Dec 6, 2020 1:09 pm
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.
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.