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Tatters of the King

2006-07-19T11:08:59Z

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'''Tatters of the King'''[http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=773&osCsid=07f84f248e3a49f3cf6199ee7fbb6629] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by [http://chaosium.com Chaosium] and through which our role-playing [http://tentaclesandunderpants.info group] is currently being run. Play started on May 8th 2006. See [[current events]] for next session date.

The game is being played in the suburb of Ellerslie, in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland Auckland, New Zealand].

==Setting==

The game is initially set in [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/1928.doc 1928]. It is the start of a bitterly cold winter, the worst in decades.

London is the capital of an empire covering a quarter of the globe and governing one quarter of the human race. The people busy themselves with concerns of politics and government, finance and production, work and recreation. How fragile things are. What ignorance there is.

There are those whose engage in different pursuits - who would see an inhuman power come to Earth such that it would make mundane activity seem like a last twitch before dying.........

==GM==

The Keeper of Arcane Lore is [[Mark Chiddicks]]

==Players==

The players are:

[[Nicola Bishop]]

[[Julia Blackmore]]

[[Marcus Gustafsson]]

[[Darryn Mercer]]

==[[Player Characters]]==

[[image:crew.jpg|right|200px]]

[[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.

[[Nathaniel Browne]] - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer

[[Andrew Saunders]] - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.

[[Captain George Withers]] - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.

==Notable Non-Player Characters==

'''Prologue'''

[[Talbot Estus]] (deceased) - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright

''The Group'' - an amateur theatrical troupe:

[[Michael Gillen]] - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]]. Estus's friend and companion.

[[Hannah Keith]] - Amateur Actress and sister of [[Andrew Saunders]]

[[George Keith]] - Amateur Actor and husband of [[Hannah Keith]]

[[Walter Paige]] - Amateur Actor

[[Jean Hewart]] - Amateur Actress

'''Chapter One'''

[[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] - Asylum Superintendent

[[Alexander Roby]] - Incarcerated Madman

[[Lucius Harriwell]] - Incarcerated Madman

[[Price and Evans]] - Asylum Nurses

'''Chapter Two'''

[[Dr. Lionel Trollope]] (deceased) - Roby family physician

[[Grahame Roby]] - Financier, Alexander Roby's brother

[[Detective Inspector Andrew Taylor]] - of New Scotland Yard

[[Delia Hartston]] - Alexander Roby's former fiancee, now [[Delia Morrison]]

[[Peter Morrison]] - Abusive husband of Delia

[[Vincent Tuck]] - Private Detective, hired by Grahame Roby

[[The Tall Man]] - Sinister stalker, possibly named [[Coombes]]

'''Chapter Three'''

[[Harold Jennings]] (deceased) - Unfriendly Suffolk farmer

[[Wilfred Gresty]] - Mysterious letter writer

[[Lawrence Bacon]] (deceased?) - Antiquarian, occultist and sorcerer

[[Hillary Quarrie]] - Estranged wife of Malcolm

[[Atkinson]] - Cult leaded from the West Country

[[Montague Edwards]] - Alexander Roby's secret guardian

'''Chapter Four'''

==Literary Works==

[[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] - a fantasy in two acts, [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] by [[Talbot Estus]]

[[Le Roi en Jeune]] - a rare French play, playwright anonymous

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow] - a collection of short [http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/chambers/stories/kinginye/contents.htm stories] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers Robert W Chambers]

[[An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd]] - by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]

[[Der Wanderer durch den See]] - by [[Alexander Roby]]

[[British Gods]]: Religion and Myth in the Western Kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon Britain - by [[Malcolm Quarrie]]

[[The Turner Codex]]: A translation of Mesoamerican prayers and libations to Hastur - trans. M. Turner ''et al''

==Locations==

[http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.htm Map of England and Wales, 1928]

[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], England - [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/roads-central.htm Map of London, 1926]

The [[Scala Theatre]], Charlotte St, London

[[St Agnes Asylum]], [[Weobley]], Herefordshire, England

[[Clare Melford]], Suffolk, England

[[Loch Mullardoch]], near Inverness, Scotland

[[Carcosa]], a dream city made flesh

==Sessions==

''As referred to in the session reports below, there have been a number of [[murders]] related to the Roby case.''

