Shadow and Noir 6

 A series played using Quill Noir and Quill Shadow and Ink. This post is published under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 licence.

Letter 5: Maxwell to Price

Robert,

I need your help - Jemima's dead and it's my fault! I shared some notes with her from that old occult book I acquired. She tried one of the mystic incantations and now she's dead.

I stopped by to visit while I was in town, I'd called ahead but there was no answer. What I found shocked me - what would kill, maim, and rend two bodies like that? The scars on the bodies were deliberate patterns.

I knew there was something wrong when she asked me for a copy of the notes. Out of context the ritual tempted her to make a play for power. If she'd had the original text she'd have recognised that there's something truly sinister lurking behind the pages.

The worst part was the meaning that I've gleaned from the patterns of scars. I cross-referenced them against the Vir Stellas - they hint at something unspeakable. A being that ushers in a cacophonous era where all we cherish is torn apart.

There is something terrible coming, I feel it to be true. The notes and paraphernalia from that wretched, horrid ritual were taken and could fall into the wrong hands. We must recover them before anyone performs the ritual again.

Agnes.