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Karl Anderson

"OK, so the plan is doughnuts, accident site, cops and/or Cooper house. Sounds good to me."

Karl googles 'The Yellow Sign' to see if he can find out anything. Man, that dream has him spooked.

Karl’s search on Google reveals quite a lot about something called ‘The Yellow Sign’ about an old book called the ‘King In Yellow’, stories written by the pulp author HP Lovecraft, a being called ‘Hastur’, and a place called ‘Carcosa’. Nothing strikes a chord until his eyes alight on the question, “Have you seen the Yellow Sign?” For a moment his blood runs cold as visions of an empty city flash across his mind...

OOC:   There is more information in Handouts.

Gracie checks Google Maps for the location of the Cooper House, and a view of it if available.

Gracie checks google for any information on the Cooper House. There is a lot of information on the house, besides that which you already have.

OOC:   Please give me five (5) percentage rolls under 70%

One of the things you find is a photograph of a building labeled ‘The Cooper House – Haunted or Hoax?’


The Cooper House - Haunted or Hoax?

Gracie has good luck in her search, for the most part.

OOC,Five rolls (70% chance): [dice]0[/dice] [dice]1[/dice] [dice]2[/dice] [dice]3[/dice] [dice]4[/dice]

It takes a while, but Gracie sticks with it. First she gets a name – Edmund McCumsey
“Before the Cooper house was “the Cooper house”, it was the McCumsey house. It was built by Edmund McCumsey of Britain, who immigrated to the U.S. after World War II in 1946. He was joined by his wife Deborah and their three children. At the time, Clio was an even smaller place, and McCumsey not only built his house far from town, but paid to have a road laid out to it where none was before.”

And this leads to;

“Edmund McCumsey was a scholar and historian from the University of Birmingham. He is most noteworthy for writing a book in 1937 entitled Before Daedalus: Labyrinths in History and Legend. Shortly after coming to Clio, Edmund McCumsey rankled his new neighbors by not hiring locals to build his new home, instead importing German masons.
It seems that many Clio residents expressed resentment at the employment of “Krauts” so soon after the war; others wondered why foreign experts were needed for a simple house. In December, 1947, the McCumsey’s eldest son, Jacob, age 14, reportedly dies. However, no certificate of death can be found to substantiate this.”

There is more to be found but it takes time to gather the information together. Allready it is gone 9:00 am, and the waitress is beginning to give you “move on” looks.

OOC:   If you choose to search for more it will neead you to make another five percentage rolls 70% or less.

"We'd better hit the road," says Gracie. "We can do more searching on the way to the crash site."