WARNING!
The following contains some serious ick factor, so if you're squeamish, do not read.

I just wanted to post up some of the plot of the Call of Cuchulain mission my friend Dav is running, because it was so awesome. Give me a moment to put on some creepy music to write to... Ok, done.

I just got back from the first day. We made characters then got through the first book.

The story is set in 1926, we are a group of archeologists and such being sent to help on a dig on the Yucatan Peninsula. Specifically, we are sent because the dig is a bit weird and they want experts to look it over.

There are five of us: I'm playing a very booky Archeology grad student from Miskatonic University, and this is the first in the field practice he's had. a Linguist Grad student also from Miskatonic, also on her first dig, my archeology professor, an Indiana Jones type, and a conspiracy theorist who wasn't invited but heard about it and had to come.

Anyway, we arrive at the camp, which is set up about twenty minutes walk from the dig site. We talk to the foreman, named Julian, and we are told that at the site is a Mayan style pyramid that is... off, which is why they called us in. First off, it's buried for some reason. A couple hikers stumbled across when they went to clear away an area for their tent and found a large flat stone. They've dug up fifteen levels so far, and they estimate it's a little over 200 feet tall.

We travel to the pyramid, and we see the other things that are off. The first obvious thing is that there is no entrance on the top level, the stairs go up to where they do on a normal pyramid, but there's no door. The top level is above ground level, with the top of the second level down ending a few inches above ground level. Second thing we notice is the size, it's indeed 200 feet tall or so, and 200 feet wide at the lowest level. The third thing is where is things start to get weird: The entire pyramid is made up of a strange opalescent white stone that has not eroded in the least bit, and is harder than anything Julian has tried to break a piece off with. Not only that, but it seems to be made up of one or two solid slabs per level. Flat, precisely machined slabs.

Then we start our examination of the pyramid, as the workers continue trying to uncover the next level down. First thing we do is try to measure how high each level is, and we find out why the workers couldn't get anything more than estimates.

I measure the first level: 12 feet tall. My prof measures the exact same spot: 14 feet tall.

I measure again: 16 feet.

I lay out a string and cut it to the length of the wall and measure it twice: 15 feet both times.

I lay out another string in the same spot: 18 feet.

I compare the two strings: Not the same length.

I compare both strings to the height of the level: neither match up.

We give up on this for now, moving on the the fact that each level, including the 200 by 200 foot one on the bottom, is their own enormous slab with cuts going across it irregularly. I start documenting the positions of the cuts as the rest of the team heads up the pyramid to look down from the top.

From the top, the cuts form up into a bunch of concentric five pointed stars, with the largest one just touching the edges of the fifteenth level.

About half way through my documentation of the cuts from the bottom up, a sixteenth level is uncovered. The dirt on it is quickly cleared away and the team on the top notices something:

The largest star now just touches the edges of the 16th level, despite there being no star extending past the 15th level.

I continue documenting as the rest of the team test some other stuff, finding that liquids on the pyramid bead up like they do on wax paper and several other oddities. Then I notice something about my diagrams.

The ones I made of the levels I started after the 16th level was uncovered have lines that don't continue onto the levels I documented before the 16th level was uncovered.

Checking them against the pyramid, I find that the lines continue all the way to the ground. So they appeared after the level was uncovered, without anyone noticing.

That night is when things go from strange to scary.

First off, I find Julian's journal.

In it it says that when they started the dig, the top of the highest level was level with the ground, despite the fact that it's a good 16 feet taller now.

Next, it talks of how Julian's brother Juan descended into madness, talking of dreams of going into the temple to free the 'Elder God' that is trapped there, by way of a bloody sacrificial ritual. Specifically forcing open the chest of the victim and stabbing their heart. Then it talks of a symbol in the shape of a five pointed star with a strange eye like symbol in the center, and an incantation to be said over the sacrifice, in a language our linguist cannot place.

Lastly it talks of Juan disappearing one night only to be found the next morning dead and partially melted and disintegrated on top of the pyramid.

We all talk about it for a bit and then go to bed.

The next morning, one of the workers, Miguel, is missing. We search for him for a while then decided to look for him at the pyramid.

He's there.

He's dead.

He's been killed in the exact manner the journal talks of, on the very top of the pyramid.

We bury the body, suspend digging for the day, and plan watches to go through the night to make sure it doesn't happen again. During the process I examine the pyramid to see if the eye part of the symbol is one the pyramid. It isn't, but each and every star is centered so that the eye would be in the same place.

During the third watch of five, the one Julian is on, everyone but Julian falls asleep.

The next morning, Alejandro, the man who was sharing a tent with Miguel is missing.

He's at the pyramid.

Guess what's happened to him.

After burying Alejandro, we confront Julian, and he denies having done it. We search his tent a find a ritualistic looking knife, present that to him, and mention what we found in the journal.

Julian looks confused for a moment.

Then he admits to having killed the men.

Then he rushes the conspiracy theorist, grabs his gun, and shoots himself.

We decide to get to the bottom of this, and go to the pyramid, bringing supplies and weapons. I grab some chalk and draw in the eye where it should be.

The moment I finish the last line, the top of the pyramid crumbles and we fall into the top level.

There is a spiral stair leading down.

We head down.

On the second level, we find the body of a German solider impaled on a wall of spikes. He's dead, but the fresh blood trail leading up from the level below that looks like he was dragged leads us to believe it's not been long.

Then our linguist freaks out, as the solider just woke up and started talking to her.

He's still quite dead to the rest of us.

He tell us, though the linguist, that he's been sitting there for a long time, that we need to leave, and that we need to stay away from the walls.

We continue on to the next level.

On the next level down is a wall that is gushing blood, only to have it reabsorbed into the floor.

We continue around the corner.

There is an archway that has a hideous and completely alien face above it.

We get suspicious and toss a book though.

Something jumps out, then turns and rushes us.

It's a walking corpse.

The conspiracy theorist whips out his shotgun and blows a hole in it's chest, removing the head from the body and making it's arms useless.

It continues to try and attack us.

We kick it over and it can't get back up.

It's then that we realize we recognized the corpse.

It was Miguel.

And his chest was no longer opened up.

Almost as soon as we realized this we are attacked by another zombie.

This time it's Alejandro.

His chest is also whole.

And there's a light coming from one of the alcoves up ahead.



That's where we ended this session. I will be posting more of this sensationally creepy story as I play through the mission.