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By Barras, Pauwels, And Szymanski
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Four Harrowing Glimpses Into The
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INFERNO
By Michael Szymanski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
"Beware the flames of hatred, the searing heat of vengeance. "
HANDOUTS
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62 - 71
WEB OF MEMORY
By Michael Szymanski . . . . . . . . . 33
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... "
HANDOUTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 - 74
OUT OF THE CELTIC TWILIGHT
By David Barras
46
"In every legend, there lies a grain of truth ... :
HANDOUTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 - 76
THE END OF THE WORLD
By David Pauwels . . . . . 58
"Step right up! Pay your money and take your chances!"
HANDOUTS
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INFERN0
By Michael Szymanski
"Beware the flames of hatred, the searin2 heat of ven2eance. "
There
are evil
men in the world, and they
attract
evil companions.
The terrible injustices they
inflict
on the
innocent
often cause
those
same victims
to tum down
evil.paths themselves.
This is
one such
instance.
Triton Shipping is
a company
under
siege.
The docks
and shipyard which comprise
the
company
property have
come to
the
attention
of
a
ruthless
businessman
who will
do
anything
to
obtain
what he
desires.
Jarred
Ingram, owner and chairman
of the
board
of
Ingram Tanker Lines, wants to
expand
his
docking facilities, and to that
end
he has attempted to
buyout Thomas Remmington,
owner of
Triton
Shipping.
But Remmington has
refused
to
sell,
and that
refusal has led him into difficult times
- and
to
a
tragedy that
has sent
him down paths that are best left
untrodden.
KEEPER'S INFORMATION
In his bid to
take over
Triton Shipping,
Jarred
Ingram has
contracted
the
services of
what
can
best be described
as an industrial
terrorist, a ruthless
mercenary with no trace
of conscience,
who will
stop
at
nothing to
get
the
job
done.
This hired
gun was
responsible for a
car
crash which
left Thomas Remmington's daughter
Nicole
paralyzed from
the
waist
down. Knowing
Ingram
was responsible for
this unforgivable
act,
Remmington has hired
a
mercenary
of
his
own.
His
only request: destroy Jarred
Ingram
and
his
company.
What Remmington does not know is that he
has hired the
very
mercenary
who
arranged his
daughter's
"accident",
and
who will not rest until
both
companies are
destroyed and their
owners
ruined.
And
what neither
men know is that their
deadly
employee is a fanatic supplicant of
the Outer
Gods,
a
descendant
of
the mad Arab Alhazred, who
has
set out on a
holy mission
to
deliver
vengeance
to
those who have dared to
stand
against the Mythos -
a revenge
that
will strike
down through
even the
next
generation.
A
great
deal
of detective
work will be
required in the
course
of this
scenario,
for the
investigators are not directly associated with anyone
involved in the
case,
and
everyone
who i§ involved
has no desire to have a bunch
of strangers
poking
about their private business
- especially considering
the damaging information they might tum up.
To that
end,
this will be a very handout-
oriented scenario.
The players will receive all the
clues they need to realize that there is
a
power
struggle
taking place between Ingram Tanker and
Triton Shipping, though
some
thorough investigating
(ie
snooping) will
be required to
expose
Ankara
Alhazred and her
insane
plot.
There is no
sinister cult
involved in this
adventure,
though the players
could easily
be led to
believe
so - another
red herring to keep them
gueSSIng.
PLAYERS' INTRODUCTION
KEEPER: Before beginning this
scenario,
give
the players the
following
handouts: "Famed
Explorer Dies," "Noted Archaeologist Dies," "Plane
Crash Kills Three
,
" and "Disaster at
Sea." Present
these
articles as
being
simply
the top
stories
of the
week in which the
scenario
begins. The
exception
will be "Famed Explorer Dies," which appeared three
weeks previously,
and should
be the first article
handed
out.
The players
will
be drawn into this adventure
by a posthumous letter from an
old acquaintance
who
provided the investigators
with
much useful
information and research material
concerning
the
occult
and
various obscure facets of
the Mythos.
At
this point,
if
the investigators do not
make
a connection
between this letter
and
the
article
"Disaster at Sea," have them make
an
Idea
roll at one
half. A
successful
roll will point
out
that the
article
concerns
the
son of
Carter Ingram.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Sir Burtram Winchester, Gerald Enfield, his
wife and grandson, and
the
entire crew of
the Gemini
II
were
all murdered,
victims of
a lust for revenge
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CARTER INGRAM'S LETTER
Dear _ __
By the time you receive this letter my
spirit
may already have passed into permanent residence in
the kingdom of dreams. Do not
grieve
for me too
deeply; my body
is old
and frail, and had I lived on,
it would
soon
have been as a helpless invalid.
