Nameless Horrors Bleak Prospects

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Nathaniel Coombes - James Coquillat

Karl Rothstein - Alex Caton

Arthur Priestley - Art Hunter

* Arthur and Nathaniel are dealing with Arthur's husband (Harold) as his sickness progresses
* Harold believes that his and Arthur's fall from grace was from the actions of a secret society, fronted by Arthur Sedgewick
* Harold dies, or rather deliquesces.
* Maureen and Karl are hunting for Maureen's missing daughter Esther
* Around the camp fire is the common story of the white masked men who come to get whatever you have left and take it from you
* Nancy is staying she saw them last night walking between the tents
* Karl comes in and says he's spotted tracks from a large car that probably came to the camp last night
* Arthur and Nathaniel meet up with Karl / Maureen. A meeting of conspiracies
* Maureen knew a Professor Matthew Hawkes, who had a junior partner called Arthur Sedgewick.
* Professor Hawkes went missing as Sedgewick ascended in fortune.
* There is a slight contre-temps between Arthur and Nathaniel about where to put Harold's body
* Arthur takes Harold's wedding ring
* The group head off to the police station down in Crawley
* They're advised to stay away from the Police at the moment, and that they look into this themselves
* They're told that an Alex Rosetti walked in and saw the Captain, walked out with an armful of folders
* Next they go to the Hospital, where Nathaniel has a contact that on occasion gives him scraps and leftover supplies
* Nathaniel attempts to get a hold of the autopsy suite
* His contact agrees to leave the door open
* Arthur poses the question of whom is making sure that no-one is directly helping the settlers of the Hooverville
* Nathaniel heads back towards Hooverville
* Arthur heads over to the offices of the newspaper. He sneaks his way into the office of the Editor.
* He obtains Harold's notes from the records. But he is discovered by a Junior Office Person.
* Arthur manages to run past him, as phone calls are made to the Police
* Harold's notes talk about The Midas Circle, 1928/1929. They seemed to be benefitting from the great depression, gaining strength. The names Sedgewick, Maloy, Casper Brink occur and there are addresses. What could they be gaining from getting people from the Hoovervilles?
* Maureen and Karl are heading over to Rosetti's house.
* There is a vehicle in the drive way, with mud in the tires, and of a similar size to that which was seen in Hooverville
* Karl knocks but there is no response
* He appears to wake someone from their so-called beauty sleep who heads down towards them
* Maureen goes round to the back of the house to come in through the back door
* Karl attempts to persuade Mr Rosetti to pay attention to him, as Maureen comes in through the back with her gun drawn
* As Alex Rosetti goes to shoot Karl, the gun gets knocked out of his hand and Maureen covers him
* As Nathaniel is coming back with a corpse heading for the hospital, he runs into the cops who are arresting Arthur and is spotted

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* Nathaniel uncovers a number of horrible changes to the body in the autopsy suite. In the abdomen cavity are a number of egg sacks. That's when a number of police constables arrive and drag Nathaniel off, as the egg sacks start to hatch. Nathaniel grabs an egg sack before he's dragged off
* Nathaniel is left in a room towards the back of the Police Station. He can feel whatever has hatched trying to burrow under his skin
* Captain Delour shows up, and together with his collegue starts a good cop, bad cop routine. They want to know about the corpse.
* Nathaniel is remanded in police custody overnight
* Meanwhile Rosetti is pulling rank whilst Karl gets busy searching the house
* Maureen is attempting to threaten Rosetti, who is telling her that her kid is lying in filth drowning
* Maureen manages to get Rosetti to back down, having pulled a gun on him and shot into the air
* Rosetti offers to take them to Maureen's daughter, he'll win anyhow in the end. Karl rips off his shirt, revealing a moving mass beneath
* It's now that one or more cars pull into the drive way outside
* It's Captain Delour, with goon and Nathaniel
* Maureen pretends to be the cleaning lady, saying that Rosetti is in one of his moods
* The Captain realises that something is up. He tells Wilson to bring the Doctor
* He goes into the kitchen and pulls the blanket off of Rosetti
* He then calls for Wilson to "get the maid"
* Nathaniel tries to get the gun from Captain Delour, but fails
* Maureen grabs Rosetti's car keys and runs out to his car to get it started
* The Captain orders Karl to put the gun down, but Karl pretends not to understand English
* Karl vaults out of the window, shotgun and staff in hands
* The Captain attempts to cover Nathaniel with his gun
* He pistol whips Nathaniel who goes down cold
* Maureen does a donut and drives off as Karl acrobats in through the side door window leaving the unconcious Nathaniel behind
* The pair find a map that indicates a few locations including the Hooverville
* Nathaniel has been tied to a kitchen chair, and is sitting in the dark. Rosetti and Captain Delour are in the room.
* Rosetti's belly button is stretched wide like a mouth. He is pointing a very large gun at Nathaniel and smacks him around the face
* Nathaniel sweet talks Rosetti into getting himself recruited into the cult
* Maureen and Karl pull up outside the diner
* The woman in charge of the diner knows Rosetti. Cruel, but they pay. They did come through late last night.
* She did see a car go past late last night heading North.
* One of Rosetti's consorts keeps a white sheet over his face, smells sickly
* Karl knows that to the North lies Prospect House, the property of Professor Hawke.
* Just as they're leaving, they see Wilson, Delour, Rosetti, and Nathaniel.
* Rosetti enters and flags down Ida as they head to a booth
* Rosetti is naked to the waist (to just above his navel maw), with his gun being suckled
* Karl and Maureen want to slip out, but Ida can't do anything with a gun in the establishment and the Chief of Police in there
* Nathaniel gets Rosetti and the cops drinking.
* Rosetti hears the commotion that Maureen causes by clattering things in the Kitchen
* Fortunately there is a window just in the right position, that Maureen and Karl can get out of stealthily, and into the car which starts and heads off to Prospect House

