Trail of Cthulhu

==Characters==
===Player Characters===
* Father O'Donahue
* Francis
* Michael
===NPCs===
* Sheriff Martin L O'Donnell
* Samantha
* Frank Dozel, pimp
* Fanny, prostitute
* One Armed Willie, pimp, possibly dead at some point
* Them two hobos from the second time we visited Lester's
==Locations==
* Sheriff O'Donnell's Office
* Frank Dozel's
* Lester's Tavern
* Kingsbury Run
* Western Reserve University
==Plot==
===Session One - Aug 12th===
* PCs meet in Sheriff's Office
* Discuss murders, given Sheriff's informal case file
* Really police jurisdiction, trying to outdo Ness' boys
* Possible suspect: Frank Dozel (Lives: Roaring 3rd, 2941 East 22nd, May be found pimping at Lester's Tavern, East 20 and Central)
* Went to Lester's, talked to Fanny and Lester
* Frank came in, was a bit of a dick
* Francis and FOD tailed him when he left
* Francis watched his place while FOD went back and picked up Michael
* Francis saw Frank lift up brick in front of window
* When Frank left and the other PCs returned, Francis stole into flat with Michael while FOD kept watch
* Francis lifted brick to find an envelope containing drugs and photographs:
* Photograph 1: Pommard dude, tattoo - crescent, sex with Rosemary
* Photograph 2: same dude having sex with Edward, photo taken through a window, can see corner of a painting with a swirled geometric pattern
* Photograph 3: Sex with Flo, sumptuous room, bas relief in background showing ship surrounded by dogs(?).
* Francis uses magnifying glass to inspect the last, feels vertigo and intense deja vu, falls backwards and leaves dent in wall where he hits it, breaks magnifying glass
* Michael snaps him out of it
* FOD alerts them to Frank's imminent return
* Francis pockets photos, returns coke envelope
* Hide in cupboard under stairs as Frank enters
===Session Two - Aug 12th (mostly?)===
* Leave hurriedly before Frank can notice dent
* Newspaper hits FOD's chest – date 1908 – picture of worst thing that ever happened to me
** Photo from 3 years before I was born (27)
** Picture of father hanging himself after losing everything
** Crumbles to dust and blows away
** Must have been someone else – can't blame a man for jumping to conclusions. Funny old day and that
* Michael goes separate way
* F&F @Sheriff's – Samantha locking up
** Inform on progress: "Well, it's a start"
** Trace photographs before leaving
** Arrowhead pointing into a curve – tattoo
** Face visible in none
** Marble/soapstone bas relief (Magnifying glass from sheriff)
* Tattoo parlor with sign – edge of roaring 3rd, crossing kingsbury run
** Green with skulls
** Different shade of green squiggles
** Looks mexican
* Lester's tavern
** Fanny isn't here
** Two people with pommarded hair - One fat - One skinny and old -Neither man in photos
*Caught one armed willy (alleyway)
