Pulp 007

January 29, 2021

[7:20 PM] Theo: So! You were in a haunted house and starting to get to the bottom of things. You were told by the Aeon Society to come to this place and 'find something that doesn't belong and bring it back.'

[7:26 PM] Joseph: Whereas if you were to try to throw yourself out of the window, I am... not entirely certain we would be able to stop you.

[7:27 PM] Sandy: "Yeah, no.  Ke, it makes so much more sense to let Joseph have the rings."

[7:27 PM] Ke: will hold out the rings for Joe

[7:27 PM] Joseph: takes them, or tries to.

[7:27 PM] Theo: You take the rings!

[7:28 PM] Sandy: "Ok, back to the window.  If you can, warn us before you take a jump please."

[7:28 PM] Ke: heads back to the window keeping an eye on Joe.

[7:29 PM] Joseph: follows.

[7:29 PM] Sandy: follows behind Joe.

[7:30 PM] Joseph: frowns.

[7:30 PM] Sandy: "...what do you see?"

[7:31 PM] Joseph: Nothing different from before. But the rings don't...

[7:31 PM] Joseph: stops.

[7:32 PM] Sandy: "...what?"

[7:32 PM] Joseph: If anything, I would have expected them to ... feel angry, upset, hurt.

[7:32 PM] Joseph: They don't.

[7:32 PM] Sandy: "What do they feel?"

[7:32 PM] Joseph: Love. Respect and a high regard.

[7:33 PM] Sandy: "....hmmmm."

[7:33 PM] Joseph: Someone else must have killed them.

[7:33 PM] Sandy: "Or driven them to kill themselves."

[7:33 PM] Sandy: "But why?"

[7:33 PM] Sandy: "Distrust of the magical practice?"

[7:34 PM] Joseph: Possible.

[7:34 PM] Joseph: But I can't imagine killing someone I felt like that about.

[7:35 PM] Sandy: "You can't.  But others...."

[7:35 PM] Sandy: "We're still missing something.  The rings aren't showing you anything?  Like the vision Ke got in the bedroom?"

[7:36 PM] Joseph: No, nothing.

[7:37 PM] Theo: When you get back out to the hallway where the broken window is, the shards that had been spelling 'Get out' have moved again.

[7:38 PM] Sandy: "You know, if you can communicate via glass shard....HOW ABOUT YOU SAY SOMETHING USEFUL?!?"

[7:38 PM] Theo: It says 'please leav', missing an e --they seemed to run out of shards.

[7:39 PM] Theo: Or they're bad at spelling.

[7:39 PM] Ke: Getting more polite

[7:39 PM] Sandy: "Well, that's nice at least."

[7:39 PM] Joseph: Maybe they wanted to be together forever in death.

[7:40 PM] Sandy: "...doesn't sound as satisfying as being together in life."

[7:40 PM] Joseph: Maybe we should just go.

[7:41 PM] Sandy: "You don't want to know what happened?"

[7:41 PM] Ke: We could try the widows walk

[7:41 PM] Sandy: "...that's not a bad idea, actually."

[7:41 PM] Joseph: You're right, we haven't looked there yet.

[7:41 PM] Joseph: Let's check on it first. But if we don't find anything...

[7:42 PM] Ke: looks for a way to reach the widows walk.

[7:42 PM] Ke: Then we leave with the rings

[7:42 PM] Theo: Okay!'  So after a little more exploring, you find a sitting room on the top floor. This is the only room that has furniture, still.

[7:43 PM] Theo: Except for the burnt out stuff in the bedroom.(edited)

[7:43 PM] Joseph: starts looking for a secret passage.

[7:43 PM] Sandy: "...huh...guess they managed to put out the fire before it reached this height."

[7:43 PM] Joseph: I'm not sure we ought to take the rings with us either.

[7:44 PM] Sandy: "It doesn't seem like the rings don't belong.  They fit in here, weirdly."

[7:44 PM] Theo: There's a small metal spiral staircase leading up. But here's some furniture in here, including a tea service still set out.

[7:45 PM] Theo: There's a broken teacup on the floor near the sofa.

[7:45 PM] Joseph: checks out the tea service.

[7:45 PM] Theo: It's old and a little gross, having never been cleaned.

[7:45 PM] Joseph: ((How many used, including the broken one?))

[7:45 PM] Theo: ((Only one.))

