{"id":67,"date":"2013-02-18T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goblinpeasant.no-ip.org\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2013-02-18T20:44:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:44:30","slug":"call-of-cthulhu-the-haunting-session-one-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/call-of-cthulhu-the-haunting-session-one-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Cthulhu: The Haunting – Session One (Pt. 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Seriously,<\/a><\/p>\n

List of Characters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen St. John, Esq.<\/em>; Accomplished solicitor\/lawyer. \u00a0A dapper dresser and impeccable orator. \u00a0Is willing to take on cases no one else would touch, partly out of pride and… \u00a0well, no, entirely out of pride. \u00a0Helped save the Adams store from lawsuits intended to keep Adams from inheriting it.<\/p>\n

Vincent Adams<\/em>; \u00a0Orphaned son of gun store owner, inherited the shop and all the weapon stock and the clientele, both legal and illegal. \u00a0Always looking for extra cash, and a way to test out his newest weapons. \u00a0Owes St. John for his livelihood, and will help him at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n

“Lady” Jane Simpson<\/em>; Privileged dilettante, thrill seeker, trust fund child. \u00a0Slumming it at the moment in nearby Miskatonic. \u00a0Parents are professional peers of St. John, and she met Adams through their mutual association. \u00a0Yawns a lot.<\/p>\n

Rachel Hemingway<\/em>; Journalist and budding author. \u00a0Currently studying the underworld of arms dealing, working as publicist and adventure companion for Adams.<\/p>\n

Happenings\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Franklin Francis, investment realtor and landlord, hearing of St. John and his propensity to take on unusual cases, called St. John in to discuss trouble he’s had with a recent property. \u00a0Stephen invites his young client Adams, and his friends Rachel and Jane to participate, knowing they enjoy strange cases as well.<\/p>\n

In their meeting, Francis explains that a property he came into within the last two years has suddenly stopped making payments, and any attempts to contact the property have been in vain, it appears to be vacant. \u00a0Francis wants St. John to find the family, find out what has happened. \u00a0If they’re not coming back, Francis also wants to make sure the house is in working order, so that he can begin renting it again. \u00a0He said he has a young family ready to move in. \u00a0He offered them $25 a day, and $100 if they can prove that the house is in the clear. \u00a0They have seven days before he’ll have to move forward with filling the vacant house with new tenants.<\/p>\n

Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel offered to go check in at the local Boston Globe news branch to see if there have been any recent articles about the home. \u00a0Schmoozing her way past the receptionist and flirting her way into the records room, she discovered the whereabouts of Macario family. \u00a0The father and mother have both been committed to the Roxbury Sanitarium for violent fits and melancholy, respectively. \u00a0Looking further into the history of the house, she found it has been involved in violent news stories since 1880. \u00a0Accidents, or suicides they say.<\/p>\n

Vincent and Jane, in the meantime went to the library to see what sort of information it may have. \u00a0By sheer dumb luck, as evidently Vincent has never even seen a library before, Jane remembered just the book to find. \u00a0In the book History and People of Miskatonic<\/em>\u00a0she stumbled across an entry noting a wealthy merchant selling his brand new home at a deep discount to one Walter Corbitt. \u00a0Corbitt was an odd individual who incited the neighborhood to petition the city to have him forcibly moved from the location, but the petition failed in court. \u00a0Corbin’s obituary, in 1866, states that he still resided in that home, and that he had stipulated in his will to be buried in the basement of the home, although there was a lawsuit filed by the neighbors to stop that.<\/p>\n

While this is going on, St. John delved into the court records of the town. \u00a0It appears that the lawsuit to stop Corbitt from being buried in the basement was never settled, but was somehow tied up in court for years, despite Corbitt already being deceased. \u00a0St. John also came across a strange account of a raid on “The Chapel of Contemplation” for suspected kidnapping, child abuse and murder.<\/p>\n

The investigators reunited after their research and headed to the Roxbury Sanitarium. \u00a0There they found Gabriela Macario in a state of despondence and despair. \u00a0Fragile and shaking she recounted to St. John how her husband, Vittorio, was injured in the house to the point he couldn’t go to work anymore. \u00a0As he spent his days in the house while she went to work, he became increasingly violent and erratic. She hated that house, and wanted to move, but Vittorio wouldn’t let her. \u00a0Her retelling became worse and more disjointed as she spoke of the house, mentioning a man with burning eyes. \u00a0When she mentioned that man she suddenly becomes inconsolable, sobbing that she’ll never go back and that St. John cannot make her. \u00a0The orderlies asked St. John to leave the room.<\/p>\n

Vittorio Macario was in much worse shape. \u00a0Restrained and nearly catatonic, he sat staring with unfocused eyes, drool dripping onto his lap. \u00a0Lady Jane thought it best if she speak with him as St. John’s manliness seemed to rattle Gabriela. \u00a0As she speaks with him about the house, Vittorio’s eyes became focused and he suddenly became lucid. \u00a0 Vittorio mentions the upstairs bedroom, and a pounding sound, as he spoke about it he became violent, smashing his head into the wall to the rhythm of the pounding. \u00a0The orderlies forced Jane out of the room for her own safety, and then admitted that they were sure that would happen, but like to push his buttons at times because they get bored watching him drool.<\/p>\n

The group find out that the Macario’s two boys that lived with them are staying with family in Baltimore, but decide to drive there in the morning, and retire to St. John’s home in Boston for the night.<\/p>\n

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