Synopsis "An Unwelcome Guest (in English)"
Maine. 1936. Guests arrive in the fog-shrouded fishing village of Kildare Cove on Broke Moon island for a weekend party at the vacation home of a wealthy friend.... However, all is certainly not as it seems.... After nightfall, unsettling events soon begin... and become more horrific as time passes.... Tipped gravestones... A servant carries food-stuffs down to the basement in the middle of the night... A guest's strange fascination with the moon... An elderly neighbor strangles her cats, dumping them down a curbside drain... A mysterious infection... A rash of stolen tools... Occurrences at the abandoned cannery... A pile of dead animals around a lifeless pond... Tremors increasing in intensity... A cave exposed, and filled with enigmatic and disturbing paintings, and a strange and powerful artifact... A farm-horse's deadly rampage... Crabs pouring from the sea to attack and drag the victims back to the cold depths... The lighthouse's sudden darkness.... Then.... Gruesome murders, and even more horrific acts.... Add a homeless World War I veteran, an innocent shoeshine boy, a feral and naked barber, the hermit-daughter of a freed slave... with a hidden power, suspicious fishermen, bubbling cove waters, Indian artifacts, old manuscripts and journal entries, fireworks, a dying oak tree, a broken down steam-shovel, and a new waste-water treatment plant... and you have this mystery-horror-adventure story, designed as a system-free tabletop rpg... but which can also easily be enjoyed as a novel. (.... If you want more surprise and mystery, begin on page 14 after all the Setup, Introduction and Explanation.... and do not read the back). Played as an RPG, will your PC's survive the growing threats? Will they unravel the clues that lead to an ultimate and dreadful realization...? As events spiral rapidly out of control, will Kildare Cove... and ultimately all of humanity... be saved? Book is 8 1/2 x 11. 116 pages. Approx 100k words. Additional book available with 71 color drawings, portraits, and maps of important Scenes, People, and Events.... Useful for enhancing your experience, or for handing to your Players during the course of the Adventure.... (Many are colored and larger reproductions of ones in Original book.)
