You look tired, take the day off, doctor pay accordingly. In reality, do you want me to just say, wait, repeat what he says, something about a doctor? Yes. You look tired, take the day off, and doctor pay accordingly. Sounds bad, Ray. Tell your wife I said hello. No. Tell her I forgive her for the dry donut she said. Ohhh. Brynn! Oh, that's really why they all hate you. Yeah. It's actually a little dry. A little dry. I understand your nature. It's a gourmet chef. My name, and I can give you some pointers. You're right. We'll pass the blood of our week. I'm so excited. I brand you dry. Yay. They're beautiful. They're beautiful. Yeah. Oh. And if this is on, it's going to be easy either. You're trying out whether or not they love you or hate you. It's going to have to be golden on the sides each to work out all the kids. Right. Yeah. I'm just going to go for a surprise. I have to. You're right. Because I found them on shale and eating. Oh. Okay. Right. How could he like... Strangely, they paid me to take the day off. I'm sure it was nothing. No, there's nothing wrong with these first nights. It's like they also come with like a dried monkey paw. Yeah. That was nice. I'm sure you might spit white. I'm so excited. One pie. I got most of the blood off. These are engagement days. I love the engagement. Yeah. One punch off days. They're that. One day shy. One day shy because one was totally shattered in a free accident. I'm just on free. I'm just on free. I'm just on free. It's not launched into something. What? Why don't you make someone like a stew on them or an eye? It's a cost way more than an outfit. It was worth it. Oh, no. I'm going to expel the edge of that. Well, speaking of characters dying and everything. I was thinking that having Robin. Speaking of characters dying? Yeah. That's a nice thing. I like the way this game is starting already. No, but having Robin, your assistant as sort of a floating NPC replacement for if a character dies and is insane during the session would be the way to go. Like how Desiree did it last time. I kind of like it because I'm going to be different interpretations of Robin. Oh, cool. You can totally be somebody. That'll be fun for me. I'll enjoy that. I'll enjoy bossing every single one of you randomly. Until you become responsible. Until you become responsible. I'll enjoy bossing yourself. Making a big supposition there, buddy. It doesn't actually think it might be kind of fun to change up from over hill in that phase. Because guys involved. He just doesn't quite know what's going on. Okay, so the story of over hill is only Padme and Celeste didn't know about over hill. And Miles. Miles was there too, right? No, Miles wasn't in the... No, that's not his. It was Pike's and then the studio. Oh, Pike. No. Why would the guy there actually put the investigation? Oh, that knew he had shown up. That broke into his head. That's right. That's right. True. Wait a minute. But that didn't really reveal anything that much. When you broke into his head? No. Well, that revealed something. Because we were really... What made him burn? Damning evidence for sure. Somebody got a letter. Oh, and a letter. Oh, yeah. Yes, 'cause you. You charmed him. I'm picturing that like in a harpsichord mode or something. It didn't. No, it was. It was a grand piano. An idea. All right. Oh, my God. All right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. So anyway, Desiree has made a new character and we will integrate her as we go along. Nice. Okay. So first of all, a little bit of bookkeeping since it's been... Well, we're gonna pick up on Wednesday, March 14th. So that means that it has been three months. No. Yeah. Three months since we left off, which means you all get some more points to spend in the order. Ah. Except for you. I don't. Okay. So there's... Oh. Okay. So basically, you're just gonna add these points to a tally, and then you can spend them accordingly. And I'm just gonna keep sending them. Well, isn't it transferable to another character? No. Oh. Oh, I need my... I like it. Is that my version of it? Still. I'm still. All right. Hand out. Oh. Oh, you. The highest one except me. Right. That whole thing. Oh, no. You don't have that yet. I'll give that to you next time I hand out points. We'll see. Whatever. I do live with you. Yes. I guess we could do that. It doesn't make it easier. All right. All right. So everyone's just gonna sit on their points. Yep. You're right. Interesting. You're wrong. You know, I think everybody wants to progress in the... Absolutely. I'm gonna try and move up the ladder. Patience. I'm so confused. Like the ladder. Like the ladder. Like the ladder. Well, nice secret society we had once. Mm-hmm. Nice. So, it is early evening, Wednesday, March 14, 1894. And there is a knock at the door of Dr. Miles Hugh. Oh, no. Sorry. Bob. I don't think there's a particularly dickish wade open the door. So, well... Probably not. I'll open it. Okay. Hello. So it is Dr. William Westcott in person. Oh, Westcott. How wise have you become by? Please come in. Yes. So, um, he comes in and, you know, puts his hat and butt coat up on coat. Tree coating here. And, uh, refreshment? Uh, certainly, uh, Scotch, if you have it. Okay. Scotch and I'll... I assume I have something that I cooked before somewhere. Probably. Yeah, I can offer them. Okay. Sure. I'm trying to impress the guy. So... Have a scone. [laughter] Scotch and scones. Scotch and scones. Oh, thank you very much indeed, though. What is the wine? It is morning? No, it's early evening. Oh, I'm going to have some cold pheasant. It might be good. How about some cold pheasant? On your scone. [laughter] What a scone. Would you like a sandwich wrap? Yes. [laughter] What? I bet you did it by so. [laughter] Exactly. You're so dizzy. [laughter] So... It's foggy season in London. A thick fog billows out by your windows. Go ahead. Toasty and warm inside. Westcott, you know, settles into one of your armchairs. Says, um, apologies for such a long delay in answering your calling card. Dr. Westcott, I assume you're busy healing. You don't need to explain that to the likes of me. Actually, as a coroner, I do very little healing. Oh. [laughter] But I am very... [laughter] Oh, well. All right. [laughter] Thanks for pointing that out. [laughter] Oh, stop. Could have let that slide in again. [laughter] No. No. [laughter] Not until you're in the end of order. [laughter] [laughter] Mmm. No, but I... This is not purely a social visit. Um, I, uh, come to you on, um, on behalf of the order. Mmm. Well, it's my intention to serve, so I, I, I, I stand at the ready, Dr. Westcott. Very well. I'm glad to hear that. Uh... I saved the world once, you know. Well, once the people can attest to you. [laughter] Wow. [laughter] No help? [laughter] No, you were there. You got over there. You got over there. You got over there. You were there. Word has reached me of, um, the incident at the Yellow Dragon. And, uh, that is part of the reason why I've come to you. Okay. [sighs] Mmm. I, um, I've received a letter, um, from an associate of, an associate in the order. Okay. Uh, one Mr. Jacob Black. And so he, um, pulls the letter out of the vest. Okay. Okay. [sighs] [sighs] Okay. [sighs] Okay. [sighs] Okay. [sighs] Okay. [sighs] [sighs] Okay. [sighs] [sighs] Yes, yes I do. You have the necessary skills. [sighs] Oh my God. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. That's why I got impressed. That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. [laughter] That's why I got impressed. I'm going to call an Aesir. Alright, well I'll be up to see this man shortly. Very good. Yes, indeed. I've already sent him a telegram explaining that my duties in the coroner's office will prevent me from meeting with him personally, but that I'll be sending a representative. Yes, I understand that dead patients can be very demanding. Well, we get a lot of them. And they don't like to wait. So yes, as indicated in the letter, he will be at the railway hotel tomorrow evening at 7pm. I have arranged for his contact Miss Featherstone's might. No, Farthenge's might. Who's playing Farthenge's might? To meet with you and him there, and you are welcome to bring any associates you feel will be well qualified for assistance and investigation as well. Bring any assistance I feel are well qualified. Alright, well, um, and Dr. Westcott of you will have a keeping a journal of your dreams like we discussed. I have. They've mostly returned to normal. Mostly. Normally you say. You should tell me about them, you know, secrets are terrible for me. That's pretty awesome. This is a couple of them. So he drains the last of his scotch sort of moderately fast. Oh my god. Well, I'm glad I can count on you, Dr. Hume, in this matter. Of course. Of course. Please keep me apprised to develop an associate. I could drop by the order if it were, you know, comedians and I could just update everybody. That won't be necessary. However, as you know, we have our Vernal Equinox ceremony coming up in a little over a week. Perhaps at that point we can, uh, we can converse. Alright, well, thank you, Dr. Alright, well, I will expedite matters. I'll send the letter to these three colleagues of mine to Oswald, Celestia, and Padma. Hello all. Trust you're enjoying the world I saved for you. Oh my god. And get out of control. Please meet me. I don't know. We always need to pad this. Yeah. Let's converge to pad this. I'm sure she won't mind. All three scotchs. I don't know. All the scotchs involved. Okay. Alright, so I'm assuming that will be... I'll, uh... At this point though, I think I'm going to grab my shotgun. Oh. And I drop by, I talk to Bartleby and explain to him that I'm pressing matters and that he should collect these referrals. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Okay. Um, so you want to meet Padma's, um... Before you head to the hotel that evening on the 15th or... Um... Or do you want to meet up later this evening on the 14th? Well, I don't... You say the mail goes out three times a day? Um, no, it goes out. The earliest mail delivery is 7 a.m. and the last one is 6.30pm. And it's early evening, so chances are getting a hold of these guys. Yeah, at this time, you can always hire a private courier, but, you know, no. We'll probably get them first thing in the morning. Okay. We'll send the notes out and, uh... Get a good night's sleep because I've got some monster hunting ahead of me. No. No, this music, this is me opening my 11th and next morning like, "Oh, not him again." That's right. Oh, Lord. It's been doing us. Oh, and we're right, there's no living with them now. There you go. Mary of Peep. And then Peep. All right. Okay. This is the past. Three months ago. I've been trying to avoid it in all the order meetings. Oh, exactly. But we are in the same section, so... Mmm. You must have known if seed me, I was waving. Exactly. Yes. Oh, yes. This would be Thursday evening meeting at the railway hotel. So, you know, you can meet up at Padma's at like five or something. Sure. Okay. I'm staying there, right? Probably. Yeah. At the hotel. Yeah. I'll imagine you. Okay. So, you are a convoked hit Padma's the evening of Thursday. All right. We'll, uh... You know, we'll actually just show them a letter if they occur to see. Remember I was saying that there is a Jacob Black who's seeking advice. Apparently, there's a curse hanging over his family. He's considered exorcism, but believes it's not our ghost nor possession that haunts him. Oh, no. There isn't a Sperthington smite. Smith? Smite. Smite. Um, who, uh, she's implied that I am wise, because it weighs common to learning men. This was addressed to Dr. Westtop, by the way. Um... But it's juicing to read it. It was implied. Um... Maybe they should read the letter and see if they could just tell. It was an interpret. No, that's fine. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No, it's fine. No, it's fine. I have a question. I have a question. Yes, your reputation precedes you, et cetera, et cetera. Forever in your debt. Oh. In any rate, there's a meeting at the 15th and, um, uh, woke this evening. And I was going to meet with, uh, Ms. Fr. Smith, and I was hoping that you could all accompany me since, uh, things worked out well the last time. Oh, well. Yes. Sure. I'll knock it out any younger. Well, it could be another, um, pilgrim type situation where you can get some... Yeah. Yeah. You get them, you know, bonus points of the order. Uh-huh. Well, I have my shotgun and some leeches, so... Okay. Sweet. Yeah. Oh. We're leech slugs and dents. Wow. Leech slugs. New type of leech. In fact, the leech and dents team. I don't know. I'll just be flaming leeches coming. When they hit you, they start sucking your blood. I'll just say, it must, like, hit, like... (laughter) It's stuck at. It's screaming. I wonder if we should ask a selection to do, like, a, maybe a terror reading. You read my mind. Yeah. I know. I was just about to say, I'm pulling the cards. My head man and I are having tea, and I... Well, what better occasion to look into the view when you see what's coming forward for us? Indeed. Black. Black. (laughter) Black. Give me a card of mensi roll. (laughter) All right. It's a really intense card of mensi. (laughter) I wanna put it in the cake. (laughter) And I pass. Excellent. So again, you see. (laughter) Do I see? You see the hang band. The Pandu. Mm-hmm. As well as the Emperor. Okay. In prominent positions. Okay. Worldly power. Enforced sacrifice. That's right. You just pulled two cards. Those are the two major options. In the prominent. In the prominent positions. Damn. Usually, one or two cards that are significant. Right. Really. So will. (laughter) We should oil up as well. We'll cheer. (laughter) Yes. We should do a daily maintenance. I'm off and speaking. Robin, definitely. Do you have your little derringer, your little... Oh, it's still with you. Yes. Okay. Oh, let's talk to my bodice. Aren't we just meeting for the first time? We've pulled the hang band. (laughter) It's always on, man. That's small. That is something where like Charo Reed uses it like, like it's so counterintuitive to me. I never like... It's like, it's death. That's awesome. (laughter) It's a fuzzy buddy. That's awful. Yes. (laughter) (laughter) (laughter) Oh, that's death. You're right. That's it. You're right. Death is a chain. (laughter) Depends on the fun. Kind of mine. Yeah. That rap is kind of mine. All right, so... (laughter) A quick carriage ride. Yes, yes, yes. It's central London, and St. Pinker Station. It takes you to the railway hotel, across the street from the railway station. It's an imposing stone building. Okay. Everything here is covered in a thin layer of briny soot from the locomotives. Okay. But they try and put on a posh air. The doorman opens the door pretty well as you pass into the lobby. You find a plushly furnished lobby with thick carpeting, leather armchairs, potted plants, a couple of old men warming themselves against the log fire. Okay, here's the reception desk. And suited receptionist behind it. Hello, I'm Hoot Seamus. Farleington, the smife. Oh, yes. She and Mr. Black are dining in the dining room. So, yeah. Sure, they won't mind if we join them. They said they were expecting you, so a bell is round and Porter shows up, and he'll box that out in the whole thing. And lead you out of the lobby and into a big spacious dining room. You have two-story glass ceiling, all the way you can't see anything else. Much brass and silverware in evidence. Mostly empty. But you do see tables sort of in the center of the dining area with a thin rather severe looking man, a gone-to-face framed by jet black hair and a closely trimmed beard. Perusing a menu in the company of a exceptionally good-looking female, one were to raid her on a scale three to eighteen. We've put her in an eighteen. Wow. Um... [Laughter] Wow! [Laughter] That girl that has shed an omelette is frantic about. [Laughter] You really use chairs over the table. You're here? [Laughter] I thought we had oiled that. [Laughter] That ain't his wheelchair. [Laughter] Oh, yeah! [Laughter] Yeah, I don't know. [Laughter] Oh, stop. [Laughter] Move the first hand. [Laughter] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I googled for real life Gibson girl, and this is what came up. Ah, she's... We're done. She's done. Cameo. Yes. Okay. I don't trust her. [Laughter] I don't like her. [Laughter] Look at her face. She's trying to lure me in. [Laughter] She must be trusted. [Laughter] So, Black sees you all enter. Sets his menu down, rises, signals. [Music] Your, uh, take your seats. He offers you, uh, would you all like, uh, menus? [Music] Of course. Yes. Mm-hmm. You sure? Thank you. You know, the order provides a menu. [Music] It doesn't read those are specials too. [Laughter] No specials. Oh, wow. It's, it's just a hand-written menu, you know. It's all specials. Oh, it's all specials all the time. Oh, my God. I have a lobster volleyball. Mm-hmm. Pretty much, yeah. [Laughter] Um, a word or extravagant link? Yes. Oh, my God. [Laughter] The basic. Yeah, he starts sweating as you please. [Laughter] Could you stuff a lobster at the side of the lobster? [Laughter] It's not. Yeah. [Laughter] Large. [Laughter] Lobster stuff lobster. [Laughter] [Laughter] I had a try. [Laughter] So, I'm observing. I'm seeing everybody's face. Yeah. Actually, I'm going to do a psychology check. It's