Player Character List

1. Tucloc Hedat - The Spooky. Town weirdo with premonitions and a secret dark bargain.
2. Felix Fraunhofer - The Expert. Town Librarian with a secret haven in the backroom.
3. Marty Mikaelsverd - The Divine. Neurotic pothead with his weird ass dog.
4. Jack Dalton - The Mundane. DJ Qualls with a broken bicycle.
5. Juniper Jones - The Monstrous. Party girl who doesn't know she's a faerie.
6. Peter Lowell - The Wronged. Hunter with a bloodthirst for devils.

Mystery

It's a Mad, Mad World by myself, Jonathan Loy.

The hunters are watching tv and see our trusty news anchor, Victoria Price, reporting from EISENHOWER BRIDGE about Tony Young’s suicide. She says that there are no known reasons, and the situation seems strange and out of the blue. Tony leaves behind two kids and a loving family. The team decides to check it out.

• The morning after the events of Death and Docent - Chris Larsson, the museum administrator, Hector, a Security Guard, and a sharply dressed man named Robert Mason watch security monitors from the clash with the Saharan Death Worms. The camera moves in as we see Juniper seemingly push the worm away without touching it. Robert calls for a replay, and when played slowly, Juniper’s eyes flash like an animal in headlights.We switch cameras to the rotunda, and the 3 men watch the group as they fight and leave toward Ocean Hall. We see a woman in a trench coat swipe her badge at the research wing and briefly enter, then leave, glancing at the camera mounted in the hall. Robert recognizes her as Ms. Talbot and tells Hector to stop. He confiscates the USB containing all copies of the security footage. While his staff is cleaning up the museum’s post-mystery chaos, Robert requests NDAs from all museum employees. Dr. Morrison gets an FBI sponsored closed-coffin funeral, and the museum is cleared of all wrongdoing. Fast forward, a week or two later - Our scene opens on a late Thursday night in the abandoned CEDAR GROVE SANITARIUM. Vanessa Hart and Samuel Clark, the local jock/cheerleader couple, are wandering around. They hear a door open, and policeman Tony Young stops them. He escorts the kids from the premises and goes back in to make sure the building is clear. A few hours later, Tony Young is standing on a bridge over the river, yelling “Make it stop!” and jumps.
• Jack bought backup chambers for the super soaker. He fills one with hot sauce, one with salted Holy Water, and one with Colloidal Silver. He is still holding on to the (now crusty) water mace.
• Marty starts googling info, seeing if he can move into the crime scene? The CEDAR GROVE SANITARIUM was founded in the late 1800’s to house the “criminally insane.” In 1954, patients rioted, fires broke out, and most everyone died. Many people attribute the riots to the mishandling of patients by the head of the facility Dr. Stanley Milgraham, while others say it’s the fault of an unruly patient, Simon Crane. There has been a string of suspicious accidents after teenagers spend the night in the asylum, as a dare or prank.
• In Felix’s absence, Juniper steps in to research the creature. Decides it’s most likely a vengeful spirit(s). Salt will temporarily disable, cold iron will hurt, but to get rid of it have to appease it or salt and burn bones.
• Everybody goes to get salt. Jack gets a wooden stake.
• Peter shows up and Jack introduces him to everyone. Jack fills him in on what happened at asylum. Peter has plenty of salt in his kitchen, so he gets that, plus a bunch of fucking guns with salt shot (turns out we’re in his garage???) and some gasoline/lighter fluid.
• ((World Note: There are 4 types of rounds: regular, salt rock rounds, holy rounds, and silver bullets.))
• Marty hears from his boss. It’s a wild ride!!!! He is transported to empty white room and sees a man in a sleazy business suit. Saul claims to be Marty’s new “handler” as the other guy (Kevin) is on a mission (and an asshole).
• “Can you stop haunting my dog?” “I’ll start working on that one later, you got work to do”.
• Saul asks if he knows his mission, Marty says no. Apparently god’s not around and they (angels maybe?) are impatient for the “final battle”. Dumah, the leader of Gehenna, is Saul’s boss. They are helping with that in order to get to paradise later. Saul explains that people who do bad things go to Gehenna and ”me and the boys” torture him for their sins. But he’s not a demon, he’s a fallen angel with big black wings. Fallen Angel supremacists?
• “Don’t think of it as destruction, just think of it as starting the Armageddon and then we’ll all be in Paradise”. Offers his help for the day, and his advice is just to use the sword. You know the one.
• “Eventually - gonna need to find out the secrets of all the people you’re running around with.”
• Marty and Juniper toke up
• Peter questions how Jack got involved with these people, and Jack is just...tired.
• Everyone gets going .
• CEDAR GROVE SANITARIUM is a large Gothic building with a lot of damage/disrepair, police tape over the entrance. We enter the LOBBY and turn West to head into the MALE WARD with everyone.
• Check out WEST SOLARIUM on the way. Peter unholsters his shotgun, carefully walks up and peeks through door, noting a change in temperature
• There are spirits running around we haven’t noticed, and the biggest threat is the ghost of Simon Crane
• Jack suggests heading to PATIENT BELONGINGS first. Everyone agrees. Jack opens the door, narrowly avoids hugging a rotted corpse fall down as it slams to the floor.
