Look to the Future Part Six: February 14, 1926

Back to the Safe House

Kane, Johnny, and Dr. Black get back to the safe house first. They are soon joined by the caretaker, who has brought along a small, grimy, weaselly guy who twitches when he’s standing still and cleans his fingernails with a razor-sharp folding knife.

The caretaker explains to the group that, apparently, Ron called Vincenzio Bernouse to complain about him. “The Boss” told the caretaker he was going to be reassigned until Ron had left, and would be working somewhere else. Meanwhile, his cousin, Mikey (the smaller guy) would be watching the safe house in his stead. The trio, especially Johnny, were not impressed with this.

The caretaker says he wasn’t either, until Ron called back, apparently having changed his mind. So now the caretaker gets to stay, Mikey can keep on doing what he’s doing, and all that has to change is that the caretaker has to stop making fun of Ron. Easier said than done.

The caretaker introduces Mikey to the group. Mikey is dubious of the trio, until Johnny lets him have one of the leftover “ritual chickens” for free. Mikey is so elated that he insists on giving Johnny a hug, which Johnny begrudgingly accepts.

Things get a touch more fraught when Mikey demands to know which one of them is Deluca, because, “he’s got something to say to him!” The caretaker tells Mikey to get a box (which contains cannolis) out of the car, and warns the others that his cousin is a little bit high strung.

At this point, Viv, Mikhail, Ron, and Judge Putnam arrive. Mikey, despite previous appearances, is effusive in his praise of Ron and thanks him many, many times for not going through with getting his cousin fired. He insists on giving Ron a hug, which Ron refuses. They eventually settle on a handshake. 

In the midst of this chaos, Ron mentions that he now knows the caretaker’s name, which is Vito.

With everything seemingly resolved, Vito and Mikey head home. The group goes inside to talk about their new discoveries.

Mikey, the Caretaker's Cousin

Catch-Up

Johnny, Dr. Black, and Kane relate their experiences in Kingsport. Johnny says that they have acquired a ritual that will allow them to summon the Veiled Sage, a being that can purportedly answer any question. After some discussion, it is decided that Ron, Johnny, Vivian, and the Judge will perform the ritual and see if anything comes of it.

Kane also learns that, after he got back, he telephoned his friend, Papa Doc Horus, and learned from him how to hypnotize people. He demonstrates his ability on Ron, and has enough self-control not to make Ron cluck like a chicken. The group is impressed, and asks who they should try to hypnotize. Kane, always a step ahead, says that he wants to hypnotize Stephen Clark, to see if he can determine why and how Stephen is painting the future. This is widely regarded as a good idea. Mikhail and Dr. Black will accompany Kane to New Hampshire to see if Stephen is willing to be hypnotized.

Vivian tells everyone that she has gotten a lot more research done and has learned more about the being called Nodens/Nuadda/Llud. She now believes that he is some sort of a god, similar to this Yog-Sothoth that keeps popping up everywhere. She, too, has learned several spells during her research, including one that might allow her to visit Nodens.

Ron rounds out the conversation by showing everyone the wire covered doorknob he stole from Miskatonic. The Judge identifies it as being similar in size and shape to an artifact found in a Native American burial site in northern Maine.

New Hampshire

Kane, Mikhail, Dr. Black, and Pushok visit the Clarks. They find that Angie and Deb are still there. James is doped to the gills, but in good spirits, while Stephen is in the throes of whatever mania the evening brings and is in the middle of painting. He finishes shortly thereafter to meet with the trio.

Stephen’s latest painting depicts Vivian, Ron, Judge Putnam, and Johnny standing in a circle around some kind of mystical symbol, speaking to a figure in a shimmering robe. Stephen is not quite sure what to make of it, but the group has some ideas.

Stephen agrees to Kane’s offer to hypnotize him. While under hypnosis, he describes flying over a vast ocean before diving deep beneath its surface. He describes an underwater mountain honeycombed with tunnels and galleries, inhabited by fish-people adorned with jewelry, lighting their way with the glowing lobes on their foreheads. At last, he reaches a great chamber, where, “It sleeps and dreams and I must paint its dream.”

Stephen refuses to look down to behold the dreamer, but Kane forces him to. This causes Stephen to have a psychotic attack. Kane ends the hypnotic session. Stephen, still freaked out, paints a second painting at incredible speed. This one is of a half man, half dragon, half octopus thing on a throne, surrounded by worshippers. Mikhail and Kane both remember the creature from a carving they saw in the basement of the Lodge.

Stephen goes to bed. The trio takes Stephen’s latest painting and go back to Boston to meet up with the others.

What Stephen Clark Painted

Boston

The quartet decide to have the ritual in the basement. This first involves drawing a mandala with colored sands that features various runes, symbols, and a shape that looks like a gateway. They stand around the circle and chant the ritual chant, until they are at last joined by a shimmering figure in a veiled robe of swirling light.

“Do you summon me to serve or to ask?” demands the Veiled Sage.

“To ask.”

"Then ask.”

"What must we do to ensure that Carl Stanford, the sorcerer, is forever banished and unable to affect this Earthly realm?”

“Death cannot stop Carl Stanford, for though he may die, his soul is anchored to this realm and may return to it at his whim. The only way to remove him from this realm forever is to destroy his anchor, which is currently in the catacombs of the Nameless City.”

With that, the Veiled Sage departs.

Judge Putnam, finally confronted with something blatantly supernatural, has a breakdown. He flees from the house and runs up and down the Boston streets, shouting his new nihilistic philosophy for the world to hear. When Johnny, Vivian, and Ron finally catch up to him, they find that the judge has run afoul of one of Boston’s finest. Ron tackles the policeman into a snowbank, while Vivian and Johnny try to get “grandpa” back to the safe house. Surprisingly, the policeman lets Ron go with just a warning, and he, too, is able to return to the house.

Look to the Future Part Five: February 13-14, 1926

February 13, 1926 Evening

The visit to Look to the Future took an emotional toll on the group. After returning to the safe house, they split up to either take a break or to work on their own things.

Judge Putnam

Sent another letter.

Kane Eastman

Just relaxed, because he’s cool as hell and almost nothing bothers him, ever.

Vivian and Ron

They first went to talk to Aoife, Ron’s one-night stand. Ron’s plan was to find out how to contact Aengus, Aoife’s brother (he of the jaw that Ron shattered), and arrange for a fair fight at a boxing ring “for honor.”

