It's All North from Here

* Upon returning to Covencrest Manor, Niles presents us with a letter
** August Meyer of Bangor, Maine
** **See handout**
* We head to the reading room to discuss. . . Grindstone is not on the map
** The area indicated in the note is heavily forested with rivers
* We begin doing some research into possible Vaesen in that area 
** In the library we find Libro de Invisibilia, a major sourcebook for the Men of Letters. . .a bestiary 
** There are a lot of options for possible Vaesen encounters, including werewolves
* Will is very serious about going, more serious than I’ve ever seen him
* Martha takes all the chocolate
* Coreen’s wolf is named Fenrir
* We make our way to the train station and buy a ticket north
** Alec studies the bestiary (gains advantage)
** Coreen goes to the observation car with Fenrir and falls asleep
** While Coreen is gone and the others are distracted/asleep, Signe goes through Coreen’s bag and finds the charcoal drawing of the man and pockets it secretly
* We arrive in Bangor and make our way through the city to August Meyer’s address, 123 Apple St.
** It’s a very nice and big brick house, very wealthy. The street is lined with apple trees. 
** A young lad named Isaiah greets us at the door and lets us in.
* August Meyer is a handsome logging tycoon in his mid 40’s
** He explains to us that James has gone mad, become a raving lunatic speaking about a monster, and is prone to fits of rage.
** He seems very concerned for the wellbeing of James, seems like the type of man who cares about his employees. . .There are framed news articles that seem to corroborate Meyer’s upstanding reputation
** He doesn’t know the whereabouts or fate of Jeffrey 
* Grindstone is a very small village consisting of five houses, a decrepit church, and a small mill
** Run by the Chamberlain family, headed by Mary Chamberlain
* Jeffrey and James were only there a couple of days before the ‘incident’. 
* Will goes to give James a sedative and to ask him a few questions, Martha follows
* Inside the room. . .torn wallpaper, wrecked pillows, etc. James is rattled, crouched in the corner in a bestial way. . . “Beast in the window, two stories up, red eyes, can it get me?”
** Will prepares the sedative and goes in while Martha surveys the scene
** James has nothing but superficial/surface wounds that he got from riding away in fear
** He appears to be in severe shock, he’s terrified, he drinks the water with the sedative and relaxes a bit
** He describes: “it chased me, found me, coming for me, a screech & a howl, it will find me! Came from the shadows. Towering monstrosity!”
** Will connects with James, saying he knows what he’s talking about, that he’s seen it too. . . a beast he saw in the war
* Coreen goes to talk to James next, Signe follows closely behind but stays in the doorway. . . She asks him about his arrival in Grindstone
* No one knows what happened to Jeff, they noticed he was missing the morning after James fled
** All they found was a silver pocket watch and a thin leather briefcase 
* We decide to take our investigation to the local church to see if  we can learn anything else about weird things happening in the area
* Martha looks at the Bestiary, looking for anything that looks like a ‘W’ (from  the word Watcher)
** Wendigo, werewolf, willow the wisp, warg, etc. Lots of options
* Alec checks the church registry, looking for deaths that might stand out but finds nothing.
* While at the church, Will is indifferent, Signe is uncomfortable, Martha is very comfortable.
* The Father is familiar with James
** He has not heard of anything happening like this before
** Mentions ‘tall tales’ from the local natives
** Mentions confession and Signe grows more uncomfortable
** Martha asks him to say a prayer for them
* We decide to head north to Grindstone via carriage. . .we will have to stop at an inn along the way
* Before we leave we go for breakfast where Martha gets the diabetes