Neptune Society Artifacts

A comprehensive list of occult artifacts, books, and information discovered throughout the history of the Neptune Society.

## Season 1

### Weird Tales of The Sea

#### The Thing in the Hold

* A protective talisman made from a carved narwhal horn by an unnamed tribe in the Pacific. The talisman was discovered by Dr. McCorquodale on a previous journey and destroyed when Lucy Hawthorne used its power to ward off the unnamed being attacking the group.
* Lucy Hawthorne's spellbook, inherited from her mother.
* A ritual axe used by the Dutchman, the axe was hatchet-sized and had an ornate wooden handle as well as a blade made of a big green stone. The axe was a ritual weapon of the people the crew of *The Magog* had slaughtered but had no innate occult properties.
* An ivory idol carved from a single tusk. The idol was taken from the central place of worship on an uncharted Melanesian island by Dutch sailors who massacred the indigenous population and took the women captive. The idol was used by their captives to curse the ship in a suicide ritual, killing most of the crew and summoning the god the idol resembled. The idol was destroyed by Calico Fydaq.

#### Robert Castillo

* Warded stone. The stone had a star-like sigil that warded off the frog men and kept them from attacking the individual who held it.
* Treasures of the "fish men". There were several beautiful pieces of gold objects with marine jewels and unusual geometric patterns including jewelry and a machete. The greatest of them was a tiara embedded with a large pearl that was built for a person with an elongated skull. An additional coral crown was later discovered by the party’s rescuers.
* Inside the ziggurat in the ancient building the party discovered was a calendar made up of square panels on the west and east walls, each wall representing day or night. The panels indicated local rituals and showed that the very day the party explored the island was a day of great harvest in exchange for human sacrifice.

#### The Mighty Lusca

* A gold necklace similar to the jewelry found on the island of the fish men was discovered in Captain Herod's quarters. Alma believed it was cursed and had it thrown overboard.

* The Pnakotic Manuscripts, a series of epic poems that detailed a pre-human history of the Earth. This version was handwritten by Captain Herod with various notes and annotations interpreting the text in a Judeo-Christian view.
* The party discovered the ruins of Atlantis in clear waters, a beautiful city glistening in the Caribbean sea. Deep underwater, Quincy Ferrymore found a mural of mosaics depicting misshapen beasts and enormous winged creatures with barrel-like bodies and stalks for eyes.

#### The Call of the Gold Bug

* The titular gold bug was a large gold scarab with golden wings and strange black spots across the back that fall in a pattern resembling a grinning death’s head. The scarab was both sentient and animated, holding the soul of notorious pirate and warlock William Fawn. The beetle attempted to enter its original body and resurrect as a human.
* William Fawn's map, a parchment with an invisible ink that showed pirate code when exposed to heat. The parchment was badly burned by a drunk Orlando Robicheaux but Corduroy decoded the remaining symbols to discover a set of coordinates leading to Fawn's body.
* The party found several treasures at the site of Fawn's burial including a tome written in French covered in skin and a mummified rat with a human face.

#### The Lazarus

* A research journal with unknown occult notes and rituals. The journal was destroyed by Dr. McCorquodale, who later learned it was written by an old colleague,.

### Dread Expectations

#### The Twisting Streets of London

* The magic lens, a lilac-tinted glass disc five inches in diameter and a half-inch thick with unknown runes inscribed on the edge. Looking through the glass peeled away the magical veil, showing the user the true nature of disguised beings and revealing hidden creatures. Sergeant Fluke claimed that the lens belonged to Dagon. It is currently in the possession of Lord Billiam.

#### Leak House

* An ivory idol of Dagon carved from a single tusk was found at the headquarters of the Order of Dagon, the same as the idol that appeared in episode 1 *(The Thing in the Hold)*. When touched or observed too closely, the observer heard the beat of drums and began to hear Dagon's call. The party stole the idol and took it back to the Society.
* Cthaat Aquadingen, an eldritch tome that seemed to be transforming the worshipers of Dagon into fish people. Wiggles learned magic from the book at the cost of some of her sanity.

