Plotline

The game's plot is divided into chapters. Click on any title to read more about the adventures in detail.
Chapter I: Baltimore

Seven strangers awoke in a mansion on New Years Eve, 1898, uninvited guests at a masquerade ball. Aidan the occult hunter, Alexandria the madame, Celio the violinist, Elise the reporter, John the archeologist, Katerina the missionary, and Lawrence the locksmith worked together to fend off monsters like icy spectres and bloodthirsty zombies. Slowly they decoded a message that would free them, left there by the maid before she died, but their investigation led them to a mad scientist named Roderick Usher who experimented with a supernatural force called the Red Death. The group defeated the curse that would have claimed their souls by midnight, but in leaving the house they found Usher's corpse transformed into a giant, two-story spider that they narrowly defeated with their newfound power. Spirited from the scene by a sympathetic investigator named C. Auguste Dupin, they learned that he worked for a shadowy group called La Lumière that studied the Red Death's effect on the world, and accepted an assignment from him to study a cult in Philadelphia so that they could gain membership in La Lumière themselves.
Chapter II: Philadelphia

Arriving in the snowy city, the group made contact with La Lumière agent Thaddeus Jackson. He gave them rooms in the hotel where he worked, and explained that their target was the Hellfire Club, a former gentleman's club that had recently begun dabbling in occult rituals. The group was to gain information about the group by getting inside their building, Monk Hall, without attacking them. Alexandria promised to find a teenaged virgin who had been sold into the club's service, but became wrapped up in a murder investigation with Lawrence. Celio got a job waiting tables and talking up rich locals. Elise and John researched the long history of the Hellfire Club. Aidan talked his way in but was captured, and escaped with the teenager and a converted cultist. Katerina got a job catering to the club and almost got inside, but was interrupted by former La Lumière agent Liesel Schreiner, who had joined a more violent organization that attacked the Red Death instead of studying it. After a confrontation with cult leader Oliver Haddo at their hotel led to violence, Aidan and Liesel left to confront the Hellfire Club alone, while Celio quit to keep his waiting job. Thaddeus inducted the rest of the group into La Lumière in gratitude for the information they had obtained.
Chapter III: New York

Elise was summoned by her newspaper, the New York Journal, to investigate a local museum robbery. On the train, robbers were defeated with the help of illusionist Jacques LeBeau, who followed the group. At the station, they were also followed by a bizarre homeless child who said only "Gao." At the museum, the curator explained that a sarcophagus had been stolen overnight, containing an oracle of the cat goddess Bastet. In town, a gypsy pickpocket was bullied into taking the group to his caravan in Central Park. His leader, Bronwyn Cutitari, suggested that local thieves had robbed the museum, rebuffing Jacques as an "athingani" who she wouldn't help. Suddenly, Gao took off running, and led the group to a burning food market. They defeated four cultists in black robes and put out the fire. The rescued shopkeeper, Franklin Johnson, said he looked after Gao, who the cultists were trying to "awaken." Seeking first aid, they found a medical clinic taken hostage by a street gang. Elise and Alexandria talked their way into meeting gang leader Bill the Butcher, who had been attacked by a panther. They followed his instructions and fetched Elise's boss, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, who admitted to hiring Bill's gang to rob the museum to invent a fake news story, drawing the wrath of Bastet. The group traced the sarcophagus to the store of William Wilson, who they had rescued in Baltimore, and John said an Egyptian prayer to end the curse. They met with a La Lumière agent, who arranged for the sarcophagus's return to Egypt and inducted Jacques and Gao as agents themselves.
Chapter IV: Boston

