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Entry #19 (Escape!)
August 6, 1895
Rose is packing my few belongings as I use what little strength I have remaining to record the events transpiring around us. Charles is out of the manor, for how long, we know not, so we must make haste!
We have come to the conclusion that Charles’ madness has fully consumed his mind. He moves around in an erratic fashion, speaking in almost incomprehensible nonsense. Rose believes those odd devices he builds on the doors to be locks. He wants to keep me with him forever! I am so weak, but we must break free from this place!
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Time Limit (Standard/Relaxed): 39 2/3 minutes/79 1/3 minutes
Required Items: 60
Total Items: 64
LOCATIONS
Backyard: 8
Dining Room: 8
Kitchen: 8
Master Bedroom: 8
Music Room: 8
Theatre: 8
Wardrobe: 8
Workshop (Lock Puzzle #14): 8
THE LOCKSMITH
Chapter 19 – Dust to Dust
Considering his relationship with Emma to be old news, Charles was delighted as the years passed on. With each passing birthday, graduation, and milestone, he was increasingly confident that he had finally uncovered the life he was denied. Even as Gwendolyn, Charlotte, and Victor grew up from toddlers to teenagers, Charles was practically arrogant that the good times would never end. As the decades drifted, he was due for a rude awakening.
Upon graduating from secondary school in 1914, Gwendolyn was the first of the Dalimars to leave the nest, armed with her suitcase in one hand and a ticket to Paris in the other. Emboldened by years of approval for her talent as a singer, she thought that she could convert her ability and youth into sterling celebrity. However, by her twentieth birthday, all Gwendolyn had achieved was a middling career as a cabaret singer for Le Rossignol, a nightclub famous for comedians that only elicited awkward coughing and cocktails that could make sailors gag.
Still, she was able to make enough money to rent an apartment with the assistance of her roommate, an Algerian saxophonist by the name of Antoine Shashir. Compared to Gwendolyn, who at least had an iota of true talent, he had been booed out of every cabaret from Tunis to Toulouse. Upon realizing that he would have made more money busking for pocket change on the street, Antoine logically decided to turn his musical career into a front. During performances of actual musicians, Antoine hawked drugs he got from his foreign associates. From Indochinese opioids to Guianese cocaine, his contacts spread throughout the French Empire. There were even rumors that he had gotten into loan sharking, often at the same time of his drug deals. When a client failed counter his usury, Antoine often sold them lethally potent doses of a rare type of heroin. His most trusted dealer, an enigmatic Laotian known only as Du, had sold them as his signature item. Of course, his knowledge of the man extended only to the present, not the past.
Thanks to his underground suaveness and endearing musical ineptitude, Gwendolyn fell head over heels for Antoine, the last thing she should have done. Initially, Antoine pretended that he wanted to be a supportive force for her music career. As he demanded more and more attention from her, however, Gwendolyn’s focus drifted more and more from the microphone and closer and closer to her partner. By the 1920s, Gwendolyn was practically Antoine’s accessory, her beauty the nectar for his pitcher plant.
Despite the criminal nature of her operations, Gwendolyn had prided herself on keeping sobriety from her boyfriend’s supply. Unfortunately, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she gave in to her curiosity. When Antoine was out at work, she snuck into his room, took a syringe, and decided to try a vial of heroin. Ignoring the Lao label, Gwendolyn was giddy at the prospect of shooting up. Blissfully ignorant on what the injection actually was, she drifted into permanent slumber within seconds.
Upon discovering her euphoric corpse, Antoine was devastated. Not only was his beloved lifeless on his bed, but she had injected what was going to be his little gift for his next client. Still, based on what she told him about her family, Antoine figured that turning himself in would be better than fighting the Dalimars’ army of lawyers. Besides, he could get a leaner sentence if he acted remorseful. The PPP, having connected him to eleven other suspicious “overdoses” involving eleven of his clients, begged to differ. On August 31, 1927, Antoine Shashir had the dubious honor of being the first – and only – drug dealer to be executed by guillotine.
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