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<blockquote data-quote="Cavnar" data-source="post: 8816132" data-attributes="member: 6691162"><p>1) The priest running the Chapel of Contemplation in The Haunting is really an aspect of Nyarlathotep stirring up trouble. I've already told my players (and they completely ignored it) that the description and police artist sketch of the priest from the chapel matches a photo of an unnamed man giving the sarcophagus to Rupert Merriweather's club president (I can't remember his name) in a sort of "handing off" ceremony that was in the journal in Edge of Darkness. There are also conflicting stories about the priest's arrest with one report saying witnesses think they saw him walk out of the church through the flames and disappear into the night, and another saying he was arrested but never arrived at the station. Further, my investigator's introduction to the Kimball's in Paper Chase was through a colleague at the university who had a client that wanted a rare book, a trade the colleague had on the side. One of the investigators had a free week, so he was asked to go try and buy it. Things happened, they didn't get the book, the colleage is dead in a very culty way, and if the investigators look, there's an article in the paper about the Kimball house burning down. Finally, sometime within the next few weeks, the player's office is going to be broken into while they are out, and the sarcophagus from edge of darkness will be stolen (and possibly the trumpet from Dead Man Stomp, depending on how that goes; we have just a bit of that to finish this weekend before The Madman starts).</p><p></p><p>So Nyarlathotep is stirring up chaos through a cult just for fun. That cult is gathering objects of power to summon Nyarlathotep (because he thought man would enjoy the irony when his aspect is already there at the summoning, laughing about what they ACTUALLY summon). The players can do investigation back to other occult thefts and trace those, or maybe trace who hit their office through some middle-tier hired-for-the-job thief or something like that.</p><p></p><p>I haven't figured out how to tie it back to The Madman. Maybe it's not really a summoning, but the mi-go are actually gathering the items and sending them offworld or something. And the mysterious figure tying it all together isn't Nyarlathotep, it's just a used-to-be-normal human with mi-go longevity technology serving as their representative. (I seem to recall that the mi-go brain jar thing was a two way deal, where the human got sent out and an alien could take over the body, so maybe it's not human-on-the-inside. Am I remembering that right, or was that a different Lovecraft race?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cavnar, post: 8816132, member: 6691162"] 1) The priest running the Chapel of Contemplation in The Haunting is really an aspect of Nyarlathotep stirring up trouble. I've already told my players (and they completely ignored it) that the description and police artist sketch of the priest from the chapel matches a photo of an unnamed man giving the sarcophagus to Rupert Merriweather's club president (I can't remember his name) in a sort of "handing off" ceremony that was in the journal in Edge of Darkness. There are also conflicting stories about the priest's arrest with one report saying witnesses think they saw him walk out of the church through the flames and disappear into the night, and another saying he was arrested but never arrived at the station. Further, my investigator's introduction to the Kimball's in Paper Chase was through a colleague at the university who had a client that wanted a rare book, a trade the colleague had on the side. One of the investigators had a free week, so he was asked to go try and buy it. Things happened, they didn't get the book, the colleage is dead in a very culty way, and if the investigators look, there's an article in the paper about the Kimball house burning down. Finally, sometime within the next few weeks, the player's office is going to be broken into while they are out, and the sarcophagus from edge of darkness will be stolen (and possibly the trumpet from Dead Man Stomp, depending on how that goes; we have just a bit of that to finish this weekend before The Madman starts). So Nyarlathotep is stirring up chaos through a cult just for fun. That cult is gathering objects of power to summon Nyarlathotep (because he thought man would enjoy the irony when his aspect is already there at the summoning, laughing about what they ACTUALLY summon). The players can do investigation back to other occult thefts and trace those, or maybe trace who hit their office through some middle-tier hired-for-the-job thief or something like that. I haven't figured out how to tie it back to The Madman. Maybe it's not really a summoning, but the mi-go are actually gathering the items and sending them offworld or something. And the mysterious figure tying it all together isn't Nyarlathotep, it's just a used-to-be-normal human with mi-go longevity technology serving as their representative. (I seem to recall that the mi-go brain jar thing was a two way deal, where the human got sent out and an alien could take over the body, so maybe it's not human-on-the-inside. Am I remembering that right, or was that a different Lovecraft race?) [/QUOTE]
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