Walter Corbitt

Boston 1920 XCOCX Reverend Michael Thomas‎

Walter Corbitt was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1787. He served in the Navy during the First Barbary War and suffered a career ending wound during the conflict. Little is known of the man’s activities until he entered the New England Methodist Conference in 1822 as an itinerant preacher. After contracting tuberculosis in 1825, he was unable to preach and moved to Baltimore, where he worked in a bookstore and edited a weekly newspaper. He married Ellen Grubb, but within two years both she and their young daughter died in a cholera epidemic. Resigning his final pastorate in 1831 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, again because of his illness, he volunteered the next year as a missionary to South America. He was appointed instead to Liberia. Arriving in Liberia in March 1833, he quickly organized the first Methodist Episcopal church among the immigrants (freed slaves from the United States), some of whom were already Christians. He established a mission at Grand Bassa and another along the Niger with a school of agriculture and art and a vigorous Sunday school. A month later, ill with malaria, he was forced to return to America. Corbitt eventually purchased a house in the town of DuBois, Pennslyvania in 1836. Despite his poor health, he was able to join a small church within the community and remained active within it until his death in 1866. He was buried in the basement of his house in DuBois, PA on 1866 at precisely midnight.

As The Hobo With A Shotgun reads through Corbitt’s journal, he discovers that references to “The War” is talking about his service in the America Navy during the Barbary Wars where he apparently suffered an injury to his eye which ended his promising career. Although Corbitt apparently became a religious man within the Methodist Episcopal church, this appears to be an elaborate cover for his secret, dark interests in a force of “The Otherworld” who he only names as “The Dark Man.” In following his morbid and degenerate interests, Corbitt describes how he discovered a tome while living in Baltimore. He explains that the tome promised to allow a “studious practitioner to converse with the Dark Man, a most powerful and wise being.” Later in the journal, Corbitt describes devoting most of his free time to arduous study of “The Black Book.” After arriving in DuBois, the journal records explain how Corbitt met Pastor Michael Thomas, and became a member of the Chapel of Contemplation. Corbitt’s membership in the Chapel caused some well respected members of DuBois’s Elite to eventually shun Corbitt socially despite his charity work within the community. Over time, Corbitt becomes a recluse who only leaves his house to attend services at the Chapel during odd and late hours. At the end of his life, Corbitt remained within the confines of his home, but often had visitors who would care for his needs. One of the last entries into the journal Corbitt brags that his role within the Chapel allowed him to influence influential men – like judges, law enforcement, and businessmen within DuBois, as well as, several drifters, homeless, and criminals – all willing to do his bidding. His last entry explains that Michael Thomas will be responsible to carry out the Final Rite which will seal Corbitt’s pact with The Dark Man, and provide him with immortality through the science of Magick.

Walters physical body was recently destroyed by the Sawyer, Ian, Sean, and Natalie. His spirit is now forced to wander and only David Chalmers can speak to him via the Spirit Speaker in Chalmers room.