Knock on Wood

* There is a knock at the door. . . Signe wakes up and goes to open the door. . . standing there are 3 figures in black robes. . . then she wakes up.
** She is in bed, hears a similar knocking at the door downstairs
* It’s morning, very cold, mist outside, heavy overcast
* The group makes their way downstairs. Will answers the door
* There stands a man in a well tailored suit, around 60 years old
** Niles Lane (butler)
** He received a letter that Covencrest Manor is under new occupation
** His family has been service of Covencrest Manor for generations
** We are very suspicious of his arrival
* Lenora Flint (the owner of Covencrest Manor) works at the New Arkham Sanitorium, we decide to go pay her a visit to confirm Niles’ identity.
* When we reach the Sanitorium we discover that Lenora is a “sometimes patient”
** She’s around 80 years old
** She’s sitting in the common room sketching frantically with charcoal. . . symbols, a weird dog, blacked out pages, etc.
* Martha sits at her table and draws a caricature of Niles, Lenora seems to recognize it.
* Signe investigates the drawings and askes Lenora about it
** Lenora’s demeanor changes to anger and she snatches the drawings away, “No-no we don’t go back, we remember and never return”. . .
** Signe asks her “Never return to where?”
** She replies, “Covencrest Manor.”
* Martha focuses on her drawings, and she starts automatic writing
** Alec notices this and sees her writing style change, and she starts writing the same symbols. . . they start forming words
** ‘Covencrest Manor 1721, the final expedition, they are dead. I am the last one. I am the watcher, I am the watcher, I am the watcher.’
** It ends with the symbol of an ouroboros (snake consuming itself)
* Signe looks at the writing and she sees it’s facing her, like Martha wrote it upside down.
* Lenora pulls out a medallion with an ouroboros and gives it to Correen. She also gives two drawings to Correen: one of a set of row houses, and a mundane drawing of a man
** Signe looks at the drawing. . . It’s of __________
* As they are leaving, Signe asks Martha how she knows Lenora
** She’s very dodgy on the subject, says she met her when she ran away
* We make our way to find these houses in the drawing Lenora gave us. We determined it was a drawing of her house
** West Curwan St. & Brown St. (by a deli!)
* We approach the front door and Signe tries to pick the lock but fails. 
* We lift Martha up through the window above the door and she lets us in
** It’s well-kept and tidy except for a burnt piece of paper on the floor and a rug with a corner flipped up
*** On the corner of the paper is handwritten, ‘1770’
* Under the rug is a trap door with a circle depression in it
* Correen puts the ouroborus locket in the hold and it opens!
* Below the floor is a crawl space. . . Will is voluntold to go in
** He sees a hatched doorway and opens it
*** Inside is the makings of a library for journals but they’re all missing.
* Meanwhile we search the rest of the apartment, we discover burnt remains of the journals in the fireplace. 
** In the writing desk we find cardstock that matches the note Niles presented to us
* Martha goes into the crawl space where she sees letters etched on the wooden shelves:
W-A-T-C-H-E-R
* Returning to Covencrest Manor we are greeted by Niles, and he’s holding a letter. . .    TO BE CONTINUED!