Kajamba Lion said:
"I just wanted to find out what ye might know about Elias and Horatio Cartwright."
Mr. McCarthy looks straight at Inspector Diggory, and motions with his hands for him to keep it quiet. "They've bought some of me wares, is all. Candles, though I'm guessing ye know that. No idea what they might've used so many of 'em for. Always did run with a rough sort, though, so's I can't be sayin' I'm surprised they're dead." Then he pauses. He gets up and goes around the house quickly, checking all the doors before coming back in the room with the others.
"They were part of a group, or at least the father was," he says, leaning forward and speaking in a low voice. "Elias, Jeremiah Oldacre, and David Smythe. 'Bout twenty years back, a new feller came in, a doctor, down at Bedlam. Called 'imself Mr. Franks, though I ain't thinkin' that was 'is real name. 'E owns this 'ouse, actually, and me shop next door. The others, they called him some other name... Yesset or something like that. Don't know what exactly Franks, Yesset, whatever, was up to, but it seems that Smythe allied 'imself with the new feller, Cartwright and Oldacre continued on their own. I've no idea where the son's fittin' in, though."
Kajamba Lion said:
"No one's been sleeping? Good Lord." Diggory shakes his head.
"Not just that we all 'ad the dreams," McCarthy says. "No, as far as I'm knowin' we all 'ad the
same dream. That church up there-- " he points towards Christchurch " --loomin' in the sky. The sky's all black and red. The church is all squirmy all over, and then there's some big shadow over it, lookin' like the preachers say the Devil look, all 'orns and fur, and then blood starts oozin' out of all the windows. You were there that mornin', Inspector, and yer knowin' I've 'ad me fill of blood. I can't even see that there church now without a shiver goin' up me spine."
Everyone make Spot checks, DC 15. Two Sense Motive checks (DCs 15 and 12), too.