Fiery Doom!

The madness continued tonight with the second part of our current adventure. As fire spread across the grounds of the estate, hard-boiled thug Michael McGlen (Matthew) cut down a couple of monsters with his trusty tommy gun, clearing the way for our heroes to search for clues. A box buried in the garden pointed toward a clue in the most distant corner of the estate (the small room in the upper-right corner of the photo below).

With every outdoor map tile already ablaze, the players knew that someone would have to make a mad dash through the flames to the distant building. While cursed heiress Gloria (Amy) and plucky glamour girl Jenny (Nathaniel) hid from the flames in the caves beneath the estate, Michael McGlen raced across the lawn. Unfortunately, fire causes a hero to lose sanity as well as life, and poor Michael has little sanity to spare. He reached the building, obtained the clue, and then sprinted back to his companions -- but arrived dangerously low on sanity! Gloria has some magic that can restore lost sanity points, but the clock is ticking, the estate is burning, and the final clue remains to be uncovered!