Session 6

Session Report - Played Monday 12th June, 2006

Tuesday 27th November

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Withers fires - the shot seems to hit Lawrence Bacon but deflect away, hardly slowing him. As he closes on Withers the moonlight clearly shows his raised hands twisting, morphing and turning into the heads of a pair of hissing snakes!

Withers keeps shooting as Bacon closes on him, but the occultist hardly flinches. He reaches Withers and starts to flail his snake-arms at the Captain. Nathaniel Browne thinks better of attacking Bacon and instead goes to look at the remains of the vagrant – he immediately wishes he hadn’t.

Dr Bartlett hurls his Thermos flask and Saunders steps in to aid Withers, firimng a shot which rips through Bacon’s coat, scattering the contents of his pocket on the ground. The combined brawl/gunfight is hard to follow in the dark night, but another shot rings out and Bacon yells – he’s finally hurt! Withers keeps dodging the snakes, his luck seems almost supernatural, until he realises he’s run out of bullets.

Saunders and Withers start pummelling Bacon, who pulls away from then, steps back, raises his arms to attack and treads on a loose stone on the edge of the canal path – it gives way under his bulk and with a cry of surprise he falls 10 feet to the cold water below, sinks like a stone and does no resurface.

Withers, miraculously unscathed, reloads his gun just as Browne hobbles up wielding a piece of wood he found in the alley. Withers empties his revolver into the canal, hoping to hit Bacon if he still lives, but there is no movement or sound from below.

Saunders checks the items that fell from Bacon’s pocket and finds a bone whistle carved in the likeness of one of the Springer Mound monsters and the keys to Bacon’s shop. The investigators immediately decide to search the shop, before Bacon’s friends have a chance to miss him.