The latest episode of The Well Below the Valley is now available on Patreon! It has some character backstory, some noir monologues, and some tomes of forbidden knowledge.
New Patreon Post/ The Well Below the Valley, Episode 4
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New Patreon Post/ The Well Below the Valley, Episode 3
“The Deep has claimed him. Mark my words, it will soon be revealed that [Professor Ragnarsson’s] death was closely tied to the sea and its foul inhabitants.”
Nigel Blackthorne, gentleman occultist
The latest episode of The Well Below the Valley is now available on Patreon. A free preview is below the cut:
Continue reading “New Patreon Post/ The Well Below the Valley, Episode 3”New Patreon Post / The Well Below the Valley, Episode 2
The second episode is called “Flora and Fauna,” and it introduces the last people Professor Ragnarsson contacted: Kurt Cross and Ellie Westmont of Sunset Investigations, and Ernest Wilde, a botanist at the University of London. It also offers the first glimpse into the Cthulhu Mythos and reveals how exactly the professor died.
Once again, this is a script for a ~20-minute episode of an audio drama I hope to one day produce. It is annotated with explanations of references, foreshadowing, and a few illustrations just for fun. It is available only on Patreon, but a free preview is below the cut:
Continue reading “New Patreon Post / The Well Below the Valley, Episode 2”New Patreon Post/ The Well Below the Valley, Episode 1
It’s finally here! The script for the first episode, “The Books of the Dead,” is available as a PDF download on Patreon. If you’re not a subscriber, it’s only $3 a month. Currently, Patreon is the only place to find this particular project.
While I one day hope to produce it as an audio drama, the script is something of an art object in itself. Here are a few pages as a preview:
Continue reading “New Patreon Post/ The Well Below the Valley, Episode 1”Announcement: The Well Below the Valley
I am starting a new project!
(“But don’t you have enough projects?” Yes. Yes, I do. Let’s not talk about that.)
Continue reading “Announcement: The Well Below the Valley”On a rainy morning in 1922, an archaeologist is found dead in a London hotel room. At first, it is assumed his death was a natural one, but questions soon arise:
Who has been following the professor around Oxford?
What happened on his last field expedition, which was cut short and declared a failure?
What became of his crew?
And how did he drown, miles from the harbor and with no other sources of water nearby?
In a world still living under the shadow of the Great War, four intrepid investigators must discover the secret Professor Ragnarsson was murdered to keep, and learn that the world is darker and more terrible than they could ever have imagined–and that they are the only things standing between the earth and its total destruction.
Introduction to The Well Below the Valley
Chapter Four: A Home Without Joy (Part Two)
The investigators have arrived at last at the seat of the cult’s power: the hollow island in the North sea. Already, the Great Mother’s servants are gathering, and they will stop at nothing to prevent our intrepid heroes from ending their evil and saving the world.
In Part One of this chapter, the investigators procured transportation and sailed to the island, hiding their boat and making their way over the jagged rocks to the underground temple. Armed with the spell in the Westmont Text, and possibly some explosives obtained in Dublin, they must now enter the temple and seal the Mother’s well for good.
(All page numbers refer to the Seventh Edition of the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook, published 2015 by Chaosium, Inc. I am in no way affiliated with Chaosium or the writers of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game system. Content notes for this chapter: eldritch horror, cult activity, forced drugging, abduction, monstrous pregnancy and miscarriage, explosions, and geographic destruction.)
Continue reading “Chapter Four: A Home Without Joy (Part Two)”Chapter Four: A Home Without Joy (Part One)
The investigators and their allies have faced the summoned creature and the cult in Dublin. They are left with a number of bodies in an abandoned barn and a black scar on the earth in someone’s field, or with the city crumbling in the horror’s wake. If the investigators failed to defeat the summoned creature, they will receive no more help from their allies in Dublin. All efforts will be redirected to mitigating the damage and saving as many people as possible. Even if it and most, if not all, the cultists have been killed, arrested, or otherwise put out of action, the repercussions of their activities continue. Specifically, there has been a bombing in the city followed by quite a lot of gunfire just outside it. It would be reasonable to assume that both the British and Irish governments will conclude that the local IRA members have broken the terms of the treaty and the previous ceasefire and restarted a pattern of sectarian violence.
(All page numbers refer to the Seventh Edition of the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook, published 2015 by Chaosium, Inc. I am in no way affiliated with Chaosium or the writers of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game system. Content notes for this chapter: mentions of terrorism/bombing, cult activity, forced drugging, a general sense of doom.)
Continue reading “Chapter Four: A Home Without Joy (Part One)”Chapter Three: The Singer of Tales (Part Two)
The investigators are in Dublin, seeking an artifact and some information from the late professor’s demolitions team. The cult is here as well, and they are planning something even more terrible than they attempted in Oxmoor. A young woman, Grace Callahan, has already gone missing. The investigators are running out of time.
(All page numbers refer to the Seventh Edition of the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook, published 2015 by Chaosium, Inc. I am in no way affiliated with Chaosium or the writers of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game system. Content notes for this chapter: violence, kidnapping, murder, blood sacrifice, eldritch horror.)
Continue reading “Chapter Three: The Singer of Tales (Part Two)”Chapter Three: The Singer of Tales (Part One)
Having thwarted the cult in Oxmoor, though perhaps not without casualties, the investigators now know they must travel to the island in order to stop them once and for all. Before they can do that, however, they must first stop in Dublin to obtain the “key of the hierophant” from the professor’s former demolitions team, who stole it when they learned they would not be paid. This is a momentous and bloody time for Ireland, and the investigators will find themselves in the very tense quiet between storms. As temporal politics rage on, the cult is still making plans of the supernatural sort—and by now, the investigators are starting to experience the effects of the terrible island as the artifacts they have obtained plague them with nightmares.
(All page numbers refer to the Seventh Edition of the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook, published 2015 by Chaosium, Inc. I am in no way affiliated with Chaosium or the writers of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game system. Content notes for this chapter: mentions of WWI, the Anglo-Irish War, the Easter Uprising, and the Irish Civil War; mentions of terrorism and bombings, homophobia, and blood sacrifice; references in folklore to rape, incest, and infanticide.)
Continue reading “Chapter Three: The Singer of Tales (Part One)”Chapter Two: Green Grows the Lily (Part Three)
The time of the summoning grows closer and closer. Can the investigators find the cult’s base of operations and stop the ritual?
(All page numbers refer to the Seventh Edition of the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook, published 2015 by Chaosium, Inc. I am in no way affiliated with Chaosium or the writers of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game system. Content notes for this chapter: kidnapping, murder, blood sacrifice, potential mob violence, eldritch horrors.)
Continue reading “Chapter Two: Green Grows the Lily (Part Three)”
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