[7:45 PM] Sandy: checks the door to this room for the same reinforcement that the bedroom closet had.

[7:46 PM] Joseph: .... something here hurts them.

[7:47 PM] Joseph: inspects the broken teacup without touching it. Are there leaves in the bottom?

[7:47 PM] Sandy: ((What other furniture is in here? Sofas? Chairs?))

[7:47 PM] Theo: You can't tell, they might have disintegrated over time.

[7:47 PM] Theo: You just see the stain of tea.

[7:49 PM] Joseph: sniffs it to see if there's anything unusual about it. Though it's probably a bit too late for that by now.

[7:49 PM] Theo: There are chairs and sofas and a view of the grounds, the front of the house -- you see the car down below, and the groundskeeper's cabin. You see Ahti down there, he's got a flashlight and is shining it on a wall, making shadowpuppets and stopping to laugh to himself every few moments.

[7:49 PM] Theo: Yeah, you can't smell anything like that.

[7:49 PM] Joseph: I wonder if it was poisoned. Or drugged. Or... something else.

[7:49 PM] Sandy: "...who's paying the groundskeeper?"

[7:50 PM] Ke: heads up the spiral staircase

[7:50 PM] Theo: You find the widow's walk, Ke.

[7:50 PM] Theo: There's an old letter up there, that's the only thing there.

[7:50 PM] Sandy: will follow Ke up.

[7:50 PM] Theo: IT's super sun damaged and faded.

[7:50 PM] Ke: picks up the letter

[7:51 PM] Sandy: "...what'cha find?"

[7:51 PM] Joseph: hurries after them.

[7:51 PM] Ke: Looks like an old letter

[7:51 PM] Ke: hands it over to Joe

[7:51 PM] Joseph: tries to read it.

[7:53 PM] Theo: Roll.... hmm. Intelligence+Linguistics.

[7:53 PM] Sandy: Sandy: "How faded is it?"

[7:54 PM] Joseph: ((7, 7, 2, 4, 2.))

[7:54 PM] Joseph: Pretty faded.

[7:54 PM] Joseph: shifts it back and forth to try to read it.

[7:56 PM] Sandy: "....do you have a handkerchief, by any chance?"

[7:56 PM] Joseph: Of course.

[7:56 PM] Sandy: "If you give me that and the letter, I might be able to fix it up a bit."

[7:57 PM] Joseph: digs a handkerchief out of his pocket and hands it to Sandy. It's a fancy one, edged in lace, with initials embroidered on it that are definitely not Joseph's.

[7:57 PM] Sandy: will lay the handkerchief over the letter, lay both down on the ground and use a lighter to try and heat it from a bit above it.

[7:58 PM] Sandy: "The heat can reactivate some of the oxidants in the ink.  With the handkerchief protecting the paper from burning up, we might be able to make it more legible."

[7:58 PM] Sandy: ((I'll make a roll if you want me to.))

[7:59 PM] Joseph: ... just don't burn the handkerchief if you can help it.

[7:59 PM] Joseph: ... it's a letter to the wife.

[8:00 PM] Joseph: Someone regrets to inform her that someone has crashed and died.

[8:00 PM] Sandy: ".........what?"

[8:00 PM] Joseph: ... it must have been the husband.

[8:00 PM] Joseph: Otherwise they would have addressed it to the husband, or to both of them.

[8:00 PM] Sandy: "Then...did she go out the window alone?"

[8:01 PM] Joseph: ... or someone else killed her.

[8:01 PM] Sandy: "If so...why is the letter up here?"

[8:01 PM] Theo: Okay. Roll.... intelligence + Science, Sandy.

[8:01 PM] Sandy: ((Ooof, 1 success, but man...bad roll))

[8:05 PM] Theo: You bring out a few more words, just enough to reaffirm Joe's read. This was a letter to the wife, informing her that her husband died in an accident of some kind. Something involving a train.

[8:06 PM] Sandy: "...the only way it'd make sense for this letter to be here is if she jumped from here.  And if that's the case...what happened to the window?"

[8:06 PM] Joseph: ... she might have left it behind.

[8:07 PM] Joseph: ... and why would the story have gotten about that he murdered her?

[8:08 PM] Joseph: He died first. And they adored each other.

[8:09 PM] Sandy: "....nothing's adding up.  ...something about that room seems...off.  Maybe there are more runes about."

[8:09 PM] Sandy: will pocket the letter.

