The RPG Fiends

Somewhere in the sprawling labyrinth of Shanghai, a young woman is pinned flat inside a cage of glass and steel, screaming as a mild-mannered man uses starving river rats to extract a single name. Meanwhile, the...

The night air above the Stumbling Tiger Bar is thick with smoke and the acrid stench of burning lacquer. Trapped in the narrow alleyway behind the blazing establishment, the investigators have nowhere left to run...

<p>The radio crackles to life inside the Stumbling Tiger Bar, its sudden blare attempting to mask a suffocating tension. A single name—Jack Brady—hangs in the stale, smoke-filled air, freezing both a Scottish-Chinese...

<p>The smog-choked docks of Shanghai offer no rest for the wicked. Trading the horrors of the ocean for the damp, neon-lit grit of Lantern Street, the investigators plunge into a city built on secrets and vice. Between...

<p>The Southern Bell offers a rare and quiet reprieve as it cuts across the ocean, giving the investigators eleven days to heal, study, and reflect on the horrors they left behind in Egypt. But in the shadow of the...

<p>The night is over, but the nightmare is still breathing. In the quiet aftermath of a massacre, the surviving Nazir of Ibn Tulun places the burden of a terrifying legacy into the hands of exhausted strangers. While a...

<p>The cellar of the Ibn Tulun Mosque has become a slaughterhouse. In the suffocating darkness below, ancient guardians throw themselves against an impossible, shifting nightmare, armed with nothing but scimitars and...

<p>The sun has set over Cairo, leaving the city in a darkness broken only by the faint lights of a hospital that was once a house of worship. Beneath the stone floors, six ancient men stand ready to die for a secret...

<p>The veil between the waking world and the ancient sands is wearing thin. In the silence of a dream, a predator the size of a lioness waits with a message that will haunt the waking hours: the scales of Egypt are...

<p>The bustle of the Cairo marketplace deafens the senses, a chaotic sea of noise and heat. But for the investigators, the world has gone silent. One small, damning detail has changed everything: the silver glint of an...

<p>The sun beats down on the bustling streets of Cairo as the investigators wait outside the mosque, their eyes scanning the crowd for their guide. Hakim has gone to find the scholar Dr. Kafour, but the cryptic warning...

<p>Cairo. A city of ancient secrets and new dangers. Haunted by spectral warnings and a fiery death, the investigators have finally arrived in Egypt. But as they take their first steps from the safety of their hotel...

<p>The sea voyage to Egypt offered a moment to heal and plan. But a knock at their cabin door shatters the calm. A strange woman in Victorian dress stands before them, her arrival impossible, her message even more so...

<p>Reeling from their violent clash with the Brotherhood, the investigators fled Misr House under the cover of chaos and fog. With crucial evidence in hand pointing toward Shanghai and Egypt, they now face the daunting...

<p>Having uncovered the grim secrets hidden within Misr House, from its torture chambers to the fate of a missing inspector, the investigators donned cultist robes and followed a trail into the fog. At the edge of a...