Case 02 · A first look
Dear God,
What Is
That Thing?!
Summer has come to Arkham.
Something else has, too.
Six months after returning to Arkham, you take on your first big case. A young woman has emerged from Uptown Park claiming the trees are alive, and a suspicious stranger has slipped away into the crowd. With the park sealed off and the woman recovering at St. Mary’s, Inspector Garrison asks for your help. Follow the leads and piece together what happened in those woods.
Enter the mysteryArkham, Massachusetts · June 30, 1929
A disturbance on West High Street
“The trees were alive.
Alive!”
A young woman has collapsed after emerging from the woods at Uptown Park. Taken to St. Mary’s Hospital, she survives—but her account of what happened makes little sense.
A suspicious onlooker flees when a policeman calls out to him. Neither the woman nor the stranger has been identified. The park is cordoned off.
Who are they?
And what happened in those woods?
Six months after your return
A familiar office.
An unfamiliar case.
Professor Henry Armitage welcomes you back to his office at the Orne Library. After months of smaller mysteries, Inspector Garrison has asked for your specialist assistance.
Armitage gives you the details. The rest is yours to investigate.
“This case won’t be too complex. However, after my experience last summer in Dunwich, one can never be too sure.”Professor Henry Armitage · From the opening
Introducing the Arkham Advertiser
Read between
the headlines.
The morning newspaper becomes part of your investigation.
Its stories may point you toward useful leads, draw you into another mystery, or send you down a dead end. You’ll have to decide which details deserve a closer look.
As in the first case, new components are introduced within the story. Here, the casebook explains how to put the Arkham Advertiser to work.
Arkham, Massachusetts · June 30, 1929
This morning’s edition.
Explore both pages of the Arkham Advertiser. Click a page to enlarge it, or open the full-resolution image to read every detail.
Choose where to begin
The city holds
the pieces.
The woman is recovering at St. Mary’s. The woods are closed. A stranger is still unaccounted for. Each is a starting point; none is the whole story.
Use the Map and Directory, compare what you learn with the newspaper, and keep track of the details in your notes. The connections are yours to make.
Your time is limited.
What will you follow first?
The investigation continues
Arkham has more
to tell you.
Dear God, What Is That Thing?! is Case 02 of Mythos Tales: Legacy.
Begin your journey with Return to Arkham.