Skeleton in Every Closet

Content warning: This chapter gets a bit grim again; non-graphic discussion of offscreen suicide. If you need help, please seek it!
This chapter is simultaneously fairly close to what I had thought would happen, though the first conception had them all killing each other. Then only one twin was going to survive, but Desmond looked at the situation and went “nope, absolutely not, I have had it up to here and am not seeing any more death today” and used the Calculations to stabilize the male twin. Also, at one point they were all going to be actual tourists. (The mission does exist, but has been substantially expanded because it didn’t quite seem right to just find the artifact piece at the lighthouse.)
The last two chapter titles are a reference to one of the lines Montag says in canon: “It has been said there is a skeleton in every closet here in Innsmouth. That is simply not true. They were laid into the very foundation walls.” (Incidentally, this is very bad planning architecturally given normal organic decay unless you’re propping up your ghoulish occult structure with magic.)
There might still be some tonal whiplash, but at least it’s not as bad as if I didn’t split the chapters.

Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World
Summary: Nearly there; one final push to get the piece of the artifact.
Word Count: 3350
Rating: Teen

 

( Desmond has this )