Waterdeep Factions: Zarek and Alley have recently been sort after by the Waterdeep Factions, ‘The Emerald Enclave’ and ‘The Harpers’, to name but two. Alley and Zarek make sure that they have returned to Trollskull Manor. They search the building and find things have returned to normal. In the Wine Cellar, Zarek notices that the…
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WATERDEEP: Chapter Eighteen
Hag Shadow: Esther Greybrow is not the sweet old lady that everyone seems to remember, but a Hag Shadow that has been devouring the souls of the children in her care. Alley thinks that her dream and Zarek’s both delt with the Hag-Shadow. Alley: “My dream showed her as a caring guardian that looked after…
A Favour For The King – Chapter Three
A Favour For The King – Chapter Three Thursday, May 14, 1925 – Penobscot River, Maine: About 12 miles upstream from Bangor on the Penobscot River. McGee, Cherry and MacNifey decided to go back for the injured lumberjack, recently one of four of the Clenton brothers but now the only one. What the hell were…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Three
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Three Sunday 29th March 1925 – Halifax, Nova Scotia: 22:30pm – On board The Beauregarde Halifax, we sit aboard Berkeley’s fishing sloop “The Beauregard”, trying to run Pythagoras over all the angles of this case, and waiting for first light before we set sail for Sable Island. Suddenly, there’s…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Two
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Two Sunday 29th March 1925 – Halifax, Nova Scotia: 16:00pm – Terminus Hotel The boys head outside our Hotel, in Halifax, and look to follow Monsieur Sasquatch’s trail through the spring snow, but despite the size of the guy’s gunboats, they quickly lose the scent. Instead we take a cup…
53: The Investigators, the Pharaoh, His Queen and Her Doctor
8th October 1945, Ljubljana, Slovenia, People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia US Military Investigators’ Report by Special Agent XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX Following up on a tip by one of the partisan resistance fighters our military investigators located a small apartment in downtown Ljubljana. Partially destroyed by fire (cause unknown) we had no difficulty entering. The two rooms within…
52: The Pyramid of Menkaure, A Voice From Beyond
Sprech, Broadmoor, Gardener and all of the investigators are at the Pyramid of Menkaure. Entering the tunnel first are Gardener and Sprech because they know the way. Who knows what dangers lie ahead? Nerves are frayed. Everyone is jumpy. Gardener: “Come on, hurry up!” The tunnel beneath the Pyramid of Menkaure takes a turn. Gardener:…
51: The Great Egyptian Bake Off
Crimson burn’d the star of sadness As behind the beams I peer’d; All was woe that seem’d but gladness Ere my gaze with truth was sear’d; Sarcophagus, mir’d with madness, Thro’ the fever’d flick’ring leer’d. Now I know the fiendish fable That the golden glitter bore; Now I shun the spangled sable That I watch’d…
50: Two Go Camping in The Desert
Leaving the hotel, the investigators head back to the Dark Mistress on the Nile. The boat no longer has a power source and is immobile but safer out on the water from attack. The assumption is that the cultists in Luna Park have been entirely wiped out. But this is not a certainty. At least…
49: Nyarlathotep’s Helter-Skelter
“Look out Helter-skelter, helter-skelter Helter-skelter. Look out ’cause here she comes. When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride…” (Excerpt “Helter-skelter” The Beatles, 22 November 1968) “I was old when the Pharaohs first mounted The jewel-deck’d…