Chapter 4 - New York

It's all work, no play
### Episode 01

The investigators return to New York recognizing that their abodes have been visited in their absence.

This episode does not feature James Coquillat, as he's out in New Caledonia for a Gaming Convention in French.

* Wilhelmina St. Clare has strange experiences with something that may or may not have been cat-like.
* Dream Scenes
	+ She climbs under her bed, and passes through into a long corridor with doorways on each side. She explores, and learns something about how to move about.
	+ The brawl of Joey Bananas (Joseph Bananos)
	+ There is something large, dark, cylindrical, and scaly looking for his sceptre, crown, robes, and things, moving through the side of the dream. It consumes her and she wakes up.
* Ares Carter looks at the things in their safe to make sure nothing's been disturbed. Amongst the items is a Victoria Cross to L.P.Carter. Also an inert grenade that they booby traps the apartment with.
* Wilhelmina St. Clare shows up at Ares Carter's apartment. They drive back to her apartment and do a security sweep.
* The two of them drive out towards Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson's place in the country.
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson finds the tracks of two people who went to the barn, then moved off into the fields
* A freshly dug mound is found under a tree, just as the other two pull up.
* They discover the inevitable body, and uncover it. It is a totally flayed body. Much like the remains of Shapiro in North Borneo.
* The body is gotten rid of, the rest is obfuscated, and in the morning everyone heads on back to NYC after downtime research
* Wilhelmina St. Clare finds information that Guiseppe Banano being the youngest Mob Boss to date some while back

### Episode 02

It's brunch time

This episode does not feature Art Hunter, due to a case of the dreaded lurgi.

* The three active investigators meet up at brunch in NYC (organized by Hubert Smith. Stories are exchanged.
* Their cunning plan. Go to Caduceus, get sent off somewhere far away (at least outside of the reach of the Mob)
* They head to Caduceus, and meet up with Dr Gonzales who taken them into the lower cellars.
* They then run into Mr Meadham, the man behind Caduceus.
* The next destination is revealed as Bingham, OK where there is an outburst of Yig worship
* They are played a recording of the local priest giving a sermon, and they recognize Narcal in the background
* Minnie hears the Narcal threat just before a large explosion shakes the entire building. She believes it might be the thing they recovered from Bolivia that spoke.
* In the chaos the group manages to lose Dr Gonzales, and head towards where they saw the thing they brought back from Bolivia being kept
* The investigators bamboozle their way through the armed guards that are guarding the lower sanctums using the idea of a Hefterain device being present
* The corpse remains shows that something climbed out of the body of the mummy. On the back wall is the closed remains of a portal. And a technician with a face sloughing off. Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson enters a bout of madness trying to help the technician
* The group heads out cross-country on a train ride to Oklahoma, OK