Henson Manufacturing

Henson Manufacturing lies along the Uttoxeter Road, heading west towards the town of Mickleover. Behind a 10 foot (3 m) high brick wall is a yard in which sit a number of brick buildings that make up the site. Large, wrought-iron gates provide access for vehicles and horse-drawn carts. The main gates are kept locked day and night. A smaller gate is usually unlocked during the day and provides access for foot traffic. Two large structures dominate the yard: a workshop and a big shed. The workshop houses the engineers, while the shed is home to the furnace and ovens used to fabricate metal components. The weird thing is, that the furnace and other manufacturing machines run on electricity, and are to complex to be of this time period. They are maybe 50-80 years to early, and are to technical to really understand. The machine covered in the blue lightning shield, cannot be accessed

Many machine parts are being fabricated at the place. Careful study of the actual parts shows that many of the newer fabrications are similar in design to the older ones, and are seemingly “modern” copies.

The office houses a desk and a large cabinet, which between them fill the room. The cabinet contains a series of large drawers in which various blueprints are stored. Along with some old blueprints left by the plant’s former owner are the drawings, detailing the make-up of the parts he requires (all of these blueprints are signed using Sir Aubrey’s “Pale Viper” pseudonym – you recognize the handwriting) The blueprints are dizzyingly complicated schematics, many annotated in tiny, spidery handwriting that is almost impossible to read. Some have strange, seemingly occult, sigils drawn in the margins or free space, which bear no relation to the schematic — some of the sigils resemble ones associated with Nyarlathotep, while others may be connected to the ancient ones known as the Great Race; however, no other meaning or intent can be identified. Certainly, for any well-versed engineer, the component devices and blueprints are unlike anything they have seen before.

Some of the items appear to be regulators and valves, while others are beyond speculation; the nearest guess would be mechanical elements in some form of advanced engine design, perhaps for an airplane?

Some old parts are still packaged and labeled with: “Randolph Shipping Company, Port Darwin, Northern Territory, Dominion of Australia.” They apparently came from there.

There are also 6 packages all in all with new components, and they are to be send to Ho Fang Import / Export in Shanghai. It seems these parts are pieces of some kind of guiding system.

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