okay to do both of these. Of course. [Laughter] Mm-hmm. [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] Okay, so I made, I guess I didn't declare who I was doing. I made it on one of them. Mm-hmm. I'll say that's black. Mm-hmm. Mr. Black. Mm-hmm. And I made it on the other one. Okay. Mr. Black. [Laughter] So, um, you sense Mr. Black is, um, sort of your typical, reserved, middle-class sort of gentlemen. Um, he, um, he obviously has a lot on his mind. And is obviously not used to sharing what's on his mind. Wow. Okay. Um, this, uh, Miss. Far things in stone. Far things in stone. I don't know why. [Laughter] Far things in smite. Um, seems like, um, seems like she, um, is sort of playing with a, with a good hand of poker. You know, she, she has the air of someone who is in control and knows it. Mm-hmm. I'll give her a knowing look. Yeah. [Laughter] Um. [Laughter] I'm just non-bag, graciously, but... Don't worry, he's like this all the time. [Laughter] No, no, no. Do we know this? Oh, by the way, you can all make no rolls when you see Mr. Black. Yes. I was just, oh, just say what I am. It's up for you. It's up for you there. Newbie. What do I do about myself? I totally, I totally passed that. We did... No. I did not. I did not. Um, for the... I was losing my hand. No, it's up near education. Oh, I did not. Yeah, it's one of the biggest. I made it. Okay. Yes. Best. Those of you who made it, uh, recognize Miss Far things in smite as a fellow order member. That's... That's where I knew her from. Yeah. Yeah. That's the secret society we've loved. That's right. That's the whole thing. Do we know where she is? I'm the... She's a fellow out of order. Okay. Another. Okay. Oh. Um, black, however you don't. I've never seen it before. Mm-hmm. So, uh, after all your orders are placed, uh, um, um, black, uh, black stands and raises, uh, his teacup and he says, "Ladies and gentlemen, the queen." Oh. Takes a sip. Mm-hmm. And then he... Takes a sip? Ah, yes. Oh, yeah. Ah, yes. It's a pretty very... Yeah. It's a fact-down. Ah, very well to business then. Um, Dr. Westcott has, uh, assured me of your bona fides, and so I feel comfortable in telling you the, uh, full story of what has been going on, uh, with me and my family over the last three weeks. Essentially, the blackness. Well, we have a long and proud history. Uh, we can trace our ancestry all the way back to the Norman invasion. We've always lived in the midlands around Darbyshire, um, but the one incident that is always spoken of in, in our family, uh, occurred in 1584 when a supposed witch known as Black Annie placed a curse upon my ancestor, Sir Edward Black, squire of the parish. Squire of the parish. Squire of the parish. Yes. The, uh, the fearful witch had lived in the deeps of a nearby forest known as Oakwood prior to her arrest and execution. Mm-hmm. So what letter to place this curse? Uh, eh. According to the, uh, legend, um, my ancestor, Sir Edward, was, uh, instrumental in, in her arrest and subsequent death sentence. Okay. Mm-hmm. We, uh, all of us blacks know the curse by heart. We learn it from, from childhood. And then he, he sort of takes a moment and brings up and, and recites it. And ye shall suffer the curse of Black Annie. Blood shall flow, and the dead shall walk, and ye shall be the last of the line. Oh, dear. It was a pleasant bedtime story to be told when you're growing up. The thing of it is, is that two weeks after she laid the curse, Oakwood Manor burned to the ground. Sir Edward was killed, the one with most of the household. Mm-hmm. Only his son survived. He was abroad on a continent at the time. I've never given the curse anything more than idle thought, but that things changed recently. Three weeks ago, I had a strange dream. I saw the courtroom in which Annie was sentenced. As sentence was passed, Annie's face screwed up in anger, and she spat her curse. Then I awoke to find myself in an unfamiliar bed. Smoke billowed under a door I didn't recognize, and flames licked around the windows. Leaping out of bed, I ran to the window, opening it, braving the flames I left out. And that's when I woke again for real this time. Two weeks ago, my wife, Victoria, tragically miscarried. Five days ago, I found blood seeping from the walls of the house. The following morning I received news that my father's brother had been thrown from a horse and had died. The maid has complained of seeing ghosts, and the dog is vanished. It goes sour, food rots overnight. And two days ago, an inverted pentagram was carved on one of the doors in the house. The whole affair is upsetting Victoria terribly, and I would like it stopped. I've heard rumors of the order to which you all belong, and I feel that you may be in a good position to assist me in my wishes. I'll pay the order a nominal fee, I'll pay all of your expenses. Unfortunately, I only have sleeping quarters for three of you, but I can put the rest of you up in a hotel in town. Well, these things happen. Can I do a psychology check to see if he's being completely forthright? I failed it. I'll do a psychology. I also failed it. Fail. Yeah, it's pretty hard to read. He's very dour. He seems fairly stern, humorless, whether this is due to the events of the past three weeks or not, but that's just a meaner of some time. Well, I do hope that we can help you with this matter, and although I do not know all of you, I am definitely anxious to work with you all, because I have heard about the various things you've helped other people out with, and I have no doubt that we will be able to end this curse for you. Very good. That is why I contacted you initially. I missed you. Did anything occur just prior to these events? Any business reversals, any employees that you had to let go? Any change before any of these strange phenomena begin? Not a thing. Everything was moving along more or less as normal. What started it was the spring stream. Did you have any of those? Yes, you would tell this to me. I guess... Well, if I was going to see your house then? I would like, if possible, for you to leave as soon as your schedules allow. Well, my schedule is open, so I'm more than happy to leave as soon as all of you are ready. I am. I can purchase this. I'm ready. [Laughter] I'm ready to leave my eyebrow. I can... I can purchase tickets for a mid-day train departing from Houston as early as tomorrow. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. I have to do it. Now when you say expenses, you are... [Laughter] Oh my God. Oh my God. You're including like lost wages, things of that sort, lost fees, or opportunity costs. Yes. Opportunity costs. Oh my God. If you can... I'm pretty sure I would break social convention and pick you up with a date. [Laughter] Wow. [Laughter] It's not for me. The fee has a curative effect. [Laughter] Oh my God. Let's just say that if you can rid my house of this strange affliction which seems to have settled over it, I will gladly pay any bill that you send my wife. Wow. And he goes, okay. I don't know, I can imagine a lot. [Laughter] Makes sure bridal be really, he just tabs on everything. All right. Put your hands on the building. Okay. Oh yes. So at this point, your dinners do arrive. Your lobster's stuffed with lobster's and stuff like that. [Laughter] Oh. That was a good idea. [Laughter] Oh yes. We hope you have. We must have noticed this by now. Bugs of the sea. Or each. Or each side. Or each side. Notice for dislike of the sea? I think so. You're fairly open about it, right? I don't think I'm terribly embarrassed about it. Yeah. Can't really hide it, really. No, no. I've known people's genuine phobias and that's really not something you can look around. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All right. All right. All right. Anything you want to do in the next, oh, 12 hours or so. I'm consulting with Padma about personal protection. I don't know what I should, should I, should I arm myself? What do you think I should do? If you haven't already, you're foolish. All right then. I'll try to buy a couple boxes of shells. Mm-hmm. I'll probably take you. We'll go shooting tonight. I'll clean my gun came. And polish it up so it's nice and pretty too. I'll buy some. I like to be scared to your intro heart. I'm gonna clean my pearl and cheer. Well, you're gonna like shave and get some of that. Oh, yeah. You're busy. Mm-hmm. The fawn's up like 50s. But I'm standing up. You think we're learning really good that part? It's a shell. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Call me. Robin, if you start, my call is. Yes. No, no, no. Bring me the other mustache comb. [LAUGHTER] You'll always try to be cool. Cool. Fantastic. [LAUGHTER] He has to pop. [LAUGHTER] It gives me a good lift and body. [LAUGHTER] You're gonna lift and separate. [LAUGHTER] That's right. That's perfect. Oh, dear, oh dear. [LAUGHTER] Jesus, my mustache care. [LAUGHTER] Mine, please. So you all rendezvous. How many days are you all packing for, by the way? Oh, I'm gonna clean for a week. Just in case. I guess so, probably. I'm always equipped for at least two weeks. True. There'll be two dresses. Two dresses. Oh. And change of underwear. That's it. Yeah, I'll explain to Bartleby that he should, you know, stay away from my forbidden office of mystery. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] And do you understand any of this, but we're still going to be talking about it. Why are you so fascinated by my forbidden office of mystery? [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] Yeah. [LAUGHTER] Okay. Okay, so, oh, Black informed you that he was gonna catch the first train out in the morning. So he's gonna get there ahead of you. Okay. So you all rendezvous at Houston Station and board a train for Birmingham. And it's gonna be a four-hour journey. You're gonna change trains in Birmingham and head on to Helmedon, which is a little bit outside of Derby proper. Let's see how far outside. [LAUGHTER] Oh, quite a bit outside of Derby actually. [LAUGHTER] About three hours. You're walking the rest of the way. [LAUGHTER] No, no. I mean, the train will take you straight through Helmedon, but, yeah, it's a couple hours out here, Derby. [LAUGHTER] And so as you, as you debark from the train at this little country station, Black is standing there, the steam from the train sort of washing around him. He stands there in his black frock coat and black top hat. But he welcomes you all. You know, a quarter loads your luggage on cart. You all head over to a waiting cab. And by the time you reach Black's house, the shadows are growing long. I'm going to stay in the hotel. OK, so who's staying in the hotel? He's got room for three. [LAUGHTER] Why don't you go to the grills? [LAUGHTER] And Lily. [LAUGHTER] So, Padma, Celestia, and Dr. Q will be in the house. What's the matter? I would have rather stayed in the hotel than the cursed house. [LAUGHTER] I'm going to go to the hotel. [LAUGHTER] Yeah. [LAUGHTER] Well, it would make sense for us while to stay in a hotel anyway, because that way you can get a ground floor room. Yeah, exactly. Whereas, Black's house-- Oh, that's why I didn't argue about it. [LAUGHTER] Unless you were big enough and strong enough to help me with my wheelchair. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] I thought the whole robin was four. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] So you can walk. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] No, but Black's house is located just sort of on the outskirts of town. So it's really only like a 10-minute carriage ride from the hotel back. So we're talking a house. It's a house. It's in a state. It's like a-- is it like huge or was it-- It is not huge. It is a three-story house. It's a manor. Mm-hmm. Kind of? It stands on a quarter acre. You know. Just a house. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's kind of comparable to Padma's residence, you know. Sort of upper class, but not fancy, you know. Okay. And you know, as you step down off the carriage, you see a very nicely tended garden in the sort of twilight life. Mm-hmm. Kind of thing dripping blood yet? Nothing of a sort. [LAUGHTER] It also looks like a relatively new house. Mm-hmm. Maybe built in the last 20 years or so. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Is Mr. Blackfield? Oh, yes. He met you at the station. Oh, my question. On this house, that's relatively new. Oh, yes. So just renovations or has it met any sort of disaster? Oh, no. It's a new house. I bought it when Victorian and I were married. Mm-hmm. You built on top of any abandoned graveyard. Yeah, absolutely. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [LAUGHTER] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] Mm-hmm. No, the old black property was in the town of Beck Green. Which is-- Which is-- Where is that? Not too far outside of town here. Ten miles from here. Huh. Mm-hmm. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Of course, the old manner burned to the ground. Right. That's right. Yes. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah. Fifty, eighty-four. No, do you still own the grounds in which it once stood? No. No, I do not. There's only one property still standing on those grounds. It was the hunter's lodge. And it is owned by a gentleman named Randolph Northcoat at this point. Mm-hmm. Perhaps you could ask if you could go take a look at where it once lodged? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'm sure he-- What's the general creepiness factor in this house? [INTERPOSING VOICES] Oh, it's a psychologist. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] It's like it's your creepiness detector. [INTERPOSING VOICES] It's not Scooby-Doo. You've sort of been-- It's like intuition. Sure. Yeah. Something like that. I do have a call to do with that. It's Scooby-Doo game, by the way. [INTERPOSING VOICES] That is awesome. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yes. That'll make a one shot one day. [INTERPOSING VOICES] But you've sort of been having this conversation as he's taking you up along the path. Pass the well-tended shrubs and rose bushes and so forth. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Of course, this is winter. It's coming out of winter into spring. So everything's little there. So yeah. Yeah. I was like trying. Please forgive the condition of the garden. It looks like crap. I have a man. It looks like crap. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] Do you like to admit the scale stuff? Is that good? It's a good deal. Yes. [INTERPOSING VOICES] It's good for you. [LAUGHTER] It tastes good. It tastes good for you. [INTERPOSING VOICES] So you're entering the house as you're chatting. And it's sort of your typical Victorian school of interior decorating. Like just no bare face on the walls whatsoever. Yep. Like our place. [LAUGHTER] It's more like how our place was in San Francisco. Yeah, actually. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah, just pictures everywhere. Lots of porcelain. Nicknax. Nicknax. A little, you know, like a Japanese, some Japanese influence creeping in here and there. You know. What a lovely home you have, Mr. Black. Well, thank you. It's all Victoria. Oh, well, you get to meet her? She is staying in Derby at the moment. I understand. Until this all blows over. Mm-hmm. In Canada. Oh, right. I still have a wife. She's in Derby. You would know why she goes to a different school. [LAUGHTER] What's her name? I know. George. Yes. [LAUGHTER] Um, ladies, I just wanted to say that I did sort of expect that neither of you of such carer wanted to stay in a hotel, and I'm used to such course conditions. But if you would like to stay in the hotel instead of me, I would be more than happy to stay in the me home. I'm gonna call Dibs or that. All right. OK. All right. I'm gonna go up on that. I do appreciate it all for you. All right. What does Oswald do? [LAUGHTER] I'm like, "Man, what are you doing here?" [LAUGHTER] Damn it! [LAUGHTER] No, he's brought you all out just to kind of give you a tour. Yeah. Oh. [INAUDIBLE] Oh. Of course. So, yeah, he takes you through the parlor. There's a bit of a needle point up over the mantle that has the black family curse. What? Oh, really? Yeah. This is unsanitary. This isn't right for you. Yeah. Yeah. He sort of has a bit of a, a bit of a sardonic grin. A little bit. And he says, "Well, you can see we never really gave it much credence beyond sort of a, sort of the family story, if you will. But now I'm not so sure." And anyway, let me take you through. So, you know, that's the drawing room, it takes you through the dining room. Kitchen, drawing room, maids, quarters. He says the maid, the maid comes in during the day. So, she's on a day right now. Was she the one who discovered the pentagram? Yes, she was. So, you'll be able to talk to her in the morning. Yes. Can you show us where the walls led? Certainly. Certainly. Let me take you through. So, he takes you into the drawing room, and points out, well, this was the wall. I had the maid scrub it thoroughly, but you can still see over there in the corner, points out a little reddish-brown traces kind of right in the corner where you can't really get a, a good scrub, Joanne. My friend, Dr. Winthrop, analyzed the blood and determined it was humid. