UN Office of Scientific Investigation and Research

GM's Eyes Only!

A Bell for St Anthony

 

Scene 8: Return to the Institute

The Institute is all locked up, and anyone attempting to gain access will have to either break in or contact the authorities. Colonel Suhailov can locate the keyholder (the chief security guard) and get him there within half an hour.

In the hall: The security desk is undisturbed. There is a half-drunk glass of tea and a newspaper, as well as the log. The last entry shows that Taconui Genima came in at 7pm, having been authorised by the Director to continue her vigil outside the laboratory.

In the laboratory: There are indications that the room was searched thoroughly but untidily. Fingerprints can be recovered, some belong to Eldon but others are unknown (they belong to Philip Butler of the Butler Foundation). There is some more green slime around the ventilation duct. There is also a blood trail leading into the duct, and some scraps of blue cloth. 

In the ventilation ducts: Characters may explore if they wish although it's quite a tight fit. A thorough search will discover two corpses: Armentov and Taconui Genima. Blood trails indicate that both were dragged here from somewhere else (Armentov from a storeroom, Genima from the laboratory). If the characters visited Eldon in his hotel first - see Scene 9 - and Butler escaped them there will be a third corpse in here, that of Butler.

If Genima's remains are searched and Butler has NOT been here, there is an amulet around her neck. This contains a small fragment of bone, human bone (St Anthony's, of course). Otherwise the amulet will be found beside Butler's body.