Assignment #86.1: Sleepless Suffering

The Grand Halen Hospital in the bustling city of Newfaire has been overwhelmed by an epidemic of insomnia. Patients, ranging from children to the elderly, are unable to sleep, their bodies showing signs of extreme fatigue and shutdown.

Dr. Eliza Greyshade is a doctor with a connection to someone in Candela Obscura. After being unable to solve her patients’ illness through normal means, she discovered that the patients had all been touched by Bleed and reached out to Candela for assistance. Can the Investigators uncover the source of this mysterious ailment and stop it before it spreads further out into the rest of Newfaire?

Content warnings: Psychological horror, possession, hospitals and hospitalization, ritualistic murder, cults, sleep disorders, loss of autonomy, body modifications (“tattoos” in Ancient Fairen on victims’ bodies), medical treatment & procedures, death of a loved one.

Assignment #86.1: Sleepless Suffering was initially inspired by the Example Assignment in the Candela Obscura Core Rulebook, p. 119.

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