Ron learns, to his dismay, that Aoife was the one who told Aengus that she had had no-no times with Ron. Apparently, this was to get back at her brother for being too protective all the time. Realizing he had been played, Ron “paid Aoife for her services” and left, with a furious Vivian following right behind.

Ron

After dropping Vivian off at the house, Ron decides to case the Look to the Future building. While outside the main doors, he overhears two men (whom he later confirms are Lostalus Black and Bryan Slim) discussing a third man, “Carl,” who is getting very impatient with Slim. A hideous, unearthly bout of laughter from Black causes a normally impervious-to-social-cues Ron to flee the scene.

He returns to the safe house and wakes up Vivian. Vivian, being the scholar of the group, manages to piece together the missing bits of Ron’s story. She becomes convinced that Black and Slim are going to try to resurrect Carl Stanford. Furthermore, based on the painting Stephen Clark had made, Vivian is convinced that they will try to use Ron to bring Carl back somehow.

The walls of the safe house are thin, and so Johnny also hears this. Realizing that he may need to take care of Carl Stanford for good, he puts his own plans into motion.

Johnny

Jaunts through the gate box to Staten Island, where he acquires the surplus truck he had purchased previously. He pulls some strings to acquire a gun safe and several dozen chickens. He then makes the long drive back from New York, arriving in Boston early the next morning. His plan is to make another blessed blade, so that he can leave it in Carl Stanford’s resurrected corpse, if necessary. He also plans to fill the safe with Carl Stanford’s corpse, and cement, and hurl it into Boston Harbor, “in the hopes that that fucker can find some tea.”

That'll Hold Him

Mikhail

Having secured James’ release, Mikhail drives up to New Hampshire to meet up with the Clarks and Angie and make sure that James is getting settled in.

He arrives late that night, at Stephen’s secluded mountain home, to find the atmosphere tense. Angie and James are there, as is Deb and Pushok. Angie and Deb tell Mikhail that everything was fine until after it got dark. At that point, Stephen locked himself in the studio and would neither come out nor answer them.

At this point, a frantic Stephen comes out of the studio and, surprised but relieved to see Mikhail, drags him into the studio to show him his latest work. The painting depicts Mikhail and his friends all dying horribly in a white room, their bodies covered with engorged purple-black veins. Mikhail can see many tubes of black liquid on shelves throughout the room. Bryan Slim seems to be injecting Mikhail’s friends with this liquid while Lostalus Black looks on, grinning fearsomely.

Realizing that his friends are in danger, Mikhail asks to borrow the still wet painting. He places it, and Pushok, in his car and drives like a maniac to get back to Boston as soon as possible. He arrives shortly before Johnny does.

February 14^th, 1926, Valentine’s Day

And Then There Was Cake

The group catches one another up on their activities. Mikhail’s dramatic reveal of Stephen’s new work terrifies just about everyone. Ron fills the others in on his encounter at Look to the Future, and Johnny discusses his plans for dealing with Carl Stanford.

Ron and Vivian decide to go to church. Before they go, Ron leaves a note for the caretaker, ribbing him about his weight and asking the caretaker to get him a pineapple upside down cake.

Johnny asks Dr. Black and Kane to help him with the ritual to bless a blade. They slaughter lots of chickens in the backyard and gain themselves a third magical weapon. Then they proceed to clean the chickens so that people can cook them up and eat them.

Ron and Vivian come back from church. A short time later, the caretaker shows up with the cake. He also tells Ron that he has purchased, “an itty-bitty cannoli,” just for him. Ron at first vows to toss the cannoli into the garbage the moment the caretaker leaves, as he suspects this has been tampered with. Then he starts paying attention to the caretaker’s words and realizes that he is using the cannoli as a “subtle” metaphor to mock the size of Ron’s penis.

Ron decides to throw hands.

He is briefly restrained by Mikhail, who throws a hand over Ron’s mouth and tells him to shut the hell up, please. Ron shakes Mikhail off and steps forward, only to find himself firmly restrained by the iron grip of Judge Putnam.

“So. You work out.”

The judge manages to deescalate the situation with Ron, while Johnny takes the caretaker outside and gives him one of his chickens, “you know, for the missus?” The caretaker is extremely grateful for the gift and is about to leave.

This should have been the end of it, but then Ron burst through the kitchen door, threw the cannoli, and got the caretaker right in the face with it. The cannoli is filled with cherry juice, which stains the caretaker’s face. The caretaker wipes himself off, continues to mock Ron, intimates that he will come by tomorrow to “taste Ron’s cannoli” again, and then leaves.

Ron, very uncomfortable, vows REVENGE!

A Productive Afternoon

Everyone but Mikhail has pineapple upside down cake. While eating, they plan their next move. Realizing that they need a lot more information, and also realizing that they are relatively close to Arkham, MA, Vivian suggests that they go to Miskatonic University and study their books on magic and medieval metaphysics. Ron, Mikhail, and Judge Putnam all decide to go with her.

Meanwhile, Johnny, Kane, and Dr. Black plan to travel back to Kingsport. Johnny’s plan is to meet with Wilton, the old man who met with Bryan Slim a couple of days ago. Johnny hopes that Wilton can tell them something about Carl Stanford.

Go Fighting Cephalopods!

Roll Up the Windows, Darling...

A librarian assistant shows the group into the Rare Books section of old MU. Vivian looks up information on Nephrem-Ka and the Black Pharaoh. Mikhail tries to research why Stephen Clark is able to paint divinatory artworks. Judge Putnam surprises everyone by asking if he can have access to the University’s copy of the Necronomicon.

Ron gets bored and goes for a walk. He finds a display cabinet in a corner of the library which features a weird art object—something that looks like a warty doorknob with wires all over it. He takes it out of the display case and puts it in his pocket.

Meanwhile, the librarian assistant returns to the judge and says that Professor Armitage currently has the Necronomicon under lock and key, “for security reasons,” but tells the judge that she will speak to the professor and see if he can be granted a special viewing.

As all this goes on, Vivian takes copious notes.

The Terrible Old Man

...This is Lovecraft Country

Kane, Dr. Black, and Johnny reach Kingsport and Wilton’s house. Kane stays with the car, while Johnny and Dr. Black head to the house. They are greeted at the door by Wilton, who seems displeased that they exist. Johnny manages to make a little headway with Wilton by performing the Voorish Sign.

