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New investigators may not yet know one another; this adventure provides the opportunity to make one another’s acquaintance and become friends and allies in an ongoing struggle against dark forces. The adventure begins in Arkham, Massachusetts, in the year 1928. The keeper should feel free to alter locations, dates, names, or anything else that pleases him. Little in the scenario makes it difficult to transfer the adventure to the 1890s or the present. It is assumed that the player-characters live close to Arkham.  \nThey are called to the hospital bedside of a dying man, Rupert Merriweather, an elderly gentlemen fast succumbing to cancer. The investigators are all friends, relatives, past students, and former colleagues of the man. The exact relationship of each investigator must be decided ahead of time by the keeper and can involve some close personal bond and a reason for trust. Each investigator receives word of theman’s plight either by telephone, telegraph, or personal courier. They learn he is confined to St. Mary’s hospital in Arkham and that he wishes them to visit him tomorrow afternoon—a Thursday—at one o’clock.  \nRupert Merriweather  \nSt. Mary’s hospital is located in central Arkham adjacent to Miskatonic University. The information deskin the main lobby provides directions to Merriweather’s private, third-floor room. The investigators find the door to his room open and the bed-ridden man engaged with two other visitors—his grieving 62-year-old wife, Agnes, and his sneering, weasel-like son, 33year-old Bertrand.  \nIn a rasping whisper Rupert introduces the investigators to his wife and son, and to one another. After pleasantries are exchanged Rupert asks his weeping wife and suspicious son to leave him alone for a moment with his friends. After making sure the door is shut, Rupert reveals why he has called them here.  \nA Dark Secret  \nIn the days of his youth, the old man says, he and some fellow students became involved in what they believed to be an innocent exploration of the occult. Led by a slightly older man named Marion Allen, the six men purchased an old farmhouse a few miles west of Arkham near the village of Ross’s Corners. There they could conduct their seances and other psychic research in privacy. The unexpected result of their last experiment was the summoning of some evil force into this world. Instead of attempting to expel the thing, the young men abandoned the old house, confident that the magic which brought the evil to this world would keep it confined to the vacant house. However, the spell that binds the being to the house lasts only as long as the casters live. Rupert Merriweather is the last of the group and he fears that upon his death the thing will go free and wreak havoc on the countryside.  \nRupert gestures weakly to an innocuous metal box on the night stand beside the bed.“Take the box,” he croaks.“All the aid I can offer you lies within. You must find a way to send that thing back to where it came from. You must see that this is done. Do this for me.”  \nAs soon as an investigator takes possession of the box but before he can open it, the ailing Rupert is choked by a sudden spasm. He doubles up, groans, then coughs forth a huge gout of blood and tissue—spattering any investigator standing near the night stand—then falls into a coma. All investigators present must make a Will check vs. 5, losing Mental Stress from the attack. Someone should call for a doctor.  \nThe room quickly fills with interns, nurses, and Rupert’s concerned wife and son. In the way, the investigators are asked to leave. Despite the hospital’s best efforts, Rupert dies within the hour.  \nThe Contents of the Box  \nThe investigators probably examine the contents of the box. Inside they find a yellowed envelope containing the deed to a house and the key to its lock, a small, sarcophagus-shaped gold box of ancient design, and a slim journal bound in leather. Deed ","cbCaitAgfPu5hNPo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitAgfPu5hNPo","pdf",976063,14,"English","# A Dying Man in Arkham\n## Calling the Investigators\n## St. Mary’s Hospital and Introductions\n# A Dark Secret\n## The Summoning and the Binding\n## The Box and the Sudden Death\n# The Contents of the Box\n## Deed, Key, Journal, and Carvings\n## Scholar and Lore Checks\n# What Next?","[{\"question\":\"How do the investigators receive Rupert Merriweather’s request to come to the hospital?\",\"answer\":\"Each investigator is contacted ahead of time by telephone, telegraph, or personal courier. 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