Resurrection City 2: The Adventure of the Iron Knives

"I remember my grandmum telling me stories of the Dulcarnon when I was just a young fellow. Average sorts of stories. Some sort of man-of-the-woods who was supposed to come take away bad children. A bogey, but I take it this I Sit fellow believes it to be true." Longtree turns. "Thomas Pellgraine? Who on Earth's that? Sounds as if he may be mixed up in all this Cartwright-Oldacre business."

Make some Wisdom checks, all, DC 17.

Kajamba: I see you've read up on Jack. Not everyone would know who John McCarthy was, and even fewer take note of the hint of suspicion about him you cited.
 

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Andrew D. Gable said:
"I remember my grandmum telling me stories of the Dulcarnon when I was just a young fellow. Average sorts of stories. Some sort of man-of-the-woods who was supposed to come take away bad children. A bogey, but I take it this I Sit fellow believes it to be true." Longtree turns. "Thomas Pellgraine? Who on Earth's that? Sounds as if he may be mixed up in all this Cartwright-Oldacre business."

Make some Wisdom checks, all, DC 17.

Kajamba: I see you've read up on Jack. Not everyone would know who John McCarthy was, and even fewer take note of the hint of suspicion about him you cited.
"Well that jibes with the Green Man," Trevor observes. "He's shown his leafy face all through history." He chuckles, "In fact, there's a great, leering one in our chapel at Walsingham. I always thought he looked as though he were yawning at the vicar's sermon."

[OOC: Wisdom check 8 (+0). Ack! I'd like to roll decent just once! :) ]
 

Diggory lets Longtree's question about Pellgraine hang (he's already said too much, likely), hoping that Trevor's bit on the Green Man distracts the inspector.

[Wisdom Check, roll of 16 on d20, +2 Wis, total 18]

OOC: Yep, I wrote a paper on him last year; I will dial that stuff back -- how much should I assume Diggory knows? I've (as you can see) been giving Diggory quite the benefit of the doubt but will adjust as you want me to.
 

Well, about the only major thing we know now that the police didn't is all the suspects, most of which are ludicrous anyway. Lewis Carroll? Aleister Crowley? Can people do math, Crowley was 13 at the time... The police only had one or two, mostly no-name guys. And no-one would even think to accuse the Royals!
 
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"Yes, the Green Man, I recall hearing..." Longtree rolls his eyes backward. "We're being followed," he says in a low voice as the group passes the government buildings at Whitehall. "Don't mention anything more that has to do with the case until we get to the station."
 

Andrew D. Gable said:
"Yes, the Green Man, I recall hearing..." Longtree rolls his eyes backward. "We're being followed," he says in a low voice as the group passes the government buildings at Whitehall. "Don't mention anything more that has to do with the case until we get to the station."
Trevor laughs and says smoothly, "Speaking of green, I haven't told you fellows about what my cousin William did last week. The fool had so much champagne at my dinner party he was positively verdant!"

[OOC: Bluff modifier +8 if appropriate. Trevor goes on to regale the group with similar inane talk about the London social scene until they reach the station, making every effort to draw attention to himself in case someone else wants to cast a furtive eye about.]
 

Andrew D. Gable said:
"Yes, the Green Man, I recall hearing..." Longtree rolls his eyes backward. "We're being followed," he says in a low voice as the group passes the government buildings at Whitehall. "Don't mention anything more that has to do with the case until we get to the station."
Robinson shot a nervous sideways glance at Longtree and quietly moves a little farther away from him.

[wis check: 9+2=11]
 
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Longtree laughs conspicuously at Trevor's remarks. After about ten minutes' more walking, the men enter the Walton Street police station. The inspector breathes a sigh of relief.

"We can talk freely again now. I wonder who that bloke was..."

He leads them down to the morgue, where Dr. Westcott greets them. He walks over to the slab where the body of the blind man lays. "Interesting things we've found here, gentlemen. First, as shouldn't surprise you at all, Mr. Cartwright died due to blood loss caused by the stab wound to the heart.

"Now onto the blind man, where things are a bit more strange. I found traces of some post-mortem lividity in the back and buttocks. The blood should not have begun to pool thusly in a freshly-dead corpse--the only conjecture I can field is that, inexplicable as it may sound, this man was dead for hours before he climbed on that train."

Longtree turns back to the group. "I've dispatched a few men to investigate Cartwright's home in Mortlake. They should be returning shortly."

Kajamba: Make an Intelligence check for Inspector Diggory (DC 14).
 

Andrew D. Gable said:
"Now onto the blind man, where things are a bit more strange. I found traces of some post-mortem lividity in the back and buttocks. The blood should not have begun to pool thusly in a freshly-dead corpse--the only conjecture I can field is that, inexplicable as it may sound, this man was dead for hours before he climbed on that train."

"Hmm." Richard glance over the body. "That, and the rather recent removal of the eyes give us a rather sizable problem. Do we have a definite cause of death for this man?"


(OoC: Probably a little late in the day, but here's that Wisdom check: 4 (roll) + 0 (Wis) = 4.)
 

Jarval said:
"Hmm." Richard glance over the body. "That, and the rather recent removal of the eyes give us a rather sizable problem. Do we have a definite cause of death for this man?"

Westcott replies, "As near as I can tell, the original cause of death was simply natural causes. But, well, of course his second death is due to rather unnatural causes. What those may be, I haven't the foggiest. Such black magic's just not the province of medical men such as ourselves. However, were I an occultist, I should conjecture that whatever force that had animated the body was revoked."
 
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