They are invited into the tumbledown house to have a meeting with Wilton. He says, though not in so many words, that he is a sorcerer in the service of Yog-Sothoth, and that he works with Bryan Slim from time to time. When asked about Stanford, Wilton bristles and says something about, “too much hubris, aye? He thinks he is a man with no need of masters. Foolish.”

Johnny asks Wilton how to get rid of Stanford permanently. Wilton explains that there are numerous ways to bring Stanford back, and that Stanford will always be able to be restored to life, unless and until someone is able to find and destroy the anchor for his soul. Wilton says that he does not know where Stanford’s anchor is, but he is sure that his master, “who sees all worlds and times,” will know.  Wilton gives Johnny a copy of a magical ritual that will help them learn this information from, presumably, Yog-Sothoth. Then he shoos them out of his house, and tells them never to return.

As the duo leave, they discover that Kane, having become increasingly nervous while waiting, has started the car and brought it around to the front of Wilton’s house. In silence, the three men drive back to Boston.

Look to the Future Part Four: February 12-13, 1926

February 12, 1926 Evening

Several members of the group spend some time on various personal projects.

Judge Putnam and Johnny

At the judge’s request, Johnny finds an appliance repair shop and drives the judge over there. The judge talks to the proprietor about making an adapter for the drone power supply, only to discover that the proprietor has one on hand. Apparently, several other people have been in the market for the same thing. The proprietor charges the judge a nominal fee for both the adaptor and silence, and tells him that plugging in “whatever it is” probably won’t blow a fuse or burn the building down. The judge returns to the safe house to charge up the drone, monitoring the adapter earnestly.

Mikhail and Vivian

Mikhail and Vivian separately decide to go to the Boston Public Library to do research. Mikhail learns more than he was expecting about quantum physics, as well as the Justman Equation—a formula that can stabilize timelines. Vivian learns more about the Ouroboros symbol, including that a gold ring featuring that symbol was one of the nine treasures of the Black Pharaoh and originally belonged to his high priest.

Ron

Ron called Vince, looking for information on the caretaker and permission to start a mob war with the Irish Mafia in Boston. He didn’t get very far, but he resolved not to let, “The letter of the law,” stop him from having fun.

Ron also visited Stephen Clark to get a look at the painting that Mikhail told him about. Ron was disturbed to see himself, apparently dead, strapped to a table with two men standing over him and Carl Stanford looking on. Ron also noticed that Mr. Stanford was sort of transparent—like a ghost. Stephen told him that the painting was finished, and that the transparency was not an accident.

Stephen also showed Ron a portrait he had done the night before of Dr. Black. Dr. Black was in a room with a lot of machinery and seemed to be about to throw a very large knife switch. He had a strange symbol on his head.

The Pesky Symbol that Keeps Showing Up Everywhere...

Johnny

After dropping the judge off at the safe house, Johnny decided to tail Bryan Slim. He first located the house that Slim and some of the Turks were using, then watched as Slim was driven away from the house in a Rolls Royce Phantom (fun fact $17,200 MSRP in 1920s dollars!). Johnny tailed Slim as he was driven north, out of the city and along the MA coast. Slim was eventually chauffeured to an old-style house in the coastal town of Kingsport, where he met with an old man. The old man had a strange symbol on his gate.

Johnny only heard part of the conversation, but he was fairly certain they were talking about “magic stuff.” Later, when he related the conversation to the group at the safe house, he realized that it was very likely that the old man and Bryan Slim were talking about Carl Stanford. Johnny is now convinced that Mr. Stanford likely won’t be dead for much longer.

Mikhail

Mikhail telephoned Angie to arrange for getting James out of Bellevue. He sent a courier down with the paperwork and asked Angie to take James to Stephen’s New Hampshire home. Angie agreed.

Sharing Information

Everyone got back to the safe house after their errands to kibitz about what they had learned. Ron warned Dr. Black about the painting he had seen and drew a crude representation of the symbol he had seen on the painted Dr. Black’s forehead. Johnny noted that the symbol was identical to the one on the old man’s gate, and that also he had an almost overwhelming compulsion to open the gate. The group was disturbed by this.

At this point, Ron tried to leave the house because he had “something to do.” Suspicious that this something had to do with visiting additional pain upon Aengus and his friends, members of the group intervened—especially Johnny, Dr. Black, and Vivian. Johnny gave Ron an ultimatum and Ron, briefly cowed, decides to stay in for the night.

The judge safely unplugged the drone charger and everyone in the house went to bed.

Saturday, February 13, 1926

The house gets an early-morning visit from the caretaker, who sasses Ron, thereby delighting everyone else. The caretaker brings sandwiches for later (from the North End), gives over a letter that was mailed to the judge, and tells Johnny about some nice Greek places to go eat.

The caretaker finds a letter that was written by Dr. Black and left on the crate of bootleg beer. The letter is a polite request to acquire some additional medical supplies, just in case. Ron had found the note and added some colorful Italian phrases at the end of it, meant to needle the caretaker and get him pissed off at Dr. Black. The caretaker is merely amused, while the doctor is embarrassed. Vivian recognizes Ron’s handwriting on the note and calls him out, earning him another verbal beating from the caretaker.

Ron, at this point thoroughly pissed off with the caretaker making fun of him, tries to intimidate him, but fails badly. Surprisingly, a fight does not break out.

Kane asks the caretaker if there’s a range where he can practice with his newly acquired gun. The caretaker writes down an address before leaving.

Morning Preparations

Johnny, Judge Putnam, and Kane Eastman go to the gun range. Johnny dazzles them all with his gun play. Judge Putnam manages to not jam his firearm this time, so that’s a bonus! 

In the meantime, Vivian, Ron, and Mikhail go back to the Boston Public Library to look up additional information on the Black Pharaoh and Nephrem-Ka. They turn up bupkiss.

As 1:00 pm approaches, the group takes several cars over to the Look to the Future building. Ron takes point, watching the entrance from a nearby coffee shop, while the others mingle with the crowd and go inside.

Look to the Future

There’s more than a hundred people here, some of whom the group has seen before in other locations.

A young woman, her eyes wide, walks up to Dr. Black and says, “Dr. Black! It’s an honor to meet you!”

Dr. Black is completely befuddled by this. As he attempts to stammer out a response, a heavily accented voice from behind him says, “It is Meester Bleck, actually!”

This breaks the ice enough for some of the group to introduce themselves to the fabled Lostalus Black, a pleasant-looking Turkish man in a fez. Lostalus welcomes them all to Look to the Future. He engages in small talk with some of the group.

