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Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 5:54 pm**

Location: The Haunted House, 121 Norman St.
Date: March 24, 1921, 11:00 AM

Each of you show up about 11 am. The house looks very much like it has in the past. The cigar & magazine vendor, Joe, is on the street again hocking his wares. With the exception of Joe, no one else is around and no cars are around. Joe smiles at you as you pull up to the house.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:51 pm**

Scott, showing the eagerness of the new guy, pulls his motorcycle to a halt and pushes his goggles onto his forehead, peering up and down the road.

Scott thinking: No one here yet but that's fine I can wait.

Inside his jacket the comforting shape of the war souvenir .45 gives him confidence, but he can't help remembering that the reporter guy who got stabbed had also been carrying and it hadn't helped him one bit. He shudders slightly and not from the cold.

Scott thinking: Maybe I should hightail it now before the others get here? But then this whole ghost thing is kind of fascinating.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 8:10 pm**

Richard arrives at the house with his satchel over his shoulder with all of the tools that he requested from Ms Patton.
He see's Scott standing by his motorcycle and walks over to him and says "Morning Scott, glad to see that you decided to stay with our marry band" and Richard reaches out to shake his hand.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:06 pm**

With a sheepish grin, fears dismissed, Scott pulls the glove from his right hand and reaches out to shake Richard's hand. Turning he unstraps a satchel from the back seat of the bike. Military khaki marked with a red cross it bears the marks of age, use, and battle scars. He holds it up for Richards inspection, "Just a few bits and pieces that I hope we don't need but feel happier having, if you get my meaning?"

Again he peers up and down the road, "So I guess we wait. How do you want to play this?"

He partialy opens his battered leather coat, which was also a souvenir of the war in Europe and had once been part of a German fliers uniform, reavealing the butt of the black pistol nestled in a shoulder holster beneath his left arm to pull his tweed cap, neatly rolled, from within. With another grin after running his fingers through his thick wind swept hair, he pulled it on, "Right, I'm ready"

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:30 pm**

Michael is next to arrive, already frowning. It was hard to get excited about another visit to the hell house. But there was something evil in that house, and the former cop couldn't walk away. Especially not after what happened to Warren.

Seeing Richard and the new guy, Michael offers them both a nod and a grunt in greeting, but does not shake their hands. He's too distracted to worry about pleasantries at the moment.Crossing his arms, he stares off in the direction of the house.

I'm going to beat you, you son of a bitch.

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 12:30 am**

Harrison arrives too. He grunts a hello at those present and then looks at the house as he lights a cigarette.

"You guys ready to go in again?"

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 1:04 am**

Richard states to everyone "Well as far a a plan goes I say we remove the boards from the outside of the house that are over the basement windows, we need to get some light in there"

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:06 am**

Charles arrives in time to hear Richard's comment. "Even if it doesn't kill whatever's in there, should make it easier to dodge whatever sharp things come flying in our direction this time. By the way - has anyone given any thought as to how we climb down into the basement, given that the stairs are largely, well, not there?"

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:09 am**

Richard reply's to Charles "Good point, I brought plenty of rope but maybe we should get a ladder or something to lay down above the stairs that reaches from the top to the bottom of the stairs that way we dont have to rely on the stairs at all."

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:42 am**

"Well, we probably should have thought of that last night, I doubt we'll find a ladder around here. A rope should do the trick, I think."

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:08 am**

"Ok, I suggest we start removing the boards. The others can join when they get here."

Harrison looks around the street to see if the others are on their way.

"I'm going to buy some smokes first."

He goes over to Joe's.

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 1:09 pm**

Scott is glad that the others have arrived it makes him feel a little safer given the stories he's been hearing. For a second he gazes at the taciturn, serious looking Michael there is something in the way he is staring at the house that reminds him of the look soldiers in France had got just before the whistles blew. He would have to take care around him.

"Did anyone bring a crowbar or something to prise the boards off?"

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:35 pm**

Harrison walks across the street and down a bit to the vendor. Joe smiles at him, "you're back messing with that house again. Nothing goods going to come of it. Burn it down I say." Then he seems to remember something, "what can I get you."
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You are still waiting on Jordie and Sonny to show up, but you start on the boarded up windows.

