Resurrection City 2: The Adventure of the Iron Knives

[JimAde]

Downstairs, Trevor, Hewitt and Miller search the bottom floor. The rotten smell they noted in the study is now beginning to spread throughout the house. The three find that the kitchen is the only other room on the ground floor. Hewitt and Miller go out to search through the overgrown garden in the back, while Trevor searches the kitchen and finds a newspaper lying on the floor. Picking it up, he finds that it is dated 28 June, nearly two weeks ago.

Trevor walks into the garden. Seeing Hewitt and Miller searching through the plants he takes note of the garden's state.

[OOC: Does it look like it hasn't been tended for a couple of weeks? Would I reprimand my gardener if he let it get into this condition? ]

 

[ShortAssassin]

"It's stuck," Diggory says quietly. Shaking his head, he turns to Robinson, "I suppose we could always kick the door down. Or something to that effect. Any suggestions?"

"Whether we be kickin' down this door or try another, I don't know. Maybe a quick look through any unlocked doors be a better thing to do." Robinson moved down the hall to the next door and shook its knob to see if it was also locked.

OOC: So there are three doors up here? Or two?

 

[Karl Green]

Pastor Andrew Miller

Trevor walks into the garden. Seeing Hewitt and Miller searching through the plants he takes note of the garden's state.

Pastor Miller calls Trevor and Hewitt over to look at the metal cylinder says "What do you make it this lads?"

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Robinson swings a door open, and sees beyond an empty bedroom, the bed neatly made.

Jim: Indeed, the garden does look as if it's gone untended. You're sure you would reprimand your gardener very severely, and quite possibly fire him.
ShortAssassin: Three doors up here. Two along the wall and the one Diggory's at.

 

[JimAde]

Pastor Miller calls Trevor and Hewitt over to look at the metal cylinder says "What do you make it this lads?"

Trevor approaches the pastor noting, "There's been noone about for a couple of weeks by the look of things. I found an old newspaper and this garden's a fright." Examining the cylinder he says, "Could just be an ugly paperweight. Any moving parts?"

 

[Old Fezziwig]

"Anything there?" Diggory asks as he checks the other door.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Diggory casts open the other door - it's a bathroom. From the window, he can see Miller, Hewitt, and Baron Walsingham in the forest - sorry, garden - clustered around something.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

"Nothing in here," Diggory says to Robinson, blushing slightly. "Shall we go get the others or take this door down?"

 

[ShortAssassin]

"Nothing in here," Diggory says to Robinson, blushing slightly. "Shall we go get the others or take this door down?"

Robinson whirled his arms around to limber them up a bit. "Let's be takin' 'er down. I want to see what be on the other side. If it be important enough, we can get the others." He stepped back, sizing up the door, ready to put shoulder to wood.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Diggory and Robinson lower their shoulders, and hurl themselves towards the door. After two or three goes, the door breaks down. Now open to the air, a concentrated blast of the foul smell wafts over you. The two men now fairly expect what they find in the room...

On a bed in the corner lies the body of an old man, evidently in a state of decay for quite some time. There seems to have been an effort to cover the smell, as a mass of rags were stuffed against the seam at the bottom of the door and there seems to have been an attempt to stop up the fireplace, as well.

Papers are scattered madly across the floor. A table rests against the wall nearest the windows. Some objects are lying on it.

Both make Will saves, DC 7. Good thing about being a policeman and a soldier, you're used to this kind of thing.