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May 14, 2025 7:34 pm
Knifesedgegames sent a note to Synaptic
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Lori and Joe, what are you doing?
May 14, 2025 10:28 pm
Having handed Lori the towel, he stepped back from the body which had become far to close to. "A blade you say..." Joe looked nervously back at the body, "so he did this to himself? why would anyone do that?"

He glanced back at the kitchen where his previous accident was, then decided to have a look at the small table in the corner of the kitchen.
May 15, 2025 3:29 am
Lori looks up to Bruno while wiping off her face and clothes, "...Y-you're right! Curiosity got over me, but still..."

But still, it's all too peculiar. She takes a moment to compose herself, taking deep breaths and pulling herself away from the blood heap before considering what Joe had to say.

"I haven't the faintest idea... Mister Gardiner never indicated having those type of urges. All this about 'Opening the Gate' and "Preparing the Way to Dreams' sounds a lot like he got caught up in some weird ideas... which reminds me, maybe..."

After having shifted off most of the wet blood off of herself, she shifted off the tarpaulin and towards the wardrobe just to see if she could find her book in there.
May 15, 2025 6:17 am
As Lori steps into the bedroom, a bloody mess, she sees the two men, Martin, sitting on the bed and Bruno beside him, both reading books. The one in Boris' hand she doesn't recognise, it looks like some slim journal, but the book on Martin's lap, a huge ancient looking tome, does catch her eye. She's not seen it before, but instantly recognises it as incredibly valuable from its age alone. Gardiner has never mentioned owning such a book and given her connection over books, this comes as a surprise.

Thoughts of the wardrobe gone, her eyes are drawn to the bookshelf opposite the bed, a drawer underneath clearly contains the copy of "A Primer in Greek Vocabulary".

Bruno is flipping through the book he carries, gets frustrated and tears it in half, flinging it onto the bed.
May 15, 2025 7:54 pm
Martin has been flipping through the pages of the book. Although he doesn't know Greek, maybe Gardiner left some notes in English.
May 15, 2025 9:11 pm
Bruno looks down at the torn pages in front of him. "Dammit, this all just sounds like nonsense. Dreamland, bargains and rituals, I can't make heads or tails of it..." Though he's loathe to say it aloud, something in those pages drew him in. He felt like he was on the cusp of piecing something together. But no, just frustration and shredded papper.
May 16, 2025 12:40 am
"Please... be careful with whatever you touch... Police will arrive at any moment..."

Hearing Lori, Rita turns to help her clean herself

"which reminds you, maybe... of what?"
OOC:
does the table where the envelopes where have any box or compartment?
May 16, 2025 8:49 pm
Martin hunts for anything in the time written in English , without luck. He does look at the page with a bookmark and it has the same text read on the note in front of the body. There are also diagrams of spiral shapes drawn on a body.
Rita, the table by the door has no drawers, so aside from the letters, there's nothing else of interest.
Joe steps to the dining table, there is a single place setting and one chair but otherwise the table is bare.
May 16, 2025 8:52 pm
A dragging sound on the floor interrupts your investigation of the room. The mutilated body of the room’s tenant shifts its limbs and suddenly lurches to a standing position.
You look on in terror as the flesh around Mr. Gardiner’s head begins to peel, the flesh spiraling downward like some horrific party trick with an apple. The blood-slicked skull turns to look in the direction of the bedroom with malevolence in its lidless eyes.
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Sanity rolls everyone (1/1d6) - Bruno and Martin are exempt for the moment as they are out of sight of the thing
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May 17, 2025 12:22 am
Joe looks on, his mind unsure what it is seeing, "Dear god..." he whispers.

Rolls

Sanity Check - (1d100)

(16) = 16

May 17, 2025 1:32 am
Rita screams "Oh oh ahhhhh"

Rolls

sanity (50) - (d100)

(43) = 43

May 18, 2025 10:27 am
OOC:
Joe and Rita lose 1 sanity each. Just waiting on Lori, who can see what's going on. @Cola
May 23, 2025 11:01 am
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OOC:
ll give @Cola another day to respond, then I'll go ahead and move on.
May 24, 2025 8:52 am
OOC:
Rolling sanity for Lori
That's a fail vs 49

Rolls

sanity - (1d100)

(50) = 50

Sanity loss - (1d6)

(2) = 2

May 24, 2025 8:55 am
Lori lets out a piercing scream and stumbles back into the bedroom to get out of sight.
OOC:
(This alerts Martin and Bruno that something is seriously wrong on the other side of the bookshelf.)
May 24, 2025 8:58 am
OOC:
OK, let's go to initiative. In CoC, this is simply order of dexterity. You all get a single action. @wizard11 you're up first.

Martin 80
Bruno 55
Rita 50
Joe 50
Lori 40
Gardiner-Thing 35
May 24, 2025 4:32 pm
Martin rises from the bed, alerted by Lori, and peers around the bookshelf. He grips the book in his hands, hoping that it might help him to defend himself if necessary.

The Gardiner-thing

Knifesedgegames

May 24, 2025 6:12 pm
The Gardiner-thing
As Martin appears around the bookshelf, holding the tome the creature’s head jerks around staring directly at him.
OOC:
Time for your Sanity check, Mr Bauer
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May 24, 2025 6:16 pm
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Sanity check time
Oh dear. So that's a sanity loss of 4, down to 42.
Martin's mind struggles to wrap itself around the horrific sight. It's a corpse, a mutilated corpse, yet it moves. "Wiedergänger!" he shouts, scrambling backwards from the thing with no regard for his surroundings. In that moment, he might as well be the scared little boy hiding in his room after one of his grandmother's stories scared him witless.
Last edited May 24, 2025 6:30 pm

Rolls

Sanity (vs 46) - (1d100)

(80) = 80

Sanity loss - (1d6)

(4) = 4

May 24, 2025 7:35 pm
The tattered remains of the dream journal fall from Bruno's hands at the sound of Lori's scream. His nerves are already frayed as he turns the corner and comes face-to-gory-face with... something. Something he can't even begin to form the words to describe.

He staggers back in shock, eyes trying to find something recognizably human in that mass of peeling skin and coagulating blood. He fails.

This can't be real. This can't be happening.
OOC:
Looks like I'll join you down in the lower forties of sanity.
Last edited May 24, 2025 7:40 pm

Rolls

Sanity (vs 46) - (1d100)

(53) = 53

Sanity Loss - (1d6)

(4) = 4

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