PAXAUS2022 AcqInc CoC

# PAX Aus 2022 Acquisitions Incorporated CoC Live Game

## Ad Reel

* Speaking the name \*Hastur\* three times aloud doean't actually compel the monstrous deity to appear. Try it now.
	+ Louder please
* O. Dran is a Private Investigator with Acq Inc.
	+ Motto: Answers are my middle names
	+ Discretion is our priority
		- Propriety if there's time
	+ Fully licensed in the state of Massachusetts at the time of the advertisement
* The word from the sponsor is "Squamous"
* The fogbound fishing hamlet of Hellgrammite, MA doesn't lead the nation in "unsolved disappearances". It leads in "uninvestigated disappearances".
* Reading aloud from the Necronomicon allows strange beings to enter reality. Instead, be sure to read silently, so they only enter your mind.
* Audience Safety Bulletin: The other audience members are seeing a completely different slide. Don't look around.
	+ The voice will provide further instruction.
* Reports of "faces staring from out Its shadow" have not been confirmed. There are no faces.

## Feature Presentation Introduction

Hellgrammite, Massacusetts.

The pork-rendering capital of the world.

Rolling rivers give way to even more rolling hills in this humble hamlet.

Only one man stands betweeen these rolls and the floodplains of chaos:

OMIN DRAN, P.I. - Owner, Operator, and Chief Executive of the Acquisitions, Inc. Detective Agency.

The day dawns as it has countless times before, but on a grim occasion: the reading of CHARLES WINTHROP PLANCHETT's will, and the revelation that the heir apparent has found an apparent error in its execution!

## Events

* Omin is hired by Rutherford Planchett to investigate why he's been dropped from the will.
* The investigators meet at the funeral reception of Winthrop Planchett, being part of the AcqInc Staff-up event.
* Business with the ferns
* Can I roll to "draw focus"?
* According to Rutherford, the person in the casket is not his great grand-father. The body does however look like the pictures surrounding the coffin.
* Rose takes a closer look, and instead sees herself at an advanced age lying in the coffin.
* When Sadie looks she sees the body of her sister, who was missing. There are claw marks as of attempts to dig out of the coffin.
* Omin and Rutherford have words.
* Thurston sees the body of his Magician's assisstant, roughly sawed in half.
* The investigators proceed to the cemetary.
* They exhume the coffin
* The body starts to exit the coffin, so they drop the coffin back into the grave.
* Issues with the picture queue for the creatures that are now approaching. They are Exequists.
* Ruby covers the investigator's escape with her firearm.
* Crosstable kudos for Jerry's roleplaying skills from Bridgett
* Everyone drives back into town.
* According to the will, everything goes to The Elysium Group.
* The will was changed two weeks before the gentleman's demise.
* As dawn breaks they are approached by "Elizia", who does not breathe. As he speaks, he transforms into one of the Exequists.
* Eliza speaks for the Unclarified Mind.
* The town is now full of exequists.
* At this point the investigators realise themselves to be Exequists as they're pushed through a wall of green flame, their consciousness caught in the real of a Greater God, part of its hyper-intelligence. Thurston is dissipated.
* They lead a great groundswell of humanity, and the remaining 3 investigators are returned as Exequists in the Town Center, where they are brutally killed as abominations.