Play@YSDC

OOC,I will move the action outside tomorrow unless anyone continues the conversations.

Melody,[quote="HoneyDog"]In attendance with [b]Melody[/b] are again the coachman [b]McKenzie[/b], [b]Smith[/b] the gardener, and assorted other servants. [color=#4000BF]“Find anything interesting, Miss?”[/color] asks [b]McKenzie[/b]. [color=#4000BF]“I don’t suppose you’ve got to the bottom of our little mystery?”[/color][/quote] [img]https://i.imgur.com/XwaPhRf.jpg[/img] [color=#fF0040]"We've barely had chance to look around the house yet to be honest, but I'm sure that we'll get to the bottom of it all when [b]Miss Beauchant [/b]holds her seance." How many strange events have occurred since [b]Lord Allingham's [/b]death? We know about the library and the kitchen last night, and also the study, but where else has been disturbed? Have staff been keeping watch most nights? It's weird that the disturbances still happen despite the watch." "Oh! And has there been any damage, other than in the study?"[/color] [ooc]Sorry, I've been dead busy. [b]Melody [/b]isn't rude and so works the above questions into the conversation one at a time, rather than blurting them all out. LOL.[/ooc] After anyone has replied, even if no one has anything helpful to say, [b]Melody [/b]will also ask, [color=#fF0040]"Who found Lord Allingham's body? Was he missing for long?"[/color] [ooc]If I get an NPC response to these questions, and perhaps the chance to say one more thing when I've seen what the other servants have to say, then I'm happy to move on. I won't hold your game up any longer.[/ooc]

OOC,Happy to move outside.

Melody,[color=#FF00FF]“Oh, the disturbances have happened all over the house, but not usually where someone is sleeping”[/color] says one servant. [color=#FF4000]“I saw the door handle turn one night!”[/color] exclaims another young man, but his companion gives him a scornful look. [color=#0000BF]“There’s been a few things broken, like dishes, but no wanton destruction” [/color]says [b]McKenzie[/b]. [color=#0000BF]“As for his Lordship’s body, it were a few of us, me included, who found ‘im”[/color] he continues, a grim look on his face. [color=#0000BF]“He was late to rerun from his evening walk. Knowing that he wasn’t too popular with the villagers, [b]Lady Amanda[/b] insisted we go look for ‘im.”[/color]

Melody,[color=#FF0040]"Have you noticed anything disturbed in the grounds [b]Mr. Smith[/b]?"[/color] [b]Melody[/b] asks the gardener. [color=#FF0040]"I assume that his Lordship is buried in the family graveyard outside?"[/color] To everyone she asks, [color=#FF0040]"Is there anyone in particular who would have a reason to do this to Lord Allingham? I mean, the other victims of the curse, from what we have learnt all died young, but of various causes. Riding accidents, war, illness. "So it would seem that even if the curse is somehow to blame, someone must still have killed his Lordship."[/color]

Melody,[b]Smith[/b] shakes his head. [color=#008000]"I haven't noticed anything. There was a funny scratching on the roof of my cottage the other night, but it could have been an animal I suppose. Of course, [b]Sir William[/b] is buried in the graveyard. It’s well tended, too” [/color]he adds proudly. [b]McKenzie[/b] frowns. [color=#0000BF]"Of course someone killed him. I'm sure you've heard [b]Lady Amanda[/b] suspect the villagers, but even though there was nae love for the master there, I really canna see them doing him in so brutally, burnin’ ‘im an’ suchlike. We really don't know.”[/color]

Melody,[color=#FF0040]"Thank you,"[/color] says [b]Melody[/b]. She helps the other servants to tidy up before going to join the rest of the society.