My Idea for Jazzing up our game.

The idea I came up with was to make the solving of your colleagues death as important as the story of the Spectre of Erigle Truagh.

We keep the background history about the legend of Erigle Truagh and the player is still a Police Constable:

You are investigating the death of your colleague, who was killed at Erigle Truagh.

You attend his funeral to find out what happened, You need his Notebook to see what he had uncovered, but it's not in his belongings, this is strange, every PC has a notebook...

So your goal in chapter 1 is to find your colleagues notebook, however the people in the village are not so helpful, they keep going on about the Spectre and other crazy events.