Episode #6 ....G..G..G..ghost!

Having found Hancock’s house, our heroes work out that not only has the door once been kicked in, the lock has then been repaired, and then picked. What the ???

Of course, little do they realise that moment before they arrive, their old friend(?) ‘Sinead the Mad Irish’ is there. Why? Well, turns out she had been hastily recruited by Adam – Henry’s ‘friend’ – to remove a rock-face from the dig site, with her special skills.

True to form, she plants a tripwire/blast trap inside a vase and Professor Schmidt walks right into it, receiving a large piece of priceless Ming vase to the face. (I’m sure he’ll be fine).

Revealing herself to her old friends, there are several uniquely comical… I mean deadly serious --- moments of argument as the characters wonder just what the hell is going on?

Eventually, having resolved their differences, they search the house, finding the terribly decayed (and sanity roll provoking) body of Henry Hancock hidden behind a picture…with the eerie feeling that they are being watched.

They find a photo of Henry and Adam from Easter Island, with the strange inscription on the back related to the ‘the whistler’ and the fact that the ‘sword and the spear are one…’.

 Indeed, the local farming community, whom they seem to have disturbed, at least in the form of three strangely behaving brothers, appear to be getting closer, wondering why the house has been disturbed…

Realising that Hancock has been questioned and murdered, they search the rest of the house – and reason that whoever took Hancock, was searching for something As McDaid has a smoke downstairs, not wanting to see the remains of Hancock, he has an otherworldy encounter with the terrifying ghost of the man himself...in the kitchen, which tries to possess him.  

I mean they were going to split the party...but if Scooby Doo has taught us anything..am i right?.

Fighting back (with good rolls) he shrugs the thing off, realising from his Cthulhu Mythos (gained from a recent read of Culte des Ghouls) that not only do the remains need to be buried, but that the reason for the spectre must have something to do with an ‘artefact’ in the house, the famous ‘disk’ they have read so much about – which means the previous search by the bad guys did not find it.

Hiding the car, and musing with regard to getting out of there, they instead quickly check the basement, and in the coal cellar, hidden by an improvised box, is part of the disk of R’lyeh… which appears to be a fragment of a map, inscribed upon a neatly sliced golden fragment.

As two of the farmer brothers (potentially the McQuarries) approach the house with shotguns, the characters lie in wait… they may have questions....especially regarding this strange 'French woman'...