Investigation III · Case preview
The Watcher from Afar
Arkham, Massachusetts · July 23rd, 1929
A piercing sound brings Dr. Washington to his neighbour’s door in the middle of the night. No one answers. Now Armitage wants you to find out what happened in Monsieur Clemeno’s house. Your inquiries turn up a peculiar sphere and a man who swears he’s had the same conversation over and over. How many times has it been July 23rd?
Open the case file
Uptown · July 23rd
A suspiciously
fine day.
“The sky is awash with a vibrant sapphire hue. If you didn’t know better, you would believe yourself transported to a world far less grim.”
You check the address on Armitage’s telegram and knock. Your mentor answers in person. A brisk wave of his hand ushers you inside; he has business in Billington’s Wood and little time before he must leave.
Lower Southside
Fenton’s parlour
Pinned insects and cryptid taxidermies line the walls. Pasquale Fenton reclines in his chair, turning an ornate puzzle cube. He puts it down.
“I sense something is watching you from afar.”
The Arkham Advertiser
“Arkham’s Rise to the Top!” declares the morning paper.
A bullion warehouse promises jobs in French Hill. Across town, bees said to be three times their usual size have left summer market shoppers nursing red blisters. Turn the page for the personals, a poem from an anonymous reader, and today’s Crazy Catlady strip.
On page two, editor Donny Clarke tells readers to keep their spectacles polished: the Advertiser is testing color ink with a printer in Zaman’s Hill. He hopes to print the Sunday Funday section in full color.
As you investigate, which stories will you follow?
“They built the device to escape times forward nature. Each use folds the day inward, like breath held too long. Yet something else waits inside the folds—something that is not bound to hours or endings. You will not find it named in any charted dimension, but it has always been there, curling backward, watching the repetitions grow soft.”