Episode Synopsis – Session 26 – Last Rites
[ Author’s Note: This is the episode synopsis for the 26th session of the Dark Waters Rising campaign. This is my take as to what happened during the session. Please let me know if there are any comments or corrections. ]
Research
After the trip to London the team reviews all of the data that they have collected. Anne has compiled a report of the last time red lightning struck. The report centers on a Nazi concentration camp known as Bergenvalden and the occult experiments conducted by an associate of Dr Mengele. This associate, Dr Heimglimmer, did a ritual that tore open the fabric of reality to the Outer Dark. Only actions by a group of Allied mages presented things from getting worse. This led Anne’s investigation in two directions. First it led to one of the ingredients that the other team used. They used tears from on the ghostly test subjects that haunt Dr Heimglimmer who reportedly haunt him. The souls of these mages also act as permanent guardians of the breaches. These mages continue to view the Outer Dark and should act as another component if they can be collected.
Kirk remembers an article in a smaller Texas newspaper. A week ago Dr Heimglimmer died in a small town. The small Texas town of Rosetta was shocked when they discovered that a famed Nazi was found in a quaint neighborhood. The hunters feel like they can track Dr Heimglimmer’s souls then the ghosts that haunt him.
Rosetta, Texas
Once in town the heroes visit the former residence of Dr Heimglimmer. After MD distracts a neighbor by telling them he is doing an extermination job they search the house. With some help from Flo the ghost they find a hidden basement. The basement includes a mystic circle with walls that are covered in hieroglyphics. There is a body lying in the circle with a toe tag. It quickly animates into a powerful revenant akin to a mummy. MD and Kirk shoot is to no effect! Stone blasts with it with lightning that sends it reeling! The revenant approaches Stone and crushes his chest sending him flying into a nearby wall! The damage from the revenant has nearly killed the tough mage. Kirk sets up MD with a flaming arrow that he makes using oil form a canopic jar. The shot lights up the creature! Anne races up the stairs and using a mirror turns the sunlight on the creature sending it up in flames!
When Anne comes out of the basement she sees a projection of a black ghost in the room. Outside a car appears and two gentlemen jump out. One is a local police detective and the other is the local coroner. When the coroner sees Stone he recognizes him and tells the detective. The police officer then turns on some sort of power of Horus! They are Nazis! Anne was covering the police officer and take a shot nailing him in the leg. The now rapidly moving officer hits Anne with a shot before MD and Kirk can coordinate to take him down with some well timed shots.
Last Rites
Anne calls his old team for help cleaning up the scene. The DOOR team scrubs the scene noting a picture of an old woman on Dr Heimglimmer’s nightstand and a second secret room filled with Nazi paraphernalia.
With Storm’s finding spell the group locates Dr Heimglimmer’s soul. It appears to be held in a skeletal hand which has been buried under his mystic circle in the basement. After digging up the hand Stone studies it with his magical sight. The hand is holding an immense amount of magic and must be carefully defused. As Stone starts his work two ghosts appear. One is a little girl named Aimee. The other is Rabbi Chayim Brummer who helped the mages at the concentration camp. As Stone finishes the spell the two ghost slowly vanish while crying tears of relief that are captured by a prepared vial.
The heroes leave with another ingredient and clues to at least two more…
