TheStarsAreRight:BaileyTimeline

• Jun 1931 - Leave for China. They go to stop the King of Body, who has set himself up as a warlord and doing unspeakable things with his powers. They take with them a number of children to bargain with him. The King is eventually killed. His first replacement also goes insane and is killed. Auda Abassi then becomes the second replacement of him.

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• Oct 1931 - Return from China.

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• Dec 14, 1931 - Leave from Inverness for Sandø Island, with Carl Ellis' group along with crewman John Elwar, and passengers Redland Jack and Henrik Mueller. This island has been uninhabited since a shipwreck in the 16th century which left survivors stranded for several years. The survivors of that eventually founded a clan/cult which would later become the village of Bailey.

• Dec 16, 1931 - Arrive at Sandø. Stay overnight after doing a ritual to investigate for signs of the influence. There is a roughly triangular hollow with vaguely serpent-shaped columns of stones in the corners of the hollow. They find a hole hidden by a flat stone down to a rough-shaped chamber with room for two people.

• Dec 17, 1931 - Rebecca and Henrik talk. (End of session) Carl, Henrik, and Redland Jack discuss plans for going to Bailey. Late afternoon, the Augusta Queen goes on to Streymoy (the main Faeroe Island port), leaving John & Henrik on the island. The port is strangely quiet, they learn due to a rash of influenza.

• Dec 18, 1931 - Ship stays on Streymoy, where they are unloaded and not fully re-loaded due to lack of people because of the plague. Henrik stays sketching on Sandø with John.

• Dec 19, 1931 - The Augusta Queen leaves the Faeroes early in the morning.

• Dec 20, 1931 - Arrive at Aberdeen in the evening. Hansen shows a crumpled ad for Hardeen the Mysterious from the early twenties, brother of Harry Houdini.

• Dec 21, 1931 - Arrive in Edinborough in the morning. Arrive in Reith, near Bailey at 11PM. After arranging rooms at the inn, they all walk through snow towards Bailey. They are shadowed by a fey named Andrew, who tells them new. Nearby, Carl, Rebecca, and Auda do a ritual to open the ley line going into the village. Carl and Rebecca are exhausted by this, and Auda nearly goes to attack the church, but he is knocked unconscious by Erich. Carl then does second ritual, watched over by the others while Henrik takes Rebecca and the unconscious Auda back to the inn. During the walk back, they kiss. The group meets at the inn later. (End of session -- In email, there are conversations at the inn and Carl giving documents to the newcomers.)

• Dec 22, 1931 - In the morning, the American private investigator Bobby Hansen turns up, interested in meeting Constance Talmudge (an actress who lives in Bailey, but also the incarnation of the spirit known as The Lady). He joins the others going to Bailey. They arrive little over an hour before the solstice, which is around 11AM. They find a manor house under construction and a church-like building built around a pyramid, but no people about. The church is on the ley line, and they go down steps under the church.

They first encounter a giant scorpion creature, which runs after Hansen shoots it. In a room later, they find 30 people in a trance watching a column of light. They are a distraction, a simple energy source for the Lady. In a room following, they find 10 villagers also in a trance, facing a display of four human skins. Constance is nowhere to be found, though. There is a small chamber adjoining this where they can feel a psychic connection.

They attempt a ritual with multiple parts. To disrupt the Lady's ritual, Hansen distract the 10 people by giving them a forceful command to leave, aided by Redland Jack and John. Auda carved a symbol into the floor of the chamber and activated it with his blood. Using a silver paint pen given him by Carl, Henrik draws pictures of the three guardian statues that he had studied on Sandø Island. When the ritual completes, the guardians come to life. After staying at the back and in corners for a while, Jack inexplicably tries to attack them, but Henrik fends him off. John commands them to take the Lady back to her prison, and they obey.

• Feb 3, 1932 - Unbeknownst to them, when they leave the ley-line-charged church, it is six weeks later, February 3 of the following year. Hansen first emerges, with a dozen of the villagers who have fixated on him since his command, and eventually he lets himself be drawn into a pagan orgy outdoors around a bonfire. The others studiously avoid this and eventually make their way back to the inn. Auda has apparently taken on new psychic ties to the village. Henrik uncomfortably talks to Auda about his intentions towards Rebecca, and Auda explains in part the psychic connection that he and she have.