Arrival of Jac

This is the 5th session of the **Mystery of the Haunted Library** campaign for The Investigation Crew.

After seeing the girls go away in critical condition the group thinks on what to do regarding ghosts. Audrey leaves as she heads to her parents house for a day and a bit. Blake knows that the way to kill ghosts depends on the type and rituals, in addition that salt and herbs would help. The group heads to the police station to see Jax’s dad and get the case file regarding the arson. They then go to the grocery store to get salt and to Hot Topic to buy a Ouija Board. Finally, they head to the bookstore and they find out that a book very similar to Mylo’s was brought in around a year ago. A homeless man brought it in, and he found it within a shack in the woods. Mylo and Jax work out at the gym to improve themselves and the rest of the gang work on their history paper. They find the name of the students and janitor on the file. A person of interest is Diana Anderson who had a rose tattoo. Blake discovers that the runes on the book Mylo holds was a code using the English alphabet as the title and layout was the exact same as the poem book. Jax begins to translate the alphabet roughly. The group decides to use the Ouija board to communicate with the students. Fredrick Smithers was the student who they decide to summon. They decide to do it in the library and Hamilton doesn’t mind. The séance begins and Jax leads the session. Blake record it on his phone and Amanda records audio.

The questions begin and the group gains knowledge. They are not speaking to Fredrick but instead summon Sam who only sees darkness. Sam is the janitor who died during the fire. He remembers the fire but does not remember after the fire. He knows who started the fire. The group asks who started it and Sam answers Jac. The group quickly realizes that Jac is the guardian, the same creature who took the dice and captured the group before in the Spirit Library. After this answer the following answers suggest that Sam is no longer answering as the spirit refers to his hunger. He is not in the library by choice, he wants to eat, humies are the snack of choice. The dice granted him freedom and he confirms they are now speaking to Jac. He doesn’t want to harm the spirits but wants to harm the Ivory Tower group. Other spirits are not his friends. The Great Old One sent the group to the Spirit Library. The Great Old One has something to do with the Esoteric Eye and Rosicrutians. He has nothing to do with Samuel Rose and Jac is not human. The old one is not Cthulu but **he is single and ready to mingle**. His son is the young one and Jac knows this information through the spirits. The Great Old One does not own the Spirit Library. Jac refuses to speak the name of the Great Young One. He states I WILL SEE YOU SOON. Jac cannot be friends with the group as he wants to eat the group and all humans. He is hungry. Sam was previously present earlier in the summoning. Sam is okay and Jac leaves with HAHAHAHAHA GOODBYE.

 Jax’s dad texts his son and warns him not to leave campus as something happened in town. Hamilton receives a call from the police, and he shuts down the library telling the students to head home.  Before they leave Mylo asks Hamilton if he has any charms to keep away spirits and he gives him a blessed four leaf clover on a bracelet. The group decides, since Audrey went home, to give the bracelet to Amanda in hopes it prevents her from having to go to the Spirit Library. The boys dorms is empty except for Jimmy and Cyrus who play UNO. Amanda joins the boys in their dorm and everyone sleeps in Adrian’s room. They cover the window and door entrance in salt to prevent spirits.

 Everyone goes to sleep at the same time with Mylo and Jax being sent inside the Spirit Library. They go down the known path and arrive at the entrance above the bookcases. A spirit, who intruduces himself as plim, says hi to the boys and asks “WHAT DID YOU DO?”. Mylo and Jax are confused and ask what’s going on. They find out that Jac is no longer in the Spirit Library and has entered the human world. This is possible due to power of the dice Adrian exchanged for his friends. They held power which allowed him to escape. Mylo and Jax decide to now take their time since Jac is gone. They look and find an ancient looking book which details the old one in the same runic language as Mylo’s book.  Since Mylo took the first book out they decide Jax will take it in case there is a one book per person limit or something. They head down the staircase and at some point in their descent the stairs morph into a hallway with a wooden door at the end. Mylo goes and looks through a window built into the door (think really old door with cross window in it). He sees a old church on the other side. Jax tries to look but is blinded by light. Mylo decides to now open the door and is unable too on his own. He asks Jax for help and together they open the door. They go into a ruined and desolate church with stained glass depicting roses. There is also a large hole in the wall. Upon looking at each other Mylo and Jax notice they look nearly transparent as if they were ghosts. They quickly decide that this must be how Jac got out of the Spirit Library. They also agree not to say his name anymore since they were now on the same plane as him.  They go back into the Sprit Library and notice the door opens easily on the way back. They go back to the three-door dilemma and decide to read the book they obtained. They see images which humans were not meant to see and feel their sanity slip a little learning no new information about the Great Old One (I think??). They go upstairs to the attic to find claw marks on most of the room and the mirror as if something tore its way through. Adrian’s dice are on the floor and smashed into bits. They read the poem and return waking up at daybreak to discuss what they saw while they wait for the others to wake up. The old book they brought with them is now dust on Adrian’s desk.

Upon waking up Amanda remembers she needs to work today in less than an hour. She rushes to get ready and unfortunately arrives 19 minutes late to work getting her second strike. Adrian and Blake go to workout in the gym. Jax and Mylo buy hiking supplies. Jax also hears from his dad that the incident in town yesterday was apparently just a burglary. They all meet up again at 3:30pm. They head down a known trail and find an older trail that leads directly to the church. Mylo and Jax confirm this is the same church that they saw outside the Spirit Library and the wooden door they used is there. Once they open the door they head into a room with a bed, desk, and some bookshelves. Amanda opens the drawers and finds an ivory pair of Rosicrutian dice which look quite old. They roll snake eyes within the church grounds. Blake takes pictures of the room and upon looking at the photos later sees a hanging corpse in them for a moment which startles him. The Rosicrutian book states a rose would open the way so the group tries to find a rose to place before the door in an attempt to access the Spirit Library. Adrian tries his Shakespeare book which has a rose on it, nothing happens. Mylo attempts to find roses and only finds dandelions. Amanda and Adrian head away from the church to test when the dice will stop going snake eyes. They notice it stops around halfway along the trail back towards the main path.  Jax continues to talk about his ideas and notices that sometime between when he started talking and now everyone, minus Blake, left somewhere. Blake is still startled by what he saw. Jax finds Mylo outside and everyone meets up again. They decide to head back before it can get dark. Amanda comes up with a theory that the dice are snake eyes at the church because it is an exit and they should go double six at the library near the bookcase as it may be an entrance.

 Blake gets a notification that a package has arrived at the post office for him. The group heads with him to check it out. At the post office Blake gets a white package from Virginia. He opens it to find a large Xenon plushie. In addition, Blake receives a cheque for $100. The session ends as they begin to head back to school.