(PC) Let's Play Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst Part 15
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Entry #15 (The Dress)
July 27, 1895
Rose has been an amazing blessing, and for all the care she has given me. I am most thankful for the much needed companionship, in addition with her helping me travel between floors. She, too, has noticed the odd behavior Charles has been exhibiting.
This afternoon, while conversing in Charles’ bedroom, Rose posed a rather unexpected question by asking if Charles had ever previously wed. I explained he had not, making clear his intentions towards me. Curiously, I questioned why she should ask and she recounted coming across a wedding gown while cleaning the wardrobe upstairs. She brought me the gown from the nearby room, and I felt my heart arrest when I laid eyes upon it. She displayed the very same dress from my nightmare two weeks ago!
Time Limit (Standard/Relaxed): 34 1/3 minutes/68 2/3 minutes
Required Items: 38
Total Items: 40
LOCATIONS
Attic: 8
Greenhouse (Lock Puzzle #11): 8
Kitchen: 8
Master Bathroom: 8
Master Bedroom: 8
THE LOCKSMITH
Chapter 15 – Stolons
Though he was a pharmacologist by trade, Charles’ performance throughout the poison tea plot was worthy of a thespian. Resolute in his role as an alarmed friend, his acting had managed to convince not only Emma, but also his associates. Dr. Stanley Clarkson, one of his friends and business clients, was brought in by Charles on July 15, 1895, attempting to triangulate the root of Emma’s malady. Her sickness had progressed to the point where blackouts and physiological disarray were unsettlingly common, and all the good doctor could do was dumbfoundedly shrug his shoulders. He was flummoxed, noting that Emma’s affliction was not only the first one he had encountered, but likely the first one known to medical literature.
Charles, meanwhile, had a more pressing concern than medical research. He was more than cognizant of the process of temperance, understanding that Emma required more and more of the cotoneaster to maintain her level of illness. As his supply began to run out, Charles thought of a new supplement to add to Emma’s regimen. This time, all he had to do was go to the office and ask a favor. That year, the lab was studying a substance known as chloral hydrate, a potent sedative, in the hopes of developing profitable derivatives. Charles, ominously, posited that the compound could provide the foundation for sleeping aids and muscle relaxants. All he had to do was convince the brass that he was going to take the medicine home with him, under the pretense that they were for private experimentation. Clueless to their true destination and too distracted to further press him on the subject, Charles’ request was greenlit with scant review.
Even with the barrage of poison and vestigial medicines, Emma was determined to not let her creeping infirmity inhibit her exploration of the manor. On June 21, 1895, she decided to give the library on the floor above a proper investigation. As Emma understood, Charles was frequently out of the house due to work obligations, so she was free to simply wander and take note of the mansion’s many peculiarities. Once she was there, she was confronted with the severity of Charles’ hoarding. Bookcases were clogged with ancient tomes, their occupants so profound in number that they littered the floor in towers. To Emma, their contents were equally perturbing: codices on illicit magic, spells, and dark philosophy effortlessly outnumbered his collection of classical literature. When she pressed Charles on the matter when he returned home that evening, he reacted with astonished offense.
As previously highlighted, Charles had nurtured an interest in the occult since his college days. He was an ardent fan of horror and the supernatural, boasting that he managed to purchase signed editions of legendary horror novels, from Faust to Frankenstein. Towards the end of his life, he had developed a fascination with the works of H. P. Lovecraft. In conjunction, he supplemented his fascination with the paranormal with various books Ramesh had purchased during his travels to the Far East and Africa. From monographs on foreign religions to essays on underground cults, Charles ravenously ingested their contents like an obsessed historian.
Such inquisitiveness was alien to Emma, raised in the Midwest and coddled by familiarity. Despite the best efforts of her scholarly mother, she maintained a discernable degree of ignorance towards the various metaphysical philosophies of the world around her. Because of such a brazen disconnect, it not only explains why Charles behaved as he did following Emma’s discovery, but also how she could have easily avoided her fate if such a topic arose during their initial courtship. Had they broke up due to her unease towards Charles’ interests, it could very well be that the nature of Emma Ravenhearst’s stay in the United Kingdom would have ended much differently.
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