In which our investigators work for a living, there's an unnameable thing in the basement, let's fake a death!

Dawson and Kalabos made sure to keep their appointment with Will Moran. Mrs Callahan proved to be a strange old bird but very nice and Moran was exactly what he appeared. The meeting was broken up by Shambles turning up at the door disguised as a flower delivery man but not much was gained for their time except the knowledge that many factory workers stayed at Mrs Callahans and they often did midnight flits leaving some personal possessions. Mrs Callahan attributed this to them being hobo's who'd decided to move on.

It was worth noting that Mrs Callahan stated that Moran was her only current resident and she would be glad to have more but Shambles outside noted movement in the upper parts of the house. Moran himself was non-plussed at the discovery of a long lost half brother but accepted Dawsons story as his Irish father was known to get around.

Dawson and Kalabos's first day at the factory went as well as could be expected. The supervisor, Burke, seemed to take an immediate dislike to Dawson but remained professional as he explained that the overalls were hired by them from the factory, they would be starting at with canning and if they did well they could graduate to warehouse work. Assigned to an expert canner called Margaret they set to it with Kalabos proving a good worker whilst Dawson was noted to spend too much time chatting. Talking to Margaret they found that canning was the lowest job, warehouse work a little above it and the most favoured workers tended to machinery in the basement. Margaret was also very effusive about the free canned fish the workers got, Dawson and Kalabos noticed she had a touch of the Innsmouth look. Kalabos's keen eye also spotted something with a strange green glow in the cheap fishmeat they were putting into the cans.

At the first smoke break Dawson and Kalabos decided to sneak into the basement. Hidden in the shadows they saw that the workers seemed strangely mishapen and something was being piped up to the factory from a strange pit containing an unnameable gelatinous mass. At this point they fled the factory, losing their deposit on their overalls.

Getting back with the group it was agreed that there was something wrong at the Huckabee factory. Lautrec had been investigating Edgar Huckabee and learned that he was to be hosting a charity event, Helping the Hopeless, in two days time. With her amazing connections she was able to get tickets for the event and even hired yet another suit for Kalabos.


The factory still dominated Shambles mind though. How could he avert the fate laid down in the files? In an attempt to kill two birds with one stone they visited Jarhaus once again. After a long talk they convinced him that the factory was used by the half-breed fish things he had talked about before. They then further convinced him to break into the factory on the night of the event and wire up a package they gave him. To give him cover Shambles gave him copies of his ID. Clearly the evil of the factory would be stopped, a racist would die and Shambles would avert his fate!

Keepers Ruminations

Ok the last session or two completely threw me. For some reason I'd convinced myself that the whole death of an investigator thing wouldn't attract that much attention. I was clearly wrong.

Given that I'd already served the group with one sort of red herring it seemed churlish to deny them something from this so I decided go ahead with the whole thing. The factory quickly turned into a canning one and who doesn't love tinned fish. Throw in the rich canning mangate Edgar Huckabee an we're set. I hope.

Is the investigation stymied?, Shambles fears factories, Working for the man!

Stunned by the lack of progress in investigating The American Preservation League our heroes began looking at alternate lines of inquiry. Shambles investigations into Red Hollow revealed that it was a small town in Dunwich, known for being unusually prosperous. Dawson meanwhile decided to put an ad in the paper requesting contact from factory worker Will Moran as his long lost brother needed to get in touch with him.

Armoured with this burst of activity the investigators Jahraus of the APL once again to give him info on Walsh's missing wife in the hope that his network across the country could track her down. It was another interesting visit punctuated by Dawson going for the longest pee in history. He swore it was only 3 minutes.

Contact to the paper was made by Moran the next morning. The investigators received a message that he was interestedin meeting his brother but had to work a full shift at the Huckabee Canning factory, He would be available from 1900 in his lodgings at the lodging house of Mrs Wilmer Callahan. Kalabos, Lautrec and Dawson headed for the factory. Shambles headed for the train station.

At the Huvkabee Canning Factory Lautrec waited outside taking photographs whilst Kalabos and Dawson applied for jobs within. With some use of their charms they were hired to start the next morning and promised a can of product a week as a bonus. Investigation showed that the factory was canning fish!

With only a quick trip to pick up Shambles before he left our investigators were ready to proceed.