[8:11 PM] Ke: We have searched the whole house pretty much.

[8:12 PM] Joseph: .... there is one other thing I can try, but I don't know if it'll work.

[8:12 PM] Sandy: "What is it?"

[8:13 PM] Joseph: ... it's possible I might be in tune with them enough to serve as a medium. It's a long shot, though.

[8:13 PM] Sandy: "...not out here.  If we do it, let's do it in the study.  Easier to contain if things go wrong."

[8:13 PM] Joseph: Right.

[8:14 PM] Ke: Would it be best to do it where they have been communicating to us?

[8:15 PM] Joseph: Yes, probably.

[8:15 PM] Joseph: I don't... I've never tried it before.

[8:15 PM] Sandy: "You mean the hallway with the giant window to leap from and covered in broken glass?"

[8:15 PM] Sandy: "Where I already got possessed and tried to throw August out a window?"

[8:15 PM] Ke: If it’s a long shot we should increase our chances

[8:16 PM] Ke: We can keep an eye on him as he does it

[8:16 PM] Joseph: Yes, I advise that you do.

[8:16 PM] Sandy: "...ok.  Let's try it."

[8:16 PM] Theo: So you head back out to the window?

[8:17 PM] Ke: does

[8:17 PM] Joseph: stays with the women.

[8:18 PM] Sandy: follows

[8:20 PM] Theo: So! you're back in front of the window.

[8:20 PM] Joseph: tries to center himself a bit on the way.

[8:20 PM] Sandy: will stand between him and window.

[8:21 PM] Joseph: sits on the ground, and closes his eyes.

[8:21 PM] Ke: will be near the window if anyone tries to go out it.

[8:23 PM] Sandy: "...so...what do you think, Ke?"

[8:24 PM] Ke: About what?

[8:24 PM] Sandy: "This test and the ghosts."

[8:26 PM] Ke: ...Complications happen

[8:26 PM] Sandy: "...I have no idea what that means."

[8:27 PM] Theo: You guys watch Joseph concentrate and suddenly flinch back, toward the broken window, backpedaling like something is flying at him.

[8:27 PM] Ke: will grab him

[8:28 PM] Theo: Dex+Athletics!

[8:28 PM] Sandy: will assist!

[8:28 PM] Ke: ((3 successes))

[8:29 PM] Sandy: ((I got 1 success if that helps at all))

[8:30 PM] Theo: You guys manage to grab him and keep him from throwing himself out.

[8:30 PM] Joseph: flails a little bit.

[8:30 PM] Joseph: then stops.

[8:30 PM] Joseph: It was another man. A suitor.

[8:31 PM] Joseph: He proposed here and she ... must have declined.

[8:31 PM] Sandy: "...he was here?"

[8:31 PM] Joseph: Yes.

[8:32 PM] Joseph: And if he's still here, he's the one who needs to go.

[8:32 PM] Sandy: "Yes...can she describe him?  Maybe start with an accent?"

[8:33 PM] Joseph: It isn't Ahti... I don't recognize him.

[8:33 PM] Joseph: ... he offered her a ring.

[8:33 PM] Sandy: "You see him?"

[8:34 PM] Ke: So we have to find that ring?

[8:35 PM] Joseph: ... the husband was here. His spirit was here.

[8:35 PM] Sandy: "Did the husband die here?"

[8:35 PM] Joseph: ... and I think he might have pushed the suitor out the window.

[8:35 PM] Joseph: No.

[8:35 PM] Sandy: "...the note's a fake, isn't it?"

[8:36 PM] Joseph: No, I don't think so.

[8:37 PM] Joseph: The husband died in the train crash. He came back to his wife; she was murdered when she declined her suitor. The husband saw her die and in turn murdered the suitor from beyond the grave.

[8:37 PM] Joseph: ... I wonder where his ring is.

[8:37 PM] Sandy: "Ah...I was way off."

[8:37 PM] Ke: So what doesn’t belong?

[8:38 PM] Sandy: "The suitor's ring.  You were right about that."

[8:38 PM] Theo: ((as far as you saw, the suitor put his ring back in his pocket.))

[8:38 PM] Joseph: He put it back in his pocket. It should have been on the body when he died, but... he was pushed out the window.

[8:39 PM] Sandy: looks out the window to see where the body might've landed.

[8:40 PM] Theo: There's a cliff and a rocky beach down below.

