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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4673920" data-attributes="member: 3285">And Madness Followed: Part 1a – Telthin ManorKham let Skiz out of his satchel and together they explored the place, room by room.  Sebastian and Beldin stood at the doorway, watchful for any signs of intruders and listening for Kham’s usual cry for help: gunshots.“Anything?” Kham looked up from rifling through a collection of notes.  Written in a cramped, spidery script, it mentioned the “true nature of reality.” The pages mentioned the author’s belief that reality was an illusion and his desire to strip the illusion away from the world so that he too could experience the truth of life.Skiz, Kham’s talking rat, stood up on his hind legs in the doorway.  “Well, boss, I found something written by a girl.”Kham arched an eyebrow.  “How can you tell?”Skizz sniffed the air for a second.  “Well, it doesn’t smell like the owner of this place.  He smells like old, wet paper.”“Show me.”The rat bounded off with Kham close behind.  They went up a winding staircase to one of the four bedrooms.  It was the master bedroom, and judging by its decor it was used by a woman.  Skiz bounded up onto a chair and then onto a desk.  He plopped one pink paw on a stack of parchment. Kham picked it up and flipped through the pages.  “This looks like a long list.  And there are check marks next to four-dozen of them. There’s also a note on the bottom: likely not enough people—Lamid, perhaps?”“A list, boss?  For what?”Kham’s expression darkened.  “I know exactly what it’s for.  Whoever wrote this is looking to summon the King in Yellow by showing it to a large crowd.”Skiz froze.  He cocked his head.  “What?”“I think I heard something in the attic, boss.” He sniffed the air.  “It’s a girl.”“How do you know…never mind, I don’t want to know.”  He peered into the bedroom’s closet.  A ladder led up to a trapdoor. Kham drew his pistols.  “Stay down here.” Then he slowly climbed up the creaking ladder.</blockquote>

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