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:36 pm**

Richard pulls the hammer and crowbar out of his satchel and says "I have that covered" and offers the hammer to someone as he digs out a spike to to offer the person who takes the hammer to assist in removing boards.

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Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:29 pm**

"I'll take that" says Scott, gesturing at the hammer.

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 8:01 pm**

You notice while there are boarded up windows into the basement where you were at, there are windows into what should be the basement beyond what the room you were in.

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:22 pm**

OOC: Richard makes sure that the boards are removed from every basement window on the house, he also looks into each of the windows to see if he can see anything. Richard is trying to understand the layout of the basement rooms from where the stairs lead down into the basement

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:52 am**

As you rip the boards off towards the back of the house, you see the windows are also painted black.
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As you rip the boards off closer to the front of the house, where there should be no basement, they are also painted black.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2014 5:53 am**

"Well, someone's definitely interested in keeping the light out," muses Charles. "We could smash the windows - but that might attract more attention than we might like."

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:09 am**

Harrison orders a pack of cigarettes and nods.

Yeah, you're probably right, but you know how it is right? Have you seen anyone else poking around the house lately?

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:13 pm**

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Joe sells you the cigs, "No, been quiet except for your bunch the last couple days. What's your interest in it?"

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:36 pm**

Harrison takes a smoke from the pack and lights it.

"Ah, haunted houses have the tendency of attracting rich men bent on buying them. We're just hired to look into it."

He takes a few drags as he watches the house from afar.

"You wouldn't know a few juicy details, would you?"

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:13 pm**

"Hmm" mutters Scott, as mystified by the blacked out windows as anyone else, "Someone sure has gone to a lot of trouble. Are we sure that the windows haven't been blocked up from the inside as well?"

He crouches down to inspect the black painted glass closer, "Perhaps we could break one and find out if they have. I know of a little trick involving sticking plaster which would cancel any overly loud sounds of glass being broken".

He stands up and rumages around inside his bag eventualy producing a roll of plaster, "Just something I heard during my stint on the docks"

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:14 pm**

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Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:03 pm**

Richard checks one of the windows near the front of the house to see if the black paint is on the inside or the out side of the windows.

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Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:15 am**

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Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:06 am**

Richard checks to see if the windows are locked, he checks the 4 in front first then the 4 in back. He also checks to see if he can scratch any paint off from the outside of the windows.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:43 am**

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:44 pm**

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Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 4:51 pm**

"Well", says Scott watching as Richard meticulously scratches the paint from the basement windows, "Shall we?" he balances the thick roll of sticking plaster on the palm of his hand.

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Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:03 pm**

Richard reply's to Scott "Ok lets give it a try but it looks like there is just dirt behind these front basement windows"

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 9:26 pm**

Harrison walks up to the house, smoking a cigarette and he goes to see what Scott and Richard are up to.

"How's it going?"

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:10 pm**

Scott looks toward the road and smiles at Harrison then nods to Richard, "Might be best if we try the back" He nods towards the newspaper stand, "Too many eyes"

Moving to one of the back windows he crouches and tears several lengths of sticking plaster attaching them in strips to the glass. Once finished he uses the butt of the pistol to give the glass a sharp tap...

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:40 pm**

Richard follows Scott to the window

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:12 am**

Snapping out of his daydream, Michael follows Scott and Richard.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:28 am**

As you break out the window, you can shine your light in to the room and it is the basement the others told you they were in. Richard can confirm this is where they fought the knife.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:46 pm**

Richard says to Scott "Lets try that on one of the windows in the front and see what we get"

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:54 pm**

Scott stands and follows Richard to one of the front windows and kneeling repeats the procedure. Strips of sticking plaster followed by sharp crack on the glass with the pistol butt...

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2014 9:28 pm**

Michael attempts to cover Scott, making it more difficult for any passerby to notice what no doubt looks like a potential break in.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:28 pm**

Who comes to a housewarming party on time?

