Into the Darkness
Garrie Hall
	
	One of the investigators begins to suffer from blackouts. 
Short at first, they get gradually longer. Each time the investigator 
cannot account for his movements and can remember nothing except a 
feeling of darkness and extreme cold.
	Any attempt to psycho-analyse the investigator draws a blank. 
He can only recall the dark and the cold. During these 'blackouts' the 
investigator undergoes a personality change and does not recognise his 
friends. He is possessed.

Possibilities
1       The Revelations of Yuggoth is a rare book that only a few have 
seen. Supposedly brought to Earth from Yuggoth aeons ago, the book is 
a translation telling of the ecstasy brought by the Crawling Chaos. 
The book contains a prayer which binds the soul of the reader to The 
Haunter of the Dark, who possesses the body for his own means during 
the blackouts. One of the investigators has been unfortunate enough to 
read it.
	Eventually the investigator is completely possessed, and then 
the Crawling Chaos loses interest in the body and destroys it.

2       The blackouts are caused by a member of the Great Race locked 
in an ice cavern in Alaska. It has been unable to flee to the future 
but can still take over the minds of men. The creature is trying to 
organise an expedition to Alaska to free itself. Once free of the ice 
it can build a machine and send its mind into the future.
	It has no malign intentions towards the investigators unless 
they try to interfere with its plans.

3       In a previous year, the investigator participated in an 
archaeological excavation which uncovered the mummified remains of 
several corpses. One of these corpses, a sorcerer, is not quite as 
dead as it seems and is able to mind swap with those who have come 
into close contact with it.
	The blackouts are caused by the corpse slowly exercising 
control over the investigator. As they get longer it can be predicted 
when they will be permanent. At that point the sorcerer will be free.
	The sorcerer has tried this with others, but their weak 
constitutions have failed before the mind swap was complete. These 
deaths are recorded in the papers (the 'Curse of the Tomb') and may 
alert the investigators to the trouble.

Copyright (c) 1990 Garrie Hall