The cabin is dead silent, in the distance music and carousing can be heard from the sawmill speakeasy next to the lake.   Further down the lake, through heavy falling snow Lake Placid Lodge can be seen all lit up.  A few people stand outside in heavy coats watching the snow, smoking and sipping drinks.

Si and Artemis see the clock next to the bed


Searching through the remainder of the cabin the two find nothing more of note.

  Looking at the Clock, Si asks,what time is it? he looks at the alarm setting while he studies  the  clock, looking at the back.

It is 11:20, the alarm is set for midnight, 40 minutes away.

  Si looks at the   Clock, puts it down,,,you see  a shcedule anyway? does the team he supposed to be coaching with have practice or meetigns  at 12:00...or...is there a chacne there is supposed to be information coming in?

"So what would they be setting an alarm for at midnight?" Artemis asked.  He wondered if there might be some activity that their attackers wanted to be sure they were either participating in or running away from.

"Wait, wait, that may be it.  A message coming in or a broadcast that they needed to listen to and get the information from using that device and that code page." Artemis offered.

 Si   looked  around the room,..if  they are expecting a call?..someone else might come here to  accept  trans mission?.... should we wait...and get caught? or do we take the machine, and go to a shed somewhere and see if we can get the message instead?

 either way, they will  realie that the fellow who is supposed to talk..is dead?

Cabin
11:25 Hours

 It's all quiet in the cabin, the only sound is the distant revelier of the speak easy in the sawmill.  The snow is falling slowly outside, but it is starting to build up, now over 6 inches of new snow.  A couple are Ice Skating on the edge of the lake that is iced over.  A feint glow of the moon through the snow can be seen, but not enough to illuminate anything.  Occasionally a car passes with it's lights on.

 Then the road almost becomes busy as several cars and a pickup head up the road toward Sarnac Lake at a rapid pace, 4 vehicles in total.

 Si watches    through a  slight move in the curtain,..thoe  cars  do not seem to care that the roads  are bad.. what should   we do... stay here. or try to find a place where  we might be  able to see ifif they get a call...or?.. do we destry the machin and scatter the parts.

Artemis raised his eyes towards Si.  He had heard the rumbling sound of the vehicles Si had been watching.

"We need to know who they are and where they are going," Artemis said with a lingering hesitancy.  "But, I do wonder if there is a way we can have someone monitor this device to see if it suddenly starts to speak again."

OOC
Both characters make a Smarts Check for memory.
1d10 + Smarts modifier + any other mods

Rolled a 2 (d20 mistake) kept it as that plus 8 for smarts and a possible plus 3 for general knowledge would result in a 13

  Keeping watch on the  cars, Si looks away for a moment,then to Artie.....you know who could help us...... Sparks? She has that  drooler out of her head?.. I know she  knows a sight more them I do about this typr of  equipment...

Cabin, Lake Placid
11:27 hours

Si has just mentioned Sparks as having experience with radios.  They have a radio set and potentially a book cypher, plus an alarm clock set for midnight.


Is there a transmission comming in at midnight?  Unknown.  Was the alarm set for Noon and forgotten, unknown.

The remainder of the group from the Lake Sarnac fight are at the modest Lake Placid hospital.

  we should go, unless you have a way to talk them out of taking us in?...and if there are bad guys in those cars, we could be in a bad way..we can grab the  radio and  information we have, and get out the back, they'll lose out  tracks  once  we circle around   to the  roads and streets.... What do you think?

"I can stay here at the hospital if needed, but I think you have a good plan."
Arty said as he rubbed his chin and looked about the hallway they were standing in.

"That way we can see if there is any information that comes in on the radio, while I try to deal with the inevitable law wanting to know just the facts and such."

 So? you want me to bundle this up and Go..take the book and  all...I am fairly certain i can give them the slip out there, but  where should I go? Sparks is the one  we need to handle this?

"wait, she's at the hospital, right?  So, what if you and I take all of this and either head back to our bunks and hold up there to listen to the broadcast write it all down.  Then we try figuring it out if Sparks isn't there yet?  If Amelia arrives beforehand, we rope her into listening, if after we give her what we write down and what we think it says?"

Arty was coming off the adrenalin rush of the earlier events and found himself a bit confused trying to recall who was where and what places they could retreat back to for this work.  He digs about in his pocket and pulls out his room key.

"What if you take my room key.  If anyone asks about it, you say I sent you back with a few things to put away."

  Si  listens   and  starts to gather the Items,if you stay? will you be  able  to make it to your  room , for Midnight...I may not be able to write down everthing as quickly as you..Either  way.. I need to leave, if i am goign to lose  them

“Heck, let’s just get moving and head back to the hotel. You carry the radio though, ok?  I’ll follow along after you as best as I can what with the cold and the leg acting up,” Artemis said as he tapped his walking stick.

The sounds of the vehicles that were once rather far off, seemed to be a bit closer.  Artemis headed towards the door tucking the codebook and started to reach for the alarm clock.

“Si, you think we should take this just in case?”

  Si took the  Alarm clock..he suddenly had  a thought, but it wasn't the time. Securing the vclock, and grabbing the  machine, he  went  out  the back,, and  would veer   towards the  town...

 do not take long..we know for a fact, that some popel are  workihg  with my enemy, and others  are on the payroll of the Mobster..

"Got it, I am coming behind you if we get separated." Artemis said as he followed after Si.

He looked about outside and tried to estimate how far off the vehicles were that they had seen coming.

   Stopping for a moment he  calls back  softly...Knock over a Lamp..set a fair, give them something else to worry about, besides ourselves!

  He  will  move a bit away, as he watches,Mounties tend to be a bit too strict when it comes to people like me...so i have learned to distract them as the years passed.

Arty took his walking stick, knocked over a lamp, and then hooked the blanket and yanked on it hard.  He pulled the pillow and blanket onto the floor as the lamp oil flashed with the flame.

"Right, now that that is done, we need to move along, Si."

Arty left the door open as they walked out of the cabin and looked about for a way to make it back towards the hotel.

"You lead on, I will follow.  May need to go a bit slower as the walking stick might be too easy for anyone to follow."

 So looked at the Cabin and nodded,..right, but no time to be a hero, If you need  my help, I will aid you..otherwsie  follow my tracks...

 He moved , protecting the  machine with a  dishtowel

Artemis moved along carefully and deliberately trying to be sure to step into the tracks that Si left as they made their escape from the lake, the hangar, and the cabins.  It was cold, so very cold.  However, he had survived colder, albeit many years ago, so he felt certain that he would survive this. There were times that he stumbled and had to rely upon his cane.

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