(PC) Let's Play Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst Part 3
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Entry #3 (Courtship & Proposal)
February 5, 1895
For many months now, my days have been spent educating my students’ young minds, while my evenings belong to my wonderful Charles. He often steals me from my chores, but Meredith does not seem to mind.
March 14, 1895
After a delightful carriage ride this evening, Charles amazed me by dropping to one knee and producing a most beautiful engagement ring! This is the moment in life for which every young woman waits: a wealthy, handsome man asking for her hand in marriage. As Charles knelt before me, his request hanging in the air, I felt my breath catch…
Time Limit (Standard/Relaxed): 40 minutes/80 minutes
Required Items: 30
Total Items: 32
LOCATIONS
Front Porch: 8
Garden: 8
Guest Bathroom (Lock Puzzle #3): 8
Kitchen: 8
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THE LOCKSMITH
Chapter 3 – Arrival
The next morning, Terry and Myrtle began what would be their first of many visits to Ravenhearst Manor. Like he promised her, he had brought the diary and the keyring to the rendezvous. Given the slump of demand in his business, Terry rationalized that it wouldn’t hurt his bottom line if he took the day off. The weather, overcast and pregnant, would have undoubtedly been another monotonous day of breaking even and lumbering on.
Still, he couldn’t help but wonder if his chance encounter with Myrtle was enough to forge a crush on her. Lost in fantasy, Terry wondered if his black Volkswagen Passat could be enough for her to reciprocate the feeling. As he did when he boasted about it to his barflies, he claimed that he had bought it to celebrate a successful start to the new millennium. At least, that was his justification for his impulse buy. Terry persisted in this line of logic from the moment he woke up to the moment he buckled up, enraptured by what his mind conjured up. Upon arriving at her hotel, he snapped out of it, ashamed not only for thinking such an absurdity, but for getting so allured by a hypothetical.
Once Terry picked Myrtle up, they began their trip up the A587. Attempting to pass the time, he regaled to her his boyhood memories of vacationing in the town of Fleetwood, an errand’s distance away from his home, with his family. Out of politeness, Myrtle halfheartedly feigned interest. She was more focused on what they might find at the manor and her research than idle conversation with the local bartender.
It didn’t take long before they stumbled across a dirt road branching towards the coast, to which Myrtle responded that she had no doubt that they uncovered the path to the manor. A short drive and multiple trespassing signs later, they arrived at the manor’s gates – a towering wall of weathered, ivy-covered iron. Anticlimactically, a rusty lock and chain was the only impediment keeping them from investigating the area. It only took simple trial and error with Victor’s keyring for Terry and Myrtle to access the property. For the first time in decades, Ravenhearst Manor welcomed outsiders.
Looming over the land like a decrepit mausoleum, Terry and Myrtle concurred that they would make the mansion proper their first stop. As with the gate, the front door offered little resistance with Terry’s keys. If anything, the overwhelming miasma of must and damp wood provided a more formidable assault to their unexpected guests. Though his allergies started to creep into view as they ventured within, Terry tried to keep his sniffling at bay, still desperate to show off to Myrtle. However, it would take little more than a stroll through the manor’s hallways for the estate’s true challenge to come to view.
Adorned on the doors to multiple rooms were bizarre, byzantine locks that required more than a simple key to unlock. Though the aged collage of random junk could have possibly been construed as an eccentric feature in the manor’s glory days, its current status had rendered them archaic and disquieting. Furiously scribbling in her notepad from a surge of fascination, Myrtle noted that the doors had both Victorian elements as well as modern electronics.
Considering the late owner of the manor, she contemplated if her great-granduncle and Victor had a connection to their construction and to what he actually did during his days as groundskeeper. Her thinking was cut short, however, due to the distractions Terry was making, every sneeze and wet cough derailing her train of thought. Overwhelmed and not wanting to stall their investigation, the duo agreed to leave the puzzles alone until they began their investigation into the house in earnest.
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