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. And then here, and he, he kind of steps, steps behind the sort of wash face and pulls the door out. You know. This is the vandalized door. It was originally on the dining room. I had it replaced before I departed for London. It's an interior door? It's an interior door. And so, and then he points out the pentagram, and it's only about four inches across. Oh my. And very crudely scratched into the wood of the door, about a couple inches from the bottom. Oh. Oh. Greetings. I almost pulled my wood. You're really big things. Can you ask, is there anything smart? I don't really know. It's about Black Annie. Is this the first time we've heard about Black Annie? There's something small. You can, you can do a, a couple. Okay. Oh, that's a good idea. Oh. Oh. Oh. I made mine. You did mine as well. Oh. Oh. I made it. I made it. I made it. I made it. Where was it? I made mine. Mm-hmm. I don't know. They already did. I was right. Yeah. Just to see if you personally know. Anyone who makes a guess is a check. Oh, 95. Oh. Hold on. Hold on. No. Okay. I'm so nervous for that story. Do tell. How does it change? So, you're, those of you who make the occult roll are reminded of an old folk legend. A folk legend about the Black Anis. Being an old hag of English folklore. Yes. But you're not aware of that being connected to any kind of witch, you know, legendary. You know, it's, it's sort of the, the names are similar. And maybe that's why Black Annie got that name. Mm-hmm. Just because it, it bokes the Black Anis myth. Okay. Gee, maybe she's possessed by the staring of that hag. Who? I say possessed. The witch, maybe Black Annie, was possessed by Black Anis. Well, so Black sort of says, well, my understanding is that the, the Black appellation was given to her after her execution due to my ancestor's role in her arrest. However, I, I had made that connection as well and have done a bit of, as much research as the local library will allow. Now, let me take you up to the study actually and show you what I've amassed. Mm-hmm. Good. So Robin helps you, helps you up the stairs as well. Okay. And, and Black takes you into his study. You see his, his desk is covered in a mass of documents and records as well as books. Feel free to study this at the, at your leisure. Mm-hmm. I'm going to look at the books. What do the books on the desk? They're like locally published books about the history of this area of Darbyshire and that sort of thing. Anything that stands out? Nothing really stands out. It'll take you about an evening study to, to really go through all of this. Um, yes. And so let me, let me take you, those of you who are staying, let me take you around to your quarters. Okay. Um, I'm sure it'll be an uneventful night. I'm sure it'll be. Hopefully. For God's sake. I hope not. Because the sooner something happens, the sooner we can solve what's going on. Mm. That is certainly, certainly my hope as well that we solve this sooner rather than later. Um, ooh. Uh, Pat would give me, give me an idea roll. I make it. Finally. Uh, I make it like that. On your way into, or on your way from the railway station out to Black's house, you did notice that there's an antique store in town. Oh. This little professional interest. It was like, well, clue. No. No. You get to go on teaking. Hey. Especially these country antique stores, you can find some good stuff. Oh, yeah. But a little brice. They don't know what they've done. That's right. Is this really Oliver Cromwell's head? Oh. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. C's. Common to skull. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I wonder. So, um. The same knife. I know. There's a little mini mini. Mm. Oh. So, there's a, um. There's one room with a double bed and one room with a twin bed. Oh, dear. We'll take the double bed. Yeah. We'll take the double bed. All right. Oswald, you'll be in the twin. No. No. I mean, Dr. Hume, you'll be on the twin. Oh. That's what I wanted anyway. Oh. Oh, yeah. Whoo. Whoo. Whoo. But, uh, but no, both rooms are very nice, you know, sort of decked out in your typical English country style with a nice four poster bed and plastered walls and old, you know, and the timbered roof and the fireplace in both rooms. Okay. Are they going? Um. Mm. The fire's been started. The fire's been started. Josephine, the mage, you started it before she left. Yeah. There's a, there's a fresh apple on a mental piece, you know, sort of country tradition. Nice. Thank you. Yeah. Oh, they're supposed to. Really? Yeah. Or something like that. That was an onion. Yeah. Onions elsewhere, I guess. I guess so. The apples too. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. Some piece of fruit or vegetable. Something that's absorbent. Yes. That's the key to the whole thing. Yeah. Well, you know, oh, apples turned brown. That must be in their absorbing evil spirits. Yeah. Foot detail. Yeah. They were seen. Shunk and pineapple. Yeah. Yeah. It's so tricky. They are pretty evil spirits. Yes. Yes. There's no doubt about that. I don't know. I don't know. But, what's oxidation? I know that. I could explain what's happening to the apple. Yes. Oh, God. All right. Well, we're trying to save. We're leaving. She's always like this. She's always like this. Sorry. Nice. We're already out of the way. We're probably out of the way. 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This is why I have three different types of presents. They might doubt you. They might doubt you. You sort of gently extract the story. During the winter months of 1852, January and February 1852, starting then, farmers began to discover carcasses of sheep, torn apart as if by some wild animal. Several hunts were organized and a number of wild dogs were found and killed, but the killings continued until April, when they mysteriously stopped. And we're in March. Yes you are. Okay. But like 40 years later. 41 years later. Yeah. It's not. Mm-hmm. Okay. So, back at the black residence, you guys just want to do a perimeter walk. Mm-hmm. Okay. Just like inside the house, outside the house. See what? Anything obvious? Mm-hmm. Okay. Tracking rules. Oh. Tracking. Okay. It failed. Oh. I feel miserably. Failing. No. Yeah. Yeah. You really don't see any tracks or anything distinctive. Can you do you want to push that? Mm-hmm. I would like to push that. I'd like to push it. Okay. Well, I think if you fail it. Shouldn't turn your ankle. Oh. That's good. That is good. Yeah. A trippining will occur. A trippining will occur. That's good. You kind of do. Why don't I do this? That's a happy one too. You don't have to push. You can always back out when you hear the conversation. I'm going to push. Yeah, I think. Oh. Oh. All right. So, you're, you know, you're kind of walking around. There's some shrubs up against the back side of the house. Oh, maybe there's something, you know, here. Okay. You're sort of pushing the branches aside and leaning it. And moving in and suddenly some animal varmints of some kind just goes running between your legs and just totally tricks you up. And you, you fall forward and see here. Marmint. Marminty. Marminty animal. Yes. You fall forward and, you know, kind of throw your, your hands out and you land badly on your left wrist and spray. Ah. Okay. Are you going to try and treat yourself so you have nots? Fine. Yeah. Can I try and treat my wrist myself? Give me a first aid roll. Oh, rake your wrist. Oh, hey, I made it. Hey, nice. I made it. All right. Go ahead and check your first aid. Very good. Um, look. I did medicine. Yeah. Hey, did you roll, uh, roll your checks for last time? Yes. I don't roll my checks. Oh, well then you should have done that. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So yeah, let's go ahead and roll your checks. Okay. So if we... You want to fail it. Right. And if you fail it, it goes up by D10 points. Okay. So persuade. Yeah. Fails. Fails. Fails. Fails. Oh, I failed that one. Yeah. So. Oh, really? That's good. That one's already really quick in line. Oh, that's the point. You have seven more persuasive points. Very good. Wow. I'm damn persuasive. So if I... If you fail the roll. If I fail it, which means that I passed the answer. I succeeded. Yes. I succeeded. Then it goes up by D10. Exactly. So that's the one side sequence over here. Yeah. Nothing. Oh. I rolled right at my psychology. So unfortunately, that would be a success. Okay. Oh, and that's it. That's a useful one. I got a spot pin. Ooh. Oh, very good. It is. Oh, yeah. I didn't get the credit reading one. Okay. Eighty-six. Yeah. Eighty-six. Yeah. She's a queen. When you hit 90, you get sanity points. When any skill hits 90, you get the... That's what I'm saying. Very good. The idea is 90. [laughter] The more that way. The more that way. The more that way. This is... I'm gonna check on height. I had 10% and I made the roll. Oh, that's terrible. Murphy's Law. Next time. Wow. You're following your skill checks. All right. I do have a medicine one since I botched that, uh... Oh, yes. ...syphilis. There's a bottle of heat to the check. [laughter] And I failed. Good. Good. So now I... I have a 16% advantage. You went home and right up up to the list. [laughter] Oh, man. Look at that. Oh, that's my syphilis. Yeah. [laughter] I thought it was bad breath. Oh, god. [laughter] I've been making some really bad type... [laughter] I don't know what he knows. [laughter] What do you want to say? [laughter] Well, I am a doctor. Yeah. [laughter] So, yes. So, you're tripped by a varmint of some sort. Okay. 'Cause it runs out into this. Yes, I can treat this myself, fortunately. Yes. See, look. Wow. You're really doing a good job. Thank you. [laughter] Don't doubt that. No. It's a treatment you would do when you get back inside. I don't know why I should treat it. You know what to do, basically. So... So, we're walking around. So, we're going to go into that little area where the blood showed up in the corner. Into the drying room. Okay. Is it back into the house? I think so. Okay. I feel like it's like the kitchen. I think there's a... It's a drying room adjacent to the kitchen. It is, yeah. Oh, okay. Well, it's like when it was parked on the dining room door. Yes. Yes. That's not behind the wash then. The door is going to be removed. But still maybe checking out in the dining room. Definitely going to replace the door. Yeah. That's odd too. Any little height holes? Yeah. Just low to the ground. Yes. So, what's behind the drying room wall? Knock around. Okay. Just, by the way, with the sprained wrists there, if there's any skill you're using, that's going to require your left hand. I don't know what that may be, but we'll take it on case by case. I'll take it on case by case. You're probably shotgun for sure, yeah. Oh, wonderful. You would be at minus 20 to your skill. I don't have any, um, wow. Okay, so I have a 5% chance of. All right. Yeah, because I have to shoot the suck. You can't hold it. Just just stick landing. Michelle, you feel bad. I love you. If you've invented the SODOP shotgun. All right. So, okay, so you want to, you want to head for the dining room, you want to head for the drying room, et cetera. So you walk back into the house as you, as you walk in with your bike handle light, you, you hear some more scuttling as if from, like, my spleen delight. Oh, really? But it sounds more unwholesome in a certain way. More unwholesome than mice. Like that. Like that. It sounds like that, right? If that's the run. - That sounds like fast. - That doesn't sound like fast. (laughter) - And there's a faint, weird, large-- - Oh, this is weird. - Oh, this is weird. - An odor. - Charcoal. - That's weird. (laughter) - That's much weird. - Oh, dear. - A charcoal-y bat-- - Charcoal odor. - Scrambling. - Scrambling bat sounds. - Scuttling. - Scuttling. - Scuttling. - Scuttling. - Scuttling in charcoal. Wait, like, shadow? Is this after we illuminate the area? - This is as you're coming into the house. The noise of light. - Not when we present. - The noise of light. - The noise of light. - The noise of light that you come into the house. - The presence of evil. The presence of evil. - Evil. - Evil. - Evil. - Perpetogram ritual? Perhaps a pentagram ritual later? - I think we should do that now. - Perhaps. - Perhaps. - I think we should do that now in order to-- - Finish me. - Kind of make sure this place is as secure as possible tonight as we sleep. What do you think, Dr. King? - I was actually kind of thinking we should do like, show yourself ritual if we had one. - Do you have one? - Do you know how to do that? I don't know how to do that. - Yeah, I guess it'd be a sort of summoning ritual. I don't know how to do that. - Yes, I wouldn't feel comfortable summoning anything until everyone is here so we can draw upon all of our power. But it's up to you, of course. - I'm all in favor of personal safety, so that's fine. I just hate all this sculking about it. I wish they'd just come out so I can shoot. - Well, if they're, if they're-- - Corial? - Yes. - Substantially, if they're substantial. Oh, G.M., what are you doing? - I was just looking up any ritual. Okay, so do you guys wanna do it tonight? - Yes. - Who wants to do it? That's sort of a one-person job. - Oh. - Oh. - Who has the highest to call? - Oh. - Oh, mine is 25. - I have 71. - Oh, my God. - Was that a one? - Was that a one? - Well, that's why I didn't study. - Oh, that's right. (all laughing) - So do you like that bow to your-- - Yeah. - No. - Your skill lock to the right. - Yeah, your ripple net delivery. Yes, I was studying medicine. (all laughing) - No, vid and lore. (all laughing) - It is awfully a spice here. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And medicine, that's for sure. - Okay, so-- - We only managed to make the vivisection seminar soon. - Yes. (all laughing) - Nives. (all laughing) - I'm sure the better you sit lightly. (all laughing) - That sounds like nonsense. - Yeah. - I made it. - Mm. - 66. - Why? - So yes, where do you want to, you can do it in the air, you can scribe it, but what do you want to do? - I will do it where it's most apparent that I'm doing something fancy, and such as the entrance hall. - Mm-hmm. - Watch this, ladies. - Thanks. - Oh, us? - Oh. - Well, I have seen a pedagrimetry before. - But have you seen it done like this? (all laughing) - Ooh, his technique is amazing. (all laughing) - That's how I know my breasts, am I impressed? - No, it's a pedagrimetry. - Okay. - He does it right. (all laughing) - You know that he does it right. - Okay. - Damn, he goes somewhere. (all laughing) - He goes to all intuitions. - Yeah. - I don't see you, but he's good at something. - Oh my god. (all laughing) - Sorry. - That is something nowhere that you all do have a ritual dagger on hand at all times. - Oh, all right. - All right. - All right. - Let's go get out. - I'm going to do the pentagram ritual. - Great. - We might be just in a couple of different places in the house. - Certainly, you could do it on each floor, if you wanted to. - I think that might be good. - Okay. - So that's the first floor. I really would have done it when I'm, if that's there was blood and-- - That's what I wanted to do. - Okay, well, let's just pentagram the place up. (all laughing) - The one role is efficient. You guys move through the house, doing a pentagram ritual, pretty much in every room. Don't wanna get piked. - No. (all laughing) - That's one of the three months. - It's been out of 10 and out. - Three months. - It's out of 10. I didn't know the guys. - Okay, so I'll actually say that character. We don't wanna get piked. - It's a thing. - Literally. (all laughing) - Well, I'm pretty sure it was good enough in the order to go with a pentagram. - Let's sleep piked. - That's true, yeah. - Yes. - Oh, yes, let's sleep right. - Outrageous. - I like that we're all assuming he's dead. He's in an insane asylum. I mean, it's not even worse. - Well, that's only his dead body. - That's worse. - No, his brain is still alive. - His brain is still alive. - His brain is still alive. - Oh, he's in an insane asylum. - He's in somebody else's body. - Yeah. - He didn't even get the relief of death. - That weird jewelry body. - I mean, whole prison body was dead. - Yeah. - His pipe's body was pulled from the cans, but you all know he's still alive. He's just in the right body. - Yeah, yes, yes. - I'm telling you, I'm with the pipe. - Yes. - All I'm gonna do is I'm just loading it, and then we're gonna work for him on the same asylum. - No. - You know what? I'm gonna stop. We're fighting that. - Okay. (all laughing) - This is a recently still make-up. - I'm here, it's not 'cause they suck. (all laughing) - All the banana ones? - Yeah, oh god. - Yeah. - And every man one. - Yeah. - Okay, so. - So we're pentagramming up. - So you pentagram up the house. - That's what we do. - Yes. - You hit the sack eventually from what I am. - No, wait a minute. - Do you feel like it was behind the wall? - Oh, certainly yes, you wanted to check the- - To see how this trickery was done. - Mm-hmm, you thoroughly knock on the wall everywhere. - Yes, nothing not safe. - It's a solid- - There's no- - Do you like little mouse holes or things like that? - You don't find any mouse holes. You give a thorough search of the house. You know, you take your time so no spot hidden roles are required. - I fear we may be- - We may be involved with true paranormal activity. - Now they were talking about food rotting, and things like- - Yeah, I'm no curdling. - Oh, maybe we should- - Did you just want to look at the food? - Yeah, let's go take a look at food. - Yeah. - Maybe make a sandwich while you're at it. - The- (laughing) - Take a bag with water. - You know what, I will make- (laughing) If the opportunity presents itself, I will make food for you. - Oh, yay! - You're very good at that. I'm starting to like you, doctor. (laughing) - I think he knows what he needs to be- - I'm starting to have a reason to like you. (laughing) - You make excellent food. - And he didn't screw up that pentagram ritual, that's right. Two good things. - I think it's a long thing. All right, give me a cooking roll then I don't know. - I failed it. (laughing) - Because the food is there. - No, it's a failure just in the cake. Just sort of, it's okay, you know. - I'm afraid the capers are just not up to date. - Yeah, a little over cooked, you know, a little- (sizzling) - I think it's great. - Okay. - I am a pentater. (laughing) - But then you surprise me- - You surprise me. - You're on yourself. (laughing) - I don't care- - It's a very bad open frog. - I don't like it. (laughing) - You can have her Oswald. (laughing) - Stop! (laughing) - It's fun to be has. (laughing) - Oh. - Anyway. (laughing) - It ain't over until it's over. (laughing) - All right, so then you'll get inside. - Yes. - Okay. So your night passes otherwise uneventfully. - Aww, we're gonna make some happen. - When you awake in the morning. The apples on your metal pieces are shriveled and rotten. - Wow. - This is shriveled up. - I don't know if you know. - I have a little bite. - I have a little bite. (laughing) - Even with the pangivarameteral. - Yeah. - Okay, how do that's unusual? (laughing) - The theme, it doesn't seem quite, great crickets. - So can we have our U-All as Oswald and what confused? - What? - My first Mumbai. (laughing) - That's your first Mupa? (clapping) - You know, I think you kinda have to get him in a window. