Session 11 Notes
Recorded May 11, 2024
General Summary
- We can see, looking through the archway where we stopped last session, we can see there is a structure (See Peruvian Pyramid ), a building that both Nigel and Boris have seen before in a vision. (see Strange Vision - First Vision in Lima and Strange Vision - Second Vision in Lima for more details.)
- Both Boris and Nigel fail their sanity rolls related to this sight. Every thing about the structure, the stepped ziggurat, is the same except for the age. It looks much older, but it is the same.
- Albert scouts forward to try and get the lay of the land, the rest of us just kind of hunker down where we are.
- Albert approaches the archway and finds that it is a peaked arch the capstone engraved in an elongated face, its mouth open in a silent scream or snarl.
- On the other side of the arch is an open courtyard, with large worked stones, and the remains of buildings. The ziggurat is five layers high, each of the steps the height of a man. There is not an open entrance way on the ziggurat. There is one place that looks like a doorway, but it is half-buried in the ground and looks sealed.
- There is a man made hole in the courtyard, a square hole, that catches Albert's eye.
- As we are going about our business we see two figures crossing the archway, we are able to tell that the two figures crossing the archway were Boris and Nigel.
- Cillian, Mickey, and Father Fury go after Nigel and Boris.
- Looking through the archway we find that Nigel and Boris are trying to go into the hole.
- Father Fury calls out to the two while moving towards them, Nigel turns and waves.
- Back at the camp Augustus Larkin seems excited that we are moving forward, Albert stops him with a hand on his shoulder. Larkin smacks Albert's hand away and demands that Albert know his place and orders him to get head into the courtyard.
- Larkin's eyes are now replaced with a blank void, catching Albert by surprise but Albert is able to keep it together.
- Albert drops back and starts yelling in French, while pointing his rifle at Larkin.
- Floyd and Jon seem to take Larkin's transformation in stride, but Jon joins Albert in point his rifle at Larkin.
- An otherworldly voice comes out of Larkin, telling us to put our toys away, that they will not help.
- That leads us to roll for initiative.
- Mickey tries to grab on to Nigel to keep him from jumping down the hole.
- Nigel is able to dance out of the way, keeping out of Mickey's reach.
- Larkin looks towards Albert, points a finger at him, and demands that Albert waits, unmoving, for him to deal with later.
- Albert goes still and seems unfocused.
- The Doc rushes forward to try and hit Larkin trying to disrupt what he is doing. He does hit Larkin, but it was a glancing blow.
- Elias puts himself in between Larkin and the Doctor, raises his gun, and fires on Larkin, hitting him in the shoulder.
- Larkin stumbles back from the shot, but looks up enraged.
- The sound of gunfire snaps Albert out of the stupor that he was in giving him an opportunity to fire at Larkin as well.
- Albert's round strikes true, striking Larkin in the center mass, just below the collar bone.
- With gunfire ringing out in the camp, Father Fury puts a firm hand on Boris shoulder and tries to convince him, unsuccessfully, to come back to camp.
- Back in the camp, Jon also opens fire on Larkin.
- As Larkin turns back around to face them, Jon strikes him in the heart.
- His eyes look normal again in an instant, and thanks Jon as he falls backwards.
- At the hole, Boris lights a torch and drops into the hole.
- Cillian slides up reaches down into the hole and grabs Boris around the head and shoulders. (He rolled a critical).
- It causes Boris drop his flashlight.
- Nigel moves around to get to the other side of the hole to put himself in a position to start climbing down in the next round.
- Mickey tries to grab Nigel again in a bear hug, Nigel is unable to dodge this time.
- Back in the camp, the Doc rushes over, checks Larkin's pulse, and finds that he is dead. The chest shot from Jon, was fatal.
- The Doc also checks for signs of the weird grub, there are markings all over Larkin's chest, but the Doc can't see them in the darkness.
- Elias takes off towards the temple and the rest of the group, Albert follows.
- The Doc and Jon stay with the body.
- Father Fury helps Cillian try and pull Boris out of the hole.
- Back in the camp, Jon deals with killing Larkin.
- Cillian is able to get Boris out of the hole and is maintaining his grip.
- Nigel is unable to get away from Mickey.
- Boris and Nigel both come to their senses and now remember being confronted by Larkin who told them that they needed to get into the hole and get the gold that was down there.
- Mickey tries to grab on to Nigel to keep him from jumping down the hole.
- Back in the camp the Doc inspects Larkin's markings (Larkin's Chest). It looks like some sort of eldritch creature. He also notices that his veins are all visible and look very black and sickly.
- Mickey and Nigel look down in the hole, where Boris flashlight is on, the hole is filled with corpses.
- Mickey notices that there is another opening at the bottom, where the corpses make a ramp down to that opening.
- We ended the session there.
Session 11:
Larkin and Beware!
My impulse to visit and enter the temple has now become an inexplainable and imperious command which ultimately cannot be denied.~H. P. Lovecraft
Also see Peruvian Pyramid .
Campaign
Masks of Nyarlathotep
Protagonists
Report Date
11 May 2024
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