Arkham By Night

To decipher part of the poem, roll Intelligence + Academics roll (diff 8), or Intelligence + Enigmas roll (diff 7). Each roll takes approximately 2 hours, or 3 in a night.

  • Line 1: blood chewing dead nameless city. [the Nameless City is home to powerful, inhuman, vampiric Creatures]
  • Line 2: living blood or dead, dead, dead. [the Creatures require mortal blood to awaken]
  • Line 3: fresh blood dead, or dead, dead, dead. [the Creatures need vampire blood to thrive]
  • Line 4: dead singing stone urn. [the Artifact is a stone urn, sending out psychic messages]
  • Line 5: dry dead. [inside the urn, one of the Creatures is locked in torpor]
  • Line 6: blood dead to dead blood living. [the Creature needs vampire blood to awaken]
  • Line 7: living blood dead, dead blood living. [the presence of the Creature is causing drained mortals to rise]
  • Line 8: old, old, blood dead. old. old. old. [the Creature is extremely ancient]
  • Line 9: chorus dead blood. [a subtle web of psychic influence is reaching out to the city's vampires]
  • Line 10: singing. sung to. sung. song dead. [those who hear the song are being prodded to free the Creature]
  • Line 11: old dead. [the Creature]
  • Line 12: AWAKEN! [the Creature is attempting to cause its own awakening]

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