[Nyarlathotep] Kenya Aftermath

Sun Nov 9 08:27:25 UTC 2014

For me the only way to have 'lost the game' in this session would have been to die at some point prior to all the awsomeness.  This being CoC if we had survived the cursed earth trap (whatever that was...), and allowed the spectacular events to occur on the Mountain of the Black Wind it would have been an equal 'win' for me.

Good game, good game!

Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 22:22:49 +1100
From: jens.adler.nielsen at gmail.com
To: nyarlathotep at rpgreview.net
Subject: Re: [Nyarlathotep] Kenya Aftermath

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...]

--

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

Mngmnt) (Chifley)

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