Call of Cthulhu, Episode #20: 'Is that a Book of Forbidden Lore in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?'

 Eventually reaching the shores of the US as potentially the most eventful cruise in world history comes to a close, the party firstly makes sure the precious Lewis Gun is unloaded, before accompaniment the Count to his rendezvous with the 'money-men' who have promised to buy his book for the mysterious Septimus Crane of Arkham.

 A local newspaper tells of their patron Edward Call's savage murder in Arkham, together with Sophie - the Post Office operator who had been sending them messages in Scotland... 

Ok that's a problem!

The negotiation proceeds, and the characters follow the mysterious 'twins' one of whom at least appearing to have a very alien stammer.

Trust uzzzzzzzz....

 They promise that they will visit the Count in Idaho when their train gets there, arranging to leave well after he does, though are intrigued by the telegram that he receives upon landing...

 

The couriers, now with the forbidden book 'Monsters and their Kynde' proceed to Arkham, arriving late at night, of course inadvertently offering our intrepid murder-hobos a chance to ambush them.

Setting this up takes some time, but devolves into 'running up behind and using shotguns'. 

'Large area of park good for ambush of alien entities!' CHECK!

 Though that simple plan, goes less than well, as the human disguise sloughs from the twins revealing...what they really are.

SURPRISE!!!

 The 'Fungi from Yuggoth' though surpised, are hard to kill, narrowly missing grappling the professor, but ultimately, much ammo use later...they melt into the ground as if never there, blasted...with difficultly, by round after round. McLeoud takes the book from the icky mess that remains...(ewwwww)

 The characters find both the book and a strange letter on the bodies...realising at last, that they have been set up and that Septimus Crane, is working for the enemy - probably best not to go to his house after all.

Returning to his old digs, the prof makes arrangements to leave on the next train with the party...

 Arkham, the Order of the Silvery Twilight, and the whole damned affair turns into a world spanning conspiracy...and now, having got rid of Edward Call and Sophie, the enemy must know what the characters are up to. In fact they have been spied upon since Scotland! They realise from the letter that the Order may not need the disk at all now, and may have ways around its usefulness, and that things are happening on Easter Island, that are not altogether wholesome.

'All we wanna do is put your brains in jars...I mean, is that so baaaaaad?  zzz zzz zzz zzzz"

 Time to get to California, and find the fabled  Arc of Vlactos...before it's too late, and the Order raise this mysterious entity that they so revere, from the depths of the Pacific...