Rolling up to the curb, Jordie climbs out of the Chevy pickup fashionably late. Her pistol stirred nervously under her arm, as Jordie walks to the back of the truck, looking over to the dark and sinister house with a kill-streak that would put a mass-murderer to shame. Jordie notices the rest of the gang all poking and prodding around the house - as if dissecting it to the heart of the problem. Clambering to the back of the truck, Jordie unfastens the straps binding the searchlight equipments. Hoping the light would shine through whatever lived inside. Burning away the creature and it's dark past. Jordie had a hard time humouring herself any of this would work. If anything, if the light couldn't burn it away, it would only make the shadows leap higher.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:20 am**

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As you break the glass it doesn't go in like it did in the other one. So using a small tool, you can pull the broken shards back towards you and you reveal the hard packed earth behind the window.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:42 am**

Scott leans forward and prods the earth, "What the heck is that about, wonder how thick it is?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 4:15 pm**

Richard pulls out his shovel and starts digging in through the window to see if he can judge the depth of the dirt.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 7:41 pm**

Sonny walks up to Jordie - Hey, sorry I'm late he says a little sheepishly kinda got carried away last night, didn't get back til late and overslept a bit. he nods over to the house and the others, have we started the party yet?

He carefully places his trumpet in the cab and helps unload the kit off the Chevvy.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:16 pm**

The windows are not large, maybe 6" tall and a bit less than 2' wide. You can get your shovel in a bit and dig out some of the dirt.

You go back about 6-8" and its still dirt. You are seeing an unusually large number of worms and bugs though.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:33 pm**

Scott steps back a few feet watching as Richard struggles to make any difference to the earth packed behind the window.
"Jeez is there a room behind there, buried somehow?" he turns around and wathches as Jordie and Sonny unpack some mean looking lights from her car, "What the hell, is she expecting some kind of Broadway performance?" he laughs at his attempt at humour, then feels foolish and shuts up abruptly.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:39 pm**

Harrison flicks away his cigarette and lights a new one.

"Worms...I hate worms, they are so unworldy..."

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:52 pm**

Richard chuckels a little at Scotts joke about Jordie and says "I have no idea what goes through that women's head, she just kind of drops in and out as she please's and bats her eyelash's and thinks that is suppose to make us think that she is value added to the team. I am still waiting to see a break through helpfull moment. The guy who put this team together chose us for a reason, so I am sure she is here for a good reason"

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:00 am**

Charles looks thoughtfully at the freshly dug earth. "Do those worms and bugs look coincidental to you? Aren't there... a bit more than there should be? Should we keep digging, or...?"

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:57 am**

"I say keep digging. Someone went to a lot of effort to pack all that dirt in there. Michael frowns at all the bugs.

"There do seem to be a lot of them. Be ready. I think maybe someone was buried in all this dirt. Explains the number of bugs." Michael had seen a few decaying corpses, and they had always attracted a number of "admirers".

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2014 4:41 am**

Richard nods his head in agreement and continues to dig as much of the dirt out as he can.

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:52 am**

The music in the air felt like a negative vibe all around her, the silent gestures that tacitly acknowledge Jordie's presence, all judging and calculating her every decision. Arrested to the thought, that everybody had the impression of Jordie being useless, and nothing more than dead-weight. Rendered two-dimensional, her self-confidence not looking as good as she looks.

Jordie looks up without her eyes meeting Sonny's, "Thank you dear," as she unfastens all the ropes to reveal two portable searchlights. Jordie attempts to lift the searchlight with Sonny

She looked over towards the rest of the gang and notices the new facelift they've given to the house. The disturbed earth drew Jordie's attention, as she see's Richard and the others digging it up. It wasn't what's inside the hole Jordie cared about, rather, only what she saw was his bones straining under the weight of all the lives he wasn't living, watching the shovel heave the earth away. Though Jordie wasn't any better than anybody else, scratching around for a few dollars just like everybody else.

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2014 4:23 pm**

You find the digging gets harder since the window is not very tall. You have dug back about 15" now. You are just having to shove the shovel into the dirt and then scrape it out.

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2014 4:28 pm**

Scott nods agreement with Michael, "Once over in France some of the men were enlarging our bunker when a section collapsed. In the earth fall we found the remains of some previous inhabitant of the trench, probably been there for a while. The sheer amount of worms and bugs in attendance was phenomenal" He shivers at the memory and steps a few feet further back.

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:06 pm**

Richard pulls his hand pick from his satchel and uses that to see if helps to dig in further, he will use the shovel to remove the dirt that he dislodges with the pick.

