This post is for friends who I’m running a local Call of Cthulthu game with.

Almost 3 years have passed since the farmhouse incident, and while the investigators have found tantalizing clues and references buried deep in library archives to the sarcophagus and Marion Allen’s method of death, the trail has gone cold and no definitive answers have been found. However, the investigators’ efforts have not been in vain; characters who played through the farmhouse incident have gained skills over the past few years during their studies and made important contacts among other scholars, researchers, and mystics, some of whom may become allies - or liabilities - in future investigations.

With a particular interest in Egyptology and the occult, all the members of the team remember the ill-fated Carlyle Expedition. Even laypersons can recall details of playboy Roger Carlyle’s well-publicized journey into inner Egypt in 1919, subsequent safari into Africa, and the eventual massacre of the expedition by death-cults in the remote interior of that country.

It’s not until now - 1925 - that one of Thurber Upton’s close correspondents begins to draw a tenuous link between the Carlyle expedition and Upton’s strange tale, but the link may lead our investigators to knowledge both forbidden, dangerous, and of a scale they could not have imagined.

Note: Players have received a private link to handouts with background material on the Carlyle Expedition in preparation for our next session. Players playing investigators who survived the farmhouse horror will receive a skill point bonus, to distribute as they choose, for skills they may have gained during the (2+ year) intermission between that and this scenario. Dates from the last scenario have been retconned to a few years earlier to prevent me from having to update dates on supplements for the next adventure.

A small skill point bonus will be awarded to players who can spot the video game reference in this post without using Google.