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[D20 CoC] Beyond the Mountains of Madness Campaign - Prologue
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<blockquote data-quote="jdeleski" data-source="post: 2392615" data-attributes="member: 33307"><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"Little by little they rose grimly into the western sky; allowing us to witness various bare,</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">bleak and blackened summits...in the reddish Antarctic light against the provocative</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">background of iridescent ice-dust clouds. In the whole spectacle there was a persistent,</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">pervasive hint of stupendous secrecy and potential revelation...I could not help feeling</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">that they were evil things--mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">some accursed ultimate abyss."</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">--H.P. Lovecraft</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #99ccff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In September of 1930, researchers from Arkham’s Miskatonic University, led by</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">Professors Dyer and </span><span style="color: white">Lake</span><span style="color: white">, set sail for the Antarctic continent on a bold venture of</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">exploration and discovery. Two months later they landed in </span><span style="color: white">Antarctica</span><span style="color: white"> near Ross Island;</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">twenty men, fifty-five dogs, and five large Dornier aeroplanes were set upon the ice.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Their mission was to survey a geologic history of the Earth’s last frontier, to chart from</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">the air where no human foot had stepped, and to determine at last, once and for all,</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">whether </span><span style="color: white">Antarctica</span><span style="color: white"> was indeed one land mass or several.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #99ccff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In much of this they were successful. From November of 1930 until mid-January of 1931,</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">the expedition achieved goal after goal, milestone after milestone. Aerial explorations</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">flew over and mapped thousands of square miles of previously unexplored territory. Sled</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">teams took core samples from scattered spots over nearly a quarter of the continent.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">However, history does not remember the Miskatonic Expedition for its successes, but for</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">its final tragic failure.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #99ccff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The end of the expedition came just as the team seemed on the brink of their most</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">spectacular triumph. On January 23rd, a large party led by Professor Lake, broke through</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">into an unbelievable treasure-trove of ancient bones and fossils in a series of caverns at</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">the foot of a hitherto-unknown mountain range. For 2 days, they explored the caves,</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">bringing up specimen after specimen, some utterly unlike any living things that have ever</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">been studied by science. Then they were never heard from again; all were believed killed</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">by a tremendous Antarctic gale that swept the campsite on January 24th. A rescue</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">mission the following day found only silence and a few pathetic remains of the tragedy. </span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #99ccff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Now, in March 1933, a new expedition is forming, intent upon a return to that forbidding</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">Antarctic plateau and </span><span style="color: white">Lake</span><span style="color: white">’s campsight. British world explorer James Starkweather and</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">American geologist William Moore have joined forces to attack the Antarctic. The two</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">men have experience with harsh environments, both having traveled in the </span><span style="color: white">Himalayas</span><span style="color: white">, and</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Starkweather on the Arctic ice cap as well. Their stated goal is to return to the high, cold</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">interior of the Antarctic continent and to finish the work that </span><span style="color: white">Lake</span><span style="color: white"> and the other began</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">three years ago. The two are gathering a team of scientists and technical experts whom </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">they believe will allow them to succeed despite the dangers.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #99ccff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Thus begins the next chapter in those Mountains of Madness.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #99ccff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ffffff">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #99ccff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #99ccff"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ffffff">The Recruiting Office can be found <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2392671#post2392671" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ffffff">A history of our events and evidence can be found <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2441784#post2441784" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></span> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ffffff">To read the attached newspaper clippings, you may need to first save them on your hard drive.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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Their stated goal is to return to the high, cold[/font][/size][/color] [size=3][font=Times New Roman][color=white]interior of the Antarctic continent and to finish the work that [/color][color=white]Lake[/color][color=white] and the other began[/color][/font][/size] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman]three years ago. The two are gathering a team of scientists and technical experts whom [/font][/size][/color] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman]they believe will allow them to succeed despite the dangers.[/font][/size][/color] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman]Thus begins the next chapter in those Mountains of Madness.[/font][/size][/color] [font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#ffffff]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[/color][/size][/font] [/color][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#ffffff]The Recruiting Office can be found [url="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2392671#post2392671"]here[/url].[/color][/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#ffffff]A history of our events and evidence can be found [url="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2441784#post2441784"]here[/url][/color][/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#ffffff][/color][/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#ffffff]To read the attached newspaper clippings, you may need to first save them on your hard drive.[/color][/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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