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Exham Priory
Exham
Priory		 Abraxas Research Facility
Abraxas
Research
Facility		 Ludgate Studios
Ludgate
Studios		 The 'Safe House'
The
'Safe House'

Exham Priory

The Rats In The Walls.

Location

  • Sussex, England.

Owner

Occupants

History

  • 1934: Occupied by Malcolm Critchley, aka The Great Beast, Kind of Depravity, Bearer of the Unholy Tetragrammatron.
  • 1934: During an occult rite in the cellar, Critchley is shot dead by Sir Alex Nestor in a police raid, but manages to cheat death by passing his life force into the walls of the cellar.
  • 2003: Caballistics, Inc. move in. Critchley attempts to tap into the power he has detected within Jennifer Simmons, but her demon-self manifests and reduces him to a small worm-like rat-sized creature (possibly still alive). This is then collected by Solomon Ravne, who seems to have met Critchley before.
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Abraxas Research Facility

The secrets of Hell were there for the taking...

Location

  • Wenley Moor, Yorkshire.

Owner

History

  • 2003: Captured demonically-possessed humans are used by the facility to find out the secrets of Hell (for financial gain).
  • 2003: Local animal rights activists mistakenly free the demons, leading to an investigation by Caballistics, Inc.
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Ludgate Studios

From the studio built on death.

Location

  • London, England.

Owner

  • Veritas Property Development (indirectly owned by Ethan Kostabi).

Occupants

  • Derelict [but see below].

History

  • Originally owned by Viktor Drako. Fell derelict in 1979 following his mysterious disappearance.
  • Studio tagline: 'From the studio built on death': a reference to the studios having been built over plague pits.
  • Studio output:
    • Tales of the Iron Maiden
    • Caligari [Polanski remake]
    • Abyss of the Damned
    • The Lair of Ontranto
    • The Rats in the Walls
    • Empire of Blood
    • Murders in the Rue Morgue
    • The Quinterman Xperiment
    • The House on the Borderlands
    • The Legend of World's End Mansion
    • Cry of the Werebeast (1962)
    • The Terror of Madame Guillotine (1964; starring Joan Collins with Peter Cushing as Robespierre)
    • The House at World's End (1977)
  • 2004: After demolition plans are announced, the disappearance of 2 nightwatchmen & 1 demolition contractor results in Caballistics, Inc. being called in to investigate.

Viktor Drako

  • Real name: Viktor Kaziskinski.
  • Conjecture: Came to the UK after WWII with a suitcase full of Nazi gold. Rumours exist that he may have been a collaborator, or even a member of Sonderkommando Thule.
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The 'Safe House'

Scared of going into the ghost house.

Location

  • London's East End, England.

History

  • 1960: As a boy, David Smith (aka Ethan Kostabi) enters the house to retrieve a ball. Investigating the cellar, he is possessed by a spirit residing within the mummified corpse of Emmanuel Konterman (previously of Department Q). Note that it is after this event that 'David Smith' adopts the name 'Ethan Kostabi', giving him the same initials as 'Emmanuel Konterman'.
  • 2005: The cellar has been walled up. It now contains (& may have prior to the incident in 1960, but this is unclear) the still mummified remains, a Golem and laboratory equipment similar to that used by Solomon Ravne at Exham Priory. Following an investigation by Caballistics, Inc., the house is burnt down, the Golem is destroyed, the mummy burnt and only some of the equipment and papers rescued.
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