The RPG Fiends

The two-day voyage to Gray Dragon Island is a somber, heavy crawl across the dark waters of the China Sea. While Declan hurls rocks into the churning surf and Vincent drafts letters he hopes his brother will never have to read, the terrible cost of saving the world finally comes into focus. An ancient scholar has unlocked the Eye of Light and Darkness ritual, demanding innocent blood, a moonlit vi...

The fortified walls of Ho Fang's compound are behind them, but the temporary sanctuary of Jack Brady's warehouse offers little comfort when the end of the world is scheduled for the next full moon. While Iris lies battered and bleeding on a makeshift medical cot, the remaining investigators cannot afford to rest. Their essential gear—and their shrimp-obsessed young companion—are still stra...

The torture chamber of Ho Fang's compound offers no safety, only borrowed time. With a severely injured woman on their backs and a sorcerer who walks through walls likely planning his return, the investigators have painted themselves into a bloody corner. Beyond the door lies a labyrinth of stone, razor wire, and fanatical guards armed with sickles. As the party prepares to fight their way to...

The sitting room of Ho Fang's luxurious compound has become a slaughterhouse, and the deafening echo of a gunshot has just sealed the investigators' fate. With a powerful sorcerer vanished into smoke and the entire estate undoubtedly rushing toward the noise, there is no going back. Stripping the black and gold robes from the fallen guards, the party must don the very skin of their enemies...

Two days of tense recovery in the Palatial Gardens hotel have left the investigators bruised, bleeding, and jumping at shadows. But the quiet is finally shattered by a knock at the door and the arrival of a man who has been dead for five years. Jack Brady, the missing muscle of the doomed Carlyle Expedition, has stepped out of the Shanghai fog with a glass of old whiskey and a story that spans the...

Somewhere in the sprawling labyrinth of Shanghai, a young woman is pinned flat inside a cage of glass and steel, screaming as a mild-mannered man uses starving river rats to extract a single name. Meanwhile, the investigators wait in the suffocating silence of a dimly lit hotel room, their weapons drawn and a rigged flashbang strapped to the door. They know they are being hunted, stalked across th...

The night air above the Stumbling Tiger Bar is thick with smoke and the acrid stench of burning lacquer. Trapped in the narrow alleyway behind the blazing establishment, the investigators have nowhere left to run. Waiting for them in the suffocating haze are three cultists of the Order of the Bloated Woman, their voluminous silken robes billowing in the intense heat. With the fire closing in from...

The radio crackles to life inside the Stumbling Tiger Bar, its sudden blare attempting to mask a suffocating tension. A single name—Jack Brady—hangs in the stale, smoke-filled air, freezing both a Scottish-Chinese bartender and an undercover naval officer in their tracks. In the cramped, grimy confines of Lantern Street, the charades have ended and the real conversation is finally about to begin....

The smog-choked docks of Shanghai offer no rest for the wicked. Trading the horrors of the ocean for the damp, neon-lit grit of Lantern Street, the investigators plunge into a city built on secrets and vice. Between the opulent heights of the Palace Hotel penthouse and the nicotine-stained walls of the Stumbling Tiger Bar, they quickly learn that every face is a mask and every poured drink hides a...

The Southern Bell offers a rare and quiet reprieve as it cuts across the ocean, giving the investigators eleven days to heal, study, and reflect on the horrors they left behind in Egypt. But in the shadow of the Black Pharaoh, the past is never truly buried—it reaches out in prophetic dreams of crumbling mountains, and in the quiet purr of an ancient goddess offering a strange and powerful gift. A...

The night is over, but the nightmare is still breathing. In the quiet aftermath of a massacre, the surviving Nazir of Ibn Tulun places the burden of a terrifying legacy into the hands of exhausted strangers. While a captive horror thrashes against a fraying magical barrier, the investigators must make a desperate choice: stand and fight the leader of the Black Pharaohs, or flee Egypt with the very...

The cellar of the Ibn Tulun Mosque has become a slaughterhouse. In the suffocating darkness below, ancient guardians throw themselves against an impossible, shifting nightmare, armed with nothing but scimitars and desperate courage. Above them, the air pulses with gravitational pressure as a spell of warding builds, demanding an agonizing toll while precious seconds slip away. Between the crushing...

The sun has set over Cairo, leaving the city in a darkness broken only by the faint lights of a hospital that was once a house of worship. Beneath the stone floors, six ancient men stand ready to die for a secret kept hidden for centuries. But the enemy approaching does not walk the streets; it rides the wind—a nightmare of writhing serpents and shadow blotting out the stars. As the trapdoor buckl...

