Story

Marina Garrick's solo adventures and the formation of the core party. Three investigations across the south of England, each one escalating from the uncanny to the lethal.

A time-looped dress rehearsal of The School for Scandal at Drury Lane. The missing actor Giles Mercer bound a Canticle fragment to a mirror, and each recitation of his interpolated monologue reset the evening. Breaking the loop collapsed the false theatre — and took Jane Radcliffe with it.

A Bath wedding turns to horror when Viscount Huntley dies on his wedding night, leaving only a shrivelled heart in green ichor. The trail runs through the grave-robber Francis Fable to the bones of a Siren beneath the city — and a ritual the party stops just as the statue begins to stir.

The Orphean Society investigation. Two missing Order agents, a vocal conditioning programme killing students, and a Stonehenge ritual to summon a servant of Yog-Sothoth.

The Société Harmonique de l'Aube. Masquerade balls, tunnel expeditions beneath Lyon, a hospital raid, and a final assault on the Silkweavers' Guild. Four PCs died — the bloodiest chapter of the campaign.

The Brotherhood of the Open Measure. A Harmonic Engine beneath the University of Vienna, a cult leader conducting experiments on human voices, and a ritual deadline of August 15. Fourteen sessions of investigation, espionage, and a final assault on the Sealed Anatomical Theatre.

1. ✓ Session 1 — Arrival in Vienna
2. ✓ Session 2 — The Opera and the Dead Man
3. ✓ Session 3 — The Countess and the Salon
4. ✓ Session 4 — The Hofburg Reception
5. ✓ Session 5 — The Knife and the Masquerade
6. ✓ Session 6 — A Bite in the Dark
7. ✓ Session 7 — Whispers, Widows, and Wounded Warriors
8. ✓ Session 8 — The Duel, the Diva, and the Demon
9. ✓ Session 9 — The Burning Ball and the Broken Baron
10. ✓ Session 10 — The Fork in the Road
11. ✓ Session 11 — The Duelling Ground
12. ✓ Session 12 — The War Council
13. ✓ Session 13 — The Descent
14. ✓ Session 14 — The Theatre

The investigators travel from Vienna to Calcutta to disrupt the fourth cell of the Aeternum Choir. A parasitic ritual woven into a genuine religious festival, concealed by the colonial social order itself. Two-front climax on the Hooghly River during Kali Puja night.

1. ✓ Session 1 — The Morning After
2. ✓ Session 2 — The Becalming
3. ✓ Session 3 — Give Rest
4. ✓ Session 4 — The Road to Cairo