#### The Swedenborg of Crime

* The library of Constantin Cain had books on various subjects including the occult and zoology. One of the books had sketches of the wraiths seen through the lilac lens and schematics for a strange machine.
* The occult dimension gun was a contraption created by Cain that used the lilac lens to rip a hole through dimensions and allow the wraiths into our reality. Archibald destroyed it by shooting at the lens and causing a chain reaction that caused it to collapse.

### The Eldritch Continent

#### Part 1

* A map to Necropolis, the ancient tomb of Pharaoh Nitocris hidden in a French Guinea mountain. The map was recovered from the shipwrecked remains of *The Medusa*, Quentin Ferrymore's ship.
* A box of bees Quincy got at the village of Bayla. Quincy smashed the box in Part 2 to distract a swarm of bats attacking the party. The bees aren't magic, they're just bees.

#### Part 2

* The Eye of Nitocris/Mordiggian, a large ruby with the power to show glimpses of future deaths. Ian Pembley dreamed of the ruby after surviving a ghoul attack and later recovered it in the temple in Necropolis.
* The honey mummies were the preserved bodies of the temple workers, encased in giant urns of honey. The honey had healing benefits and seemed to be the main method of creating ghouls. The party destroyed all the mummies by smashing the urns and lighting the honey ablaze, though not before Quincy took a canteen of honey.
* Statue of an unknown god, the statue resembled Anubis but had shadowy tendrils that spiraled out from it in every direction. The statue held an enormous ruby, the Eye of Nitocris.
* A ceremonial dagger of Nitocris, likely for human sacrifice, was found in the same chamber with the statue holding the Eye of Nitocris.

### The Ghosts of Neptune

#### Part 1

* A marble statue depicting Laocoön, a man in agony as he is bitten by snakes. The statue evoked the feelings of a sculptor who felt the pain of oppression and of being treated inhumanly.
* Lord Bartlett's papers, several personal writings that included a page with an unknown language.

#### Part 2

* The Revelations of the Dragon, a medieval text about the Great Dragon. The dragon was described as a serpent from the garden of Eden, also known as Mu, and that all flesh and souls belonged to him. The dragon was said to manifest when his resting place was filled with the blood of men and could be bound into an icon to move him to a new land.

### The Resurrection Man

#### Part 1

* The Necronomicon, aka “The Book of Dead Names”. A black book of rituals by an unknown Arab occultist, translated by Oleas Vermius. The book contained several spells including a ritual to break a corpse down to its essential salts and instructions on resurrecting the body by repeating the ritual.
* The notes of Dr. Conrad, supplemental research by the same author of the journal found in episode 5, *The Lazarus*. The notes explained that the resurrection ritual from the Necronomicon could only make a new soul if a body was made from several different corpses.

### The Pnakotic Sonata

#### Part 1

* "O Come the Rapture" was a song supposedly composed by famed musician Foster Stevens and copies of its sheet music were discovered in multiple locations. Orlando recognized the melody as one that Captain Herod used to hum in episode 3 (*The Mighty Lusca)*. The song had actually been shared by a drunken Orlando to his friend Edwin Alvaro, who the composition was stolen from, and a spell to summon the Old Ones to collect their victims.
* A contract between the Esoteric Order of Dagon and the Old Ones was found at the Gilman Publishing building. The contract detailed that the Old Ones would gift the Order with a shoggoth in exchange for the sacrifice of 600 willing souls.

#### Part 2

* A violin was found on a hidden altar at Gilman Publishing. While the violin by itself displayed no mystical properties, Orlando used it to open a portal at Gilman Publishing.
* "Learn to Swim Long Distance!" was a pamphlet Orlando found at Gilman Publishing with strange instructions on swimming into deep ocean waters.

### First General Meeting

* A bedazzled monkey paw was displayed in the collection of the Neptune Society. Calico Fydaq discretely "borrowed" it.