[[Session 1]] - Opening Night

[[Session 1.5]] - The Madman

[[Session 2]] - The Plot Thickens

[[Session 3]] - Alexander's Friends

[[Session 4]] - Teeth of Winter

[[Session 5]] - Four Go Mad in London

[[Session 6]] - Death by Night, Death by Day

[[Session 7]] - Missing Persons

[[Session 8]] - To Walk Upon the Earth in Carcosa

Tatters of the King

2006-07-19T11:08:18Z

203.211.86.4: /* Locations */

Session 7

2006-07-19T11:07:24Z

203.211.86.4: /* Friday 7th December */

==Session Report - Played Monday 17th July, 2006==

===Saturday 1st December===

''--- Continued ---''

As the shock of the latest revelations soak in, the investigators begin to discuss their next move. It is agreed that Roby must be located, and that the authorities would not be able to grasp the nature of the threat. Various lines of research are suggested, but no clear strategy is formulated.

Everyone goes home to sleep on it.

===Sunday 2nd December===

The Sunday papers report the discovery of the bodies of 2 vagrants in the area of the Regent Canal, and thoughts initially turn to [[Lawrence Bacon]] and his victim of Tuesday night, but the facts of the story did not fit this idea. Both men had been freshly murdered, and the killing of the second victim apparently witnessed, though details were sketchy.

With all offices and libraries closed, the investigators spend the day with family, or in private study.

===Monday 3rd December===

The "London World" this morning carries a lurid description of 'The Canal Monster', claiming that the witness who saw the second killing described a vaguely humanoid creature that walked with a wet sloshing noise tearing out the tramp's insides. The story was written by a reported called [[Cec Watts]].

[[Bartlett]], wanting to be sure that neither victim was [[Lawrence Bacon]], while secretly fearing that the killer was, calls the police with a story of a missing relative and visits the Islington police station where investigating officer DI Hodges. hodges reveals little, and the sketches of the victims faces show non-descript middle-aged men unknown to Bartlett.

Meanwhile [[Saunders]] follows up [[Edwards]]' application to the British Library and discovers that his references for a reader's ticket were [[Malcolm Quarrie]] and Dr Schwabe of the Saled school of Fine Arts. Saunders contacts Schwabe who has clear memories of Edwards as a young artist who showed talent but no desire for fame, or even success, and who left Slade without completing his degree. He also reveals that as a keen amateur archaeologist it was Schwabe who told Edwards of the 1907 dig at [[Springer Mound]], and showed him slides of the site. He remembers Edwards being very inetrested in the palce, for reasons that were never clear. Schwabe has no idea where Edwards might be.

[[Browne]] calls [[Cec Watts]] at the London Globe with an offer of information about the Canal Killings. They arrange a meeting in a pub the following day.

[[Saunders]] tries to find familiar names in the Tewkesbury phone book. he contacts a couple of W Gresty's only to discover thats its a common name in the region, and neither know a Wilfred.

===Tuesday 4th December===

[[Browne]] meets [[Cec Watts]] in a pub and gives him an edited version of [[Vincent Tuck]]'s statement about [[Lawrence Bacon]], along with Tuck's name, in return for a promise to share information. Browne is hoping that Watts will come to suspect Bacon of the canal murders and will be able to find out more without direwctly involving the investigators. Browne gives Watt a PO Box number to contact him through.

===Wednesday 5th December===

A day spent watching, waiting and worrying. [[Bartlett]] places a small ad in an attempt to contact [[Wilfred Gresty]].

===Thursday 6th December===

The newspapers report the discovery of the body of [[Cec Watts]], found floating the previous day in Regent's Canal, an apparent victim of the Canal Killer.

[[Browne]], knowing he's been seen with Watts, visits the police and spins a tale to DI Hodges inventing an innocent explanation for the contact involving a mutual interest in Lawrence Bacon. Hodges seems to buy the story, explaining that Bacon's address was found of a slip of paper in Watts'possession and lets slip that Bacon's shop was visited by the police and found to have been thoroughly ransacked by unknown hands.

