Round the Eleventh
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Habeus Corpses and Chop Chop: Soaking wet and furious, the lawyer and the cook fight with the generator to get it working again. The house is better-lit now; while it's obviously not at full power, it's enough that everybody can see without flashlights to a decent extent. They return to the kitchen and towel off, but they are once again available for talking.
Wine About It:
Rank and File: SPIDER WAR
Fuchsia Fussbudget: Missing in action.
Kitchen
The kitchen hasn't changed too much. Wine About It is reading the label of a bottle of wine, while Habeus Corpses drips her hair into the sink and Chop Chop dries herself with a towel.
You can…
A: Return to the dining room and search it/use the panel to access the sitting room
B: Talk to any of the NPCs
C: Search the wine cave
D: Search the kitchen
Dining Room
Nothing is new in this room, really. Habeus Corpses isn't here, though. Her case files are sitting out on the table.
You can...
A: Use the panel to head back to the sitting room
B: Read through the case files
Great Room
Not much has changed in here. This room appears to be completely empty.
Parlor
Rank and File has gained an advantage over the spiders; the sudden return of the lights has hurt their tiny, sensitive eyes. Drops of sweat bead his brow as he fights his way through.
Palm Court
There's so many bats. They make a half-hearted attempt to follow Vigorish, but he's on a catwalk, not a batwalk and so they stay where they are.
Trophy Room
One of the taxidermy heads appears to move... wait, no, that's just a trick of the light.
Sitting Room
After the kerfuffle with Sea Major, Judge Fudge is freed! Investigating the room a bit further, they notice that the rope used to bind the judge was nylon with a frayed edge. There's also a bright purple hair on the carpet- it's almost magenta in color.
You can...
A: Return to the kitchen
B: Return to the dining room
C: Go through the library and upstairs
Office
The chaos of the office has been left behind.
Powder Room/Restroom
This restroom is quiet now.
Library
There is nothing new in the library; the stairs, however, are still down! Whoever plunged the house into darkness didn't mess with them.
The Second Floor
The second floor landing is dimly illuminated by a soft glow from below. Long shadows dance and flicker on the walls, causing severe unease.
You can...
A: Search the reading room
B: Search the lounge
C: Search the art gallery (or if you want to forego a search for evidence, roll a d10 to find the passage).
D: Search the bathroom
E: If you can fly, you can search the top of the palm court (roll a d4 if you want to try to fit through the bars of the catwalk; 1 is success and allows you to search the catwalk, all others are failure.)
The Art Gallery
This room is empty, except for the spider bro who lives here.
The Lounge
Looking out the lounge window, the figures have gone away. Given that the generator is working again, that makes perfect sense.
You can...
A: Search the art gallery
B: Search the reading room
C: Attempt to open the laundry room to search there (roll a d10; 8 breaks the door down, otherwise failure)
The Reading Room
As Penny investigates the boxes, something else comes to light. She finds some hospital records, including her mother’s. This… this was odd. Her older brother was a good few years older than she was, and there weren’t any other children. Her mother got sick when she was a child; she was old enough to remember it. She didn’t know her mother had been in the hospital between the times they were born, but there's some records of a visit in here. Perhaps it wasn't hospitalization... or perhaps it was... something else.
Her mother was a recluse for quite a long time. She may have been... emotionally disturbed.
Other than the syringe, there's no drug paraphernalia. It doesn't really look like drugs. It doesn't really look like a substance anybody would want in their body. It actually smells a little like... drain cleaner?
You can...
A: Investigate the boxes
B: Search the art gallery
C: Search the reading room
D: Attempt to open the laundry room to search there (roll a d10; 8 breaks the door down, otherwise failure).
E: Search the previously locked guest bedroom
The Bathroom
This bathroom is empty, but glamorous.
The Catwalk
There’s an oil slick on the catwalk; not like motor oil or anything, but a clear, greasy spot. It looks like perhaps it was sloshed out while being carried; it’s not a huge spot. Just a few drops.
You can...
A: Cross the catwalk and search a large bedroom
B: Cross the catwalk and search a smaller bedroom
C: Cross the catwalk and search the workroom
The Laundry Room
Both attempts to make it through to the laundry room were smashing successes. Literally. The panel's been smashed! The cavernous room echoes with the sound of dripping water; one of the taps has started to leak. The unwashed tablecloth, sheet, and pillowcase are still gross and stained.
You can...
