====== 2023.01.08 ====== ++++ Attic | We continue to explore the attic. We keep seeing creepy illusions. ++++ ++++ Manitou | I cast Detect Arcana on all of us. Several Manitou at the stairs! - Round to stirs - ? - Round down stairs - they go through wall - Round into kitchen - ? - Round up main stairs - S? - Round into red room - I bolt one (no effect) - Round - Colonel destroys one with his magic gun. - EmmaSchneider kills the one trying to eat my face. ++++ ++++ Master Bedroom | Bunch of partial solitaire games. Blank book. EmmaSchneider picks it up and freezes. I knock the book out of her hands. She sees things. Then the cards erupt and attack us. - Round - QuiLongWang kung fu's the swarm and it breaks into 2 swarms. - They attack us. - I burn one of the swarms of cards with burst. - EmmaSchneider kills the other with her pistol. EmmaSchneider tells us about the visions - the man (Wanamaker?) is gambling with spirits, giving people to a haunted deck. I think Wanamaker has the deck. We see some more Manitou, but they flee. We continue searching. We find an entrance to the mines in the kitchen, under some loose floorboards. ++++ ++++ The Mines | We see SilasWanamaker and the Sheriff's men. ShowBoat is there. SilasWanamaker traps her in his magic deck. There is a portal to hell. 5 spirits take on flesh and drop down in front of the portal. - Round - I disrupt them - TheColonel kills one of the deputies - The Sheriff shoots a QuiLongWang. - ... - SilasWanamaker throws the deck to me - Gamble Round - they are fighting the enemy, I'm gambling. I win a round. - Gamble Round - I win another round. Continued next week ++++