[Nyarlathotep] Kenya Aftermath

[Lev Lafayette]

[Sometimes things go well, by a combination of lucky choices and good
decisions..]

Old Bundari the great tribal magician provided the Investigators gifts; a
fly whisk that could protect against evil magic and detect the presence of
such wickedness and a chameleon, whom it was promised could save the
Investigators but once but not against magic. They were also warned of the
nearby ("about four day's walk") of Ndovu, who greatly feared the Black
Wind and the Bloody Tongue and sought to appease its power with
propitiatory worship.

Following Bundari's advice the Investigators reached Ndovu village, where
it was noted that the chief wore the symbol of the Cult of the Bloody
Tongue. They managed to keep quiet about the true nature of their mission,
thanks to a timely intervention by 'Nails', and learned that several
locals had gone missing in recent weeks, along with two elephants killed
which were considered sacred among the Ndovu people.

Leaving quickly the following day the Investigators made there way deep
into the Abedare forest. For the next four days they walked through this
extraordinary landscape until, unexpectedly, they came across a blackened
section of ground some half-mile in width. Recognising it as not being the
result of any natural forces and with Eva suggesting that perhaps it was
the congealed blood of some otherworldly monster, the party skirted their
way aroud the blackened clearing.

[Completely avoided the ambush the Keeper had set up there]

The following day the Investigators noticed the abrut rise of the conical
Mountain of the Black Wind. Whilst grasslands surrounded the mountain, its
slopes will full of lurid jungle. Large numbers of people where noticed on
path on the mountainside and encamped at the base. Noticing that Europeans
were not entirely absent, the party made up some Bloody Tongue symbols and
pretended to be among the assembled.

Making camp, they were approached by Johann and James of 'Hauss Weishaupt'
who enquired about their visit. After mentioning some of their journeys,
Johann and James became suspicious of the Investigator's motives and made
a quick absence. The party to the opportunity to decamp and make their way
up the mountainside at night to rest. Before dawn the following morning,
they made their way to the entrance of a cavern where they were accepted
by the guards as visitors. Inside they saw a disturbing idol of
Nyarlathotep, and many entrapped individuals. Eva also discovered a
maritime chronometer set to GMT, which she took the opportunity to modify
and then - behind the idol - a secret passageway.

Following the passage for over an hour, it eventually opened into a great
temple with slowly pulsating tentacled columns. That was not the most
horrifying vision however. As the ceiling gave off a slight glow, Stephan
was able to make use of his binoculars to make out a dais at the opposite
end of the chamber. There was was the M'Weru and ten bodyguards, and the
amorphous, pulsating mass of sallow flesh that was the pregnant body of
Hypatia Masters, her beautiful face still visible and apparently singing.

Stephan, overcome by this imagery, dropped his binoculars and began to cry
and scoop up huge handfuls and dirt and began to eat it. He was restrained
by his fellows just long enough to bring himself together, whereupon he
organised the party into a firing group. With careful aim rounds were shot
a the blob that was once Hypatia and at the witch M'Weru. A headshot
killed Hypatia instantly, but clearly the thing in her body was still
alive, despite being shot. M'Weru was missed and took cover and her
bodyguard charged at the Investigators.

A second shot in the dead body of Hypatia caused the spawn inside her to
pulse no more [Preventing the gating of Nyarlathotep directly to the
chamber]. Shots were fired at the huge bodyguards by they continued their
charge, unconcerned by the felling of one of their number. M'Weru
reappeared and cast a Shrivelling spell at Stephan, but he managed to
shake it off, and return fire, felling here. The guards reached the party
and with cruel pranga began to hack at them; Eva however released the
chameleon which immediately began to grow at an extraordinary rate and
started to feat upon the two-legged flies it considered to be the enemy.

The Investigators beat a hasty retreat down the passageway and burst into
the original chamber, surprising the now half-dozen concerned guards. They
were all felled quickly. Stephan then released the prisoners who made good
their escape across into the jungle, and the Investigators did follow. It
was after they made good their escape that the many thousands of cultists
became aware of the catastrophe that had befallen them.

[Going into the cavern, discovering the secret passage, using Archeology
to open it *and* taking out M'Weru and her guards meant of course that you
missed out on the birth of the Spawn of Nyarlathotep. You missed out the
great ritual led by M'Weru where cultists, in an orgiastic frenzy, tear
off their clothes, and hack random prisoners to death. You missed the
appearance of an unseasonal storm, thunder and lightning, and the
lightning bolt that brings Nyarlathotep in his bloody tongue form into
existence. You missed out on him standing astride the mountain path which
he turns into a great set of stairs to the temple, whereupon he picked
random cultists and crushed them to death is they pleased him or threw
them to the ground if they did not. You missed out on the sacrifice of
hundreds of more as the Spawn was born.. and yet ironically, you did
witness Hypatia's head exploding which is what would have happened at the
point of birth. She always wanted a child, you know.. You missed the Spawn
transform itself into a replica of Hypatia, and the cult orgy afterwards.
You missed the earthquakes, cyclones, and firestorms that accompanied the
birth of the Spawn.

This said, Stephan is *mad*. Having seen how the chameleon transformed and
protected the Investigators, he's decided (by way of explanation not
understanding, according to mental health theory) that by eating bugs like
a lizard that he could perhaps gain some mystical connection with
She-Who-Is-Not-What-She-Seems. This is an atypical selective eating
disorder; after all many cultures eat various "bugs"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy), although this is uncommon
among those from 1920s England.

What may be debilitating for the character is that they will *only* eat
bugs and that the reasons they have for doing so which means he will go
out of his way to find bugs and often at very inappropriate times.
Returning his mental processes to a more reasonable approach, let alone
broadening his diet will take several months in an asylum which may
convince him that eating bugs will not bring Hypatia back or summon Who.

So where to now? You have clues and leads to both China and to NW
Australia...]


-- 
Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech
Mngmnt) (Chifley)
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