The Burning Stars
Details
Pages: 44
Author(s): David Conyers
Setting: 1930s
Appears in: Terrors from Beyond
Summary
The investigators recover in a US Military hospital in Haiti suffering from on-going and prolonged blackouts. The last seven days of their lives have vanished from their minds — is it amnesia, or a fear of remembering?
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Synopsis
The investigator's characters went to Haiti to find the son of James Sterling, Jack. He was sent there earlier to arrange a deal with local rebel leader Sebastian Senegal. Unfortunatelly he found the Sharp Stone, which cut him and turned him into a Host that would bring forth the avatar of Nyarlathotep called Floating Horror.
The group of investigators already found where he is, but they were all killed in the process leaving only Dirk Kessler alive, and with several mental trauma, split personality disorder, and memory loss. The investigator playing Dirk Kessler has to retrace their steps, with the help of his other personalities, who are played by other investigators. He believes them to still be alive, and so do they. Whenever a character interacts with other NPCs it's actually Dirk Kessler doing it. Whenever the party splits up, they end up having blackouts and merge back together at a location.
Wherever Dirk goes he finds specific Tarot cards from Nyarlathotep deck, and are watched by him in the avatar of Baron Samedi, as well as ONI agents.
There is a Tarot card reading done by Marie Jerome which matches the Tarot cards found during the scenario, and is connected to the plot.
References
Player Handouts:
- Medwin’s Business Card
- A list of names
- A letter of engagement
- Shaw’s Investigation Report on Sterling Industries
- Haiti Progrés news clipping
- Telegram from Shaw’s Investigations
- Tarot Major Arcana
- Passage from Africa’s Dark Sects
- Last Entry in Doctor Northeast’s Journal
- Fable from The Masked Messenger
Locations: Haiti
Creatures:
- Storm Drain Crocodile
- Star Pool Lurker
- Floating Horror
Tomes and Artifacts:
- Africa’s Dark Sects
- The Masked Messenger
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