The veil between the waking world and the ancient sands is wearing thin. In the silence of a dream, a predator the size of a lioness waits with a message that will haunt the waking hours: the scales of Egypt are unbalanced. From the hushed corridors of a makeshift hospital to the dingy rooms of the old city, the investigators are being watched. A thousand golden eyes are tracking their every move,...

The bustle of the Cairo marketplace deafens the senses, a chaotic sea of noise and heat. But for the investigators, the world has gone silent. One small, damning detail has changed everything: the silver glint of an inverted ankh, hidden beneath the robes of their guide. Surrounded by a crowd that masks a dozen watching eyes, the trap has finally been sprung. There is no time for questions, and no...

The sun beats down on the bustling streets of Cairo as the investigators wait outside the mosque, their eyes scanning the crowd for their guide. Hakim has gone to find the scholar Dr. Kafour, but the cryptic warning of the boy Mahmoud still echoes in their ears: "never trust the man who smiles with his teeth". With the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh watching from the shadows, the path...

Cairo. A city of ancient secrets and new dangers. Haunted by spectral warnings and a fiery death, the investigators have finally arrived in Egypt. But as they take their first steps from the safety of their hotel, they'll find this city's streets are watching. In a land of masks and whispers, the hunt for answers begins—but the greatest threat may be the friendly hand they've been paid...

The sea voyage to Egypt offered a moment to heal and plan. But a knock at their cabin door shatters the calm. A strange woman in Victorian dress stands before them, her arrival impossible, her message even more so: she claims the ghost of their murdered friend, Jackson Elias, sent her . Actual play of Call of Cthulhu's Masks of Nyarlathotep by Chaosium Inc. View the mysteries and secrets as th...

Reeling from their violent clash with the Brotherhood, the investigators fled Misr House under the cover of chaos and fog. With crucial evidence in hand pointing toward Shanghai and Egypt, they now face the daunting task of planning their next move in a conspiracy that spans the globe. Actual play of Call of Cthulhu's Masks of Nyarlathotep by Chaosium Inc. View the mysteries and secrets as the...

Having uncovered the grim secrets hidden within Misr House, from its torture chambers to the fate of a missing inspector, the investigators donned cultist robes and followed a trail into the fog. At the edge of a clearing, they found their quarry: fifty cultists, two chained victims, and a horrifying ritual about to begin. Actual play of Call of Cthulhu's Masks of Nyarlathotep by Chaosium Inc....

Under the oppressive cover of a coastal fog, the investigators approach the silent, sprawling estate of Misr House. With the main occupants believed to be elsewhere, the party prepares to set foot on the dock and infiltrate the mansion's walls. But what grim secrets and hidden passages lie waiting within? Actual play of Call of Cthulhu's Masks of Nyarlathotep by Chaosium Inc. View the myst...

The investigators leave London's familiar streets for the foggy shores of Walton-on-the-Naze and the secrets of Misr House. Actual play of Call of Cthulhu's Masks of Nyarlathotep by Chaosium Inc. View the mysteries and secrets as the investigators uncover them at:https://www.legendkeeper.com/app/clt34sk1p13j80jkt4y02fyzg Music and Sound by Syrinscape.https://syrinscape.com/?RPGFIENDSBecaus...

Back in the relative safety of the Ritz, the investigators unpack the strange relics and damning evidence stolen from the Penhew Foundation. With leads pointing in all directions, from Shanghai to Derby, they now face their most dangerous prize: a collection of forbidden books that promise power at the cost of the very minds that seek it. Actual play of Call of Cthulhu's Masks of Nyarlathotep...

Darkness has fallen on the Penhew Foundation. With a plan of distraction and force, the investigators prepare to breach the iron fence. But with a lone guard as their first obstacle and untold secrets waiting within, their desperate gamble is about to begin. Actual play of Call of Cthulhu's Masks of Nyarlathotep by Chaosium Inc. View the mysteries and secrets as the investigators uncover them...

The polite meeting with Edward Gavigan felt more like a carefully staged performance. With the chilling sense of being monitored and the air thick with unspoken truths, the investigators knew the Penhew Foundation held more than just ancient artifacts. As the office door closed behind them, the true investigation was only just beginning. Actual play of Call of Cthulhu's Masks of Nyarlathotep b...