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Table of Contents
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Last
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Wherein the investigators attend a funeral, and soon find
//lore
lllall
one candidate for the burial.
The draw for Ibis scenario
is
the death of Professor
Henry Ennis, a
fonner
associate of the
investigators.
Ennis
was socially and academically active. Almost any Iype
of
person could
have come
into
close contact
with
him. The
keeper
has plausible rcasons for
introducing
previously
unacquainted investigators
to
onc
another,
making this an
ideal
starting
scenario for a
campaign, or onc
into which
new investigators are introduced into a team
recently
deci-
mated
by
eldritch horrors.
Interaction
with
the people of Runville is of importance
to
this
scenario,
as
most of
the
mystery unfolds. in true
whodunnit
style.
after the investigators arrive. The follow-
ing
sections
discuss
the Professor as
the investigators
knew
him, his daughter Lucinda,
and
key figures among the
Runville townsfolk. There are quite a
few
non-player char-
acters. The keeper is urged to read their
brief
descriptions
with some care.
other,
and, much more rarely,
young children.
In 1979,
Sophia Ennis, Lucinda's
younger sister,
became
such a vic-
tim. Her
battered,
bruised, and
sexually
abused
young
body
was discovered on
the beach.
Nicole could
not recover from
her death.
The now-aging
cultists
still
live in Runville.
Using her
recently acquired
mind-reading
powers,
Lucinda has
learned
who
they are.
She
plans to kill them unconventionally,
via
a
concoction
brewed
for
her by her ex-lover, Jason.
With
it
she
plans
to reanimate the corpse of her father so that he
becomes
her undead
instrument
of revenge.
It
pleases her
that
her revenge can
be
double-edged.
HENRY ENNIS AND THE
INVESTIGATORS
He was a
handsome
man. The
investigators who
knew
Ennis
think of
him as
a
lover
of
all aspects of
life,
and
also
as a man who
paid special
attention to
women.
Keep
reiter-
ating this
foible
to the
investigators.
Encourage
them
to
believe that it
is
inextrica-
bly linked to the
mystery, because
it isn't,
at
least not
directly.
The
NY
Times
obituary of
Ennis, found a little further
on
in
the
scenario.
is
accurate.
The inves-
tigators also
know
that Ennis
suf-
fered
from
high blood
pressure,
which led to his first
heart
attack in
1994. A
few
years
later,
he retired
to Runville, Massachusetts, and
PROFESSOR
HENRV El'o'NIS
began
to
pay
careful
allention
to
his health. By
then
much damage had been done. He died
there following his sixth infarction.
The investigators
also
know that Ennis'
family
life was
not a happy one. Like
so
many public men, he reserved
nothing
for
his
wife
and children.
Keeper Information
LUCINDA'S REVENGE
Though he never
knew it,
Professor Ennis was
touched
by
the Mythos
through
his only
child,
Lucinda. While studying
at
Oxford, she met
a young
cultist, Jason, who seduced her
and
schooled her in the Mythos, a study she kept up when
she returned to Massachusetts
to
be
with her ailing
father.
Lucinda
loathed
her father. As
his health fai
led,
she
amused herself
by creating
subtle
tonnents
for
him.
Her hatred for her father started
with the death
of
her mother, Nicole
Ennis,
who
hanged herself in 1980.
Her mother's
suicide
note men-
tioned
her husband's womanizing.
Helping him into the gmve was a
LUCINDA ENNIS
conclusion
she found appropriate
for a professor of ethics who was a hypocrite.
The key
to
Nicole's and Lucinda's instability
lies
in a
dark
secret
harbored for decades in Runville. Since World
War Two, a cult of diabolists who refer to themselves as the
Children of Satan has been active in the village
of
Runville,
perfonning dubious sexual rites involving livestock. each
OTHER WAYS OF INVOLVING SOME OR ALL OF
THE INVESTIGATORS
These ideas
assume
no
investigator
knowledge
of
Professor
Ennis.
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Someone
with
police
connections
may
be called in
after
the murder at Ennis' grave.
A
journalist
investigator
may
be
sent out
on the Ennis
story.
One
of
the
investigators
may see Lucinda in Manchester, Arkham, or Gloucester
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earlier
in the
week.
be
attracted by
her,
and
try
to
find
her.
A
parcel sent to
Lucinda
by
Jason
contains
the
reanima-
tion
potion,
but is
delivered
by mistake to
a similarly
named
investigator.
who obligingly
brings her
the
con-
tents and
thereby
puts
himself
on
her
murder list.
•
The investigators' boat pulls
into Runville
Cove
for
repairs on the ni
ght
of
Ethel
Goodson's
murder.
Ashore,
they
see
the
cadaverous
Ennis lurch into the
fog and
dis-
appear.
This
approach
means that
the
keeper
must
find
ways
to
fill
in
much
of
the
RunviLie
background.
Constable
Talboll
is up
to
the task.
Lucinda ElIlIis:
age 26,
daughter
of
the deceased.
She
is an
attractive
young
blonde
woman who tends toward
sensuous
and
revealing
clothes,
enough that all eyes
are
on
her when
she walks
to
the
beach.
