Ch.11. Amesbury Re-visited (All)

[jp1885]

Ivy glares at the detective.

"Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps you gentlemen could help me search her room and perhaps we'll find out. Starting with that wall."

She jabs a finger towards the wall on which she saw the glowing green symbol.

OOC: I guess she'd be too rattled to remember and draw the symbol as she saw it in the mirror?

[Bullfrog]

"Did you touch anything when you came in?" Lawrence concernedly asks, aiming to scope out a potential threat before it becomes one. "As far as we know, the poison takes effect with contact, unless you were affected by some kind of airborne version of it."

[Mr. Handy]

"Like the letter," says William. "That would easily do it." He begins to examine the wall.

[Silver Priest]

Alex also enters the room, careful not to touch anything as he looks around.

[jp1885]

“I don’t think I touched anything, but it’ll pay to be careful,” says Ivy.

[Philulhu]

OOC,Spot Hidden for anyone searching the room (except Ivy, as she’s already looked).

[Silver Priest]

Spot Hidden 75%,0

[Mr. Handy]

William doesn't find anything.

OOC,Spot Hidden roll (60% skill) searching the room: 0

[Bullfrog]

Spot Hidden 26%,0

Lawrence enters the room to join in the search, but turns up nothing.

[Philulhu]

Alex stood still in the middle of the room while the others searched fruitlessly. He tried to think where a young woman might hide something she didn’t want found but it looked as if those places had already been checked, without success.

Carefully, he turned around, eyes scanning for anything that seemed out of place, and then he saw it, the corner of an envelope that looked as if it had been wedged between the back of the dressing table mirror and the wall behind...

[Silver Priest]

"There!" the detective points out the envelope. "Do you think you brushed against that, Ms, Ripley?"

"It's odd though. We suspect Mrs. Webster was drugged by the letter she received in the mail, yet this would suggest there was another placed here. Perhaps it was an early expierment of Emily's before she was sent away?" He speculates. "At least we'll have more evidence."

[Philulhu]

OOC - Ivy,Ivy doesn’t recall brushing against the envelope. It’s position makes this unlikely anyway as you hadn’t specifically said she was moving furniture around, etc. In answer to your earlier question about the symbol that Ivy saw on the wall, it’s the same one as on the image from the photographer that Ivy has in her handbag.

[jp1885]

Ivy peers at the envelope tucked behind the mirror.

“No, I didn’t touch that, though perhaps I breathed something in? That’s a worrying thought... I’d use gloves or tweezers to take it out, just in case.”

She pauses for a moment, shuddering at her recent, unsettling experience.

“By the way, the symbol I saw on the wall was exactly the same as this...”

She pulls the photograph from her bag.

“We should show this to the folklorist too.”

[Mr. Handy]

"Agreed," says William. "We'll need to handle that letter with care, without touching it with bare hands. We should photograph it before the ink fades."

[Silver Priest]

"Indeed. Everyone be cautious. If it could influence Ms. Ripley without her touching it it could potentially affect all of us. Perhaps we should step out until the examiner arrives." he suggests.

[Bullfrog]

"I agree with the detective; I'd prefer not to spend any more time in here than we absolutely need to, lest I get exposed to that poison myself." Lawrence concurs, backing out of Ms. Livingstone's room.

[Mr. Handy]

William nods and also exits the room.

[jp1885]

Ivy needs no persuading and also exits. In an attempt to calm her nerves, she decides to keep busy and take a look around the bathroom.

[Philulhu]

OOC,Having exited the bedroom, is there anything you wish to do while waiting for the medical examiner to arrive?

[Mr. Handy]

OOC,I can't think of anything.