Resolving to interview Margaret to determine how and why she knew Henry Hancock, the Professor and Sinead knock on the door of the tenement house they saw her enter.
Determining that she lives with her brother, she confides in the characters, telling them of the witch cult in the town, and that Henry ended up uncovering too much.
She knows that the coven has one piece of the disc, and Henry had two (the characters rescued one of these). The disc is vital to the witches, and the French woman Anne Chantraine, arrived to secure the pieces for 'some larger shadowy organisation with cosmically ill intent' (of course).
Outside MacLeoid and McDaid spot that they are being shadowed by teh green car. The characters resolve to head to Inverness with Margaret - where she will be safe with Erma at her guesthouse (they hope).
The green car follows, and they plan a bloody ambush, just as it turns off and heads back to Cannich.
The next day they return to Cannich, and Ian McDonald's farmhouse, speaking with the local mad drunk Willy Wassel...who tells them of all the things he had seen at 'the standing stones'. Professor Von Junzt correctly determines that Willy is not drunk, but has been driven insane by something he has seen... at the stones.
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| So AI interprets 'mad Scottish drunk from the 1920s as a 'dodgy looking bloke in a kilt and DM boots' |
Using the 'Scooby Doo'; rule, they head straight for the standing stones, armed to the teeth.
There they find four large obelisks, and the remnants of ancient central stone- all very similar to what they once saw at Loch Fein a year previous. At the base of the drumlin, on the other side of the hill, is of course the green car, outside the cottage of Duncan McBain...
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| Honestly - I was very specific. AI? Not so much. |
As Sinead subtly disappears (on an 04 sneak roll) she decides to booby trap the car at teh base of the hill, with her demolition skill...it won't end well. As the party wonder where Sinead has disappeared to, McDaid swears he hears a baby crying inside the hill (on a listen roll of 07).
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| Yeah. I wouldn't drive this one for a while. It's gonna fail MOT |
With Sinead's return, they find a secret entrance under the central standing stone, and a flight of ancient stone steps. Moving downward, heavily armed, they find the missing MacCrae baby, under the shadow of the central stone's foundation...and then they see the snake- things.
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| Sssss ssss ss s |
Scarcely men and only part serpent, they are attacked by two of them, with a mass of snake men behind that...the one with the weapon is disposed of first, but not before the second takes a bite on the Professor. I'm sure it's not poisonous or anything...
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| "And so what did you say? Did you complain? ...'Oh yeah. I said .I'm not payin' for that, and went down the pub like...' |
McDaid however, fails everything to do with SAN...and runs away screaming for 10 rounds.
Grabbing the baby, the characters manage to get out...and return to Ian's farm...
Looking to the bottom of the hill as they leave, Sinead sees McBain and the French woman emerge from the cottage. I wonder who will start that car.
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| 'Ohhh you crayzee guys are in zo much trouble now. ...unless i start zee car of course...' |
