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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drawmack" data-source="post: 897939" data-attributes="member: 4981">4-7-1921This morning had the air of an ominous day. I knew that we had to head to the Winslow estate and check out the house. Thinking about what information we could gather on the house made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Lizzie, Bill and myself grabbed our muscle Roy and Vincent to come. As we approach the house I note the same feeling that Mrs. Milheim had told me about, it’s just this feeling that something is not right here. Taking a quick inventory of Danforth he seems cold but it’s a warm day. Something is just not right about this house. I may be on the right path to finding my father’s killers.After allowing the others to mess with the front door a bit I unlocked it. The door opened into a mudroom, as is to be expected from a house of this construction. With some discussion we decided on starting in the basement and working to the attic. We walked around the side of the house and entered through the external entrance to the basement. Entering the basement everything seemed mostly normal. There were some storage rooms, a laundry room, a bathroom and something unusual. There was a 35’ square pillar in the center of the basement. Upon a cursory investigation is seemed like the pillar was just the main support of the house. While it was an unusual construction design we dismissed it as an eccentricity of the designer. The stairs leading to the first floor ran along the pillar.Ascending the stairs we found ourselves in the kitchen. Two rooms came off of the kitchen. The library showed nothing of interest so we moved on into the dining room. We move on into the dining room. There is something about the floor in the center of the room that irks me. Unable to put my finger on what bothers me I decide to move on and look through the rest of the house but make not to return to this room for further investigations.We exit the dining room into the living room. There is nothing of note in here except the pillar which continues up and at this level is covered with stone, we assume for decoration. Bill opened a door that came off towards the back of the house and let out a scream. Entering the room there is a discoloration in the floor that I instantly recognize as human blood. Upon seeing the blood Roy freaked and started running around the house. I grabbed him and started doing to triage psychotherapy on him, and manage to calm him enough to talk but he still would not enter the room. I went back into the room to investigate the source of the blood and it was absorbed into the floor. Vincent touched the floor where the blood had been and noted that it was warm. Pulling ourselves back together we continued on investigating the rest of the house. As Vincent and I entered the pallor we both span as if someone has walked up behind us but there was no one there. Turning I saw nothing, but Vincent saw a corpse with no eyes reaching out for him. Convinced that he needs to look behind himself, Vincent wants to break a mirror to keep an eye behind himself. Looking through my bag I found a hand mirror that I gave to him.We quickly finished the downstairs without finding anything else of note. Then we continued on up the stairs. Going up the stairs I noticed a mechanical hum coming from the house itself.  Upon reaching the upstairs we notice light coming from a window. However the placement of this window is very odd. A hallway cuts between two rooms to the exterior wall where the window is placed. Why would someone put a dead end hallway in between two room sacrificing room space to do it? It would make much more sense to make the rooms slightly larger.In the master bedrooms we notice that the closets are built out from the walls instead of being built into them. I know that some houses of this build had passageways built into the walls for the servants to use when navigating the house. Some of the walls appear to be very thick which seems to support this, but we cannot find any hidden entrances into the walls. This is a very strange house indeed.Roy wandered into the bathroom alone. After being there for a short time he called Bill in to join him. Shortly after this the two of them called me into the bathroom. I am informed that Roy saw an image in the mirror of the bedroom, but it was not the bedroom right now. He was a corpse with no eyes enter the room and kill the Mosher’s. I touched the mirror and found it very warm. Bill thinks this could be the result of psychic energy.In continuing the investigation of the second floor there is nothing much of note. There is another strange hallway with a window at the end. Lizzie opened the door to the closet where Mrs. Mosher was found and threw up from the smell. I helped her get cleaned up.Continuing on the to the attic I hear the hum again as we climb the stairs by the column. The attic is just a large open room. I walk to a window and notice that there is an alcove around the window and the walls are very thick. We begin to rip some boards off of the thick walls and the column in the center and we find that they cover metal. In removing the floor boards we find more metal. Roy found something that looked as if it turned, but he could not turn it.I convinced the others that we should head back into the living room and investigate it some more. We discovered that two of the floor boards didn’t line up properly. Upon further investigation we found a handle and when we pulled it an opening into a secret room was revealed. We descended a flight of stairs into a small room that seemed like a combination bedroom study. A rotting corpse lies on the floor near the foot of the stairs; he is holding a ceremonial dagger.While my back was turned Lizzie decided to investigate the corpse. As she touched it, it came to life and grabbed onto her. In the ensuing battle every one of the party members feel from wounds. My medical knowledge was able to help all of them, accept for Danforth. During the battle Vincent, who was perched on the stairs, fell to the foot of the stairs and Lager entered the scene with his gun drawn. Immediately after this we managed to fell the Zombie while Bill had a hold of Lager with his scalpel to his throat. After the zombie crumbled to dust a black entity floated into Lager. Eventually we managed to fell Lager as well, but it was not easy and nearly claimed all our lives. At this point the mechanical hum began again and got very loud as the walls began to close in, turning the house into a solid cube.We quickly grabbed all the books off of the shelves, some vellum documents from the desk and an ancient tome from a hidden compartment in the book shelves. Touching the tome knocked me unconscious for about 18 seconds. I placed the tome, the documents and the ceremonial dagger into my bag for later research. Upstairs all the doors were locked and would not budge. We shot a window which only spider webbed. However, damaging the house in this manor stopped it from closing in and it returned to normal. We returned to the room and got Danforth’s body. As I went up the stairs I heard a moaning from Winslow’s body, but did not stop to check it out and ran from the house. In the truck on the way back to town I held Danforth and cried swearing vengeance against whatever did this.We know that we must search Lager’s house and figure out what that bastard was doing there. I also must bury Danforth and research the things I took from the house. This will take a couple of weeks while we can all nurse our selves back to health.</blockquote>

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