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Otherwise it's just a little bit. - Just a little bit. - Disappointed and awful. - Yeah. - You're just like, huh? - What's everyone going on about this? - Yeah. - It's a cookie. - It's kind of like McDonald's, I mean you have to. (laughing) - That's being printed on your taste. - Yeah. - Yeah. - You printed on your bad taste really. (laughing) - You're small and impressionable. - Yeah. - So, yeah, did you guys wanna come out to the house for breakfast or? - I wanna come out 'cause I wanna speak with the maid. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. - Probably first thing in the morning. - Mm-hmm. (laughing) - Did you want some of those, Tammy? (laughing) - 'Cause they're gone. - Yeah. - You have to do it the rest of you around then. (laughing) - Last one. - Hey. (laughing) - Have I noticed that Oswald has a thing for this Smith? - Why are they to smile? - Why are they to smile? - It's not that easy. - It's not that easy. - It's probably not that easy. - It's not that easy. - You don't even really know me. - I do really. - You really know what I do. - I do. - That's really beautiful. - I do have a psychology. - That's all I really meant. - It's me, but I'm not. - I do have a psychology role. - Okay. - 'Cause I'm not looking for a relationship. - All right. (laughing) - Okay. - All right. I'm a little bit of a relationship right now. (laughing) - Did you use this good? - Oswald Smith. - D.S.D. in the legs. (laughing) - To be happy. (laughing) - Do your body issues. - Well, at some point, I'm able to sort of venture to them. I don't know what you see in that one. - Oh. (laughing) - There's little wheels. - I made it to the best set, whichever it is. - Oh. - Right, it was like a banana bread sandwich with cottage cheese. (laughing) - I thought I made it with, you know. - How did you do that? - Carrots. - Carrots. - Carrots. - Carrots. - Carrots. - You know what I'm saying? (laughing) She didn't like the government cheese I served her. (laughing) All right, so Josephine is there. - Yes. - She's serving up a hearty breakfast of bacon and eggs. - No, I'm rotted. - No, I'm rotted. - I'm rotted. So yeah, if you wanna question her, she's around. - Yes, I don't know what I'm serving. - Yeah. - I think I'm serving her in a study. You can get her a little bit. (laughing) - No, you know, gently. - Exactly. - I need you to be actually less fearful if you two work in a room. So if you'd be so kind as to let us talk to her. - You think that you could do a better job on the jury getting her, but. - Yes. Oh. (laughing) (laughing) - I like her. (laughing) - I don't know why. (laughing) - Dr. Huey must know that women are the more delicate sex and that she may need a more genteel hand than what you two could provide. (laughing) - Give me nothing to go out and talk about sex. - No, whatever. (laughing) - Oh, sorry. - I don't know if you two ladies agree, but I don't know. - Yep. (laughing) - You're rude. - Skedaddle. - All right. - You, you two could investigate other, I mean, was there anybody else who was in the house? - No. - Does he have like a man-servant or? - No, it's just the maid. - Okay. - All right. - Name Mr. Laugh. - That's all he said, really? - Fifth strange. - Yeah. - All right, then fine. - Does everyone else is run away? - Um. - No. - No. - It's just Victoria's. - Victoria's once a dirty. - So one maid is in charge of both of them? - Mm-hmm. - They're gonna pass. - They're gonna pass. - All right, that's all right. Victoria is doing. - That's all right. - Okay, okay. - All right. - Well, let's go. Maybe we could go talk to this 10 miles out of town. I wonder if we could get there. - That's Beck Green. Victoria's in Darby's. - Let's give us five minutes. - Oh, it's just like, yeah. - Just have like, finish it. - Whatever, go. - Go smoke. - Yeah, cigar. - Yeah, you guys want to back-slap and smoke you cigars, isn't it, right? - Yeah, sorry. - You can talk smack about me. - You know why I saw them all with their-- - With their hair just loud. - With their hair just loud. - With their hair just loud. - Did you? (all laughing) - Ah. - Thank you. (all laughing) - Hair is down, you see. (all laughing) - It's not ankle. (all laughing) - The bacon falls near well. (all laughing) - All right. - All right, so-- - Oh, it's played all that detail. - Yeah. - It's me while it's up there tonight. - Now, Josephine. (all laughing) - Well, why are you telling me this? (all laughing) - Mr. Black showed with us that you heard them then experiencing some strange occurrences around the house of the past a few weeks. - I have, but it's been a happy time for me here at the Black House up until three weeks ago. And at this point, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to stay. - Well, what exactly has been the nature of your experience in the past few weeks? - Well, I've not seen anything clearly, but I've felt the presence and glimpsed protective movements out of the corner of my eye of what I could swear or ghosts moving through the house. - Did it look like they're human form? - Well, like I say, I haven't gotten a clear look at it. - But something, like a figure. - Yes, something, moving. - Mm-hmm. - The presence of something in the house. - Do you feel watched? - Yes. I feel like I'm not alone. Even when Mr. Black ghosts work. - Does the presence feel as though it's violent or it's going to do you any harm? - I've never felt directly threatened by the carving on the door, the blood on the walls. - Victoria. - Victoria, so sad. - Yeah, it's tragic. - So at this point, I may have to leave. I don't know, don't tell Mr. Black. - No. - No, never. - And have you and yourself had any unusual dreams of the late or? - Sometimes I feel like there's something watching me while I sleep. I mean, I'm with you. - Oh. - And have you heard anything? I think I'm sure you were sharing about this guy. Have you heard anything? - Oh, yeah. - From the house and me and your floor. - Maybe there's a throat and serve. - Not that I can say as much, but then again, I'm only here overnight, two nights a week. - Right here on the night of the pentagram was carved into the mulch. - I was, yes. - What, can you remember anything from that, you think? - It was nothing unusual. Mrs. Black had departed already and I served Mr. Black his dinner and started on the laundry, finished that up around midnight, I think, retired to my quarters in the morning and went down to get the stove lit at sunrise, discovered the pentagram Monday on the door. - So you didn't hear anything or see anything? - But then again, I'm sleeping fairly deeply and it's been a long day. - Oh, you do experience anything new or unusual, please feel free to come to us. We of course could see that discrete. - Of course, thank you. - Completely confidentially. - All right. So now should we get ourselves up and get ready to go visit the property? - Yes. - We have some unusual caves. (laughing) - You have a cave in here, I'm not sure. - I don't wanna go into the caves. (laughing) - What the hell are you saying? - The hell are you saying? - Let's do this. - All right, well, so, yeah, let's make our way. - Mm-hmm, okay. - To our back green. - All right, so. - Although do we wanna come and poke around the house first? - Yeah. - Do you think there's anything new or unusual? - Yeah. - Do you wanna show the detective the pentagram to see if there's anything he could discern about the nature of the carving? - Okay. - Okay, you can give me a spot, hit and roll on the pentagram. - Gotta make it. - I do. - Yes. - That's a good name. - You discerned that it was most likely carved with a knife and not at an angle. It was carved with a knife pretty much perpendicular. - Something very short through this or someone upside down. - Yeah, that's the one thing. (laughing) - Say suspended from a robe. - Oh no. - You know. - Or an oddly shaped rat creature. - Using a tool. - Yes. - Yeah. - You're a poseable. - Oh no. - Oh God, if you use tools. (laughing) - Oh yes. - Rehensile tail. - Yeah, but he seems to be strong. - Yeah, terrifying. - Terrifying. - Mm-hmm. - Was Mr. Black there the knife that happened? - Of course, is there every knife? - Uh-huh. (laughing) - We have a no england. - Every night, except the night when the moon is full in the sky. No. (laughing) - Oh my God. - Double layer werewolf. - Double layer werewolf. - Double layer werewolf. That's the worst kind of werewolf. (laughing) - As well as the turns into a human that turns back into a wolf man. (laughing) - All right, so. - I have double layer, Mr. E. (laughing) - Is there anything else you wanted to check on the knife? (laughing) - That's what I know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. - So. - Heading out for back green. - Okay, okay. - So, Mr. Black has left for work. He left instructions that you can feel free to make use of his carriage. He walks to work. - Robin is with us, right? - Yes, yes. - Robin, oh yes. - So, he's very Oswald through the cave, so. - I would have to carry him. - Yeah, he do have a backpack range, but no. (laughing) - Oh dear. - So, he would have kind of, yeah. (laughing) - Robin's doing fucking flips. (laughing) - All right, he's so awesome. (laughing) - Those are the giant arms that you like kind of know. - It's like a master blaster ring. - Yeah, exactly, but there's the leg tied to this. - Oh yes. - So, you'll want to watch it off with the flag. (laughing) - He's gonna pull himself through. - Absolutely. - I'm pretty strong. - So, your carriage ride takes you through downtown Helmsdon, Padma, you can see the antique shop again. Helmsdon Antiques is cold. There's the Queen Anne Hotel. There's a pub called the Blackboard. There is a library, Helmsdon Library. And also, Dr. Cume, you do spot the offices of Dr. Winthrop. - Ah! - The one mentioned here. - We should speak with Dr. Winthrop. - Oh yes, we should. Especially about the miscarriage. - Yeah. - The antique shop. Did I know something? - Yeah, I wasn't really curious to see if there's any local or the best or-- - Oh, well, then should we pull over? - Sure. - Do you want to do Helmsdon before you do bed cream? - No, that might be a good idea. We don't know who long we'll be gone for. - Okay. - Which do you want to do first? Of those places around downtown, Helmsdon? - It's good for an antique store. - Yes. So it's a small shop entering a bell rings as you open the door. It's a typical antique shop. It's piled with old furniture, knickknacks, off and ends. - Not as much as they were nice. - Not very nice, though. Its shelves are rather overflowing. Containing everything from civil war era breastplates to ancient pipes, old muskets, porcelain mugs, and of course, lots and lots of furniture. - Mm. - There's a man sitting at a desk doing some accounts, looks up when you come in and pops down off the stool. He's wearing a vest with a little pocket watch chain across it, you know. He's got rather impressive button shops. Hello, welcome to Helmsdon Antiques. I am Jonathan Freeman at your service. - Pleasure to make your acquaintance. I just love your little town and your shop as well. - Well, thank you, thank you. Anything in particular what you're looking for? - You know, as I'm quite intrigued by your lovely village, I was wondering if you might have any local artifacts or be kind of knickknacks of a more personal nature to the area. - Oh, hmm, knickknacks with more personal nature. - It's a souvenir, let's say. - Mm, seedy. - Or a trip here. - Ah, well of course, we have some lovely landstapes here. Any points of some, I've seen it. - Oh, there's a whole lot more. - Well, I don't know, let's see. So he starts kind of rooting around and he says, "Oh, well, here's an interesting little artifact I found in a desk I bought in any, he points out the desk, he's like, "I bought this off the North coat." - Oh, hmm. - It's clearly hesitant to even speak the name. Found the letter sort of tacked up under one of the drawers. You find these sort of things and takes business of course. - I'd love to see it. - Oh, yes, let me see where I put it here. So he starts rooting around in his roll top desk and there's all these papers and everything. I'm guessing this letter is about 300 years old, if you can believe it. - Oh, we believe it. - It's in terrible condition, but it tells an interesting story. Here it is. - Oh! - Oh! - Oh! (laughing) - I'll take it. Although, can I do a hidden roll? - Yeah, sure. - I think it has an interest. - Go for it, yeah. - Yeah. - I'm just gonna try it out. - No. - Oh. - It's just too cluttered. You'd have to spend a whole day in here. - Okay. Perhaps another day. - In the meantime, I died. - Oh, certainly, certainly. I could, I could let you have that for, oh, I don't know, five shillings. - Oh, there's four shillings. - Oh, certainly. - Oh, it might also be first. - Oh, it might also be first. - It would be eight stylish. I'd even, oh, the smell. (laughing) - It literally should be saying this for the care drive, perhaps. - Yes. - So you go see the doctor? - You could. - It's gonna be fine. - It's really falling apart, yeah. - It's 300 years old. - Uh oh. - I know. - You're gonna break. - Why lose it? (laughing) - Oh, wow. - Really could seriously fall apart. - Yeah. - It's falling apart? It is a letter that is falling apart. - Oh, my. Okay. I wanna do a spot here. We're all there. - Yeah. - I'm just looking around while she's having this conversation. - I guess I'll do a spot here in this while. - Couldn't hurt. - No. - Oh my god. - Triple zero. - Oh. - Oh damn. (laughing) - You're like standing outside. - No, you can't take your eyes off Lily. (laughing) - That's what it is. - Okay. - That's funny. - I felt funny. - Okay. - But a fumble gets you a check as well 'cause we always learn this a little bit. - Oh, that's right, right, right. I learned not to stare at her. - Exactly. Must she become more observant? - I wonder what her hair looks like when it's down. (laughing) - Wait, that's cute. - It's still the case. It's a good thing you're sitting all the time. - Yeah. (laughing) - I would pick me up with not yet. (laughing) - I don't get heavy blanket across your laps since it's cold. - Just wanna watch the set. (laughing) - Look how beautiful that is. (laughing) Everybody's looking at me. - No. (laughing) - A straight bit of her hair has come down. You just start wondering about the rest of it. (laughing) - Okay. - I'm a bovius. - Okay. - Seriously. - Yeah. - All right, so, any other business? Anyone else? - Some will speak in the antique journal. - The doctor. - Yeah, talk to the doctor. - After the doctor went through it. He's just down the road. - It does redo take this personally, but I've decided my house doesn't like. - That's fine, no. (laughing) No, I made your hand either that way. - Okay. - She's a whole rising figure. - Yeah, I don't expect everyone to like her. - Oh. (laughing) - It's too bad. (laughing) - Hopefully you'll understand that doctors are more comfortable to like the other doctors. - Oh. (laughing) - I think you'll just be more comfortable. - Just like this all the time. (laughing) - Well, I've known many doctors in my day, so I'm a pretty sheep, respect your profession, I will be to it. - Typically. (laughing) - Just walk away. (laughing) - I'm going to take care of all of this. (laughing) - Yeah, exactly. - Right in the face. (laughing) - Yeah, I know, I do, I kind of put my parasol in that