The Haunting/tsw
| The Haunting/tsw | |
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| Region: | Solomon Island |
| Zone: | Blue Mountain |
| Start Location: | Franklin Mansion |
| Start Coords: | No Data |
| Given by: | Eleanor Franklin |
| Type: | Action |
| Reward: | 320,090 Experience Experience |
| Repeatable: | Yes |
| Game Version: |  TSW
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| Added in: | No Data |
The old Franklin Mansion is home to Mrs Franklin, her thirteen cats and give or take a dozen ghosts. She can feel their presence and the house's history weighs heavily on her.
Dialogue
Initial Cutscene
- Eleanor Franklin: When Ed and I arrived, over forty years ago, this mansion was already full of baggage.
- Eleanor Franklin: And I mean the bad kind that people don't talk about, and heirlooms too.
- Eleanor Franklin: Even before I realised that one had a lot to do with the other, I never threw anything out.
- Eleanor Franklin: Hadn't the heart for it.
- Eleanor Franklin: All the little things people left behind were a part of the house.
- Eleanor Franklin: Part of the haunting, too, but I don't scare easy.
- Eleanor Franklin: With thirteen cats and maybe a dozen ghosts, I've only got so much attention to go around.
- Eleanor Franklin: To be honest, the cats cause me more trouble than the ghosts.
- Eleanor Franklin: Recently I've been thinking of organising the upstairs better, doing up the old rooms a little for them.
- Eleanor Franklin: Let them know they're not forgotten.
- Eleanor Franklin: The ghosts, not the cats.
- Eleanor Franklin: All those empty rooms and sheets over everything, it's as if someone died.
- Eleanor Franklin: Well... (chuckles) I...yeah...
- Eleanor Franklin: I'd start out with that big old standing mirror in the attic, which I do belive belonged to Joanna Devore.
- Eleanor Franklin: You know, one time I caught a glimpse of Ed in it like he used to be, all done up in his Sunday best.
- Eleanor Franklin: I hardly felt surprised, but like a damn fool I blinked...
- Eleanor Franklin: and he was gone.
Journal Entries
- Tier 1: The history of the mansion is exceptionally eventful. Learn more about it to understand the people whose spirits still haunt the place. Once you know more examine the strange mirror in the attic, in which Mrs Franklin claims to have seen the image of her deceased husband.
- List objectives
- Tier 2: Something happened when you touched the mirror. The attic and the atmosphere are different somehow. Could this be a glimpse into the mansion's past? Look around in this alternate version of the house and figutre out what's going on.
- List objectives
- Tier 3: Again, the attic seems different. This must be another alternate reality, a mirror image of another time in the past. Learn about the people who lived here and what happened to them.
- List objectives
- Tier 4: The brochure described another terrible tragedy in the not-so-distant past. First find out where, or rather when, you are. Then find the people who lived here and learn about their fate.
- List objectives
- Tier 4: An eerie ambience fills the attic. Are you alone? Is anyone - or anything - else here? Find out what time you're in, then locate the source of the eldritch atmosphere.
- List objectives
Rewards
- 320,090 Experience total
- 160,040 for tiers 1 through 4
- 160,050 for completion of tier 5
- 2 Sequin of Solomon Island
- 16670 Pax Romana
- Black Cat's Ashes QL5 Head Talisman, upon completion of tier 5
Report
Dragon
The Franklin Mansion is an idea, not a place. Its current crisis is rooted in conceptual misconstruction. It was built from the ethereal top down - its first stone, an impossible vision of grandeur. Of course it must crumble and bleed.
And then it will be re-misconstructed again.
That is the way of things.
We encourage you to participate fully in this process. Mislaid foundations is the only game in town.
Illuminati
You're really making an effort to get off the grid.
The mansion - Franklin, Devore, whatever - is a microcosm of the island. Once it was grand, now it's not. In between, buckets of blood and magic that we need to prioritize and deal with.
Example: Billy Lee kills like 16 hippies during the commune massacre. Some victims accept it while others bitch and whine and haunt the present.
I'm all for addressing problematic cases when necessary, but I also want us to be wary of encouraging self-indulgent spectral behaviour. At some point, the dead need to get over it.
Ciao-ciao
Templar
You have me questioning what year this is. But not my contention that we must be forward-facing. Do yesterday’s tragedies take precedence over today’s appointments? I’m not ready to concede that they do.
However, the positive effects of your intrepid exploring are undeniable. The mansion is, like the island itself, a veritable locus of bad history. Dealing with it directly – when speculative mirrors allow – is sometimes the only way of quieting present-day spectres.
It gives one something to think about when forming future policy.
In the meantime, the world’s a whirling dervish. Hang on to your frame of reference.
R. Sonnac
Walkthrough
There are 5 tiers to this mission.
Tier 1/5
- Find historic facts about the mansion (2nd floor, book on coffee table, at (839,289))
- Examine the mirror in the attic
- Before you do, examine the calendar at the top of the stair coming up into the attic, and note that it is October 2012.
Tier 2/5
Note: You have been transported to a Solo Instance
- Examine the calendar
- Note: It is October 1904
- Find Ella in the alternate mansion
- Note: She is locked in a closet located on the first floor located at (253,408)
- Obtain a key to the basement
- Housekeeper Spectre will appear. Kill her, and she will drop basement key.
- Free Ella from the basement
- Return to the attic and touch the mirror
- You will be attacked by the Butler wraith on return to attic
- There is a lore entry in this instance in the room across from the dining hall.
Tier 3/5
- Examine the calendar
- Note: It is October 1918
- Find Margaret Delapore
- She is standing at the front door
- Find Thomas Delapore
- He is running around outside. The running ones will morph into Children's Nightmares
- Real Thomas Delapore is stationary in back-yard area at (547,766) by building blocks and with a cat
- Return to the Delapores inside the mansion (2nd floor, main living room)
- There will be Shadows inside the mansion that may attack
- Protect Margaret and Thomas (by killing Jonathan Delapore)
- Return to the attic and touch the mirror
- There is a lore entry in the kitchen (during this instance)
Tier 4/5
- Examine the calendar
- Note: It is October 1966
- Find Keaton Walker (his corpse is in 2nd floor main living room, with a cat)
- Find Frida Diaz (she is alive on 1st floor, she appears in two different rooms, both have a cat at the entrance)
- Protect Frida from Billy Lee (5 waves of Billy Lee's Manifestations)
- Find Harriet Braun (she is behind the mansion, past the pool, a cat shows the spot)
- Escort Harriet Braun to safety
- To the front gate
- There will be 3 waves of Billy Lee's Manifestations
- There will also be various Tortured Artiste along the way
- There is a lore next to the gate, behind a tent.
- Return to the attic (attacked by 3 waves of Billy Lee Manifestations PLUS Billy Lee in attic)
- Touch the mirror
Tier 5/5
- Examine the calendar
- Returned to normal time (October 2012)
- Touch the mirror again
Other Information
Trivia
- Harriet Braun's ghost can be encountered outside this instance. Back in modern day, if you are dead, you can walk by the Devore Mansion Crypt (behind the frankling mansion) to encounter her.
- The Cake in the kitchen never gets eaten...
Cake, 1904
Cake, 1918
Cake, 1966
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