===Friday 7th December===

[[Dr. Highsmith]] phones [[Doctor Bartlett]]. He has been able to talk to [[Lucius Harriwell]], now under close confienment and in a straitjacket, but back at St Agnes. Harriwell told Highsmith a tale of over hearing the Devil talking with [[Alexander Roby]] about leaving with him to 'complete the work', shortly after which Harriwell heard terrible sounds from the next cell. The Devil then entered harriwell's room, covered in blood and deep cuts. he through one of his 'hands' (apparently a knife) to Harriwell and said "seven days for his work, Lucius, then 5 for mine."

Highsmith has told the police that he believes Harriwell met the real murderer, but Atkins is certain Lucius was the asylum killer, and would not listen.

The investigators become convinced that [[Edwards]] has taken [[Roby]] back to [[Springer Mound]], so they jump in their cars and drive to Suffolk as fast as they can. At [[Long Melford]], asking about recent strange acticity in the area they are told of trucks that arrived one evening at Harold Jennings' old farm a week or so after Jennings' died.

The investigators head to Springer Mound and find that the [[Springer Mound Monsters]] have gone, as have the nine stones - with evidence of trucks and heavy lifting equipment involved. [[Bartlett]] climbs the mound, smells the tar pit at its summit, has his dream come back to him anew - the smell of rotting fruit so terribly familiar - and insists on leaving.

In [[Clare Melford]], it is discovered that Dick Blair, the pub landlord who came to the village shortly after 'the night of the Curse' suddenly quit just after the trucks visited springer Mound. The investigators return to London, feeling that events are moving on without them.

===Saturday 8th December===

The BBC and the morning papers report last night's killing of the supposed perpetrator of the Canal Murders by armed police in the railway engineering yard near Kings Cross Station. The details remain sketchy, but the police seem sure the killer is dead, though he has not been named and no picture has been released. The area remains sealed off.

The investigators gather at [[Bartlett]]'s home for lunch, but before he can leave barracks [[Withers]] is visited by [[Delia Hartston]] and his sister. Delia has just received a note from [[Alexander Roby]], asking her to meet him at [[Loch Mullardoch]] near Inverness, scotland, where he will prove that he was 'not chasing the devil'. Delia has no intentions of going, but knows Withers was seeking Roby.

Meanwhile, on the tube train to Wimbledon, [[Browne]] is leafing through 'Occult Magazine', new that morning, and finds an obituary for [[Lawrence Bacon]] written by someone under the pseudonym 'Perdurabo' who clearly knows a lot about Bacon's past. Tyhe obituary is strange as Bacon is not officially dead, and useful as it refers to [[Montague Edwards]] as a mutual friend of both Bacon and the writer, and as the self-styled 'Laird of Mullardoch'.

With this new information, and the apparent timeline referred to by [[Lucius Harriwell]] the decision is made to travel as fast as possible to Inverness. A train leaves that afternoon, for an overnight stopover in Manchester and arrival in inverness at 2pm the next day.

The investigators take that train, and spend a snowy night in Manchester.

The investigators return to London, feeling that events are moving on without them.

===Saturday 9th December===

The train heads on Northwards towards Scotland.

Session 7

2006-07-19T11:07:06Z

203.211.86.4: /* Friday 7th December */

==Session Report - Played Monday 17th July, 2006==

===Saturday 1st December===

''--- Continued ---''

As the shock of the latest revelations soak in, the investigators begin to discuss their next move. It is agreed that Roby must be located, and that the authorities would not be able to grasp the nature of the threat. Various lines of research are suggested, but no clear strategy is formulated.

Everyone goes home to sleep on it.

===Sunday 2nd December===

The Sunday papers report the discovery of the bodies of 2 vagrants in the area of the Regent Canal, and thoughts initially turn to [[Lawrence Bacon]] and his victim of Tuesday night, but the facts of the story did not fit this idea. Both men had been freshly murdered, and the killing of the second victim apparently witnessed, though details were sketchy.

