Chapter 6 Pre -amble for new characters

The company records for FOC: Federated Oil and Chemical are a huge international company formed in 1908. They are involved in the exploitation of mineral resources including oil, coal, natural gas and others. They also manufacture raw chemicals for industrial use. FOC has major facilities in Canada, Great Britain, Italy and three in the United States as well as smaller operations worldwide.
Michael Abelard is the founder and current president of the board. He is Incredibly wealthy in post crash America



Some years ago, he and his son, Michael Junior were mountaineering in the Pyrenees. There was an accident there, it took the boys life and cost Abelard his legs. It was widely reported in the news, but what wasn't public was who, or what was behind the accident."

Abelard has always believed that Aliens, called the Mi-Go, were behind this tragedy and it has been his mission, to hunt them down and make them pay.

In the last year of years the focus of his attention has been on the town of Cobb’s Corners, Vermont. It is the location of a place called Broken Hill that seemed to be a hive of activity for the Mi-Go. It later became known that the hill was a source of a previously unknown element named Pasquallium, an ore of unknown origin. The Mi’Go were actively searching for deposits of this ore and in fact had a secret underground base in the hill.

In 1928, FOC funded Miskatonic U. to send a group of students performing archaeological research there. It ended in tragedy, with one student dying and another going missing.

The following year, 1929 a second group including Robert Blaine, the leader of the original expedition, returned to Cobb’s corners, interviewing locals on folklore while others continued the archaeological research. During that they uncovered a piece of Pasquallium (this was later recovered by the Mi-Go in an attack on the University.

Disaster struck again, the team were openly attacked by the Mi-go, revealing themselves for the first time. Many of the group were killed or carried away, a few escaped, including survivalist and engineering student Mathis Steele.

Note Mathis’ journal of events from this expedition has been recovered and can be read on request by anyone involved with this story. Because of the nature of this tale, it is not for the faint of heart. (anyone can read it here: https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/4676/. Reading it will gain you +1 Mythos and -1d3 sanity)

November 1930, another expedition to Cobb’s Corners went ahead, with a number of FOC experts both in the field of psychology and the Mi-Go. Mathis Steele, at that point the only student still alive and sane to have seen the Mi-Go was also part of that group. In addition, FOC sent a large contingent of mercenary soldiers, armed to the teeth. It seems the intent of this was to draw out the Mi-Go (though this wasn’t explicitly stated)

Again, this ended in disaster. The troops, camped in the nearby woods were ambushed by not only Mi-Go but by an unknown entity , huge walking trees. Research on these has identified them as creatures known as Dark Young. They were wiped out almost completely with a few escaping to join Mathis’ team.

The house where the research team were staying was also devastated causing all to flee. It is not clear what happened but it was at this point the underground base at Broken Hill was discovered. A couple of FOC employees, Prof. David Drake and Dr Sarah Matherson, escaped at that point and managed to return to civilization, the rest including Mathis disappeared and were not heard from again.

Following that it is unclear what happened, but Cobb's Corners was very nearly wiped from the map. Few bodies were found, What
few people managed to survive that hellish night have either been driven insane or refuse to talk about what happened. None of the FOC employees or independent civilians sent by FOC were found.

By the time state and government officials and support arrived, almost everything in Cobb’s Corners had been destroyed. Over 90% of the buildings were burnt to the ground by some kind of inferno that swept through the town.

The farms outside the town suffered a similar fate; only the rain stopped a major forest fire from starting. Even the once rich soil has been reduced to a chalk-like consistency. Rumour around FOC suggests some huge entity destroyed the town.

News reports over the next week report two conflicting stories. The more mundane report that a large fire swept through town killing many residents in their sleep, but the source of the fire is never stated or clarified. The second story suggests a meteor struck Cobb’s Corners, destroying the whole area. The reason behind this explanation is not given, but the reporter states he received his information from scientific sources working for the government.

FOC have managed to control media coverage and a lack of evidence of either Mi-Go or other entities ensures nothing enters the official record.

What you know about the Mi-Go

• The mi-go are aliens and not native to the Earth
• They possibly come from somewhere referred to as
"Yuggoth "
• Physically, they appear to be a strange fusion of flesh
and fungus, able to change their skin color at will
• Some have wings and are able to fly
• They communicate by producing a buzzing, insect-like
voice
• The aliens are looking for something on Earth,
perhaps minerals or metals, as they are most glimpsed
in remote mountainous areas
• They are also interested in human brains, as corpses
have been found with their brains completely and
surgically removed Some form of brain transplantation
technology appears to be in evidence
• They have some form of mind control and can recruit
humans to do their bidding
• The aliens utilize tools and strange, deadly weapons

Artist impressions:

Amendment - using experienced investigator rules