OOC: I've done the rest of this deck to try and speed things up a bit. |
Cabin 3:
The door is unlocked. This cabin is a mess. Clothes are strewn on the bed, cosmetics stain the chest of drawers, and
the doors to the wardrobe are thrown wide. There are at least three dresses pooled inside. The occupant appears to be
something of a human whirlwind. On her bedside table is a diary. Her name is inscribed on the first page. The only entry is
for 1st January 1920. It reads: “This year I, Madeleine Buckingham. resolve to keep a diary and record all of my innermost thoughts and insights. It should be jolly fun and ‘illuminating’ as Uncle Percy would say.” The blank pages that follow perhaps speak more eloquently of Miss Buckingham than anything she could have written.
Cabin 4:
The door is locked. hiss cabin is undisturbed. A suitcase, open on the bed, contains a change of woman's clothes. The suitcase has a luggage tag identifying the occupant as Yvonne Forbes-Pennington. The clothes have not been unpacked. Three books are open beside it, however: John Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt (London, 1888), Amelia B. Edwards’ A Thousand Miles Up the Nile (London, 1891) and Charles Henry Hawes and Harriet Boyd Hawes’ Crete, the Forerunner of Greece (New York, 1909). They are all heavily annotated. It seems Miss Forbes-Pennington is in the process of planning an expedition to a place called wādī al-hitan (‘The Valley of Whales’). Written beside the name is the phrase ‘the whales of time’.
Cabin 5:
The door is locked but is easily opened with the pass-key. This cabin is unremarkable,though the clothes carefully hung or folded reflect her wealth, taste and dedication to the latest fashion. The suitcase has a luggage tag identifying the occupant as Violet Gibbs-Woolf .A Mme. Jeanne Lanvin dress and a Jean Patou cardigan are amongst her belongings.
Cabin 6:
The door is locked but can be opened with the master key. This is Miss Godfrey’s cabin, and is notable only for a series of newspaper articles and photographs of Suzanne Lenglen, the famous French tennis player, who won Wimbledon in 1919. A Jean Patou tennis dress – the twin of the one worn by Lenglen in the Wimbledon photographs – hangs scandalously sleeveless and calf-length in the wardrobe. There is also a small bottle of brandy in the bedside cabinet.
Cabin 7:
The door is locked. Felicia Ingram’s cabin is empty but for a suitcase. If the investigators open it, they find it as empty as the room except for a single birthday card. On its front cover is a pencil-sketch of Felicia Ingram’s face at the centre of a long-fingered hand. Inside, in formal, bold script, are the words (see Handouts 3 and 3a): “Tonight, my love, you will come of age. We will fornicate in their entrails.” A capital ‘W’ is the only signature. The handwriting matches that of the letter from Cunliffe to Blunden found in Crew Cabin E (see Handout 2).
Store
There are a number of items the investigators might find useful. A quick search yields thirty feet of rope, a crowbar (Club, 1D4+1), a Hand Axe (Club, 1D6+1 + db), a hammer (Club, 1D4+1 + db), and three fuelled paraffin lanterns.
Handout 2
Handout 3
Handout 3a
