Hunting The Deep Ones

The time was 17:00 PM and we were all standing by the Moai and we had to decide what we were going to do next. The night was fast approaching and the trail of the Deep Ones might have gone cold if we didn’t follow up. We imagined that the Deeps Ones were coming from the other side of the Island, about 8 miles WEST of our current position.

The first thing we did was to help Gaidar and Trixie, who was injured, back to the S.S Semiramis via the Grate Crate ©. Gaidar give Trent his Coral Amulet as Trent had lost his “Skin of Sedefkar”. The rest of the squad and I followed the Deep Ones trail. We went as slowly as we felt was safe and used the Motorcycles to transport ourselves and as a light source to help my tracking.

As we reached the WESTERN side of the Island we continued to follow the Deep Ones tracks to a cave entrance. The cave entrance was well hidden and we would have missed it if not for the Deep Ones trail.

We took up our marching order and entered the cave. I took point, as I had “Skin of Sedefkar” cast on me and the Elder Sign hanging around my neck too, followed by Trent, Simon, and Irma with Wesley and Gupta bringing up the rear. Trent and I listen at the cave mouth but heard nothing but the wind and dripping water.

The cave mouth was fairly large and at the end of it was a tunnel leading directly EAST. Trent and I made our way down the tunnel as quietly as we could and we could make out a torch on the wall in the distance that provided some light. The rest of the squad behind us made no noise apart from the Gupta who managed to drop his kukri.

We reached a fork and I checked to ground for tracks and find those of Deep Ones and footprints of humans heading off to the SOUTH. We can hear the sound of the sea up ahead of the tunnel that continues EAST. I move ahead of the squad a short distance, down the EAST tunnel and place a grenade on the floor, pull the pin and weigh it down with an empty bag as a booby trap. This will hopefully provide an early warning system if the Deep Ones come from the EAST tunnel and they investigate.

As we continue a short distance down the SOUTH tunnel we come to another branching tunnel, this time heading back WEST in the direction from which we came. Trent checked for traps just in case. We have been caught out before and we didn’t want it happening again, we discover nothing to alarm us.

We all move forward and Wesley takes a knee at the tunnel entrance behind us and Gupta covered him with his Tommy-Gun. We were still following the tracks of the humans. There was some shuffling behind us and it turned out that Wesley had heard a noise coming from the tunnel which we had not investigated, SOUTH. Wesley hid at the tunnel mouth and when he saw the first Deep One he opened fire with the Elephant Gun. He had to concentrate as the sight of the Deep Ones was extremely distressing. BOOOOM, the sound of the Elephant Gun rung out and poor Gupta must have had ringing ears as the large blast was concentrated in such a confined space. The Deep One at the front goes down.

Wesley could see that there were 3 more Deep Ones behind it and moved aside a little so Gupta could take a shot at them. Irma, however, appeared to be far too egger and stepped out in front of Gupta and the kneeling Wesley and shot at the leading Deep One with his Trent Gun, BANG. The Deep One was only winged and he lunged at Irma. The Deep Ones were carrying spears and long knives and none of them had any Guns or rifles which sounds like a good thing but the weapon were formidable and would cause as much, if not more damage than our own weapons. The Deep One attacked Irma and he managed to lower his Trent gun and deflect the sweep of the spear.

Wesley, still kneeling on the ground by the tunnel entrance let the Deep One have the second barrel of his Elephant Gun and he went down this time. Simon had edged his way forward, while Gupta had moved out into the tunnel to cover and kill anything that came at us from behind, and used the Futuristic M16 to take out last two of the Deep Ones.

We stopped to check for any other movement and when we heard nothing we continued WEST to where we believed the kidnapped people were. I was taking point alongside Trent and as we moved WEST then SOUTH we came to another fork were we once again set upon by more Deep Ones, 4 more to be precise.

I raised the NEW B.A.R, now called Clara after the film star of the day Clara Bow, and the first one went down under the a hail of bullets. Trent used his Tommy-Gun and took out another 2. The last of the Deep Ones was rushing towards us with his spear raised but I stuck out my chest to expose the Elder Sign that was hung around my neck and it stopped and hesitated. This gave Trent the opportunity to shot again and then there were none.

The Deep Ones had appeared from the SOUTHERN most tunnel and Trent pointed to the NORTHEN tunnel above it and signalled that he could hear more coming from that direction. I lay down, using the bodies of the fallen Deeps Ones as cover and Trent slowly edged forward towards the NORTH tunnel. The rest of the squad more up behind us with Wesley and Gupta covering the tunnel behind us.

