The Oak Cemetery Investigation

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Taaz · #21 Post by **Taaz** » Tue May 19, 2020 4:32 am

With his nose buried in the PKE readout he hangs his toe on the edge of the marker falling on the ground.

Bluehorse · #22 Post by **Bluehorse** » Thu May 21, 2020 4:08 pm

The Team has combed through most all of the West Side of the cemetery up on the hillside. There are Still some to the southeast.

7

In Memory of Mary A. Duncan
December 2, 1908
Who's body was never found.
An veritas, an nihil.

8

Samuel Blackwell ADAMS
and
Mary BLACKWELL
An veritas, an nihil.

9

Mary
Died on October 22, 1959
An veritas, an nihil.

10

Narcissa Eglantine
May 6, 1961
One son and five daughters.
An veritas, an nihil.

11

Narcissa
Died on August 24, 1973
An veritas, an nihil.

12

Phoebe Talmonia Carson
1976.
An veritas, an nihil.

13

Orinthia May Adams (1963–1987)
An veritas, an nihil.

14

Phoebe Zenobia Adams (1951–2002)
An veritas, an nihil.

Map X = Ecto. O = Hotspots. Jb = Jack Belt

Urson · #23 Post by **Urson** » Thu May 21, 2020 4:39 pm

Joker
Joker stops and retraces his steps, returning to the other hotspots he's found. Do they also include the same latin phrase?

Joker does a quick Google search to get a translation of the phrase. [5d6] = 14 ghost [1d6] = 5

Bluehorse · #24 Post by **Bluehorse** » Thu May 21, 2020 8:02 pm

Urson wrote:Joker
Joker stops and retraces his steps, returning to the other hotspots he's found. Do they also include the same latin phrase?

Joker does a quick Google search to get a translation of the phrase. [5d6] = 14 ghost [1d6] = 5

Only these. No other stones in the rest of the cemetery seem to have it. They are all more or less in the same area; often sharing a plot area.

Bluehorse · #25 Post by **Bluehorse** » Fri May 22, 2020 2:32 pm

Samwell Turleton wrote:Information from the Oak Cemetery interests Sam and he spends some time marking notes in a small journal before getting distracted and having his interest piqued by an article in a prominent science periodical about mycorrhizal networks.

He shifts to drafting a group text to introduce himself to other members of the staff and accidentally sends them a link to the article with no message attached.

Urson · #26 Post by **Urson** » Fri May 22, 2020 4:35 pm

Joker

Joker raises his eyebrows in curiosity, and double- checks to make sure he has all the names of the deceased under these stones.

Do I understand that these are the only stones in the Cemetery with this incription? That there aren't any non-reacting graves with the same phrase?

More research...

When the random article shows up in his texts, Joker shrugs it off. With all the trouble his search engine has been giving him, somehow it doesn't surprise.

Bluehorse · #27 Post by **Bluehorse** » Fri May 22, 2020 5:23 pm

Urson wrote:Joker

Joker raises his eyebrows in curiosity, and double- checks to make sure he has all the names of the deceased under these stones.

Do I understand that these are the only stones in the Cemetery with this incription? That there aren't any non-reacting graves with the same phrase?

This is correct. These stones appear to be the only ones with that particular phrase written on them. They all share something else you notice. A similar frequency, other than the one beside them for Mary A. Duncan which is the only one with zero signal in the group of otherwise active gravesites. The only thing it shares is the inscription and the fact it shares the immediate area around the others.

Taaz · #28 Post by **Taaz** » Sat May 23, 2020 4:04 am

Jason slowly makes his way over to Joker to compare notes.

Rex · #29 Post by **Rex** » Sat May 23, 2020 5:06 am

Mac

Seeing Jason and Joker heading towards each other Mac works his way over as well.

Urson · #30 Post by **Urson** » Sat May 23, 2020 3:37 pm

Joker
Joker frowns as the puzzles multiply, but takes careful readings and notes for Mary Duncan's grave also.

Bluehorse · #31 Post by **Bluehorse** » Sat May 23, 2020 6:59 pm

How about everyone make an easy brains roll for me.

Samwell Turleton · Sat May 23, 2020 7:03 pm

Brains [2d6] = 7 : [1d6] = 1

Rex · #33 Post by **Rex** » Sat May 23, 2020 8:32 pm

Mac

Brains +2BP [5d6] = 23 Ghost [1d6] = 2

History is my specialty if it applies.

Urson · #34 Post by **Urson** » Sun May 24, 2020 4:30 pm

Joker
[4d6] = 16 ghost [1d6] = 6

Taaz · #35 Post by **Taaz** » Mon May 25, 2020 3:12 am

Bluehorse · #36 Post by **Bluehorse** » Tue May 26, 2020 3:10 pm

Putting your heads together you realize that of all the gravestones with the inscription, Mary Duncan's is not only the only one not giving off a reading, but it is also the only one that specifically says: In Memory of... which typically means there are no remains actually buried here.

Ori0n · #37 Post by **Ori0n** » Tue May 26, 2020 3:17 pm

Red joins the rest of the crew and shows his findings as well.
He was just following along, make notes of names and readings

Brains: [4d6] = 12 +
Ghost Die: [1d6] = 3

Urson · #38 Post by **Urson** » Tue May 26, 2020 4:06 pm

Joker
Joker nods, filing this in his mental list of "Stuff about America".

I can't be certain, but my first thought is that these people have a thing on common- death location, bloodline, cause... perhaps something that 'contaminated' their bodies before they were buried.

Bluehorse · #39 Post by **Bluehorse** » Tue May 26, 2020 9:21 pm

Oak Cemetery Investigation
Oak Cemetery: West Hillcrest SW & SW Quadrants
Oak Cemetery Investigation
August 24, 2018, 1pm
Warm and Breezy

Roy

Samwell Turleton wrote:Sam is going to look around for a paper menu from Ed Walker's to bring back to the office and jot a note - friendly service and - a good place to try fried pickles. He also quickly scribbles details from these conversations with the drivers into his notebook (Devil worshipers; Duncan = into ghosts or spooks; Jack Belt = partier, drugs, car wreck), snaps a picture of his notes, and tries to send it to everyone but it only goes to Roy with a text that says going to visit the library and Mormons..

Your phone pings to and when you open it you realize that you are near part of town where the new guy is presumably investigating the data you have been collecting.

Actions?

Brownie Point Pool:
Dr. Jason O'Roarke: 136/136 @
David "Mac" McAuslan 124/125 @
Dzjokar "Joker" Jelal 145/152 (***) @
Jon 'Red' Roop 20/20

Effects in place:
@ - Action Point - ReRoll without a Ghost Die - Merry Xmas 2019!

*** - Joker's inbox and searches spammed with advertisements for cedar chips for landscaping, which means a -1d6 to the difficulty of all research rolls until the end of next month. Until Sept 11th.

Urson · #40 Post by **Urson** » Wed May 27, 2020 4:40 pm

Joker
Joker sees the 'ping' that shows Sam at the Library. I like him already. He likes books.
Looking at the others, Our FNG is at the Library. Maybe we should join him- since I need to look into these names already
Something about his tone suggests Joker doesn't really know what FNG means.

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