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MI70 wrote:Jed

If he means to take us to the attic, Jed is a little wary.
Are there runes around the attic door?

Jed will ask a few questions first:
"Have you been up in that attic? Why don't you have a drink and tell us first?"

Stirling wrote:Miss Faversham

Jasmine will help search in the cellar, looking through he old bits of junk for anything useful or stuff which might connect to 'monsters'. Crucifixes, pentagrams, devil masks, ect

MI70 wrote:Jed

To clarify, Jed will let the hobo up the stairs from the basement, counting on Elmer and the others to keep him from bolting. Jed will try to keep him talking all the same and offers him a swig of moonshine to calm his nerves.

Scott308 wrote:Elmer "Big City" Ramsey

If the man from the basement wishes to leave, Elmer will allow him to do so, following directions received from Miss Jasmine.

ken-do-nim wrote:

Scott308 wrote:Elmer "Big City" Ramsey

Elmer hands the box and papers to Hyacinth before taking a position near the basement stairs, shotgun at the ready.

Hyacinth first examines the cigar box. The sheets of paper glued on it are peeling and yellowed. Inside is a small metal canister containing a coarse, brownish powder and a small wooden box with a sliding lid holding a small amount of a silvery, talc-like substance. She asks, "Anybody know any chemistry?"

Hyacinth next examines the sheaf of yellowed papers. The papers are hand-written notes dated March, 1882. All the sheets are in a large, flourished hand, a hand unlike the neat, crabbed script of Rupert Merriweather. There are six copies of the same Latin chant. Three other sheets identify the chant as having been copied from a book called De Vermiis Mysteriis written circa 1542 by one Ludwig Prinn, and they contain supplemental notes about the book and its history, and comment in passing that the chant 'could be used to release the spirit trapped inside the ancient amber'. The tenth sheet includes a description of the pentagram, the symbols to be drawn, and the combination of chemicals to be burned in the fire. The last three sheets discuss the ritual. They indicate that to dispel the spirit, the chant should be reversed, but that everything should be done the same, whether invoking or dispelling. A two-hour ceremony, begun at midnight, will drive the unwanted spirit off. Although the ceremony can be performed by one person, Prinn suggests the use of several chanters, allowing individuals to occasionally interrupt their chanting without disturbing the potency of the casting. As long as the chant is continuously made for two hours, at least one person at all times maintaining the rhythm, the spirit must succumb. But even the slightest disruption of the chant will result in failure and another dispelling must commence on a following night. Prinn suggests that during this time, as during any summoning, that a "watcher be posted, lest the sorcerers be disturbed by the nuisances and distractions of malevolent spirits."

Obviously it takes several hours to read through all of that.

Stirling wrote:what time is it now?

MI70 wrote: He will take a close look at the attic door to see if it has been opened lately and checks his old pocket watch. He will also bring supplies in.