The Charming Lostalus Black

• He and Johnny bond over being from the Mediterranean and having to change their names (or have them changed for them) to better fit in with American society. On a hunch, Johnny makes the Voorish Sign, which causes Lostalus to take a step back and smile. Lostalus tells Johnny he’s full of surprises. Johnny tells Lostalus that, “if someone’s going to the future, I want to be that someone.” Lostalus agrees.
• He then introduces himself to Vivian, saying that he happened to see her play in a conservatory in New York over Christmas. Vivian is taken aback, but is delighted. She is, however, confused when Lostalus asks her about, “your companion? You know? The beeg man with the theek brow?”

It is time for the meeting to begin. Bryan Slim introduces Lostalus Black. Lostalus says a few words about the future before leading the entire assembly in the strange chant mentioned in Rothschild’s letter. Most of the group either mime the words or don’t say anything, though they feel the air slowly energizing all around them.

About an hour into the chanting, Mikhail becomes somehow aware that the timestream is about to be changed in his area. He begins to concentrate on the Justman Equation, just as everyone from his group winks out of existence.

Sweet Caroline (Bam bam bam!)

Kane, Johnny, Judge Putnam, Dr. Black, and Vivian all appear, disoriented, in an alleyway at night. After Dr. Black evacuates his stomach on the pavement, the group heads toward the lights and noise of the nearest street. They see strangely dressed people and bubble-like cars. Everyone is cheering and singing and honking horns.

The group is derided as “hipsters” by some passersby, only for Judge Putnam to tip his hat politely. This wins him much acclaim.

The group eventually discovers that they are in Boston, there are actual bars, and they are open! And people are drinking in the street! Truly, the future is a wondrous time. The group abandons Vivian to go get drinks. There is some confusion about the man at the door “seeing their identification,” but the man realizes that Judge Putnam is old, and that tonight’s a party, so it’s fine.

They go up to the bar, where they attempt to order drinks. Due to an error on the GM’s part, the bartender believes the group’s money is counterfeit and has the bouncer escort them outside. The group leaves without too much of a fuss.

In the meantime, Vivian has located a discarded section of the Boston Globe and is paging through it. She learns that today is October 28, 2018, that the Red Sox are due to play the fifth game in the world series, and that New England has recently suffered hurricane damage. She is utterly bewildered by all of this new information.

It is at this moment that the group snaps back to their proper timeline, to the relief of Mikhail.

A Glimpse of the Terrifying Future

The Aftermath

The group is very badly disturbed by their recent trip through time. In a moment of clarity, Dr. Black realizes that the metal door behind the stage looks identical to the one in one of Stephen Clark’s paintings. Mikhail and Johnny have a heated conversation, where Johnny tries to figure out how Mikhail resisted being sent into the future. Mikhail tries to explain to Johnny about the Justman Equation.

Meanwhile, onstage, several of the Turkish guards appear from nowhere, pushing carts filled with future goods. The crowd goes berserk. The group, however, having had enough of these events, all leave. They collect Ron and return to the safe house.

A Final Conversation

After the group gets home and gets their bearings, the following is discussed.

• That Mikhail’s equation will be extremely useful in preventing Lostalus’ time shenanigans.
• That, while Lostalus may have seen Vivian perform, he can’t have seen Ron, because Ron doesn’t go to the conservatory with Viv.
• That, according to Kane, the spell used to send people into the future is a powerful ritual, and that Lostalus is using the psychic energy from a very large group of people to power it. Fortunately, this means that this isn’t something he can just trivially cast.
• That Stephen somehow has intimate knowledge of future events.
• That there are answers behind that stage door.
• That the future must be good if the Red Sox win the World Series at least one more time.
• That Judge Putnam is a Sox fan, despite living in New York.
• That, as Dr. Black wisely said, “the future is entirely filled with hooligans!”

Look to the Future Part Three: February 11-12, 1926

Vivian, Johnny, and Ron get dressed up and go to an evening performance at the Boston Conservatory. Afterward, Vivian is introduced to the director and his wife and makes important society connections, while Ron and Johnny overhear two matrons of the upper-class twit variety discussing a small flying machine called a “drone.” This drone was apparently purchased by one matron’s husband, who is a member of Look to the Future. The matron flew it briefly in Boston Commons, which resulted in a grainy picture and a sensationalist story about the machine appearing in the Globe.

While the three of them are out, Mikhail gets a call from Stephen Clark, who expresses a renewed interest in seeing and helping his brother, James. Mikhail and Stephen discuss paperwork, visitation, and James’ aftercare once he leaves Bellevue.

Stephen further remarks that he has found a painting of Ron among his new collection. He describes the painting as: Ron, apparently injured, lying on a white table in a white room. A man in a conical hat and a man with black hair stand over him. The  black-haired man holds a wavy bladed knife. In addition, a third person, a chubby man in spectacles and holding a cane, looks on from a distance.

Mikhail, concerned about this, informs Ron once everyone comes back from the conservatory. In the middle of his story, Mikhail realizes that the man in the picture might be Carl Stanford.

Ron seems largely unperturbed by this story, and asks if anyone wants to go with him to the Game Preserve. Everyone but Vivian, who is a classy lady, decides to go.

Carl Stanford. Gone, But Never Forgotten!

The Game Preserve

The night starts out pleasant enough. After everyone gets drinks, Dr. Black seats himself at the Blackjack table and wins a few hands. Meanwhile, Judge Putnam sits down at a poker table with a bunch of the local toughs. Using Psychology, he proceeds to strategically lose to the other players for several hands, all the while assessing their strengths and weaknesses and insinuating himself into their good graces with his usual charm. When he eventually leverages his information to a substantial win, the rest of the players aren’t even mad! They simply insist on him paying for a round of drinks for the table.

Kane, Mikhail, and Johnny relax at the table with Ron, until three Irish toughs start shooting dirty looks in Ron’s direction. Johnny attempts to prevail upon Ron to let it drop, but Ron refuses to do so. He sits down at the table with the three toughs and engages in frosty dialogue with them. This is not improved when Aoife—behickeyed and flustered—comes in and starts being friendly with Ron.

The conversation rapidly deteriorates from there. Aengus, one of the three men, happens to be Aoife’s brother, and insinuates that, since he told Aoife to stay away from Ron, that Ron must have done something untoward to get her to sleep with him. Things get so bad that the three Irishmen and Ron all agree to step outside to settle things. Fortunately for Ron, everyone else in the group follows after him to help even the odds.