[8:40 PM] Sandy: "Well, if it landed there, it was probably carried off."

[8:41 PM] Joseph: Not... necessarily.

[8:41 PM] Joseph: inspects the area around the window.

[8:41 PM] Theo: Perception+Investigation.

[8:42 PM] Joseph: ((5, 6, 7))

[8:42 PM] Theo: You don't see anything besides glass and other house debris.

[8:42 PM] Sandy: will try, just to be safe.

[8:43 PM] Sandy: ((2, with a nat 10 on one if that means anything))

[8:43 PM] Theo: You don't see anything either.

[8:44 PM] Sandy: "...do you suppose that same groundskeeper was here those years ago?"

[8:44 PM] Joseph: Possible, but we can't really ask him about this, with the story we gave him before.

[8:45 PM] Sandy: "True.  I thought maybe he'd found the ring, though."

[8:45 PM] Joseph: If he had, he'd've put it in a drawer or something. He doesn't strike me as the sort of person to steal.

[8:46 PM] Sandy: "No...I don't know what to do now."

[8:47 PM] Joseph: I'm not sure either. I suppose we can search the place one more time.

[8:48 PM] Sandy: "Let's try the study again.  Last place I can think to look."

[8:48 PM] Sandy: heads there.

[8:48 PM] Joseph: follows her.

[8:48 PM] Theo: (Do you mean the bedroom?))

[8:48 PM] Sandy: ((No, I meant the room with the tea trolley.))

[8:49 PM] Theo: ((Sitting room. okay!))

[8:49 PM] Sandy: will inspect the sitting room, yes. :)

[8:50 PM] Joseph: helps, and double checks the stuff on the tea trolley.

[8:50 PM] Sandy: ((1 success on Per + Inspection if that counts for anything.))

[8:51 PM] Theo: You don't find anything you didn't find before!

[8:52 PM] Ke: So unless we want to talk to the groundskeeper or search a cliff and beach in the early morning we are out of options.

[8:53 PM] Sandy: "............ugh.  August, what do you think?"

[8:56 PM] Joseph: runs up the widow's walk.

[8:56 PM] Ke: follows Joe

[8:57 PM] Sandy: follows

[8:58 PM] Joseph: has gone pale and rather blank.

[8:59 PM] Joseph: ... she was here a lot, after he died.

[8:59 PM] Sandy: "...makes a certain amount of sense.  ...she's...telling you that?"

[9:00 PM] Joseph: I saw it.

[9:00 PM] Sandy: "...did she meet the suitor up here?"

[9:00 PM] Joseph: I don't... think so.

[9:01 PM] Sandy: will look out over the seaside.

[9:01 PM] Sandy: "...you ok, Joe?"

[9:01 PM] Joseph: ... no.

[9:02 PM] Joseph: She never let anyone else up here.

[9:02 PM] Joseph: shudders, and goes back downstairs.

[9:03 PM] Ke: follows

[9:03 PM] Sandy: sighs and follows.

[9:03 PM] Ke: So do we just leave?

[9:03 PM] Sandy: "Joe, can I have the rings please?"

[9:03 PM] Joseph: Yes.

[9:03 PM] Joseph: hands them over to Sandy.

[9:04 PM] Sandy: takes them and stands by the window.

[9:04 PM] Joseph: rubs his eyes with the heels of his hands.

[9:04 PM] Sandy: "...when did you do this?  The two of you?  You're dead now, so...what do you want?"

[9:06 PM] Theo: No answer!

[9:07 PM] Sandy: "...no answer no visions."

[9:07 PM] Joseph: It'd be the suitor who doesn't belong here, if anyone. And he hasn't turned up, so he might not even be here.

[9:08 PM] Sandy: "Something was holding these to alter.  Didn't want me to touch them.  Who?  Why?  How?"

[9:08 PM] Joseph: The husband spoke to you, Sandy. And the wife spoke to me.

[9:08 PM] Ke: And I saw both of them

[9:09 PM] Sandy: "But no ghost for the suitor?  No body?  ...so why is everyone still here?"

[9:09 PM] Joseph: Perhaps we should simply put the rings back.

[9:09 PM] Joseph: The couple may wish to stay here together.

[9:10 PM] Ke: Who kept trying to throw us out the window?

[9:10 PM] Joseph: The husband, perhaps.

[9:11 PM] Ke: Who put the rings on the altar?

