The Mystery of Mr. Eckles

This is the 2nd session of the Mysteries of Waterdeep campaign for The Albatross Pirates.

The Red Wind takes their time in the evening following the departure of Nana to trap up the house and question the neighbors. Hal spends his time setting up whatever traps he can at the entrances of the house and Raven makes her way around to the neighbors of the apartment questioning them. Unfortunately she does not gain much from her questioning and no one seems to know anything about the situation other than sometimes hearing banging of doors nearby.

Raven decides that it is best for her to stay outside the home and keep watch, while the others stay inside and investigate. The night continues and strange things begin to happen within. Raven is stuck on the outside, in a dark endless hallway and cannot get into the house. At the same time, the rest of the Red Wind notices something is playing with them, sending them weird parchments imprinted with images of behind them. Leading them on a wild hunt through the apartment, the group eventually comes upon a box full of cut-up parchment, and Raven manages to get inside by forcing herself through the door.

The party decides to mend together the pieces of the portrait that was torn up, and it shows a wicked image of a man with noble clothing and a sack over his head. They look away for only a moment and realize that his image disappears. In a moment of panic, three copies of this strange man identified later as Mr. Eckles, come behind members of the group and attempt to strangle them to death. Combat ensues and weapons are flung and supernatural phenomena approaches. The Red Wind realize they can only be defeated if all three of the copies go down at once, and they manage to finally bring down Mr. Eckles in a blast energy. The form of the ghost man crumbles down into a soft flour based material.

However, due to the high amount of damage done to the home, the spectral influence of the area no longer exists and the home begins to fall apart. The group does their best to escape the area managing just barely to get down and out of a nearby balcony. The home crumbles, but the job is done and the area has been cleansed for what it is worth.

They decide to leave immediately and let Vision break the news of what has transpired to Nana, heading back for Vision Inc. They contractors find out what has happened, but decide to pay them anyways for being successful even with the vandalism that happened.