**"Shouldn't have been asking about Frank"
**"Doctor told me I'm going to die in the past"
**"Spat out by the whirlpool"
**"Doctor gonna cut my arm and kill me in 1929"
**Shirt hanging off his side
**Once well-muscled but now saggy with loose skin
**"I'm gonna die in the past man"
**"Something wrong with my head"
**Feel dreamlike unreality
**"Rich white man with greasy hair who lives under the train"
**Haze diminishes as we reassure, become sleeplike as he becomes agitated
**"under the train, that's where he cuts your arm off"
**"He cut my arm off when he killed me, 1929"
**!John Doe 0, 29?
**The doctor – what the hobos call him
**Responding to key words – then looping
**"Rose – I shopped him Rose, didn't know he was the doctor"
**"& Edward"
**"Building dogs out of 'em"
* Suddenly bright daylight
** Car comes whizzing past
** See huge aeroplane in the sky leaving vapor trail
** Turn again and see shiny red car stop and pull up on pavement – crazy sounding music blares out
*All fades again, dark alleyway, willyless
* Part ways, FOD back to church, Francis to Crummy Motel
===Session Two (cont.) - Aug 13th===
O'Donahue wake
Flashback to when 13
Dream of bath running
as go to get into it, as turn into living room see father hung by noose
cut forward to police standing around getting him down, bath overrunnning, water down stairs
Wake to hear sound of barking dogs
Shake it off – just a dream
Fashion sling out of bedsheet to keep document in
Francis wake up hungover
Nadie's tattoos
(Height of the depression scene setting)
Feel faint headed as reach other side of bridge
Standing outside Nadie's again
Man in balck shirt with traditional Mexican patterns going down sleeves
Tattoo examples on animal flesh
Francis draws gun “we just want some answers” but Mexico rolls and slips out side, has drop on Francis
You know what these heathens are like (O'Donahue)
Keeps pointing at Francis – not pointing gun at O'Donahue
Goddess from old times – snake skulls
Young pushy big mouth – dog on shoulder
Rich gringo
Couple of hobos from kingsbury run
Gang here six months back
Los casados de cabezas? (The headhunters)
Drink in a bar called Lasserina
Hands gun back
His name is Mondo
Cross bridge
To Lester's, talk to Lester
Recognises him from sketch – hobo doctor
Knew Flo
Very interested in Tattoos
offered lifts at closing time
left with Flo a couple of days before she died
Hung around with hobos at kingsbury run
Selling hooch, breaking other laws
Headhunters busted by Ness
I don't care if he's homeless, he doesn't have to make his way around the run
Down on his luck, speaks greek
running round waving those knives
Francis asks military man about rumours
Doctor used to hang around and help out
Some rich kid used to come swanning by, help out when he felt like it
Haven't seen him in a month or two
CIR line runs through kingsbury run
Crazy greek guy running around with knives
Military man too
Comes and goes, don't know where
Roger, Leo is military man
Arrive at Sherriff's, in main room
Several other detectives
See them from outside, as we turn corner onto street we see unmarked Ford police car, sitting just around corner out of view from Sheriff's, one of two nudges t'other and they drive off when they see us
Warn O'Donnell
Doesn't care about guy with knives
Headhunters taken by Ness
As we mention the club, knock on the door, Samantha comes in and says “I went over to the library and I think I found something on that painting you asked about”
His face drops as he reads case file
Standing facing camera – our man here standing in front of painting depicting whirlpool
Newspaper clipping - “young dilettante pays fortune for painting during European Tour”
Aeoli's whirpool, bought in Venice by Orem Van Schaen in Venice in 1931, talking about 1928
Hanging in their mansion in Cleveland
Cost a fortune
Auction house in Venice threatening legal action about recovering funds promised
Western reserve university library
Take the fairly famous tram system part of the way, fairly empty
Reach about as far as tramlines go heading towards Southern edge, becomes more affluent neighbourhood
Walk through suburbs, sun beginning to set
Reach university library as sun sets – big grey building with fake greek-style columns at front and small set of wooden doors
Library has decent set of books
Librarians old men
Students and staff
Father O'Donahue has turned up profile of Orem H Van Schaen
Culture piece written in last 2 ½ years
Eligible bachelor piece for high society section of newspaper
Born in 1904, youngest son of real estate and rail bat
Brother pollucks
Shaker heights – inter urban rail
Drowned themselves father and father's twin brother
Left estate to MK and PJ
Find “the odyssey – a reassessment” - his doctoral thesis
Argues that Odysseus sailed on denghe river, Skylar and Charybdis and [] are iron gates between – and serbia
Time dilations caused by brush with charybdis
cersei nausica calypso alternate versions of skylar
skylar and charybdis – always together – twin daughters of hecate or []
in odyssey, charybdis speak future
something about dogs
whirlpool
skylar will only kill six
charybdis will destroy everything
he has twin sisters
relief has ship and dogs
painting has whirlpool
Thesis – medical doctor?
Bought whirlpool year before parents' death by drowning
=== Session 3 - Still August 13th
 ===
Mansion - 50 or 60 years old - well-decorated wood
Singel gas light on porch, also flickering upper story window
Try ornate gates, broken lock but thick chain with padlock
Only takes Francis a second with his lockpick and the lock snaps open with a loud clack
FOD pushes through gates and sneaks up driveway - not setting foot on the grass - Francis follows
See modern automobile glinting behind house (a Ford)
FOD flattens against wall, tries doorhandle, light inside aappears and starts moving.
Francis hammers on door, old man inside drops oil lamp, fire starts?
