Episode 26

# 03.26:

Cynthia went for a walk in the woods, Frank paid Lorna a visit, Milo went looking for ghosts with Willa, and Tom helped 114 recover from several bullet holes.

## Characters

The PCs:

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

NPCs:

* Death 114
* Willa Holt
* Robin Kohler
* Afya Niazi
* Benno Hervey
* Kaitlyn Towler
* Lorna Crawford
* Camille
* Shawn Durkee
* Abbot Graff

## Summary/Notes

##### **01/11/2015: Sunday**

* Tom lets 114 in, and puts them in his bathtub for bullet holes in Death reasons
	+ If I had a nickel for every time someone put a reaper in their bathtub, I'd have two nickels.
* He gets some sensations out of listening to the flies:
	+ Outside at night, at a window
	+ A hazy point of light (presumably inside), with a flare of anxiety
	+ getting shot through a window (ow)
	+ A general sense of being pulled in a specific direction
* Tom is very tired at work. He visits Frank, since he's the only one in town known to carry espresso
* Two very tired men being tired and vaguely confrontational
	+ Frank wants to know about Tom and the flies when they dragged Milo (and Willa) out of the stream
	+ Don't worry, Frank, it's fine--did you know that thing in my yard is inside now? yeah it's wild
* Cynthia drops by the diner, she learns Tom is very tired and that no one knows much about the people staying at the courthouse
* Willa wants to see a ghost .
	+ She's sort of curious about ghosts of other people who got killed/went missing in the Gore
	+ She wants to know the ghost rules
* Milo and Willa climb the fence into the graveyard and see no ghosts, not for lack of Willa yelling about it
* On the way back to the B&B, there's a Lot of lightning off in the woods, which Willa is of course going to check out
	+ They find a crater/clearing in the woods,
	+ Milo sees the tree-impaled ghost several people have mentioned
	+ Said ghost is of course gone by the time Willa looks over
* Milo dropped Willa off at the B&B and went to talk to Frank
	+ Milo: so that tree ghost is real
	+ Frank: yeah lightning at the courthouse is a thing, a tree got struck by lightning and then became a ghost
	+ Still Frank: Something about that ghost you saw haunting Lorna, cult
	+ They generally catch up, Frank conveys most everything he learned from Christmas.
* 3/4 of the ice cream kids show up
	+ Sal's in the hospital with Unidentified Mold Disease, and the last place they knew he was going to be was spying on Lorna
	+ Conclusion: witchcraft
	+ Frank. you need to do something about this. the kids are going to going to make bad choices if you don't do something first
* So Frank calls Cynthia.
	+ he gets reassured Lorna can't curse people with mold, and advised to stay out of it
	+ the divorced energy is strong yet again
* Cynthia calls Lorna to let her know Frank is looking into her
	+ she assures Cynthia she'll be fine, but that she appreciates the warning
* Frank and Milo go on a ghost hunt by Habbit Brook
* They do not find a ghost. they find Camille. she's been lighting fires, and has found a ghost (reportedly)
	+ There's a Pilgrim-looking guy, who's smoky and floats and is teaching her magic
	+ hasn't seen the tree-impaled ghost recently
* 114 is still in Tom's bathtub when he gets back from work

##### **01/12/2015: Monday**

* Tom gets his hands on Cynthia's photo (by asking), and asks Shawn about it
	+ he's fairly busy, his sister's kid is in the hospital so he's housesitting, but he can take a look
	+ there isn't much to go on, probably early 1900s
	+ the Delham sign got replaced in the '70s, and again in '92 or '93 (just in case it ever ends up relevant)
* Cynthia went wandering around in the woods behind Lorna's house in search of her ghost
	+ There's a trail of footprints going along the brook and into the woods, which gets harder to follow as the forest closes in
	+ She has to give up eventually, though the footprints didn't look to be having any trouble with the woods
	+ The path was pretty close to the road and Tom's house by the time it became impassable
* Frank paid Lorna a visit
	+ she doesn't know anything about the issues he mentioned (mold, a possible "burglar", tree folk) but she can keep an eye out
	+ yeah, she can contact him if anything comes up, thanks for the phone number
	+ on the way out, he catches a glimpse of someone standing in a patch of trees--probably leaning on a branch
* there's nothing online about the cult rumors, despite Frank's best efforts to look
* 114 is finally up fairly late in the evening, so Tom gets them cleaned up (a bath, new hoodie, better wrapped arm)
	+ They head out, with 114 leading the way: as soon as they get down Tom's stairs, they're in the woods
	+ Something of a walk out of the woods to a field on a hill, with a cabin on the treeline (broken window and all)
	+ Abbot Graff is asleep in a chair in the cabin with a hunting rifle

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