With all offices and libraries closed, the investigators spend the day with family, or in private study.

===Monday 3rd December===

The "London World" this morning carries a lurid description of 'The Canal Monster', claiming that the witness who saw the second killing described a vaguely humanoid creature that walked with a wet sloshing noise tearing out the tramp's insides. The story was written by a reported called [[Cec Watts]].

[[Bartlett]], wanting to be sure that neither victim was [[Lawrence Bacon]], while secretly fearing that the killer was, calls the police with a story of a missing relative and visits the Islington police station where investigating officer DI Hodges. hodges reveals little, and the sketches of the victims faces show non-descript middle-aged men unknown to Bartlett.

Meanwhile [[Saunders]] follows up [[Edwards]]' application to the British Library and discovers that his references for a reader's ticket were [[Malcolm Quarrie]] and Dr Schwabe of the Saled school of Fine Arts. Saunders contacts Schwabe who has clear memories of Edwards as a young artist who showed talent but no desire for fame, or even success, and who left Slade without completing his degree. He also reveals that as a keen amateur archaeologist it was Schwabe who told Edwards of the 1907 dig at [[Springer Mound]], and showed him slides of the site. He remembers Edwards being very inetrested in the palce, for reasons that were never clear. Schwabe has no idea where Edwards might be.

[[Browne]] calls [[Cec Watts]] at the London Globe with an offer of information about the Canal Killings. They arrange a meeting in a pub the following day.

[[Saunders]] tries to find familiar names in the Tewkesbury phone book. he contacts a couple of W Gresty's only to discover thats its a common name in the region, and neither know a Wilfred.

===Tuesday 4th December===

[[Browne]] meets [[Cec Watts]] in a pub and gives him an edited version of [[Vincent Tuck]]'s statement about [[Lawrence Bacon]], along with Tuck's name, in return for a promise to share information. Browne is hoping that Watts will come to suspect Bacon of the canal murders and will be able to find out more without direwctly involving the investigators. Browne gives Watt a PO Box number to contact him through.

===Wednesday 5th December===

A day spent watching, waiting and worrying. [[Bartlett]] places a small ad in an attempt to contact [[Wilfred Gresty]].

===Thursday 6th December===

The newspapers report the discovery of the body of [[Cec Watts]], found floating the previous day in Regent's Canal, an apparent victim of the Canal Killer.

[[Browne]], knowing he's been seen with Watts, visits the police and spins a tale to DI Hodges inventing an innocent explanation for the contact involving a mutual interest in Lawrence Bacon. Hodges seems to buy the story, explaining that Bacon's address was found of a slip of paper in Watts'possession and lets slip that Bacon's shop was visited by the police and found to have been thoroughly ransacked by unknown hands.

===Friday 7th December===

[[Dr. Highsmith]] phones [[Doctor Bartlett]]. He has been able to talk to [[Lucius Harriwell]], now under close confienment and in a straitjacket, but back at St Agnes. Harriwell told Highsmith a tale of over hearing the Devil talking with [[Alexander Roby]] about leaving with him to 'complete the work', shortly after which Harriwell heard terrible sounds from the next cell. The Devil then entered harriwell's room, covered in blood and deep cuts. he through one of his 'hands' (apparently a knife) to Harriwell and said "seven days for his work, Lucius, then 5 for mine."

Highsmith has told the police that he believes Harriwell met the real murderer, but Atkins is certain Lucius was the asylum killer, and would not listen.

The investigators become convinced that [[Edwards]] has taken [[Roby]] back to [[Springer Mound]], so they jump in their cars and drive to Suffolk as fast as they can. At [[Long Melford]], asking about recent strange acticity in the area they are told of trucks that arrived one evening at Harold Jennings' old farm a week or so after Jennings' died.

The investigators head to Springer Mound and find that the [[Springer Mound Monsters]] have gone, as have the nine stones - with evidence of trucks and heavy lifting equipment involved. [[Bartlett]] climbs the mound, smells the tar pit at its summit, has his dream come back to him anew - the smell of rotting fruit so terribly familiar - and insists on leaving.

