The Beginning
Overview
The earliest period of the campaign. Marina Garrick’s solo adventures led her from a seaside curiosity in Brighton to a ghoul beneath Osney Grange to recruitment by the Order of St Aelfric. At Northlake Hall in Tarryford, the full table assembled for the first time — and suffered the campaign’s first PC death.
Key NPCs
- Lady Honoria Lyndhurst — recruited Marina to the Order
- Lord Percival Harcourt — inducted Marina at Ravenwood House
- Mrs Margaret Fairchild — sheltered Marina at The Fox & Hound
- Dr Ambrose Hargreaves — stitched Marina’s shoulder wound
- Miss Eleanor Finch — assigned as Marina’s maid at Hartwell House
Key Locations
- Brighton — Loom & Lucidity investigation
- Osney Grange — Curate & Curability investigation
- Fox and Hound Portsmouth — Marina’s recovery and recruitment
- Ravenwood House — Order headquarters
- Hartwell House — Order safe house
- Northlake Hall — the Long Corridor
Sessions
- Loom & Lucidity (Spring 1813): Marina and Georgiana Dillwyn in Brighton. Solo play.
- Curate & Curability (Late Spring 1813): Marina at Osney Grange. Three NPCs dead. Marina wounded and fled.
- The Long Corridor (Autumn 1813): Full table. Emma Wentworth, Georgiana Wentworth, James Bennet, Jane Radcliffe joined Marina. Portal to a dark realm. James Bennet killed — first PC death.
Threads & Hooks
- Marina’s induction into the Order of St Aelfric established the campaign’s organisational framework
- The Wentworth sisters, Bennet, and Radcliffe formed the original party
- The Long Corridor introduced the campaign’s pattern: ordinary people encountering the unthinkable