[d20 Cthulhu] What Rough Beast... (Part I)

[Anabstercorian]

"Cripes." Alex sighs, eating more ice cream. "Now we've got space holes in desks? I'm not built for this... I'm a painter, not a physicist." He looks over at Kristof. "What's your major, anyway? What's this sound like to you?"

Alex wonders to himself. This really isn't something he wants to get involved in, but it looks like he doesn't have a choice - After all, someone has to do something about it.

Alex gets up and goes to the phone. "Should I call 911? I mean, this is probably the sort of thing we should document. Get the police down here, take some photos, that sort of thing. I can probably bluff em' in to thinking we've been robbed. That way we'll get a good investigator here."

[If no one has any objections, I make the call and tell the police to send a car because we've been robbed, or whatever I think will get one or two policemen down here. Bluff and Diplomacy checks +5.]

 

[Spoof]

Randyzzz Morriszzon???

Randy looks to Alex and shakes his head.

“No, I think it would be best if for the time being we left the police out of this. If you call them for a robbery and there is none then odds are they will take you to jail, for perjury.”

“Julia, do you have a shirt of Alan’s I can borrow, mine seems to have been ruined. Sam how is the pest extermination work proceeding?”

 

[Isida KepTukari]

*Ray laughs weakly at Julia comment about his drunken college years.*

"Sure, just tell them all I'm a lush!" he says mockingly, "There's a time and place for everything and it's called college. I just took advantage of the fact!"

*He nods in agreement when Sam warns Alex off from calling the police.*

"The cops have enough to do without us calling them because a few weird things happened."

 

[The Crimster]

"Cripes." Alex sighs, eating more ice cream. "Now we've got space holes in desks? I'm not built for this... I'm a painter, not a physicist." He looks over at Kristof. "What's your major, anyway? What's this sound like to you?"

Kristoff takes off his glasses, and begins to wipe them on the edge of his slightly rumpled shirt. "I am an assistant history professor at UCLA. Such... biological entities are somewhat beyond me. The Prussian War? Napoleon's battle tactics? These things I know."

Julia looks down the hall for a moment. "I'm going to go check on Sam." She leaves and heads to the study.

Kristof looks after her and then back to the group. "There's something I should tell all of you, although I didn't want to mention it in front of poor Julia. It's not the sort of thing I would normally bring up, but..." He turns to Alex. "Alex, you mentioned something about a possible affair that Alan may have had - something Dr. Silver found in a letter." Kristof inspects his glasses for blemishes and then puts them on. "I am not the type to spread rumors or such, please understand. But some time ago, our friend Alan was the victim of a sexual harrassment law suit at the university. From a former student. It was kept quiet, and settled quickly and without any further issue. But I wonder... Is it possible that this girl has held a grudge? Perhaps she is responsible for these events?" He leaves that hanging in the air for a moment.

"Also, I wanted to point out that Sam, the resident bug-killer, is in fact a police officer." Kristof says, with a lopsided smile.

 

[Anabstercorian]

:: Alex quickly shows the letter to everyone while Julia is away. :: "Read quick, I don't know when she'll be back. We should at least take some video, some pictures - Document this! We can't just rely on our naked eye all the time, what if we need to prove we're not nuts?"

 

[Spoof]

Randy reads the letter that Alex is holding. “Very interesting. Alex you recognized the symbol on the drawer right. Well when Mr. Alister was at the funeral earlier today he left this.” Randy will pull out the paper he has and show it to the group. “I know these are mathematical equations but I have no idea what they mean. I was hoping someone here does.”

 

[The Crimster]

OOC: Randy, you were the only one thus far that has seen the symbol on the drawer.

 

[Anabstercorian]

[Assuming that Randy describes the symbol to me, I'll read the letter with the equations and what not on them. Does it make any sense to me?]

 

[The Crimster]

The crumpled paper with Alister's computations and what you saw on the draw are similar - but only because they both contain complex mathematics. Alex, looking at Alister's note, you have a brief flash of insight. You recognize a formula very similar to the Einsteinian E=MC squared, but with other variables thrown in that complicate the matter. It almost seems that Alister is including some type of 'sub-variables' for time and space. As if he needed another qualitative aspect to describe them mathematically. (OOC: Alex rolled extremely high on a base INT roll!)

A cellular phone rings. Dr. Silver and Randy both reach for their pockets, but it appears to be a call for Randy.

 

[Anabstercorian]

Alex mulls over the piece of paper for a second, musing, rubbing his chin... Then reaches for his cell phone, stopping only as he notices Randy's ringing. "I think my call can wait... I know someone who would be good at figuring out this gobbledygook."

[Waits for Randy to respond. Crimster, is it okay if I call my nephew, my backup character?]