Hearing mention of murders in Boston, the group traveled there. A bartender told the group that some hookers were murdered, always found with a homeless man dead beside them. In the park, they were attacked by a homeless man who they shot dead; they eventually cleared their name with the police. Flyers posted around town smeared Alexandria as a madam and drug dealer, so the group confronted Father Blenk, who had closed her brothel in Colorado. He argued theology with Katerina, but Rachael's bold arrival in the church left him pleading for mercy; he he agreed to stop interfering with Alexandria's life, but he had orders to spy on Katerina. After fatally battling another homeless man who became enraged when Alexandria sensed the name "Charles" in his thoughts, the group interviewed streetwalkers, who led them to a Dr. Charles Witherspoon, whose wife Jeanne had been Jack the Ripper's final victim in London. A séance with ghost finder Thomas Carnacki led the group to the truth: Jeanne Witherspoon was Jack the Ripper, murdering the prostitutes that her husband treated as his clinic. Traveling to Witherspoon's house to confront him, they found Jeanne's spirit manifested in his parlor, swirling knives surrounding her in the air. After a battle that nearly defeated the group, John scattered her ashes from an urn, dissipating her spirit. Their La Lumière contact, a witch named Theresa O'Neill, offered to take them to her "family home" in Salem for a few days to rest. There, they met The Circle, a coven of witches, who informed Elise that she was somehow born of magic. Jacques discovered that Gao's cat Melchitt could talk and cursed to live in cat form. Vinny was cursed with lycanthropy. Lawrence was summoned away for a few days on personal business, asking Alexandria to join him.
Chapter V: Arkham

During a ceremony, Elise was inducted as a member of The Circle, and taught to manipulate stones with magic. Gao suffered a vision of Alexandria and Lawrence being tortured, and the group needed to find them. With Theresa's help, the group divined the location "Tate household" in Dunwich, Connecticut. There they found a town overrun with zombie-like locals, and Auguste Dupin waiting with news that Lawrence had traveled to nearby Arkham to rescue his mother Lily. They fled after discovering that Dupin was dead and his body was being manipulated to gain information, but not before Jacques sacrificed himself to stop the attacking mob. In Arkham, they found a town mad with nightmarish visions, and a peculiar investigator named Randolph Carter who seemed to know what they should do next; he explained that his dreams showed him the future. Lawrence and Alexandria were committed an insane asylum, so the group impersonated orderlies to free them, interviewing many inmates in the process. After a testy confrontation with facility director Charles Dexter Ward, who seemed to be interested in Gao's visions, they learned that he was really a centuries-old necromancer named Joseph Curwen, and he had taken Alexandria's soul to another world called the Dreamlands. Guided through their dreams by Randolph Carter, the group journeyed to the Dreamlands. They met interference from Nyarlathotep, a miscreant alien in the form of a human pharaoh, and learned that Curwen sought a spell book called the Necronomicon that might be the same book they took from his laboratory. Curwen plotted to use Alexandria's budding powers to awaken the "Great Ones," unimaginably powerful aliens who could destroy the world, but the group defeated him in battle and returned to the waking world.
Chapter VI: Providence

Alexandria woke up beside her nemesis Father Joseph Blenk, who she kicked out her bed. He had come to warn her that Katerina Petrovich had been taken to an abandoned train station in Providence by two men in priest cassocks, but he learned that the site was used by a Satanic cult, and the local priest Father Moretti wouldn't help him. The group traveled to the station, where they defeated two cultists in the basement who were ritualistically killing an eagle. At the church, Alexandra found letters from Celio Parisi to Father Moretti that mentioned the group's travels and Katerina's angelic protector Rachael. The next morning, Elise questioned Moretti further, and sensed him lying about being Rachael's adoptive father, but it was clear that he knew her somehow. They followed rumors of dead farm animals to the discovery of a slaughtered ox, and realized that the cultists were killing four creatures that represented the four evangelicals: An eagle (John), an ox (Luke), a lion (Mark), and an angel (Matthew). Rushing to the zoo, they found two cultists bleeding a lion to death and narrowly defeated them, but Aidan Kane arrived and killed the surviving cultist before they could question him. He said that Salistra, a darkling (the offspring of a demon and human), would have to kill an angel on holy ground to complete the ritual. They returned to the cathedral, where Aidan was being tied up over flame, along with other victims in an elaborate ritual. Salistra killed Rachael in the ensuing battle and escaped in triumph, while Aidan and Blenk succombed to their injuries. The group saved Moretti and Katerina, who pledged to help the Vatican prepare for an assault by Salistra and her newly freed father, the demon Astaroth.
Chapter VII: Pittsburgh

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