Strange events have been taking place in Arkham, multiple people mysteriously missing and corpses found in the woods, ravaged and half-eaten. The newspapers and police stated that wild animals were responsible, but a group of investigators believed something else was going on.

• Daisy Walker - Kyle
• Agnes Baker - Sanha
• Wendy Adams - Jordan
• "Skids" O'Toole - Ryan

The group met at Daisy's house to have their regular meeting in her study to discuss the latest dismembered body Skids had found in the woods. As they speculated about the kind of beast that could mangle a body so thoroughly, Wendy suddenly noticed the door to the study was missing entirely.

As they investigated the strange phenomenon they found the house shifting around them as ghouls rose through the floorboards to attack the group that had to fight for their life and find a way to get through the sealed parlor door.

Beyond it, they found a red-haired woman named Lita Chantler who berated the group for breaking the seal keeping the ghouls at bay. The group worked together to kill a ghoulish priest as Lita said the only way to stop the ghoul horde was to burn the house down to kill all remaining ghouls and block the path for any others that still laid in wait below ground.

Daisy reluctantly agreed to this plan, saving as many of her books as she could as they fled the inferno.

Resolution 1.

The group met with Lita in Rivertown the next day to discuss what happened the previous night. Lita explained the creatures were ghouls, beings that plague the crypts and caverns beneath Arkham and fed on the corpses of humans. She claimed a cult in town has inexplicably begun to worship the ancient master of the ghouls and began killing people to feed them and satiate their hunger.

Lita explained that while they had been collecting bodies and graverobbing for most of the ghouls' sustenance, someone had recently disturbed and destroyed a lair where they were storing bodies for this purpose, causing the ghouls to go out and feed on any unfortunate enough to stumble across their path, leading to the grisly sights seen around town. (Primarily by Skids)

She said the cult is planning some sort of dark ritual that very night, just after midnight. They would need to work together to find the cultists in town and determine what they are planning.

The group spent the evening exploring the town and investigating their neighbors. The group managed to find over a half dozen cult members ranging from a violent werewolf to a professor at the university. Some were fought, some bribed, and others convinced to tell what the cult was planning that evening.

Resolution 1 - All cultists

From their investigations, the group learned that the cult worshipped a being known as Umôrdhoth, a monstrous entity from another realm. They also learned that Lita was correct about the cult being agitated by one of their lairs being destroyed, and that Lita had left out that she was the one who destroyed the lair.

They found a journal on one of the cultists that described steps to a dark ritual that was to be performed in the woods south of Arkham. The ritual is said to open a gate to bring the cult's dark master into the world.

The group explored the twisting woods as the time of the ritual ticked ever closer. The group managed to find the ritual site just as the clock struck midnight. The cult's dark god Umôrdhoth was entering this world, its writhing form passing through both dimensions struck out at the group injuring them and filling them with terror.

Though they were tempted to sacrifice Lita, who seemed to have drawn the ire of the creature and its cult, the group managed to instead disrupt the ritual circle and stop the cult from bringing forth the strange being.

The ghouls climbed into the strange pit left behind by the ritual and the group captured what cult members remained. Though few others in town believed their story of what happened.

The investigators saved Arkham from a terrible fate, but they would never be the same again.

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