Re: Chapter 8: A house and a mystery
'I had hoped we wouldn't need our guns on this mission, but this news changes everything.' Penny quickly directed the group to some place where they could speak privately, now focusing intently on the case. 'If the demons are already here, and have Mrs Michaels's name, they must know what we seek and where, not too mention how. Somehow, they already know everything.' she deduced. And how could they have known the Ring of Solomon was hidden in the Winchester House, unless Emma Bently had told them? But, of course, she'd been tortured, and in Belial's service so long, it seemed no surprise, but Penny was freshly reminded that she could not trust the witch.
Penny opened her purse, and briefly revealed a pocket-watch, held tight in her hands, before concealing it again. 'I have Cole Michael's pocket-watch, and God forgive me for getting it from his widow.' For Miss Conner's sake, Penny quickly outlined the plan: to discover the location of the Ring of Solomon hidden in the Winchester House, they needed to summon the spirit of the deceased foreman, Cole Michaels, and ask him where it lay. For that, they needed a personal effect, and so Penny had borrowed the man's pocket-watch from his widow, Molly Michaels. She said no more than that. In fact, if Emma was treacherous and Alice was a demon or shifter spy, then it behooved her to inform the enemy they no longer had anything to gain by harassing the widow.
'Excuse me, I don't mean to be ill-mannered, but we must prove you are who you say you are: holy water, silver, iridium.' She listed the means for detecting a demon, werewolf, and shifter, respectively. 'And an anti-possession tattoo, if you have one you might reveal in polite company.'
This message was lightly edited by the player at 11:53, Mon 03 Oct 2016.