Oops...

The next day Wooster spends the morning looking into Mogans but he fails to turn up anything new. Father Montalcini looks into any folklore on heart-eating. He finds information on a lot of different beliefs including that it can extend life, increase your knowledge, or even that you are eating that person’s soul. Dr Leicester searches the curators’ office and finds a museum ledger which details substantial regular payments to a Mrs Penelope Farnsworth that started 18 months ago. There are also regular monthly payments to the Belview Asylum for a Joshua Farnsworth. The ledger also notes that Mrs Farnsworth lives at West 86th Street.

After lunch we all look through newspaper archives to see if there are any articles about Joshua Farnsworth. He turns out to be a promising archaeologist who was studying under Dr Jones (the curator) at the university. After an expedition to South America he contracted some sort of illness which caused him to degenerate to an almost animalistic nature. Nige, at this point rolls a 1 on his Gather Information roll, so all Wooster can seem to find out is that Joshua was the last President of America – too many Pink Gins I think!

The papers also list Dr Alcott, Dr Jones, Dr Graham and Dr Anderson as being on the same expedition. Alcott, Jones, and Graham worked for the museum. There are various stories about the ‘biggest museum dig of the century’ being on and off. Explorers attached to the museum believed that they had found a Mayan temple that predated any other temple found. Dr Anderson approached Dr Jones initially about the temple, and Mogans’ seems to have financed the current trip to the dig site. Mogans’ had made the first trip to the temple on his own. On the last expedition the y found a gold headdress and bracer set. They seem to be 95% gold, with the final 5% of the material being unidentifiable via laboratory analysis. They have tried to damage the items but have been unsuccessful. Stone embedded within the item cannot be chipped or crushed. These items seem to be over 10,000 years old, predating Mayan civilisation.

That evening Dr Leicester and Wooster enter the Dreamlands to talk to Sir Nicolas. Captain Cullen attempts to enter but fails. During their conversation with Sir Nicolas he reveals that he knows Mogans as he passed through the Dreamlands a few years ago. He went to regions where evil was more prevalent as this seemed to better suit his temperament. He also said that we need to make sure that Mogans should not get his hand on the key to the book. He sets out our mission, which is to locate the book, find a way to shield it so it can’t be tracked, return the book without delay, and then rebind it to the temple. Sir Nicolas says that he requires us all to be present, and summons Father Montalcini and Captain Cullen. They arrive in Sir Nicolas’ room wearing what they had been in their own dreams. Captain Cullen appears wearing an RAF uniform of a rather higher rank. Father Montalcini appears wearing leather shorts with cut-out sections across the bum cheeks and a leather chest harness. He seems to have red welts from a riding crop across his bare cheeks. His first words are ‘oops..’

After the initial stunned silence, Sir Nicolas proceeds to teach us a spell to Detect Magic and a Binding Ritual to aid us in our mission.