In Darker Places
Pale Things Thrive
The year is 1890, and Victoria – the Queen of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and first Empress of India – sits upon the throne. Under her benevolent gaze the British Empire has grown to become one upon which the sun never sets and has no rival.
Yet behind such glory, hope and progress something rotten grows near its heart; an evil so great that its revelation alone may destroy everything the Queen and her subjects have done to raise the Empire to such noble heights. For too long the older gods have been forgotten, hidden away in myth and whispered only as legend. But now, a plot is in place to bring these wrongs to right and return the most British of these Great Old Ones back onto its throne.
Mankind has always dabbled in the occult and eerie, whether in error, innocence, or in the search of power, and it is a combination of such motivations that will bring the Investigators face to face with the long forgotten Lord of the Labyrinth – Eihort – and his ill-spawned brood.
The Lurker of the Labyrinth is a conspectus written for the Cthulhu by Gaslight setting of Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition. In this scenario, the Investigators will set out to discover the fate of their close friends George and Elizabeth Coalefort, Lord and Lady Lincombe, and in the course of that journey encounter horrors darker than nightmares. Against these terrors the characters must endeavour to learn the fate of their friends and at the same time confront the machinations of a cult determined to bring forth the progeny of Eihort… and with it hasten the destruction of all humanity!
Designed for a small party of players, Lurker is set in London during the month of August in 1890, and while plot is mainly investigative in nature it does offer a good smattering action and adventure. While the Keeper is expected to take the narrative and develop it as they see fit, it will likely take more than one or two sessions of play to complete.
Status of this Project
Currently the core of the first act (of a planned two act structure) has been drafted, with a total of about 15,000 words written.