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[Pancaek]

"You shouldn't go down there, mon ami, the knife will cut you, cut you bad. Better to shut the door and drop the bolts on the damn thing"

Get away from the door, patch myself up before I bleed to death

((yay lucky rolls))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Pierre Fortescue
Description: A librarian drafted into the Great War, he served as a field medic. Unable to bear remaining in france after he saw his friends shot to pieces and his hometown destroyed, he immigrated to America in hopes of starting anew. He is about 1.8 meters tall and has dark brown hair with a moustache. His eyes are grey. He wears a simple brown checkered suit with a red bowtie. He is currently undergoing further medical training at the Miskatonic University.
Hit points: 4/13
Sanity: 48
Inventory: Nagant revolver(7/7,1d8+1,2,VS), book "the three musketeers", Satchel bag with basic medical supplies.

[Joben]

"Very well. Perhaps we can investigate the screaming instead."

Cave to panicked man. Go investigate what's going on downstairs.

Spoiler: Boganski's status (click to show/hide)

Name: Fyodor Vadimovich Boganski
Hit points: 13/13
Sanity: 49
Inventory: toolbox (contains hammer, nails, crowbar, screwdriver, screws), thirty dollars, sledgehammer.
Owns (not on person): cart, cart-pulling donkey (named Nikolai), shovel (in cart).

You relent and stop trying to enter the room. Instead you walk over to the stairs and descend to see what all the fuss is about. You see the Frenchman, who has apparently just ascended the basement stairs. He is severely injured and bleeding, you also notice a large tear in the satchel he is clutching. You can't see anything alarming on the basement stairs.

Keep pulling!

Boganski gives up trying to get into the bedroom for now and instead heads downstairs to see what Fortescue was yelling about. He is doing quite a bit of rather rather desperate yelling. Something about getting knifed and needing help.

((We can assume you followed him and are downstairs with the others if you want. Or of course you can do more things upstairs.))

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House Map just to keep it in mind. Pretty much everybody is over near the stairways, mostly on the ground floor on the landing between the one going up and the one going down.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Harry Baldman]

Help the poor guy out, try to relieve his bleeding if possible.

Spoiler: Boganski's status (click to show/hide)

Name: Fyodor Vadimovich Boganski
Hit points: 13/13
Sanity: 49
Inventory: toolbox (contains hammer, nails, crowbar, screwdriver, screws), thirty dollars, sledgehammer.
Owns (not on person): cart, cart-pulling donkey (named Nikolai), shovel (in cart).

[mastahcheese]

Help the poor guy out, try to relieve his bleeding if possible.

Assist with this.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Cromwell Jackson
Description: Tall, lanky man with thick eyeglasses, he is a travelling street magician down on his luck.
Hit points: 9/13
Sanity: 49
Inventory: Deck of Trick Cards, Worn Top Hat, Caged Rabbit "Cheddar", Backpack with miscellaneous "magical" Equipment
Owns (not on person): Nothing, he is homeless.

[Patrick Hunt]

Wait patiently then follow the group.

[Joben]

Walk down into the basement holding 2 of my knives out to defend myself.

Wait patiently then follow the group.

Second action replaces first?

[Patrick Hunt]

(( Yeah, no point going down if everyone else is going away from it. ))

[Joben]

"You shouldn't go down there, mon ami, the knife will cut you, cut you bad. Better to shut the door and drop the bolts on the damn thing"

Get away from the door, patch myself up before I bleed to death

((yay lucky rolls))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Pierre Fortescue
Description: A librarian drafted into the Great War, he served as a field medic. Unable to bear remaining in france after he saw his friends shot to pieces and his hometown destroyed, he immigrated to America in hopes of starting anew. He is about 1.8 meters tall and has dark brown hair with a moustache. His eyes are grey. He wears a simple brown checkered suit with a red bowtie. He is currently undergoing further medical training at the Miskatonic University.
Hit points: 4/13
Sanity: 48
Inventory: Nagant revolver(7/7,1d8+1,2,VS), book "the three musketeers", Satchel bag with basic medical supplies.

You step over into the kitchen and start cleaning and bandaging your wounds. Boganski and Jackson help. The main wound is nasty, a deep slash across your chest. but you successfully close it and stop the bleeding.

When you take out your medical kit you noticed that there is a sizable tear in your satchel, but Boganski closes the hole for you with safety pins. You can mend it properly or replace it later. Your book has a gouge that goes through it's leather cover and the first couple dozen pages. You had a very narrow escape. Your clothing is in sad condition. Shirt and jacket torn and soaked in blood, trousers filthy.

+3 HP.
Bandages down to one use remaining.

Help the poor guy out, try to relieve his bleeding if possible.

Spoiler: Boganski's status (click to show/hide)

Name: Fyodor Vadimovich Boganski
Hit points: 13/13
Sanity: 49
Inventory: toolbox (contains hammer, nails, crowbar, screwdriver, screws), thirty dollars, sledgehammer.
Owns (not on person): cart, cart-pulling donkey (named Nikolai), shovel (in cart).

You and Jackson help Fortescue clean his wounds and prepare dressings in the kitchen with the items in his medical kit. Seeing an opportunity to repair something you use some safety pins from the kit to temporarily close the tear in his satchel.

((Seemed in character for you. Ok?))

Help the poor guy out, try to relieve his bleeding if possible.