[9:11 PM] Sandy: "...I can't just go back empty-handed."

[9:12 PM] Joseph: Perhaps the wife did.

[9:12 PM] Joseph: And we wouldn't be going back empty-handed. It would be us who shouldn't be here.

[9:13 PM] Sandy: goes back to the bedroom and down the secret passage.

[9:13 PM] Joseph: follows.

[9:13 PM] Ke: goes as well

[9:13 PM] Theo: Okay!

[9:13 PM] Joseph: Perhaps we ought to put them back.

[9:13 PM] Theo: You find your wya back down to the altar.

[9:14 PM] Sandy: will go and drop the rings back on the altar.

[9:14 PM] Ke: inspects the altar

[9:14 PM] Theo: There's still a magnetic pull between the altar and the rings. They want to be there.

[9:15 PM] Sandy: "...great.  ...ok."

[9:15 PM] Theo: There's really nothing about the altar. It's a hunk of stone.

[9:16 PM] Sandy: "...let's just go back, I guess."

[9:17 PM] Joseph: ...they did a ritual over their rings at some point. Maybe that's why they... want to be here.

[9:18 PM] Sandy: "...somehow, I doubt they'll accept 'we were not supposed to be here' as the answer...but hey...we lost."

[9:19 PM] Joseph: I don't know what else to do.

[9:19 PM] Ke: Do you want to search a beach or interrogate the groundskeeper?

[9:20 PM] Sandy: "I kind of want to interrogate the groundskeeper, frankly."

[9:20 PM] Joseph: We could search the beach, I suppose.

[9:21 PM] Sandy: "...I can try searching the beach if you'll ask the groundskeeper if he's seen a ring here."

[9:21 PM] Ke: So splitting up?

[9:22 PM] Theo: August:  Yes, splitting up in the haunted house.

[9:22 PM] Joseph: I don't feel comfortable bothering him again.

[9:22 PM] Sandy: "...up to you then.  Search or go."

[9:23 PM] Theo: Either way, you have to go through the front door.

[9:23 PM] Joseph: I'll help search.

[9:23 PM] Joseph: Come on.

[9:23 PM] Joseph: does go through the front door.

[9:23 PM] Theo: ((And you put the rings back.))

[9:23 PM] Sandy: ((I did, yes.))

[9:24 PM] Sandy: will go and search

[9:25 PM] Joseph: does too.

[9:25 PM] Theo: You go out the front door and find Ahti sitting on top of Augusts car. He's got a fishing pole out, and the lure is cucrently bobbing in a big wooden barrel about five feet away. He's singing some song in Finnish, you'd guess.

[9:25 PM] Sandy: "...catch anything interesting, Ahti?"

[9:25 PM] Theo: Ahti:  Trying to dinner.

[9:26 PM] Theo: Ahti:  But fish aren't biting.

[9:26 PM] Sandy: ((To be clear...he's just fishing in a barrel?))

[9:26 PM] Theo: ((Yep.))

[9:26 PM] Sandy: "Shame when that happens.  You ever try the ocean instead?"

[9:27 PM] Theo: Ahti:   Ocean is filthy. Whales poo in there.

[9:27 PM] Joseph: That's true. Have you ever found a ring around here?

[9:28 PM] Theo: Ahti:  Ring? No, I haven't.

[9:29 PM] Sandy: "Figures.  ...what have you found fishing?"

[9:29 PM] Theo: Ahti looks puzzled. "Fish."

[9:29 PM] Theo: August:  .... could you get off my car?

[9:30 PM] Joseph: rubs his forehead.

[9:30 PM] Joseph: I think we worked out what happened here.

[9:30 PM] Ke: Wouldn’t have been recently

[9:30 PM] Joseph: The husband didn't kill his wife. He died earlier in a train crash.

[9:30 PM] Theo: Ahti:  Ohh. Good detective work!

[9:31 PM] Joseph: A suitor proposed to the widow and she turned him down; he pushed her out the window, and then the ghost of the husband murdered the suitor in turn.

[9:31 PM] Theo: Ahti:  Ghosts be like that sometimes.

[9:31 PM] Joseph: ... is there anything in the house that doesn't belong there?

[9:32 PM] Ke: Or on the grounds

[9:33 PM] Theo: Ahti:  Hmm. No. Sometimes there are youths but I scare them off with shotgun. Well, stick painted like shotgun.

