Into The Caverns
Game Date: 02 Apr 2011
Present: Cindy, Kim, Maer, Andy, and Jim
Hanny Saulnier is sent a telebram in the middle of the night before the dawn of our second day on the estate. She leaves immediately to take care of Selene's amalgamated animals. Or rather, the animal those delving into her research has engendered--a mastatdon is roaming the streets of London right now. The research Josephine had put in the authorities' custody proved too enticing to leave alone.
Selene, meanwhile, has not been idle since her return to England. She'd converted the dilapidated greenhouse off the south wing of the main house into a makeshift lab. When we look for her to give her the news, the horrible stink from her latest experiment leads us there. She's not entirely pleased to hear it and Josephine apologizes--it was her judgment call to put her research into the English government's hands.
The party readies itself to investigate the caves under the property today. Selene shows us a map of the place--there are only five rooms in the cavern complex and the ley lines intersect under the Temple. A room is said to rise from below into the Temple itself.
We enter the cavern at 10 A.M. and the sight of the huge carved skull over the entrance causes Flora to fall into a panic. She runs and Bertie has to grapple her to the ground to contain her. After a few moments she calms down and is able to proceed with us.
Katherins and Flora are both Channelers and they involuntarily seance the spirits of the place. The spirits are telling us to come in. Katherine grabs Ezekiel's hand and says:
Katherine: Flora, do you feel it?
She means the spirits and Flora, of course, answers in the affirmative.
It's dark under the ground and Beignet casts a ghastlight spell to light our way, sending it ahead so we can see. We enter a room--more of an entry way, really. It's about 100 feet long, a tunnel, but a tunnel carved out of the rock in the form of the nave of a Gothic Church, complete with the columns and the groin vaulting overhead. There is a Latin inscription carved into the walls.
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