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:34 pm**

As everyone else stands around and watches Richard, for a long time, you continue to dig out the dirt, going further and further in. Finally, you are laying on your belly, reaching into the small space with your arm, digging away at the dirt, when your small pick finally hits what feel like wood, 2 - 2 1/2 feet back from the window.

By this time Jordie and Sonny remove the 2 large Kerosene fueled lights from the back of the truck.

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2014 8:27 pm**

Richard says "I have found something wooden in here" as he starts to try to dig out around the wooden surface to discover its size and shape

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2014 4:08 am**

You pick your way up and it goes up to the underside of the house.

And it goes as far left, right and down as you can go, which isn't far.

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2014 4:57 am**

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2014 9:26 am**

"What do you think it is? Is it a foundation beam?"

Harrison lights up again. He must have gone through half a pack in the time they've been digging here.

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2014 12:22 pm**

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2014 5:19 pm**

Richard reply's "no I don't think it is a foundation beam because it is bigger than the window opening"

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2014 10:18 pm**

It would be in the living room. And is a long way from the basement. It is not a support beam. Feels more like a wall.

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2014 11:40 pm**

Richard stands back up and turns to the others "I think there is a wall in there, it appears to be under the living room so lets go check the living room for any secret doors that may lead us into a secret room in the basement" he gathers up his items and places them back into his satchel and slings it over his shoulder and heads for the living room through the front door.

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2014 11:56 pm**

Returning the slightly smaller roll of sticking plaster to his satchel, Scott starts after Richard. Any fearful thoughts are quickly submerged beneath a thrill of excitement that suddenly courses through his body.

Scott thinking: This is what I came for a real haunted house investigation

Even so he couldn't quite shake the image of the reporter lying on the cold earthen floor with that strange dagger protruding from his chest. As he follows Richard he flashes a weak smile at Michael and the cigarette smoking Harrison.

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:40 am**

Charles takes a deep breath. "Why is it that going into this house never feels like a good idea?" he mutters. Nevertheless, he walks with a determined step towards the door.

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:55 am**

"Probably because it isn't." Michael responds, following the others. "If all goes well this should be our last visit. Or poorly, I suppose."

As soon as he enters the house, the former cop pulls out his gun. He's not sure how much help it will give him, but it eases his mind a bit all the same.

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2014 8:38 am**

Before going into the house, Harrison casts a glance at the light crew. He salutes them with a nod and then enters the house.

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:00 pm**

Slowly shuffling towards the steps of the house with Sonny, Jordie returns a weak smile back as she continues to carry one of the searchlight equipment to the house.

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:05 pm**

Harrison stops and turns in his track to go help Jordie and Sonny.

"I'm not sure if it's fear or magnanimity, but let me take that from you."

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:53 pm**

Richard walks into the living room and starts by checking the floor for any doors or secret compartments

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:20 pm**

As Harrison goes back to help, you can see Jordie is struggling with it, as is Sonny. He seems strong enough to handle it, but his short stature, makes it difficult to balance the extremely bulky lanterns. Each weighs around 60 lbs.

As Richard goes into the house, you hear it groan. You ignore the obvious cliche and move into the living room. Stepping steps off from the front wall of the house to just past the fireplace to where the 1st window would be at.

There are some throw rugs down, but you quickly move them out of the way to find solid hard wood floors. They seem a bit worn and could be sanded and refinished. But nothing that looks like a door, or piece out of place.

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:38 pm**

"The house is groaning?"

Scott thinking: What the hell have I got into now?

Rather than step over the threshold, Scott turns around abruptly, "Think I'll give Sonny a hand"

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2014 8:43 pm**

Jordie nods her head towards the truck outside, "There's another light in the back of the truck." Slowly moving inside the house, Jordie sets the light down by the front door to catch her breath.

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:48 am**

Richard looks for a place to remove a board with the least amount of destruction to the floor and says "Anyone see a good place to remove a board or two without completely destroying the floors?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:08 am**

Reacting to Richard's question, Jordie goes over to the living room and begins stomping on the floor with her boots. If there is a secret cavity in the bowel of the house, surely it'll produce a hollow sound?

Unless the sound of the basement give way...

