(PC) Let's Play Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst Part 18
1BRIEFING
Entry #18 (We Must Flee)
August 5, 1895
Is Charles trying to murder me? Am I absurd to ask myself such a question? I have felt so incredibly terrible and I am rarely sure if I am awake or dreaming any longer. Can I trust myself?
Rose believes she is correct. She says he has been keeping me here by making me sick. Charles has slowly fallen into his own delusional sickness! How could I have trusted him?
We must leave! It’s very clear his madness will take our lives if we stay. Escape from this cursed home where I have known nothing but illness and fear. Charles will kill us if we do not flee this place at once!
Time Limit (Standard/Relaxed): 41 2/3 minutes/83 1/3 minutes
Required Items: 60
Total Items: 64
LOCATIONS
Attic: 8
Cellar: 8
Front Porch: 8
Greenhouse: 8
Guest Quarters (Lock Puzzle #13): 8
Library: 8
Taxidermy Room: 8
Treehouse: 8
THE LOCKSMITH
Chapter 18 – Renaissance
After the tempestuous events of the summer of 1895, Ravenhearst Manor grew unnervingly quiet. Having moved in just days after Emma’s “disappearance”, Rose had settled in nicely as Charles’ newest and truest beloved. She knew for a fact that it was only a matter of time before she would show proof of her affair with Charles. Following her bedtime escape from her home above Merrow’s Cove, it was criminally simple to expedite her divorce. With Charles’ money, all that was really needed to be done was to grease the wheels of the legal process. By September 1895, Rose was a bachelorette, anxious to make it official with her bachelor.
On October 4, 1895, Blackpool once again hosted its Autumn Formal. It had been almost a year since Emma’s fateful encounter with Charles, though the circumstances were practically mirrored. For Reginald Somerset, still reeling from the sudden disappearance of his wife, he did what he could to ignore his concern. He figured that the gala would be an excellent place to take his mind off of it, donning himself in his only dress suit and trying to salvage whatever merriment he could. What Reginald found would not only prove to be the antithesis of his intent, but would also imbibe new meaning to the clanging wedding bells he heard earlier that day.
As he sipped morosely at his glass of plonk, he noticed Charles waltzing, recognizing him by his hair and suit, with a lady. Based on his memories of the prior gathering, he looked as though he was seeking to replicate his most eventual evening of romance. In fact, Charles’ dancing partner was wearing the exact same dress that Emma had also worn – a frilly, vaguely blouson piece of faintly purple chiffon. It took only a good glance at his dancer for Reginald to realize that he was dancing with Rose, beaming with glee. Only minutes after his realization did he take another glimpse at her dress, sensing another key deviation. Her abdomen, bulbous with the presence of betrayal, was all that was needed to render Reginald speechless. The ostentatious sapphire ring glimmering on her finger, likely worth two hands of her old rings, served as bitter corroboration. If Reginald and Rose Somerset were doomed to implode, then Charles and Rose Dalimar were blessed to prosper.
Cuckolded and confused, Reginald went back to the pub to quench his sorrows. Once there, he found solace in Minerva, a copperheaded Irishwoman who was hired to be Rose’s replacement after she found work (and love) with Charles. Though the two had occasionally flirted in the past, they were nonetheless respectful enough to keep their banter from escalating further. Following Rose’s abandonment, Reginald and Minerva thought that turnabout was fair play. Though the two would be Terry Somerset’s great-grandparents, it was at this point when their contributions to the history of the Ravenhearst Incident would conclude in little more than trivia.
For as long as Emma’s mangled body remained lifeless, the question of how to dispose of it dogged the newlyweds. After all, it would be difficult to conceal the smell of death as that of a rodent in the walls if there was a decomposing corpse splayed out in the basement. And so, like a couple cultivating a nursery, the two got to work preparing a crypt. Furnished with the trappings of a legitimate tomb, they had finally given her the grace she was so ruthlessly denied. In an act of belated mercy, Charles had gifted to Emma the dress she had dreaded. All in all, it was the only of her predictions that held water. Unless someone had access to the original blueprints to the house, it would be a seamless place to hide a body.
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