We had a wonderfully thematic Devouring today. One of our group had Trish Scarborough the Spy and first turn she passed her Personal Story, learning to her horror that she had never been working for the government at all. Instead she had been serving the Order of the Silver Twilight (Come on, if the trail led to Arkham, it must have been the Silver Twilight Lodge that was using and manipulating her).

She eventually sealed a gate and cashed in her gate trophy for two more Clues. Then she went up to Unvisited Isle for the three clues that were there. Her encounter card stated, "You see Carl Sanford covertly trying to find a place on the island to recite a ritual. Make a Sneak -2 check. If you pass you get close enough to hear what he is saying and gain three Clue tokens."

Trish passed, giving her a total of eight Clue tokens! Tragically Carl Sanford was aware of the presence of his former pawn and with his ritual he ensured that she would take her knowledge to her grave. The very next turn the Mythos card opened the Devouring Ry'leh gate from "Lurker at the Threshold" at Unvisited Isle and poor Trish was utterly consumed!

Does anyone have a similar tale of a thematically apt Devouring?

We were facing Ithaqua using the Dark Pharoah expansion and Dexter Drake went through for the last seal. However we drew the otherworld encounter to fight Ithaqua and Dexter was devoured by the ancient one himself intervening on our final gate seal. After Dexter did not emerge, Ashcan Pete, also the deputy of Arkham drove the patrol wagon into the gate and sealed it himself. I thought it was rather epic that the ancient one we were fighting tried to foil our plan.

Very similar to arachnidshadow9's story only Cthulhu was the ancient one, devoured one investigator personaly while trying to seal the final gate luckily another player got the final component needed to pass Silas' PS and got himself devoured to slap down the final seal without having to enter R'lyeh himself.

Both very thematic! I especially like how Silas (my hands down favorite character) sacrificed himself to seal a Ry'leh gate, preventing the coming of the one the Deep Ones worship.

Ghatanothoa was the Ancient One. Tommy Muldoon and Diana Stanley were the investigators.

The game went pretty badly - a bunch of monster surges rapidly boosted the terror level and Tommy failed his PS. A little later, after a number of double-doom cards, Ghatanothoa awoke.

On the bright side, we'd managed to pick up a motorcycle from somewhere, so at least we had a few rounds, neither were Cursed, and we had a bunch of clues from trying to seal a few more gates.

After round 5, Ghatanothoa is on only a few doom tokens left, the clues have run out, and Diana has run out of sanity to cast the big spells and is trying to get by with Wither. There's not enough equipment for both to survive the next attack, and so with the higher base Fight, Tommy gets the motorcycle and the map.

Round 6, Ghatanothoa is still alive and devours Diana. Tommy keeps shooting.

By the end of Round 7, Tommy has Ghatanothoa down to their final point on their doom token, but they're is right on his heels. His next shot will be the last, and somehow it works. Ghatanothoa is defeated and returns to another world but Diana is dead and Arkham is in ruins, with its citizens scattered.

Tommy, of course, ends up as an embittered veteran cop, always haunted by his failure to keep people safe when they needed him most. A thematic lack-of-demise, perhaps.