User:Meyer

Details

Pages: 13

Author(s): Michael DeWolfe

Artist(s): Janet Aulisio, Sam Inabinet

Setting: 1920s

Appears in: Mansions of Madness (Supplement)

Summary

The investigators get to know their neighbor and his family a little bit better than they would like.

Links

Link to outside reviews or helpful pages.

• Wordpress CoC Scenario Review
• Demian Katz's review at OgreCave

Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only

Players should not read any further.

Synopsis

Across the street from an investigator's home is the house of Bernard Corbitt, a widowed businessman who is fond of gardening and generally well-liked by his neighbors. One Sunday evening, the investigator (possibly in the company of his or her friends) is alarmed when they observe Mr. Corbitt returning home with some packages - one of which appears to contain a child's severed arm.

In fact, Corbitt is a servant of Yog-Sothoth. Several years ago, Corbitt was called to India by his father, who had fallen under the influence of Ramasekva - an avatar of Yog-Sothoth. During a ritual, his father was devoured. Bernard Corbitt was spared and has served the Outer God ever since. Returning home and marrying soon after, Corbitt allowed Yog-Sothoth to impregnate his new bride with twins. One of the twins died in childbirth in Corbitt's house along with its mother; the attending nurse immediately went into a coma, doctors and police were called, and the community shared its sympathies with the grieving widower.

The undisclosed surviving twin, however, has been hidden away in Corbitt's basement. An abomination, a mass of tissue devoid of most human organs and limbs, the child of Yog-Sothoth is tended to by Corbitt until the day it can serve as a Bridge

References

Player Handouts: List the player handouts here.

Locations: Location 1, Location 2, etc.

Creatures: Beast 1, Beast 2, etc.

Tomes and Artifacts: Item 1, Item 2, etc.

Campaigns / Scenarios: Campaign 1, Scenario 1

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Keeper Comments

The scenario states it can be run for one or more investigators, but that one of the investigators should own a house in a fairly wealthy part of the anonymous town or city in which the events take place.

This is presumably a 1920s-era scenario, but a Keeper shouldn't have difficulty moving it to a different time period, keeping in mind that it does involve secret surgical transplants (which are aided by Yog-Sothoth and magic tomes).

The location of the scenario isn't specifically identified, so it could probably take place in any town or city with a nearby hospital and local newspaper.

The scenario resolution is open-ended for the investigators. Options addressed include destroying the threat, alerting the authorities, just walking away, or even nursing the creature to maturity.