In [[Clare Melford]], it is discovered that [[Dick Blair]], the pub landlord who came to the village shortly after 'the night of the Curse' suddenly quit just after the trucks visited springer Mound. The investigators return to London, feeling that events are moving on without them.

===Saturday 8th December===

The BBC and the morning papers report last night's killing of the supposed perpetrator of the Canal Murders by armed police in the railway engineering yard near Kings Cross Station. The details remain sketchy, but the police seem sure the killer is dead, though he has not been named and no picture has been released. The area remains sealed off.

The investigators gather at [[Bartlett]]'s home for lunch, but before he can leave barracks [[Withers]] is visited by [[Delia Hartston]] and his sister. Delia has just received a note from [[Alexander Roby]], asking her to meet him at [[Loch Mullardoch]] near Inverness, scotland, where he will prove that he was 'not chasing the devil'. Delia has no intentions of going, but knows Withers was seeking Roby.

Meanwhile, on the tube train to Wimbledon, [[Browne]] is leafing through 'Occult Magazine', new that morning, and finds an obituary for [[Lawrence Bacon]] written by someone under the pseudonym 'Perdurabo' who clearly knows a lot about Bacon's past. Tyhe obituary is strange as Bacon is not officially dead, and useful as it refers to [[Montague Edwards]] as a mutual friend of both Bacon and the writer, and as the self-styled 'Laird of Mullardoch'.

With this new information, and the apparent timeline referred to by [[Lucius Harriwell]] the decision is made to travel as fast as possible to Inverness. A train leaves that afternoon, for an overnight stopover in Manchester and arrival in inverness at 2pm the next day.

The investigators take that train, and spend a snowy night in Manchester.

The investigators return to London, feeling that events are moving on without them.

===Saturday 9th December===

The train heads on Northwards towards Scotland.

Session 7

2006-07-19T11:06:18Z

203.211.86.4: /* Tuesday 4th December */

==Session Report - Played Monday 17th July, 2006==

===Saturday 1st December===

''--- Continued ---''

As the shock of the latest revelations soak in, the investigators begin to discuss their next move. It is agreed that Roby must be located, and that the authorities would not be able to grasp the nature of the threat. Various lines of research are suggested, but no clear strategy is formulated.

Everyone goes home to sleep on it.

===Sunday 2nd December===

The Sunday papers report the discovery of the bodies of 2 vagrants in the area of the Regent Canal, and thoughts initially turn to [[Lawrence Bacon]] and his victim of Tuesday night, but the facts of the story did not fit this idea. Both men had been freshly murdered, and the killing of the second victim apparently witnessed, though details were sketchy.

With all offices and libraries closed, the investigators spend the day with family, or in private study.

===Monday 3rd December===

The "London World" this morning carries a lurid description of 'The Canal Monster', claiming that the witness who saw the second killing described a vaguely humanoid creature that walked with a wet sloshing noise tearing out the tramp's insides. The story was written by a reported called [[Cec Watts]].

[[Bartlett]], wanting to be sure that neither victim was [[Lawrence Bacon]], while secretly fearing that the killer was, calls the police with a story of a missing relative and visits the Islington police station where investigating officer DI Hodges. hodges reveals little, and the sketches of the victims faces show non-descript middle-aged men unknown to Bartlett.

Meanwhile [[Saunders]] follows up [[Edwards]]' application to the British Library and discovers that his references for a reader's ticket were [[Malcolm Quarrie]] and Dr Schwabe of the Saled school of Fine Arts. Saunders contacts Schwabe who has clear memories of Edwards as a young artist who showed talent but no desire for fame, or even success, and who left Slade without completing his degree. He also reveals that as a keen amateur archaeologist it was Schwabe who told Edwards of the 1907 dig at [[Springer Mound]], and showed him slides of the site. He remembers Edwards being very inetrested in the palce, for reasons that were never clear. Schwabe has no idea where Edwards might be.

[[Browne]] calls [[Cec Watts]] at the London Globe with an offer of information about the Canal Killings. They arrange a meeting in a pub the following day.

