[IC - SAVANNAH] Around the city (Ian,Christopher,Clarence)

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[IC - SAVANNAH] Around the city (Ian,Christopher,Clarence)

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Holly and Father Flanagan enter their car and depart towards the sanitarium. You watch them disappear at the next intersection, then head for your own car. The weather is still good, but there are clouds in the distance, moving towards the city.

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OOC:   Ok, discuss your plan of action and tell me where you want to start (always use IC if possible).  
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"So, gentlemen" Mumbles Ian with a Lucky between his lips, waiting to be lit "where should we begin?"
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Clarence lights Ian's cigarette, then his own. He takes a long drag, and gets into the driver's seat, "I suggest the local newspaper office first."
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Christopher Fontana

"Sounds like a good plan to me, let's head on over and see what we can discover about Henslowe and his family oh and double check that the incedent didn't occur here. Fontana agrees "We should try to get over to the sanitorium for midday, to check on Dr. Chastain and Fr.Flanagan's progress.
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You ask around for informations and decide to head towards the offices of the Savannah Morning News, on the northern side of the city, near the harbor. It's a short trip with your car. The smell of the harbor welcomes you as you get off the car, the air so humid that it feels like you could wring the sky itself and make it rain. You enter a four-story building, in the usual red brick style that's so common in this area of the city, and go up to the third floor where the offices are located. Ian knows how to navigate his way inside a newspaper office and manages to enlist the help of a local journalist, a man named Donovan Grizzard.

"Good mornin'", he shakes your hands. "Ian heeyur says y'all are workin' on some old story. Let's see if we can find somethin' on that, then if y'all find somethin' juicy goin' on in the city, y'all know where to find me, all right?"
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"Of course, Don." Ian falsely agrees with Grizzard, giving him a gentle slap in the back. He's not even sure how He will deal with this story, imagine giving it to another journalist. "Your help is greatly appreciated, but I have to say, don't expect any great stories here. It all happened more than 10 years ago, and the people involved are either dead or ... erm... whacky, so... Anyway, we are looking for anything you can have on the Henslowe Family, more specifcally Douglas and Virginia Henslowe. Also, if you had any incidents here in Savannah, around August 1924, involving multiple deaths. How should we proceed?"
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"Well, I'd say we start from the morgue.'" He gestures towards a corridor. "This way. Tell me exah-actly what we're lookin' for.
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"Anything we can find on the Henslowes could be useful, really. Ian feels like he wants answers for questions he doesn't know. Family members, close friends or business partners of Douglas Henslowe, legal or illegal activities he may be involved with, this kind of thing. Also, if there are news on or around August 1924 about Douglas Henslow leaving Savannah. Regarding tragic events on August 1924, we're pretty sure we won't find much, but any events that could have resulted in multiple deaths can be of interest. Any other suggestions, gentlemen? Fontana? Lanalor?"
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Clarence looked thoughtful for a moment. "Well, just browsing the papers for the fateful month in question would be a good start. Headlines, obituaries ...yes...there's enough of us to do that fairly quickly." . He nods to himself, as if acknowledging the suggestion for someone else.
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Christopher is happy to research Henslowe and family, checking for details on the summer of 1924 is of secondary importance as far as he is concerned. Christopher hopes to gather enough information to be able to 'make sense' or 'contextualise' any information that comes from Dr. Chastain and Fr. Flanagan's visit to Henslowe.
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The four of you get to work in the newspaper morgue. No big incident happened in Savannah in the summer of 1924. You find nothing on Douglas Henslowe, but there's an article from 1907 referring to a David Henslowe, married with Virginia Henslowe, that offered a big donation for the construction of the Blue Flower Orphanage in Savannah. The article briefly explains that David and Virginia lost two newborn daughters in 1882 and 1883, and that caused them to take to heart the suffering of children.
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"Well that was a bust!", said Clarence. He rubbed his eyes, rested on the chair back and looked up at the ceiling for a few moments, and sighed. He slackened his tie.
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Donovan looks as disappointed as Clarence. "Well, no big story heeyur, I'd say. Or at the very least, this Douglas fellow has manah-aged to avoid public attention. Theeyur might could be more, but we ain't gonna find it in heeyur. Gonna ask people, check his background, this kind of stuff." He shrugs. "If you think theeyur is really somethin' big."
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"Well, let's hope our colleagues got luckier. Thank you anyway, Grizzard." Ian continues as they walk towards the exit "There are other places we could try. The library, or even the police. Or we could just go for some bacon and eggs and wait for Dr. Chastain and Father Flanagan."
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OOC:   The library may be a good place. Not sure about the cops.... that would attract 'official' attention and they'd (the police) not be disposed to giving information. I think it's probabaly important that we (as characters) try not to draw too much attention to what we're up to; our patron would appreciate it ;)  
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" I agree the library, is the next best place to try", said Clarence, "If there were anything noteworthy in the police records, then it would have been reflected in the newspapers."
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As you exit the morgue another journalist, who was passing by, speaks to Donovan: "What the hell, Don, I was looking for you. We have to go to the inauguration, remember?". He looks older than Donovan, perhaps nearing his fifties. Tall, bald, blue eyes. Doesn't have much of a southern accent.
"Aye, aye, sorry Matt. We were searchin' material on an old story, 1924, big incident, involvin' one Douglas Henslowe. You were aroh-ond heeyur back then, right? You don't happen to know anythin', do you?"
The newcomer scratches his head thoughtfully. "1924, uh? Henslowe... 1924, it's gotta be... yes, sure, that thing in Los Angeles, it's gotta be that one. Los Angeles, 1924, the big fire in the farm. One man from Savannah was involved, I'm not 100% sure, but it was probably called Henslowe. Never made it into the newspaper, though. His involvement, I mean. His name came up a couple of months after the incident, and it was cold news by then... and folks around here aren't really that interested in local news from Los Angeles." He shrugs. "And the guy was... well... not right in the head. We decided it was not worth much as a news."
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"Los Angeles, uh? God, I hate that city..." Says Ian, talking to himself, momentarily forgetting the others.The mere mention of the city makes him feel feverish and sick. He falters with the idea of going back there.

After a few seconds he recompose himself and continues "Yeah, that's probably it. It coincides with we previously had." He retrieves some newspaper clippings from his pocket and shows them to Fontana and Lanalor. "Here. 15 people died in an abandoned farm near Los Angeles on August 18. They were thought to be members of a sex club for rich people, but their last meeting ended up in senseless violence. Drugs were probably involved in the accident. That must be it, right?"
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Clarence takes a clipping and reads it for a few moments. "Sex club eh?! Well ! I never got invites to such events.", snorts Clarence. "Los Angeles eh! Ahh The City of Angels. Sounds like our next stop."
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Christopher Fontana

The information does seem to confirm one of the scenes that he and Morin had discovered from their initial investigations at The Boston Post hopefully Dr. Chastain and Fr. Flanagan would be able to get absolute confirmation from Henslowe.

"This is definitely good information... hopefully the others can confirm it, we should probably head on over to meet them..." he says to Morin and Lanalor.
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