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:20 am**

Charles follows Jordie's example, trying to find anywhere that seems hollow.

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:04 am**

Everything sounds solid.

The floor looks good, not boards look out of place or loose.

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:10 am**

Richard says "The wall I found was right below here somewhere, our other choice is to go down the basement and see if we can find a false wall that comes into below this room here"

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:02 am**

"If we're going into the basement, I sggest we get the others and all go down together," says Charles. "To do otherwise would be tempting fate..."

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:09 am**

Richard reply's to Charles "I completely agree, and I think we need to go down with a think blanket again in case of any other possessed knives attacking again"

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:33 am**

"I-I think I remember seeing a door underneath the stairs last time we were here," Jordie's voice rising steadily out of her shell.

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:19 am**

Harrison helps carry one of the lights inside.

"To ... the ...cellar...then..."

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:23 pm**

Having relieved the struggling Sonny of the lamp, Scott puts it next to Harrison's and looks about him, "So where is this door to the basement then?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:28 pm**

Richard walks over to the basement door and proceeds to open it

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:11 pm**

It looks very much like it did before.

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:25 pm**

Richard looks down the stairs and tries to think of an idea for everyone to get down the stairs safely

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Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:38 pm**

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Posted: **Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:05 pm**

Richard turns to everyone and starts to pull rope out of his satchel "We can use this rope for people going down the stairs, we could also maybe throw a matress from one of the beds down to the bottom to use as a cushion i ncase someone does fall down the stairs"

Posted: **Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:03 pm**

"Two people should go down and then we can lower the lights on the ropes."

Harrison puts down the lamp and lights up another cigarette, discarding the empty package.

Posted: **Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:12 pm**

"I'll go get one of the mattresses from upstairs." Michael offers. "I'd like someone else to come and cover me in case our ghost decides to try something."

Posted: **Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:10 am**

Richard starts to walk to Michael and says "I got your back, you are probably right none of us should go off by ourselves in this house"

Posted: **Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:15 am**

"I'll go down," says Charles. "Who else? Harrison?"

Posted: **Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:16 am**

Michael offers an appreciate nod to Richard and proceeds up the stairs,intending to take the mattress from the first room he sees.

Posted: **Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:44 am**

Richard follows Michael up the stairs

Posted: **Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:16 am**

Harrison looks at Charles and winks.

"Let's wait till they get back, okay?"

Posted: **Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:22 pm**

Scott watches as Richard pulls the rope from his satchel, "Jeez an Indian rope trick, what else have you got in there?"

He starts to laugh but somehow given the surroundings and the serious looks on the faces of the others he stops, "Count me in, after all that's what we came here for aint it?" He desperately hopes someone might disagree with him, but somehow he doubts it.

Posted: **Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:12 am**

As you get to the top of the stairs the first bedroom is the second door on the left. As you look in, it is a plain room with a bed frame and a dresser in it. You notice blood dripping down from the ceiling.

Posted: **Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:32 am**

Richard pulls out his guns and says "go ahead and grab the matress and lets make a hasty retreat back down stairs with it, I have you covered"

Posted: **Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:58 pm**

The first bedroom with blood dripping from the ceiling has a bed frame with springs, but no mattress.

Posted: **Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:52 pm**

Richard says "ok lets check the next room"

Posted: **Sat Feb 08, 2014 8:33 pm**

Closing his eyes for a second, Michael wills himself to be calm.

It's just a trick, like the fire.

Taking a deep breath, he does his best to ignore the ominous blood and proceeds to the next room.

Posted: **Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:50 pm**

Richard looks into the next room to see if there is a matress, gun in each hand

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2014 12:05 am**

"Think the couch cushions and the chair seats would help?" as Jordie looks over to the living room from the entrance hall.

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:11 am**

The 3rd door is the children's bedroom. There are 2 mattresses in here.

The couch cushions also are loose and would work for this.

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2014 6:33 am**

Richard says "Here we go and no blood, go ahead and grab one" Richard keeps a sharp eye out, ready to react if anything strange happens. If nothing happens when Michael goes in and grabs one of the matress and gets it out of the room without any surprises Richard will holster his guns and grab the other matress once Michael has cleared the room with the first matress.

