We meet with a Mrs. Clark, who is the wife of James Clark. Mr. Clark is missing. He is a lawyer in Boston. Our meeting took place in our office in Boston on a Wednesday morning in July of 1927. We invite her in after she knocks on our office door. It's raining outside when she tells us that her husband has been missing for two nights. She last saw him Monday night at 10:00 pm. Mrs. Clark informs us that her husband has been spending a lot of time at the Hermetic Order of the Silver Twilight which he joined about three weeks ago and that on the night he went missing he took the car keys and his wallet, but left the car parked in their driveway at the house. She also tells that he used to meet a friend of his, a Mr. James Henry, at a local pub before it closed down due to prohibition. The friend, as far as she knows, is abroad in Europe at the moment, but may be back now. She gives the address of Mr. Henry's home. She tells of an article in the Boston Globe mentioning the order and that she informed someone of our investigation at the order who may be a doctor. Mr. Henry, her husband and Mrs. Clark are approximately all the same age, since Mr. Henry and her husband had gone to school together. We thank her for her time.
We start our investigation by going to the Boston Globe and the clerk there tells us that all the articles are at the local library. We then split into two groups; one group goes to the library, Mr. Graham, a professor of psychology, and Mr. Seldon, a private investigator, while the second group consisting of Mr. Williams, a Geo-chemist and myself, Dominic Hastings, investigate the home of Mr. James Henry. We drop off the two at the library and go to the home.
While in the library, George Graham and Hari Seldon search for the article in the Globe. George finds a book on something and runs into a friend, Frank, who has recently visited the Lodge of the Silver Twilight. Frank found them odd, friendly, a weird number of employees, almost too many. Explained that some rooms are locked and access is restricted to the first floor of the three story lodge. He tells that employees block access to the stairs leading to the second floor. He remembers a gentleman with pocky skin who may have been the leader of the lodge, but lead the meeting regardless. He also says that there was an older gentleman named Scott in another room talking and although the building was in pristine condition that he couldn't like the amount of secrecy they seemed to have.
Outside Mr. Henry's small house stood a descent well-cared for garden. We visited his next door neighbor who seemed very standoffish and just downright creepy and cared nothing for his neighbor. We notice his other neighbor across the street, who tells us what we just witnessed about the next door neighbor, but also tells us that Mr. Henry is also missing and that it was also in the paper. We go back across the street and try talking with his next door neighbor again about Mr. Henry's disappearance and he pulls a shotgun on us warning that he'd shoot if we didn't leave. He told us nothing, so we left and went and picked up the others at the library.
We decide to visit Mr. Clark's law office and find it occupied by a female secretary and his law partner. The law partner said he saw a light on last Saturday night and assumed Mr. Clark was working into the evening which he normally did and that Mr. Clark had invited him to join the order, gave him the normal meeting time of 5:00 pm and the address of the lodge. He also mentions a Dr. Call who is a member of the order and gives us his contact number and tells that he normally works out of his home, we also receive the address of the lodge from him. We call the doctor from the law office, he tells us that it isn't good for us to be seen together and will meet us at the lodge during the next meeting, tonight at 6:00 pm. The doctor seemed very worried.
We try finding records on the order at the courthouse, but find nothing. We decide to grab a bite to eat before heading to the meeting. We discuss that we should act like acquaintances at the lodge, that we are not investigating the disappearances and that we should go our separate ways once inside.
The meeting takes place across the Charles River in the Cambridge area of Boston. The house itself is three stories tall. We notice Dr. Call outside the lodge smoking a cigarette. Ash walks over to talk with the doctor and says that members are restricted from talking with nonmembers. The rest of us head inside the lodge into a large foyer with two reception rooms, the larger of the two being on the left behind the coat-check room. I check my overcoat and get a ticket. I move into the larger reception area and see one of the people that runs the lodge along with the pock-faced man and an animated and energetic man in a wool sweater and a German accent. A move across the foyer into the smaller reception area and see a young man drawing a lot of attention. I attempt to get closer to the young man and am bumped into by a tall, burly man. I apologize for bumping into him and he starts a conversation with me, asking a lot of questions. Turns out he is cop, speaks with a slight Irish accent, joined the local force recently and his name is Terry. I tell him that I am a private investigator that finds things, like artwork and missing items, that I am not investigating the missing members of the order, and although lying to him seemed like a good idea at the time, I have my doubts. He walks away and notice him writing something down on a pad of paper.
