Achtung Cthulhu! The Stars at Night, Part 1

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Cast:
Mr. Phillips (John) - Engineer (retired)
Nora St. Dennis (Kathy) - Adventuress
CPL Ron "Ferret" Farnsworth (Kurt) - British Commando

David Rafael Manasseh (Colton) - Buisninessman 

LT Arthur Tennison (Nick) -  SIS Agent in India
Signalman Timothy Legg (NPC) - Young student of occult lore

The party (Nora, Arthur, and Mr. Phillips) were assembled for an emergency brief by Captain Joshi - a team was coming from England in response to a weird astrological reading from the city of Jaipur. Apparently, only the party was in the area, and crazy enough to believe that based on reading some sundials, an Elder God was coming to destroy the Earth...or something like that.
On the DC3 was David Manassah (newly minted spy/businessman), Ferret Farnsworth (Brit Commando), and Signalman Legg (a pimply faced 17 year old draftee). It turns out that Legg had actually read The King in Yellow and thus had insight into the Elder God (Hastur) that a cult may be trying to bring to Earth. 
The group hopped a train to Jaipur to confront the threat and took the time to arrange illegal business activities and get to know each other. On arrival in the city the party split with Nora and Ferret heading to a observatory (and encountering a creepy child) and Phillips, Legg, and Mannasseh hitting the library. 
Both had other encounters - Nora finding the theatre with a play "The King in Yellow" playing that night, and the other group finding the metal shop where Yellow Sign coins were being minted (and a metalsmith committing suicide). 
With all fingers pointing to the theater, the whole party decided to descend upon the place...but only Legg and Mannasseh decided to go in. Both almost went nuts (Legg held off long enough to get David out of the place). Mr. Phillips took a shot at a Byakkee flying overhead (with a snack/victim), Nora and Tennison got out fast, and Ferret shot a fat woman who tried to curse him...but then had to run away.
Back at the hotel, wounds were patched and the consensus was that they needed to blow up the mountain that the cult ritual...maybe what they had just seen in the city..happened tomorrow night. 

But with a city block in flames from just the small play, what would happen when a Elder was summoned? Could they stop it?

Or survive?

Next: The Mountain Temple

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