Whispers by the Water

Myles looks around and find the stairs down. From outside, the moon and starlight give a small amount of glow through a small window at ground level. The stairs look to be in worse shape than the image floor on the main level.

Myles, roll some kind of Fate dice for for staying safe in those water damaged stairs. If you've an applicable skill, roll that otherwise roll +0. TN 1 for luck to hold.



With Myles headed toward the cellar where do the rest of you go?

Myles looking at the rickety stairs turns on the light on the camcorder for some more light.

The stairs collapse under one of Myles feet and he scrambles to hang on.

I'll give you a choice, fail or succeed at a cost: a) you scramble back up, and the stairs collapse below you leaving the way blocked, or b) you make your way down without catastrophic damage to the status, but Myles takes a point of Physical stress from a cut to his leg.

Blue, who was following Myles, sees how he is about to fall and reacts by trying to grab him arm.

Myles scrambles back up the stairs as they start to collapse. "Well looks like we will have to find another way to the cellar."

Burt walks over and looks into the newly formed hole. "Do you think we could just try a ladder?" he asks the others. "We should still look around, but I mean we could maybe use this hole anyway. Just an idea."

"Whoa, that was a close call." Hoffmann shines his flashlight into the hole where the stairs collapsed. Anything interesting down there? "We could buy a ladder, we could search for one, or I could build one, although I doubt a ladder made from this place's wood would fare any better than those stairs. Anyone remembers if we got a ladder or a rope at the van?"

"I think we should investigate thoroughly this level of the house before we try the basement," says Artur. Hoffmann nods in agreement. "What do you guys think? Oh, and whether we do it right now or not, I think we should all search as a single group once we do. Safety first!"

There isn't much that's reliable around here. Any rope or wood you find may be rotten. You could continue to try to get to the cellar, finding a way to get down without breaking an ankle, and hopefully getting back up. Or you could investigate elsewhere.

"You're right, Hoff; we should explore this floor more thoroughly," Burt says. "We can always come back with a ladder to head downstairs.

"I agree fellas. No since in risking breaking a neck yet. That was pretty close call back there."

"Shall we start, then?"

If two or more of Hoffmann's bandmates join them, Artur begins a very through but cautious investigation of the house, while his dad guards him.

The search of the house is meticulous. Working together, and wary of the fragility of the wood, you take your time and give it a thorough look over. Besides the waterlogged diary found earlier, however, you find only a stack of old newspapers.

Each of the newspapers, from different dates, tells of a new victim, suspected or actual. The only piece of actual new knowledge is that one of the articles mentioned mysterious symbols found on Alice Moore's body, and links the symbols to ancient occult rituals. In typical journalistic incompetence, what cult or even culture may have practiced these so called ancient rituals was not disclosed.

As you're finishing up the last upper floor room, you hear footsteps on the main floor. Your flashlights flicker out one by one.

Blue tries to recognise the symbols shown in the newspaper.