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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 1, 2022 3:20:03 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl)
Appleton City
Flatiron District
Bentley House
1:34 am
While Hawkgirl kept a watch on the doors, Captain Desmo and Hour-Man looked around.
Hour-Man noticed that the frame was so unusual because it had dials along the base of it. And the frame was not mounted on the wall so much as recessed into the wall. As he fumbled with a knob, the portrait silently rolled up into the frame, revealing a blank glass screen that looked like one of those new-fangled televisions.
Meanwhile, Captain Desmo found the desk full of carefully sorted correspondence. The pieces Desmo read were not about anything illegal, but they did reveal a man who came into money, desperately trying to establish himself in Appleton high society. It looked like he was trying to get himself invited to every event in the city; about half of the correspondence was actually getting him invited.
As for the bookshelves, on first glance they appeared to be all the classics. A quick check revealed most of them were dusty, except for one slim volume called The Secret Door to Success.
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Jul 1, 2022 7:59:25 GMT
Desmo felt drawn to this oddly clean book, and pulled out "The Secret Door to Success" to examine it.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 1, 2022 19:37:28 GMT
Hour-man whispers to Hawkgirl, " once of these new televisions hmm wonder how the reception is. " Hour-man thinks to himself, in his timeline this would on display in the 20th century museum. He then whispers to the Captain, " so what did you find."
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 1, 2022 21:55:15 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl)
Appleton City
Flatiron District
Bentley House
1:35 am
Taped to the inside front cover of the book was a key.
Hawkgirl had detected no sounds outside the room. She sheathed her machete.
The TV was still off.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 2, 2022 13:34:45 GMT
Hourman pulls out his flashlight and uses his cape to cover it so when turned on will give a little light asks, " shall we see if this key unlocks something here?" As he says this hourman looks outside for a second for any people or passersby. He makes sure the window is closed.
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Jul 2, 2022 15:27:11 GMT
"It might be a key to a door lock, but just in case, let's try the desk first," said Desmo checking to see if any of the drawers are locked on it.
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 3, 2022 22:11:30 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl)
Appleton City
Flatiron District
Bentley House
1:36 am
There were no locked drawers in the desk. All three of them failed to find anything in this room the key went to.
Hour-Man saw no one outside, so he closed the window.
((There is more to do in the room, or you can take the N or E door.))
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Jul 4, 2022 23:04:30 GMT
Desmo listened carefully at each door for any sounds. "Well friends," said Desmo. "How about the north door?" He turned the knob to slowly and quietly open it.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 5, 2022 20:11:48 GMT
Hourman gets ready for action when the door is opened
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 6, 2022 0:42:48 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl)
Appleton City
Flatiron District
Bentley House
1:45 am
The door to the north opened onto a bedroom, 15' x 15' (the same dimensions as the study). Judging by the generic decor and how tightly made the bed was, this was likely a seldom-used guest bedroom. There was a four-poster bed, a single shelf of books on the wall, a nightstand with a lamp, and a chest of drawers. There were two doors on the north wall and one door in the west wall. The light was off (and felt cool to the touch, so had been for some time) and there was no one in here.
Looking around ((which seems like a safe assumption you'd do)), the three found half the drawers in the chest were empty, and the bottom drawers had pajamas in one drawer and spare sheets in the bottom drawer. The books on the shelf were old best-sellers, now all quite dusty. There was nothing on the nightstand or under the bed.
The two doors to the north led into a deep closet (7' x 10') with only some robes hung in it, and a small washroom (7' x 5', sink and toilet only). The east door led out onto a north-south hallway. The door in this wall to the south obviously led into the study they had just searched. There were spiral stairs going down, one more door in the north of this east wall (at the very north end of the hall) and two doors in the west wall, north and south ends. In the center of the west wall was an intersection with a second hallway, going east.
The house no longer seemed deserted; there was light coming from downstairs, dim light visible under the southwest door, and the faint sound of music coming from the northwest door.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 6, 2022 20:53:22 GMT
Hourman motions to check the second floor doors. As he passes the stairwell going down, if it not enclosed he will peek over the balcony. If the stairs are enclosed he will listen, before proceeding to the upper floor doors
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Jul 7, 2022 3:59:28 GMT
Desmo followed Hourman (and Hawkgirl) along closely checking around with him before going on.
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 7, 2022 14:43:08 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl)
Appleton City
Flatiron District
Bentley House
1:48 am
The spiral staircase was enclosed, so Hour-Man could not see down to the lower level. He could hear a conversation between two men and a woman, though.
Woman: "No, they're nice plates. You get them with a fill-up."
Man #1: "I don't care if it's fine china. I won't get my gas from the Old Bang station."
Woman: "Why not?"
Man #1: "They let colored folk work there!"
Man #2: "Didn't I hear you listening to Duke Ellington earlier today?"
Man #1: "So? Wait - are you sayin' he's colored?"
Woman: "Yeah, Marty, he is."
Man #1: "I don't understand, how can they let him be a duke if he's colored?"
[Woman and Man #2 laugh at him.]
Woman: "Oh Marty..."
Man #1: "Shaddup, you..."
The voices grew quieter, or perhaps they all moved away from the stairwell.
On this floor, the southwest door was easiest to check without crossing in front of the stair (that was the door with the light underneath it). Opening it a crack, Hour-Man could see it opened onto a master bedroom, 20' x 20', expensively furnished. There was an open closet door in the west wall, plus a closed door in the same wall. The light in this room was coming from a table lamp next to the bed, while more light was coming from under the closed west door. An electric fan was running in that room.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 7, 2022 20:45:01 GMT
Hourman creeps in and moves quietly over to the closed west door with the light and listens.
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Jul 8, 2022 12:57:13 GMT
"Hourman," said Desmo quietly. "If you can hear anything, we've got to knock them out a put a handkerchief over their mouths one by one. We probably can't handle a big group. Let's get something, I don't care what. T-shirts, even old rags, to act like handkerchiefs. Can't have anyone hollering for help."
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