Re: (TFT) Solo 1

["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

Day six
    It is a beautiful day.  They sky is clear.  Birds are chirping.  Yet 
you feel a darkness in your heart.  You have a feeling that something is 
waiting for you.  That something knows you are comming.
    Eva seems a little excited.  She keeps shifting around in the pirogue.  
Looking expectantly.  You have the feeling you are close to the settlement.
    The bayou looks calm and the muddy water looks almost blue as it 
reflects the clear sky.  The moss hanging from the trees is swaying gently.  
Everything looks right.  But your heart is very concerned.  You feel 
paranoid.
    You round a bend in the bayou, and suddenly the village is there.  
Everything looks well tended.  The lawn is groomed.  The homes look lived 
in.  The church has a new coat of white paint.  You have the distinct 
impression you are being watched.  Eerily there is no one to be seen.
    As y'all pull up to a grassy bank and get out of the pirogue, Eva is 
beside herself with the sense of home comming.  "Eva, why didn't your preist 
get out?"  She is running off to one of the houses and calls back "I don't 
know."  You pull the pirogue further up the bank, and walk after here.
    The homes are all two story and have stairs on the front porch, not 
inside the house.  Except for the absence of people everything looks 
alright.  You go inside.
    The room looks swept and clean.  Eva is going from room to room calling 
out softly, almost hesitantly "Hello, hello?"  She walks over to you.  
"There is no one here.  Not even bodies."  She goes out the front door.  You 
turn to follow again.  Once outside she is standing there, like it is her 
porch, looking at the other houses like she expects to see someone.
    "Eva, come with me to the church."  You set off and she follows.  The 
church is a simple one story square building with a little raised roof with 
a cross on it.  The door is slightly ajar.  You push it over and see 
everything where it should be.  Everything except for all the spider webs.  
The place is infested with them.  Big yellow spiders, about the size of your 
hand.  Front to back, top to bottom, they fill the room.  Sitting in one of 
the front pews facing the altar is a man.  His head is slumped over and he 
doesn't look alive.  He may be the priest.
    "I'm gonna need some fire to burn all these cobwebs out of here."  You 
say to Eva.  "Are there any torches in town?"  She says "I'll go see."  She 
walks back to her house, and you turn to examine the chapel some more.
    The alter is there, and cups and bowls are in place.  The candle sticks 
and crosses are still in their positions.  Except for all the spider webs 
the altar doesn't look like it needs to be re-consecrated.  There are two 
windows on each side of the room and they are all open.  You can see the 
door on the side of the altar that leads to the priest?s quarters.  It seems 
closed.  Next to the front door is a small wall mounted holy water basin.  
It seems to still have some in it.
    Eva comes up with two flaming torches and hands you one.  Y'all make 
short work of the spider webs.  It is creepy and the webs don't burn that 
well, but they do give way to direct heat.  Fairly soon you have made it to 
the body of the priest.
    Eva, who is also a physic, says "It looks like he starved to death.  
Look how wasted away he is."  In his hands, clutched to his chest is a book. 
 He looks like he died holding onto it.  Up at the altar you notice that 
all of the 'host' or holy bread has been eaten.  There is a little wine 
left.  You go back and take the book from the body?s hands.  "Maybe this has 
some answers."  The priest looks very old, maybe eighty, and shrunken from 
starvation.  You flip open the book to the begining.  It seems to be a 
treatise on theology.  It is hand writen.  You say to eva, "Was his name 
Father Thias?"  Eva, who has just finished burning webs from around the 
alter comes over.  "Yes.  Yes he was."  She looks a little sad and scared.  
"Eva.  We need to bury him."
     She shows you where there is a cemetary on the edge of the village 
right next to a large cleared farmers field.  A lone leafless tree stands 
guard over the few graves that are there.  The two of you spend hours 
digging with a couple of shovels and they take a bed spread from her house 
to carry the body on.  Father Thias is laid to rest six feet under and with 
proper blessings.
    You and Eva quietly go back to her house and she starts cooking.  Maybe 
just to keep busy.  You sit down at a table and start to read the book.  The 
altar is fine, your mission is accomplished.  You expect to be contacted by 
astral projection on the morrow.  As you plow into the book the smell of 
great food comes from the kitchen.  String beans, fresh bread, creole gumbo, 
even sweet potatos.  You have a strange feeling that you are not going to 
get any sleep this night.  Even though your mission is accomplished you feel 
there is a bit left to be settled.  Someone or something has its wrath aimed 
at you, and you can feel it.
   [get one hundred and thirty experience for completing your mission.  Eva 
gets two hundred and sixty for completing both of hers.  With the book you 
can take theology as a studied if you wish.]

    David Michael Grouchy II
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