Assist with this.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Cromwell Jackson
Description: Tall, lanky man with thick eyeglasses, he is a travelling street magician down on his luck.
Hit points: 9/13
Sanity: 49
Inventory: Deck of Trick Cards, Worn Top Hat, Caged Rabbit "Cheddar", Backpack with miscellaneous "magical" Equipment
Owns (not on person): Nothing, he is homeless.

You and Boganski help Fortesque clean his wounds and prepare dressings. He has his bag of medical supplies which is a blessing.

While you're at it you remember that you got tossed through a glass window a while ago and see to your own minor injuries.

In the present state of your finances the corresponding wear and tear on your suit. It's the only one you have.

+2 HP.

Wait patiently then follow the group.

Harvey Jones waits for the others to get ready to do something.

While you stand idle it occurs to you that you did find some books that were sealed away, but you never examined them.

[Patrick Hunt]

Check the books?

[Harry Baldman]

"Hopefully you will keep safe. What happened?" Boganski asks Fortescue.

Ask. Take a look around for anything suspicious.

[Pancaek]

"I'm not sure you'll believe this. I found a strange knife in the basement, but when I went upstairs to check out the noises, the thing started floating and attacked me." He shakes his head "Perhaps we should just burn down the house? Be done with it"

Say

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Pierre Fortescue
Description: A librarian drafted into the Great War, he served as a field medic. Unable to bear remaining in france after he saw his friends shot to pieces and his hometown destroyed, he immigrated to America in hopes of starting anew. He is about 1.8 meters tall and has dark brown hair with a moustache. His eyes are grey. He wears a simple brown checkered suit with a red bowtie. He is currently undergoing further medical training at the Miskatonic University.
Hit points: 7/13
Sanity: 48
Inventory: Nagant revolver(7/7,1d8+1,2,VS), book "the three musketeers", Satchel bag with basic medical supplies.

[Joben]

Check the books?

((Sure you can make a cursory examination of the books while you wait. There a lot of material, metagame I'll tell you that thoroughly reading them will take most of two days.))

You get the books out of your bag and look at them. They're hand written diaries from the early to mid 1800's. They're in plain English, though a bit eccentrically phrased at times. The fly leaf at the beginning of the first volume declares it to be that of one Mister Walter Corbit. Most entries are mundane though others seem a bit odd, but it's hard to be sure without context.

[Patrick Hunt]

Pick the earliest one and start reading. Look for mentions of monsters, haunting or hiding places for weapons or important things.

[Harry Baldman]

"Ah. I see," Boganski says without inflection.

Action addendum: listen in carefully. Any noises I can hear? Other than the ones I have already discover, that is. Any feelings that the house seems to instill?

Spoiler: Boganski's status (click to show/hide)

Name: Fyodor Vadimovich Boganski
Hit points: 13/13
Sanity: 49
Inventory: toolbox (contains hammer, nails, crowbar, screwdriver, screws), thirty dollars, sledgehammer.
Owns (not on person): cart, cart-pulling donkey (named Nikolai), shovel (in cart).

[Joben]

"Hopefully you will keep safe. What happened?" Boganski asks Fortescue.

Ask. Take a look around for anything suspicious.

"Ah. I see," Boganski says without inflection.

Action addendum: listen in carefully. Any noises I can hear? Other than the ones I have already discover, that is. Any feelings that the house seems to instill?

Spoiler: Boganski's status (click to show/hide)

Name: Fyodor Vadimovich Boganski
Hit points: 13/13
Sanity: 49
Inventory: toolbox (contains hammer, nails, crowbar, screwdriver, screws), thirty dollars, sledgehammer.
Owns (not on person): cart, cart-pulling donkey (named Nikolai), shovel (in cart).

You see nothing alarming in the kitchen. Aside from your battered companions anyway. The house is quiet for once.

((Btw there is some home-made wine in here. I think I forgot to mention it a while ago when you rolled high while searching for food))

"I'm not sure you'll believe this. I found a strange knife in the basement, but when I went upstairs to check out the noises, the thing started floating and attacked me." He shakes his head "Perhaps we should just burn down the house? Be done with it"

Say

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Pierre Fortescue
Description: A librarian drafted into the Great War, he served as a field medic. Unable to bear remaining in france after he saw his friends shot to pieces and his hometown destroyed, he immigrated to America in hopes of starting anew. He is about 1.8 meters tall and has dark brown hair with a moustache. His eyes are grey. He wears a simple brown checkered suit with a red bowtie. He is currently undergoing further medical training at the Miskatonic University.
Hit points: 7/13
Sanity: 48
Inventory: Nagant revolver(7/7,1d8+1,2,VS), book "the three musketeers", Satchel bag with basic medical supplies.

You successfully speak   As you say this it occurs to you that even if this is necessary it would have extensive legal complications. The house is not yours and arson is a felony.

You notice it's getting on toward dinner time.

Pick the earliest one and start reading. Look for mentions of monsters, haunting or hiding places for weapons or important things.

You start reading at the beginning. There are a lot of boring entries like "January 28, 1808. Price of rum and butter has gone up again.  Went to John Doe's for dinner. I don't think his wife likes me very much."

((If you spent the evening on it you could make some real progress. And if the others decide to take a day or two off to recuperate or make any other time consuming inquiries you could read the whole thing and not miss any action in the house.))