## Season 2

### Dreams in Bedlam

#### Part 1

* The Waters of Lethe, a liquid apparently from the underworld that could make someone forget their identity. A vial of the liquid was hidden behind a portrait of Norman Densmore in the Limehouse tavern clubhouse.
* Ten pages of charcoal rubbings were found with the Waters of Lethe. The rubbings were in a Romano Celtic script and described instructions for a ritual to use the drops of Lethe to rewrite someone's identity.
* A golden headdress was found and taken by Flash Harrison at the rubble of the Neptune Society clubhouse.

#### Part 2

* The party searched for lead curse tablets that had been stored in the Neptune Society clubhouse. It was later revealed in Part 3 that Bartlett had used the tablets to summon himself his mentor.
* A book of poems by Lord Bartlett was found and collected by Lady Hypatia in the rubble of the clubhouse.

### The Hunt for Green October

#### Part 1

* A stone with a star, similar to the stone found in episode 2 (*Robert Castillo*) was found on the wrecked ship, *The Cetus*.
* A translation of some religious texts was discovered on the *The Cetus*. The texts seemed to contain information on the ruins of Atlantis.
* Atlantean ruins were discovered by Philomena deep in the Sargasso Sea.

#### Part 2

* In the ruins was a raised throne meant to give Deep One hybrids their birthright. When Roxy Wilder sat on it, she was transformed into a Deep One and lost all former semblance of herself in both mind and body.

### The Secret Masters

* A flyer for Orlando Robicheaux's upcoming concert had several occult symbols in the decorative border.
* The Stanzas of Dyzan were gifted to Polcross by Robicheaux. The tome included six untitled books addressing the gods of Atlantis and outlining the structure of the universe and creation of life. Book One was a prayer of exaltation to the old gods. Book Two described elemental life, astral forms, and mental matter. Book Three described mineral life as the next step in the evolutionary chain. Book Five centered on animal life including human forms. Book Six described devas, enlightened spiritual beings purported as the penultimate stage of evolution.

### The Earth is a Box of Bees

#### Part 1

* The party found several hieroglyphics that detailed how Nitocris's bloodline came from the kings who lived in the center of the Earth, Geharn, and other biographical information. After fully translating a section about the royal lineage, Helen Klein and Ian Pembley both learned a magical spell.
* Several treasures were found including a sword, javelins, and bronze scale armor. It was implied the armor may have belonged to Nitocris.
* A hidden room was discovered with a lavish throne and a painting of a ziggurat. Ian Pembley had a vision that sitting on the throne would summon Nitocris to possess whoever sat there and later found out the painting could transport people into the depicted landscape.

#### Part 2

* A gilded ruby mirror was discovered in the throne room, made out of an Eye of Mordiggian. It was a sacred object meant to keep Nitocris's spirit in its tomb until the time for her return when the sun was blotted out. The mirror could be used to see Nitocris's spirit and Valda trapped said spirit within it. The mirror was later destroyed and Nitocris released.
* The party found a ziggurat that seemed to be the city of Geharn.

#### Part 3

* Thawn, a local from the Inner Earth, had a gold medallion with an Eye of Mordiggian embedded inside it.
* Isla discovered a large, tank-like vehicle with a huge drill and periscope that was hidden by vines and plants growing over it.

### The Toymaker of York

#### Part 1

* Dominic Ludlow's body had several metal components and his bones had been replaced by wooden dowels. Inside his chest cavity was a strange yellow fibrous material that leaked fluid. Dr. Portwright determined the yellow ligaments were some kind of fungus. Using the lilac lens, Lord Billiam saw that there were severed strands of fungus that once connected to something else.
* Lord Billiam used the lilac lens to discover a marionette at Ludlow's family home. The marionette was of higher quality than the family could afford and placed too high for a child to reach. The party found another marionette on the body of a mechanical person they killed and both came to life when Billiam attempted to destroy them.
* The party journeyed to Clifford's Tower, which was supposedly built by an architect and sorcerer.
* One of the mechanical people the party encountered attempted to kill Frannie with a railroad spike. When Archibald came close to it, he was able to see the golden strand of the fungal connection leading down the street and smelled a very strong scent of rotting fruit.

