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The Diary of Sparrow Dansbury (updated 6-3-2003)
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4-14-1921
This morning as Roy and I were leaving to talk to Brady at the jail I noticed a note tacked to the door. The paper was new but tattered. The spelling and grammar were atrocious and there was some sort of grey green mold on the paper. The letter read (with the spelling and grammar cleaned up)
“I know what is going on and I know what you are doing. I can help you. Please don’t ask me why I haven’t come forward until now. Let’s just say it is not safe. I am very frightened and feel that I am in great danger. Before something happens I need to tell you what I know. Meet me tomorrow night inside the fence at the big dump at 10:00 pm. Bring NO Police! If I am right they are bad too. Good ones can’t help anyway. Tell NO ONE about this. The shadows have eyes and ears! I apologize for the secrecy but I am afraid. Please come.
X G AND M”
The letter smells like something that’s been dead for a long time. Roy and I quickly decided to go to the dump and meet our mystery men, but continue on about our business for now.
Roy searched Brady’s house while I got his lawyer to assure us entrance into the jail. Roy met us at the entrance to the jail and informed me that Brady’s house was a disaster area. There was more of that grey green mold around and the place looked like it had been ransacked. Seeing as the sheets were hard he deduced that this was just how Brady lived.
We found out some interesting information from Brady. He had motive to kill his boss. He didn’t like the man and made no secret of this. He was also, often gypped on his pay. When he entered the mortuary Gretch was already dead, beaten to death and filled with embalming fluid. The only lead that Brady can offer us about who the murderer might be is a muscular man in his late 30’s who used to bring packages to and from the mortuary but was not a currier. The man always looked like he didn’t want to be doing this and one time he showed up in hospital scrubs.
Brady identified the mold for us. Apparently it is grave mold. This mold forms in coffins when water has gotten into the casket and allowed the corpse to decompose too quickly. A bit off that we would be finding this mold just lying around everywhere.
After the interview, Ingram handed me an evidence envelope. He said this contained the only important piece of evidence uncovered at the scene of the crime. Inside the envelope was a blood typing report and a note. They found blood assumed to belong to the killers. The blood is type B just like Brady’s but it contains high levels of bilirubin, a chemical produced by the reticuloendothelial system RES for short, this is usually produced in high quantities only by a dysfunctional liver or spleen and it the cause of jaundice. Brady’s blood does not contain abnormal amounts of this substance.
I decided to spend the rest of the day attempting to translate more of the tome. The language is coming easy to me now. The spell it seems does call the deity A_______ into our world but it does not control him. A_______ can act in any way he likes, stay as long as he likes and do whatever he likes to the caster. I don’t quite understand the full workings but I understand the purpose and intent of the spell now.
While I was researching Roy went to investigate the mortuary. He found the broken window used as a point of entrance. In the office he located a document that mentions an Erik Michele who worked for the mental hospital, who the mortuary worked with closely. It seems from the pay repots that Erik worked for Gretch, but Brady said that he was the only employee. This is not adding up in a very bad way.
In the evening we went to scout out the dump for the next nights meeting. We found the partially consumed carcass of a guard dog. There was a large hole pushed in the back of the fence. We made another hole in the front of the fence and hid a weapon amongst the garbage.
At night I experienced the same dream as before. This time as the man with pointed teeth’s skin had taken on a red glow and his eyes were yellow. He looked at me a smiled revealing the filed teeth in all their glory. He said but a single word, read. I awoke with the inescapable urge to read the tome. On the way to the basement to read I stopped to look at the painting. It has changed more and now looks like a clearing in the woods.
After spending the rest of the night reading I have uncovered all of the secrets of the spell. I could now cast Call A_______. I don’t think I would ever want to cast this spell, but I could. I decided to make this entry then turn in.
4-15-1921
I slept most of the day, and feel that this is what my weary mind needed. I feel that my grasp on reality is beginning to return to its old state.
At the dump the chain has been ripped off of the gate. There are human, cloven and paw like footprints all over the place. But the animal prints seem to be something walking on two legs. Entering the clearing we found the night before we say the shadow of a large man at the other end of the clearing. Three men, if you could call them that, stepped into the light. Two of the three were about 6’ tall. One of them was well over 7’ tall. The two shorter ones appeared human, rotting like the dead and smelling the part but human. The very tall one was not human in the least. He looked like an evil version of Pan.
The one in the center introduces the three of them a Magellan, Gallows and Kahn (the big one). Magellan freely admits to killing Gretch. These beasts live by eating the flesh of the dead. They will kill if needs be, but they prefer to simply eat the dead. Apparently Gretch was putting some sort of poison into the dead bodies that has been killing them and their children. The police are in on this, which is why he did not want me to bring them. They want my help. Kahn wants to eat me. As we are preparing to go, 19 others show up, all cloven hoofed and not human. They begin to close in on us but Magellan and Kahn held them back so we could get out. Magellan promised to be in touch. I asked him not to bring his friends.
In the truck Bill informed us that those things were Ghouls. They live off of the flesh of the dead. They are generally considered a mythological beast. This is undoubtedly the first time humans have seen them and lived to tell the tale in recent times.
I believe that Casey, Lager and Winslow are the reason for the ghouls existence. However in a book found in Casey’s office we came across a passage that stated “The ghouls have been poisoned and soon should be deceased. This will allow us to use their layers and tunnels to our own means. The crawling chaos will manifest under the feet of the ignorant.” Apparently those fools were going to cast this spell.
The picture has changed more. The center is the Lager’s back yard. To the left is the cemetery where our town founder, Jacob Stroud, is buried and to the right is the back of Casey’s house.
The book from Casey’s study reveals the phone numbers of Reaper, Sonneillon and Belial. Maybe from this we can find their real names, and hope they are not already dead.
