IC: Ch 4b. Art Association -- Alyssa, Aunt Loosa & Charles

August 1921, Boston.
A dead guard at the abandoned chapel, a stolen statue revealing strange numbers and a burnt postcard. A strange night sighting by a Harvard professor only 2 days later has led to too many coincidences to ignore.
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Alyssa looks to Charles and back to the curator, "Howard sounds quite the character, and his work doesn't betray his integrity either." Howard's squatting lifestyle reminded Alyssa of her nomadic lifestyle with Jordie, in their younger and more vulnerable years of her youth. "Sorry, he was Howard...?" Stretching out the last word in the air, hoping Alyssa could encourage the curator to finish her sentence.
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"Smith" he finishes. "Howard Smith".
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"Thank you kindly," as Alyssa leans off the counter. "Oh, which way is Bearskin if I may ask?"
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"Oh, just past the square, about a block down the street." He replies.

You passed the square on the way to the woods house.
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Charles thanks the curator and turns to Alyssa and says in a lower voice "do we stay and look at more of the paintings further in or would you like to leave directly? And eitherway, should we see if we can vistit this Bearskin on the way back?"
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"I think we can make a small exception before we visit Bearskin. Business and pleasure Charles," Alyssa winks as she makes her way back to Aunt Loosa.
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Charles moves back to the others to examine what paintings they might have missed. He have an uncomfortable feeling about it but he still thinks that they might have more important information or at least a little background about the place they've arrived to.
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As you get to the back corner of the area, the themes get much darker. Storms, sea monsters, death, etc... Make a Sanity 0/1 test. Some of the images are pretty disturbing. Something starts to catch your eye though. Make a Spot hidden check as well.
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Do you see it, Charles? Aunt Loosa says in hushed tones.

She shows him her sketch of the constellation It's in all of his paintings, sometimes more obvious, sometimes more subtle. Do you recognise it? I must admit the stars aren't my forte. she continues in the same low voice.

I think maybe I'll go to the library, see if I can find any further information about it.
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After Aunt Loosa points out the constellation on the darker images, she can then show you in the other paintings where they also appear, though much more subtle and could be easily explained away if you didn't realize what you were looking at.
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Ben,[url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4666095/]1d100=11, 1d10=9, 1d100=98, 1d10=9[/url] Hope I got that right.
Charles looks at what Aunt Loosa has to show him. "The library seems like a good idea as well... Should we go there together before or after the Bearskin, or should we split up? Maybe there is a third alternative as well... What do you think we should do?"
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Medri,Not sure what the d10 rolls were for. So lets throw those out. For the d100 rolls, the first was for Sanity, you rolled an 11, that was very good. It was a Sanity 0/1 test. Which means if you pass you suffered 0 sanity loss. If you had rolled higher than your current sanity you would have taken 1 sanity. The 2nd d100 roll was for Astronomy. You rolled a 98 which is normally a critical failure. So in reality, you think you recognize the pattern, but you are wrong, but you could role play it if you want to, and say you do see it, it looks like the Little Dipper.
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The recurring theme of stars looked identical regardless of season in each picture, yet Alyssa couldn't quite connect the dots the same way Aunt Loosa did. The more she stared on, the more her thoughts were lost like stars Alyssa couldn't arrange into constellations. "My word, it's quite... breath taking," searching for the appropriate words that fails her honesty. "The library isn't going anywhere, and our friend doesn't like to settle himself down. Any objections before we set forBearskin?" Alyssa puts on her motorcycle gloves.
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Ben,Thought the rulebook said precentile plus ten sided. But I'll leave the ten sided out next time.
Charles thinks to himself if he recognize the pattern, he thinks he's seen it before but doesn't feel that sure. With a distant look he turns to Alyssa and nods. "Yes... Let's go to the Bearskin."
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OOC Medri/Charles,Depending on the nature, you would only roll a d10 for things like battle damage, loss of sanity, etc depending on what percentile you rolled beforehand. Though d10 is not needed sometimes. However, you only needed to roll [i]Astronomy[/i] and [i]Sanity[/i] in this case. Your [i]Astronomy[/i] is only at 01% which is the base for everyone, and your [i]Sanity[/i] is 46%.
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The 3 of you hop on the motorcycle and head to the square. There are parking spots there and a sign that reads "Bearskin Neck". As you park your bike you notice both the other cars from your group are here. As you walk up to the walkway of bearskin neck, it is a very narrow road that leads out to a wharf. Buildings are lining both sides of the small road, and just on the other side of the buildings you see a group of painters scattered about. You see the rest of the MAPS team having just passed the painters and are moving out of sight behind a building.
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"Always one step behind," Alyssa mutters to herself, as she takes off her helmet. Climbing out the bike, Alyssa makes pace towards the familiar faces that went past the building.
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Charles take in the suroundings and follow the group in the distant as well.
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As you walk up past the painters, you see the red building called Motif #1. You see about half of the painters are painting it. The other half are doing other sea based subjects, boats, beaches, the light-houses, etc...

You rush on past them and the your fellow investigators seem to be disagreeing on their course of action. You catch up to them right as they reach the red building out on the end of the wharf.

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