Giza, Egypt, Africa: 23:57 PM: A dim, grey light filters down the freshly chewed tunnel. The condensing carcass of the Cthonian releases a steady stream of fetid rancid odour and steam into the claustrophobic air, adding an orange tinge to the pale tendrils of surface illumination. Covered in Cthonian slime, Trixie, Gupta, Joe, and the…
Category: Journal
41: A Tunnel to Giza
Cairo, Egypt, Africa: 21:21 PM: “The night before the night when the moon is at it’s thinnest.” (On 20th July) This is when the Cult of the Black Pharaoh will attempt to raise Queen Nitocris.” What will we do now? Omar Shakti? Did he steal the Mummy? The Clive Expedition in Memphis? Go to the…
40: Rocking The Casbah
Cairo, Egypt, Africa: 19:00 PM: The night has enveloped Cairo, darkness shrouding the dusty maze-like networks of back streets squares. — The Clive Expedition moved from Giza (Sphinx and three main pyramids) to Memphis. — What to do this evening? Probably too late to go to Omar Shakti’s place to check it out. To our…
39: Walk Like an Egyptian
Cairo, Egypt, Africa: 18:18 PM: Heading down the Nile, Cairo looms into view. There have been recent elections in this young and turbulent democracy. Noise and smell. Thousands of minarets. The docks are in Old Cairo, beneath the main city, built on ancient Roman foundations. The impressive Cairo Museum is nearby. The investigators will want…
36: 7 Investigators and the Baby of MWeru
MWeru, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa: 23:23 PM Joseph Foreboding, Hesitation and Fear of MWeru. Is the cavern leading up into the core of the mountain a gateway to an endless tortuous death? Trixie’s thoughts drift to the chameleon in her possession. She feeds it a couple of flies. And what of the investigators? Flies or lizards?…
35: Mountain of the Black Wind
Nairobi, Kenya, Africa: 20:20 PM: As the night stars begin to fade into a blue-grey haze and a somber red glow spreads gradually between the thick foliage on the horizon, the ashen-faced bodies of the recently killed cultists lie immobile, almost restful, on the blood-blackened grasses of the clearing. The first insects of the day…
30: In The Ancient City of The Yithians
Northern Territory, Australia: 13:03 PM: Darkness. The darkness of eternity smothering the light of time. The electric light which casts pools of illumination along these ancient alien streets serve only as a reminder of the darkness that will smother all when they are gone. What special type of madness compels a man like Huston to…
The Story So Far
Having dealt with Vitaly Grishkin, Theological and Spiritual Advisor to the Petrograd Soviet and Adherent of Rasputin, and Woodbury DeNeilsen, Private Secretary of John Pierpont Morgan Jnr. Based at the Metropolitan club, we now have a short time to recover and contemplate all that we had accomplished. We had recently been contacted by our old…