from the back of the book: 1927. For the United States it is a time of growth and prosperity. The average American enjoys the amenities of speakeasies and jazz. All this will change, change very soon. As a medium of a mysterious pasts perceives impressions of the future and gets almost driven to madness, for the characters a series of adventures begins that they will drive them in the next two years across four continents and beyond. They'll need to turn against the machinations of a global conspiracy, that wants to changed the global power structure to be drastically. Die Bestie (the beast) is a three-volume campaign, which leads the characters in a total of 18 chapters to the edge of the Great Depression in 1929. Can the characters thwart the plans of the Brotherhood of the Beast before it's too late? The campaign is based on source material from the American Day of the Beast, which was heavily revised and expanded. Volume 1 also contains two completely new adventures of German offspring as well as a new Regionalia Cthuliana: India.