The Dark Signal

In this chilling chapter of The Dark Signal, our investigators find themselves stranded in the vast, merciless expanse of the Australian outback, burying evidence of a descent that nearly claimed their lives. But even as they cover stairways, bodies, and burned-out trucks, something far more disturbing breaks through the desert silence: The Dark Signal itself, broadcasting into their vehicle—detailed accounts of their secret actions beneath the earth, moments only they could have known.As the investigators struggle to understand how Cyrus Blackwood’s voice reached them hundreds of miles from any transmitter, the broadcast retells their harrowing first expedition into the subterranean ruins—metallic caverns, monstrous wings beating in the dark, and choices made under terror’s weight. Haunted by the signal’s uncanny precision, they return below through a second, treacherous entrance, only to confront shrieking horrors, shifting ruins, and the cult’s sacred dome.A brutal battle erupts in the shadow of the Sandbat idol, ending in tragedy as Dr. David Dodge pays the ultimate price. With the cavern sealed behind them and Dodge’s death heavy in their hands, the investigators face a deeper dread: the knowledge that the Dark Signal is watching. Listening. Following them where no radio should reach.Dead Air in the Outback is a tale of buried truths, impossible broadcasts, and the terrible cost of choosing to look beneath the sands.

After weeks of silence, Cyrus Blackwood returns to the airwaves—his voice steady, but shadowed by something… off. He claims the broadcast was jammed. Others whisper they still heard him on dead frequencies, whispering through the static.Meanwhile, our investigators arrive in the Australian outback, chasing the last traces of Dr. Robert Huston into a desert that hums like something alive. In the town of Cuncudgerie, a smiling liar guards a shipment marked with the cult’s sigil. Night brings break-ins, vanishing families, and a book that whispers when opened.As the team drives deeper into the wastes, a sandstorm descends—red skies, wings overhead, and a gunshot that leaves blood on the dust. A mad prospector speaks of bats that blot out the moon and stones that hum beneath starlight. And when the group reaches the dig site, a familiar voice calls from the dark…In a haunting closing call, a listener claims to have heard Cyrus’s broadcast while he was missing—numbers, coordinates, and voices that stopped the moment he came back on air.The desert remembers. The signal never sleeps.

After thirty-five days at sea, our investigators reach Australia—but their arrival brings no peace. Customs officers eye their arcane cargo with suspicion. Selina Brock’s Cambridge cover is tested. Victor Belmont, returning home, finds his roots tangled in silence.Their pursuit of Robert Huston leads them to Sydney and the worn hands of Professor Dodge, whose whispers reveal a pattern of cults and lost cities. A dead man’s diary, a cursed scrying mirror, and a splintered vision all point toward the red heart of the continent—and Huston’s shadow sprawled across it.In Darwin, a break-in at Randolph Shipping uncovers more than smuggled relics. Among strange idols and coded manifests lies a name from the past: Florence Bolan. Spy. Survivor. And now—unexpected ally?As Florence's tangled truths emerge, our investigators race to expose the network beneath the dust. Huston’s name marks everything: idols, engines, and a mirror-machine built for minds, not eyes. And when symbols begin appearing in the desert—perfect circles humming with power—Cyrus Blackwood asks the question no one wants to answer:What happens when the desert sings?

As the investigators steam toward Australia, Cyrus Blackwood rewinds the signal—returning us to London, where the trail of the Black Pharaoh first unfurled in blood and shadow. From fog-choked alleys to firelit moors, this is the story behind the story—a chronicle of what they uncovered, and what they lost.The team traced Elias’s warnings to monstrous paintings, werewolves in Derbyshire, and the ritualistic horrors lurking beneath the Penhew Foundation. They infiltrated Zahra Shafik’s cult beneath the Blue Pyramid Club, and at Misr House, watched the sky rip open as Heralds from another reality tore through the veil.Florence Bolan vanished without a trace. Miles Shipley painted visions of futures he couldn’t have known. And a date—9-19-27—echoed across maps, ledgers, and whispered dreams.Now, Australia looms. A factory blueprint. A name—Robert Huston. A mirror that reflects wrong. And the long shadow of something vast waiting beneath the sunburnt soil.This episode is not about escape. It is about memory.And what happens when memory fights to be forgotten.

