Captain Slayhab receives a letter from Cory Weston -- a fisherman acquaintance from up the coast in Boynton Beach. Through the grapevine, Cory has heard of Slayhab's reputation as an investigator and also some rumor of the recent harborfront incident in neighboring Innsmouth. Weston's letter tells an oddly unbelievable tale of baffling lights and noises at the nearby Babson Mansion and asks if Slayhab would take a look.
Slayhab decides to drive up the coast from Boston with Mortimer Morbidius to pay Cory Weston a visit. As they turn east off the main road towards Falcon Point, the duo pick up a local hitchhiker named Robert Waite who, although drunk, seems friendly and communicative especially when assured that the investigators are not coming from Innsmouth. When queried, he tells what he knows about Ephraim Babson -- the "bad, secretive, and mean" man who lived in the Mansion for some 60 years. Old Man Babson apparently died some 20 years ago -- drowned while swimming in the ocean. But strangely: "We still see lights within the big house now and then. Sometimes we hear singing, or screams. Sometimes there is thunder from it. Surely that place is haunted."
Waite exits the car near Falcon Point and points them towards Boynton Beach where they quickly find Cory Weston, near the fishing boats. Weston confirms what they've heard about the Babson Mansion but adds that in addition to lights and noises, late at night he has seen a darkened boat run up to the mansion's slip. He is too scared to go near the house himself and asks Slayhab to investigate.
What will Slayhab and Morbidius do next???
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Ervil's disturbing dreams
At least one night each week, Ervil LeBaron continues to experience his awful, recurring dream....
Ervil is walking the streets of Innsmouth, passing hybrids and normal citizens. Whereas before the hybrids would stare suspiciously, now they pay no attention. The normal residents, who were merely skittish before, are now almost openly fearful. Passing by a store window, Ervil catches his reflection in the glass: to his horror, his own features are distorted by prominent symptoms of the dreaded "Innsmouth Look"
At this point, Ervil always wakes up sweating, often screaming. He wishes he had never learned about his cursed family heritage. And the mysterious second wife who produced 3 children for his great-grandfather. Could he himself really have the Innsmouth taint?
Ervil is walking the streets of Innsmouth, passing hybrids and normal citizens. Whereas before the hybrids would stare suspiciously, now they pay no attention. The normal residents, who were merely skittish before, are now almost openly fearful. Passing by a store window, Ervil catches his reflection in the glass: to his horror, his own features are distorted by prominent symptoms of the dreaded "Innsmouth Look"
At this point, Ervil always wakes up sweating, often screaming. He wishes he had never learned about his cursed family heritage. And the mysterious second wife who produced 3 children for his great-grandfather. Could he himself really have the Innsmouth taint?
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Innsmouth Harbor (Blackcloud's demise)
Captain Slayhab is horribly upset and distraught at the loss of his old Navy buddy Willy Harsen so soon after their reunion. Feeling somewhat responsible for his friend's untimely demise, Slayhab is determined to solve the mystery of his death. Slayhab and Jack Blackcloud decide to walk down to the Innsmouth Harbor waterfront to search for answers, arming themselves with harpoons.
Seeking to solve the mystery of Harsen's poisoning, the duo meet and question neighborhood residents Dewey Smith and Kermit Rawes. Although not particularly cooperative, Rawes eventually points them towards the residences of two shady local fishermen previously mentioned by Doctor Bloom -- Harris Jakes and Sandy Lanier.
Finding the fishermen out to sea, Slayhab and Blackcloud wait for Jakes and Lanier to return home from fishing whereupon they confront the big, mean, hybrid-looking characters.

Refusing to answer questions, Jakes draws a large Bowie knife and attacks Blackcloud, striking a fatal blow. Dodging knife attacks, fists, and claws, Slayhab is somehow able to spear one fisherman and then the other with his harpoon. Slayhab then proceeds to drag his friend's blood-covered body from the scene.
With all the commotion and gunfire, denizens of the Harbor's rundown, shuttered houses begin pouring into the streets in numbers, making gutteral cries, and shambling towards the scene. As they see the dead bodies, they begin howling and eye Capt. Slayhab with evil intent. Several of these local residents look decidedly subhuman and very menacing.
Slayhab, thinking fast, commandeers Birch's police car, deposits Blackcloud's lifeless body into the back seat, and jumps into the driver seat as the Harbor residents close in and begin to encircle the vehicle. Thankfully the police car is running with keys in the ignition. Slayhab hits the gas and begins driving like a maniac with shotgun pointed out the window. Mostly using the car as a weapon to run people over, Slayhab kills five more harbor residents / hybrids before finally breaking clear and speeding away towards Rowley hospital, thankful to have escaped with his life....
Seeking to solve the mystery of Harsen's poisoning, the duo meet and question neighborhood residents Dewey Smith and Kermit Rawes. Although not particularly cooperative, Rawes eventually points them towards the residences of two shady local fishermen previously mentioned by Doctor Bloom -- Harris Jakes and Sandy Lanier.
Finding the fishermen out to sea, Slayhab and Blackcloud wait for Jakes and Lanier to return home from fishing whereupon they confront the big, mean, hybrid-looking characters.


At that moment, Constable Nathan Birch arrives with two deputies and pronounces Slayhab under arrest for murder. Slayhab resists, punching out Birch who drops his shotgun. Slayhab quickly grabs the gun and kills the two deputies.

Slayhab, thinking fast, commandeers Birch's police car, deposits Blackcloud's lifeless body into the back seat, and jumps into the driver seat as the Harbor residents close in and begin to encircle the vehicle. Thankfully the police car is running with keys in the ignition. Slayhab hits the gas and begins driving like a maniac with shotgun pointed out the window. Mostly using the car as a weapon to run people over, Slayhab kills five more harbor residents / hybrids before finally breaking clear and speeding away towards Rowley hospital, thankful to have escaped with his life....
Friday, June 18, 2004
Willy Harsen's death

After a night of conversation and a fitful sleep, they find Harsen near death the next morning, foaming at the mouth, apparently a victim of poisoning?



Thursday, June 17, 2004
Sunday, May 30, 2004
The Crawford House

Seaching the old residence, they find two journals (the Diaries of Jeremy Crawford and Elizabeth Crawford). Following a lead, they then do some research on the family's legacy in the area -- which leads them to former house servant Richard Manning who implies irregularities in Crawford family death records and points them towards the South Woods Memorial Cemetery. LeBaron and Slayhab attempt to exhume ancestors from the Crawford family plot at the graveyard, but some bodies are missing??!?
Over the next several days, a series of killings occurs in the area -- first small pets, then farm animals, and finally a neighbor's young child. Looking for clues outside the Crawford house, LeBaron and Slayhab encounter a monster (Deep One hybrid?) which calls out hideously to Ervil (somehow recognizing him?), but which they summarily kill.

Saturday, May 29, 2004
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