Episode 22

# 02.22: Hey, Frank...

Cynthia went into hiding, Frank was interrogated, Milo dug up a book, and Tom found employment.

## Characters

The PCs:

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

NPCs:

* Marshall Evins
* Frank's employees
* Winnifred Gurley
* Christmas Shreely
* a cop
* Nancy Neese
* Carmen
* Camille

## Summary

##### **12/29/2014: Monday** (cont.)

Frank’s employees and Marshall had a few questions for him. While they started at Cynthia throwing 26 in Mill Stream, they also got to learn about most of the supernatural occurrences Frank has been aware of. Eventually, Marshall got tired of listening to Frank spin ghost stories, and insisted they leave to resolve the situation with Cynthia. They decided to check on Christmas first.

Meanwhile, Cynthia was looking to hide from Frank. Her first instinct was Tom’s house, but Tom kicked her out, and left a message for Frank. On the drive to Christmas’s house, Frank called Tom back, who ended up admitting that he and Cynthia had broken into Christmas’s basement.

When Marshall and Frank arrived, Cynthia and Tom’s cars were being towed. Winnie was looking for information on whose cars they were, and Frank provided Tom and Cynthia’s names and addresses. Christmas was around, to Marshall’s surprise, and didn’t take learning Cynthia was trying to destroy their book well. They joined Frank and Marshall on their trip to Cynthia’s house.

Cynthia was nowhere to be found in her house, which they searched thoroughly. The water damage and books reading DESTROY THE BOOK were the most obvious outstanding details. Frank called Tom again, to ask what they had found in Christmas’s basement. After learning the salient points, he, Marshall, and Christmas left for the mills.

When Frank refused to explain or answer further calls, Tom called Milo. He explained the situation, hoping for insight on the note they had found, but Milo said he didn’t know anything. In direct contradiction to what he told Tom, Milo left for Mill Stream in hopes of finding Christmas’s book.

Milo made it to the mills first, and after some looking around found a box. On his way out, he ran into Frank and company. Frank suggested Milo hand over the book, a confrontation which was interrupted by the stream overflowing its banks and attempting to drown the group. They all made it back to the cars, despite a close call Milo had, and headed for Frank’s house.

   Though Christmas was hesitant, Frank cracked open the box Milo found. Christmas spent some time reading, before Marshall took them home. Frank called Cynthia after they had left, and she refused to answer his questions.

Cynthia visited the stream, but didn’t see any signs of the earlier visit—aside from Milo’s car. She called Tom, who denied telling anyone about their escapades earlier that day. Milo was more forthcoming, admitting to hearing from Tom, but not to finding anything at the stream.

Tom woke in the middle of the night to see a figure standing at the foot of his bed, but it was gone by the time he had found his flashlight.

##### **12/30/2014: Tuesday**

Milo drove Tom to Christmas’s house, so he could pick up his car. Neither Christmas or his car were in evidence, so Tom decided to report his car stolen to the police.

At Tom’s request, Cynthia dropped by Tom’s house. He learned she wanted to make an informed decision about destroying Christmas’s book.

Cynthia called Frank, but got only a strong rebuke out of him.

##### **12/31/2014: Wednesday**

The police dropped off Tom’s car. They weren’t the most believing of his story, but there wasn’t enough evidence to get him convicted of anything, so he got off with a warning. He went to the diner in search of work, and was hired as their dishwasher. After his shift, he had a chat with Nancy, who was happy to have an upstanding employee instead of Marshall Evins.

Milo intended to visit the Gore again, but given the thunder-snowstorm that rolled in that afternoon he decided to put it off.

   Cynthia visited the ice cream store, in an attempt to plead her case. Frank wasn’t having it, and mentioned she doesn’t know if she would be able to resist destroying the book. They were interrupted when Marshall arrived with Carmen in tow, needing Frank’s help. Cynthia teleported out, a fact there wasn’t much time to address. Carmen had a fight with her sister, who stormed out, but it’s been long enough that she’s worried.

Frank, Marshall, and Carmen all left in search of Camille, who they found in the woods off the road. She was hiding from “the zombie”, and took down three trees in the process. Frank chatted with her on the way back to the cars. After the sisters had left, Marshall confronted Frank for talking to Cynthia, but was assuaged by the fact Frank only wanted her to leave.

Milo woke up in the middle of the night choking on dark water dripping from the ceiling, and had to spend an uncomfortable night on the floor to avoid it.

## Notes

Frank admitted to:

* Cynthia threw 26 in Mill Stream
* 26 is a reaper, and thus ghosts are real
* Ghosts, such as the one in the spook house, and the graveyard collective—which are familiar with Morgan
* Christmas Shreely is around
* Tom dug up a corpse, which is connected to the zombie coyotes

Sundry facts from Frank’s interrogation:

* “something about the cops, from Sal??” thanks, past me, very helpful
* The Shreely family moved away in 2009, but pulled their kid (who was 2 grades below Marshall) out of school in 2007—rumors(?) they were institutionalized

Camille:

* Can apparently bring down trees. Stuff like that just happens.
* Saw a guy at the store floating a coin, and has been trying to emulate it (and breaking several windows in the process)
* The “zombie”: had a tree branch, and was not dressed for the weather. Didn’t leave footprints.

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