This morning as Roy and I were leaving to talk to Brady at the jail I noticed a note tacked to the door. The paper was new but tattered. The spelling and grammar were atrocious and there was some sort of grey green mold on the paper. The letter read (with the spelling and grammar cleaned up)
“I know what is going on and I know what you are doing. I can help you. Please don’t ask me why I haven’t come forward until now. Let’s just say it is not safe. I am very frightened and feel that I am in great danger. Before something happens I need to tell you what I know. Meet me tomorrow night inside the fence at the big dump at 10:00 pm. Bring NO Police! If I am right they are bad too. Good ones can’t help anyway. Tell NO ONE about this. The shadows have eyes and ears! I apologize for the secrecy but I am afraid. Please come.
X G AND M”
The letter smells like something that’s been dead for a long time. Roy and I quickly decided to go to the dump and meet our mystery men, but continue on about our business for now.
Roy searched Brady’s house while I got his lawyer to assure us entrance into the jail. Roy met us at the entrance to the jail and informed me that Brady’s house was a disaster area. There was more of that grey green mold around and the place looked like it had been ransacked. Seeing as the sheets were hard he deduced that this was just how Brady lived.
We found out some interesting information from Brady. He had motive to kill his boss. He didn’t like the man and made no secret of this. He was also, often gypped on his pay. When he entered the mortuary Gretch was already dead, beaten to death and filled with embalming fluid. The only lead that Brady can offer us about who the murderer might be is a muscular man in his late 30’s who used to bring packages to and from the mortuary but was not a currier. The man always looked like he didn’t want to be doing this and one time he showed up in hospital scrubs.
Brady identified the mold for us. Apparently it is grave mold. This mold forms in coffins when water has gotten into the casket and allowed the corpse to decompose too quickly. A bit off that we would be finding this mold just lying around everywhere.
After the interview, Ingram handed me an evidence envelope. He said this contained the only important piece of evidence uncovered at the scene of the crime. Inside the envelope was a blood typing report and a note. They found blood assumed to belong to the killers. The blood is type B just like Brady’s but it contains high levels of bilirubin, a chemical produced by the reticuloendothelial system RES for short, this is usually produced in high quantities only by a dysfunctional liver or spleen and it the cause of jaundice. Brady’s blood does not contain abnormal amounts of this substance.
I decided to spend the rest of the day attempting to translate more of the tome. The language is coming easy to me now. The spell it seems does call the deity A_______ into our world but it does not control him. A_______ can act in any way he likes, stay as long as he likes and do whatever he likes to the caster. I don’t quite understand the full workings but I understand the purpose and intent of the spell now.
While I was researching Roy went to investigate the mortuary. He found the broken window used as a point of entrance. In the office he located a document that mentions an Erik Michele who worked for the mental hospital, who the mortuary worked with closely. It seems from the pay repots that Erik worked for Gretch, but Brady said that he was the only employee. This is not adding up in a very bad way.
In the evening we went to scout out the dump for the next nights meeting. We found the partially consumed carcass of a guard dog. There was a large hole pushed in the back of the fence. We made another hole in the front of the fence and hid a weapon amongst the garbage.
At night I experienced the same dream as before. This time as the man with pointed teeth’s skin had taken on a red glow and his eyes were yellow. He looked at me a smiled revealing the filed teeth in all their glory. He said but a single word, read. I awoke with the inescapable urge to read the tome. On the way to the basement to read I stopped to look at the painting. It has changed more and now looks like a clearing in the woods.
After spending the rest of the night reading I have uncovered all of the secrets of the spell. I could now cast Call A_______. I don’t think I would ever want to cast this spell, but I could. I decided to make this entry then turn in.
4-15-1921
I slept most of the day, and feel that this is what my weary mind needed. I feel that my grasp on reality is beginning to return to its old state.
At the dump the chain has been ripped off of the gate. There are human, cloven and paw like footprints all over the place. But the animal prints seem to be something walking on two legs. Entering the clearing we found the night before we say the shadow of a large man at the other end of the clearing. Three men, if you could call them that, stepped into the light. Two of the three were about 6’ tall. One of them was well over 7’ tall. The two shorter ones appeared human, rotting like the dead and smelling the part but human. The very tall one was not human in the least. He looked like an evil version of Pan.
The one in the center introduces the three of them a Magellan, Gallows and Kahn (the big one). Magellan freely admits to killing Gretch. These beasts live by eating the flesh of the dead. They will kill if needs be, but they prefer to simply eat the dead. Apparently Gretch was putting some sort of poison into the dead bodies that has been killing them and their children. The police are in on this, which is why he did not want me to bring them. They want my help. Kahn wants to eat me. As we are preparing to go, 19 others show up, all cloven hoofed and not human. They begin to close in on us but Magellan and Kahn held them back so we could get out. Magellan promised to be in touch. I asked him not to bring his friends.
In the truck Bill informed us that those things were Ghouls. They live off of the flesh of the dead. They are generally considered a mythological beast. This is undoubtedly the first time humans have seen them and lived to tell the tale in recent times.
I believe that Casey, Lager and Winslow are the reason for the ghouls existence. However in a book found in Casey’s office we came across a passage that stated “The ghouls have been poisoned and soon should be deceased. This will allow us to use their layers and tunnels to our own means. The crawling chaos will manifest under the feet of the ignorant.” Apparently those fools were going to cast this spell.
The picture has changed more. The center is the Lager’s back yard. To the left is the cemetery where our town founder, Jacob Stroud, is buried and to the right is the back of Casey’s house.
The book from Casey’s study reveals the phone numbers of Reaper, Sonneillon and Belial. Maybe from this we can find their real names, and hope they are not already dead.