Description
In Dark Worlds, the new Cthulhu Mythos for 5e campaign, You and your friends become unwitting pawns caught up in the blunders of a mad ruler. His insane attempt to curry favor with the dread Fungi from Yuggoth results in your being teleported across space to the nightmare world of Yuggoth. The ritual keeps you alive … for now. But how long will its effects last? Your only hope is to track down the wizard Mustafo who was transported along with you, and who knows the spell of return. Unfortunately, Mustafo has been taken by the Fungi for their dire purposes and your attempt to rescue him have drawn their attention…
In Nithon, you traverse the Radiation Wastes of Yuggoth, encounter creatures and hazards from nightmare as you seek the Forest and City of Nithon. Here lies the Green Pyramid of the Watcher. The Pyramid awakens before your eyes, and you must explore its fearsome depths. Meanwhile, you are in constant threat of being caught up in the battles raging between the Watcher and its spawn versus the Fungi war-cyborgs.
The Zepzeg Cycle, you are brought to Yuggoth’s moon Thog, where you learn of the existence of the Zepzeg – a spacefaring alien species in many ways the antithesis of the Mi-Go. Plus, you learn of a lost colony of gnorri here so far from your world. Can you reconcile the Zepzeg, the Gnorri, and your own goals? Negotiate with an antediluvian entity of enormous psychic power, assist the Gnorri and the Zepzeg to forge alliances to help you in the difficult strife ahead, and find the awesome grimoire detailing a weapon of unthinkable might.
In the fourth and final Act of Dark Worlds, The Green Pyramid, the time has come at last to take the fight to the dread Mi-Go; the Fungi from Yuggoth. Returning to Yuggoth, you find that the Fungi have not been idle in your absence. Can you overcome the Fungi’s might, even with your new allies and eldritch constructs? An epic sacrifice allows ingress to the Pyramid, and you are ultimately led into the Null dimension and confront a being of mindless destruction. The campaign ends by giving you a choice with repercussions that echo across the galaxy.