[9:33 PM] Sandy: "Must be a good paint job."

[9:34 PM] Theo: Ahti:  No, but is dark and youths are hopped up on wreather.

[9:34 PM] Joseph: .... wreather?

[9:34 PM] Joseph: ... well, in any case, we didn't find anyone in there alive, so we'd best be getting going.

[9:35 PM] Theo: Ahti mimes smoking.

[9:35 PM] Sandy: "Reefer"

[9:35 PM] Theo: Ahti:  Oh. Well, would be strange to find living thing in haunted house.

[9:35 PM] Theo: Ahti:  There are birds sometimes but I ask them to leave. Birds are polite, unlike youths.

[9:35 PM] Ke: How long have you been here?

[9:36 PM] Theo: Ahti:  2 to 5 years? Losing track.

[9:37 PM] Theo: Ahti looks at Sandy for about a minute without saying anything.

[9:37 PM] Sandy: "Who pays you to work here?  Who keeps grounds at an abandoned house?"

[9:37 PM] Theo: Ahti:  ... I am thinking I should sleep and you should go. Quickly now, so I do not get my shotgun which is not a stick.

[9:38 PM] Joseph: I agree.

[9:38 PM] Joseph: Goodnight, sir.

[9:38 PM] Joseph: hops into the car.

[9:38 PM] Sandy: ".....yeah, ok.  Good night."

[9:38 PM] Sandy: ((Is there an equivalent to an insight check?))

[9:38 PM] Theo: Cha+Rapport.

[9:39 PM] Sandy: ((And no good rolls. Nevermind.))

[9:40 PM] Joseph: ((7, 4, 10, 9, 5, 7, 4, 4, 8, 1.))

[9:43 PM] Sandy: will get in the car.

[9:44 PM] Joseph: opens the car door again and steps out, frowning.

[9:44 PM] Sandy: leans out and looks.

[9:44 PM] Joseph: Ke, Sandy, come here for a minute.

[9:44 PM] Sandy: follows

[9:44 PM] Ke: is still out of the car looking at ahti

[9:44 PM] Joseph: ... he's not the groundskeeper.

[9:44 PM] Ke: goes to where  Joe is

[9:45 PM] Theo: Ahti has shuffled into his cabin.

[9:45 PM] Ke: Who is he?

[9:45 PM] Sandy: "...who's paying a groundskeeper to work an abandon house?"

[9:45 PM] Joseph: I don't know.

[9:45 PM] Sandy: "...so...how do we do this?"

[9:45 PM] Joseph: ... it's odd, I was positive he wasn't lying, before.

[9:46 PM] Ke: So what we break into his cabin?

[9:46 PM] Joseph: And kidnap him? We could.

[9:47 PM] Sandy: "...we have real guns."

[9:47 PM] Joseph: I think he really does think of himself as protecting the place.

[9:47 PM] Joseph: But I'm pretty certain no one hired him either.

[9:47 PM] Joseph: ... and he isn't hurting anything.

[9:47 PM] Sandy: "Well...we don't think he is."

[9:48 PM] Sandy: "I say we try the guns method."

[9:48 PM] Joseph: He's running off kids from the house.

[9:48 PM] Joseph: And he might be a bit crazy, but the house isn't safe.

[9:49 PM] Theo: August:  Hmm.

[9:49 PM] Joseph: We saw the fire damage ourselves.

[9:49 PM] Sandy: will go up and knock on the door again.

[9:49 PM] Joseph: I think we ought to go back, and let him be.

[9:51 PM] Theo: August:  .... he wasn't hired. No one asked him to be here, right?

[9:51 PM] Theo: August:  He's definitely not a terribly good groundskeeper.

[9:51 PM] Sandy: "...ancestor, maybe?"

[9:51 PM] Theo: August indicates the overgrown yard.

[9:52 PM] Sandy: "Or descendant.  Sorry.  Went the wrong way."

[9:52 PM] Joseph: No one asked him to be here, but he's not harming anything.

[9:52 PM] Joseph: And he's obviously not drawing a salary, so why should he do anything?

[9:53 PM] Ke: We don’t know that

[9:53 PM] Theo: August:  I'm just saying, if there's something that doesn't belong. It's him. I don't think that guy belongs anywhere except some Finnish fairy tale.

[9:54 PM] Ke: Makes sense to me

[9:54 PM] Ke: Do we have a plan?