And a good thing, too. The fight ends with Mikhail sitting atop one of the Irish boys, Ron shattering Aengus’s jaw, Ron dropped unconscious on the pavement, and Dr. Black attempting to apply ether to a still-flailing Aengus. Judge Putnam and Johnny manage to de-escalate the situation to the point where both sides are willing to take their wounded and leave. As the fight breaks up and the group leaves the Game Preserve, Johnny warns the Irishmen that, “if Ron sees you again, he’s going to kill you.”

Back at the Safe House

Vivian is bemused and unsurprised when Ron is brought into the house unconscious. Dr. Black tends to him and gets him up and awake, but Ron is only sort of lucid and in a lot of pain. During all this, the still nameless caretaker ambles into the house to see what’s up. He mocks Ron to his face—to the delight of everyone else in the group—and tells Johnny that he has a list for him of good Greek places in the area.

After all this excitement, the group decides it’s more than time for bed.

Friday, February 12, 1926

Judge Putnam has the idea to show up at the Look to the Future building prior to the Saturday meeting, to see if the group can gather information. He says that, if asked, they will act very eager to join the group and insist that they had gotten the date wrong (Friday instead of Saturday).

Ron, who is still in a lot of pain, begs off, and has Dr. Black take him to Mass General. He is diagnosed with a concussion and is given morphine tablets. This does little to take the edge off of his rage, either at the unnamed caretaker or at the Irish boys at the Game Preserve.

Kane, meanwhile, goes to his failsafe apartment and tries to use his occult knowledge to ward it against supernatural attack. This seems to work.

Look to the Future

In order to make it seem as though they are not all one group, Judge Putnam and Mikhail form one team, while Johnny and Vivian form another. They approach the Look to the Future building, which is located on Boston Harbor, and note its strange, lozenge-like architecture. Johnny notes that the building is reminiscent of a pillbox, with one entrance and no windows.

While looking around, Johnny and Vivian discover a pedestrian trail that leads off through the middle of a vacant lot. They decide to walk in that direction to see what’s there, while Mikhail and the judge enter the building.

The Lot

Vivian and Johnny encounter a dark-haired man who is standing in the field and, apparently, arguing with himself. The man is startled to see them and apologizes for his somewhat erratic behavior before introducing himself as Bryan Slim, one of the organizers of Look to the Future. They exchange pleasantries, and Johnny and Vivian feign distress and embarrassment when they realize that the meeting is actually on Saturday. Bryan Slim tells them not to worry, and that he would be happy to give them a tour of the facility right now.

Bryan Slim, President, Look to the Future

Inside the Building

Judge Putnam and Mikhail enter the Look to the Future building to find it laid out much like a church, with numerous benches for seating and a raised platform with a podium at the far end. There are also six gentlemen of North African descent, dressed in olive drab clothing, standing at key positions around the room. One of them approaches the judge and Mikhail and tries to explain, in broken English, that the hall is currently closed.

In an attempt to remain in the hall for as long as possible, Judge Putnam very politely, but very insistently, begins to ask questions of the guard, purposely peppering his speech with very complex words that non-native speakers wouldn’t know. This baffles the guard, who calls over a second guard. The two of them converse in Turkish and attempt, with little success, to get the Judge and Mikhail to leave.

At this point, Bryan Slim enters the building with Vivian and Johnny. He speaks to the guards in Turkish and dismisses them back to their posts. At this point, Johnny introduces himself and his girlfriend, Vivian, to the Judge and Mikhail. The four of them express “sincere” bafflement that they have all somehow arrived on the wrong date.

Bryan Slim escorts them to the front of the room, where display cabinets have been arranged in front of the stage. He says that these cases contain valuable artifacts pulled from the future by his colleague, Lostalus Black, and that they are available for purchase to interested parties. Looking over the case, the group sees that these items are all exorbitantly priced, with nothing offered for sale for less than $20.

While Bryan Slim talks, Vivian notices that all six guards are carrying concealed pistols, and that there is a very plain, industrial door at the back of the stage that is locked. She and Mikhail also look around for any signs of theatrical machinery that might allow Look to the Future to pull off their stunt with stage magic. Other than controls for the lights, they don’t see anything of note.

Bryan Slim proceeds to show off and demonstrate the following:

• A 20 oz plastic bottle of Coca Cola.
• A pair of tinted, bifocal sunglasses with those springy frames.
• A Rubik cube.
• Pots and pans similar to the one owned by Rothschild.
• A Tamagotchi.
• A drone.

Mikhail purchases the Tamagotchi and the judge spends $200 on the drone. Bryan Slim thanks them for their interests and their purchases and expertly shoos them out of the hall.

Judge Putnam's Newest Toy

The Return

Everyone returns to the safe house. The players take turns flying the drone until it runs out of electricity. Ron sucker punches Doctor Black for unspecified reasons, then announces his plan to take vengeance on the caretaker. Everyone else talks about what they learned at Look to the Future and discusses their plans for Saturday.

Look to the Future Part Two: February 10, 1926

Thursday morning begins quietly enough, with Vivian in the kitchen drinking coffee and going over her notes from a return visit to the museum. Her solitude is disturbed by Ron, who had gone out to “look at the animals,” and is only coming home now because he met and spent the night with a new friend—a waitress named Aoife.

The Incomparable Aoife

Ron describes the location he went to as the “Game Preserve,” a mob bar run by the Irish Mob. He then gets himself a cup of coffee and tries to go to sleep. His efforts are first stymied by Judge Putnam, who has awoken very early to type up a letter very noisily on his typewriter.

He is then disturbed by Johnny, who comes back to the safe house a short time later. Johnny was researching things at the Boston Public Library, read a Mythos text, went insane, and is just coming down from that insanity now. Johnny confuses and concerns everyone by opening every drawer, cabinet, cupboard, and door in the house, and also refusing to close them.

The group gradually wakes up and gets dressed. Judge Putnam mails his letter. Dr. Black tells everyone that he acquired a very strange key from a very strange young lady at a curiosity shoppe in town. Johnny is very concerned that this key exists. Vivian goes over some of her research, providing further information on Stephen Clark and his exhibit.

Mikhail reports that he had called to schedule an appointment to meet Stephen Clark and talked to his museum liaison, Mrs. Slate. This meeting is scheduled for 10:00. Everyone decides to go.

