Episode 05

# 01.05: Wandering Around Town

Cynthia succeeded at intervening, Frank set the GPPS on the train he's been hearing, Milo played poker, and Tom did some socializing.

## Characters

##### **The PCs:**

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

##### **NPCs:**

* 26
* Ella-Rose Carpenter
* Deacon Bruns
* Paul Evins
* Marshall Evins
* Magnolia Hight
* Auden
* Cyrus
* additional courthouse man
* Madoc Jones
* Wayne Buker
* Shawn Durkee
* Jack Elleby
* Morgan Towler
* Kaitlyn Towler
* Sal Kerstetter
* Afya Niazi
* Benno Hervey

## Summary

##### **9/28/2014: Sunday** (late afternoon)

Cynthia had another encounter with the person she had seen at the Carpenters' house, and made it clear she wasn't going to leave the issue. After they had left, she checked in on Ella-Rose, who was surprised and a bit concerned to see Cynthia interrupting time she's spending with her husband.

Frank did some research into why he's hearing trains, with little success. Milo looked up spooky places in the area.

##### **9/29/2014: Monday**

In the early morning, Milo went on a trip to the cemetery. He didn't find any ghosts, and got thrown out by the groundskeeper after startling him.

Cynthia spent the day taking a walk around Granton, and noticed the person who owns and operates the historic courthouse has some guests.

Tom got his field of a yard taken care of by the local landscaping company, and Cynthia stopped by for dinner to check in on him.

Frank saw Marshall again on his evening walk, and noted the kid works for the landscaping company.

##### **9/20/2014: Tuesday**

Cynthia had lunch with Magnolia Hight, and tried to schedule lunch with Ella-Rose. She would love to, but Ella-Rose's schedule is uncertain and busy for the near future, so Cynthia didn't end up with a time.

Tom visited Milo at the B&B. At dinner at the B&B, Madoc Jones struck up a conversation with Milo, and Jones ended up teaching Milo poker.

Frank visited Wayne's Bar in search of gossip, and heard one of the people interested in the spook house was at the cemetery the other night. He mentions it was almost certainly Milo.

##### **10/01/2014: Wednesday**

Cynthia scheduled lunch with Milo, to check on him. She tasked him with keeping an eye out for a vehicle like the one the person she's seen in the Carpenters' driveway owns. Milo brought up this lunch at poker that night.

##### **10/02/2014: Thursday**

Frank texted Milo to make sure he's still alive.

Shawn Durkee met with Tom at the bar, to see if he was involved with Cynthia and Milo getting arrested for trespassing. After being reassured he's only in it for the history and had no idea the other two were visiting and getting arrested, Shawn and Tom made conversation, and Shawn offered to put in a good word for Tom as a volunteer with the town hall's records. While at the bar, Tom noticed Bruns having a conversation with an unfamiliar, well-dressed person.

##### **10/03/2014: Friday**

Cynthia visited the courthouse, and spent most of the day bothering Auden--who would have obviously rather done anything but listen to Cynthia's stories about what the town was like when she was young.

Tom put in the paperwork to apply as a volunteer at the town hall.

Frank had a nice evening walk, and heard the train whistle again--which again sounded closer, and like it was probably to the north or northeast.

##### **10/04/2014: Saturday**

Cynthia went on another walk around Granton, and while passing the cemetery noticed Bruns having a conversation with an unfamiliar well-dressed person. She was accosted by a teenage girl hanging around the cemetery, who wanted to know what she was doing.

Tom dropped by the ice cream shop, and was recognized by Frank as the one at the spook house with Milo. Frank invited Tom to his barbeque that evening.

Both Milo and Tom attended Frank's barbeque, along with all of Frank's employees. Frank announced he's been hearing trains, which both the GPPS and Tom offered to investigate. Afya had a few ideas to offer about spooky locations around town.

##### **10/05/2014: Sunday**

In the morning, Cynthia received another message from her book--the same as it's always been, timestamped during knitting club. She called Lorna, and made her excuses for knitting club.

When she arrived at the Carpenters', the family's car was absent and nothing looked out of order. Despite sticking around until knitting club's end time, she didn't notice anything. She got back to her car to find a note on the windshield--"Sorry to disappoint, but I'm a bit busy right now.", with the number 26 in the bottom corner.

Tom's last look out the window before bed revealed no sign of a shadowy figure.

## Notes

Driveway person, second encounter:

* They're not willing to share with Cynthia, unless she lets them do their job--which she isn't inclined to
* Cynthia takes instructions from a book she doesn't know the author of, which doesn't mean anything to them
* They're here on a job, though they volunteered, and are on a bit of a time limit
* They're probably not making anyone else's life worse by doing their job

Spooky locations around town, according to Google:

* The cemetery
* The historic courthouse
* A handful of abandoned mills in Delham

Tom visited Milo:

* Tom learned the ice cream employees is where Milo learned about the spook house
* As well as informed Milo about the shadow in his yard occasionally

Spooky locations in the area, according to Afya:

* Cemetery is always a good bet, as there have been sightings (possibly by Kaitlyn?)
* The church in Delham
* A cliff in the woods, that someone jumped off about a year ago

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