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:25 am**

Looking to where Jordie is looking, Scott nods, "It won't hurt". He moves to the couch and starts to gather the cushions. Listening he can hear Richard and Michael upstairs,

Scott thinking: Gee I hope they hurry, this place certainly makes your flesh crawl

Entering the house had made the stories he had heard in the hospital, real. He shudders, as if feeling a blast of cold wind, and begins carrying the cushions to the open basement doorway.

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:30 am**

Taking the lack of dripping blood as a good sign, Michael enters the room and takes one of the mattresses.

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2014 5:04 pm**

Richard waits and watches patiently from the doorway

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:46 pm**

You manage to get the matresses and cushions without incident. You have moved them to the basement and slid them down the stairs to the base of the stairs. Using rope to secure anyone going down the steps it would take a special kind of stupid to get injured at this point going down the steps.

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:52 pm**

Scott peers down into the basement at the matress and cushions at the bottom of the stairs, "Okay, so what's next?"

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2014 8:12 pm**

After securing himself to the rope Richard reply's "We go down stairs" with his satchel over his shoulder and his flashlight in his free hand Richard goes down to the bottom of the stairs with great caution

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:23 am**

"My turn," says Charles, ready to attach the rope to himself and head down as soon as Richard unties himself from it.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:56 am**

The 2 of you make it to the bottom of the stairs. It is dark down here, but appears to be the same as when you were last down here.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:27 am**

Richard walks and looks under the stairs for any type of door or false wall with his flash light.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:59 pm**

As you look under the stairs there is nothing there. You notice the window you broke out. A small amount of sunlight comes in keeping it from being completely black.
There is a small room walled off in one corner of the basement. The door is closed.
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Posted: **Wed Feb 12, 2014 5:23 am**

Posted: **Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:50 am**

Cupping her hands to her face, Jordie shouts down the stairs, "I do believe you have pulleys to haul our lights down?"

Posted: **Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:23 am**

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Posted: **Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:07 pm**

Richard pulls out the pullies and hands them to Jordie.
He then turns and looks for the best place to anchor a hook tohang the pullies from to give them the best leverage to get the lights down without the stairs having to bear the weight of the lights.

Posted: **Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:31 pm**

There is a main support beam running across the ceiling. It seems to be the main support structure here.

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Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2014 3:13 am**

"Thanks love," returning a smile to Richard, Jordie begins placing the pulley along the support beam of the ceiling.

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:47 am**

Scott goes to help Jordie make ready to lower the lights.

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:12 pm**

Harrison helps lower the lights and then goes down too.

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:47 pm**

Richard helps with getting the lights down and set up.

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:22 pm**

Michael also helps with the lights before heading down the stairs.

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:40 pm**

With everyone working together and the pulleys and ropes, you get the large kerosene lights into the basement. When you light them up, they light up the area very well.

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:57 pm**

Scott watches the rush to the basement, now that the bright lights seem to have banished peoples fears.

Scott thinking: Its getting a mite crowded down there

With that thought he begins to wander through the downstairs rooms.

Posted: **Fri Feb 14, 2014 12:41 am**

After the lights are up and running Richard walks over to the door to the small room in the corner and takes a close look at it including the ground at the base and all around the door frame checking for anything unusual. The fact that he spent some time and energy digging out real dirt from the window on the outside and there is no dirt on the inside has Richard a little shaken. He is half afraid that if he opens the door he may be opening a portal to some evil place.

Posted: **Fri Feb 14, 2014 2:55 am**

The floor of the basement is dirt, but it is packed hard, and doesn't look like the dirt you were digging earlier.

The door seems to have a small gap under it, and has a door handle, but no visible lock.

As Scott wonders through the downstairs, he sees the kitchen, the dining room, a big mess here as there is spoiled soup on the floor, and the living room with fireplace.

On the south side of the hall, the door closest to the front door is locked, the next door is a storage room full of broken furniture, looks like they were using it as fire wood. Finally the 3rd door closest to the stairs leads to a mud room. Several overcoats and rubber boots are in the room.

Posted: **Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:28 am**

With the lights illuminating the room, the incandescent shade vaguely reminded Jordie of pictures from Egyptian excavation sites she had read in a few articles. That vicarious thrill spurred Jordie senses, as the air mixed in that feeling of dread and wonder the light made.