At about this time, the safe house’s caretaker comes in with a crate full of bootleg alcohol. He steadfastly, and with a  great deal of sarcasm, refuses to answer Ron’s questions about why an Italian guy would send him to a bar run by the Irish mob. Johnny is so entertained by this that he gives the caretaker a dollar for services rendered.

Meeting Stephen Clark

The group travels to the rented house that Stephen Clark is using as a residence, interview space, and studio. They meet Mrs. Slate, who is an older woman who seems very tired. She alludes to the fact that there is something “wrong” with Stephen, and that he’s better for interviews during the day and at night. While the group settles themselves, she fetches Stephen from the studio.

Stephen is a handsome young man with a similar profile to James. He dresses in baggy clothes and looks exhausted. Vivian notices him staring quizzically, and perhaps nervously, at the group before he going to the sideboard to prepare himself a glass of absinthe.

The Very Handsome Stephen Clark

Stephen sips his absinthe and prepares to answer questions, only for Mikhail to point-blank ask if Stephen had seen any of them before. Stephen realizes, all of a sudden, that he has depicted at least some of the group in his paintings. In panic and terror, he flees back into his studio. Johnny covers the exit from the sitting room while Kane goes outside and around back to ensure that Stephen doesn’t escape out a window. The rest of the group crowds around Mrs. Slate and demands answers, while Stephen smashes and crashes his way through things in the studio.

Ultimately, Stephen is calm enough to talk to the group again. Between him and Mrs. Slate, the group learns that Stephen was “suddenly inspired” on October 22, 1925 and painted the centerpiece in the “Fractures of My Mind” art exhibit in one night. From then until the end of November, he found that he had frenetic and uncontrolled energy at night, which allowed him to paint the rest of the paintings in the exhibit in a surprisingly short period of time. Ultimately, however, this mania left him.

He had a local showing, which attracted attention from the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. His star has since been on the rise, and he has been interviewed by a variety of art journals and publications. Recently, the mania has come back again, and he spends his nights working on a new exhibit he is calling, “the Future Cometh.” When asked, Stephen says that he got the “inspiration” for this new work on February 3^rd, the same day that Raleigh Rothschild sent his letter to the judge.

The group proceeds to examine the paintings of the new exhibit. They find them taking place mostly in white, sterile rooms with sharp angles. Among the things depicted are:

• A shadowy mass moving down a hallway.
• People and objects covered with a strange, black growth.
• Looking at Dr. Black from behind. He is staring at a grey door and holding a key.
• Unidentifiable machinery.

The group soon develops a good rapport with Stephen, especially Ron, who discovers that Stephen does not know his face and has never painted it. Mikhail broaches the subject of James’ hospitalization and care. Stephen remarks that he has not seen or talked to James for five years, and that their relationship is rather strained. The group later learns that this is because James is the serious, driven one who became a lawyer, while Stephen is the flighty, dreamy one who decided to be an artist. And for no other reason.

The group convinces Stephen that getting his brother out of Bellevue would probably be the best thing for him, so Stephen happily signs the paperwork. The group realizes that this interview has drained both him, and them, quite emotionally, and so they bid Stephen a fond farewell.

As they are leaving, Vivian notices a sealed letter in the wastepaper basket by the door, which she grabs. It is from an art journal and it is addressed to a Miss (deadname) Clark. Someone has scratched all this out with marker and written, “wrong! Try again!” This leads the group to deduce that Stephen Clark is a trans man.

Exhausted by the interview, the group returns to the safe house. Ron threatens everyone with death if they dare awaken him, and goes to his room to take a nap. 

Look to the Future Part One: February 6 and 10, 1926

NOTE: My Call of Cthulhu game resumes with the second adventure in the Shadows of Yog-Sothoth campaign, "Look to the Future." The text describes this as a quick, fun adventure that will take players one session to complete. 

My players have been playing for six sessions and there is no end in sight. To be fair, I have added on a lot of information, details, and activities to make the game world, and the campaign, feel bigger than it is. My players are also very interested in their own personal goals and sidequests, which tend to take up quite a bit of each session.

And now, on to the game! 

Judge Putnam's New Letterhead

After several months apart, Judge Putnam sends out letters to the rest of the group using his newly printed, and very official, London Group stationery. He informs the group that he has been keeping a very close eye on the work site where the Silver Twilight Lodge once stood. From his investigations, it seems that nothing of a supernatural nature was unearthed from the site and, as far as the city’s hired geologists could determine, there was no evidence linking the destruction of the Lodge to the London Group. He also notes, with some satisfaction, that there is no sign that the Order is recovering or continuing following the fall of the Lodge.

The letters end with a request for everyone to attend a dinner at the judge’s house on February 6^th, at which his man, Johnny, will prepare a potato-based Moussaka. He mentions that he wishes to see everyone, but also to discuss a strange matter that has come to his attention.

The Dinner Party

The group spends some time catching up and discussing what they have done since destroying the Lodge in late October.

Doctor Reese Black: Spent several months recovering in the hospital, after which he took a tour of various historical sites and libraries in Europe. He is quite coy about what he was doing there, but seems to have had a very pleasant time.

Johnny Doukas: Has purchased a large, previously owned truck for the group’s use, as the judge’s touring car is not the least conspicuous vehicle around. He has also purchased guns, ammunition, and medical kits, which he has hidden throughout the judge’s house. If the group needs to make a stand against enemies, he explains, they will be ready. The others hope that it doesn’t come to that.

After dinner, Johnny gifts the others with silver pendants decorated with the Elder Sign. These pendants are, in fact, lockets, each of which holds a key. To explain the purpose of these keys, Johnny has everyone come to the carriage house, where he reveals a large, locked steamer trunk. This, he says, is one of a second set of Gate Boxes that he has taken pains to construct. The keys unlock the trunk and provide a modicum of security. The other Gate Box is in Atlantic City, near the home of Johnny’s parents. Johnny also mentions that he has procured a motorcycle, which he has stored with the other box, to allow for a quick getaway.

Mikhail Dimathias: Has spent quite a lot of time visiting James Clark in Bellevue, where James is currently being treated for his nervous attack.  He has also spent a lot of time with Angie, who has also been visiting James. Mikhail informs the group that he strongly disagrees with the sanitarium's doctors about James’ care, and wants to release James into either his own custody or into Angie’s. He mentions that he would like to do this prior to February 14, 1926 when James is due to undergo some kind of procedure. After dinner, he privately asks Judge Putnam to help with a court order that will allow him to free James. Judge Putnam explains that this would be easier if he were a blood relative, and asks if Mikhail knows if James has any family members that could help.

