Collections of Madness

K yle Gunther (Aaron) is a 35 year old independent assassin. Answered an ad from a Guido looking to put a hit on a client who refuses to pay up. Two muscles didn't get the message through, so Kyle is hired to send a message to other clients. That being the death of one Arturo Cabelli, proprietor of Lulu's Diner (aka speakeasy) up in Bolton 4 hours north . Kyle has his own car, used, but self-maintained since Kyle has Electrical and Mechanical Repair skills. [ But his beginning failed Mechanical Repair roll suggests some faulty wiring that will raise its head later. Leaves Boston around 6pm this late spring evening. AFTER purchasing a map for his drive and destination. Driving rain, horrendous storm... the likes of which hasn’t been seen in a century. Despite racing against the rain on your way northwards, the storm finally caught up with you in earnest and with it the night has fallen, abyssal black and riven by lightning. Conditions on the rain-swept road forc...

FROM THE BEGINNING :  https://rigglew4.blogspot.com/2017/03/entry-7-witch-trial-papers-are-missing.html       Dr Herman Bunyard   (Bill) WWI Marine Corpsman   Zebadiah  (Zac) Hunter/Tracker With his coon-dog 'Slim' at his heels     Philipe  (Tony) Canadian Trapper A throwback to the French-and-Indian war It’s a late Friday afternoon 25 minute walk to Leiter’s house just off campus. Neighborhood of small 2-story houses with porch and wooden picket fences. Street lights just coming on but darkness at the professor’s house as expected. Still, we decide to sneak up in case someone else is poking around. So much for sneak as Philipe finds THE loose porch board….”CREEEAAK.”

Months pass since the werewolf and kidnapping cases which exposed Herman to the likes of undead and potential greater beings. And per his recently acquired phobia, he‘s been reading a lot. Such as a review of last year’s “Scopes Trial” where a Tennessee teacher was accused of violating the Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. “Evolution. Ha. What was the evolution of those undead?” And an even bigger volume to read, the recently published “Mein Kampf” written by a German named Hitler. 29 Sept, 1926 : Herman has remained in Boston looking for his cousin Lillian. Which explains why Dean Fallon of Miskatonic University gives him a call, “Yes, Doctor Bunyard. I remember your help with that ‘clinical lycanthrop’ patient last year. Might I ask your assistance in another matter. Please bring your team here in 3 days for a meeting. And please, be discrete about the matter.” Team? Herman calls his last associates from the kidnap...

FROM THE BEGINNING :  https://rigglew4.blogspot.com/2017/03/entry-5-woods-are-lovely-dark-and-deep.html       Dr Herman Bunyard   (Bill) WWI Marine Corpsman   Reggie   (?) Reporter A solidly built young reporter, wearing his college football jersey   Zebadiah  (Zac) Hunter/Tracker With his coon-dog 'Slim' at his heels     Philipe  (Tony) Canadian Trapper A throwback to the French-and-Indian war Sunday 21 st : Philipe brings Herman back to the smoldering cabin, where the group picks up a drag-mark trail behind the cabin that leads north. About a half-mile we come upon the edge of a lake where the drag-trail leads into the water. Very dark water…black! As we scan the lake we notice poles at the water edge about a mile away. With binoculars, “Looks like people tied to them. Five poles. And something sticking out of their chest.”

Philipe slows his tracking as he spies a dim white light ahead in the thick forest. Not the feared blue lights but still...he raises his rifle in preparation. “Damn cra-zee Americans.” He’s found Herman sitting on a log, immersed in reading a book with his flashlight. “Give me a minute. I know I remember reading something in my aunt’s journal about blue lights and Gla’Aki.” [ Herman's recent frightful encounter has left him with "Biblio-mania" :  obsession with books and reading... at the most inappropriate times. ] P hilipe slaps the doctor trying to ring some sense into the fool. I mean, considering what’s transpired these last days…       Dr Herman Bunyard   (Bill) WWI Marine Corpsman   Reggie   (Aaron) Reporter A solidly built young reporter, wearing his college football jersey   Zebadiah (Zac) Hunter/Tracker With his coon-dog 'Slim' at his heels     Philip...