The investigators board the S.S. Maurentania, bound for Melbourne—but the sea offers no escape from the secrets that shadow them. Josephine is invited to dine with the captain, where she meets Count Kurosov, Professor Patterson, and Karim Safar—an Egyptian scholar who claims to have known Jackson Elias. But trust is a vanishing commodity in these waters.Victor shares their darkest findings: idols, tomes, artifacts, and the cursed date whispered from beyond—9/19/27. Meanwhile, the professor offers a demonstration of forbidden magic, revealing glimpses of Cyrus Blackwood himself. But the answers only deepen the mystery: what is Cyrus, really... and who is watching whom?A passenger is murdered—organs removed, a taunting note left behind. "THE RIPPER" walks among them. And then Patterson is found hanged, his suicide note begging for his books to be burned before “they” arrive.Visions of ancient monsters rising from the sea plague the group, and the ship hums with something unnatural in its metal bones. A priest who sees too much. A purser with a cultic pendant. A mirror that reflects death.As Australia approaches, the voyage tightens its grip. The Ripper isn't just onboard—it’s history repeating itself.The water is calm. The gods beneath are not.Next stop: the red soil of Australia—and the truth buried beneath it.

The Dark Signal returns to London—where silence is rarely empty and art hides more than intention. In Between Brushstrokes and Blood, host Cyrus Blackwood guides listeners through a tale woven with steel, secrecy, and something inhuman slithering just out of sight.Investigators Harriet Hughes, Victor Belmont, and newcomer Selina Brock descend into the shadowy remains of Henson Manufacturing, uncovering blueprints for technology not meant for modern minds—designs tied to a whisper from the dead: September 1927. Meanwhile, a return to the attic studio of Miles Shipley, a painter tormented by visions, reveals a chilling canvas of a murder that hasn’t happened—or has, far from London’s eyes.But the deeper horror lies beneath the floorboards. In a basement hidden from memory, Selina discovers a vat of preserved body parts and a truth too monstrous to be merely human. The kindly Grandmother is not who she appears. What follows is a deadly confrontation with something ancient, scaled, and venomous—costing blood, sanity, and trust.As the investigators reel from betrayal and loss, Florence Bolan, their enigmatic ally in the U.S. Secret Service, disappears without a trace. A house wiped clean. A name denied. Was she erased—or was she never on their side at all?From blood-soaked basements to shifting realities, this episode pulls back the curtain on a world unraveling. What began as a mystery of machines and dreams ends in venom, disappearance, and an ominous voyage to Australia.The date 9-19-27 looms. The serpent is dead. But the signal... still hums.

 In the aftermath of the Misr House ritual, The Dark Signal pauses to reflect. Rather than plunging ahead into new horrors, this episode draws the curtain back on the lives our investigators led before the monsters and magic. One by one, Cyrus Blackwood reveals the hidden scars and silent burdens that shaped Harriet, Josephine, Victor, Selina,—and the fallen, Manuel Calavera, Maeve, Otis .These were never heroes. They were a disgraced agent, an actress with a cursed bloodline, a scholar chasing guilt, a thief running from ghosts. But something pulled them toward the darkness—and something made them stay.As the episode closes, the group stands at a crossroads: follow the trail of the Brotherhood to the outback shadows of Australia, or into Egypt’s ancient tombs and the heart of the Black Pharaoh’s legend. Whichever they choose, their pasts are no longer behind them. They walk beside them.A quiet, haunting hour of memory, grief, and the slow erosion of the line between ordinary and extraordinary.

In this pivotal episode of The Dark Signal, the investigators infiltrate the cult stronghold of Misr House under the guise of masked initiates. What begins as subterfuge quickly descends into chaos as a ritual meant to summon ancient, inter-dimensional beings is set into motion.Inside the house of secrets, they uncover torture chambers, occult relics, and a portrait of a Pharaoh whose gaze seems all too alive. Outside, beneath a blackened sky, five victims—including a kidnapped ally—are brought before the stele. As Josephine Taylor fakes a sacrifice, cult leader Edward Gavigan takes matters into his own hands, killing the decoy in cold blood.The summoning succeeds. Two monstrous Heralds tear through reality—winged, grotesque, and ravenous. But just as all seems lost, Josephine utters an ancient spell, binding the creatures mid-air. In the panic, Zahra Shafik betrays Gavigan, only to meet her own end at Victor Belmont’s hand.As the ritual burns to ash, the survivors flee into the night—scarred, bloodied, but alive. The cult has been broken… for now. But the path forward leads to far darker places.A chapter ends in fire. The next begins across the sea.