Apostle: Week 1. in-game date: Tuesday Day 2 Week 1 (part 2)

 I have to write this quickly...

The group arrives at the white two-story house of Andrew Lawrence.

The group finds that the area surrounding the house is unusually empty... police tape is around the property but nobody is inside. Nevertheless, with some ridiculous precautions, Spaz eventually tries the doorknob.
A slight whistling creak emits as the door swings open easily.

Investigating the floor we find about 17 cents in the couch.

Spaz decides to split the group into two parties. Shimohi and CDWG investigate the floor, Bravador and Spaz to investigate the second level.
Spaz and Bravador go on a "tactical sweep" of the second floor whatever the fuck that means.

Oddly, the first room they come across on the second floor is the master bedroom.
Inside Bravador finds a key and a diary.
The diary tells about a trap door under a corner table with a lamp on top in the living room which contains a book of religious importance to the priest. There aren't much details as to why it is important. He simply refers to it as "book of religious importance".
This is the last entry in the diary.

Scanning over the diary, the party doesn't notice anything else of significance. Still, it would take some time to read over its contents.

Finding the trap door indeed beneath the corner table, it is opened.
Inside is found an old hard-cover book with no title or illustrations on its front or back save a gold-coloured border on each side of the cover and a few bumpy decorations on the outside of the spine.

The book is passed around the party. Inside we notice that most of the pages are blank except for one towards the first few pages... The image of a foreboding gate. Behind this gate, as the gate is done such that it consists of standing spear-like bars, we see the conspicuous presence of nothing.

The party then enters the attic. Inside they find the outline of a wheeled luggage container and the usual attic fare as well as some photoshoots at the church which Spaz takes.

Going back to the floor, we notice a policeman at the door.

He beckons us out. The policeman asks us how we got in and after it is explained he tries the door and finds it locked.
He tells us that the police investigating the place have all came back and left conspicuously uneventful reports and generic words.
He does say that one policeman had come back and was acting strangely... but when he is  asked how so, he silently walks off turning around only once to tell us

>That Andrew left by car
>The location around which Andrew had been last seen