Episode 25

# 03.25: New Season, Old Problems

Cynthia visited a field, Frank attempted a ghostly PR campaign, Milo got to use his conflict-deescalation skills, and Tom received a casserole.

## Characters

The PCs:

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

NPCs:

* Willa Holt
* Quest Oyer
* Eero Kirst
* Shawn Durkee
* Michelle Laine
* Magnolia Hight
* Auden
* Additional Courthouse Man
* Lorna Crawford
* Frank's employees
* Death 114

## Summary/Notes

##### **01/07/2015: Wednesday** (cont.)

* Milo doesn't remember where Eero's house is, so he needs to ask Quest (who is at work)
* Willa and Milo have a nice chat in the B&B yard
	+ willa doesn't know about the spook house
	+ she's vaguely baffled by milo's entire deal, despite the fact it's been helpful to her specifically
	+ she came to delham for a mission person's case, eero got into spooks after but that's not willa's thing
	+ ma'am you are a ghost.
	+ clem? from the bridge?? a ghost??? what the fuck, milo, clem is simply hanging out
	+ milo kind of catches her up on ghost current events
	+ with a vague promise that madoc & 26 would have more info
* They visit Quest at work, and manage to convince him to give them Eero's address. He's not super on board. You didn't hear it from him.

##### **01/08/2015: Thursday**

* Cynthia and Tom visit a field. Tom gets to hear about Brennan, vaguely, on the way over
	+ they cut down the tree and replaced the sign, but it hasn't moved clearings (best cynthia can tell)
	+ cynthia looks around for a while. tom gets cold
	+ she does get some vibes: the other half of the photo is the other half of the sign and a glaringly obvious person-shaped outline (they got forgot), the overall vibes are warm and a general sense of being exasperated but also joyful
	+ on the way back, Cynthia tells Tom she's looking into Lorna, and he could ask around. also the origins of delham might be in the records if he needed something to do
* Milo and Willa visited Eero. It could've gone worse, but also much better.
	+ they did manage to talk their way in the door, eventually
	+ guy digging graves in Keaton's Gore: he's still out there
	+ willa wasn't surprised by her lighting situation
	+ eero in fact did not keep any copies of their notes
	+ they were in town for about a month
	+ with the info they had, they can do better, willa thinks: she won't be wandering off into the woods alone, milo is also here
	+ lots of being passive-aggressive-aggressive about how they left things, where they fought and then willa went off to find info and got killed
	+ milo barely manages to keep them from killing each other
	+ willa goes to turn on the lights, milo stopped her but they were on long enough for him to get a glimpse of Something in the corner of Eero's house: big and pale and *vaguely* humanoid, hunched in the corner
	+ time to leave!
	+ thing in eero's house doesn't mean anything to willa, but she did make reference to something following eero out of the woods one time (maybe. it's willa, several grains of salt here, i'd say)
* Tom goes to the bar and hangs out with Shawn. he heard about Lorna's reputation for murder and witch cult

##### **01/09/2015: Friday**

* Frank went looking for Nicky
	+ he wasn't at his campsite, which was a mess
	+ didn't look like any kind of a struggle had happened, or at least he cleaned up after
	+ probably moved, possibly in a hurry?
	+ things were strewn around, with most important things missing, but the tent was still there
	+ no recent tracks (past day or so of snowfall)
	+ frank left a note: meet at the trailhead about noon tomorrow?
* tom discovers a casserole in his fridge, with a note from michelle
	+ yeah she's happy to, you're welcome, etc
	+ she makes lots of food so she's happy to drop more off, they exchange phone numbers
* Cynthia checks in on Maggie (calls): the Hights are all still around, they're doing fine
* She also went on a walk past/to the courthouse
	+ Has some confusing (for Auden) small talk when Auden answers the door
	+ runs into someone coming up the driveway on the way out: third courthouse man
* hey cynthia, you're forgetting something
	+ book's general sentiment is That's Danger, Bad For Granton
	+ it's getting harder to read/interpret
* Tom let Cynthia know about the murder Lorna had supposedly committed, but left out the witch cult part
* Frank attempted to follow up with Madoc about possibly meeting about his recent run-in with 114, but didn't get anything back
* Willa is attempting to do research, but can't use computers. Milo gets to do it instead
	+ old true crime forum, dedicated to some journalist who went missing in the Delham/etc area
	+ would come to willa's workplace (cafe in a college town) every so often, and stopped showing up, so she got curious
	+ the journalist is never referred to by name
* Cynthia scheduled brunch with Lorna for tomorrow

##### **01/10/2015: Saturday**

* Frank hung out for a while in the Gore, but there was no sign of Nicky
* Cynthia and Lorna have brunch
	+ Lorna is determined to leave her murder incident behind, no cynthia it doesn't really matter how politely you bring it up
	+ she insists wasn't involved, just close to the victim
	+ As far as Cynthia can tell, she does just want to leave it behind
* At Frank's Franks, Frank attempts to convince his employees Hector isn't always murderous, to little success
	+ he did attack Milo though, Frank, explain that one
	+ The kids reportedly haven't been up to much, it's been cold
* Tom is woken up in the middle of the night by 114 knocking on his door, full of bullet holes and anxiety

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