Call of Cthulhu Summary: Part 1

Our latest guest blogger, Piers, with a summary of Saturdays Call of Cthulhu game. I recognise a lot of the names in this one and if it was inspired by what I think it was this should be a cracking game.

Darren

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Incident Report

Anna Vixen (singer, actress and entrepreneur) hired 3 individuals to investigate the claims from her building contractor that the Ocean Hotel estate was haunted. Having invested a lot into the estate herself, Miss Vixen would be facing financial ruin if the workforce refused to return. The following are the 3 individuals hired by Miss Vixen:

Dr Warren Bedford     -           Professor of European History at Bournemouth University

Artie Gumshoe            -           American Private investigator

Rachel Hemingway     -           Freelance journalist and writer

 

May 6^th 1933

Bedford, Gumshoe and Hemingway decide to meet with each other to discuss their first line of investigation into the haunting claims. It is decided that they need to gather as much information regarding the history of the Ocean House estate as possible.

Bedford, Gumshoe and Hemingway all squeeze into Bedford’s vehicle and make their way to the local library.

At the library Hemmingway searches newspaper articles whilst Gumshoe pursues police reports and Bedford tries to find the public records room.

Hemingway’s search through old newspaper reports revealed that Marcus Vӧrman built and opened the Hotel in 1851. Over the course of 7 days, 5 people were randomly murdered and 5 people burned alive in a mysterious fire. It was thought that the deaths were random and as such, none of them were solved – all becoming cold cases. Mr Vӧrman passed away elsewhere 3 years later in 1854.

Bedford failed to find the public records room after having been distracted by an ivory ornament.

Gumshoe found that the murders where mysteriously cruel and all took place late in the evening except the fire which started in the early afternoon. The three prime suspects were Mr Osborne, master Richards (a guest at the hotel) and the owner Mr Vӧrman.

After realising that Bedford was useless, Hemingway led both gentlemen to the public records room where trio discover Maria and Jeanette (born 1901) are the surviving descendants of Mr Vӧman who live at 14 Greenwell Street in Dover. After a brief phone conversation with a servant of Maria and Jeanette, it is decided that the trio will visit them the following day at midday (per the request of Maria and Jeanette).

The trio arrive at the Vӧrman house and meet Maria and Jeanette in a room with a rather large painting that depicts the Ocean House prior to it almost burning down. Maria and Jeanette give the trio their great grandfather’s journal upon being asked for more information. As the trio are about to leave, Hemingway and Bedford notice that the painting has changed from when they first arrived; both are mentally disorientated. Bedford, Gumshoe and Hemingway decide a goodnight sleep before entering Ocean House hotel would be a good idea and allow them to adequately prepare supplies.

Piers