[[Saunders]] tries to find familiar names in the Tewkesbury phone book. he contacts a couple of W Gresty's only to discover thats its a common name in the region, and neither know a Wilfred.

===Tuesday 4th December===

[[Browne]] meets [[Cec Watts]] in a pub and gives him an edited version of [[Vincent Tuck]]'s statement about [[Lawrence Bacon]], along with Tuck's name, in return for a promise to share information. Browne is hoping that Watts will come to suspect Bacon of the canal murders and will be able to find out more without direwctly involving the investigators. Browne gives Watt a PO Box number to contact him through.

===Wednesday 5th December===

A day spent watching, waiting and worrying. [[Bartlett]] places a small ad in an attempt to contact [[Wilfred Gresty]].

===Thursday 6th December===

The newspapers report the discovery of the body of [[Cec Watts]], found floating the previous day in Regent's Canal, an apparent victim of the Canal Killer.

[[Browne]], knowing he's been seen with Watts, visits the police and spins a tale to DI Hodges inventing an innocent explanation for the contact involving a mutual interest in Lawrence Bacon. Hodges seems to buy the story, explaining that Bacon's address was found of a slip of paper in Watts'possession and lets slip that Bacon's shop was visited by the police and found to have been thoroughly ransacked by unknown hands.

===Friday 7th December===

[[Doctor Highsmith]] phones [[Doctor Bartlett]]. He has been able to talk to [[Lucius Hariwell]], now under close confienment and in a straitjacket, but back at St Agnes. Harriwell told Highsmith a tale of over hearing the Devil talking with [[Alexander Roby]] about leaving with him to 'complete the work', shortly after which Harriwell heard terrible sounds from the next cell. The Devil then entered harriwell's room, covered in blood and deep cuts. he through one of his 'hands' (apparently a knife) to Harriwell and said "seven days for his work, Lucius, then 5 for mine."

Highsmith has told the police that he believes Harriwell met the real murderer, but Atkins is certain Lucius was the asylum killer, and would not listen.

The investigators become convinced that [[Edwards]] has taken [[Roby]] back to [[Springer Mound]], so they jump in their cars and drive to Suffolk as fast as they can. At [[Long Melford]], asking about recent strange acticity in the area they are told of trucks that arrived one evening at Harold Jennings' old farm a week or so after Jennings' died.

The investigators head to Springer Mound and find that the [[Springer Mound Monsters]] have gone, as have the nine stones - with evidence of trucks and heavy lifting equipment involved. [[Bartlett]] climbs the mound, smells the tar pit at its summit, has his dream come back to him anew - the smell of rotting fruit so terribly familiar - and insists on leaving.

In [[Clare Melford]], it is discovered that [[Dick Blair]], the pub landlord who came to the village shortly after 'the night of the Curse' suddenly quit just after the trucks visited springer Mound. The investigators return to London, feeling that events are moving on without them.

===Saturday 8th December===

The BBC and the morning papers report last night's killing of the supposed perpetrator of the Canal Murders by armed police in the railway engineering yard near Kings Cross Station. The details remain sketchy, but the police seem sure the killer is dead, though he has not been named and no picture has been released. The area remains sealed off.

The investigators gather at [[Bartlett]]'s home for lunch, but before he can leave barracks [[Withers]] is visited by [[Delia Hartston]] and his sister. Delia has just received a note from [[Alexander Roby]], asking her to meet him at [[Loch Mullardoch]] near Inverness, scotland, where he will prove that he was 'not chasing the devil'. Delia has no intentions of going, but knows Withers was seeking Roby.

Meanwhile, on the tube train to Wimbledon, [[Browne]] is leafing through 'Occult Magazine', new that morning, and finds an obituary for [[Lawrence Bacon]] written by someone under the pseudonym 'Perdurabo' who clearly knows a lot about Bacon's past. Tyhe obituary is strange as Bacon is not officially dead, and useful as it refers to [[Montague Edwards]] as a mutual friend of both Bacon and the writer, and as the self-styled 'Laird of Mullardoch'.

With this new information, and the apparent timeline referred to by [[Lucius Harriwell]] the decision is made to travel as fast as possible to Inverness. A train leaves that afternoon, for an overnight stopover in Manchester and arrival in inverness at 2pm the next day.

