Episode 33

# 03. 33:

cynthia and tom attend the combination witch-ghost fight. the b&b and thus milo are under attack. frank is simply hanging out.

## Characters

The PCs:

* Cynthia
* Frank Smith
* Milo McCrery
* Tom di Pasqua

NPCs:

* Madoc Jones
* Beth Lawrence
* Willa Holt
* Auden Cooke
* Death 114
* Enoch Price
* Bat Warren
* Cyrus Evins
* Lorna Crawford
* Christmas Shreely

## Summary/Notes

##### **01/24/2015: Saturday**

* The B&B gang has a meeting to decide what to do about the shadowy figures.
	+ Jones thinks they might be related to 26, who he hasn't seen recently
	+ Milo's guess is they're linked to the disappearances in the Gore
	+ Either way, neither of these facts are the most useful, so Beth has them set up for a siege
* Cynthia wakes up to find instructions scrawled on her walls: Destroy Lorna Crawford.
* Frank drops by the courthouse, in search of Bat. He isn't awake yet, but Auden can let Frank know when he gets up.
* Tom gets back from work to find 114 has been for a walk in the snow, as well as acquired some new clothes.
* He doesn't have much time to consider this, however, because Cynthia needs a ride to the spook house for the ghost fight.
	+ Tom begrudgingly picks her up, and they make the hike from his house to the spook house.
* Price is waiting for them. He lights the spook house on fire, which draws out Bat and Cyrus.
* Frank gets a call from Auden: Bat and Cyrus have left.
	+ Frank heads to the courthouse, lets Auden know where they went, and is told in no uncertain terms to not make any attempt to anger Price further by attempting to cut down his tree.
	+ Auden heads off for the spook house.
* At the spook house:
	+ Price makes an appeal to Cyrus, and mostly ignores Bat, who goes after Price.
	+ Price also reveals he's gained an ally: Lorna Crawford.
	+ Cynthia goes after Lorna, Price continues arguing/toying with the courthouse men, and Tom goes looking for Hector in the on-fire house.
		- Cynthia's control slips again and she returns to using the water
		- Tom doesn't find much, though the house's metaphysical structural integrity isn't doing great
		- Before he can get much more done than that, Cynthia makes an ill-advised attempt to teleport Lorna into the fire, and succeeds only in collapsing the floor on her and Tom. They manage to escape, right into the continued fight with Lorna.
* Meanwhile, the shadows are making an attempt to get into the B&B.
	+ Everyone is starting to make plans to get out.
	+ Milo, in search of useful information on the shadows, calls Frank in search of Christmas.
* Frank, conveniently, is already at the courthouse.
	+ He doesn't get an answer when he knocks or yells, and the building is warping on occasion, so he kicks down the door
	+ Christmas's room is recursive, and they're sitting in front of a fold in reality
	+ Touching Christmas knocks Frank out. He wakes up soon after and they're making sure he's okay. They insist they're fine.
	+ Frank hands off his phone, containing Milo, to Christmas.
		- Indistinct things tend to be pretty inactive, so weird that these ones are physical.
		- However, since they're physical, they're probably vulnerable to physical damage.
		- Unless they're what Christmas calls bystanders, which get more real the more you acknowledge them.
		- This is good enough for Milo.
	+ Frank has a couple more questions.
		- Christmas was making a door to the over-there, so they could make sure their house was still standing. It's not a great way to travel, but neither are the roads, since Lorna is after them.
		- Frank seems willing to accept Christmas can make this kind of doors, or at least decides he's better off not knowing. He doesn't press.
		- Cutting down Price's tree might do something, but it depends how attached Price is to the tree. It might just be a good way to end up with a very angry lightning ghost.
		- According to Christmas, Bat should be find as long as Cyrus is around. Apparently, based on their observations, Cyrus's opinion counts for more.
		- (asterisk, i'm pretty sure cyrus is the one who counts for more, christmas wasn't the Most clear on which man specifically)
* Now armed with some information, the folks at the B&B have a different problem: Willa took matters into her own hands, breaking a window upstairs to call for help--and letting the shadows inside in the process. At least she grabbed her research folder on the way out.
	+ Madoc makes sure Beth and Willa get out the door. He and Milo are swarmed by the shadows, which do appear to take damage, but there's a horde of them.
	+ Milo takes an opening to make a break for the door. Madoc hands off his car keys.
	+ Willa, Beth, and Milo take off in Madoc Jones's van, for Frank's house. Jones is left in the building with the shadows.
* Back at the spook house:
	+ Tom and Cynthia give Lorna enough trouble that she calls Price over to help.
	+ Price unceremoniously zaps Bat, who crumples, before turning to take care of Tom and Cynthia.
		- They play a quick game of teleportation v. lightning cat and mouse. While clustered around the fallen Bat Warren, Tom manages to get away but Cynthia throws herself between the lightning and Warren. She is summarily fried.
		- Tom grabs Lorna in an attempt to bluff Price. He falls under the water's influence, forgetting it isn't to be trusted, and strangles Lorna half to death. He manages to break free once he realizes exactly what he's doing, with Lorna still mostly alive.
		- While he's shaken, Price punches Tom out.
* Frank, leaving the courthouse, notices Cynthia's house is on fire.

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