Halloween Nuit
Details
Pages: 12
Author(s): Oscar Rios
Artist(s):
Setting: 1920s (specifically, Halloween 1929)
Appears in: Plan 09 From Halloween.
Summary
It's the day before Halloween and the Investigators have been invited to an function celebrating the arrival in Arkham of a visiting Egyptian exhibit from The Cairo Museum, which features the mummy of a notable court astrologer.
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Synopsis
The scenario begins with the discovery that several items have been stolen from the mummy which forms the centrepiece of the exhibit (actually a prank pulled by a student). The Investigators are hired to solve the embarassing mystery. The mummy, however, is not as dead as everyone believes and it too has ambitions to find whoever stole its belongings and get them back ... though its methods are less conventional. The end result is that at this year's Halloween frat parties, some of the costumes are really very convincing indeed.
References
Player Handouts: List the player handouts here.
Locations: Arkham
Creatures: Children of the Sphinx, ancient astrologer mummy (a worshipper of Shub-Niggurath)
Tomes and Artifacts: none.
Campaigns / Scenarios:
Comments
A minor plot point in the scenario revolves around the rivalry between Arkham's Mayor Peabody and current election rival MU's Dr Wainscott (described in H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham). There is, however, a slight inconsistency of dates -- this scenario takes place around Halloween 1929 whereas the Mayoral vote contested by Peabody and Wainscott would, by Herber's descriptions in the Arkham sourcebook, have taken place on November 6, 1928 (with the next election being November, 1930).
