While exploring the Hawkins’ mansion with Bradley, Pierce learns more about the Hawkins family. He also sees a beached killer whale, killed by ghastly wounds, being dragged back into the sea by the police, much to the locals’ chagrin. The detective meets Captain Fitzroy, who provides him with a few details of the Hawkins family Officer Bradley, who handled the case and Cat Baker, a successful bootlegger and feared gang leader. The islanders are superstitious and suspicious of outsiders like Pierce. That year, the island’s last ship, the Scylla, returned with a legendary “Miraculous Catch”, that saved the island. Darkwater was home to a booming whaling industry until a sudden scarcity in 1847. Upon arriving in Darkwater, Pierce is steeped in the strange local culture.
As the only clue is a strange picture painted by the wife, Sarah, shortly before her death, Edward has to set out to Darkwater Island off the coast to find out more about the matter. He is soon contacted to look into the case of the Hawkins family, who mysteriously died in a fire. In 1924 Boston, private investigator and war veteran Edward Pierce suffers from increasingly bizarre nightmares and self-medicates with sleeping pills and alcohol. Slinking shadows hide lurking figures… and all the while, the Great Dreamer prepares for his awakening. Your mind will suffer – between sanity and psychosis, your senses will be disrupted until you question the reality of everything around you. Strange creatures, weird science, and sinister cults dominate the Cthulhu Mythos, intent on realizing their mad schemes to bring about the end of everything. Sanity is an irregular bedfellow, all too often replaced by whisperings in the dark. Soon enough, Pierce is pulled into a terrifying world of conspiracies, cultists, and cosmic horrors. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family on the isolated Darkwater Island.
Call of Cthulhu, the official videogame inspired by Chaosium’s classic pen and paper RPG, brings you deep into a world of creeping madness and shrouded Old Gods within Lovecraft’s iconic universe.ġ924.
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