Expedition to Yovo Matando

~CHAPTER ONE~

It began when I acquired an envelope of strange photographs that I am sharing here. The envelope had been tucked into a ragged copy of the rare 19th century tome, Unexplored Places of the Empire. I have taken these to many local photographers and none of them could agree on the camera, film stock, or process used to capture these odd images. 

On the back of each photo was a notation in blue ink. Some of them are barely legible, but I have done the best to reproduce them below.

"Yig cult massacre"

"Remains of Horst"

"illegible"

"Aru Gon Na Tasis"

"ruins at (illegible)"

"(illegible) St Agnes Hospital Room 23"

"Oslo necropolis"

"(illegible)"

"Adder Society Memorial, Oslo"

"Castle Bergfalk"

"Shub Niggurath rite, Avignon"

"Iris Thule (after the Incident)"

"Shub Niggurath reveler, Avignon"

"Tower and (illegible) stone gate, Yovo Matando"

"(illegible)"

"Koa Yann dock"

"ritual mask, Yovo Matando"

"Temple of Semerkhet - Jensen's first clue to the star (illegible)"

"Miss Bessie Cairo, Manchester"

 

"Rose J at father's grave"

Trail of Cthulhu Occupations Part One

ALIENIST

"But I did place upon his head and mine the two ends of my cosmic “radio”; hoping against hope for a first and last message from the dream-world in the brief time remaining."
-Beyond the Wall of Sleep

ANTIQUARIAN

(Lux and Ivy and their wizard-beast-horde of obscure recordings culled from the deepest recesses of the human psyche. Their home was said to also contain artifacts of the ancient cult of Goo Goo Muck)
"Our museum was a blasphemous, unthinkable place, where with the satanic taste of neurotic virtuosi we had assembled an universe of terror and decay to excite our jaded sensibilities."
-The Hound

ARTIST

“It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon.”
- The Call of Cthulhu

CLERGY

“I hope you won’t stay till after dark. And I beg of you to let that thing on the table—the thing that looks like a match box—alone. We don’t know what it is, but we suspect it has something to do with what he did. We even avoid looking at it very steadily.”
-The Evil Clergyman

CRIMINAL

"Messrs. Ricci and Silva were experienced in the art of making unwilling persons voluble, and the screams of a weak and exceptionally venerable man can be easily muffled..."
-The Terrible Old Man

DILETTANTE

"It’s you who are cheaply sentimental now! You know well that the old things had better be let alone. All of you had better look out if ever I chant the old rites or try to call up what lies hidden in Yuggoth, Zimbabwe, and R’lyeh!"
- Medusa's Coil