Trent was near the tunnel entrance when suddenly more Deep Ones rushed out from it. Trent was ready and shot it and it fell to the ground like a gutted mackerel. Unfortunately, there was another one close behind it and it went to attack Trent. Trent was hit by the Deep Ones spear and was only saved by the “Skin of Sedefkar” which he had cast upon himself. This gave the 3rd Deep One time to move alongside the 2nd one and Trent now had to deal with 2 Deep Ones. He fired the Tommy Gun, hit both of them but one only took a flesh wound. It then swung at Trent, but was lucky enough for him to be missed by the weapon. Trent now had the Deep One right on him and as he fired, point blank, he also killed the last of this group.

We once again took a short while to listen out for more of these Deep Ones and Trent and Wesley took the opportunity to re-load their weapons. We continued down the NORTH tunnel where the Deep Ones had come from with Irma taking point this time. We reached another fork, this place was turning out to be a real maze of tunnels, and Irma could hear the sound of more Deep Ones shuffling towards us. Irma took out the “Crystal of Noa” to check if it was glowing, nothing. From the other tunnel he could hear the sound of people speaking in Spanish, we were close to the prisoners and Irma took up a covering position.

Trent and I edge forward and as one of the Deep Ones moved forward Trent shot it and it drops down dead. A second one hurries past his fallen comrade only to be killed by me. Just when we thought that we had killed all of the Deep Ones, we could hear Gupta from behind us saying there were more coming from the tunnel were we had killed the first lot of DEEP Ones, SOUTH. There were 3 more Deep Ones moving quickly towards Gupta and Wesley.

Wesley, with his Elephant Gun now re-loaded, took out the first of the Deep Ones. The second Deep One jumps over the dead body of his comrade and manages to strike Wesley with his spear. The “Skin of Sedefkar” did its job again and he took no damage. Gupta, from his position was unable to take a shot at the second Deep One and has to move into the tunnel to face the oncoming Deep Ones. He had a better line of sight and Tommy Guns the second Deep One. Wesley then aimed his trusty Elephant gun at the face of the last on rushing Deep One and takes his head taken clean off his shoulders. The smell of rotting fish and blood was now repellent.

Once again we all stop and listened out for further movement but heard nothing but the voices of the prisoners coming from ahead of us. We continued EAST and SOUTH and came to a cavern were we found the remaining kidnapped victims. There were ? left and the Deep ones must have sacrificed those that were missing. We could see that they had been all striped of their garments, foot ware and they were all in a state of shock. They were saying that the “Fish Men” had taken them and they all wanted to leave this place as soon as possible.

I tried to talk to them in Spanish and managed to explain that we were here to help them and that they should stay where they were until we had dispatched of all the kidnappers, trying not to explain what they in fact were.

Just when I had thought that we had cleared the tunnels we all heard the familiar sound, a dull thud, of a grenade going off back down the tunnel from where the first fork was leading to these tunnels and the Sea Cave. Me trap had worked and allowed us to not be surprised again and maybe even taken a few of the Deep Ones out too.

Irma and Trent double timed it back to the tunnel entrance, while I persuaded the prisoners to stay put. Some of them had picked up a spear and knife from the dead Deep Ones and were in the process of hacking at their dead bodies. They did as they were told.

Irma and Trent make it to the Fork where I had set-up the grenade trap, followed by Simon and myself. Irma checked around the corner and could see a Deep One lying on the ground in obvious pain and approached slowly. The Deep One was in pain and on the ground but not too injured that it attacked Irma by flailing its spear at Irma. Luckily it missed Irma. Trent fired his Tommy gun at it but managed to miss as the space was cramped and he had Irma in front of him.

They had no choice, as they intended to continue on towards the sound of the sea and follow 2 more Deep Ones that were escaping, but to try and kick the downed Deep one as they tried to jump over him. Irma missed timed his kick and missed the prone Deep One but Trent managed to crack its skull and it was down for good.

Irma and Trent continued down the tunnel towards the sound of the sea followed by myself and Simon who had caught up with them. They could hear the sound of 2 more Deep Ones that were quickly making their way to the Sea Cave and had to be stopped. We didn’t need them alerting the rest of their shoal of mates to come and make our lives even more difficult.

