Dark Jazz Campaign Log

This is an outline of significant events of the Dark Jazz campaign. It is provided as a source of reference and review for players.

February 1924

Friday, February 15

Abraham Browning is hired by real estate agent Dalrymple to remove items from the basement of Drakusz House on Bunker Hill.

Jeffrey Parkman meets Calvin Alden in a downtown speakeasy. While fleeing the police the two connect with Ryan Keaton, Alec Thompson, and Cassandra.

Alden tells Parkman about his nightmares and obsession with a house on Bunker Hill. Parkman hypnotizes Alden and recognizes signs of the King in Yellow.

Saturday, February 16

While sleeping in the house, Browning has mysterious dreams of a secret room. He decides to leave early in the morning as he needs to purchase tools and other equipment for his work.

Parkman, Thompson, Keaton, and Cassandra investigate Drakusz House.

Sunday, February 17

Parkman, Keaton, and Alex Thompson experience a shared dream with Abram Browning. In the dream Browning tells them about the secret room and shows them his attempt to dig through the wall, which was untouched when they examined the house earlier.

Monday, February 18

Parkman, Keaton, and Thompson assemble their gear and head to the house. They are able to enter the secret chamber and destroy the undead Drakusz.

That night, Drakusz House burns to the ground.

March 1924

Friday, March 14

Abraham Browning is convicted of the arson of Drakusz House on Bunker Hill. He is sentenced to three years labor at Angels Work Farm.

April 1924

Tuesday, April 15

Abraham Browning is missing and presumed dead during a cave-in of tunnel construction. He escapes with Aaron Berkowitz and hides out in Chinatown.

Friday, April 18

Dr. Jeffrey Parkman interviews Gil Henson (b. June 20, 1900) and accepts Henson in to dream study group.

Abraham Browning begins working at Zhang's in Chinatown.

Saturday, April 19

Father Gus Werner arrives in Los Angeles.

Gil Henson gets thrown out of Zhang's by Abram.

Monday, April 21

Parkman meets Werner.

Tuesday, April 22

Keaton accompanies Parkman to police station.

Wednesday, April 23

Around one in the morning, someone breaks into the Parkman residence and steals his files.

Parkman and Keaton go to Gil Henson's show at the Blue Lotus.

Late that night, Abram and Aaron break into Lau Cho's office.

Parkman and Keaton are kidnapped and taken to Zhang's, where Aaron and Abram help them escape.

Thursday, April 24

Parkman, Keaton, Abram and Aaron hole up in a cheap hotel near Venice Beach.

Los Angeles police raid Zhang's, allowing the team to investigate more thoroughly. A secret sacrificial chamber is discovered.

An arrest warrant is issued for Lau Cho, who goes into hiding.

Father Werner's initial research indicates the Sonoratown sacrifices are part of a months-long ritual, suggesting they are not connected to similar murders of women in Chinatown.

Friday, April 25

Police raid Zhang's upstairs opium parlor and arrest several people, including Wu Song, an apothecary.

Lau Cho appears in the dreams of Parkman, Keaton, and Abram, demanding the return of all items that to not belong to them.

Photographs of the ceremonial altar and room are prepared for Parkman.

Several items belonging to Lau Cho are recovered by Abram and Keaton from a Chinatown criminal.

Father Werner travels to San Francisco on personal business.

Saturday, April 26

Police receive tip regarding Wu Song and his involvement with the opium business.

Parkman performs psychometry readings on two of the items belonging to Lau Cho.

Keaton perfects the design and operation of a device to "see" through walls, making the discovery of secret rooms and hidden lairs much easier.

Around 1:00 AM, Parkman is attacked in his home. Across town, someone tries to break in to Keaton's lab, but the alarms and Abram scare the thief away.

Sunday, April 27

While recovering from the attack, Parkman receives a call from Kolchak. Police searched Wu Song's apothecary store and found an opium factory in the basement and the ceremonial cup and sacrificial dagger in his living quarters. Wu Song has confessed to the murders of the four Chinese women.

Lau Cho appears in the dreams of Parkman, Keating, and Browning, giving them until sunset Monday to return the items.

Monday, April 28

Wu Song pleads guilty and is sentenced to life at hard labor. The DA closes the case of the Chinatown sacrifices.

Parkman and Keaton meet with Gerhard Thuringer, who supplies them with an elixir that enables Parkman to recover temporarily from his wounds.

Parkman, Keaton and Browning proceed to Lau Cho's residence. They confront the wizard and kill him, leaving his body behind.

Tuesday, April 28

Police attribute Lau Cho's gruesome death to gang warfare in Chinatown.

Father Werner returns from his trip to San Francisco.

Wednesday, April 29

Convinced the Chinatown killings are a separate matter, Parkman and Werner continue to pursue leads in the Sonoratown killings.

Parkman and Werner discover a group of cultists attempting to empower a new avatar of Hastur. Accompanied by Browning, the men burst in and interrupt a sacrifice in progress. They dispatch the cultists and take down the group's leader. Parkman dispatches a summoned byakhee with a shot to the face. They rescue the woman and destroy the underground ritual chamber.

May 1924

Thursday, May 1

Gerhard Thuringer announces his retirement from teaching.

September 1924

Saturday, September 20

Ausperg House Special Auction in London.

October 1924

October 31, 1924

Historic Whitfield Manor burns to the ground in Pasadena, California. Psychic and law enforcement consultant (and rumored Mythos sorceror) Ramsey Parsons is killed in the fire.

January 1925

January 1, 1925

A fire destroys the laboratory of inventor Ryan Keaton, who is kidnapped by unknown assailants. Gerhard Thuringer is found dead and is thought to have been killed by Keaton's assailants.

January 3, 1925

Maxwell and Clifton, accompanied by Magdalena Carter, engage in a shootout with cultists at the estate of the anthropologist Ted Webster, who is killed during the fracas.