Canticle of the End

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Campaign Timeline

1813
APR 1
Event

Loom and Lucidity Incident

The Air Loom destroyed at its mirrored centre by Marina and Georgiana. Gideon Crow dead, his body assumed by the Middleman. Lord Cosgrove dead. Captain King and Mlle Dumain survived; their fates after the soirée are unrecorded. The Hamptons survived and took the investigators home. — Brighton

1813
MAY 1
Event

Osney Grange Incident

Eleanor Mortimer dead. Reverend Henry Mortimer consumed by a ghoul. Dr. Beamish consumed by a ghoul. Marina fled wounded (gunshot to the shoulder) in the curate's stolen coach, suffering temporary madness. Marina arrived at the Fox & Hound in Portsmouth. — Osney_Grange

1813
JUL 1
Event

Marina Recruitment Portsmouth

Marina accepted Lady Honoria's offer and was recruited into the Order of St. Aelfric. She travelled to London, was inducted at Ravenwood House by Lord Percival Harcourt, and took up residence at Hartwell House. — Fox_and_Hound_Portsmouth|The Fox & Hound, Portsmouth

1813
OCT 1
Event

Long Corridor Incident

Portal closed by Georgiana's blood ritual at the altar. James Bennet dismembered and consumed by creatures during the retreat. NPC men killed covering the ladies' escape. The surviving investigators were brought together as the core party. The campaign expanded from solo play to a full table. — Tarryford — Northlake Hall

1814
JUN 12
Event

Stonehenge Ritual

Ritual disrupted. Segment I failed. Party survived intact. — Stonehenge

1814
JUL 1
Event

Goupil Masquerade

Investigators witnessed Formless Spawn ritual and child sacrifice. Did not intervene. Left traumatized. — Maison_du_Corbeau, Lyon

1814
JUL 8
Event

Orphans Hospital Raid

Hospital liberated. Augustus Bolt and Jacob killed. Dr. Carreau killed. 100+ captive children freed. Delaroche's children rescued. — Hopital_de_la_Charite|Orphans' Hospital, Lyon

1814
JUL 12
Event

Silkweavers Guild Assault

Savarin killed. Chakota destroyed. Fouchard killed. Choir rescued. Fourvière ritual prevented. Marina Garrick and Delaroche killed. — Silkweavers_Guild|Silkweavers' Guild, Lyon

1814
AUG 3
1814
AUG 4
1814
AUG 5
1814
AUG 6
Event

Harcourt Reunion

Campaign shifts from reactive to coordinated global counter-operation. Harcourt learns the full Choir network scope and the 5-of-8 ritual requirement. Order agents subsequently dispatched to Warsaw, Luxor, Ouro Preto. — Hofburg_Palace — Imperial Redoutensaal

1814
AUG 6
1814
AUG 7
Event

Moreau Graben Assassination

Colonel Moreau killed — first PC death of the Vienna chapter. Jay takes over Freddy Cavendish as his new PC in Session 6. Body recovered to the Josephinum. Bauer brothers arrested and released. — The_Graben, Vienna (inner city)

1814
AUG 7
Event

Nightgaunt Attack Palais Kinsky

Nightgaunt killed (Adrien delivers killing blow). Charlotte Thorne too severely wounded to continue — retires as Juel's PC. Mythos horror confirmed as physical reality for the entire party. — Palais_Kinsky, Vienna

1814
AUG 7
1814
AUG 7
1814
AUG 8
Event

Grand Masquerade Palais Lobkowitz

Anna rescued. Adler exposed publicly and fleeing. Mikhail dead. Catastrophic physical damage to Palais Lobkowitz. Brotherhood's secrecy broken in a single night. Duel scheduled for dawn August 9. Session ends mid-Round 3 of combat. — Palais_Lobkowitz, Minoritenplatz, Vienna

1814
AUG 8
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AUG 8
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AUG 8
1814
AUG 9
1814
AUG 9
1814
AUG 10
Event

Sternberg Duel Linienwallgasse

Thomas triumphed via saber after pistol exchange failed. Saber wound to armpit and chest, collapsed lung. Thomas kissed Emma on the field. Duel subplot resolved after four sessions. — Linienwallgasse, outside the Linienwall gates, Vienna

1814
AUG 10
Event

University Reconnaissance Aug 10

Full guard pattern mapped; timeline shifted from Aug 15 to Aug 13; Engine vibration confirmed — University_of_Vienna

1814
AUG 11
Event

Forbidden Texts Study Aug 11

Counter-ritual possibility identified; both researchers suffered mental breaks — Thaliastrasse_12_Safehouse

1814
AUG 11
Event

Wachter Ambush Heuriger Aug 11

Resolved — Session 13. Creature killed by Andrei, Nikolai, and Freddy. No coalition casualties. — Heuriger_zum_Rebstock

1814
AUG 11
Event

War Council Heuriger Aug 11

Assault plan finalised for pre-dawn 12 August; interrupted by Wächter ambush — Heuriger_zum_Rebstock