direction and open it and walk over it to see what happens when I'm looking at it. - So would it pull away? (laughing) - Dr. Winthrop? - Yeah. - Yes. - So Winthrop. - So we're gonna talk. - So, you find in Dr. Winthrop premises a small office. He's currently not seeing anyone, so are they able to speak with you right away? - Okay. - Yes, how can I help you? - I'm Dr. Biles Hugh. - Dr, I see, I'll screw up that. (laughing) - I'm Dr. Andrew Michael Winthrop. (laughing) I'll screw up that. (laughing) - More impressive name. - No, no, no extra, yeah. (laughing) - All right then, I'll add some questions about a patient of yours. I was wondering if we could discuss this. - Certainly, a patient's doctor of confidentiality is years away. (laughing) - Indeed, yes. - Which patients are you speaking of, sir? - Victoria. - Black. - Victoria Black. - Yes, yes, of course. - Understand she miscarried under your care? - Oh my God, yeah. - Unfortunately, it was not under my care. She had not been into see me in longer than I would have liked. And my practice kept me from making a house call tragically that month. - Yes, tragically for who? - That's our local she. - She was five months. - Wow. - Was there anything unusual about this miscarriage? Was it? - Thanks. - She seemed healthy through her pregnancy. She's remains a healthy young woman. I didn't find anything unusual when I examined her after the miscarriage. It was what they call an act of God. - Not to be a delicate, but to do you examine the miscarried child, sir? - I did. I did, it looked to be a healthy baby on the floor for the, the term that it was in. - It's tragic, tragic really, but it was a spontaneous miscarriage. But frankly, they've been under a rather large amount of stress lately, so I suppose it could have been induced by that. - What do you hear about this stress that they're experiencing? - Well, there have been some odd occurrences of the house, apparently Mr. Black found some blood on the wall in his house. I analyzed that it was, it was human blood. - This is like creepy doll music. - Yeah, creepy doll music. - It's just a match with like a little infant ghost. (laughing) - Sitting up very somewhere, baby suffering. - I don't know, I just don't just go to just be this. Doctor, I'm sure you understand this is, you know, a matter that my colleagues and I have been asked to look into and I'm wondering if there's anything you can pro-offer that might assist us in discovering the source of this stress, getting the bottom of this. - I haven't, the faintest clue. Wherever that blood may have come from, I do not know, and I do not care to speculate. - Really, there's blood on the wall, you don't care to speculate where it came from. - This is not my job as a doctor. - True, true. - I'd rather narrow definition of the... - I do, I do, I'm not wondering where this came from. - I think Doctor came from what happened to you. (laughing) - I'm not sure my entire experience in the full setting of medicine. (laughing) - I don't want it. - You don't worry about the person the blood came from. - Yeah. - I am. - No, nobody's been hurt or made in the village. - There have been no reports of injuries, Mr. Black is a man of unimpeachable reputation. - So, the blood on the walls came before the miscarriage? - That came after. - Came after the miscarriage. Why, how long of a span? - I believe about a week and a half. - Oh. - I don't know, please. - 'Cause that would be... - Or is the baby buried? - Anybody know that? - In the 10th Senator, Church. - I'm gonna check that out too. See if there's anything there? - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. - We're here, can't do that far away. - All right, well, thank you. - Good to check that out too. - Oh, yes. - Yes, yes. - I need to leave. - Ready for some light reading? - Oh, indeed. - Indeed. - Oh, absolutely. I thought the library, though, you could-- - Did you want to hit up the library? - Yeah, the library in that town, the library. - Yeah. - Okay. - It's... - The library in the east is not very good, but mine's pretty good. - Mine's pretty good too. - Okay. - We have shines for you. - It's a large house, it's converted house. There's a little sign, there's a big sign out on the lawn in front that says, you know, Helmsdon Library. But as you walk up towards the entrance of the little sign that says, Town Museum, as well. - Oh! - Oh! - Nice. - Here you go. - Oh, I love history. (laughter) - So, you know, it's like, it's one of the older buildings in town, it's got a stone, a ground floor, and a sort of, sort of Tudor style of stories. - Okay. - Entry. - You do see another little sign museum with an arrow, but you're kind of in a large, sort of, parlor area. Many shelves, a stack of books. A quick scan of the shelves, nearest to you, shows that they're popular fiction, and, you know, just sort of the books that most people would want to check out. Local history books, that sort of thing. There's an old man, shelving books. He's kind of leather skinned with this, you know, sort of poopy, white hair, balding. Turns around, and, ah, we're all good. - Good afternoon. (laughter) - So, he kind of beams this big, you know, gap tooth smile at you, and sort of hobbles over. But he's still fairly spry, considering his advantage. - All right. - How can I help you today? - Now, we are visiting your lovely little town, and we are wondering if you might have any, oh, documents, or records of historical events, or, you know, any family histories or genealogies of the Black family? - No, the Black family, yes. I believe young Jacob's already taken out most of the material pertaining to his family. He's been in here quite a lot the last few weeks. - What kind of materials did he take? - Books, documents, here. Let me take you up to the first floor, so he takes you up a creaking back staircase up to a, you know, more of the library, basically. But up here you find the shelves are a bit more jumbled, a bit more chaotic, and-- - It's the bit and lower section. (laughing) - It's not the popular section, so it's got, you know, up here is much of our town genealogy records, and various other items of interest on surrounding communities, not just Hamilton, but, oh, back green, for example, where villages in the area, as well as the local countryside, some of the hiking trails and so forth. Anything I can help you all. - Oh, yes, we want some information about back green. - Back green, certainly. And he starts digging around. Okay, let's see. It's gonna take him a while, and this with your assistance and so forth. Oh, handy that book there. I think it might be something in the back of chapter five. (laughing) - So with about an hour of searching, you gather the following information. Back green is a small village with a population of less than 200. There is one pub known as the Five Oaks Inn, and a church called St. Martens. Artifacts dating back to the Iron Age have been found around back green, and there is an old forge by the river. That green boasts a formidable cricket team. - That's it. - That's it too. - Assemble. - Anything on any local, you know, hiking trails, cave systems, perhaps? - No, you'll want to be knowing about Merlin's cave, I suppose. - Yes, I see him. - Yep, I'm gonna see what we got here. (laughing) Okay, so another hour of digging. - Oh my God. - And the best information you have is, between the covers of J.F. Johnston's Arthurian Britain, you learn that Merlin's cave is a large cave in the bottom of a rocky gorge near Helton. It is the entrance to a network of caves that riddle the area. Legend has it that Merlin once hid here. The book goes on to say that the Merlin cave joins lists of literally hundreds of proposed Arthurian sites from Dozemarie Pool on Fowey Moor, and the Roman steps in North Wales to tintagil on the North Cornwall coast. They are all mixed up in the legend of King Arthur, but are of minor interest only unlikely to be of any real significance. - Are there any good maps of the caves anywhere? - Yeah, I can produce a local sort of ordinance trail map. - Do any of the caves go under that house? - Yeah. - Well, good question. (laughing) - Well, could it kind of ask if he has anything regarding Black Annie or Black Anis? - No, certainly, we'll see him. (laughing) - Okay, let's see here. You guys headed out nine, spent about half hour in the other places. Yeah, so it's getting on for 11.30. All right, so. - We brought a picnic lunch for fun. (laughing) - It's a breakfast too. - Yeah, so long a picnic. (laughing) - A little bacon. - Sorry, so he mentions that most of the information on Black Annie has been taken out by Jacob Black. - Okay, we will then have access to it. - Yeah, but why don't you break for lunch and I will continue digging. I think there might be some other things here. I just have to. - Do you feel like I can remember what I-- - Whoop, whoop. - Okay. - Well, so. You can find one of those masks for two hours. - Hmm? - I want to do this, but it seems we've been been digging this thing for two hours. - She's library use. - I do too. - I'm still teaching. - Oh, I-- - Okay, you can always try library use to cut down on the time of this. - Yeah, well, yeah. While he's looking, we might have to look in these. - Okay, but it'd be at half of your normal scale. - Oh, yeah. - But of course. (laughing) - Oh, no. I fumble. - Ooh, I don't like it like I'm library use. - Oh, oh. I didn't hear that. (laughing) - In the scarf. - Oh, there it goes. - Uh-huh. - It goes to Shelmar. - Oh, no. - David. - I got it. - I don't want to leave this guy alone. I think we're gonna take a break and cut back and we're fine with this. - 'Cause you're on your dice everywhere. - Hanging upside down. - Yeah. (laughing) - Oh, you know, let's-- - Okay, here we go. - Flour dice, you get to read it. - I must say, Padma, I am very interested in that letter. - So maybe you're not-- - Indeed, you're right. - Yes, it is. - You're right. - Okay. - Good luck, exchanges. I need you, I can eat them. (laughing) Okay, so dear Sally, it appears of the trail that began in Garro's on Bleak. Sally Moore? - Sally Moore, yeah. - Has brought in us finally to Beth Green. Our last journey is over. Our task soon complete. The morning, we set off into something Oakwood. - Uh-huh. - Oh, oh. - Oh. (laughing) - We've bothered a car, dog. (laughing) - Wow. - Yes, Sergeant Richardson is while she rests. They're having spoken length with people of the village. I'm not sure, but we take with us shovels. - Uh-huh. - Uh-huh. - shovels, dogwood. - Uh-huh. - Something. - Something horrible. - Sanity. - Something something says. - Richardson also has a device with which he will, of course, that is the most obscured part of the letter. (laughing) I may self it in some trepidations as the wood is known to hide a number of treacherous marshes. Also heard that the wood hides wolves and worse, and that is also obscured. (laughing) Oh gosh. - Something of the pH. Careful, although I cannot be worse. Something elements, something something wood for the next meeting you're ever faced with, Steven. - So I'm going to say something. (laughing) - That's Sharpie in there. (laughing) - I'll never see you. (laughing) - That's all ink. - All right. - Oh yeah, no, that doesn't sound very good. - No. - No. - It might be some dried blood on that, I don't know. (laughing) - Yeah. - It's a variety of foul substances. - The fluids, I don't know more on chance. - Can we sort of, I mean, could we check to see what's plugged? - Can we, uh, on a document at all? - I'm 100 years old. - Yeah, not with current technology. - Yeah, I would say there's PD in there. - Yeah. - Well, yeah, for sure. I mean, if this were 1993, it was 1994. - But I just thought that there was a double helix and the formation inside of it. (laughing) - That's all I can gather for. - Everyone give me an idea of roles, as you are listening. (clicking) - Oh my god. - Me neither. - Wow. - Wow, it's 003, that's, wow, I didn't even need it. - So Fowie Moore rings a bell. - It does? - It was mentioned in JF Johnson's Arthurian Britain. - Oh. - Okay. The book goes on to say that Merlin Cave joins a list of literally hundreds of proposed Arthurian sites from Dozemurie Pool on Fowie Moore and the Roman steps in North Wales to Ticenchatto on the North Cornwall coast. - So. - Dozemurie. - Again, there's probably a trail in that cave to the house. The house, what's located, must have some connection to that cave. - The low road. - Mm-hmm. - Maybe. (knocking) I don't know if I'm stating the obvious, but if there was ever a time to state the obvious, it's now. - I know. - I am completely at sea. - Mm-hmm. - Forgive me, Penn. (laughing) - My clanch a little bit. (laughing) - Oops. - Fing your hate chips here. - Yeah. (laughing) - Of course, it does not contain salts. - Yeah. - Oh, no. Okay. - All right. So you return after a leisurely lunch of reading 300 year old blood stained letters. - Mm-hmm. - And-- - He's dead. - Yeah, no. - Yeah, bad enough. - Natural causes, though. - What? (laughing) - Old George, as he's known, - He's dead. - Has produced a personal journey of one, a journey, personal journal of one Samuel Jones, a small black book written in the cramped spidery style. And he's bookmarked a particular part. And I remembered, I knew I'd read something I was reading through this sometime last year. It's fascinating. It's a personal diary of a local clergyman. But see here. And he flips it open to the bookmark. See here, 15 July, 1584. Notes the following. Annie Wilcox burned at the stake. Her remains buried in an unmarked grave outside the grounds of St. Michael's Chapel in Beck Green. - Now that's interesting because Beck Green doesn't have a St. Michael's Chapel. - Where does that exist? - I don't know. - It doesn't have one anymore. - Perhaps, perhaps. But I've never seen any records of such. - What was, what was that house we noticed was fairly freshly built. What was there beforehand? - Which was-- - The Black House. - The Black House? Oh, it was just, it was an older building. I believe it was built around 1750 or so. You know, it was infested with the termites. So they tore it down and built in the building. - infested, I don't know. - You think so? - But it was empty. - Yes, the property had been sold off some years previous and was rented out to poor tenant farmers for a time and eventually abandoned the entirely. - Yes, thank you, thank you. - Any information you might have of him about his Sergeant Richardson? - Sergeant Richardson. Oh, that is a stumper. It will take me a while to-- (laughing) - I'm checking on you in the morning. - To the same, yes. - Mine on your arm. (laughing) - Everyone become a contact with thighs. - Do you want to check out the 10 years old? - Yeah. - Yeah, that sounds good. - Why don't we take time to look at the museum while you look back up? - Do we know why Annie Wilcox was burned at the stake? - He's addicted to witchcraft. - It's addicted to witchcraft. - But what did it, do you mean like what-- - Yeah, it was a specific crime. - Like just decided she was a witch. Witchcraft was a crime. - That's a crime. - That was enough. - Well, what was it that the Comminsturition was a witch, I guess? - Yeah. - There are no trial records right here, apparently. - All right, so that's a given. - Yeah. - Town Museum. - All right. - To the museum. - Well, it's gonna be a challenge to kill much more than 15 minutes in this museum. - Oh, that's great. - Yeah. - It's just, there's some Civil War uniforms and other old relics, you know, plowshare. 1725, yeah, that's what I think. - Nothing of interest. - Nothing of any old photo. - Think of the old photo. - Or not, there would be a photo. - Oh, yeah. - Oh crap. - You need to contemporary photos. - Yeah, exactly. (laughing) - He's the stereotypes. - What is this? - I'm speaking of him. - All right. - I still think we should look into the death of Jacob Black's uncle. - Mm-hmm, okay. - Eventually, one of these days. - Well, shall we run up to Beth Green? - Yes, it's 1.30, so you've got time. - So did, what, old Pete, old George, old George. - Old George, old George. - Did he figure out something from about-- - He's still, he's still searching around. - Let me be checking with him in the morning. - Yeah, yeah. - He'll give him an activity for the rest of the day. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm, yeah, mm-hmm. - Keeps the brain. - Obviously likes to do stuff for us. - Mm-hmm, he has remarkably nice about that. - Yeah. - So, it's especially nice. Kill him. (laughing) - Witch. (laughing) - Let us skull open and fuck us, we'll caught that. (laughing) - Kill the pomps on his head. (laughing) - All right, let me go back. - No! (laughing) - I'll subject him to some human behavior. - Oh no. (laughing) - Human. (laughing) - So, we had that super clean. - Well, yes, and do them up. (laughing) So, it's 10 miles from Helmsdon. If you didn't have a hired coachman driving you, you might have just driven right through it without realizing it. - Oh dear. - It's just a few dozen houses congregating around a village green, a church, and a pub. Upon the green, you do spot a perfectly maintained cricket pitch. - Oh yeah, is that good or is that good? - And everybody make idea rolls. - Oh. (clicking) - Oh, I failed. - I made mine, I made mine, I made it. - Okay, so Celestia Padma and Oswald, you all, you know, kind of just spot various, separately, spot various signs that it looks like a pretty nasty storm blew through here at some point in the recent past. Shingles ripped off a groove, shutters, a jar on their hinges, you know, branches and gathered together in piles waiting, burning trees, and you know, there's a tree that was ripped out of its roots. - Tempest, Tempest tossed. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. So, graveyard, well that's back in the town we just left. Here is the house that burned down. But maybe also going by the church and asking about the St. Michael's Michaels. - St. Michael's. - There. - The local, ancient site. - Okay. - Wasn't, oh. - So, uh. - Go to the church first and then go. - Popping into the church, yes? - 'Cause it's right there. - Okay. - Yeah, it's actually sort of the first building you can see coming into town and you hear the first major building coming into town. It's your typical sort of cross-shaped, you know, English church, stone construction with the bell tower and so forth. Um, Anglican, of course. There is a adjacent graveyard. The, you seek the father within and he is, he is there. Father Martin Allen Green. Please to meet you. Let's introduce this. What can I do for you? - You know, we've been doing some, some readings, some catching up on, you know, local history and just visiting the area. And we couldn't help but come across something about the St. Michael's. We were wondering if you knew about anything in the area in times passes. We heard that this is only St. Martin's. - Yes. Doesn't ring a bell. No pun intended. Just a little church near there for you. - Oh my god, it's not a special schedule. - It's not a special schedule for them. - With right, yeah. - Yeah, just being honest, it's definitely. - So you keep no records of previous chapels in the area? - Oh, well see, Martin's has been here for at least the last 200 years. - Well, we're talking, you know, hope, you know, pre. - No, before that, I've never come across it in any of the records and they go back a fair, fair while. - Well, maybe it's just a misnomer, you know. - You have a cemetery or maybe it's on our debut. - I know, right? I'm thinking that too. - Well, who knows? - Any other landmarks that perhaps know by the name St. Michael's or? - No. - You have a cemetery? - Certainly. We're free to browse the cemetery. - Just be free to, feel free to browse the cemetery. (laughing) - It's not this one. So we're coming to go browse the cemetery. - This is funny, it don't look like a browser. - I don't know. (laughing) - And I'm going to. - All right. - All right, so I'm checking it out. - Yeah, you wander through the graveyard, you notice several gravestones marked black. You even find Sir Edward Black's grave. - Right. - So stones weathered and deteriorating. - Maybe when you roll in with the greens or even with the storm or even. - The symbology, particularly to the area on the greens. - Can we do some spot hiddens? (laughing) - Good luck. - What the hell? - You are detecting? - Yeah. - Oh, I felt that miserably. (laughing) - Well, you're having a spot from the other side of the wrought iron fence that you can't actually wheel. - Yeah, all right, all right, all right, all right. - What's going on in there? (laughing) - Why don't you hold rubbish? - Yeah, nothing really. (laughing) - You want to make our way over to the. Can we see if we just personally know anything about St. Michael's? Like, it's pretty many history well. - Sure, I made my history well. - Oh, okay, I'm just a normal success. - At half, okay, never heard anything. (laughing) - Yeah. (laughing) - Try to get to the hunter's snapshot. - Yes. - Wonder if I could push it. (laughing) - Oh. - Oh. - Ooh. - 'Cause I'm thinking that I know something about St. Michael's. I don't think Miles knows it, but. - Oh, yeah. - I'm thinking I remember something about some church that was abandoned and fathered with in this place is terrible when we left Temple. (laughing) - It's like some big history channel memory there. (laughing) - Interesting. (laughing) - Nice, it's terrible. - Those are Latin, and like, there was all these, like, you like to cult it to place it up before you left. (laughing) - I love going to cult, sorry. - All right, well, yeah. I don't know, what does the jam say? - Well, you can always push, I'm just trying to think what would be its, sufficient, you know. - Fail. - Fail. - Pumble for his fans. - I guess it would be that I thought that I knew something about it, that, yeah, it was really inaccurate. - I would probably be leaning on a groove just so I'm just gonna fall in. (laughing) - It could be a physical thing, but it could be like, yeah, if you fail, you become convinced of something wildly inaccurate. - Was it a rough image? - It showed up with a very large hand. - Yeah. (laughing) - It's okay to 20 miles south of here. Inside Merlin's game. (laughing) - Pretty good. - She just got a clue. - She just got a clue. - All right, so do you want to-- - Yeah, no. - I know. - Is that what you said? - Oh my God. - Uh, yeah. (laughing) - He's pushing it. - He's got worse things. - 27, it was, it doesn't deserve it. Yeah. Okay, so-- (clicking) - Nothing. - Nothing. - That's why, you know nothing. - I mean, you know, other than the fact that there were probably approximately 734 churches named Saint Michael's in England alone. - Yeah. (laughing) - The North Quilt. - The North Quilt here, even. - I know. - It's the North Quilt family. It's mentioned in the document. And they're from back green, so you want to go to Hunter's Lodge or what was Hunter's Lodge, Polkrae? - Well, Hunter's Lodge is still there. And so that was just the Hunter's Lodge is the remnant of what was-- - Oh. - Yeah, that would build that. - That would build that house. - It's all right. - It's still there. - Yes. - Does it mean it's possible to pull ground? - Okay. - We should probably, yeah. - You okay? All right, so you head out to Hunter's Lodge. It's located just outside of town, just south of Oakwood. (clicking) - Oh good, you said that. (groaning) - Well, the original name of the Black Manor was Oakwood Manor. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. - So pulling up outside the grounds, you see sort of a small cottage sitting on wild, untamed garden land. So unlike Black's grounds, these are pretty much the exact opposite in terms of attending. - And yes, Oakwood lies beyond maybe about, I don't know, a couple hundred yards. - Mm, convenient. - Yeah. (laughing) - It's not a big tent, not a big village. - All right then. - Everything nearby. - We're going, we're going. - Headin' up to the front door? - Mm-hmm. - Okay. Who's knocking? - The hot one. - Yeah. (laughing) - The hot one? (laughing) - You know, it's like-- - Hot first. - It's an old oak door with a rounded top and the iron bands across it, you know, and a big iron, you know, wrought iron knocker on it. - Knock, knock, knock. - All right. About a minute passes. - Oh. - And finally, the door swings open and you see an older gentleman, not elderly, but just sort of passed his prime. Bit of a wall receipt, gentlemen. - The mustache. - Everyone gives me, oh yes. Everyone gives me no rolls. - Wow. (clapping) - Make it pass fail miserably. - Okay. - So everyone who pass recognizes this fellow as a Golden Dawn member. - Oh! - However, he's a former member. - Oh. - You knew him by his code name, Mundus Volzdiceki. Anyone have Latin? - I love it. - Okay. Anyone with Latin would know that that means the world wishes to be deceived. (clicking) - Wow. - He resigned in the fall of 1893. - Oh. - Recently. - You, yeah, and you recall that it was a, it was a bit of a, you know, it was a bit of a topic of gossip for about a day, you know? - Okay. (laughing) - You hear about MVD, motor vehicle department? (laughing) Apparently he had applied for membership in the inner order and has been rejected. - Oh, that'll do it. - Yeah, so that was it for him. - That was it. - That was about, yeah. Let's screw that up. - Yeah, that was Rennie's. - What's his common name, do we know that? - At all? - I don't know how hot the water is. - No. - No, we don't know. - No, I knew him by his, by his code. - I don't know, okay. - So he, he looks at you all. - Oh, come on, this. What a surprise. How have you been? (laughing) - So he looks quite surprised. He obviously doesn't recognize any of you. - None? - Oh, dear, oh dear. - That is very very, very, very, very recognized. - I know, right? You're like the only guy in the wheelchair. - Mm-hmm. - Well, I guess you're gonna be a little bit lower. So any crowd, you're not gonna stick out with your crowd? - I also have the highest level. - Yeah. - Yeah. - No. - Everyone here. - No, no, he's, he's taking a back. And he says, oh, are you all from the order? - Yes, indeed we are. - Oh. - We're actually on a mission. - Uh, well, come in then, come in. - Okay, so. - Okay, thanks you all in. You, you can call me by my, my given name, Randall Northcoat. - Oh, oh. (laughing) - What if we do that? - Okay, ooh. (laughing) - Yeah, so Randall Northcoat, British Army retired. - So he, he takes you through into, into a parlor where, sure enough, there's a, you know, a Union Jack crossed with a regimental banner above the, the fireplace, you know, and then a giant portrait of Queen Victoria above both of those. (laughing) The house as you walk through it is clearly in a state of neglect. - That's good. - That's good, exactly. But he still, he still carries himself with a, with sort of military bearing. You can see it's, he hasn't gone completely to see, he's still pretty powerful, looking under his, under his civilian clothes. His fine country suit. A monocle hangs from his, that's a pocket. But, but the study, the parlor is actually kept in fairly good condition. Once you come out of the hall and you leave the cobwebs and the dust behind and, and. - Well, Mr. Northcoat, we're here investigating a family curse at the Black family. - Hmm, yes, they use to own these lands. - Yes, there have been some major disturbances and deaths and he's asked us to look into it. - I see, I see. Well, feel free to roam the grounds, as you will. As you can see, I'm just moving some of the, some of my things here. I'm getting ready to move back down to, to London for the summer season. There's a couple of trunks sitting open and there's like a bunch of books and then pulled off the shelf and they're in the sort of process of getting packed up. - Really? - Mm-hmm. (laughing) - Summer season. - So, Mr. Northcoat serves, it was wondering, by the way, I'm Dr. Miles Hume. - Yes. - Is there, in terms of local or could you tell us anything about St. Michael's church, has everything you've heard about that? - Mm-hmm, I've heard the name and it's here to ask about that, very curious. Here, lemme pour you a drink, so you can pour you all, pour you out all drinks. Take a look at this painting here. You know, he's got the typical, like just tons of paintings on the walls and most of them are oil painting the various battle scenes. - Mm-hmm. - But, he takes you over to this one, just landscape, basically. It's just a normal, you know, landscape, showing an old church in the woods, okay? Just surrounded by, you know, trees and grass and so forth. - In the woods? - In the woods. - In the woods. - And he takes it down, it's not a very big painting, he takes it down, it's obviously old, it's executed on wood, rather than canvas. - Uh-huh. - And he flips it around. - Yes. - And on the back, it is signed one Melinda Price, with a wire, and then underneath it says, "St. Michael's Chapel." - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. - Would you like to get there? - Oh, no, I, I just bought the, I bought the piece out of curiosity. I'd run across a reference to St. Michael's Chapel, I forget where, now, at some point. But, I found it in the antique store, over in the type of town. I just bought it out of curiosity. - Could we do a psychology to see if he's, - Yeah. - Being forthright. - Sure. - I need it. - Yes. - Oh, who's being honest? - Huh. - And he can all give me history roles as well. (paper rustling) - Oh, fail. - Yeah. - I make mine. - Does it? - You recognize Melinda Price. That's the name you, you know, from your antique dealings. She was a 16th century painter. - Excellent. - She painted portraits and landscapes as a hobby. And so, you know, you've run across a couple of her pieces before. There's nothing. - Super unusual. - Yeah, it's just their antiquity at this point. You know? She's just sort of a late English Renaissance painter. One thing that's unusual about the painting as you're all looking at it, is that you notice cross-shaped marks on the trees around the chapel. - Huh. Excellent. Perhaps these remain in some fashion that we can discern the area. - How large are these woods? - Not very large. - Okay. - A day high? - Do you want to ask? Are you asking Northfield about that? - Sure, sure. - Yes, they're not terribly large, but they're avoided by all the locals, don't you know? They're set to be thick with treacherous marshes and a good place to lose one's way, if not one's life, we're sorry, I'm told. - Bad and large, Ricky. - I don't know if we should go to the park and see if I can do this well and go serve as a guide. - These are so good. - That's a good idea. - It's a good idea. - Mm-hmm. - I forgot what I was gonna say first. I just got, is there something unusual? You know, the notes happened recently. I was gonna ask if it was kind of something unusual. - Well, there was a terrible storm that blew through here about, oh, I don't know. - Mid February, idea rolls are the wrong things. (clapping) - Made it fail. - Made it, made it, made it. - Okay, three of you sort of put the pieces together. Mid February would have been around the time that Mr. Black had his nightmare. (clapping) - Mm-hmm. - Ah-ha. (chuckling) - I think, into the woods we go. - Although we want to maybe save it for tomorrow. - Yeah. - But we have a full day. - Yeah. - What time is it now? - You are getting on for about three o'clock. - So maybe hit the pub. - Yeah, that would be a good time to go. - We all know. - Engage fellow. - We'd go back to the antiques. (laughing) - Jake's the only guy. (laughing) My character. (laughing) - Of course, I thought you went to the pub. (laughing) All right. - Although, can we go check out like a zarnie, kind of ruins left from the-- - There are some ruins, yes. You're free to go take a look if you wish. - Good to go. - Yeah. - Ruin. - Where? - From the house burning down. - Oh. - Really? - Mm-hmm. - You do. - Let's go. - All right, yeah, it's just a quick walk across the grounds. Although it does take you quite close to Oakwood. - Which seems to sit there. I'm gonna use dark silence as you get closer to it. - No, no, no, don't, don't, don't. - It's already scallowing eyes watching us. - No? - Or not. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Silence of the woods. - Just silence, yeah. Quite too. - Mm-hmm. - It's like it wants to be alone. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So the manner ruins stand alongside a proud field. - Mm-hmm. - It's a little more than a gutted charred ruin. Overgrown with kudzu and nettles. Beams from the upper stories have plunged down to the ground, making passage through the ruin difficult and dangerous. - Can you notice any unusual, like, around the pool, walking the perimeter? - Nothing unusual about the perimeter, no. - Okay, awesome. - Anyone want to go inside? - Uh, not if it's dangerous. - This looks pretty treacherous. - Yeah, I can't help myself. I can't help myself. That's why I'm in the game. Can I go? So I'll pick my way through. - We're going in. - All right, anyone going in? Give me a luck roll. - Oh, yeah. - I'm gonna stay outside. - And I pass. - I make it cooler and we've got it. - So yeah, you both manage to pick your way through and come out into this, you know, former hall. It's just, you know, filthy. There's, you can't even see the floors anymore. There's dirt, plants, everything. There is a sturdy-looking stone staircase leading up to a crumbling upper story, but that looks even more treacherous than where you are in it. - Look. Interesting. - Can I be lacing with you? - Interesting. (laughing) Sniff it around on the bottom floor. Is there any chance of a spot hidden down there? Or is it stairs or nothing? - Fairly, there's not a whole lot. You know, it's just so tight. - It's bad. - It's like just plants. Unless you want to root around in the plants, you know. - Unless there's a bit of a tenor man. Should we go up the staircase? - We're here. - Where's our sense of adventure? - Left broken, please. - No, I don't make it 22 out of 60. (clapping) - She makes a... - Ah, I made it. - All right. All right, so you make your way up. Celestia, though, you're freeing up the rear. And at one point, your boot slips on the slick stone. And yeah, and basically you drop and your knee just... - Done! - Done! - Done! - Out. - All right. - Three points of damage. - Done, done, done! - You bruise your knee pretty badly. - So I hear this and I yell, are you okay in there? - I... I... I... - Need help getting out? - I've got pretty good medicine and pretty good first aid. - What's your medicine? - My medicine is 25. (laughing) - She's a doctor. (laughing) - And the first aid is 40 because I trained to be with little children, these two children. So... - Thanks, I never spoke to you. - You like to borrow my wheelchair. (laughing) - Yeah, you're definitely walking with a limb. - Okay, maybe... - You make your way out or are you waiting? - I'm waiting, I'm waiting. What are the stairs? - Sit, hold still. - Yeah, I... - I'll help you out. - I can't... I can't help, I can't do my pull. So, you know, I can send Robin in. - That's true. - Yeah, it's true. - But I'm still waiting. - I'm still waiting. (laughing) - Yeah, especially with it 'cause I'm not... - She's gonna take a quick shifty headlady upper floor is that what I'm gonna say? - Awesome. - All right. - I'll send Robin in. - Young master floor. (laughing) - It's a good Robin master floor. - It's a good Robin master floor. (laughing) - Let's see here. - Okay. - I'll have that. - There we go. Robin's left. - Okay. - Okay. - Oh yeah, he's good. All right, so he kind of picks his way through. All right, just down this way Miss Adams. I'll help you. - Okay. - All right, meanwhile, I've had my year up on the second floor. There's a giant gap in one in the north wall that looks out over Oakwood. Quite picturesque, really. And might just be this time of the day with the sun starting to go down, but there's sort of this golden haze that just hangs over Oakwood out beyond the manner. - Yeah, that seems so sinister. - Uh-huh. (laughing) - That just be the music. - It's almost like shimmering, though. - Ooh. (bell ringing) - Orping. - Orping, almost. - Oh. - Oh. - Oh. - But you make your way along that kind of gallery hall and come into, basically most of the upper floor is just collapsed, but there's like one room that's still relatively intact. Um, you find an interesting item, I suppose. Call it, it's a fresco along an entire wall of this room. Now, of course, being a fresco exposed to the elements the last 300 years, it's not done well, it's not done well. And it was also, of course, exposed to the fire. - I'll work with you, don't you? - However, this has led to an interesting revelation in and of itself. Close your inspection, you see that this fresco was painted atop another fresco. - Doh. - Doh. - Yes. - Double layer mystery. (laughing) - Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. - Let's see if it-- - So at the topmost scene, you know, it's done in the sort of Renaissance style, right? The topmost scene depicts a wounded knight cradled in the arms of a priest. Around him, other knights fight a pitched battle against sort of, you know, Boschian demons, right? - Oh. - With horns, wings, and barbed tails, with a bright blue sky in the background. In the priest's hands is a golden chalice that glows with a saintly aura, healing the unfortunate knight. Now, you can see that there's a second fresco underneath, but you'll have to scrape away the top fresco if you want to see it. - Oh, yes. It's a great display. (laughing) - Get out of the ritual desert. - It's great, it's great. (laughing) - Yeah, wait, wait. - It's there for. - All right, so you start scraping away the top layer of plaster, and below, of course, is the worst condition since it was plastered over as this other fresco, but you can make out that it's basically the same scene, except now there are slight differences. The priest has been replaced by a wise and old man with piercing, powerful eyes. - Merlin. - Yep. - The subtle wounds of the wounded knight have been replaced by gory slashes. - Definitely a wizard. - Most of one of his side of his face is missing, the eye dangling free on its song. (screaming) - Nice. - Yeah. The demons are gone, replaced by warriors, bearing the heraldry of early Christendom. - Oh, yeah. - They are fighting a desperate battle against men who should be dead, with limbs rent from their bodies, their necks broken, and faces shattered by weapons of war. - That's totally in the curse. - Yes. - Yes. - Okay. - Oh. - Correct. - Give me a spot, I didn't roll it half, please. - Oh, this is so exciting. (laughing) - It is. - It is, isn't it? This is awesome. - Six, six, seven, seven, seven. - I failed. - And one more at half, please. - Oh my God. (mumbles) - I failed. - And then just give me a no roll as well. - Oh, I passed. - Nice. - You're pretty sure that this is the work of Melinda Price. - Oh. - Oh. - Don't see that coming. - No, I didn't have either. (laughing) - I was just, no, no. (laughing) - Same scene, but it puts different, you know? - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. (mumbles) - I don't know. - What a push. - I'm pretty sure if I have a push, I'm gonna like fall for the floor. - Where the hell are you? (laughing) - Maybe. - You wouldn't die. - Maybe. - Maybe. (laughing) - So, I can't stand the suspense. (laughing) - It's gonna be a great scene. - What did you do? - I got it there. - Yeah, so I'm the best. - You're very starting to phrase that. - Yeah. (laughing) - She went all into it and nobody, not paying attention to us going and yelling outside. - Yeah. - What's going on? - I had to put her in. I know how to properly tech that last part of the way. - Yeah. - I'm all involved in that. - Yeah, so I'm gonna go inside. - All right, get me a left roll. - No wait. - I will say at this point, three of them have gone in and I've been standing. - Thank you pretty much. (laughing) - All right, left roll for Dr. Hume as well. - But I mean-- - If you were going in high school. (laughing) - Oh, I think it's just-- - And I'm not gonna sit out here here by myself. - Well. - Well. - Wow, okay. - Robert, bring your mat in the wall. (laughing) - I don't think there's getting a wheelchair through that. - No. - Wow. - I don't know. - For anyone who's seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you can move a wheelchair around and ruin how to do that. - Sorry. (laughing) - No way. (laughing) - Oh, you all made your luck roll for me? - Yes. - Maybe I finally had my-- - Oh my God, you really, really have to see this. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, so, yeah, you open it. All right, so anyone who wants to go up to the second floor and you need a luck roll? - Robin, I'll get one of these. - Oh, wow. - Oh. - And then I'm thinking, okay, because I'm adventurous. - I crit-filled that bitch. - You did? (laughing) - In a wheelchair? (laughing) - No, Robin's trying to help you with this. (laughing) - You just crit-filled that? - Triple zeros. (laughing) - Really, two zeros. - Oh my God. - Triple zeros. (laughing) - That's a little more. - You know what, a nice little dog. - Oh. (laughing) - At any rate, nicely dealt well. - Nice diet. - No, you lucked out. It was 2D6 damage, you took three points. - Oh, nice. - A little one and a two. - So he falls just like through the floor? - Doesn't he? - This is climbing up. Basically, it's just another slip and ball. - Oh, it's serious. - Yeah, you take a bat ball, landing on your side, sort of bruising the rib. Okay. - So are those stairs? - Are they all right men? - Look at that. - Oh, they're all right men. - They're all so slippery. - Oh, okay. - I've heard of myself quite a bit. - I'm trying. (laughing) - I've heard? - I'm down. (laughing) - Go ahead without me. - What? (laughing) - Yeah. - He's dirty. (laughing) - It's like the shittiest food I've ever eaten. (laughing) - Go stick me next to this lesson. (laughing) - You said not as, it's an on a bean, you know? You're like, ah, me. You can do a first aid roll for yourself. - Okay. - Some of the stairs seem like sturdy enough to... - They're stone stairs. They're just slippery and treacherous. - Smoothie. - Yeah. - Okay. - And then the floor. - The floor of the sanding is... - The landing is a bit. - It's another... - Yeah, but you only need to make a left roll for your climbing. - Can't eat too. - Okay, all right, so one roll. - Yeah. - I don't have to. No, what do I roll? - A left roll. - Your second left roll. - All right. - I make it. - Yes. - Yeah. - So I come up there. - Okay, and then you made your second left roll. - Yeah. - Okay. - All right. - Okay, so Patma, you're joined by... - So, yeah, okay. - Lily and the wires. - Well, of course, before I discovered this fresco, there was another fresco, a Toppet, which depicted an almost identical scene. However, the night did not have quite such extensive and gruesome wounds, was being attended by a priest holding a golden chalice, healing liquid inside the ground. - Mm-hmm. - Perhaps. And the awful, awful, zombie warrior, guys, was where we're placed actually by demons, which I don't really know, which is worse. - Yeah, it was pretty bad. - The night, whoever I think was probably the most disturbing. - Well, the demons were dying a sort of conventional kind of like renaissance demon kind of depiction, whereas you've never seen any kind of like painting that had the walking dead. - On the dead. - You know, like that wasn't really a... artistic trope of the time, you know. - Spot hidden? - You have two spots. - Two? - You have half? - Yeah. - Oh yeah, yeah, two spot hiddens and a half, yes. - Yeah. - Bail on. - Bail both. - Okay, okay. - I failed my first one. - Okay. - And second one. - I'm pushing. - I'm pushing. - You're pushing, pushing. - All right, you're risking bodily harm by pushing. - Oh, no. - So it's fine, come join us. - Yeah. (laughing) - That's a walking wound, dude. - All right, go for it. - So what it's about? - Bail. - Okay. - All right, so you lean in to get a better look at the fresco and you just here. - Oh. - And you just fall through the floor. - Oh. - Okay. - Okay. - I've been in worse. - Yeah. - So we'll... - Ooh. - So spot the... - Oh, we spot the... - It's like a shin bone through the skin. (laughing) - 10 points of damage. - Oh! - It's like some broken. - I'm almost dead. - What do you knock down to? - One. - Yeah, yeah. You're almost dead. So give me a, give me a context Bible, please. - I like this character. (laughing) - I fail by two. - Okay, yeah, you are... Okay, so basically-- - Where do you feel like spell like - Spelestia. - Spelestia, hot wall if you're sitting down there. You hear this terrible crashing sound and you just, you see Lily come falling through the floor and just, you know, falls on top of this big pile of rubble and wood and-- - Oh, God. - Wood help! (laughing) - Yeah, I mean, she just, she's lying there completely-- - No! - Emotionless. - Oh, God. - Can I go hobbling over her attempt first aid? - Yeah, yeah. You see blood spreading out through her skirt. - Ooh, it's fine. - Okay, so-- - Huh, what, yes? What? - If I could-- - If I could-- - If I could-- - Who I have been first aid. - I'll have to come down in a minute. (laughing) - Oh! - Yeah. - Well, you're probably still in shocking me a little trebidacious about coming down because we had to realize-- - Yeah, you realize the significance. - Oh, that woman I didn't like filled up. - Oh, shit. (laughing) - That's like a slap, I don't know. (laughing) - Then Lord, I wonder if you're gonna need the four claps. - Mm. - Oh, my God. (laughing) - I'm definitely leaving you. (laughing) - I-- - You know what, you hold face, smacking him with my fingers? - Okay, if I go down in a helper, do you want us to make another electoral to cut back up? - Uh, yes. - Okay. - I wanna push my spot hidden, but can I go down and help her? - I've already administered first aid to her. - And so she can carry. - Okay. - And I can help. - Yes, it did. - Oh, good. Thank you. How much, please? - Can I help? - Yeah, I probably need one. - Oh, okay, it's just one roll for women, so. - Oh, okay, so. - All right, so you get two points back. - I don't think you do. - Oh, wow. - Okay, there's a different one. - I don't think it's just conscious. - Yeah, no. - No, yeah, it takes you back. So Celesteia kind of brings you back around. - It won't be awake. - Yeah, no, you're in pain. - It's so much pain. - You're in a lot of pain. Basically, you wrenched your back. - Mm, broken ribs. - And broke leg. - Broken leg. - Broken leg. - You know, I might have some morphine with me. I mean, it really doesn't take any skill to administer me. - No. - No, no. - Oh, no. - Okay. - Don't kill him. - Do you have a drug dealer? (laughing) - All right, so what you want to push that? - I guess, okay, so I just need to make the regular, do I need to take it like a half or do I need to-- - It would be a half. - It would be a half. - All right. - It would be the same role. You tried to make the same role. - The same thing happens to me if I-- - And you will take two. Do you six damage if you fail? - I'm dragging her away from the side. - Thank you. - That could give me a zero. Would zero kill me? - And what a zero. - Zero would kill you. - It does look like negative on there. I was curious about that. So negative one, negative two. - Mm-hmm. And dead. - You can, you can, from zero to negative two. - This is really-- - You can be brought back by first aid, timely first aid, but if you're not, then zero or less is dead. - Okay, just here. - Okay, so, 14. Oh, it's 29. So-- - Yeah. - Okay. - 13. - Oh, my God. (laughing) - Oh, yes. - If you haven't checked spot hidden yet, check. - Oh, my God. - Wow. - So, of course you've all run to the edge of this-- - Wow. - It's open. (laughing) - You're looking down. - Wow. (laughing) - And, yeah, Dr. Hume, you see that in the, sort of accumulated dust that's on the floor, you actually see fresh blueprints. - Okay. - Leading anywhere? - Just kind of walking around, like it was walking around the room. But of course, Lily kind of caved in about half the floor. So, like, inside the blueprints. - Well, then it's blueprints. Yeah, then it's blueprints. You got there. There's many blueprints up here. (laughing) Okay, well-- (laughing) - I could get up there. - All right, well, I'll go down and see how everyone's ferrying. (laughing) - Yes. So, yeah, Lily, you're going to need some place-- - Maybe get medical attention. - Well, yeah. - Close by to-- - Where is the hospital in town? - Lord, no, there's a doctor in town for that matter. - So, we need to go back to-- - The Hunter's Lodge is the closest stuff. - How am I going to place a roof, basically? - I don't know. - Well, I mean, we could always say that they're back to Hunter's Lodge and call for the doctor. It's not a far-caring guide. - Right, right. This is the arrow house call still. - What about your first aid? Could you do, well, any first aid? - No, once the first aid rolls back. - That's it? - No, that's it. - All right. - What if Robin could carry on as well and he could put her in the wheelchair? - I don't know, though. Like having a roof back, no sit up? - Yeah, okay. - Is there a way to check to see if I have more-- - It's one of those chairs that fliles out into a bed. Did you know that? - That's cool. (laughing) - I held my left hand. - All right, no working on you. - We can throw that through. - But again, the, you know, if you managed to contact or went, went for a peek at the other thing, somehow. - Okay. - So what are you going to be doing now? - Just your healing, how fast is going to be to heal? Okay, so you'll heal the natural rate. So you're gonna heal one D3 hit points per week or two D3 if someone is treating you with a medicine skill and making their rolls. - Okay. - Okay. - Okay. - And yeah, you're incapacitated at the moment. - Right, right, right. - Take your little box, though. (laughing) - Do six. - Okay. - There you go. Sorry guys. - Whoa. - Whoop. - It's too bad. - Hmm. - All right. - Well, you know what's going on. - Oh god. - So, back to the hand, time lock. - Hunter's lock? - Hunter's lock, well that's the closest. - That's where we know residents are. - I was supposed to getting her there and then starting to carriage. - Exactly. - Booking it. - Exactly. - To get rid of her. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So that's what you do. You manage to get her across the field very slowly. It takes about 30 minutes. North code is still there, of course. And then he goes, "Oh, dear, please, please, yes. "Gonna bring her in here, bring her in here." - Looks very concerned. - North code's feet about the size of the footprints. - Um, you could give me an idea, right? - Right. - Made my idea roll. - You can say they're in the same range. - Sure. - Hmm. - Average man's size. - Average man's size. - Shenanigans? - Shenanigans. - I declare Shenanigans. (laughing) - Yes. - Uh-oh. - These boxes are packed for, so. - Easy. - Yeah, hey, you're right. - Yeah. - Don't leave me here. - Well, I won't leave you in this stinky bachelor pad. - Yeah, exactly. (laughing) - Yikes. Okay, so over there, what's going on? - We're waiting for the dock. - Okay, so it's gonna take, probably about an hour total for him to come back out, but he does arrive with his little black bag and all. - Can I pull this? - Just have what's his name again? - No. - Can I pull him aside while I'm waiting? - Yeah. - Just talk to him and just, you know, we were, we're examining. Couldn't help but notice that there were food prints in the upstairs. They were sort of managed sized food prints. What do you do? What do you think about that? - You know, I rent these lands to tenant farmers. Possibly one of them was poking around there. I don't know, I don't know. Keep tabs on them. They're free to come and go as they wish. - Mm-hmm. - So is either the tidded farmers or the disgrace to cult scholar. (laughing) - What are you saying? (laughing) - Give me a psychology room. - Oh. - Yeah, it's perfect for him. - Me. - Yeah, he's definitely withholding something. - Uh-huh. - But you don't know if it's that he doesn't trust you or that perhaps he may be just trying to come across as, you know, somewhat more learned than he, you know, than he otherwise is by seeming to affect this air. You know, like, oh, I know all these things but I'm not gonna tell you. - Oh, no. - That was blurred. (laughing) Okay, I'll, uh, okay, I can literally, um, so you have to understand that I know that the golden dawn in order, it can be very difficult to penetrate and I understand the frustrations about trying to get there. - Like, you're trying to befriend this guy. - It's fast talking. - I want you to, yeah, I'm gonna try to use Persuasion to, uh-- - Persuasion, okay, yeah. - Persuasion is like, okay, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, oh, I failed that. - Oh. (laughing) - I can always try talking with you. - Uh, you didn't get 96 or above, did you? - Uh, I did, I got a 97. - Oh. - Take a check in your Persuasion. - Oh, okay. (laughing) Uh, yeah, basically you said the wrong thing and uh-- - No. - Oh, I'm so right, I've run up your disgrace a bit. (laughing) So I can assure you that simply the Irish naturalist politics of some of the inner order members, that kept me out of the, uh, order, and I wanted no more of that sort of political meddling. So that is why I quit. - Well, of course. - There's no way to pull this out now, is there? - No, no. (laughing) - Oh, hold on. - That more is close. (laughing) - What, could I push it? What if I-- - Uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - Oh, come on. - All right. - Well, push crazy much. - You're being like-- - You're being tended to. - So am I dying? - Oh, yeah, I'm just-- - No, no, no, no. - I just have to make another care. - You're staying here, you're totally staying here. (laughing) - You're becoming Robin again. (laughing) - Shoot. - I'm just what? - Destined to be Robin. (laughing) Wait, I don't know. - I said you're totally stable, you're just kind of being capacited right now. - Okay. - Hmm. But I think I was just looking at the rules for more female here. (clearing throat) Let's see here. Well, all your standing effects are with a plus 20 percentile chance of success. - What? - While I'm Murphy. - Yeah. - 'Cause you're the slide, woo! - Yeah! - Wow, look at that. (laughing) - That's pretty cool. (laughing) - Um, cute. - Sweet, Murphy. - It's true. - Easy. - The pain. That's just a sips of the night. (laughing) All right, so you're fine there. And I have to make a secret roll. See how many times you can take it with before you're gonna be coming. (clicking) Okay. - Why do you have another addiction? - That's true. - Oh, what? - I would expect that. (laughing) - You'd like the secrets for the characters, indeed. - Mm-hmm. - Like that. (laughing) - Thank you. - Revealed. - We're not left, we're not left, we're not. (laughing) - We don't, we don't. - We live long enough, yeah, exactly. (laughing) Okay, so essentially Lily is laid up for a time with a broken leg here at Hunter's Lodge. - It might be moved. - Oh, we can't move you with that leg, I'm sorry. - How long must I stay here? - Wow. - At least two weeks. - Two weeks. - Awesome habits. - Oh my god, somebody has to protect you. It'll be me. (laughing) - I'm not letting go of me. - I'm not letting go of me. - I'm getting out of here. - It'll be both of us then. - Yes. (laughing) - Can I pull these two aside? It actually made me talk like over by, by her? Okay, let's see, all right. Here, I said the wrong thing, he's a little touchy and a little touchy. - You do? - You know. - I know. - It happens to the best of us. (laughing) - Oh my god. (laughing) - I don't know. There's a little touchy about his disgrace to exit from the golden dog. (laughing) I just dropped up under us at this point. - Yeah. - I'm just listening to him amazed. - Yeah. - He was a genius. (laughing) - And I maybe, I didn't notice that there were boot prints in the dust. And they could've been his, they're the right size. And I'm wondering since I seem to have alienated myself from him, if maybe one of you would like to apply your feminine wiles to the side of him. (laughing) - Bam. I could try it and at least come across. - Well, he might have apologized to him. - He might have been like, well you're all right. - So I do apologize for my awful, awful, awful comrade. (laughing) I'm really sorry he's like this for everyone. - He held it out really hard, I understand. - There you go. - Just here. - He's been torturing. (laughing) - All right. Well, as you're, you know, he's sort of having a discussion with Dr. Wentworth. And it seems a little animated. - Mm-hmm. - He terms like two weeks. - Uh-huh. (laughing) - So then he basically, you've been set up on a chaise lounge in the study. - Does he go flush? - With your legs, splinted and elevated. You know, they had to blanket over you and everything. Um, so North Coat comes back in. And he looks very kindly at you, you know. - Oh, he does. - Yeah, and he's like, oh, you are like a, adult with a broken wing, my lady. So, so pure and fair and I help us. - And hi. (laughing) - I'm so funny working. - Oh my God, she's in such danger. - Oh yes! (laughing) - No! - I can't. - In the woods! - Yeah. (laughing) - This is a-- - Where am I? - This is a bit of a challenge for my schedule, though. I'm due to depart the London on First Light tomorrow. - Oh. - However, I've talked to Dr. Winthlorp and I've given him my assurance that you are free to convalesce here as long as the doctor feels it's necessary. - Mm-hmm. - I know that he is told me that you are an associate of Mr. Black and of Dr. Westcott in London. - Yes. - And I believe you have unimpeachable credentials. So, I know it will be no problem to allow you to stay here. Obviously, one of your friends will need to remain with you as well to administer to your needs, but my pantry is still fairly well stocked with dry goods, at least. And feel free to peruse, I, you know, you kind of points that it's half empty shelves. You know, I've taken many of my books with me, but feel free to peruse what's left to pass the time. And Dr. Winthlorp says he will check in with you for a stay at me. - Wow. - Much better, she's good. - I rolled her after him as five. - Oh, wow. - Hey, wait a minute. - She gets you certain advantages. - Oh. Well, very good. I, my only request is I ask you for some, I'm kind of delirious. - Yes. - I must contact Dr. Westcott. Immediately I need some paper and ink from my fill or pen or some type, I must write him. - Certainly. Yes, we can provide that. Absolutely. - So I want to write him a letter. - Okay. Very good. Mm, okay. So who's gonna stay with Lily? - Can stay. - Isn't that what you kind of think? Because Celestia and Hugh were already staying at Black's house, which would mean it's true for you to stay. And since Finnegan and I were at the hotel. - I have medicine and, you know, - And you also have your man to assist you. - No, that's true. - If you need to move her. - I'm harder to move than all the other things. - Yeah, well. - Robin Strong's been a good story. - It's a great place to stay. - I'm strong to do it. - Could you think of the one? - Yes. (laughing) - Where the action is? - Yeah. - It's great. (laughing) - It's the golden mist. - Don't worry, I'll make you a gun king. - Thanks. (laughing) - It's a little bit more yellow. - Yeah. - It's like half of like her said one. - I like that. - Oh no. (laughing) - Oh no. - It's true. - You're gonna need a king. - I may need one, yes, it's true. - So you're gonna be alone with her while she's hopped up a morphe. - No, there has to be a woman. (laughing) - I'll stay. - I'll stay. - Okay. (laughing) - And that kind of a spinster too, so you know. - Oh yeah, yeah, we drink tea together. - And I put lots of alcohol in it. (laughing) - I'm pretty sure I'm like, have a secret opium addiction, or at least fondness. (laughing) Traveling to the orients all the time. (laughing) - I thought we just established that. - I thought we established that. - Why would I have to open the background? She don't worry. It's only up for trying this. (laughing) - We're gonna miss out on the fun. - Okay, I'll stop on there. - You're gonna come out. - Whoa. - Open the door and there's big clevis. (laughing) - Yes, we're just gonna come out. - Just like Chown. - I have one bag just for my fuka. (laughing) Three of us are cast out in front of a fireplace. - We'll go back to the burnout. (laughing) - I'm going to need to get to this. - Okay, I didn't get to try it. (laughing) - Well, these guys are roasting marshmallows. - Yes. - We'll be at the pump. (laughing) - All right. - All right, so, um. - All right, I can't, I'm so sorry, everyone. I'm so sorry that I pass out. (laughing) - Just drooling. - Yeah. - Oh, yeah. - That's perfect. (laughing) - All right, so. (laughing) - Thank you. - So, Padma and Oswald give me what rolls, please. - Oh. - Ooh. - Ooh. (clicking) - Pass. - I feel mine. - Oh, no, I feel mine. - Oh, dear. - Oh, dear. - I love that. - Mm-hmm. - Okay. - I do that. - So, um, so you guys are, are you two gonna go back to Black House after visiting the pub? - Yeah, I think the idea of the pub is to make it up to the - It's on the library guys. - Oh, that's gonna be the morning. - Yeah. - Okay, that's gonna be in the morning. - See if I can find somebody who knows something about the woods. - Well, you're gonna go ask at the antique shop, although I kind of might like to do that. - Yeah, maybe you're. - But as far as back green goes, you're just gonna hit the-- - The pub. - You're gonna hit the pub. - Hit the, and then Patma, you might go back to the town tomorrow and go back to the antique store. - Yeah, I'm gonna turn around morning, join them at the library. - Sure, sure. Okay, so, um, so at the pub, it's a five oaks in. It's the only pub in town. Let's see. - The weekend? - Five oaks. - It's the weekend. It's filled with capacity. - Oh. - So you, you, you come in and, uh, you know, it's just, um, filled with a bunch of guys in, uh, home, home knit, uh, wool sweaters and, you know, a little flat cast, you know. And, um, and they're all, they're all drinking big pint, you know, uh, cups of the local bitter, uh-- - It's like a club in America where we're all from London. - Yeah. - Right? - Yeah, exactly. Everybody, silent the minute we open the door. (laughing) - Pretty much. - Got it. - No, no, it's, it's, it's, it's conversation going on. And, and, and as soon as you enter, you know, you, you, uh, you hear all these, like, cricket terms being thrown around. - Oh, it's a sports ball. (laughing) - Oh, Smith, are you going to bowl for us again this year? Oh, you know what, oh, yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, you throw a wicked googly egg support. - All right. - No, it's only good that you didn't know. - I'm pretty sure I'd be in the crickets. - Oh, oh yeah. - You're looking, you're totally in the crickets. - I'm mad for it. - Yeah. - I'm going to finish this. - I don't know if I would, I mean-- - I think I'd be in the cricket too. Maybe that's a weird kind of thing. - We can drink alcohol in our tea over cricket. - Yeah. (laughing) - It's my natural father and I'm probably a bit of a bully. - So they're watching. - Do we, I mean, do I, do we, do we at least understand sort of the cricket terms? - Oh sure, sure. - And know what it's kind of, yeah. - It'd be familiar to everywhere. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, yeah. - The national past on, like baseball. - Right. - Yeah. - So the, the sort of barrel sized man running to pub comes over and, you know, oh welcome to the five oaks. We're going to do it for you folks. Coming in, coming through town, eh? - Yeah, we just wanted to come in and have a drink with this legendary cricket team. - There you go. - There you go. (laughing) - Drinks for this guy. (laughing) - Oh, you know it's-- - Wow, she said to have been ranked for once. (laughing) - Yeah. - The challenging bitches to a game of cricket. (laughing) - Whoa. (laughing) - You know you. (laughing) - Do we do we? - Do we? (laughing) - Way back from other. - Yeah. - Oh my god. - So, yeah, you know, oh well, yeah. Step up to the bar, you know. And he, he pours you out at each a pint of something from a giant, you know, barrel in the back, labeled five oaks. - Okay. - You know, it's a nice local beer. And, you know, you notice a young adolescent girl kind of taking more pints out to the table. It's just your typical pub, you know. So, one of the guys in the bar, you know. Oh, well, so what brings you to back cream? - Well, aside from the cricket? - Absolutely. (laughing) - It's a little early, it's a little early in the year for that. But we're just talking about the prospects for our team this year. - Well, we wanted to get in on this early. Oh. (laughing) - Scraping. - We were both saying you're just drinking your tea or your tail. - Yeah, I'm not going to speak up in a environment. - No, no, no. - Yeah, pretty much. - Yeah. - You're one of, like, three women in the room. - Yeah. (laughing) - So. - She's worked carefully. (laughing) - For God's sake. - Yeah. (laughing) - I don't know what I'm talking about. Let me make a persuade role first, okay? 'Cause I'm going to try and persuade this guy to take the woods or tell me about the woods. - Oh, sure, yeah. Tell me about the woods first. - It's actually like, oh, it's cute. - Oh, I got a critical success. - Ooh. - Check it out. - Oh, wow. - Nice. - Very good. - Right, so you have this, like, lopsided block. (laughing) - Okay, so yeah. - So you're kind of pitching an idea of, what do you know about the woods and what do you know about the woods? I've heard these things about it. I mean, it... - We hear they're lovely. We'd love to have a day hike. - They're lovely, but then I hear these things about it. You know, I mean, the fog. Is that true, or is that just sort of, you know? - Oh, yeah, there's treacherous bogs in that wood. None of the locals here will go in for money, not for anything. - Oh. - Oh, crap. - Oh, honey. - See, it's a shame, because my sister was lost at those woods and I really, really need to find it. - That's terrible. - That's zero one, I'll get you anything. (laughing) - Lovely, lovely unmarried girl. (laughing) And it's killing my mother, or woman, who's just dying from grief and... - Tuberculosis. - And tuberculosis. - Oh my God. - Pacifica-less. (laughing) - Pacifica-less of the lungs, I like the mother. (laughing) - And I've been sitting here at least to look for, and I don't want to write back to my mother and tell her that there was no one in this town of brave creek and urs that couldn't help. - Oh. - So, by the time you're done, he's literally crying into his hair. (laughing) - Wow. - Wow. - That's awesome. - That's absolutely good. - Yeah, right. (laughing) And yeah, he says, oh, I'll help you out, sir. I'll help you. - Oh God, bless you! (laughing) - We'll help each other. - Oh, bless you too. - You're about this, man! (laughing) - You're just still like, could I get a reaper? (laughing) - Cheers. - All right. - Yeah, so yeah, you've got yourself a guide against all odds. And I do actually have staff for a cricket bat, too, so. - Oh, good. Well, it's very nice. We're gonna need, yeah. - Yep. (laughing) - All right, so meanwhile, back at Hunter's Lodge, you may recall I asked for luck roll. - Oh, dear, oh, dear. - And, oh, what a great name this guy has. - Oh, what? - Stanhope Thomas. - Whoa! - All right. So, that's your guide, Stanhope Thomas. - Hmm, sounds like a cricketer. - It does. - Yeah. - They all have ridiculous names. (laughing) - Those British names you can pull out. - Yeah. (laughing) - There's no way that's finishing to cover back his real name. (laughing) - Yeah. (laughing) - That's what we're saying about this game. (laughing) - All right, so. - I'm gonna draw waffle sticks. (laughing) - So, we will leave it off on this little note here. It's obviously doing a two-parter here. Basically, with Lily passed down on the couch, it's Padma, Oswald, and Robin. And, you know, Randolph's disappeared off to his quarters. It's evening, he blit of fire. You're just sort of sitting around with the hell. You know, we didn't bring it back to cards, whatever. So, you know. - Right, Opia just sold the hotel. - Yes. (laughing) - You're starting to sweat a little bit. (laughing) And, you know, you're just pulling books off the shelves. Widely browsing, that sort of thing. And, at one point, Robin pulls a book off the shelf. And says, oh, hello, this is interesting. And, brings over a book that's just, you know, a book about the canals of Darbyshire. But, in the back of the book is an older hand-drawn map. It shows the area around Helmston and Beck Green. Over a small wood, just outside Beck Green, someone has drawn a five-pointed star, an inverted pentagram. And, on that note, we'll leave a phone. - We have left rolls in this. (laughing) - And, we failed. - Robin found it. - Exactly. (laughing) - Everybody around? - I don't even know. - The only one who pissed us off. - Couldn't help the last time. - Yeah. - Before you, it just occurred to me, I've got to get back to you guys before we meet the guy. I had to tell him that I was looking for my sister. - Oh! (laughing) Somehow you'll have to secretly communicate that.