[Nyarlathotep] [Fwd: The City Beneath the Sand]

[Lev Lafayette]

Hi Adi,

The following is some background notes from the previous session.

In a nutshell, the Investigators unearthed (for the second time, no less),
a plot involving the Nyarlathotep, the avatar the Outer Gods. Starting
from a murder in New York, the Investigators followed the cult to London,
then to Egypt, to Kenya, then to China, and now to Australia. At each
juncture they learned of different cults accumulating items and engaging
in rituals to open up a gate that would spread across the Indian ocean,
linking Shanghai, Nairobi, and now the Pilbra regions.

At Shanghai and Nairobi they have managed to prevent the cults from
opening the gates and have also warded the gates from being used again (at
least for the time being). But in Australia, the party has had a very hard
time of it, as the following will illustrate...

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Subject: The City Beneath the Sand
From:    "Lev Lafayette" <lev at rpgreview.net>
Date:    Wed, June 17, 2015 10:01 pm
To:      "Nyarlathotep" <nyarlathotep at rpgreview.net>
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The chapter started as the Investigators engaged in a mighty battle at a
campsite with a group of Koori cultists armed with firearms. Jack Brady
and Jabari made a remarkable and brave attack by engaging them
hand-to-hand, whilst Eva and Stephan preferred a long-range exchange of
lead. Eventually the cultists were defeated and the Investigators located
an entrance to a passageway below the sands, illuminated by a thin strand
of lights. Choosing to rest for a while, they were beset by a great
whirlwind, which proved to be one of the great elder race of yore, a
Flying Polyp.

"[The flying polyps were a] horrible elder race of half polypous, utterly
alien entities... They were only partly material and had the power of
aerial motion, despite the absence of wings... [They exhibited] a
monstrous plasticity and ... temporary lapses of visibility... [S]ingular
whistling noises and colossal footprints made up of five circular toe
marks seemed also to be associated with them."

Inside there were even more cultists is dirty lodgings. Whilst the
Investigators did defeat a significant number of these, it was not without
loss; both Eva and Jabari were sufficiently wounded that they had to be
'stored' in one of these chambers. A couple of cultists also seemed to
carry extraordinary weapons that fired bolts of electricity for a short
range. What manner of alien technology was this?

As the party of two continued down the passageways beneath the Great Sandy
Desert, far from civilization, half-dead and half-mad, the last chance of
humanity against monsters of which few placid people on earth even knew
existed, they encountered a tall, emaciated being, so thin that it became
invisible when turned sideways. It beckoned the pair through a slit in the
rocks and offered to help them, if they helped defeat not only the flying
polyp that was outside, but four others.

As the remaining party wondered what they could possibly do under such
circumstances, a different problem arose for Jabari and Eva, who awoke in
a room of cages of which the were interred along with many other,
primarily Koori people. They were obviously long suffering and weak,
moaning piteously of their condition. One cage held only pregnant women...

- - - -

Tomorrow night we discover whether the Investigators will someone overcome
these horrific odds and defeat the cult and discover the meaning of this
great old city.


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Mngmnt) (Chifley)
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