1814
AUG 12
Event

Assault Sealed Anatomical Theatre

Vienna ritual defeated; Harmonic Engine destroyed; Herzfeld captured; Caroline rescued — Sealed_Anatomical_Theatre

1814
AUG 12
Session

The Descent

1814
AUG 12
Session

The Theatre

1814
AUG 12
1814
SEP 1
Session

The Becalming

1814
SEP 1
Session

Give Rest

La_Speranza (becalmed, south of Crete) → Alexandria → Cairo

1814
SEP 1
Session

The Sterile Bay

Suez → the Red Sea → the Indian Ocean → Socotra

1814
SEP 10
Session

The Road to Cairo

Alexandria → Rosetta → the Nile → Cairo

1814
SEP 16
Session

The Cairo Interlude

Cairo (Auberge du Muski, the Muski, Frank Quarter, Bulaq) → Giza → departing onto the Suez road

1814
SEP 20
Session

The Locked Room

The Suez overland road → the Wadi al-Tih caravanserai

1814
SEP 22
Event

Wadi al Tih Murder

Gerald Hewitt murdered by Elizabeth Ashby in a staged locked-room killing; the investigators solved it, she confessed to a fifteen-year revenge, and they chose to release her and let her travel on with them to Calcutta. Rajan cleared and left in Abu Yusef's care. — Wadi_al_Tih caravanserai, Suez overland road

1814
OCT 1
Event

Socotra Cave Rescue

Both taken men recovered alive. Holt injured twice and envenomed; Adrien suffered a bout of madness at the sight of the breeders. One drone killed. The nest, the breeders and the egg wall left untouched. The Shah Alam finished watering and sailed. — Socotra_Limestone_Caves, above the sheltered bay at Socotra

1814
OCT 8
Event

Kali Puja Date Identified

The ritual date established as midnight, 25 October 1814 — Kali Puja, the new moon. The party has a clock for the first time in the chapter, sixteen days out. Derived by a player rather than delivered by an NPC. Georgiana's transformation advanced again in the same scene, unwitnessed. — West House, Cavendish_Compound, Chowringhee, Calcutta

1814
OCT 8
Event

Landfall at Chandpal Ghat

The party landed in Bengal and entered the Company register. Holt departed the party and became an NPC. Pratap Singh was accepted as escort and fixer without challenge, and arranged porters, palanquins and lodging within the hour. The party chose the Cavendish estate over Company quarters. — Chandpal_Ghat, The_Strand, Calcutta

1814
OCT 8
Session

Landfall

The Hooghly → Chandpal Ghat → White Town, Calcutta

1814
OCT 9
Event

Ashworth Dinner Garden Reach

Ashworth named Devendra Ghosh a personal friend and one of the finest men he knows, and invited Adrien to break the journey to Chandernagore at Ghosh's house in Baranagar. The cult's leader now sits behind the Magistrate's own credit. Surlish snubbed the host by proxy; Freddy planted the seed of Cartwright's defection; Emma saved Georgiana's gloves from becoming a scandal. The dinner was interrupted mid-service and has not yet reached its final course. — Garden_Reach, Calcutta

1814
OCT 9
Event

Renwick Located at Baranagar

Renwick is stationed eight miles north of Calcutta at Baranagar, overseeing an embankment project on the Hooghly. He is not yet posted to the Gurkha campaign, but the window before reassignment is narrow. The party registered that Renwick's post and the Mandir Mahakali temple are the same village. — Fort_William, Calcutta

1814
OCT 9
Event

St Johns Churchyard Hour

The party was catalogued by Calcutta society in a single hour and met most of the season's principal players. Freddy made first contact with Surlish and got a sneer, a warning to audit his own cousin, and confirmation that the merchant fears nothing. Sophia Surlish was silenced in public in front of witnesses. Pratap Singh was solicited for a Company position by a Pelham servant, refused him, swung at him and missed, then bought him. — St_Johns_Church_Calcutta, Calcutta

1814
OCT 9
Event

St Johns Presentation

All five European investigators publicly named to the whole of Calcutta society in a single morning. Covers are now on the public record and untested. The party observed the Surlish marriage's power dynamic first-hand, and learned that Parliament is sending out a Bishop of Calcutta. — St_Johns_Church_Calcutta, White Town, Calcutta

1814
OCT 9
Session

The Magistrate's Table

Garden Reach → Chowringhee, Calcutta

1814
NOV 1
Event

Anglo Nepalese War

British victory at ruinous cost. Treaty of Sugauli — Nepal cedes Sikkim, Kumaon, Garhwal and the western Terai, accepts a Resident at Kathmandu, and the British begin recruiting Gurkhas into their own service. — The Nepal frontier — the Terai, Kumaon, Garhwal and the Sutlej hills. Commanded from Fort_William, Calcutta_1814|Calcutta.