London

Overview

Lord Percival Harcourt sent the investigators after two missing Order of St Aelfric agents — Nathaniel Rooke and Imogen Bellamy — both connected to the Orphean Society at 43 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair. The trail led from the Royal Academy of Music through Limehouse and Soho to the Society’s sub-basement, where a choir of mutilated prisoners sang an endless tuneless song. The investigation climaxed at Stonehenge, where the cult attempted to summon a servant of Yog Sothoth.

Key NPCs

• Lord Percival Harcourt — briefed and dispatched the investigators
• Lady Honoria Lyndhurst — delivered the summons
• Nathaniel Rooke — missing Order agent, rescued at Stonehenge
• Imogen Bellamy — missing Order agent, rescued from the sub-basement
• Phineas Lang — Royal Academy registrar, evasive under questioning
• Clara Fen — singer performing under alias at The Laughing Fox
• Lady Octavia Danforth — cult ritualist, killed at Stonehenge
• Dr Erasmus Hume — cult leader, killed at Stonehenge
• Father Jeremiah Creel — mad priest in the sub-basement cells

Key Locations

• Ravenwood House — Order headquarters, mission briefing
• Royal Academy of Music — Bellamy’s cover identity
• Thistle Lane — Rooke’s Limehouse lodgings
• The Laughing Fox — Soho coffeehouse, Clara Fen found here
• Greaves and Sons — Poland Street pawnshop, songbook recovered
• Orphean Society Building — 43 Grosvenor Street, cult headquarters
• Kensington Coach Stables — cult equipment storage
• Stonehenge — ritual site, final confrontation

Sessions

Chapter 1 was played at the table but individual session transcripts were not preserved. The full narrative is recorded in the chapter wrap-up.

Threads & Hooks

• The Choir Below and the vocal conditioning programme established the campaign’s central horror: music as weapon
• Intelligence recovered from the cult confirmed a global network — letters to contacts in Lyon, Vienna, and Venice
• The investigators were formally inducted into the Order of St Aelfric after Stonehenge