August 18 - 10.30 AM – Sawney´s house

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Oct 1, 2019 5:22 pm
The other entrance to the cave at the top of the hill. Sawney's house is near the harbor. Anyone in town can refer this to the group.
Interestingly, the group finds that Sawney he´s Emma Weeks housband. Emma Weeks is the woman Father cloby talked about. (OOC: see the Cues summary for details). She´s the woman who gave birth to an abortion years ago. She also claimed to have been raped.

Sawney´s wooden house is located by the sea, nearby Kenneth beach and close to the main Greyton´s breakwater. The roaring sound of the crashing waves is audible from the house as a persistent litany. A fence draws a small perimeter around the house. A small left open gate is the entrance.
It is a poor house, for too long left to passively suffer heavy weather and the effects of time. It is a lumpy den of thin wooden walls, with a small opening at the front, barely large enough for a bent down person to pass through. The roof is topped with torn of winter branches and browned bracken. There´s a small courtyard whose ground is continuous with the Kenneth beach, as if the house fence were a strange intruder, defacing the sands that were there so long before.
Wooden planks, kitchen utensils, gardening tools and other objects lie scattered confusingly throughout the courtyard floor, as a promise of being useful one day for something. The house could be a nice place, before the disorder reigned supreme.
The inside looks like an improvised camp. Clothes and various objects, including dirty dishes, are accumulated at various points of the house, covered by several layers of dust. Anyone living in this house has long since stopped thinking about the house spaces in view of a future.

Sawney is not home and Emma has not seen him for several days. Emma is a young woman, aged between 25 and 30, wearing a tailored dark blue dress made of a silk blend crepe. She has blond straight hair tied at the back.
Her melancholic face looks the suited place for sadness finding its home.

Emma welcome the investigator in her house.

"Sawney became mighty absent, an' now he´s spendin' most of his time inside that lighthouse, even in daytime"
Oct 2, 2019 2:37 pm
Try the door?

If it is locked, I'll try the lock.

Rolls

prospective lock picking - (1d100)

(32) = 32

Oct 2, 2019 2:57 pm
OOC:
The door is open and Sawney´s wife is in. I changed the post above to make it clearer
Oct 2, 2019 3:30 pm
"Mrs Weeks, thank you for meeting with us, I am. . . [introduce all of us] . . .we are investigating the disappearance of a boy from Portland, and we have information that indicates he may have come to Greyton, that he may have known about the lighthouse, based on his drawings. That is why we have come to speak to your husband, we understand he is the lighthouse keeper. Have you seen a small boy about 6 years old that you don't recognize in town recently?"
Oct 7, 2019 4:11 pm
The woman is annoyed and sad.

"No, I haven't seen any boy. I'm afraid I cannot help you. I know almost nothing about my hausband does. he does not even talk to me anymore. I know he deals with the people of Coney island but he never goes to Portland, as far as I know. "
Oct 7, 2019 8:12 pm
"Michael says gently, "Look Mrs Weeks, we know there is something terrible going on in this town, we just don't know what, it may have something to do with Coney Island or the lighthouse, and the caves. Tell us what you know and we will leave you in peace."
Last edited October 7, 2019 8:12 pm

Rolls

Persuade (55%) or other - (1d100)

(36) = 36

Oct 8, 2019 3:50 am
Her voice changes, as if there is something she is ashamed to say.

"I have been inside the caves once, but I cannot recall my memories of that episode. I remember about walking with Darcy on the beach one night. Apart from that.. I can only recall fragments... I was in the cave... someone took me there. There was a man... I don´t remember what he was like but I remember his smell, it was the smell of the sea.."

"Then... I remember runnin' through Kenneth beach.... I had a terrible headache an' difficulty in walkin'. Then.. moths after that... I gave birth to an abortion. That was not Sawney´s kid. He knew that, but did not seem to care. It was the man of the cave... and I kind of felt that maybe Sawney knew that."

Jacque Durant, the doctor in town, said it was better I didn´t look at the fetus. I still dream about it. I´m sure the baby wasn´t dead. A mother knows that… she can feel that. Men cannot understand."

"Darcy has something to do with Coney Island. Years ago, she needed to make some money for her family to get by, so she accepted a job in Coney Island. She had to take care of an old couple, at the Anderson mansion. When she returned to Greyton, she was another person. She became Michaud´s lover, only because of his money. She befriended many young women who saw and still still see her as a fine-succeeded woman. I was one of them, but then… I learned to hate her. I don´t know why. Hate is everythin' this town is able to teach."
Oct 8, 2019 2:23 pm
Hello mamn I am Mr. Edmond. So they basically didn't let you look at the baby to see that it was actually dead? You feel that it's still alive? he looks at the others and Whispers Maybe we should ask this Jacque Durant about it?
Oct 8, 2019 6:47 pm
Michael nods affirmatively toward Mr. Edmond, "Yes, the doctor. . . ." To Mrs Weeks, he says "Thank you, I am sorry for your . . um . . . loss. I have just one more question. This may be difficult for you, but you know your husband best, if we try to get to the bottom of what is going on between Darcy and the Andersons, with Coney Island, will he help or hinder us? What does your gut say?"
Oct 9, 2019 4:12 am
"I rather doubt this Durant fellow would tell us anything if he concealed the survival of the child. Perhaps we could visit his home or office and, um, look around."
Oct 9, 2019 8:46 pm
The woman shakes her head in a gesture of resignation and disdain.

"I have not known my husband for a long time. Since Darcy returned from Coney island, Sawney has not been the same than before. I have often noticed the void in his eyes. You won't get anything from him. The people of Greyton have changed. Durant will deny everything I told you and will say I am a traumatized mother. The only person who gave me some comfort and listening was Father Colby."
Oct 10, 2019 4:32 am
He whispers to the others yea I think we should maybe go to his house and look around.
Oct 14, 2019 3:41 am
OOC:
Michael agrees to go to see Durant?
Oct 14, 2019 2:24 pm
"Yes, let's go to Durant's house with the assumption that he might be involved in a cover-up. If he is there, perhaps Mr Edmond and I can approach and get him talking, giving Bing the chance to look around unobserved?"

As they approach the house, Michael keeps in mind the location and view of the lighthouse and the hillside that the telescope was pointing to, with the possibility of coaxing the doctor to get a better view of one or both at some point during their conversation, in effect luring him away from the house so Bing can search."
OOC:
Whether or not Michael actually does this will depend on whether Durant is home, where his house is in relation to these views, and how the conversation goes if he is there, for example, as well as the keepers' discretion, of course.
Last edited October 14, 2019 2:24 pm

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