[Nyarlathotep] Kenya Aftermath

Fri Nov 7 11:22:49 UTC 2014

cool! :-)

2014-11-07 18:43 GMT+11:00 Lev Lafayette <lev at rpgreview.net>:

> [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...]
>
>
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