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==Details==

'''Pages:''' 21

'''Author(s):''' [[David Conyers]]

'''Artist(s):''' [[Paul Carrick]], [[David Conyers]]

'''Setting:''' [[1920s]]

'''Appears in:''' [[Secrets of Kenya]]

==Summary==
Investigators receive a letter from a government official stationed in a trading post in Kenya. He wants to hire them as consultants in a case regarding strange lights in the sky, disappearing cattle and a wooden finger.

==Links==
*[http://orcsnest.com/blurber.asp?Title=Secrets%20of%20Kenya Secrets of Kenya review on Orcsnest.com]

==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
'''Players should not read any further.'''


===Synopsis===
Mr. Cloud, the government official is, in fact, an agent of the [[Mi-go]]. His role is to recruit humans to investigate the Great Old One known as the [[God of the Red Flux]] in behalf of the aliens.

Once investigators meet Mr. Cloud, he tries to capture them using a laced tea or, if it fails, by force. Captured investigators have their stomachs surgically removed and used as leverage to convince them to go to the Valley of the Red Flux and bring information about the Old One and its craft back to the Mi-go. Investigators must accept the bargain or die of starvation in a few days.

In the Valley, PCs will find the Red Flux and its craft, M'bwa and the Tree-Men. M'bwa is responsible for guarding his master and the craft, and for capturing humans to be transformed into Tree-Men, and anyone trying to step in the craft will have to deal with him. Entering the craft takes the investigators to an alien world with a plethora of objects that may be of interest to the Mi-go. And also an Outer God.

===References===
'''Player Handouts:'''
* Mr. Cloud's letter;
* Newspaper article;
* Map showing the location of the Valley of the Red Flux.

'''Locations:''' Western Kenya.

'''Creatures:''' [[Mi-go]]; [[Tree-Men of M'bwa]]; [[M'bwa]]; [[God of the Red Flux]]; [[Many-thing]].

'''Tomes and Artifacts:'''

===Comments===
The author suggests Donald Wandrei's tale ''The Tree-Men of M'bwa'', H. P. Lovecraft's ''The Whisper in the Darkness'' and the author's own ''False Containment'' for deeper background and inspiration.

The following data is included for use in this scenario but may also be useful somewhere else:
* Description of Mi-go armor, armaments, spells and skills. Also statistics for 10 Mi-go;
* Map depicting the Valley of the Red Flux;
* Statistics for the various stages of human transformation into Tree-Men;
* A complete description with statistics for M'bwa, the God of the Red Flux and the Many-thing.

===Keeper Comments===
This is a highly lethal scenario. Keepers should expect lots of sanity loss and fatal encounters. A TPK is possible, if not very likely.

[[Category:CoC:Scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:1920s scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:Scenarios set in Africa]]
[[Category:CoC:Scenarios set in Kenya]]
[[Category:CoC:Wilderness scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:Rural, remote and backwoods scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:Transformation scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:Many-sessions scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:High-lethality scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:Mythos-heavy scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:Letter from a stranger scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:Deformed human scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:Mi-go scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:Tree-Men of M'bwa scenarios]]
[[Category:CoC:The God of the Red Flux scenarios]]
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 Once investigators meet Mr. Cloud, he tries to capture them using a laced tea or, if it fails, by force. Captured investigators have their stomachs surgically removed and used as leverage to convince them to go to the Valley of the Red Flux and bring information about the Old One and its craft back to the Mi-go. Investigators must accept the bargain or die of starvation in a few days.
-In the Valley, PCs will find the Red Flux and its craft, M'bwa and the Tree-Men. M'bwa is responsible for guarding his master and the craft, and for capturing humans to be transformed into Tree-Men, and anyone trying to step in the craft will have to deal with him. Entering the craft takes the investigators to an alien world with a plethora of objects that may be of interest to the Mi-go. And also an Outer God.
+In the Valley, PCs will find the Red Flux and its craft, M'bwa and the Tree-Men. M'bwa is responsible for guarding his master and the craft, and for capturing humans to be transformed into Tree-Men, and anyone trying to step in the craft will have to deal with him. Entering the craft takes the investigators to an alien world with a plethora of objects that may be of interest to the Mi-go. Also, an Outer God.
 ===References===