Session 4 Notes
Recorded December 2, 2023
General Summary
- Nigel goes up to talk to the medics with Jackson Elias and they agree now, to take the professor to the hospital. (see Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo)
- One of the medics is coughing and rubbing his throat.
- Doctor Musgrove sees a flash of something golden on the ground that he grabs and pockets it.
- He believes that it is actual gold. He uses a hanky to pick it up to conceal that he has done so. He is able to conceal it in his doctor's kit. The object is the size of his hand.
- In the transition to the ambulance the professor has begun to bleed again, but the doctor does ride in the back of the ambulance with him.
- Arriving at the hospital we find that it is pretty ramshackle on the outside, but it is clean inside. Lots of religious iconography, the nurses might in fact be nuns.
- The staff of the hospital does take the professor back immediately to be seen.
- When Boris and Father Fury get to the police station they try and get Fury to enter the police station, while leaving Boris in the back of the paddy wagon.
- Father Fury tries to get them to understand that that Boris is his friend, but they do not seem to allow Boris to get out of the wagon.
- Eventually the officers do drag Boris out of the wagon and they drag him around the side of the building and out of the Father's sight.
- He does go inside and he finds that there are tons of boxes and stuff out on tables and it almost looks like someone is just moving into this place.
- There are boxes everywhere.
- They ask the Father to sit at one of the desks to wait.
- Boris gets roughly dragged around the side of the building, taken in a side door, and thrown into a cell with a handful of gentlemen that smell strongly of alcohol.
- Upstairs one of the officer's proffers his lunch to Father Fury and begins to speak with him in Spanish.
- It seems like this guy is supposed to be watching the father, but he isn't doing a very good job.
- Back at the hospital we try figure out what is going on.
- The doctor wants to check out the fat in the envelop and Nigel makes a substantial "donation" to the hospital and they allow the doctor to use a laboratory in the hospital to analyze the substance.
- Nigel heads back to the hotel to find the rest of their companions to try and assist in helping Father Fury and Boris.
- Back at the jail, Father Fury is using his translation guide to try and write down some things that may help Boris.
- Eventually, a man comes and everyone in the station starts to work a little harder and look a little busier.
- This man wears a uniform that is not as tight as the rest of them. He has an air that he just wants someone to challenge him on it.
- He has salt and pepper hair and mustache. This is Fortunato Cupitina.
- Father Fury tries to explain what happened. The detective at least listens and speaks basic English. Father Fury tells him what happens, the detective gets up, finds his cigarette, and leaves the police station.
- Eventually, a man comes and everyone in the station starts to work a little harder and look a little busier.
- Nigel says that he wants to head toward the British Consulate to try and get assistance from a barrister and a translator.
- he is told to come back in the morning.
- The larger crew makes their way back to the hospital to check in with Elias and retrieve the doctor.
- The detective tells Father Fury that he will be releasing Boris in the morning and he should return then to retrieve him.
- The Doctor is able to learn from his testing that the fat is some kind of animal fat and the weird part is that its not dehydrated and it is not chemically treated. It is fresh animal fat….
- The creature was clearly not a mammal……
- With nothing much else to do, we all gather up at the hotel after picking up the doctor from the hospital.
- The doctor retires to his room for a few as the rest of us gather in the open air dining area.
- While in his room the doctor inspects the item he took out of the street.
- It is about 6 to 7 inches on a side and it appears to be made of solid gold.
- One side of the piece is dulled, the one that has carvings on it, the other side is polished almost to a mirror sheen.
- While in his room the doctor inspects the item he took out of the street.
- The doctor joins us and shows Elias the note he took from the body of the mummy.
- He also shows us the artifact he found on the ground. The carved side looks like a stylized face. (see Strange Face)
- Nigel takes a look at the artifact and he agrees that the piece does seem to resemble the fifth century artifact larkin showed us.
- Nigel looks into the mirror side and he is no longer on the outdoor dining area. He looks out across a desert scene and he is ontop of a pyramid. The scene then shifts and he is on a plateau and the face is carved on every surface. The rocks start to crumble and white maggot like tendrils are reaching up through the ground at him. Black tentacles blot out the sun and look like they are going to devour the earth.
- He stumbles and then is in a lecture hall and the men he thought were there to hear his speech are just there to mock him. He seems to ponder this and in the corner of his mind he hears a distorted sinister voice that says, "there you are." (Strange Vision - First Vision in Lima)
- Nigel looks into the mirror side and he is no longer on the outdoor dining area. He looks out across a desert scene and he is ontop of a pyramid. The scene then shifts and he is on a plateau and the face is carved on every surface. The rocks start to crumble and white maggot like tendrils are reaching up through the ground at him. Black tentacles blot out the sun and look like they are going to devour the earth.
- Nigel says nothing about what he saw, but he is clearly freaked out.
- Nigel takes a look at the artifact and he agrees that the piece does seem to resemble the fifth century artifact larkin showed us.
- Elias is able to translate the note but he gives a bit of his own history. He said he was researching a legend, the Chriasere (kharisiri), men who have white faces and attack innocent families. The stories about them were about them eating the fat out of innocent of people in the peruvian highlands. They started in the times of the conquistadors. He came to peru because these killings began to happen again and he believed that someone was using these legends to cover up ritualistic murders.
- He was following up his instincts with Luis de Mendoza. Elias is assuming that De Mendoza was a member of this cult. He thinks that there about a dozen members and some of them may be in Lima.
- He says that the note had to have been written by the missing woman from the museum.
- He provides us the translation. (see Translation of the Crumpled Paper)
- The big thing about the translation is that Luis De Mendoza is mentioned in the translation from something that happened 400 years ago.
- The doctor retires to his room for a few as the rest of us gather in the open air dining area.
- We spend a bunch of time talking about the things that we know.
- Its a rough night for both Nigel and Boris. Everyone else gets a rest.
- Father Fury is able to make his way into the cells to feed some of the dinner he received to Boris.
- Before dawn the detective shows up and yells at everyone in the police station, but he does let Father Fury and Boris out of jail.
- They make their way back to the hotel as quick as they can and they are able to get there before Nigel leaves for the consulate.
- The doc is able to take a look at him and he gets him mended up as best he can.
- We ended the session there.
Session 4:
More Questsions Than Answers
No New horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.~H.P. Lovecraft
See also Strange Vision - First Vision in Lima
Campaign
Masks of Nyarlathotep
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Report Date
02 Dec 2023
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