Party's Just Getting Started

Saturday night (January 27)

The group spends several more hours socializing at the Carlyle mansion. Ambrosch wows the crowd with his playing. Pancho attracts a group of ladies. Hank ends up playing fruit-ball with Babe Ruth in the backyard. Sullie talks to the guard outside patrolling with the dogs. Apparently he foiled a break-in at the Carlyle mansion a month ago by cultists, presumably looking for the books which you now have in your keeping.

The group also makes the acquaintance of a Dr. Nashingu Iaokai, a Japanese parapsychologist who is interested in helping you with your work. His English is a little rusty, so he's not sure what to think about Texas, but he's ready to go anywhere else with you. Plus he needs a ride back to the city.

The gang learns a few more details about the Carlyle Expedition members (perhaps Hypatia's joining the group had something to do with an abortion; Robert Huston treated both Erica and Roger Carlyle before going off on this expedition) and finally the gang decides to leave.

On the way home, on the street in the dark stand three cultists, one chanting with his hands up. Before Mickey has a chance to take him out with his shotgun, a giant flying worm with a bearded face swoops down out of the sky and lands on the front car. This is all finally too much for Hank, who flees into the dark screaming. Cultists are now attacking from several sides.

A relatively short fire-fight leaves the worm thing dead on top of the front car, all the cultists on the road dead (total of about eight?), but not before one of them tosses the macheted-off head of Hank at you. Hank will not be returning. Probably.

Once things quiet down, anyone who can draw his attention from the scene of carnage long enough notices a large, dark building here in the middle of nowhere. These cultists came out of there, didn't they?