Session 7
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- The evening after their visit to the Asylum, Dr. Hyde and Leo decided they would return to the warded house and attempt to sneak in once more, to gather information.
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- Over the phone, Leo and Dr. Hyde decided that before approaching the house, they would make a detour to the local cemetery to steal a body.
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- The plan was for Dr. Hyde to animate portions of the corpse and use the resulting homunculi to scout past the anti-vampire wards at the house.
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- While planning the body-snatching, Dr. Hyde was informed by his assistant that a medical examiner had been attacked by a supposed corpse that morning.
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- The story went that the examiner had been preparing to do an autopsy on a recent murder victim, when the 'body' woke up and attacked. The examiner beat it with a fire extinguisher until it died for real.
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- Relaying this information to Leo, the two decided they should look into the violent re-animated corpse.
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- The pair heads to the Arkham City Morgue, which is attached to the local hospital.
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- Leo brings along his "good friend" Detective Aloysius McGillicutty, who convinces the security man (with some help from Dr. Hyde) that they are all authorized.
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- In the morgue itself, they discover a young dockworker's body, recently deceased from a broken neck. He has telltale marks of vampire feeding on his neck, as well.
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- Dr. Hyde drains the dockworker's body of blood, determining in the process that it was already missing a fatal amount.
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- The Detective gains access to the personal effects of the dockworker, as well as those of the potentially re-animated corpse.
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- The actual body of the violent "corpse" is already gone. It was rushed to the crematorium and incinerated.
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- Between Dr. Hyde's mental commands and the Detective's influence, Leo and Dr. Hyde abscond with the dockworker's corpse.
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- The corpse is dropped off at Dr. Hyde's laboratory / haven, but before any reanimation can take place, a phone call from Mr. Whateley comes in.
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- The phone call is Mr. Whateley's personal assistant, asking the pair to investigate the disappearance of Edwin Blackmoor from his estate.
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- Leo and Dr. Hyde drive to the estate. Dr. Hyde begins questioning the housekeeper, who is the only witness to the "disappearance" while Leo investigates the surroundings.
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- Dr. Hyde learns from the housekeeper that she was cleaning the entrance to the manor house when Blackmoor ran in, being chased by four pale, horrible monsters.
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- The monsters were biting Blackmoor, tearing at him, and finally subdued him. They dragged him out of the house, while the housekeeper hid.
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- Leo examines the surroundings and finds evidence that Blackmoor was digging in his back yard when he was attacked.
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- There is a hole the size of a fresh grave in the back yard.
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- There are traces of the sticky, foul black fluids that the strange semi-vampiric monsters leaked.
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- It appears that Blackmoor was abducted by the monsters.
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- Meanwhile, Clinton woke and decided to do background research on Dr. Kirk's expedition and their findings.
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- He contacted the Miskatonic University archaeology department and was put in touch with Dr. Francis Morgan.
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- Dr. Morgan suggests that Clinton consult a library for research on Mesopotamian mythology.
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- The expedition that Dr. Kirk was on had been sent out to recover cuneiform tablets from a dig in Mosul, supposedly a temple to the Assyrian death goddess.
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- The cuneiform tablets were recovered, and brought back, so whatever happened to Dr. Kirk and the others happened on their way back to the port from Nineveh.
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- At the Arkham Public Library, Mandy Thompson helps Clinton gather basic research materials, but sends him to the Miskatonic Library for special material.
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- Clinton spends the rest of the night at the Miskatonic Library, deep in research.
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- He discovers the meaning of part of Dr. Kirk's mad poem, and some background information on the supposed "Nameless City."
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- Clinton's night of studies lead him to a few faint clues. He uncovers two references in different books to what he believes might be the same Nameless City that Dr. Kirk mentioned in her mad poem. If these references are more than just superstition, and they are referring to that city, it is deep in the desert wastes in the north of Iraq. It has a terrible, fearsome reputation in the ancient stories, and was supposedly inhabited by demons. According to the books, it was abandoned, even in the ancient days of Sumeria, but the power of the demons was so terrible that even after centuries, it was never approached by any sane human.
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