Day 26 of #RPGaDay and they bring up "Nemesis"
We've had rivals, we've had Big Bad Evil Dudes, but the closest to a Nemesis was (and technically still is) Ambrose Mogens in our Call of Cthulhu 1920's campaign.
Prospero Publishing has a whole page dedicated to Mogens, expanding far behond the Halfmoon Scenario out of Secrets of New York, and connections to Masks of Nylarathotep.
My group first met him while he hosted a holiday gala in The Pennywell Hangmen
It wasn't until the investigators were searching for a family members of a colleague in Half-Moon that they fully investigated the Mogens Institute as well as broke into his estate in Queens.
They got some of the answers they were looking for, realized that much of the Institute's true purpose wasn't bettering society, and they even succeeded in torching his library, even if it involved a 100% on a Molotov Throw roll, which landed at an investigator's feet. Even worse, two of the new Investigators had been captured by Mogens' goons, tortured and transformed.
Mogens kept tabs on the investigators, even sending a giant 8-foot tall, orange skinned, musclebound monstrosity to rough them them, toss a car, or even destroy an office. They left a pretty significant trail of evidence, and once Mogens realized they weren't after him, just other manifestations of his patron, he used them as unpaid volunteers.
At the end of Masks of Nylarlathotep, it was inferred that Mogens had influence within and far outside the city. After interrogation and torture, the investigators were miraculously released from Japanese custody and sent back to the states, thanks to the American ambassador, who just happened to mysteriously die (historically) shortly thereafter. Mogens has used his networks to send messages to some of the investigators, banning them from the city, while using his influence to ensure some succeeded at projects or procured them jobs. Already shaken by what they had experienced, their moral core wavered as one of them walked into the Ambrose Mogens School of Physics, as well as having all their life's dreams projects paid for by him....
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