If
I
am gone,
then rest
assured
that I am much happier
where
I
am,
and
content
with the
afterlife
which lies
before me.
There
is, however,
one
thing which will
disturb my
contentment,
and that is the fear for the
well-being
of
my
son
Jarred.
He has been
experiencing some
difficulties lately and though he is
reluctant
to talk
about
it, the articles in the
newspapers
concerning
his tanker line have led me to
believe the matter is quite
serious.
I
cannot explain
why, but I have a feeling
Jarred's troubles
are
in
some
way
connected
to my
own -
that is, unless I am an
old
fool with an
overactive
imagination. Yet I would
swear
I was
being
watched,
and not by friendly
eyes.
I think I
have been followed
on several occasions
and
once, on
returning home, I had the distinct impression that
someone
had been in the
cottage
while I
was out,
though nothing had been disturbed.
I would have looked into these matters
myself, but my failing
condition
prevents me from
doing
so.
It
would
have been
good
to
get out
into the
field again,
though I hardly think it would be
anything
like the horror
we encountered
back in
'49.
But that's
another story, and
the matter
at
hand
is
my
son's safety.
All I
ask
is that you look
into the
affair and
discover
whether
this run
of
bad
luck Jarred
is experiencing
is merely that,
or
the
result of
hostile intervention.
The
authorities are
investigating as a matter
of course,
but Jarred hasn't told them
everything,
I'm
sure of
it. I
feel certain
that with
your special
advantages, you will be able
to clear the air
of
this
mystery
and
allow me to
get on
with my life
- or
my
afterlife, as
the
case
may be.
I am
sorry
to impose
on you,
but
you and
your companions are
the
only ones
I
can
trust. Visit
me when
you can, and
let me know what
you
have
discovered.
God-bye for now,
Carter
Ingram
illness.
Though having
attained renown for
many
adventures in Africa and
China,
his name is most
widely known in
connection
with the famous
expedition of
1949 to the ruins
of
Baqtar, Egypt,
which was led by Sir Burtram Winchester.
Mr Ingram has been
responsible
for the
recovery of many
important
archeaological
artifacts,
as well as the discovery of many valuable resources,
on
which he was
able
to build his
vast personal
fortune.
In the later
years of
his life, Mr. Ingram
became noted
as a
thorough researcher
of
historical
data
and obscure occurrances,
though
for
the past
three years, he had
grown
more and more reclusive,
seeing only a select clientele who were only
occasionally connected
to the
sciences.
Mr. Ingram is
survived
by
a son,
Jarred,
who himself has attained
a
respectable
standing
in the
oil
industry.
Services
for
Mr. Ingram
will be conducted
tomorrow
at
the
family cemetary; it
will be
a
private
ceremony.
FAMED EXPLORER
DIES
Carter Ingram, world famous
explorer
and
adventurer of
the 1930's and 40's passed away late
last
night
due to
complications from
an
extended
NOTED ARCHAEOLOGIST DIES
(Monday)
Sir Burtram Winchester, retired Director
of
the Royal Museum
of Archaeology and world-
renowned Egyptologist perished today in
a
tragic
explosion and fire at
his home in
Sussex, England.
Sources at the scene
report
evidence of a gas
leak in
Sir
Burtram's
cottage,
indicating that the
83
year old
Winchester
was overcome
by fumes,
which
were then
ignited by the
pipe he had
been smoking at
the time.
The passing
of Sir
Burtram leaves
behind a
rich history
of
discovery
and enlightenment.
The
scholar and
lecturer
will be
particularly remembered
for the highly-publicized Baqtar
Expedition of
1949,
and the
fabulous
discoveries it produced
- as well as
the tragic disaster
which
destroyed that unique
archaeological site and caused
the deaths
of 3
scientists and 9
laborers.
The
sudden
demise
of
Sir Burtram
Winchester
is a
loss
to
the
world of a
man who
was
as
much
a
part
of
history
as the countless artifacts
he
had unearthed. His lecture tours
were
quite popular
on
the
college circuit, and
his
great entheusiasm for
his profession inspired two
generations
to
seek out
the wonders and mysteries
of
the past.
His presence
will
be missed,
and greatly
mourned for
some
time to
come.
Sir Burtram's memoirs,
containing a
detailed
accounting
of
the Baqtar
Expedition, will
be
opened
and
examined
at the Royal Institute
of in
three days'
time, in
compliance with instructions set
down
in
Sir
Burtram's will.
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