[Nyarlathotep] The World is Saved

Sat Jul 4 03:21:54 UTC 2015

That was a lot of fun!  Jens Adler Nielsen <jens.adler.nielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
yes! lol

2015-07-03 22:19 GMT+10:00 Lev Lafayette <lev at rpgreview.net>:

> When Jabari and Eva awaken, battered, bloody, and bruised, in the cages
> they find themselves in conversation with one Johnny Bigbush, who was the
> originator of the rumour of the city beneath the sands from Darwin. Having
> worked with the shipping company, he was given up for sacrifice to Dr.
> Robert Huston and his sand-bat cult leaders. Johnny explains the story of
> the Sand Bat and the Rainbow Serpent, and how the Serpent tricked the Bat
> beneath the seas. Huston intends to summon and revive the Bat.
>
> But Bigbush also explains that he also carries the spirit within him which
> can heal, and one must suck the fluid from the Rainbow Serpent. Eva is
> especially dubious but her fears are mollified when it is explained that
> blood will do, "although the other way also works". After sucking of the
> Bigbush's blood, he was clearly exhausted and Jabari and Eva
> disconcertingly felt their wound close up and heal themselves.
>
> Back in the Mimi cavern, the slightly less battered Stephan and Jack Brady
> are offered some food by a rather comely mimi woman who telepathically
> explains that the food contains healing properties. Jack realised that
> this probably meant that, like the myth of the faeries, that this would
> mean that he would have to remain with the mimi, but went along with it.
> After eating the food, he immediately felt his wounds heal, and he grew an
> inch. For his part, Stephan asked for the mimi for a review of what they
> knew of the layout of the city, which was disturbingly flashed in his
> mind.
>
> Sufficiently strengthened, Stephan and Jack ventured back in the corridors
> of the city, quickly overcoming with the leader of a mining party. The
> miners themselves appeared to be sluggish and without will, and were
> quickly commandeered by Stephen and Jack. From there they made to the room
> where Jabari and Eva had been placed, only to discover they were absent,
> causing much distress to Stephan.
>
> Meanwhile Dr. Robert Huston appeared Jabari and Eva and explained his
> plans to revive the great beings within the city. He waxxed lyrically (and
> appropriately) of the vastness and ancient powers of the place and from
> beyond the stars. Jabari feigned interest whilst Eva feigned madness, and
> Huston and his cronies took them to the Purple Temple where disturbing
> statues of the Outer Gods where protected by monstrous winged beings.
>
> Whilst this was happening, Stephan and Jack discovered the multi-level
> headquarters of Dr. Huston. Unable to release the prisoners, they provided
> Bigbush with a rifle which he hid. They also discovered Huston's mining
> equipment, dynamite and blasting caps, but most importantly his rambling
> notes, which did contain some very interesting information about his
> summoning plans, but also of a strange alien time-traveller, a member of
> the Great Race of Yith, which he had captured.
>
> With an objective in mind, Stephen and Jack sought out the alien with
> vigour. It was not long before they discovered its prison, trapped behind
> an electrical field in a room of fascinating technologies. The alien
> communicated with them telepathically, explaining how to turn off the
> electrical field - but most remarkably there was also a mental meeting
> with no less than Lillian St. John! Apparently after being interned at the
> Parisian Sanatorium, she was contacted by a member of the Great Race who
> took her mind and body into the future - 1962 in the Belgian Congo no
> less. Lillian did express some difficulty in being in 1923, 1925, and 1962
> simulatenously and being part of a hive mind. With its release the
> Yithian, provided access to several fully charged lightning guns.
>
> As this junction, Huston and his cronies returned Jabari and Eva to their
> cells. Eva noticed the gun and, just as the cell door was opened, smashed
> a telling blow on to Dr. Huston's head. From there a frightful melee
> erupted at the end of which Huston had been crushed to death under the
> stampede of escaping prisoners and his crony cultists equally relieved of
> their mortal existence. After the battle, and the party reunited, Stephan
> explained to Bigbush the ward of the Eye of Light and Darkness. Bigbush
> convinced the Koories to help their rescuers and found several among them
> who were good shots with the rifle to take up additional lightning guns.
>
> Returning to the Purple Temple, the winged guardians within were no match
> to the concerted attacks of a dozen lightning guns and were quickly
> overcome. Then for the following day Stephan led the creation of the Elder
> Sign and the ward of The Eye of Light and Darkness, placing it within the
> sanctum and thus ensuring that the Outer Gods could not be brought here
> and the great triangular renting of the skies above the Indian Ocean at
> the time of the eclipse would not occur.
>
> The following day the need to confront the Flying Polyps came to the fore.
> The first one was relatively straight forward; exiting the mineshaft the
> concerted targetting was overwhelming in its devastation. But then
> forewarned came another two and whilst Jack was able to spot the
> shimmering of one in the wind, they arrived in their temporary invisible
> form, and issued forth a great blast of wind, which ripped the skin off
> one's flesh. One poor brave Koori who stood up to confront the Polyps
> shouting at the windstorm was completely stripped of flesh and muscle.
> Many others suffered grevious wounds and were blasted to near-death by the
> gale-force winds.
>
> Making a hasty retreat the party holed up in the relative safety of the
> Great City. Stephan came to the idea however of making use of the dynamite
> and gasoline. As the Polyps outside bashed on the hatch, a powerful
> concentration of explosives were placed near the entrance and then
> released with a great explosive force which blasted these beings out of
> existence. The Polyps were no more, the cult of the Sand Bat was
> destroyed, and the world had been saved from the coming of Nyalathotep and
> the Outer Gods, at least this time.
>
> Although all of humanity had been saved, there was still some bittersweet
> conclusions. Jack, now increasingly feeling attached to his mimi
> development would remain behind. As for the cage of women pregnant with
> some disgusting reptilian monstrosity there was only one solution; many
> had already seen the results of this birth and how survival was not a
> great option. Taking Jack's Tommy Gun, Stephan carried out a massive mercy
> slaughter. The lightning guns were returned to the Yithian who was making
> use of the zombie miners to further excavate the City Beneath the Sands.
>
> With their Koori friends assisting, Stephan, Eva, and Jabari prepared
> themselves for the long walk back to Cuncudgerie.
>
>
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