Jacques
"Could be, Remy. Though from the looks of it, he thought of the creation himself. I'll keep looking, but it's possible he choose to build it just as a proof of concept." Jacques continues his search in room 2.
Cycle 1063 (Winter): Day 3
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"As a proof of conception?", Remy misunderstood. "Ugh. And here I thought it was just an attempt to see if he can make it. Your people's customs are amazing at times."
Cycle 1063 (Winter): Day 3: Shift 3: 7:59
Jacques Bonnet, Remy Hernandez, Mercutio Routledge, Samuel Linkletter, Josephine Baxter-Smith (#2 Studley House)
Cycle 1063 (Winter): Day 3: Shift 3: 7:59 [Hamlet of Gwynedd: 45N,25W]
[Since the group is determined to focus on the House and there is little to be gained by dragging this out, I will just go room by room and tell you what you discover. Additional searching will just yield more sources of the same basic information.
Room 1 (Parlor) has already been thoroughly explored.
Room 2 (Den): Linkletter used his training as a Scholar to study some of the notes related to the Magnetic Locks, but not included in the journal on how to manufacture them. Among the references you discovered that Studley was installing a door with a secret lock to a natural underground cavern that he had located. From several indirect references, you believe that this Studley suspected this cave as the “secret hideout” of some privateer that he was researching.
Room 3 (Kitchen): Linkletter withdrew to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. Aside from dirty utensils, he found a home-made device that attached to the kettle and directed the heat of the fire to increase the temperature of the steam. Mercuito was able to identify the device as a “superheater” for steam. They were currently quite in fashion with the military for use with the new water-tube boilers on Military ships to boost performance by increasing the pressure of the steam.
Room 4 (Study/ Bedroom): Among the drawings on the worktable in the study, Mercuito pointed out to the group that Studley’s interest in fast boats had advanced beyond simple preliminary calculations. You discovered an actual plan for a boat with a pointed bow but and unusually flat aft section that the plans suggested could travel twice as fast as a standard boat of its size. The plans involved an expansion engine with four cylinders and a large water tube boiler both operating at “high pressure”, but there were no specifications on the engine and boiler. Only a rough outline and detailed plans for a 20-foot hull. It was likely a proof of concept prototype.
Room 5 (Bedroom): This room was full of prototypes, models and experiments. Jacques located a barrel full of magnetic locks and keys each individually wrapped in cloth. They appeared to match the drawings in the journal on magnetic locks. An empty sack indicated that one of the locks was missing, and from the size of the sack it had been fairly large. Mercuito located a chest containing small boxes with clockworks. Some were clearly tome pieces. Some appeared to be timers. Some had nothing to do with clocks and served some unknown function. Several had gears heavy enough that they might support many hundreds of pounds or even a ton. Linkletter located some crates filled with model boats that resembled the sketch in the Study.
Room 6 (Sitting Room): Remy and Josephine searched this room. Josephine found booklets on pumps, boxes with shattered pumps, boxes with home made pumps, boxes with miniature pump models, and a tiny model of a boiler with a superheater. Remy found a barrel full of broken miniature boilers and superheaters of many different designs. He also found a small box of broken keys to magnetic locks.
Bored with all of these strange broken items, Remy stood gazing out the window. From this height and angle, he could make out the faint outline of something square just below the surface of the water and buried in the sand about 35 yards SE of the house. It would probably be dry at low tide, but with the tide coming in each day would place it deeper under water.
Room 7 (Bedroom): The last room contained both the least interesting, and the most interesting contents of the house. The room was used for the storage of the most mundane items. Extra suitcases. Chests of shoes and clothes. Mismatched lamps, old end tables and a broken chair. Inside an old steamer trunk were stacks of letters. Each stack was in a different language and tied in a bundle along with a small Journal.
Jacques examined the stack of letters in French. They were personal correspondence between two anonymous individuals, one in the French Government and the other part of French high society. The letters contain nothing but small talk about their days. The Journal is in French and contains lots of notes on the informal hierarchy within both the French Government and the French Society, presumably gleaned from the letters. It contains names and dates of affairs, crimes and various indiscretions. It contains notes about political sympathies if various individuals. Linkletter examined the journal and letters in English and found similar notes in English on key members of the Britannia Nobility and their servants, as well as Admirals of the Navy and senior staff members along with mistresses, wives and secret lovers.
Josephine thumbed through the German Journal and, although she could not read German, she was able to find references to Gottard Huss and Rolland Baldry … the owner of the Grogg and Tankard and the Local Lord of the Manor.
There are no secret hiding spaces inside the house to be found.
So what rooms will you clear out and occupy?
Will you store the stuff in the “basement”?
You go to bed and we start Day 4.
Cycle 1063 (Winter): Day 3: Shift 3: 7:59 [Hamlet of Gwynedd: 45N,25W]
[Since the group is determined to focus on the House and there is little to be gained by dragging this out, I will just go room by room and tell you what you discover. Additional searching will just yield more sources of the same basic information.