[9:54 PM] Sandy: knocks on the cabin door again

[9:54 PM] Ke: looks for another entrance to the cabin

[9:54 PM] Joseph: I don't understand why we're doing this.

[9:55 PM] Joseph: blanches again.

[9:56 PM] Sandy: "...he's running isn't he?"

[9:56 PM] Joseph: ... also something has just occurred to me in which case you would be correct in that he does not belong here, and I would also be completely correct in that it would be extremely unwise to bother him.

[9:56 PM] Theo: August:  We dont' have to kidnap him. Just convince him to come back with us.

[9:57 PM] Theo: You hear him snoring, so he's probably not running.(edited)

[9:57 PM] Sandy: "...Ke, you pick locks, right?"

[9:57 PM] Joseph: ... hold on. Hold on, let me think.

[9:58 PM] Sandy: "What are you worried about, Joe?"

[9:58 PM] Joseph: I remembered where I'd heard the name before. August is right.

[9:58 PM] Joseph: And you don't want to fight him.

[9:59 PM] Joseph: ... he's Scandinavian, let's just offer him a beer.

[9:59 PM] Theo: August blinks. "I've got you set."

[9:59 PM] Theo: He goes and opens up his trunk!

[10:00 PM] Sandy: "Where'd you hear the name before?"

[10:00 PM] Theo: Sandy, you will recall that August was a bootlegger.

[10:00 PM] Joseph: ... Finnish fairytales.

[10:00 PM] Theo: August pulls out a bottle of some unlabeled brown liquid.

[10:00 PM] Joseph: Or more accurately, the Kalevala. Sort of.

[10:01 PM] Joseph: knocks on the door.

[10:01 PM] Joseph: ... god of the sea.

[10:02 PM] Sandy: "...you think he's a sea monster?"

[10:02 PM] Theo: August grabs a second bottle.

[10:02 PM] Joseph: No, I think he's a finnish deity.

[10:03 PM] Ke: And we are going to convince him to come with us with alcohol?

[10:04 PM] Joseph: I mean, I have met some Finns.

[10:04 PM] Sandy: "...I actually think this plan could work."

[10:04 PM] Joseph: It's that or a sauna.

[10:04 PM] Theo: August:  I do not have a sauna.(edited)

[10:05 PM] Sandy: bangs louder on the door. "AHTI!  WAKE UP!"

[10:05 PM] Joseph: ... he is one of the fightier gods.

[10:07 PM] Theo: Ahti:  WAH. What.

[10:07 PM] Theo: He opens the door.

[10:07 PM] Sandy: "Mr. Ahti...hi...we wanted to thank you for letting us in."

[10:07 PM] Joseph: Would you like to come with us and get a beer?

[10:07 PM] Sandy: "What he said!"

[10:07 PM] Theo: August brandishes his bottles. "This isn't beer."

[10:08 PM] Joseph: Or something stronger, yes.

[10:08 PM] Theo: Ahti:  .... all right.

[10:08 PM] Theo: Ahti:  All drinking, though. I'll get cups.

[10:08 PM] Theo: He goes in, leaving the door open.

[10:08 PM] Sandy: enters

[10:09 PM] Joseph: Sandy, you're 17.

[10:09 PM] Sandy: "...really?  ...right now?"

[10:10 PM] Joseph: There's drinking, and then there's... drinking.

[10:10 PM] Theo: He puts down five cups. The inside is actually remarkably tidy given the rest of the grounds.

[10:10 PM] Sandy: "...I'm sitting in, at least."

[10:11 PM] Joseph: You'll probably need to drive.

[10:11 PM] Sandy: "...we actually thought maybe you could come with us to a...bar, Mr. Ahti."

[10:11 PM] Joseph: looks to Ahti. "I'd really meant to invite you back to the house where we're staying, but."

[10:12 PM] Joseph: It's got a well-stocked bar.

[10:12 PM] Sandy: "Yeah.  Higher class booze there."

[10:12 PM] Theo: Ahti:  ... one bottle here, one bottle there.

[10:12 PM] Joseph: Sounds good.

[10:14 PM] Sandy: nods

[10:14 PM] Theo: So to sum it up, you all get drunk on August's extremely potent booze, Ahti teaches you a drinking song, and Sandy drives you all home.

[10:14 PM] Theo: And we'll stop there.

[10:15 PM] Sandy: ((Ok.))