They both hurried down the tunnel and could see in the far distance 2 Deep Ones approaching the sea shore and freedom from Trent’s wrath. Trent aimed his Tommy-Gun and both of them and opened fire but they were just too far away and the bullets flew harmlessly over their heads. Irma and Trent continued forward for a heartbeat while the Deep Ones had made it to the sea edge. Last chance, Trent opened fire again and managed to take down one of them but the second one got away and disappeared from site. Irma, however had not been idle and had taken out a grenade and through it will all his strength into the centre of the ripples left by the creature. It felt like minutes until, BOOOM, as a small column of water and blood rose to the surface, last Deep One dealt with. As we all reached the edge of the cave leading to the sea a Dead Deep One’s body rose to the surface.

We re-grouped and searched the rest of the tunnels and found no more Deep Ones or anything of interest and so all headed back to the prisoners. Both I and Simon tried to talk to and explain the situation to then in Spanish but it was beyond our Pigeon-Spanish and we just had to lead them out of the Deep Ones lair and out into the cold evening.

I lead them out with Gupta and Wesley while the rest of the squad secure our exit. It was at this point that Simon and Wesley spot 3 more Deep Ones appearing out of the sea, more of them? How many of them can there be? Wesley was prepared and through his grenade at them, taking out two of them, while Simon shot the 3 and last one of the buggers. Now this was the end of it all and we all got out as quickly as we could.

It was getting dark quickly and we had no choice but to escort the prisoners back to Hanga Roa, they would not make it back alone and some even clung to us as if their very lives depended on it. We could now make out 3 of the prisoners in particular as they were members of the dig, two women and one man.

On the way to Hanga Roa we met up with a few of the local garrison and they agreed to take the prisoners off our hands as we wanted to go back and destroy the Moai that I had seen opening its eyes. We made it back to the Moai and we decided to contact Gaidar back on the ship. He came through, set up the explosives and the explosion toppled the Moai even knocking its hat off too. Gaidar then explained how he had looked into the Grave Worm Monster and believes that it may have been a member of the Silver Twilight and placed his soul into this monster and became an immortal servant for them.

Friday 11th/July/1924

We spent the night back at the Deep Ones lair, in the cave entrance, kept watches and the night passed uneventfully. Or next intention was to go to investigate the Moai where there mummified bodies were found to see if we could gather more evidence that could shed more light onto what we needed to do next. We travelled to the site and encountered no one and began to check the site and bodies.

Wesley and Gaidar spent the time checking the mummies and they discovered that they were over 1000 years old. Further investigation confirmed that they were in fact the bodies of Deep Ones. The Birdman was correct and they must have been members of the first inhabitants on the Island. They were eventually killed by the natives, the first Polynesians to settle on the Island, with the help of the items of Noa.

Meanwhile, back on the ship, the shore had signalled the crew asking for us to come ashore to speak with the governor as soon as possible. Trent uses the “Gate Crate ©” to travel to our location to inform us about the request. He then travelled back to the ship and rowed over to Hanga-Roa. The rest of the squad take to the remaining 3 motorcycles and we also made our way to Hanga-Roa.

We all arrive at the same time and visit the governor who is accompanied by his lieutenant. The governor has some strange and bad news for us all. It appeared that their naval ship, the O’Higgins that was patrolling the waters off Easter Island had been called back to port. The reason was that the Chilean Government, using their new modern equipment, had picked up seismic activity similar to that of a major earthquake occurring in the area.

The governor told us that their scientists believe that a new Island had been formed by volcanic or seismic activity in the area. He them asked us to provide assistance to investigate this phenomena as they do not want to send their own ships to the area. Irma insists that this will be an added to cost to us and that we must be compensated for any costs incurred. The governor agrees and this made Irma very happy.

The governor went on to explain that the Island had been calculated to be around 1000 miles due south of our current position. We all know that in fact is was the Island of R’Lyeh that had risen. Carl Stanford and his motley crew must have succeeded in their task and we had no choice but to travel to the Island and do what needed to be done.

The governor then explained that 3 tramp steamers had been seen to sail out of “Puerto Montt”, crewed by mulatos and pirates. He then offers to equip us with weapons which we worked out to be the same as those used by Max Reed and his crew.

Are next move is clear but will we have the time to get everyone but to full strength, especially Trixie, so we can stand a chance against Carl Stanford and his large entourage of followers?

Only time will tell.

Or something else maybe?