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Smith © Copyright 2019 Cover by Lou S. © Copyright 2020  \nCall of Cthulhu is a trademark of Chaosium Inc. and is used with permission.  \nHOOK:  \nAn investigator is contacted by Emelia Carpel, a book dealer who has secured a copy of that rare text they had been looking for (and recently lost out at auction to a collector called Graeme Perrikins) .  \nTRUTH:  \nCarpel is an avatar of the incubation aspect of Shub-Niggurath. It is spreading memetophores through the books it sells, which infect the locals with an extinct arthropod-a eurypterid. Perrikins has succumbed to the illness and apparently drowned in the harbour. The incubation is enabled by a fossil on loan from the National History Museum which is currently on display in the town hall.  \nTHREADS:  \n● Acquiring the book exposes the investigators to memetophores  \n● Other customers in the shop display signs of the illness, and soon one dies in the ornamental gardens  \n● News reports and a library plate from the book point towards the recent death of Graeme Perrikins, who wife and files reveal signs of the illness  \n● Posters and flyers entice locals to the eurpyterid fossil, whose presence is enabling the illness  \nInvestigators can prevent the spread of the infection and its subsequent deaths by destroying the fossil or sending it away, or by killing Carpel.  \nTIMELINE:  \n● Three years ago: Emelia Carpel moves to Kinstow and establishes its bookshop  \n● Two months ago: the investigator loses out on their desired book to Graeme Perrikins  \n● Two weeks ago: Carpel is loaned aeurypterid fossil from the National History Museum  \n● One week ago: Perrikins begins having bad dreams and sells the book back to Carpel  \n● Three days ago: Perrikins’ illness reaches its peak and he dies in the harbour  \n● Yesterday: Carpel contacts the investigator looking to sell them the book  \n● Today: the investigators visit Carpel’s bookstore and the scenario begins  \n● Tomorrow: another customer of the bookstore is found dead in the ornamental gardens  \n● One month from now: Carpel returns the fossil to the museum; the mysterious water deaths end after two dozen victims  \n● Seven years from now: the hundreds of larval eurypterids reach full size and choke the local waterways  \nMEMETOPHORE INFECTION AND ILLNESS:  \nIf the investigators have spent at least six hours in the presence of one of the books (or three hours in Carpel’s shop), they must make a POW save the next time they sleep. Investigators who fail become infected with memetophores that twist and knot their neurones into larval simulacra of eurypterids:  \n1. Their sleep becomes fitful and full of confusing dreams (see memetophore dreams sidebar on page 3.) The dreams return on subsequent nights, each bringing with it another POW save to prevent stage two.  \n2. Their waking hours are wracked with painful headaches. These are lessened if the characters spend time beside a body of water. After a day of headaches, victims make a CON save to prevent escalation to stage three. The dreams return at night, free of headache.  \n3. Soft tissue areas of the victim’s face begins to layer with translucent cocoon-like scales. Victims who are aware of others with this condition (from speaking with Perrikins’ wife or seeing them in the bookstore) or who have dreamt of cocoons (dreams three or four) suffer a SAN check. Each evening thereafter, victims make a further CON save or the illness develops to the final stage.  \n4. Instead of going to sleep, the host is compelled to find the nearest body of water and submerge their head. As this happens, their skull bursts forcibly from the inside and d20 palm-sized eurypterids pour out.  \nIt would take significant research into the anathema to Shub-Niggurath to cure the disease. Its incubation is empowered by the presence of Emelia Carpel in the town and catalysed by the fossil on display. 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