Chuthulu - Episode 3 - A Stormy Nightmare - Part 1

 Chuthulu 

Episode 3 – A Stormy Nightmare Part 1. (Spoilers)

It begins one night after our other episodes had concluded. We are making our escape and find a woman in a red dress on the road, she had a ghostly outline for a second. She collapses. We picked her up on the road. We arrived at the Orchard Gas Station, Jack selling pies of uncertain origin, Mary, Ethel and Teddy. Teddy eats a pie and gets ill, goes to the loo and is fried by a blue light, leaving only his wedding ring. The waitress pretends to use the phone, but it is not working. She and Jack are now suspects in all of this, whatever THIS is.

The radio reported that we are now wanted for the murders at the hotel. But they did not mention the mutations of Zeke or the thing in the corner room. Maybe it was just an illusion or something. We forgot to scrub our names from the hotel register. Did they not find Charlotte there?

Who was the person I saw being tied to the rock? Martin?

Emilia Webb is her name. She has a fit while we are about to take her to her dad, at exactly the same time the blue light was happening in the loo to Teddy. Possibly, she is controlled by something, or she is in control of something.

She comes round asking for her grandad. We tell her to wait in the diner.

Ferb drives us to the doctor's farm, where Hank looks through the window, sees one, possibly 2 dead bodies that could have been electricuited, the first two victims of Emilia?

Hank sees male bootprints on the floor, with a crowbar outside. Hank gets the crowbar.

We decide to leave the house and get out of here. We see a chap with a partly burned face with a blue energy field coming after him. We tell him that Emilia is at the diner and to go there. We try to flee the blue thing, it chases us. Hank throws the crowbar at it, but it just turns it to ash. It tries to swipe at Ferb but misses, and we outpace it, but a telegraph is struck by lightning and blocks our path.

We go back to the house and search it, and Ferb finds two large tomes of rambling arcana, plus some diagrams from Mr Tesla about some electrical experiments Emilia was doing. I wash my hands in the kitchen and give them a good scrubbing.

(May be slightly out of sync there).

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Hank's thoughts on the way back to the diner, where we can read those tomes in peace.

1. Did something go wrong, and she was somehow charged with some electrical power?

2. Is this Mr Tesla involved in this strange weather we are having, or is it something else to do with the night's events?

3. How does Billy, the chap on the road, know Emilia?

4. He does not seem frightened of her. Does he not know she has been altered somehow?

5. Did the blue thing kill the two people in the house?

6. What was in the basement?

Hopefully, some of the answers will be in the two tomes.

    After reading these two journals when parked up somewhere,-

 "If I had read these documents a few days ago, I would have thought them utter drivel, a story outl ine for a comic, but after what we have seen and experienced over the last few days, I can only suppose the doctor had been to some far-off land and in his wanderings had come across someone purveying the 'Black Arts' or Devilishness.". He was obviously performing some sort of rituals on his patients to get rid of unwanted pregnancies."

      He continued, "Mr. Teslas diagrams do make a bit more sense, in the way of some of the parts, but as to what the outcome would be when you assembled them, I would be at a loss to guess. It seems that some sort of curative or enhancement field or ray could be generated. How long that may last would depend on the power source."

     " Possibly the effect he hoped it would have on the human body was incorrect, and something else was manifested in Emilia. Could that have been the wispy thing surrounding Emilia, or that chased the chap and us? Was a ghostly manifestation given a gateway to the human plane of existence? Whatever it was, it consumes bodies, just leaving ash behind".

        Can Emilia control it? Very doubtful, I think, but we cannot let her roam loose and just keep turning folk to ash?"

      He gripped his lucky rabbit's foot,

 " The question is, what to do about it? We cannot keep murdering folk all over the place. They think we killed three people already. At this rate, we are going to be strung up for mass murder! I have never been much of a churchgoer, but this sort of stuff might change my mind. If only Granny were here."

      He looked up at Ferb, "This is more of your territory than mine, since you are a God-fearing man. What do you think, Ferb?"

"Do we stand any chance of stopping it? Now that we know about the equipment, should we go back and see what is in the basement?"

Regards all,

Ivor Cogdell