Withered old face with long grey hair
Intact oil lamp but smoke
"We're here to see Oren"
"I'm going to call the police" "It'll be us that shows up"
FOD goes round back - no porch but back door, set of double doors leading, chain, lock, and lock on door
Woodcutters shed
F unlocks door
See movement in the darkness with first step, hunched over, smooth dark visage, buffets with leathery wings, clank as right foot is restrained by huge chain, lands on stairs
Everything bad for a bit
Slam doors
Police approaching
Stand on porch and wait
Detective Merylo, what seems to be going on here?
Francis, following up on an investigation
Concerned citizens
Grabs FOD "I'm working on a case here and if you screw it up for me"
FOD mentions hearing screaming round the back
Convince officer to have a look
Batlike wings, creature up and over head, chain taught then breaks, flying overhead, brushes long tail with barb over him, two or three big flaps
"I have to call this in" - begins reporting "some kind of creature, flew straight over me, great big bat wings, no face" - partner goes to turn off
Hear engine turn over from behind house
Car rolling by, man wearing brown suit, pommarded hair, hits back of police car as he speeds past
Francis finds keys
FOD psychoanalysis - the Lord has a plan for us all
Francis in driver's seat, other cop passenger, us two in rear
Turn onto reasonably deserted street but clip gas lampost going round corner, see it collapse, Oren's car make its way over low bridge heading South-East, takes a few moments 
FOD suggests heading for Kingsbury Run
Old riverbed, no roads, sprawling camp, people drinking out of brown paper bags
FOD "Have you seen the doctor?" - feel as if feet in running water, can't understand what the man is saying, earth looks a different shade of bronze, from underneath the water comes the creaking of wood - deck of ship raises, standing on it, feel movement of water under feet. Drunk man grabs me by the robes, he becomes younger, scraggly mess of hair becomes long head of hair, speaking in ancient greek
"Our leader will drown us all, he takes the ship too close to the cliffs, we'll be smashed to pieces", puts hands on railing and next to him appears huge set of rocky cliffs, long snakelike neck with doglike head
Sound as if torrent of water, whirlpool
F Look away, look back gone, look around, almost trip over
hand rests on piece of metal wrapped in leather, cylindrical shape, scrapes against floor, antique broadsword but unaged
Old but cleaner one-armed willy fighting Merylo, yelling in his face over car, as he steps back he disappears again
F - "let's head back and find out what's going on" - F, FOD & Merylo - "need to go back and get evidence before we report this in"
"We're out of time, it feels like the whole world's going to end and it's happening now"
F shoot gun into air, grab detective, leg it
"Out of time indeed, there is no time to stop me now" - cringes over and ambles back
"24th street station" on sign - "abandoned"
Suddenly everything stops - everyone freezes in place - as if even light itself had stopped and you were seeing something else
Ones on floor stay on floor, ones standing go limp, then all stand and turn to face station, amble forwards aimlessly, heads lolling about
Wooden station door that would have been there is flat on the floor
Only illuminated by moonlight
Art deco museum/operating theater
Tubs with pieces of people with swords in
Left, stairs
No doubt that these are original Greek broadswords, techniques lost
F grab a broadsword in offhand
Room below illuminated by candles spiral of candles looks like prefect gemoetrica spiral, places in which they form island etc. eddies like whirlpool
Orem there, illuminated at front by candles, big old shadow on brick wall
Pause, look at each other (FOD and O), F just shoots a chunk out of his side
Huge snakelike forms come out of waist
Head swim, All candles on floor begin to move in gentle swirl, just see points of light swirling
Hobos crowding us in - pushed forwards by crowd, standing in swirling room full of points of light, feel floor move under us, drawn lightly towards center of room (stronger near center)
F shoots again, misses, FOD prays, snake comes close, distance seems wrong
This is the story of Scylla and Charybdis, story of the boat, on the rocks is scylla in the center is charybdis
Twisted thing which was orem and is now twisted shape of Scylla pulls air with hands, start circling room, snap against FOD, he dodges into pool, against F who dodges forwards onto ledge
One more comes at his arm
FOD tries to make his way towards Oschaen but is pulled back
Rips F limb from limb
FOD eventually escapes whirlpool with sword
Hobos dragged off feet as they stumble in and slide along floor
Hobo sucked through floor as it wobbles
FOD and Scylla hack at each other, very nearly kills him, but finally downed and torn to pieces
sated heads sink back into him, only has energy to crawl back towards the door before 
Ness and crew raid run, take 63 hobos back to station, turn 11 hobos over to FBI
Never find Francis or FOD, find Van Schaen
Made it so that Ness solves and gets credit. Bastard