13 Black Candles

Details

Pages: 11

Author(s): Jeff Woodall

Artist(s): Jeff Woodall

Setting: 1700s Aylesbury, Connecticut ("Colonial" North America, post Revolution)

Appears in: Dead Leaves Fall and Other Halloween Horrors

Campaign: (none)

Summary

It is late October and Squire Tom Roberts is giving his annual All Hallows Evening party in the town of Aylesbury, Connecticut. He has given this party every year since the end of the American Revolution. It is a huge event in which people from the town of Aylesbury are invited as well as his family and friends from elsewhere. The investigators have been invited to attend. It is assumed that they investigators are coming from out of town and minimal knowledge of the area.

Links

• review by Skyman and NeferSutekh at Yog-Sothoth.com

Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only

Players should not read any further.

Synopsis

13 victims, mostly children gathered to participate in a scavenger hunt and party for All Hallow's Evening, are kidnapped and hypnotized by the Dark Order of Baphomet cult (dedicated to an avatar of Shub-Niggaruth and their monstrous servitor "Crow People" in order to perform a ritual that will extend the lives of the cultists by mind-swapping the cult members with the children.

References

Player Handouts:

• Four pre-generated characters (just add names, backgrounds, and descriptions)
• List of Kidnapped Children
• Contents of the Book of the Dark Order of Baphomet
• Map of Aylesbury
• Illustrations, including Crow People
• The Reverend Hart's Journal

Locations:

• Colonial Aylesbury, Connecticut

Creatures:

• Cultists of the Dark Order of Baphomet
• Crow People
• Baphomet, an avatar of Shub-Niggurath

Tomes and Artifacts:

• Book of the Dark Order of Baphomet

Campaigns / Scenarios: (none)

Comments

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Keeper Comments

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Setting: According to the scenario's author, "This adventure is nominally set during the colonial period just following the close of the American Revolution however some adjustments can easily make it suitable for 1920’s or Modern." Nothing in particular seems to prevent this scenario from being relocated to another rural town in Colonial American or elsewhere.

Dependence on Halloween: Minimal. The scenario nominally takes place during a Halloween party that gathered the children of the town together when they were kidnapped, and the holiday was apparently chosen by the cultists for its occult significance, but little time is spent elaborating on any of this (beyond some minimal description of how the town celebrates the holiday), and an alternative date could be used with very little re-writing.

Sequel Plot Hooks: None, but the village is described in enough detail (aside from nameless NPCs) to be re-used in sequel scenarios.