A Residence at the Bay 08: Into the Crowe's Nest

### Players

Joseph Chance as Dr. Henry Carrig-Muir, Dan Wheeler as Rev. Peregrine McCutcheon, Dominic Allen as Lady Helen Marjorie Bjalmier Potts

### Podcast Link

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-4dq4v-12f7916

## Synopsis (Spoiler Warning)

In the first scene, Peter and June are woken at night by the dogs' barking: they grieve a little over Billy's death, saying that "he's with Her now", and eventually elect to try and see what's going on outside. Peter does, and seems to shoot at some scarecrows, but before he can harm one which presumably killed the dogs, June stops him, saying that it's Billy. They get him inside and chain him up in his old room, hoping he'll go back to being himself. The into plays.

Peregrine lifts the linen sack off of Blackwell's head: the young man seems to be alive, but he's chained up, half-conscious, bloodied and gagged. Peregrine suggests they get him off the cross and attempts to pick the chain's lock along with Dr Henry, which doesn't yield any particularly good results, so upon consensus he promises the young man that they'll come back for him in the near future. Before moving on, he places the linen sack back on Blackwell's head.

Once they've gotten back to the guesthouse, Dr Henry has doubts about whether or not he should go down to the cliffs as Peregrine overhears Peter and June speaking, with June in particular seeming a lot more assertive than usual. She mentions using "the Glory" on guests, and asks him if he's already removed the bullets from Lady Marjorie's rifle. Peregrine assumes the Glory might be something they've used to make them sleep, and once the conversation stops they all agree to pop into the guesthouse and subsequently go down to Boggle Hole: when they enter, Peter offers dinner and an ale (which he calls the Glory) but they refuse out of suspicion. After this, the characters all go upstairs while Lady Marjorie recalls visiting a museum in which she saw what was labelled as a Hand of Glory: a dried up hand with wicks at the fingertips, obtained though a complex chemical and esoteric process, which once complete would only produce light for its creator and send everyone else to sleep. She then swoons and a series of failed dexterity rolls cause Dr Henry and Peregrine to fall down the stairs. The two men then eventually manage to get back up and she shares her knowledge with them, after which they all try and formulate a plan and discuss Jamesian layers of uncertainty as Dr Henry smokes some of his opium. When looking outside, he notices once more a scarecrow on the the trig point, and accidentally cuts his hand by smashing the window in an involuntary action; June then asks if they need any help and the familiar scratching noise from the floor above begins again. Outside, they hear June sweep up the broken glass and decide to have Lady Marjorie jump out of the window on top of her through the expenditure of quite a lot of luck: the maneuver results in June's gory death. Meanwhile downstairs Peter doesn't seem to have heard this, so Peregrine creates a distraction in order to make him run off and subsequently goes to look for the cellar while Dr Henry runs to Lady Marjorie's aid, helping her to get back into the house. Peregrine then lifts a trap door, grabs a lamp, and walks down towards the basement: the place is full of bottles, hanging meat, ropes and among other things it also smells like blood.

## Important NPCs

* Reverend James Blackwell
* Peter Crowe
* June Crowe

## Places

* Moors between the Boggle Hole parish and the Boggle Hole guesthouse
* Boggle Hole Guesthouse

## Quotes

* "My spot hidden was 100, do I need to roll my listen as well?" (Joseph) "No no, please! No!" (Danann)
* "Do a combined botany-occult roll!" (Dom) "Boccult." (Joseph) "The occult uses of plants: boccultany." (Dom) "Occultany is really nice as well." (Joseph)
* "I'll be sure to mention it in my Yahoo review..." (Dom as Lady Marjorie) "Oh we've had a few yahoos review us, don't worry!" (Danann as Peter)
* "I don't know if you believe in the occult, I don't know if you believe that's a real thing..." (Danann) "Of course I do, I'm a mad old woman!" (Dom)
* "Are any of you going to listen to this revelation or are you going to spend all evening lying at the bottom of the stairs?!" (Dom as Lady Marjorie) "Aye, I'll listen." (Danann as Peter) "Not you, Peter, fuck off! Haven't you got broccoli to roast?" (Dom)
* "I don't think there's a cult down there, I think the guesthouse is too small." (Dom as Lady Marjorie) "That's the most Victorian thing to say..." (Joseph)