I head to the restroom, spying Ash Williams in the foyer and whisper to him that the pock-faced man is in the larger room. I come out of the restroom and sit in the lounge looking out for Dr. Call. I do not see him anywhere. I search the dining room, don't remember him in the two reception rooms, and see that an employee is guarding the rear steps and the front ones in the foyer too. The employees look like security guards. I go and sit in the lounge, after a while, the meeting seems to be winding down, so I go and introduce myself to John Scott. I had overheard his name while he was speaking with Ash, also overhearing that his bodyguard is named Mr. Reed and that the other leader of the meeting is named Carl Stanford. I notice that the pock-faced man is John Scott. Mr. Scott doesn't know me and although I was expecting something, was disappointed when I received no recognition.
We leave the lodge and go to the office.
This is where my character left off and I left the online chat.
We start our investigation by going to the Boston Globe and the clerk there tells us that all the articles are at the local library. We then split into two groups; one group goes to the library, Mr. Graham, a professor of psychology, and Mr. Seldon, a private investigator, while the second group consisting of Mr. Williams, a Geo-chemist and myself, Dominic Hastings, investigate the home of Mr. James Henry. We drop off the two at the library and go to the home.
While in the library, George Graham and Hari Seldon search for the article in the Globe. George finds a book on something and runs into a friend, Frank, who has recently visited the Lodge of the Silver Twilight. Frank found them odd, friendly, a weird number of employees, almost too many. Explained that some rooms are locked and access is restricted to the first floor of the three story lodge. He tells that employees block access to the stairs leading to the second floor. He remembers a gentleman with pocky skin who may have been the leader of the lodge, but lead the meeting regardless. He also says that there was an older gentleman named Scott in another room talking and although the building was in pristine condition that he couldn't like the amount of secrecy they seemed to have.
Outside Mr. Henry's small house stood a descent well-cared for garden. We visited his next door neighbor who seemed very standoffish and just downright creepy and cared nothing for his neighbor. We notice his other neighbor across the street, who tells us what we just witnessed about the next door neighbor, but also tells us that Mr. Henry is also missing and that it was also in the paper. We go back across the street and try talking with his next door neighbor again about Mr. Henry's disappearance and he pulls a shotgun on us warning that he'd shoot if we didn't leave. He told us nothing, so we left and went and picked up the others at the library.
We decide to visit Mr. Clark's law office and find it occupied by a female secretary and his law partner. The law partner said he saw a light on last Saturday night and assumed Mr. Clark was working into the evening which he normally did and that Mr. Clark had invited him to join the order, gave him the normal meeting time of 5:00 pm and the address of the lodge. He also mentions a Dr. Call who is a member of the order and gives us his contact number and tells that he normally works out of his home, we also receive the address of the lodge from him. We call the doctor from the law office, he tells us that it isn't good for us to be seen together and will meet us at the lodge during the next meeting, tonight at 6:00 pm. The doctor seemed very worried.
We try finding records on the order at the courthouse, but find nothing. We decide to grab a bite to eat before heading to the meeting. We discuss that we should act like acquaintances at the lodge, that we are not investigating the disappearances and that we should go our separate ways once inside.
The meeting takes place across the Charles River in the Cambridge area of Boston. The house itself is three stories tall. We notice Dr. Call outside the lodge smoking a cigarette. Ash walks over to talk with the doctor and says that members are restricted from talking with nonmembers. The rest of us head inside the lodge into a large foyer with two reception rooms, the larger of the two being on the left behind the coat-check room. I check my overcoat and get a ticket. I move into the larger reception area and see one of the people that runs the lodge along with the pock-faced man and an animated and energetic man in a wool sweater and a German accent. A move across the foyer into the smaller reception area and see a young man drawing a lot of attention. I attempt to get closer to the young man and am bumped into by a tall, burly man. I apologize for bumping into him and he starts a conversation with me, asking a lot of questions. Turns out he is cop, speaks with a slight Irish accent, joined the local force recently and his name is Terry. I tell him that I am a private investigator that finds things, like artwork and missing items, that I am not investigating the missing members of the order, and although lying to him seemed like a good idea at the time, I have my doubts. He walks away and notice him writing something down on a pad of paper.
I head to the restroom, spying Ash Williams in the foyer and whisper to him that the pock-faced man is in the larger room. I come out of the restroom and sit in the lounge looking out for Dr. Call. I do not see him anywhere. I search the dining room, don't remember him in the two reception rooms, and see that an employee is guarding the rear steps and the front ones in the foyer too. The employees look like security guards. I go and sit in the lounge, after a while, the meeting seems to be winding down, so I go and introduce myself to John Scott. I had overheard his name while he was speaking with Ash, also overhearing that his bodyguard is named Mr. Reed and that the other leader of the meeting is named Carl Stanford. I notice that the pock-faced man is John Scott. Mr. Scott doesn't know me and although I was expecting something, was disappointed when I received no recognition.
We leave the lodge and go to the office.
This is where my character left off and I left the online chat.
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