Dreamer in the Dark (ArkhamDark)

The boom of the 1920s has made southern Kentucky a highway of tourists. Mammoth Cave Country is a highlight of tourism, featuring more than twenty rival show caves. This rivalry launched what was known as The Cave Wars, each site competing for travelers with misleading signs, aggressive guides, and shady deals. This fierce competition has its roots in the work of earlier pioneers: enslaved guide Stephen Bishop mapped the cave by lamplight in the 1830s and 1840s, naming many features still highlighted today. Later, physician Dr. John Croghan gained ownership of the cave and notoriously attempted to treat tuberculosis by housing patients underground between 1839 and 1843.

It's 1924, Eleanor Collins, Chicago socialite, has been plagued by nightmares of her former fiancée, Ricky Jackson, who vanished while visiting Mammoth Cave Country, last known to have taken a tour during the height of the Cave Wars. “I saw my Ricky drowning in the ground, as if the earth
itself were quicksand. The soil breathed around him, pulling him down. I saw enormous worm-shapes, pale and endless, swimming through the earth as though it were a sea. Their movements twisted the rock and soil like waves. And then he was gone, swallowed whole.”

Desperate, the investigator reaches out to friends, colleagues, and trusted contacts for help. Her plea is simple: Help me search Mammoth Cave and the surrounding countryside for my still dear friend.

The Arkham Dark game is based on the ShadowDark system. There are few differences in the rules, which will be available at the table. Pre-Gens will be provided. Like all good Cthulhu games, investigation will be a key part of play and horror / insanity is to be expected.