The investigators take that train, and spend a snowy night in Manchester.

The investigators return to London, feeling that events are moving on without them.

===Saturday 9th December===

The train heads on Northwards towards Scotland.

Murders

2006-07-19T08:16:46Z

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The following murders, related to the [[Alexander Roby]] case, have so far been committed:

[[The Roby Murders]] - Herbert and Georgina Roby: Curzon St, London, October 14th 1926

[[Cuthbert Yates]]: St Agnes Asylum, Weobley, November 27th 1927

[[Dr Lionel Trollope]]: St James' Park, London, November 3rd 1928

[[Frederick Long]]: St Agnes Asylum, Weobley, November 5th 1928

[[Thomas Clarke]]: St Agnes Asylum, Weobley, November 30th 1928

The murders of 2 unidentifed vagrants by [[Lawrence Bacon]]

[[The Canal Murders]]: Near Regent's Canal, Islington, early December, 1928

The Canal Murders

2006-07-19T08:15:56Z

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On the night of December 1st 1928 a pair of unidentified vagrants were slain near to the spot where [[Lawrence Bacon]] had fallen in the Regents Canal on the previous Tuesday. The murders were unpleasantly gruesome, with rumours of disembowellent and worse. A witness claimed to see an inhuman monster killing the second victim.

On Wednesday 5th the corpse of [[Cec Watts]] was found floating in the canal with similar injuries to the previous 2 victims. Watts had been investigating [[Lawrence Bacon]]'s activities at the instigation of [[Nathaniel Browne]].

On the night of Friday December 7th the police cornered and shot dead the apparent perpetrator in the Engineering sheds behind Kings Cross Station. Oddly, although the police have assured the public that the killer is dead, he remains unidentified and as yet no picture of him has been published.

The Canal Murders

2006-07-19T08:15:23Z

203.211.86.4:

On the night of December 1st 1928 a pair of unidentified vagrants were slain near to the spot where [[Lawrence Bacon]] had fallen in the canal on the previous Tuesday. The murders were unpleasantly gruesome, with rumours of disembowellent and worse. A witness claimed to see an inhuman monster killing the second victim.

On Wednesday 5th the corpse of [[Cec Watts]] was found floating in the canal with similar injuries to the previous 2 victims. Watts had been investigating [[Lawrence Bacon]]'s activities at the instigation of [[Nathaniel Browne]].

On the night of Friday December 7th the police cornered and shot dead the apparent perpetrator in the Engineering sheds behind Kings Cross Station. Oddly, although the police have assured the public that the killer is dead, he remains unidentified and as yet no picture of him has been published.

The Canal Murders

2006-07-19T08:14:44Z

203.211.86.4:

On the night of December 1st 1928 a pair of unidentified vagrants were slain near to the spot where [[Lawrence Bacon]] had fallen in the canal on the previous Tuesday. The murders were unpleasantly gruesome, with rumours of disembowellent and worse. A witness claimed to see an inhuman monster killing the second victim.

On Wednesday 5th the corpse of [[Cec Watts]] was found floating in the canal with similar injuries to the previous 2 victims. Watts had been investigating [[Lawrenece Bacon]] at the institagtion of [[Nathaniel Browne]].

On the night of Friday December 7th the police cornered and shot dead the apparent perpetrator in the Engineering sheds behind Kings Cross Station. Oddly, although the police have assured the public that the killer is dead, he remains unidentified and as yet no picture of him has been published.

Murders

2006-07-19T08:09:16Z

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Session 7

2006-07-19T08:08:19Z

203.211.86.4: /* Sunday 2nd December */

Session 7

2006-07-19T08:08:00Z

203.211.86.4: /* Monday 3rd December */

Session 7

2006-07-19T07:45:40Z

203.211.86.4: /* Monday 3rd December */

Session 7

2006-07-19T07:45:16Z

203.211.86.4: /* Sunday 2nd December */

Session 7

2006-07-19T07:44:56Z

203.211.86.4: /* Saturday 1st December */