Post by The Storyteller on Dec 15, 2015 5:52:02 GMT
Previously on Call of Cthulhu:
August 1928 - Five professors at Miskatonic University were called to St. Mary's hospital to visit a dying colleague of theirs named Rupert Merriweather.
Professor Merriweather told the men and women a seemingly unbelievable story of how when he was young, he and five other friends had performed research on occult rituals. They accidentally brought some sort of evil force into a house in Ross's Corners, and rather than deal with it, had sealed up the house with incantations and left it. However, Merriweather feared that since he was the last of the group, after his death the spells would break, and the thing would be free. This would be the last thing he would say, as he died of his illness only an hour after the group left.
Research and reading of Merriweather's journal revealed that in March of 1882 the 6 friends, calling themselves the "Dark Brotherhood" used an Egyptian box called the Sarcophagus of Nophru-Ka and a spell from the forbidden De Vermiis Mysteriis had brought some sort of spirit into the material world. The creature instantly killed the young Robert Menkin and had driven Harold Copley insane. Marion Allen used wards to seal the thing in the house and fled. Harold died at Arkham sanitarium shortly thereafter, and Marion was murdered the following year. The three remaining friends all grew older, and eventually died, leaving Merriweather alone.
The five professors went to Ross's Corners to investigate further. There, they learned that a woman had disappeared the previous night. They easily found the house and began exploring. In the cellar, the professors were attacked by a hobo who was squatting in the house. He seems half mad, and ran off into the woods the first chance he got.
They also found various occult materials in the house, including the spell from De Vermiis Mysteriis, written by Ludwig Prinn in 1542. They survived an attack by something invisible in the attic, and decided to wait until midnight to perform the ritual as specified. At sundown, the lurking thing fled the house, and a scream heard around 10PM indicated it was hunting.
When the ritual began, it returned. Though it could not break the wards around the room, it tried its best to disrupt the ceremony. First by trying to scare them, then by dripping acid from the ceiling. When this didn't work, the professors found themselves harassed by the reanimated corpses of the missing woman and the hobo, both of their hearts chewed out.
Finally, as the ceremony drew to a close, they forced the thing into visibility. A twisting mass of talons and maws and long appendages. They finished the ceremony and banished it back to where it came.
August 1928 - Five professors at Miskatonic University were called to St. Mary's hospital to visit a dying colleague of theirs named Rupert Merriweather.
Professor Merriweather told the men and women a seemingly unbelievable story of how when he was young, he and five other friends had performed research on occult rituals. They accidentally brought some sort of evil force into a house in Ross's Corners, and rather than deal with it, had sealed up the house with incantations and left it. However, Merriweather feared that since he was the last of the group, after his death the spells would break, and the thing would be free. This would be the last thing he would say, as he died of his illness only an hour after the group left.
Research and reading of Merriweather's journal revealed that in March of 1882 the 6 friends, calling themselves the "Dark Brotherhood" used an Egyptian box called the Sarcophagus of Nophru-Ka and a spell from the forbidden De Vermiis Mysteriis had brought some sort of spirit into the material world. The creature instantly killed the young Robert Menkin and had driven Harold Copley insane. Marion Allen used wards to seal the thing in the house and fled. Harold died at Arkham sanitarium shortly thereafter, and Marion was murdered the following year. The three remaining friends all grew older, and eventually died, leaving Merriweather alone.
The five professors went to Ross's Corners to investigate further. There, they learned that a woman had disappeared the previous night. They easily found the house and began exploring. In the cellar, the professors were attacked by a hobo who was squatting in the house. He seems half mad, and ran off into the woods the first chance he got.
They also found various occult materials in the house, including the spell from De Vermiis Mysteriis, written by Ludwig Prinn in 1542. They survived an attack by something invisible in the attic, and decided to wait until midnight to perform the ritual as specified. At sundown, the lurking thing fled the house, and a scream heard around 10PM indicated it was hunting.
When the ritual began, it returned. Though it could not break the wards around the room, it tried its best to disrupt the ceremony. First by trying to scare them, then by dripping acid from the ceiling. When this didn't work, the professors found themselves harassed by the reanimated corpses of the missing woman and the hobo, both of their hearts chewed out.
Finally, as the ceremony drew to a close, they forced the thing into visibility. A twisting mass of talons and maws and long appendages. They finished the ceremony and banished it back to where it came.
OH NOES
