1 Genius Loci: Strange Letter

[Borderline]

After the phone is free I call around to a few veterans who stay in contact simulataneously checking in on them and seeing what I can find about what Larry's been up to recently.

roll against charm,15[dice]0[/dice]edit: I'll spend three luck,

[Zero]

Jimmy considered the growing list of local criminal contacts he had become acquainted with in the greater Houston area between drags from his cigarette. Unfortunately, his enterprises had not expanded into the Kirby loony bin, yet. Like he had said before, a visit to this place was an opportunity, one he simply couldn't pass up. The Chicago native swirled his whiskey over the cubes of ice as he considered his next angle.

Luck (45),[dice]0[/dice]

[Mr. Handy]

Carl manages to get some useful information from his contacts in law enforcement when it's his turn to use the phone.

OOC,Charm roll (15% base skill) to get information from law enforcement contacts: [dice]0[/dice]

[HoneyDog]

Joseph calls some of his journalist contacts at the Houston Chronicle.

Persuade,Persuade 45: [url=http://orokos.com/roll/703790]Persuade[/url]: [u]1d100[/u] [b]18[/b]

[jp1885]

Luck points?

OOC:   At this early stage I'll pass

After Coach uses the phone, he growls.

"Damn stuffed shirts! The old coots wouldn't tell me a bean."

[Umbral Dragon]

When Joseph calls Gregory Hilton, he finds that the Kirby Hospital is out just past Pasadena. Not a whole lot to tell, but he's offering a little help by letting you access the archives

[Umbral Dragon]

Carl gets in touch with the precinct sheriff. He tells him, they've not had to go out to the hospital since they jad to take Walker Brown to the asylum. Walker was going on about a hoodoo spell calling up some evil spirit. He spooked everyone in the neighborhood and wouldn't go to work or to sleep.

[Umbral Dragon]

Wheels calls up Larry. He finds out that Larry had friend who worked the railroad line that passed by the Hospital. It was a superstition that the place was built on some "Injun" sacred circle.

[Mr. Handy]

Carl fills in the others on what he's learned. "We can talk to this Walker Brown when we eventually go there," he says, "find out his side of the story."

[Borderline]

Off to the side I address Joeseph, "Mr. Adler what would you think of calling this asylum, give them a story, maybe you're researching for a piece about succesful rehabilitation of patients with mental disorders? I wanted to ask you before bringing it to the group. It could gain is easy access or give us a glimpse of the temperament of the place."

[HoneyDog]

Joseph Adler

"Not a bad idea" muses Joseph in response to Solomon. "Let me check it out with the Chronicle editor though and get his backing. The hospital is likely to make some inquiries about me".

He borrows the phone again and makes the call to the Chronicle.

[Umbral Dragon]

Your contact tells you that as a Freelance reporter for the Chronicle it would be a perfect assignment. It was actually put out on the board as one option, but nobody picked it up since it was kind of creepy. He gives you the reference number and writes you in as the reporter on assignment.

[HoneyDog]

“Okay, I’m officially on the story” Joseph says after finishing the call. “Now to call the asylum.”

Joseph calls Kirby to explain his assignment, and see if he can get permission.

[Borderline]

After hearing Joeseph apparently get an affirmitive answer and everyone is off the phone I clear my throat roughly "Well I've never put stock in the red mans superstition but it's worth mentioning, I was told the place Larry's at now is supposedly and old indian circle whatever that means. I don't suppose anyone knows anything about those old myths? Might have something to do with what he was looking into."

[jp1885]

Coach shrugs.

"My great-grampy was a Ute and told me plenty of hair raising stories, but that was up in Colorado. I'm not sure I remember anything specific to Texas."

Keeper,Could I make an EDU (EDU 87) check to see if Coach remembers anything? If so... [dice]0[/dice]

[Mr. Handy]

"I've just heard the usual stories about haunted ancient Indian burial grounds and the like," says Carl. "Nothing in particular, but there's stuff like that all over the place. We'll probably have to talk to the local tribes to find out anything more."

[Zero]

The Chin could scarcely believe what he was hearing. There was a whole bunch of nonsense about ancient curses and magic being spoken of. Clearly the drink had already started to affect these gents. This wasn't the pyramid at Giza they were talking about here, just some hospital out in the countryside.

"Shut your yaps about that baloney. Keep focused on the matter at hand. Larry wants out of this Kirby joint, and the lawman here says we can, so let's go get him. Plain and simple." he said after another drag from his cigarette.

[jp1885]

Coach can't help but chuckle at this.

"You got a point son, but it won't hurt for Mr. Adler to do a bit of digging first."

[Borderline]

I sit back down in my chair and dart a widened eye towards the chin at the sound of him being called son then quickly bring my glass up to my mouth to hide my expression.

[Mr. Handy]

"Yes, we could see what Mr. Adler learns first," says Carl. "Larry's been in there this long, a little longer shouldn't be too harmful. Once we've found out what we can, then we can just go down there in a group, though separately from Mr. Adler. We'll tell people where we're going first, but I'm not expecting them to try to detain all of us."