A: Search the laundry room some more
B: Search the guest bedroom
C: Push further on and search the workroom
The Open Guest Bedroom
This room, the one close to the laundry room, is mostly empty. The speaking tube has been uncovered, but this room doesn't really look too frequently used.
You can...
A: Search the workroom
B: Search a room at the end of the catwalk that's definitely Pennybags' bedroom
C: Search another room a little further down the catwalk that's probably a bedroom
The Previously Locked Guest Bedroom
As Edelweiss knocks the dolls about, she comes across something sitting on a table. There’s a book here- a photo album- filled with old pictures of Moneybags’ family. Somebody was recently flipping through it. It’s opened to a picture of Moneybags and his first wife on their wedding day- and there’s a strange white powder sprinkled on the pages.
Edelweiss gets the feeling she shouldn’t lick it.
Other than that, the doll room is mostly just creepy. None of the dolls have any obvious secrets, other than being horrible, horrible dolls.
You can…
A: Search the bathroom
B: Search behind a door that is definitely a bedroom
C: Search the reading room
The Workroom
The workroom is a large space filled with cleaning supplies, a couch to rest on, some furniture in various states of repair- basically, a utility room where the house staff working upstairs could have some space that wasn’t particularly public. It looks as though half of the room was mostly Fuchsia’s and the other half was Rank and File’s. The room’s worktables are full of various materials, but there are a few things that look as though they don’t belong. For instance, why would there be a bottle of cooking oil under a towel on Fuchsia’s side? There’s no hot plate up here or anything to cook with. There’s no other food in the room, either. The bottle isn’t labeled or anything, but maybe Chop Chop could help you out with identifying it. It doesn’t really look like regular old canola oil…
You can…
A: Cross the catwalk and search Pennybags' bedroom
B: Cross the catwalk and search another small bedroom
C: Head back downstairs to the library with the intention of heading to the kitchen and asking Chop Chop about the strange oil.
The Door That Was Probably A Bedroom Pennybags' Old Bedroom
This bedroom is blue and full of trophies, toys, and books. There is a large bed with a downy comforter, neatly made in a corner. A picture of Pennybags and his mother stands on the nightstand. There is a closet with a small child's clothes (and Pennybags remembers just how wretched these are- ugh, the Little Lord Faunterloy suits!), the sort of thing a sentimental parent might hang onto after their kid moves out, and a desk with a stack of college econ textbooks on top of it. This was clearly Pennybags' old room. The eastern wall has a door leading to a huge playroom; the northern wall has a door leading to a jack-and-jill style bathroom. Investigating this room doesn't give you anything in the way of evidence, but it does open up the way to a few far more interesting rooms.
You can...
A: Search what is really like to be a bedroom right next door
B: Go down to what is pretty much definitely a large bedroom at the end of the hall
C: Search the jack-and-jill bathroom
D: Search the playroom
The Master Bedroom
The unmade bed shows the time-worn imprint of a single sleeper’s body. This room is furnished with antiques; the four-poster bed is simply massive. An open book with a dogeared page lies on the bedside table. The floor is hardwood, but a dense Persian rug with cherub imagery covers nearly the entire room. Bookshelves line the walls. There's a beautiful, ornate wooden jewelry box sitting on a dresser; aside from that, there is little actual ornamentation... other than a beautiful watercolor portrait of Moneybags' first wife. Across from the bed, a window seat with a thick cushion provides a beautiful view of the formal gardens.
Well, it would if it was daytime.
Cutie Honey enters the room first; she is low to the ground and can see under the bed quite clearly. Under the bed, she finds a mostly empty wineglass. The glass has a thick red residue pooled in the bottom; it looks as though it has been abandoned for some time. There's a clear residue on the side of the glass as well; it is quite thick, but transparent. The glass smells like... well, wine. But the residue on the side is slicker than the residue at the bottom. Don Calimari opens the bedside table drawer using the key and finds...
A little black book. Not of wine, though. Of ladies.
There's also a lot of letters. Dozens and dozens of letters, many of them quite old. Personal correspondence- not business. The oldest ones go back to when he and his first wife were courting; the letters from her still smell like lavender perfume. Then there's letters- many unopened- from when she was sick. There's... something really tragic about all of this. He never really got over her, did he?
You can...
A: Search the bedroom between this one and Pennybags'
B: Search the attached master bathroom
C: Search this room some more
D: Search Pennybags' old bedroom
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