Wondering where Corbitt was buried, Jordie couldn't recall the Macario family mentioning a coffin or anything out of place in the basement, other than a dark figure tormenting them. If anything, the tomb was hidden somewhere clever and she was hoping it wasn't where she was standing.

Posted: **Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:32 pm**

Richard says to everyone in the basement "I am going to check in this small room every one be alert for when I open the door, make sure you are ready in case we get any surprises on the other side of it"

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:06 am**

Michael nods and readies himself for any horror that may be lurking on the other side of the door. Theoretically, at least.

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:17 am**

Clutching one of his burlap sacks, Charles comes up behind Richard and readies himself for a flying knife or some other danger.

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Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:01 pm**

Richard opens the door and looks in prepared jump out of the way of any oncoming objects

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:26 pm**

Harrison pats his pockets, vainly trying to locate another cigarette.

"Anyone got a smoke?"

Absent-mindedly twisting the tension build-up.

Posted: **Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:47 pm**

As Richard opens the door, nothing happens. It is a coal room. The room is empty with just a few pieces of coal laying loose around the room.

The coal chute is boarded shut from the inside.

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Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2014 3:04 am**

Charles relaxes. "A coal chute. Shall we try prying off the boards and looking inside?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:29 am**

Jordie shrugs mildly interested, "Leave no stone unturned," she looks around for a crowbar.

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:18 am**

Richard pulls the crowbar from his satchel thanking himself for coming prepared to the house this time and starts to remove the boards

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:28 am**

"I don't think it would hurt to turn on one of those lights."

Harrison tries to turn one on and aims it at the working men.

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:32 pm**

The lights are already on. You easily pull the boards off to the chute going up. It only goes up a few feet to the outer doors that should be visible on the ground next to the side of the house.

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:57 pm**

"Nothing in here" Richard tells the others after investigating the coal shute

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2014 7:33 pm**

Harrison frowns.

"I'm wondering where our friend the ghost is. Anyone have an idea?"

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2014 7:41 pm**

Puzzled, Jordie flips through the pages of Chapel of Contemplation - Official Minutes and reads through the small footnotes she's made in the book. "Where else could you entomb a body?" Jordie mutters to herself.

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:57 pm**

Michael looks uneasy. "I saw some blood dripping from the ceiling in one of the bedrooms, so its still here. Something's not right though. The last time we were in here the ghost made us believe the house was on fire, moved the stairs to cause us to fall down them, and possessed a knife to stab Warren with. Its being awfully quiet now. I don't like it."

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:11 pm**

"If the blood was dripping from the ceiling, maybe we should be looking up and not down. Did anyone check the attic?"

Harrison checks his pockets again.

"Sure nobody's got a cigarette?"

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:34 pm**

Richard reply's to Michael's statement "That's been bothering me as well, we have been here longer than any other time in the past and we have yet to have an event other then the illusions of the dirt from the front windows. Something is definietly different this time."

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Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:46 am**

Richard starts to inspect the wall torwards the front of the house to check for any hidden doors or sliding sections, he also checks to see what material the wassis made of.

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:09 am**

There are no hidden doors, but on closer inspection, this wood does look newer than what is on the other walls.

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:26 am**

Richard says to everyone "This wall should be farther forward, this wall is newer then the rest"
Richard looks for a good place to use the crow bar to remove some of the wood from the wall.

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 9:56 am**

Charles knocks experimentally on the wall, trying to hear if it's hollow.

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 11:41 am**

Sonny calls down from the top of the stairs "Howsit going down there? Do you need me down there? Is there enough room for another body?

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 12:33 pm**

There is plenty of room for everyone down there.

Yes it does sound different knocking on this wall compared to the others.

It is not very hard to find some cracks to put a crowbar in.

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:22 pm**

Richard tries to find some cracks that he believes line up with the other side of the object he hit from the window then starts to remos boards with his crowbar

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As Richard starts to pry one of the boards loose, you hear a lot of squeeking and scratching.

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:12 pm**

Richard says as he continues to pry the boards loose "You guys hear that?"

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:28 pm**

Scott leans back from the locked door and shouts to Sonny, hoping to catch him before he joins the crush in the basement, "Hey Sonny, any idea as to where this door leads, and why its locked?"

