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Threads and Shadows: History and Past Games |
TimelineThis is a work in progress; below are the first five games in the Threads timeline, centered on 1928. Other games in the Threads timeline have centered on the modern era. I'll add the files for the last two games, and the modern-day games as time permits.
| 1928 | ||
| April | Hades Hunter |
The arrival of a package from Dr. Woodrow Fitch, conducting and archaeological dig in Ireland, triggers a series of events starting with the death of Dr. Jonathan Crane and ending with Albert Lancaster and Rhea Brandenburg making a successful last stand in Miskatonic's clock tower. Plot Outline · NPCs · Monsters · Books · Letter from Fitch · 10-26-00 Game Writeup |
| October | Halloween |
Professor Hiram Ben Jakob is conferring with Albert and Rhea about the growth of a potentially dangerous clique on campus when they are interrupted by the arrival of Ms. Amy Butler, one of Hiram's other students. Amy is dead on arrival -- Albert, Rhea and Hiram scramble of unearth Amy's last hours and understand the ghastly fate that has befallen her. Plot Outline · NPCs · Evidence |
| November | November Moon |
Hiram, Albert and Rhea finally have their day of reckoning with Prof. Moamar Shalad and Asenath Waite. Shalad has procured a dangerous and email amulet, and made the error of entrusting it to Asenath. The investigators find them selves in a race against time to recover the amulet before Asenath can unlock its power on the new moon. Plot Outline · NPCs · Asenath Waite |
| 1929 | ||
| May | A Flower Blooms For Albert |
In the six months since our plucky band of Miskatonic inventigators foiled Asenath Waite's evil plotting, several things have happened. Rhea has completed her Master's in Psychology, and will begin her Doctoral work in the fall. A new Professor of Classical Civilizations joined Hirams's department in January. Albert has been nursing his withered arm trying all manner of therapies to no avail. Henry Armitage thinks that he has identified a ritual antidote; Hiram even thinks that he can correctly perform the ritual. Henry presents news of his discovery as an "end of the year present". There is one catch. The ritual requires an herb which only grows in northern Abyssinia. |
| October | Estate Sale |
Albert, Rhea, and Dr. Evans-Pritchard are given an assignment by Miskatonic's senior occult hunters: attend the estate sale of noted Maine occultist Thaddeus Byron Salt, survey his library, and make sure that the University comes away with all of his dangerous books. When our troop arrives in Clark Island they find that they aren't the only interested parties. |
Games yet to be played