Ron Deluca and Vivian Bernouse: Vivian is cheered for being the toast of the town and the lady of the moment in the society pages. Others note that her relationship with Ron is strained, though not in the usual way. There are numerous oblique mentions of Connie as Ron’s “ex-wife,” as well as allusions to catastrophic events that occurred at the Bernouse family Christmas Party. Ron has also grown a bit of a self-pity beard, which Vivian gently mocks him for.

Vivian also mentions that she has seen Deb and Angie several times, and that, through them, she has learned that the Order of the Silver Twilight has made no efforts to rebuild the Lodge or restore their ranks. When Mikhail mentions his frustration at being unable to get James out of Bellevue, Vivian says, “Oh, Angie told me he had a brother. Have you tried talking to him?”

Mikhail then remembers that James does have an estranged brother, named Stephen, who lives in New Hampshire. He decides to telephone him later.

Kane Eastman: Reveals that he has been playing gigs and has been having a really good couple of months. He also tells the others that he spoke with his friend, “Papa Doc” Horus, the voodoo priest. Horus told him quite a bit about the evil demon known as Yog-Sothoth, and about the demon's ability to open doorways between our world and the next. Horus went on to say that there are many terrible creatures who live in the outer world, who are waiting by the barrier, “which is as thin as a soap bubble,” for doorways to allow them access. Horus also told Kane that their battle with Yog-Sothoth isn’t over. In fact, it’s only just begun.

This leads Mikhail to talk to Kane about several occult objects Mikhail purchased at an antique shop in Berkshire County. Kane offers to take Mikhail to meet Horus after dinner. Mikhail accepts.

The Judge’s Proposition

The Rothschild Letter, Page One

The Rothschild Letter, Page 2

During dinner, the Judge passes around the letter that he received from his friend, and former attorney, Raleigh Rothschild. Raleigh retired at the end of October, and moved with his wife to Cambridge, MA, where he took on an adjunct faculty position to teach law at Harvard. On a lark, Rothschild joined a business management group called “Look to the Future,” which is run by Lostalus Black and Bryan Slim. Rothschild explains that the weekly meetings feature lectures and seminars about “the power of positive thinking,” and “visualizing success,” which is much as one would expect.

On the weekends however, the group is led in a chant by Lostalus Black (the chant, transcribed in Rothschild’s letter, includes the word “Yog-Sothoth,” which rather piques everyone’s interest). After perhaps an hour of chanting, several volunteers on stage vanish before the crowd’s eyes “like a magician’s trick,” only to return a moment later laden with goods acquired from the future. Rothschild was so impressed that he paid $100 to acquire one of these future artifacts as evidence, which he has offered to show Judge Putnam should he ever come visit.

Rothschild explains that, while he was intrigued by Look to the Future’s activities, he was not certain that everything  was entirely aboveboard. He mentions some circumstantial evidence for this, including that Black and Slim are always accompanied by bodyguards. He also explains that, after each weekend meeting, he felt increasingly sickly and diminished, as well as suffering headaches and other strange symptoms. He has since quit the group, but would rejoin it if the judge, after discreetly investigating it, proved that everything was on the up-and-up.

The group agreed that this was definitely something worth investigating. Everyone said that the smartest thing to do would be to go to Boston the next day to meet with Rothschild and investigate Look to the Future. Mikhail begged off actually going to Boston, saying that he would instead spend his time getting in touch with Stephen Clark.

Ron informed the group that, when he had planned to “go away for a while” with Connie, Vincenzio Bernouse offered to put him up in a safe house he had set up in Boston. Ron promised to ask Vincenzio if the group could use the guest house as a base of operations. Rather than deal honestly with his boss, Ron proposed saying that it would just be him and Vivian going up to Boston to look for concert venues at which Vivian could perform. This made everyone a little nervous, but they all also agreed.

A Visit to Horus

Kane and Mikhail visited Horus. Horus analyzed Mikhail’s purchases from the Berkshires. He dismissed the Witch’s Ball as mere occult superstition, but told Mikhail that the Corn Husk Doll might protect Mikhail from supernatural forces relating to the Old Ones. He also said that the medicine bag he made for Kane served a similar purpose. This prompted Mikhail to buy a bag and Kane to purchase a second one, just in case. Horus told them they could come back at any time, especially if they wanted to buy more bags.

A Phone Call to New Hampshire

Mikhail borrowed James’ appointment book and flipped through it to find Stephen’s phone number. The person that he reached was not Stephen, but was instead someone who was watching Stephen’s house while Stephen was in Boston. It turned out that Stephen’s latest collection of paintings was on display in the Museum of Fine Art, and Stephen was staying there to help with publicity and touring and so on.

Mikhail thanked the house sitter and hung up, only to call the others to let them know he would also be going to Boston with them the next day.

February 10, 1926

The Safe House's Jovial Caretaker

The group caravans up to Boston in multiple cars, arriving at the safe house without incident. There, they meet a jovial Italian caretaker. Ron bribes him to silence with $50 and Dr. Black wins his affection with a selection of delectable pastries from a famous New York bakery. The caretaker tells them that he can help them with everything they need around the house, including “ventilators,” his code word for firearms.

Ron explains that they’re all set for ventilation, but wants to know what they can do for alcohol. The caretaker says that he can bring something by, but also says that if Ron goes to a certain address and asks a certain person about “wanting to see the animals,” he can get everything he needs.

Calling Rothschild

While the group gets settled, Judge Putnam calls Raleigh Rothschild and informs him that he, and some of his investigative team, are in the area. Rothschild is overjoyed, and agrees to meet the group at a local restaurant at 6 pm for dinner. He promises to bring the artifact he purchased, as well as to answer any of their questions to the best of their ability.

The Museum of Fine Arts

The group visits the museum in the hopes of meeting Stephen Clark or seeing his artwork. Stephen is not there, but the art is. While the rest of the group tours the exhibit with a helpful docent, Ron, overwhelmed and bored by all the fancy art, wanders the statue gallery and ogles naked marble bosoms.

