Their paunch appearance belied a stunning quickness in step. I began to distinguish the gleam of eyes under the trees […] It brazenly lies before me, and still I could not admit the fool was right. The accursed pyramid was neither Aztec nor Mayan.
– Dent, J.M. “Last Essays.” London: Methuen, 1926.
For the strangest of reasons, the main character awakens to find himself back in the home from his childhood, twenty years into the past. Everything appears to be the same as it once did, except there are two noticeable differences. Something is infesting the house and no one appears to be around. Just what is going on here?
Introduction
Someone has released all the prisoners from Arkham Asylum and provided them with weapons. The escapees have made their way to The Narrows and are terrorising the place and will soon make their way into the city. The bat signal shines into the night sky while Bruce restlessly stares out from his window. This is going to be a long night.
Gordon Freeman has been given the task to help reactivate a Resistance listening post located above the old lighthouse. From there, things quickly escalate.
I’ve been hired by a wealthy man called Ranfield, to retrieve a holy relic, the skull of St. Lambert. According to Ranfield, the skull is kept in the reliquary of a Hammerite monastery called Redmound. The best way inside is probably through the warehouse, as there should be a passage connecting these two buildings.
I was contacted to procure a powerful tome called the Necronomicon. An eccentric scholar called Fistral reputedly obtained a copy for a high price, for use in secret experiments. He died along with his wife a while back. Recently, a party of Hammerities set out to obtain and destroy the book. They were not heard from again.
After a good long while, the latest community project is finally out the door and special thanks goes to Forge and Micky C for working their butts off with polishing and problem solving. The project takes place within a city in space in which the aliens have decided to invade. CBP8 makes use of TROR (true room over room) which provides a little extra sense of depth to the design across the map. My section in particular takes place in the upper city, surrounding a police substation and some mechs.
The job is to break into a highly-secured embassy in the middle of Hightowne and steal a priceless diamond staff owned by an aristocrat from Blackbrook. My employer has given me instructions to follow, this will come in handy, because I have the feeling this is not going to be a cakewalk.
The Hammerites are becoming more agitated by the hour since they’ve received nothing from Dr. Dragon’s dig from the recently discovered ruins of an ancient temple, and their spy hasn’t been heard from for weeks. You’ve been contacted by said spy’s brother to help locate him in exchange for a map.