So we left our intrepid group of idiots with Dawson having completely fucked up the PLAN.
Dawsons first impulse was to drive the van somewhere quiet to examine the contents but this changed rapidly when two robed figures jumped into Walsh's car and gave chase. To confound them he chose to drive around the yacht clubs drive, possibly hoping to make them dizzy.
Back at Walsh's yacht Shambles observed his two body guards coming out to investigate the cries of alarm. Completely failing to sneak up on the pair he decided the only way to avoid death by bullet was to jump into the sea which gave time for Kalabos and De'ath to do the blighter’s in. For some reason Kalabos decided to use a bear-trap he had in his possession for just this type of circumstance. In a one-off absolutely never to be repeated in any game I ever run again attack he managed to set the bear-trap off on a bodyguards head killing him instantly. I repeat that this will never ever happen again. De'ath despatched her foe with more conventional weapons.
Dawson meanwhile continued to drive around the front of the club managing to pick off some robed figures who had been distracted by the opportunity to shoot emerging hobos like fish in a barrel. Then breaking hard to make the trailing car smash into the back of his van making the crates fall back and break open on it's bonnet he drew Bess, his trusty pistol, and prepared for a desperate fire-fight
Kalabos and De'ath sneaked up to the yacht clubs office and looking through the window they spotted Walsh and Gardner having an argument. Seeing his chance Kalabos borrowed a stick of dynamite from De'ath, attached his home-made detonator and swiftly relayed his new PLAN to her. After a quick discussion about how this plan was even stupider than the previous one De'ath agreed to go ahead.
Meanwhile Shambles had pulled himself out of the water and decided to climb a trellis to the first floor, the second floor for those in the colonies, so he could sneak in unnoticed. We'll come back to that.
Dawsons fire-fight continued. It was dead exciting and stuff but would probably look better than I describe it. Think Bogart in The Big Sleep only in a van. If you don't like the nicely low-key fire-fight in that movie I recommend finding somebody doing a Feng Shui blog, it's more good Law stuff just with more gun fu. Anyway I digress.
Kalabos enacted the new PLAN. De'ath broke the window with her rifle and he threw the dynamite through shouting that he'd blow everybody up if they didn't surrender. Unfortunately the wire connecting the dynamite to the detonator fell out and a fire-fight ensued. This was probably just as well as the detonator was carved out of balsa wood and couldn't blow a nose. Unnoticed there was a wet thump and curse in the background.
Shambles picked himself up from the ground and decided a more subterranean access route might be in order. Spotting the storm doors through which the crates had been brought out our vaguely unintelligible investigator strode forth.
On the ground floor all was action and excitement. With her trusty rifle and the quick pass of a Purdey De'ath despatched the nefarious duo just as Dawson finished the last of the robed cultists. Breaking in through the door they noted whilst Walsh was satisfyingly a normal corpse Gardner had already began melting in a weird bubbling way. They quickly took a sample which had unfortunately melted into nothingness before dawn. Knowing time was not on their side our heroes took all the documents they could from the safe and went to check on Shambles.
Shambles had discovered a strange and shocking thing in the cellar. Against the far wall was a vat containing large, luminescent green fish eggs. Examination and talk with Dawson showed that it was this substance that had been crated up to be transported to God knows where. Steeling himself Shambles made sure to take a good sample of the ungodly substance and our heroes prepare for their escape. With sirens in the distance our heroes took just enough time to rig the house with dynamite and gasoline before escaping in De'aths yacht just moments before the authorities arrived.
The next day brought a meeting with the Armitage Inquiry though Armitage and Wilmarth were not present as the aged librarian had to have a lie down and Wilmarth was watching over him. The Inquiry agreed that a grave threat had been stymied and revealed that Miskatonic biologists had examined the fish eggs and discovered that they contained things which looked disturbingly like human foetuses. On hearing this our Mexican friend Kalabos dug deep into his knowledge of the Cthulhu Mythos and realised that these eggs were meant to implanted in human woman and perhaps were meant to be taken all over the US. Shocked to the core he mentioned this and wondered if travellers such as salesmen or carnivals could be involved in such work.
At this point Wilmarth burst into the room shouting that whilst Armitage slept it seemed he'd dozed off himself and in the interim a new document had appeared in the room !
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