The Clark exhibit, entitled “Fractures of My Mind,” is an astonishingly large collection of oil on canvas, acrylic on canvas, and pastel on paper, all of varying size and compositions. Common to each piece of art are jagged fissures, like the cracks in a glass, that subdivide each work into several smaller sections. Clark then uses these sections as smaller framing devices, where he depicts numerous surreal imagines that are variations on the following:

• Hooded figures
• Open gateways
• Candles
• Torches 
• People in chains

The group eventually reaches what the docent describes as, “the heart of the exhibit,” a massive 15’ x 18’ painting called “My Brother’s Broken Mind.” The docent states that this is the first piece that Stephen painted, on October 22, 1925, which was the basis for all the other art in the exhibit. The group realizes, with some concern, that the 22nd was the date that they blew up the Lodge hall. They are further concerned when they learn that Stephen painted his keystone work in one day and completed the rest of the artwork in the exhibition in one month.

Investigating the large painting only makes the group more uncomfortable, as it depicts places and people that they have seen and experienced, but which Steven could not possibly know about. It includes, among other things: James Clark, manacled and starving, in a cell, with Mikhail’s face reflected in one of his eyes; The oubliettes beneath the Silver Twilight Lodge, and the nightmarish beasts they contained; a large building engulfed in flame; someone that looks very much like Dr. Black lying, mortally wounded, beside a pillar of some kind.

The group also notes another piece of artwork that is slightly different from the others, in that it depicts a large, white, lozenge-shaped building and a man in a fez who is smiling menacingly. This man reminds Vivian of Nathan Torpley.

Thoroughly unnerved, the group thanks the docent and leaves the exhibit, but not before getting Stephen Clark’s Boston contact information. Mikhail resolves to track down Stephen so that the group can meet with him, while the rest of the team goes to have dinner with Raleigh Rothschild.

The Dinner

Raleigh Rothschild, Esq.

The rest of the group had dinner at a nice restaurant with Raleigh Rothschild. They found Rothschild amiable and agreeable, and willing to answer all of their questions. He elaborated further on the strange ritual, and this led Kane and Johnny to believe that Lostalus Black was using the assembled participants as a very large energy battery to power his time traveling spell.

Rothschild showed off his artifact, a pan with a bakelite handle and a strange black coating that Rothschild insisted allowed food to slide right off the pan without effort. The group was baffled by it, and even more confused by the makers’ mark, which read, “The Bobby Flay Collection: 2016.”

The Artifact--From the FUUTUUURE!

Call of Cthulhu Interlude: Autumn and Winter 1925-1926

Note: After the destruction of the Lodge and the conclusion of the last adventure, I decided to give my players a bit of a timeskip, so that their characters' lives could go back to normal for a bit. What actually constitutes "normal" for these characters varies wildly, but they were grateful for the time off and used the next few months to unwind, take care of themselves, celebrate the holidays, and recuperate from nearly fatal gunshot wounds. I presented this time period, and what sorts of interesting things happened during it, in the following little document.

Time marches on, as is its wont, and things gradually return to normal. You may use the period of relative quiet that follows to reflect upon your most recent adventure, learn more about the strange world you have now twice stumbled upon, or try your best to forget.

The Hermetic Order of the Silver Twilight

You are not quite sure how well your desperate, final operation against the Lodge went until the story hits the next morning’s papers. You learn that, with a great noise and a heaving of the earth, the Lodge (as well as bits of city block all around it) vanish into a precipitous sinkhole, gone forever. The event baffles geologists, who were certain that that part of the Bronx rested on stable bedrock, not sediment. Future study in the area leads to the discovery of several disconnected cave systems. It is eventually determined that the accident was caused by a structural instability of an undetected cavern that ran directly beneath the Lodge. The geologists never discover just how right they were.

The strange story is the talk of the town for perhaps a week, at most before falling off the pages of the Grey Lady and into obscurity. Those who venture out to the site see a cordoned off hole and city workers attempting to fill in and pave over the gaping hole. Aside from the usual onlookers, you see no one suspicious lurking about the site.

It appears that the destruction of the building also effectively decapitated the Order itself. The obituaries of thirty or so great men soon crowd out that particular section of the times. Johnny notes, with some satisfaction, that the previously missing police sergeant Logan Terry is soon listed among those who presumably died when the Lodge collapsed. Those who follow the obituaries and the social register note that various scions move to places of hire prominence and inheritances are dolled out according to various wills, but not much changes aside from that.

James Clark

James spends the rest of October and part of November recuperating at home. He returns to work just before the Thanksgiving holiday, only to have a stammering, sobbing breakdown in court during a witness cross examination. He is committed for nervous exhaustion and remains so throughout the winter. Angie, at the very least, visits him frequently.

The Band Played On

Shortly after Thanksgiving, Kane Eastman receives, through his agent, a package from “Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Orchestra.” The package contains a brief letter of thanks and a record. The A side contains a song you’ve never heard before. The B side contains, “Dead Man’s Stomp, recorded by Mr. Leroy Turner (on new instrument).”

The Holidays

They come and they go. For some of you, they are more festive than usual, owing to the fact that you didn’t think you’d survive your ordeal with the lodge. For others, especially for Ron DeLuca, they bring with them quite a bit of sadness. For others, who knows?

The DeLucas

It seems as though the DeLuca marriage does not survive the ordeal of the last few weeks. Connie, Ron Jr., and Liam all move back to the brownstone in Brooklyn. Ron moves back to the guest house on the Bernouse property. Alone. There is some contact between the two parties, but it is much more cordial than previous encounters. Billy Young, seeming exhausted by the whole ordeal, vanishes from the scene and presumably goes on to less stressful endeavors—like sticking his hand in an industrial blender.

At some point, Ron goes to check on the status of that damned necklace, only to find that it has crumbled to gold and green dust. A last “favor” by Nathan Torpley, perhaps. Who can say?

Your Activities During This Time

Are many and varied, and will be dealt with in upcoming BGA responses. Did you keep in touch? Did you celebrate the holidays together? Did you get one another gifts? Did you ring in the New Year? Or did you hole up and try to forget anything weird ever happened?

February 6, 1926

Just as you are all finally letting out held breaths and letting life return to relative normalcy, Judge Putnam receives a letter in his mail on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon. It seems to be a personal letter from his now-retired attorney, Raleigh Rothschild.

The contents of that letter will no doubt have you remembering the events of the past, whether you like it or not. What may surprise you is that the letter may also force you to…

LOOK TO THE FUTURE
SHADOWS OF YOG-SOTHOTH: CHAPTER TWO