Room 1 (Parlor) has already been thoroughly explored.
Room 2 (Den): Linkletter used his training as a Scholar to study some of the notes related to the Magnetic Locks, but not included in the journal on how to manufacture them. Among the references you discovered that Studley was installing a door with a secret lock to a natural underground cavern that he had located. From several indirect references, you believe that this Studley suspected this cave as the “secret hideout” of some privateer that he was researching.
Room 3 (Kitchen): Linkletter withdrew to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. Aside from dirty utensils, he found a home-made device that attached to the kettle and directed the heat of the fire to increase the temperature of the steam. Mercuito was able to identify the device as a “superheater” for steam. They were currently quite in fashion with the military for use with the new water-tube boilers on Military ships to boost performance by increasing the pressure of the steam.
Room 4 (Study/ Bedroom): Among the drawings on the worktable in the study, Mercuito pointed out to the group that Studley’s interest in fast boats had advanced beyond simple preliminary calculations. You discovered an actual plan for a boat with a pointed bow but and unusually flat aft section that the plans suggested could travel twice as fast as a standard boat of its size. The plans involved an expansion engine with four cylinders and a large water tube boiler both operating at “high pressure”, but there were no specifications on the engine and boiler. Only a rough outline and detailed plans for a 20-foot hull. It was likely a proof of concept prototype.
Room 5 (Bedroom): This room was full of prototypes, models and experiments. Jacques located a barrel full of magnetic locks and keys each individually wrapped in cloth. They appeared to match the drawings in the journal on magnetic locks. An empty sack indicated that one of the locks was missing, and from the size of the sack it had been fairly large. Mercuito located a chest containing small boxes with clockworks. Some were clearly tome pieces. Some appeared to be timers. Some had nothing to do with clocks and served some unknown function. Several had gears heavy enough that they might support many hundreds of pounds or even a ton. Linkletter located some crates filled with model boats that resembled the sketch in the Study.
Room 6 (Sitting Room): Remy and Josephine searched this room. Josephine found booklets on pumps, boxes with shattered pumps, boxes with home made pumps, boxes with miniature pump models, and a tiny model of a boiler with a superheater. Remy found a barrel full of broken miniature boilers and superheaters of many different designs. He also found a small box of broken keys to magnetic locks.
Bored with all of these strange broken items, Remy stood gazing out the window. From this height and angle, he could make out the faint outline of something square just below the surface of the water and buried in the sand about 35 yards SE of the house. It would probably be dry at low tide, but with the tide coming in each day would place it deeper under water.
Room 7 (Bedroom): The last room contained both the least interesting, and the most interesting contents of the house. The room was used for the storage of the most mundane items. Extra suitcases. Chests of shoes and clothes. Mismatched lamps, old end tables and a broken chair. Inside an old steamer trunk were stacks of letters. Each stack was in a different language and tied in a bundle along with a small Journal.
Jacques examined the stack of letters in French. They were personal correspondence between two anonymous individuals, one in the French Government and the other part of French high society. The letters contain nothing but small talk about their days. The Journal is in French and contains lots of notes on the informal hierarchy within both the French Government and the French Society, presumably gleaned from the letters. It contains names and dates of affairs, crimes and various indiscretions. It contains notes about political sympathies if various individuals. Linkletter examined the journal and letters in English and found similar notes in English on key members of the Britannia Nobility and their servants, as well as Admirals of the Navy and senior staff members along with mistresses, wives and secret lovers.
Josephine thumbed through the German Journal and, although she could not read German, she was able to find references to Gottard Huss and Rolland Baldry … the owner of the Grogg and Tankard and the Local Lord of the Manor.
There are no secret hiding spaces inside the house to be found.
So what rooms will you clear out and occupy?
Will you store the stuff in the “basement”?
You go to bed and we start Day 4.
"welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness" - e.e. cummings
Re: Cycle 1063 (Winter): Day 3
Jo
Jo smiles broadly when she sees the ship model. She examines it closely to determine if it's a working prototype. This will give us a big speed advantage!
Whether it is or not, she will be busy taking measurements and notes until she goes to bed.
Jo smiles broadly when she sees the ship model. She examines it closely to determine if it's a working prototype. This will give us a big speed advantage!
Whether it is or not, she will be busy taking measurements and notes until she goes to bed.
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Re: Cycle 1063 (Winter): Day 3
Remy went back to the others.
"Say, what could be important enough that a guy who leaves engines and books on tortures just rolling around, would bury it in the sand?"
"Say, what could be important enough that a guy who leaves engines and books on tortures just rolling around, would bury it in the sand?"
Re: Cycle 1063 (Winter): Day 3
It is indeed a working model about 18" long.
"welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness" - e.e. cummings