She
is
also is
absent-minded about
dressing
and undressing
at
her
windows, also
annoying
some
of
the townsfolk. Her face
has
a SUllen, secret
beauty.
It
is rarely animated
or
pleasant. She
inherits
the
Ennis
estate,
worth more than
a
million
and
a half
in
property and
cash as
rumo
r
has
it.
Hamey
Dmm:
age
45,
a
jovi al,
chubby
man,
owner
of the
Lobster Pot Inn. He is a
source
of gossip,
much
of
it accurate.
He
was one of the Professor's
favorite
drinking
partners.
Lois
Drum:
age
42, a
female
version of
her husband, wider
at
the
hips. Her favorite
topic is
her
son,
Daniel,
a
law
stu-
dent at
Boston
University.
Toby
Ettri1lger:
age 40, part-time deputy Eltringer is a
blundering,
muscle-bound
fool,
tolerated
by
Talbott
because
no one
e
lse
wanted
the
job.
Toby's
father
is Dr.
Alan
Ellringer,
one
of
the cultist-diabolists.
It
will
take
a
great
deal
to
convi
nce Toby
that
hi
s
beloved
father
is any-
thing
other
than
a
kind,
benevolent
man.
Dwight and Ethel Goodsoll:
ages
40 and
35, res
pectively.
Dwight
is the
proprietor
of
a
bank
in
Manchester.
He
is a
pompous,
kindhearted man. Although he considers himself
\0
be one
of
Professor
Enni
s' close
friends, the good
Professor
had
been
having an
affai
r
with
Goodson's wife,
Ethel,
since
his retirement
to
Runville. Most
people
in the
town know
this. Ethel has diffi
culty
hiding her
grief. (She
is
sprawled
across Ennis'
grave
when
he ri
ses,
and
is the
first
to
die
at the
zombie's
hands.)
Rlldy
Goodson:
age
18, the
son o
f
Dwight and Ethel,
Rudy
was
befriended by Professor
Ennis and
tutored
by him. He
hopes 10 allend
Boston University next
semester
and
is cur-
rently
studying
at
a
minor
college
in
Gloucester.
He
is
stricken
with
grief by
Ennis' death. He
has
a
severe crush
on
Lucinda; she uses
that to her
advantage
when
convenient.
Georgette
Greigsoll:
age
29,
the
local
schoolteacher,
responsible
for educating
all Runville
children
until the age
of
ten, at
which age
they take the bus
to
Manchester.
Georgelle
is
rumored to
be no
better
than
she
ought
to
be,
though
in
reality she
remains
faithful to her fiancee,
Clarence,
curre
ntly on the
American
Antarctic
Survey.
The
Professor
o
ften
invited
her 10 dinner.
Though
she
enjoyed
his
company, she
always
refu
sed
his
advances.
Sheldoll
O'Hearne:
age 39,
owner
of
the local
store
and
gas station,
he is
a
pensive,
introverted
man,
especially
nervous and distrustfu
l
of
women. As
a minor businessman,
he
has
some
small influence over
matters
within
the
town.
His
store
stocks
everything, from
meats
to
hardware,
from
alcohol
to
groceries.
Father Edward
Rook:
age
55,
a
harsh
man,
with a
scowl-
ing.
weather-r.J.vaged
face. He
was
close
friends
with
Professor
Enni
s.
whom
he
believes
to
have been a
good
SOME
PEOPLE
OF RUNVILLE
Much
of
Ru
nville descends from Catholic selliers who
ned
England
and
Ireland
in
the
seventeenth century to escape
persecution. With
few exceptions
the present
descendants
are good,
honest
individual s
whose vices
are
minor.
They
love
to gossip, so
conversation with them
should
be
an inte-
gral
part
of
the
adventure. A
description of the key
figures
follows.
All
of
these
people
will
be
at
the funeral
and
at
the
wake.
The
keeper
can
add to
this infonnation
as
he
or she
wishes, but
should kee
p
it simple.
The People
of
Runville
Following
is
a quick reference listing
the
people of
Runville relevant
to
this adventure.
Drum,
Bam
e)'-owner
of
the
Lobster
Pot.
Drlllll,
Lois-
wife of
Barney Drum.
Ennis,
Henry-professor.
fonne
r associate
of the
investigators,
now
murdered.
Ennis, Lllcillda-daughter
of
Henry
Ennis and
secret
Mythos
de\'otee
Ettrillger, Alall- town
doctor and
cllilis/.
Ettrillger,
Toby-pan-time
deputy and son
of
Dr.
Allan
Euringer.
Flalll!rty,
David-
retired postal
worker
and
cllltist.
Goodson,
Dwight-bank
proprietor.
Goodson, Ethel-wife
of
Dwight
Goodson
and
mis-
tress
of
the late
Henry Ennis.
Goodsoll,
Rudy-
college
stude
nt
and
son
of
Dwight
and
Ethel
Goodson.
Greigson,
Georgette-
local
schoolteacher.
O'Hearne,
Sheldoll-store
and gas station
owner.
Rook, Edward-old
friend
of the
late
Henry Ennis.
Smith,
Katarilla-former
magistrate and
ClIllisl
leader.
Springer,
Bernadette-widow
and
clIltist.
Talbott, Maurice-
town
constable.

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