Charlie Roberts
Session 7 - Fat Mabel's, RUN!!!!!
@Outside the medical admin office
Visit Lt. Poole. Police closing the case as a single suspect who killed himself. Offer of support from backup if required.
Take a package to Jonah of Jacksons belongings (Clothes and business cards)
-Stumbling tiger bar, emerson imports - silas n'kwane, boat photo XX DAR XXXXX in egypt?
Cops think something is going on but not much info. Fat Mabels related somehow maybe.
Found nothing at the import business but no-one there
Fat Mabel's 5 stories + basement, pretty much black bar, large negro bar tender ?mabel?, imported canadian whisky,
Minor recognition for Naderu, renting rooms upstairs, need to go up for more info. Send Bart and Florence upstairs.
There are back rooms. Teenage black girl, breaking into the car, shove one of them. They run away. Someone in a mask attacks Elizabeth.
Someone fiddling with the car, chase 2 of them down, knock 1 of them out. We end up in a gun fight and chased away into a back alley.
Some wearing masks and with knives, 2 of them shot.
Upstairs in the bar they were attacked, they caught 1 and brought him with.
Hole up in harlem. Florence leads us to a flying parts warehouse near the river with our captive.
Missing people:
Walter Van Buskirk, a private investigator
Rev. Elijah A. Johnson, a Harlem minister
Michael Conley, a longshoreman
Richard “Ritchie C.” Cederecci (mafia relation)
Roberta Barlow
Adolf Thurmond
Session 6 - Cotton and Gin
6-7 Years ago (Caryle Expedition was ~1919)
Fat Mabel's - Bar in harlem, got address, 139th and Lenox
Dancer tells us people disappearing around the Ju Ju House
Open the package -
Sleep in till noon ish - Thurs 22/01
“Many names, many forms, but all the same and toward one end... Need Help... Too big, too ghastly. These dreams... dreams like Carlyle’s? Check that psychoanalyst’s files... All of them survived! They’ll open the gate. Why?... so the power and the danger is real. They... many threads beginning... The books are in Carlyle’s safe... Coming for me. Will the ocean protect? Ho Ho no quitters
now. Must tell, and make readers Believe. Should I scream for them? Let’s scream together...”. "when the stars are right"
Psych was blackmailed by Roger to go on expedition due to affair he was having with a patient who suicided
Not much info on Roger. Happened after Anastia. Weird dreams, dark man calling his name, egyptian symbol in his head. Genuine calling. Why did Penhew go?
Session 5 - Open Bar
@The speak easy
Get Antonio's parcel
Would consider it a favour if we disrupted the drug trade
Implied Ju Ju or Cotton Club involved in importing labour
Notes in package linked in
Leads:
The cotton club
Session 4 - The Carlyle's
@In the study at the Carlyle's
Bradley - horrible dreams, Erica blames Roger's girlfriend, Roger going on benders in Harlem. The cotton club in Harlem. He was not a fan of Rogers.
-Rogers other girlfriend was a "gold digger" Anastasia (Moweru)
-Miss Masters family out west
Pile of books: Life as a God (handwritten, account of Montgomery Crompton), Africa's Dark Sects (poor condition, margin notes, 1921), People of the Monolith (high quality crafted book, medallion on cover, dedication to Roger and Anastasia from Tyler), and more books see World Anvil, Pnakotic Manuscripts (some pages cut out, pencil notes), LIVRE D'IVON parchments, Monsters and their Kin.
Lt. Poole knew about the past break ins
Thought it strange that Penhew was going on the expedition
Riccardo meets us outside: Will deliver the dead parties effects to my office tomorrow
Head to the hotel, lock up the books at the hotel, pickup mail from my office
-Mail: Letter from Antonio to treat the Carlyle's with kid gloves
-Life as a God (Skimmed): Went to Egypt in 1801 as a soldier. Inducted in to a cult of the black pharoah. Goes home and starts a british chapter which gets broken up. Writes this book while in an asylum. Author muderous sadistic lynatic.