#### Part 2

* The Book of Eibon, an extremely old book in Old English with an ouroboros-like symbol was found in Holcroft's toy shop. The book was purported to have been written by an Atlantean sorcerer and described rituals to summon otherworldly beings. One chapter described how to create a vessel for the god Corazos. It is in the possession of the Neptune Society.

### The Harvest

#### Part 1

* A protection medallion with Saint Etienne's face was owned by a waitress at the local bar. St. Etienne was the patron saint of the village and said to have tried to save his fellow monks from a fire. The story Herman knew was that Etienne set the fire himself to destroy the abbey.

#### Part 2

* A few burned papers were found in the remains of the abbey. One was a set of journal entries by St. Etienne explaining how his brothers were corrupted by the bones of Saaitii and became its effigies. The other was a letter by a woman titled Maxime, First Sword Vicar, about an attempt to destroy the bones and stamped by a signet ring with a seven-pointed star.
* The three bones of Saaitii. These massive bones with strange blue veins could not come from any natural creature. Touching the bones infected people with gluttony and a strange rash that developed into grotesque cocoons, transforming them into effigies of Saaitii. The bones were scattered in the woods and had to be burned in a specific brazier to stop his infection.
* The petrified eyeball of St. Etienne, found embedded in a wall. When held, it could sense evil at the cost of the user’s eyesight.
* A holy brazier that lit with blue fire, the only thing capable of destroying Saaitii's bones.
* The ring of Maxime, a signet with a seven-pointed star, was discovered on her skeleton in the woods. The ring is currently in the possession of Frannie Chump.
* Josephine's letters were discovered on her nightstand. The letters were from her daughter and bore a symbol of a seven-pointed star, the same as on Maxime's signet ring.

### Little Ragnarök on the Prairie

* A wooden pitchfork inscribed with runes was sent to Pemberton Polcross by a fan/acolyte of his. Professor Jorgenson recognized the fork to resemble on from a carving discovered in Sweden in 1844. The runes were the same as those on the Rök runestones and translated to "the swaying one", Odin's spear Gungnir. The pitchfork held great power within it and caused Orlando Orbicheaux's shapeshifting to revert to his true form.
* A ring of runestones sat in a wheat field in the town of Vigil. The stones held a spell to open and close the Bifrost, a portal to another world. When opened, several shoggoths appeared.

* A scythe inscribed with runes was given to Pemberton Polcross, who felt a strong call to it. The runes on it said "Muspelheim", the Norse realm of fire, and caused the scythe to burst into flame more than once.
* Mjölnir, Thor's legendary hammer, appeared to be an ordinary hammer in the hands of one of the Vigil locals. It was shown to be more than an ordinary weapon, causing great harm to Orlando.
* Tyr's lasso, a one-handed local of Vigil's rope that had runes on it. It seemed to have some kind of power as he tried to bind Orlando with it.
* Mimir's skull, a human skull that enhanced Professor Jorgenson's ability to cast spells.

### Paris Painted Yellow

#### Part 1

* *The King in Yellow*, a play in three acts discovered at Camila Barbeaux’s home. When the book was opened, a celestial event seemed to occur. Roy Cavitts told Dr. Reuther that the play was a doorway and the story was "contagious", leading people to become characters from it.

#### Part 2

* Candice and Christine swam through an underwater portal and discovered a ruined palace in the city of Carcosa.

### The Horns of Samhain

#### Part 1

* The remains of a calf that were discovered in the woods. Faustin determined it had been used in a ritual to summon a demon.
* Arthur Macleod's family ancestry was found in his home, revealing his lineage traced back to the island through an ancestor named Judge Tyler Macleod.
* The witch's elm, a tree near Mother Muir's cabin. According to the local children, the tree was haunted by a witch's spirit. Faustin recalled that there were tales of such trees growing out of the bodies of buried witches.

#### Part 2

* A pan flute and a very old black book was found in the house of Mother Muir. The book was the journal and spell book of Wilhelmina Muir. Which include a spell to summon the “fowl and lithesome young” of “the Black Goat”, a spell to enter the mind of a person and take control of them, a spell called *The Clutch of Nyogtha* which can crush the heart of another person from a distance, and a spell to attract livestock using a pan flute.