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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>For me the only way to have 'lost the game' in this session would have been to die at some point prior to all the awsomeness. This being CoC if we had survived the cursed earth trap (whatever that was...), and allowed the spectacular events to occur on the Mountain of the Black Wind it would have been an equal 'win' for me.<br><br>Good game, good game!<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 22:22:49 +1100<br>From: jens.adler.nielsen@gmail.com<br>To: nyarlathotep@rpgreview.net<br>Subject: Re: [Nyarlathotep] Kenya Aftermath<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="ecxgmail_default" style="font-size:x-small;">cool! :-)</div></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">2014-11-07 18:43 GMT+11:00 Lev Lafayette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lev@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">lev@rpgreview.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">[Sometimes things go well, by a combination of lucky choices and good<br>
decisions..]<br>
<br>
Old Bundari the great tribal magician provided the Investigators gifts; a<br>
fly whisk that could protect against evil magic and detect the presence of<br>
such wickedness and a chameleon, whom it was promised could save the<br>
Investigators but once but not against magic. They were also warned of the<br>
nearby ("about four day's walk") of Ndovu, who greatly feared the Black<br>
Wind and the Bloody Tongue and sought to appease its power with<br>
propitiatory worship.<br>
<br>
Following Bundari's advice the Investigators reached Ndovu village, where<br>
it was noted that the chief wore the symbol of the Cult of the Bloody<br>
Tongue. They managed to keep quiet about the true nature of their mission,<br>
thanks to a timely intervention by 'Nails', and learned that several<br>
locals had gone missing in recent weeks, along with two elephants killed<br>
which were considered sacred among the Ndovu people.<br>
<br>
Leaving quickly the following day the Investigators made there way deep<br>
into the Abedare forest. For the next four days they walked through this<br>
extraordinary landscape until, unexpectedly, they came across a blackened<br>
section of ground some half-mile in width. Recognising it as not being the<br>
result of any natural forces and with Eva suggesting that perhaps it was<br>
the congealed blood of some otherworldly monster, the party skirted their<br>
way aroud the blackened clearing.<br>
<br>
[Completely avoided the ambush the Keeper had set up there]<br>
<br>
The following day the Investigators noticed the abrut rise of the conical<br>
Mountain of the Black Wind. Whilst grasslands surrounded the mountain, its<br>
slopes will full of lurid jungle. Large numbers of people where noticed on<br>
path on the mountainside and encamped at the base. Noticing that Europeans<br>
were not entirely absent, the party made up some Bloody Tongue symbols and<br>
pretended to be among the assembled.<br>
<br>
Making camp, they were approached by Johann and James of 'Hauss Weishaupt'<br>
who enquired about their visit. After mentioning some of their journeys,<br>
Johann and James became suspicious of the Investigator's motives and made<br>
a quick absence. The party to the opportunity to decamp and make their way<br>
up the mountainside at night to rest. Before dawn the following morning,<br>
they made their way to the entrance of a cavern where they were accepted<br>
by the guards as visitors. Inside they saw a disturbing idol of<br>
Nyarlathotep, and many entrapped individuals. Eva also discovered a<br>
maritime chronometer set to GMT, which she took the opportunity to modify<br>
and then - behind the idol - a secret passageway.<br>
<br>
Following the passage for over an hour, it eventually opened into a great<br>
temple with slowly pulsating tentacled columns. That was not the most<br>
horrifying vision however. As the ceiling gave off a slight glow, Stephan<br>
was able to make use of his binoculars to make out a dais at the opposite<br>
end of the chamber. There was was the M'Weru and ten bodyguards, and the<br>
amorphous, pulsating mass of sallow flesh that was the pregnant body of<br>
Hypatia Masters, her beautiful face still visible and apparently singing.<br>
<br>
Stephan, overcome by this imagery, dropped his binoculars and began to cry<br>
and scoop up huge handfuls and dirt and began to eat it. He was restrained<br>
by his fellows just long enough to bring himself together, whereupon he<br>
organised the party into a firing group. With careful aim rounds were shot<br>
a the blob that was once Hypatia and at the witch M'Weru. A headshot<br>
killed Hypatia instantly, but clearly the thing in her body was still<br>
alive, despite being shot. M'Weru was missed and took cover and her<br>
bodyguard charged at the Investigators.<br>
<br>
A second shot in the dead body of Hypatia caused the spawn inside her to<br>
pulse no more [Preventing the gating of Nyarlathotep directly to the<br>
chamber]. Shots were fired at the huge bodyguards by they continued their<br>
charge, unconcerned by the felling of one of their number. M'Weru<br>
reappeared and cast a Shrivelling spell at Stephan, but he managed to<br>
shake it off, and return fire, felling here. The guards reached the party<br>
and with cruel pranga began to hack at them; Eva however released the<br>
chameleon which immediately began to grow at an extraordinary rate and<br>
started to feat upon the two-legged flies it considered to be the enemy.<br>
<br>
The Investigators beat a hasty retreat down the passageway and burst into<br>
the original chamber, surprising the now half-dozen concerned guards. They<br>
were all felled quickly. Stephan then released the prisoners who made good<br>
their escape across into the jungle, and the Investigators did follow. It<br>
was after they made good their escape that the many thousands of cultists<br>
became aware of the catastrophe that had befallen them.<br>
<br>
[Going into the cavern, discovering the secret passage, using Archeology<br>
to open it *and* taking out M'Weru and her guards meant of course that you<br>
missed out on the birth of the Spawn of Nyarlathotep. You missed out the<br>
great ritual led by M'Weru where cultists, in an orgiastic frenzy, tear<br>
off their clothes, and hack random prisoners to death. You missed the<br>
appearance of an unseasonal storm, thunder and lightning, and the<br>
lightning bolt that brings Nyarlathotep in his bloody tongue form into<br>
existence. You missed out on him standing astride the mountain path which<br>
he turns into a great set of stairs to the temple, whereupon he picked<br>
random cultists and crushed them to death is they pleased him or threw<br>
them to the ground if they did not. You missed out on the sacrifice of<br>
hundreds of more as the Spawn was born.. and yet ironically, you did<br>
witness Hypatia's head exploding which is what would have happened at the<br>
point of birth. She always wanted a child, you know.. You missed the Spawn<br>
transform itself into a replica of Hypatia, and the cult orgy afterwards.<br>
You missed the earthquakes, cyclones, and firestorms that accompanied the<br>
birth of the Spawn.<br>
<br>
This said, Stephan is *mad*. Having seen how the chameleon transformed and<br>
protected the Investigators, he's decided (by way of explanation not<br>
understanding, according to mental health theory) that by eating bugs like<br>
a lizard that he could perhaps gain some mystical connection with<br>
She-Who-Is-Not-What-She-Seems. This is an atypical selective eating<br>
disorder; after all many cultures eat various "bugs"<br>
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy</a>), although this is uncommon<br>
among those from 1920s England.<br>
<br>
What may be debilitating for the character is that they will *only* eat<br>
bugs and that the reasons they have for doing so which means he will go<br>
out of his way to find bugs and often at very inappropriate times.<br>
Returning his mental processes to a more reasonable approach, let alone<br>
broadening his diet will take several months in an asylum which may<br>
convince him that eating bugs will not bring Hypatia back or summon Who.<br>
<br>
So where to now? You have clues and leads to both China and to NW<br>
Australia...]<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech<br>
Mngmnt) (Chifley)<br>
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