The morning brought an unexpected twist. Kalabos woke in Dawsons office/crashpad to find Dawson gone leaving a note saying he had been taken ill and had to be away for a short while. Kalabos thought this was fishy at best and decided to search the office for valuables which netted him nothing more than a half-full change jar. Kalabos was very happy but was soon ejected by Dawsons secretary Nancy who pointedly provided our hobo with a bar of carbolic soap. Kalabos remained confused about this throughout the session and offered the soap as a remedy for all ills when the opportunity arose.
After meeting together for brunch the group went on for a meeting with the Armitage Inquiry where they reported their progress so far and consistently dismissed Dawsons claims that it was all a conspiracy by some sort of fish-men hybrids. Armitage brought up references to the so called Deep Ones in the Necronomicon, Pnakotic Manuscripts and the Eltdown Shards. Lady Letrauc-De'ath replied she wasn't interested in anything unless it was mentioned in Tatler. The meeting ended with Armitage promising to do more research int the Deep Ones and The Esoteric Order of Dagon and the group as unresolved as before.
After stopping for a light lunch in Arkham our intrepid trio headed out to the cheap part of Kingsport for the meeting with Finlayson. Totally bypassing any house containing terrible old men they soon arrived at the ramshackle four-storey boarding house where Finlayson resided. Paying a local urchin to take care of the car our intrepid investigators proceeded to Finlaysons appartment where they found a scene of pure horror!
It seems someone had arrived at the apartment before them and dealt with Finlayson in a rather extreme fashion. The sight of his body parts strewn across the room tested the stability of our heroes and it was only through a real effort that they continued. Shambles examined he corpse and found that the visible wounds were in four parallel rows and razor sharp, something which he had never seen in his time in the wilds. Lady Lautrec De'ath searched the room and found some sort of notebook or diary left by the victim and decided to read it later.
Kalabos meanwhile went out to interrogate the urchin who revealed that Finlayson was a right git and that he'd seen somebody go into the building earlier that morning. The man was a stranger heavily wrapped in a large coat, scarf, gloves and a hat had entered the building. For some unknown reason Kalabos then took the young child up to view the corpse with predictable results. Our friends then left the scene only stopping to call the police anonymously and pay the urchin to give the police all the information they had excepting their prescence.
Realising that they may be in danger our group went to the nearest safe place in Kingsport, The Kingsport Yacht Club. Their host, Oliver Gardiner, was very happy to have them for high tea and reamained solicitous throughout though our lady was a little icked out by him. During the tiffin Shambles and Kalabos brought up Horace 'Diamond' Walsh into the conversation but their host never took the bait.
After tea Kalabos took the opportunity to have a look around the grounds. It seems that he and Shambles had struck upon the idea that Gardiner might have something in his office that might give them a clue towards what's going on. Kalabos' investigations were cut short by the onsite security but he did find that they carry guns. Meanwhile Shambles introduced Lady De'ath to one of the clubs waitresses, Annie, who our lady offered a future job to if she stayed at her current one and reported back to them. Poor orphan Annie with two brothers to support readily agreed so it seem that they have an ally in the enemy camp. Or another future corpswe.
This nut may be a tough one, perhaps Dawson may help if he returns.
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