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:43 pm**

"Rats!"

Harrison recoils to the middle of the room, standing clear of all exits, hoping he won't be in the creatures escape path.

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Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:58 am**

Richard peers behind the boardhe is prying loose from the end he is prying from trying to see what is behind the board.

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:15 am**

As Richard starts to pull the board back, the scratching and squeaking stops. As he pulls his flashlight out and shine it into the gap he has made, he sees a small gap probably 6-8 inches before he sees another wooden wall.

Then a smell hits him like a ton of bricks. Its enough to cause you to gasp for a second. Then a mass of movement catches your eye. As your light scans down lower you see the hundreds of eyes peering back.

The SCREECHING drowns out everything as the board breaks and the hundreds of rats pour out of the space between the walls.

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:12 am**

Michael lets out a startled gasp as the vermin emerge.

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Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:51 am**

Jordie lets out a loud shriek as she begins to recoil away from the source, as the rats pour into the basement. Of the time spent at the impoverished children's home and dwelling in abandoned homes, Jordie could never get used to seeing rats.

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Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:13 am**

Despite his anticipation of the rodent outpour, Harrison doesn't manage to get out of the way.

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:21 am**

Scott's contemplation of the door is rudely interupted by a female scream from below. He looks to where Sonny had been standing in the basement doorway, and can no longer see him.
"What's happening...Is anyone hurt?" he shouts and takes off for the basement doorway at a run.

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:52 pm**

Charles gives a startled yell, leaps back, but quickly collects himself. "They don't have wings, they don't have wings.... I saw bigger rats in Notre Dame," he mutters, trying to convince himself.

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:21 pm**

Sonny begins to descend the stairs "what's happening guys? what's all the hollerin about

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:16 pm**

"RATS!"

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:30 pm**

Sonny as you are half way down the stairs you hear Charles yell rats as you see several hundred start up the stairs at you.

There is no way they are going to miss you if you stay on the stairs and you do not have time to run back up. If you want to jump over the railing, make a dex*4 check to see if you can do it before the rats get to you. Or if you have another plan let me know.

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:55 pm**

Sonny thinking: rats? they;'re screamin' and hollerin' cos of rats? man rats ain't nothin' see plenty of those big wet boys down on the docks, sheesh I grew up with rats in Orleans

Sonny will stand there and let the river of rats run past him, he isn't frightened of them.

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:12 pm**

Richard falls to the ground as the board he was leaning on gives out and is swarmed over by the rats.
Harrison tried to get out of the way but a hesitation of panic he ends up stepping right in their way as they swarm around him, and up his legs.
Sonny standing on the stairs is also swarmed around and up the legs of these menaces.

The rest of you are able to move out of the way of the horde.
While the rats swarmed over and around, no one suffered any damage.

Scott, you see a large horde of rats escape from the basement and flow into the kitchen and some upstairs. None come your way.

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:00 pm**

Harrison screams out as the rats swarm over him, he tries beating them off as he frantically prances through the cellar.

"Fuck! I fucking hate rats!"

Posted: **Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:33 pm**

Seeing the rats swarm from the basement, Scott decides discretion is the better part of valour and quickly turns around and rushes outside.

Scott thinking: When it calms down I'll go back in.

Posted: **Sat Feb 22, 2014 5:22 am**

Richard scrambles to his feet determined to keep his concentration during the rats stampede.

Posted: **Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:18 pm**

As the sounds and dust settle, the rats are gone, and from first glance no one looks worse for wear.
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Posted: **Sun Feb 23, 2014 9:11 pm**

Failing to see any evidence of the rats rushing his way, Scott, taking a deep breath, renters the house. Forcing an unconcerned note to his voice, as if seeing a swarm of rats boiling up from the basement of a reputedly haunted house was an everyday occurence, Scott calls out, "Everyone okay?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:09 am**

"Alright here," says Charles. "But I just can't wait to see what else is behind that wall," he finishes grimly, as he steps closer to the hole.

Posted: **Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:32 am**

Richard says "The back of the board say's Chapel of Contempaltion on it" and tosses it to the ground to the side and then starts removing boards until he has removed emough to start digging with his shovel and pick towards the item he ran into from the window.

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