Resurrection City IV: Et In Arcadia Ego

[Old Fezziwig]

"All right." Diggory watches over the American, his knife sheathed and his gun in his off hand. "What in God's name do you suppose that was, Walsingham?"

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

"Is there a menagerie here?" Trevor inquires. "Possibly the cat escaped from there, though it would be quite the coincidence that it chose this wagon to hide in. And it looks as if Sosostris has given us the slip once more."

Hewitt returns up the path with another man in tow. "This is Dr. Willoughby. He and I are going to get Vaughn down to his office. You two can come down as well -- Inspector Longtree's here from London."

 

[JimAde]

[OOC: Sorry, guys. Somehow I didn't see Kajamba's post as new, so I didn't realize you were waiting for me.]

"Right," Trevor says, shakily putting away his revolver. "Bloody thing actually came in handy," he mutters, following the others.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

"Willoughby. A pleasure, even under bad circumstances." Diggory stands, sheathing the knife, and follows the others.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Willoughby nods a hurried greeting to Diggory as he and Hewitt move Vaughn onto a makeshift stretcher. He tosses Hewitt a fresh cloth and instructs him to hold it tightly against Vaughn's wound as he and the others carry the stretcher towards his office. The fair's doctor brushes off comments from passers-by as you get Vaughn into his office and onto an examination table.

A figure rises from where he is seated, smoking a cigar. "Diggory, Walsingham, Hewitt," greets Inspector Longtree. "I just arrived moments ago. I'm afraid we couldn't find anything out about this John Kelly, though we checked his address in Kensington. Nothing of interest, at any rate. Avebury." He looks around him. "The wire said our mystery man was killed, then?"

 

[JimAde]

Walsingham nods. "Yes, Inspector. This mess just keeps getting worse. Yesset or whatever he calls himself was murdered by the Harrington woman. Calls herself Sosostris around here." He chuckles mirthlessly. "And I thought I had a lot of names," he adds.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

"The whole thing's turned into a fine mess." Diggory sighs. "What now, then?"

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Longtree chuckles at Walsingham's remark. "Evidently, these folk have got many names to cover the sordid deeds." He sighs. "Well, Diggory, I don't rightly know. I was hoping Yesset could tell us something about this mess. But now that ship has sailed, as they say. Did he tell you anything before he was killed?" He looks over at Vaughn and then at the others. "I take it you haven't apprehended this Harrington woman?"

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Diggory recounts the information to Longtree, showing him the diary and history of the Pan cult. "That's about it, if ye can believe it. Incidentally, yer man EIECET was in charge of those walking corpses. I don't know if ye saw his tent, but the man had jars with eyes in 'em. Through them, he could see through the corpse's eyes and control the dead man. Beastly man, but perhaps not as dangerous as Harrington. She's a right deadly woman. Cold blooded, too, to shoot a man like that."

 

[JimAde]

Trevor sighs. "Gentlemen, I think we need to regroup a bit. It seems we're spending all our time scrambling around after these fiends and cleaning up their messes. We need some way to draw them to us, to take them on at a time and place of our choosing." He thinks for a moment. "I don't know that we have anything they want, but is there any way to get such a thing? With what we know of Edward, can we get any sort of leverage on him?"