• Meanwhile, Marty is saging the area, and the smoke tends to go to the western direction. Guess we’re headed the right way.
• Jack walks in the room and sees bodies slumped over, some who died violently. Corpses look like they were trying to tear open their own eyes, there’s bite marks, etc. It’s basically a scene of mass hysteria and violence. Marty follows him in and steps over the bodies uncomfortably.
• Jack looks for Simon Crane’s belongings and finds an old stitched doll. with S.C stitched into it. Marty sages it, and Peter seems spooked. Juniper suggests they burn it and go toward the WEST WING. Jack agrees. Marty keeps cleansing the doll. Peter is cowering. Juniper grabs the gas from Peter, puts salt on it, and douses the doll in gas.
• Marty pulls out his weird burning chest sword again. Reg is thrilled . Marty touches the doll with the tip of the sword and it burns to ash.
• Jack tells him to put it away, Marty says hell fuckin no
• DOCTORS OFFICE - Jack tries to kick the door open but gets possessed. He is now very very angry all the time at everything.
• Peter tries to help but also gets possessed.
• Both attack Marty
• Jack escapes influence.
• Marty runs up to Peter and starts talking very quietly and calmly. “It’s okay, it’s okay, calm down.” Lights a J on the sword and blows smoke on him in to get him to chill
• Inside the DOCTORS OFFICE - Wall lined with filing cabinets, some files strewn across the floor. Jack starts searching and he is magically transported to a DARK FOREST. Hears the sound of a horse galloping and sees the Headless Horseman, who says “Time for a little HUNT” and pulls out a sword dripping with ichor. Jack pretends not to be scared and defeats the Horseman (AKA fear) with salt water.
• Inside the DOCTORS OFFICE - Juniper sees “Anger enhancement therapy treatment - not successful. Must try again” over and over again written by Dr. Milgraham. Assumedly “Anger Enhancement Therapy” contributed to the riots.
• Everyone decides to head toward the WEST WING
• A ghost tries to approach in the HALLWAY, but Peter’s gun jams and he gets possessed again
• Jack manipulates him out of it, but the ghost is not a fan of that. Apparently he has electricity powers
• Basically everyone fails their rolls here, until….
• Marty runs and yells while he thrusts at the ghost with his divine flaming sword to draw the ghosts attention.Somehow, we can tell that it was the ghost of Dr. Stanley Milgraham.
• Peter looks for a bone to pick with the Dr. in WARD A, but turns up nothing except corpses of Patrick Bateman, Max Burt, and Charlie Mason, none of whom appear important.
• Back to the ghost - now Juniper gets possessed. Everyone else sees her eyes go solid gold…..interesting.
• Peter’s gun is still jammed
• Marty stands up and charges the ghost, yelling “May the power of christ compel you” and the ghost turns and moves toward him then disintegrates. Marty thinks it must be the sage
• Fun Fact: Dumah (meaning silence) is the thousand eyed angel of death armed with the flaming sword
• Jack and Marty go to the INFIRMARY while Juniper and Peter check out WARD B.
• Reg pisses in the hallway.
• WARD B - Peter opens the door and hallucinates a metric fuck ton of spiders crawling on him. He runs, Juniper snatches the super soaker from Jack and sprays Peter in the face.He realizes that he’s soaked in saltwater and there are no spiders on him. They decide to go back
• INFIRMARY - Jack searches for med supplies
• WARD B - Juniper and Peter find Simon Crane’s ghost in ROOM B4. Juniper uses pocket salt, gets hit, and yells out in pain.
• Marty and Jack arrive to see Peter and Juniper slumped against the wall and the ghost of Simon Crane in salt-induced discomfort.
• Marty calls him ”Caren” instead of “Crane” (badump-tss)
• Jack squirts the ghost with his salt water, pushing him towards Marty, who does his exorcism trick again. Simon Crane disintegrates. Reg is thrilled again.
• Marty suddenly remembers that Reg’s love for bones must show up in every mystery, but there’s too many bones here for that to be helpful.
• Juniper suggests arson, but that won’t work. She notices there’s a body on the floor in ROOM B4. The shirt says Simon, so Juniper salts, Peter dumps gas, and Marty lights it with the tip of his flaming sword.
• Sudden Voice: “Hey what’s going on here?” A man in a nice suit with a flashlight and a .38 shouts from the entrance of WARD B.
• “Oh you’re the group from the museum. Alright, where’s the pothead?” Jack indicates that it’s the one with the flaming sword and the man walks toward him.
• “Flaming sword? That’s a new one.” He asks who came up with the water mace, Jack gets defensive but he says it’s good thinking on his feet. He gives Jack a business card, which says Agent Robert Mason, Section 13.
• Robert gives Juniper a healing epipen injection.
• Time to look for Dr. Stanley Milgraham’s bones
• MALE THERAPY ROOM (2F) - As usual, bodies everywhere. Deep in the pile, one body stares face up with Dr. Feelgood carved into his forehead. Robert confirms the identity.
• Juniper and Peter do their thing again
• Marty is pissy because Robert and Peter call him sword boy (ETA: FLAME Sword boy??). He holds the sword like a golf club and bashes the corpse’s head. Dr. Stanley Milgraham dissolves in ashes.
• No ectoplasm for Jack
• IHOP time

End of Mystery Questions

1. Did we conclude the mystery? Yes
2. Did we save someone? Yes
3. Did we learn something new? Yes. Section 13 exists, whatever that is.
4. Did we learn something about the hunters? Yes