-- UNEXPECTED TENTACLE SESSION 22 -- -- THE CODEX AND THE CORPSE -- -- (27.01.97) -- Dr Jones and Jeremiah made urgent enquires concerning the Reverend's current location - gaining few leads. Apparently he had suddenly come round, completely recovered and was eager to be discharged. Clothing and funds were arranged with his guardian and he left several days before we arrived. The earliest they could trace the paper weight was to when he came round - coincidently about the time that the group was involved in a minor accident aboard a transcontinental train. Apart from putting out a missing person's, they could do little else; the Reverend having had the time and money to have left the country if he'd wished. Guppy's tests continued with little results - the medical faculty apparently baffled and treating him as a unqiue case completely apart from standard theory. After arranging for the photographic evidence of Allerton's slave trading to be shipped to Faraday (with several contingancies planned in case of death, disappearance or acting more insane than usual), we received news of a hideously deformed being washed up on Portsmouth coast. Recognising the description as similar to certain frog-like monstrosities we'd encountered before, we immediately traveled down. Arranging to view the body, fearing that our poor 'deformed' friend Rev. Peters had an accident while in his unusual state of mind, we arranged to see the body, in order to identify it if necessary - yep, that's a Cthulhoid horror if I've ever seen one. Much to everyone's disgust the thing was only partialy human, showing characteristics extremely similar to the frog-things while still human enough to pass for a freak. Thankfully, it bore no resemblance to the Rev. We decided to split up, Guppy having more tests - now at no charge due to 'recent discoveries' and the Prof. giving a series of public lectures in London with a view to earning some money. The subject being 'My holiday in Morroco' - suitiably edited, full of annecdotes and extremely few archaeologicial facts. Jarvis and Jeremiah traveled to Prague, in order to view the Codex used to help transcribe the 'Lieber Ritualis' - Jeremiah having a small break-through in deciphering his book. Apparently one of the more tricky bit has a latin rhyme written backwards and interleaved into part of the text. This was duely translated and something approaching complete non-understanding occured. We received word that Faraday had arranged for Allerton's ship to be intercepted and searched. Another, later, message told of two more frog-like thing washing up in Boston - these far darker than the pale creatures that we'd met before. The interesting parts of the Codex were also in cipher and since we had neither the funds or time to commission a copy, we had to return with little - a partial transciption of sanscrit annotations made in the stranger parts of the book. The origins of which unknown. Passage was booked back to the US, having exhaused all the possibilities in Europe and probably needed to testify at Allerton's trial - should the case get that far (given our background, our sworen testimonies would probably be laughed out of court without evidence.)Next