The House of R'yleh is a Call of Cthulhu adventure set in London
in late November 1923. The Games Master is Mark and play takes place at
Dragons Keep Roleplay Club in South East London every Friday night.
Cast
- Yoshi "Kanagawa" Yamamoto - A disgraced former Sumo wrestler turned journalist - Tony
- Chester "Pretty Boy" Lyle - A bareknuckle boxer - Sam
- Ryan Wurmshurst - A retired policeman turned private sleuth - Steve
- Thelma "Ginger" Purdey - A recently graduated botanist and girl about town - Matt
Surrounded by Ghoulish Minions
The beret wearing creature ordered his minions to surround the friends but, despite their weapons, it was clear that they were going to have to talk their way out of the situation. The cavern was dimly lit but four fully finished paintings could be seen leaning up against the far wall. Chester addressed the beret wearing creature as Peters but the creature said this was not his name. Yoshi put two and two together and realised that this was the macabre artist Thewlis, who had been drummed out of the Chelsea Art club for creating obscene art.
In broken English Yoshi claimed that they had come from the Chesea Art Club who had had a change in leadership. The new regime wanted to right a previous wrong and purchase all of the art on display in order to hold a grand exhibition, one of the conditions was the return of Davies and his two students.
Thewlis was intrigued and pulled his forces back enabling Yoshi and Ginger to cross the cavern and get a better look at the four paintings.
The first was of a grand country house with a rotting corpse in the foreground. The second was of a strange ruin in the desert. The third of the interior of a building its walls covered with intricate hieroglyphs. The final painting was of a fantastical island structure jutting out of a stormy sea. A tiny boat battled the gigantic waves heading towards this island. In the centre of the painting a great door imprisoned something powerful which wanted to be released. Observing this final painting Yoshi and Ginger had a visceral out of body experience. It was as if they were on board the ship heading towards the island. Looking down at her feet Ginger noticed that they were wet with seawater.
After some discussion Thewlis agreed to the terms on the condition that the friends retrieve an important artifact for him. He passed them a grubby manuscript whihc detailed the history of something called The Shining Trapezohedron, an artifact which would enable Thewlis to truly convey the majesty of his art to canvas. Only then would he release his "students".
The foursome agreed and, led by one of Thewlis ghoulish servants, they returned to the surface and cold snowy Lambeth.
Saturday 17th November 1923
The friends reconvened at Victoria Police Station and Ryan went to inform Det. Sgt. Farrell that they had located the missing artists. Farrell assembled a five man squad of his finest officers. This came as a dissapointment to the friends who urged him to bolster his ranks. Another five men were found and they piled into a black mariah and followed the directions to the tenament in Lambeth.
When they arrived in the basement they expected to find one of Thewlis's creatures waiting for them but the room was empty. They decided that Farell would accompany them in a lead group whilst Sgt Forester and the remaining officers would be following behind as backup. They proceeded to traverse the sewers until they were about 100 yards from the entrance to the excavated side tunnel when they heard gunshots from behind. They had been ambushed.
a half dozen or so of the creatures came at them from both directions cutting them off from the officers behind and a pitch battle ensued. They overcame their assailants with great difficulty and all were wounded in some way except for Chester. They ran back through the tunnels to the ladder stopping only briefly to recover the collar numbers of the slain officers they found along the way.
They only found four of them...
