Part 3: Dr. Schreber Breaks a Waitress

• Isaac goes to taunt Roderick again, but Dr. Schreber notes that he doesn't actually know why Roderick is scared, only that it amuses him that he is. When he later tells Roderick this, Roderick feels much better.
• The group goes to lunch to try and chat up the waitress and a customer, but they appear to be trying to give the right answer, and the customer quickly flees. The plan is to go back the next day when it's quieter.
• Eddie pokes around upstairs and attempts to open the trap door into the attic from a storeroom. He is quickly intercepted by Mrs. Newless, who says that the attic is not a public area.
• Eddie and Roderick manage to distract Mrs. Newless in the downstairs lounge, Roderick fussing about getting a fire started, and Eddie asking about the inn's architecture and towel warmers and so on. Meanwhile, Charlie goes for the basement door. Alas, it is locked.
• Mrs. Newless sends Lottie out in the evening - Tommy and Eddie follow her as she heads along a path into the woods. She seem to notice that someone is following, and runs. She eventually gets to a farmhouse, where she goes inside and does not emerge, at least not as long as Tommy and Eddie stand in the woods watching.
• At night, while watches are kept, there appears to be some sort of party upstairs, with singing and dancing. When Eddie heads upstairs around 12:30 to see what's going on, the noise ceases instantly and the upstairs lounge is empty and all the doors are shut.

• Eddie, Roderick, Dr. Schreber, and Sheila go to a very very early breakfast in order to corner the waitress at the local diner. She's clearly scared of the group. Dr. Schreber attempts to find out what she's scared of ("What do you think we will do to you?") and she freezes, terrified. He hypnotizes her. From her frightened little rabbit brain (Roderick should sympathize), they extract that people come to the Raven Inn twice a year, at the end of January and the end of February, and that the dead walk at night then. No, she hasn't seen any actual dead walking, she shuts the door at night. And people vanish.
• Lottie comes into the room where everyone is to change the linens, and seems to want to tell people something. Mrs. Newless comes in and shooes her away for "bothering" people. Everyone but Charlie leaves the room, while Charlie stays behind to intercept Lottie when she comes to clean the room, and thrusts paper and pencil at her. She scribbles hurriedly on it, and then Mrs. Newless stalks in again as Charlie jumps into the closet to hide. Lottie is sent downstairs, and the door to the cellar locked.
• Charlie decides the note says "Must talk to you outside", and decides to eat it to destroy the evidence. Roderick stops him and takes the note.
• Mrs. Newless goes outside for a little while to talk to someone, gesturing at the Inn. Eddie heads to the general store, managing to eavesdrop a bit on the way by, and hears something about taking care of it. He asks the storekeeper about dried fruit, or something.
• Roderick, excercising his new "Aura Read" power, describes the waitress's aura as having been beaten down with a lacross stick. Lottie's aura has been hacked at with a chain saw, and the general store owner's is the best of them, only beaten with a whiffle bat. Both Mrs. Newless and the man she's talking to outside have very large auras.
• Prowling around the town, Eddie fails to discover any standing stones, but he does notice the separate fenced-in section for the witches in the cemetery. There are graves here of Ann Wentworth, Margaret Thomson, Martha Williams, Hannah Charles, and Elizabeth Selwyn. Roderick's psychometry reveals that the vault for Margaret Thomson has a strong residual of practicality about it, while that of Elizabeth Selwyn reeks of vengefulness and anger. Someone appears to be watching from an upstairs window of the Raven Inn; Roderick waves at them.

• A sparrow, impaled by a silver arrow, and a sprig of some plant, are left on Gerti's pillow and discovered by Sheila. Roderick identifies this as a sort of targeting pre-ritual step.
• Sheila seems to notice something that nobody else does; when pressed and asked if she heard something, she says "No, but then, we wouldn't expect to, would we?"

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