Horror Hooks

The old rich man finds an artifact. His son eventually uses it. His ambitious wife makes him. The
old man's whore knows everything.
WW1. An enemy plane has seen a crucial troop movement and got shot down over the trenches
before it could return across the front line and report. The pilot got out and must now be tracked
down lest he somehow be able to get his message across no-man's-land.
o the party sneaks into the death !one at night and finds all kinds of gruesome" sanity testing
mundane things. #ventually they hear movement and suspect it could be the $erman. They discover
a cottage torn to shreds by artillery" but a cellar still seems somewhat intact. %t is basically a bunker
in the death !one while the $erman shelling starts again. %nside is a hidden room" now unveiled
because of a cave in. There they find &aunet's goomicronicon and the story reverts from chasing to
being chased. The sound they thought revealed the $erman was actually something very old and
very indestructible that now wants to eat their minds.
The cottage has always been a dark place" long before it became a cottage. %t is an ancient site"
charged with mystical auras and inhabited by powerful things. %t can be a nest" a secret library" or an
inconspicuous altar block. With man came cultists" and over the ages this grew into a secret society
of devout demon worshippers. After its decline" only the cottage remains.
And it never became a problem until the 'rench and the $ermans started digging trenches around it
for miles on end.
(ow whatever remains of that old evil has been starving in the back country for a very long time.
uddenly hundreds of thousands of panicked aggressive young men are carted right to its doorstep
and nobody notices when a few go missing or start behaving a bit odd. This is the rebirth. With that
many sacrifices it can regrow to its old might.
The horror is inevitable" but still based on player curiosity. The crucial situation will be escaping
from a haunted battlefield without having facilitated. %f they manage %'d have them come out on the
wrong side and get shot on sight in the epilogue.
% had a few ales down in )ivertown. This *uack from the +niversity was incapacitating himself
with rye.
At first he was all gloomy. Then he started raving about the end of days and how he wished for the
)evelation instead of what was to come. ,ried like a boy. Went to and fro for hours. Tirades -
whimpering - drink.
% went out to the river to relieve myself. There were no clouds and the starlight showed the waves
-ust fine. % had had a few" but not overly" and none stronger than ale. % say this so you can believe
what % then saw" not twenty feet from the hut % had been drinking in.
%t was -ust a ripple on the water at first" like a feeding school of trout" but past midnight. Then %
made out what % thought was the body of a large fish" maybe come up the river from the coast. %t
kept sliding by -ust under the surface and % reali!ed how large the thing must be. &ike a small
whale. .ut the water was shallow.
% ran back inside. Afraid beyond reason of that thing in the river. % stammered some alert" but the
patrons waved me away and told me to go see my mattress. /nly the professor stared at me with
wide eyes in an ashen face. '%t has come0' he whispered. '$od" % thought it would be longer.'
% felt silly as % did" but % ran. The others shouted after me" laughing. .ut % didn't stop. omething in
me knew danger. %t wasn't -ust the thing in the river. /r the professor's reaction. %t was a certainty. A
need to be away. An instinct. % ran all the way home and locked the door securely that night.
The ne1t day the hut by the river was gone. ,harred stumps that had earlier held the establishment
out of the water reached into the empty sky. They said it was a fire" probably caused by a drunkenly
dropped lamp" and e1tinguished by the river when the structure collapsed. .ut nobody had seen the
bla!e. And there was no debris in the 2iskatonic.
The 3,s are all attending a gala party at some high class estate4mansion. The host is premiering a
new artistic movie that is set to be released to theaters at the end of the month. When the movie
starts" the players are dragged into a trance like state" and a violent riot4orgy breaks out. The awake
to find themselves at their respective homes" with no knowledge of what the movie was about or
how they got home after the party. They then find that the party was over a week ago" several other
people from the gala are missing. As they try to piece together information about what happened
they slowly discover they were caught up in a horrifying ritual" unwillingly taking the part of
cultists and preforming depraved acts to satisfy the whims of some terrible ancient force. The movie
hits national release in one week.
'ishermen along the 2assachusetts coast complain about freak black algae blooms destroying and
contaminating their catch. A young research biologist from 2iskatonic +niversity in Arkham is
dispatched to investigate. He sets up a small lab in an %nnsmouth barn while going out on boats with
the fishermen to gather samples. After a few weeks his reports start becoming erratic and disturbed.
At the same time fishermen start to vanish and whole boats are lost or found adrift and empty.
The 3,s are gathered by their old professor4friend who is the head of biology at 2iskatonic. They
are asked to meet the researcher at %nnsmouth" assess his mental state and his work" and report back
within the day by telegram. The police has begun an investigation into the researcher's doings after
local opinion has turned against him. The press has gotten interested and if there is a story out there
that the university was somehow involved in deaths it could devastate the funding for essential
research.
That was before the ,oast $uard got involved...
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Another mystery from history... %n 197< (avy lieutenant #rnest ,ody and ensign ,harles Adams
piloted a blimp out of an 'rancisco into the 3acific" looking for >apanese subs. A few hours later
the blimp drifted back to land" empty. The parachutes and life raft were in their proper places and
the radio was in working order" but there was no trace of ,ody or Adams.
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