-People of the Monolith (Skimmed): Cover is a fossilised worm in crystal. Modern style poetry,
-Africas Dark Sect (Belongs to Harvard): Life in Africa in ~1902-16. Haitu cult, the TRUE HUMAN religion. Kenyan cult of the bloody tongue - raising zambi's, along the niger river near the mountain of black wind.
Session 2 - Later that Day
(*) symbol related to a series of murders for the past 24 months. Lt. Poole has put it together. No interrogation. Guy in cells choked on his own tongue. Didn't speak English. Occult Expert - Mordecai Lemming, in Manhattan, Dr of Folklore.
Black Power relates somehow to the symbol. Mordecai books more fictional, seems like a hack.
Research assistant Lois Land, asst. to Prof Cowles. Cult workships the father of all Bats. Died hundreds of years ago. From Australia. Poison bat bat club.
Miriam Atwood - Book is Africa's Dark Sect by Nigel Blackwell (presumed deceased). Place in London - G'harne Fragments, held by the Penhew Foundation (member of the Carlyle Expedition, Sir Aubrey Penhew, presumed dead).
G'harne Fragments, Sir Amery Wendy-Smith, prehistoric civilisation in Africa ?non-human?.
The Ju Ju House, possible black market or drug smugglers.
Meet Antonio in the Speakeasy, presumed mafioso - End there.
Working theories:
-African drug smuggling ring
-Genuine occult secret gang protecting their secrets
-Cover up by Elizabeth Carlyle to take family fortune and break the girlfriends control?
-Something else?
Trail of Cthulu - Session 1 (2) - The Journey Ends
20 Jan 1925
20/01/1925 @ Propero Press office - Jackson's publisher
Jackson slaughtered in his hotel room. Suspected to be part of a string of cult murders.
Head to Propero Press to meet Jonah, his publisher. Carlyle Expedition (hunting for King Solomon's Mines) lost, mentions of the bloody tongue cult. Erica Carlyle inherited her dead/lost brother Roger's family fortune. He was going a bit loopy.
-Elizabath mugged in Central Park
-Bartie woke up in an alley drunk
Jackson was writing a book about the Carlyle expedition. One of the ex-members had his notes.
Jonah: Show about The Cult of Darkness - Prof Anthony Cowles of Miskatonic University. Jackson contacted the professor before, and a book - the mysterious secrets of africa. See also Miriam Atwright at Harvard re another book.
Jacksons corpse eviscerated, kenyan death cult carved into forehead (*) Unknown if anything was stolen except for his notes
Attackers trying to steal his notes.
Artefacts stolen at the Carlyle estate - African in nature. Shop in Harlem selling this stuff.
Ambushed by non-english speaking negros, very athletic. Captured one, now with the police.
Leads:
Find Rogers psychiatrist?
Need to know more about the books and find his notes. Notes found on a negro boy, Joseph had those notes.
Police investigation (Detective Poole)
Caryle Estate Artefacts
Party incidents
Negro in the police cells
Report from Ed & Joseph about their reconnaissance of Harlem location
Find Roger Carlyle's black lover?
Trail of Cthulu - Session 0
1920s
Criminal Warren E Kimble in the area, know smuggler thief and gambler. Speaks fluent spanish and local dialects.
We take a steamer to S.A.
Criminal - Estaban Santos, gun smuggler. Some people disappearing in the jungle
ACH PUCH - the god of the underworld
No signs of being followed.
Mitnal Pyramid
14 + Kimble (3 down)
Successfully rescued Jackson Elias without bloodshed, turns out Kimble wasn't spoiling for a fight
Wired information back on his location and operations to the feds and the texas ranges in the US
Inventory:
Train pass, combat knives, ropes, matches, alchol, cigarettes, blanket, bedroll, clothes, map