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* Arthurs, Maureen, and Karl arrive at Prospect House where they stash their stolen car in some trees
* They proceed to circle around the property as another car pulls up towards the entrance and drives through
* Arthur and Maureen slide through the open gate as Karl distracts the goon by throwing a rock in the opposite direction
* In 1924 Professor Hawkes was doing research into different dimensions
* Wilson reseals the lock and starts to walk up to the house
* Karl helps Arthur unlock the gate
* Rosetti talks about there needing to be a sacrifice for them to be able to get into the house
* Rosetti tells Delour to unlock Nathaniel's shackels. He then refuses to let Rosetti perform a sacrifice, as they go for their guns
* Nathaniel calls out to Wilson
* Rosetti and Delour end up in a wrestling melee, with Wilson sprinting in
* As they move around, Arthur almost trips over an electrical cable running towards a locked shed from the house
* As Wilson comes into view, Nathaniel slips into the shadows and into the undergrowth
* Rosetti slams his gun into Delour as he shouts "I will devour you for eons!"
* Rosetti drops his gun and squeezes Delour's eyes into his head as there is a squelching sound from his abdomen that's in contact with Delour
* Arthur fails to unlock the shed door
* Rosetti tells Wilson to drag Delour to the doorway as their sacrifice
* It's now that Maureen shoots Rosetti, but he somehow manages to remain concious
* Wilson lurches for Maureen, but she manages to tell him that Rosetti is the danger
* Nathaniel lurches into Rosetti to get in his way, grabbing the gun that he discarded earlier
* Delour regains conciousness and tries to get away, but is crawling up the stairs to the house
* Maureen fires into Rosetti once more sending him to an early grave
* In the shed is some kind of occult machinery surrounded by glass canisters filled with a thick gelatinous fluid
* There is also a reclining chair with tie-downs and lots of tubing.
* There is the creek of wood as the front doors to the house open apparently by their own volition
* Inside is just darkness. The roof sags as a large tounge comes out and wraps itself around Delour and starts to pull him into the house
* Maureen tries to pull Nathaniel from the brink, but Nathaniel gives Delour a final shot
* Nathaniel and Maureen grab the remains of Rosetti and enter, Wilson following them
* The machinery in the shed appears to be set up for a one-shot opening into a different dimensions
* The beings in the jars are apparently alien beings brought in from said dimensions
* The chair allows the injection of those parasites into a living beings
* Karl and Arthur overload the system to fry the alien parasites
* As Nathaniel and Maureen enter the house they see a bulge moving through the walls, and the noise of flesh being ripped from upstairs
* At the very edge of hearing, Maureen hears her daughter from below
* There is some kind of intestinal lining on the stairs going down into a water filled cellar, that has a sheen of some kind on itself
* Maureen enters the cellar. The water is above her head level, with an 8 inch gap to the roof. Maureen's daughter is at the far end of the room on a ledge.
* The water is clearly acidic.
* Esther thinks that Billy got fed to something.
* Maureen starts to swim over, as something brushes against her leg. She dunks under the water and feels something come in under her shirt, and there's a pain around her collarbone
* They meet at the bars around the space where Esther is being held
* Around now Karl and Arthur come in through the front door
* The sound of ripping flesh is enough to send Arthur into the memory of when they were at the ball in the house with their husband.
* Nathaniel runs up to where Arthur is in their revery, shoots the candelabra, and in doing so drops them into the present
* Maureen pulls the bars apart to free Esther
* There is something growing inside Esther
* Wilson grabs Esther along with Karl towards the shed
* Arthur goes looking for the notes of Sedgewick. These parasites draw on someone's luck/fortune/potential, etc and feed it to someone else
* Maureen has a patch of greyish skin with something moving inside heading towards her chest.
* She goes after it with a knife, but it's burrowed too deep
* Nathaniel starts the process to remove the parasite from Esther. He realises that he cannot keep the parasite alive so that Esther's prosperity can be returned.
* They consider taking Maureen's prosperity to give to Esther
* They kill Esther's parasite.
* They go to extract Maureen's parasite, which Nathaniel does successfully
* They then drain it into Esther
* They start to believe that the being in the house is Hawkes caught in a different dimension\
* The house is burnt down
* Karl is able to get himself back up barely, after a few years and as things improve he takes up a research post, and ends up helping out on the Manhattan project in an attempt that nothing like this happens ever again
* Nathaniel adjusts his goals and expectations and makes a new life for himself in his new smaller world
* Arthur receeds from society, still haunted by his paranoia, continuing with Howard's research, muttering to Howard, rubbing his wedding ring
* Maureen takes Esther and leaves the area so that Esther can have her own story