London 1802: Into the Lair

Monday February 7, 2011 at 5:30pm world of darkness, london 1802, game session notes Comments (0) »

As Molly was checking on her friends - all of which seemed to be unconscious but not mortally wounded - she saw some flashes of light coming from the common room downstairs.  Upon descending to the first floor, she saw 6 or 7 people sprawled out on the floor as flashes of light from the center of the room illuminated the bathhouse like lightening.  It was then that a strange and alien figure appeared floating above the ground at the room's center.

The figure was guant and oddly jointed and draped with a kind of sinuous clothing that seemed to end in tendrils which floated in a non-existent breeze - almost seeming to move with a volunatry motion.  The figure's head was large and oval shaped, marked only by a single, massive human-like eye.  It spoke to Molly in her head, and the others heard its imprint in their unconscious state:

"I appear from the court of Osiris to the one called Katherine, who has gained some note with us.  Time is running out.  They are even now awakening the Nameless One.  London is lost."

After the figure disappeared, a final flash of light illuminated the darkness again and, though Molly didn't dare look into the impossible brightness, she saw that, as it shined, everything in the bathhouse was becoming brighter, sharper, clearer, and more perfect.  The lamps ignited again.

Molly was on her way over to check on Gerald when there was a knock at the door.  Gerald, who was awakening, yelled in that direction inquiring rather bluntly as to who it was and what they wanted.  Robert and Katherine were awakening as well, and began making their way downstairs.

At the door were three of the Bow Street Runners.  When the door was answered, they asked to come inside.  They rather quickly got to the point:  they wanted to know who the four were.  They knew that the group had seen and interacted with things that weren't...normal.  In doing so, the revealed that they, too, were able to perceive these things that most were unable to see.  They called themselves Cerberus.  They told the group that they were headed to St. Paul's Cathedral to get to the bottom of what was going on and had come to ask if the group had any useful information for them.

During the conversation, Katherine realized something about the three Runners: they were in every respect normal men.  They were sleepwalkers.  They didn't really understand the forces they were going up against, though they seemed relatively undaunted by the supernatural horrors they had seen.  Katherine suggested that they should all go together, but Robert asked if they could possibly wait for a while.  Fredrick, the Runner who seemed to be the leader, told them they'd wait as long as they could before descending into the pit.  They would be making ready in the square at its edge.  The group spent some time trying to rest and patch themselves up before getting the carriage and driving through the rain-soaked streets to the place where the cathedral had sunk.

The three Runners had not yet gone into the pit, and the group could see them through the downpour, waiting at the edge of the chasm as they pulled up.  One of them was tied another rope to one of the trees and group descended into the pit, swan through the water that had flooded the depression, and entered the front doors of the Cathedral, wading through the knee-deep water.

Upon entering, they were immediately waylaid by a pack of formless, shadowy dogs and the woman whom they'd encountered earlier that day.  Molly got off a couple of good shots before the woman began shrieking and spewing forth swarms of insects from her open maw.  Something about the sound seemed to be exterting a force over the group, making movement very difficult, which Molly alone seemed to shake off.  She fired a couple more times at the woman, finally landing a solid hit which caused her to drop the effect, at which point Robert leapt forward and, using Lance's sword, impaled her against the wall.  As he pressed his attack, arcs of electricity seemed to shoot across and inside the woman's body and she seemed to sublimate into the air.  She was gone, but Robert realized that the blade of Lance's sword had snapped about a foot above the hilt.

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