Von Azathoth bis Zoth-Ommog

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GLOZEL EST AUTHENTIQUE

Theatre of the Mind - 1984 - CoC2

CLASSIC 1920/1930 SETTING

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Glozel est Authentique

Locations: France

Creatures: Shub-Nigguurath

Tomes and Artifacts: Poor copy of Kitab al Azif

SYNOPSIS:

The French town of Glozel attracts archaeological attention when a buried horde of artifacts is uncovered. Their origin and significance attracts mystery and controversy, and the attention of the Investigators ... amongst others. Strange secret societies watch their every move...

 

Secrets of the Kremlin

Locations: Berlin, Moscow

Creatures: Dark Young

Tomes and Artifacts: Necronomicon in Greek

SYNOPSIS:

The Investigators are recruited to find Evgeny Potapov, an emigre Russian professor living in Berlin.

What mysteries of the early Czars and what hidden truth lies in the depths of the ancient citadel of the Bolsheviks?

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HORRIBLE SECRET OF MONHEGAN ISLAND, the

Grenadier Models - 1984 - CoC2

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Horrible Secret of Monhegan Island, the

Creatures: Deep One

SYNOPSIS:

The investigators are following a missing person case on a small island.

'The Horrible Secret of Monhegan Island' is based on Lovecraft's story 'The Shadow over Innsmouth'.

 

House in the Woods, the

Creatures: Fungi from Yuggoth

'The House in the Woods' is based on Lovecraft's story 'The Whisperer in Darkness'.

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H.P. LOVECRAFT'S DREAMLANDS

Chaosium - 1986 Box - CoC2 / 1988 - CoC4 / 1992 - CoC4

THE COMPLETE DREAMLANDS - 1997 - CoC5

2004 - CoC6 / 2011 - CoC6

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Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours before we were wise and unhappy.

--- H.P. Lovecraft, Celephais ---

 

Scenarios (all editions):

Pickman's Student

 

Lemon Sails

Locations: Dreamlands

Creatures: Phosphorescent monster

SYNOPSIS:

An adventure taking place entirely within the Dreamlands. Dream travel with no specific waking-world goal.

A Sarrubian asks the Investigators to accompany him on a quest to find his lost friends and return them to their home world.

 

Scenarios (all editions excepth Fourth):

To Sleep

 

Perchance to Dream

 

Captives of Two Worlds

 

Season of the Witch

 

Land of Lost Dreams, the

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IMAGINE

BRIT MAGAZINE

Published by TSR UK (focused on D&D and AD&D)

 

--- Date of publication 1983 to 1985 ---

--- 30 issues only ---

 

IMAGINE #13

1984 - CoC2

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Darklaw

 

IMAGINE #28

1985 - CoC2

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A Nice Night For Screaming

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Underground Menace, the 1982 - CoC1

Locations: Winnemuck, Michigan

Creatures: Ghoul, Dark Young, Chthonian, Hunting Horror

Tomes and Artifacts: Revelations of Glaaki, Enchanted Staff

SYNOPSIS:

Earthquakes hammer a hamlet in northern Michigan. Since there are no fault lines in the area, this is quite unusual. The report states that the residents are panic-stricken.

 

A priest of the Great Old Ones is creating a nest for horrific monsters. He plans to destroy the whole town und build a colony of Cthulhu cultists there. He intends to start rituals of great magnitude in an effort to bring Cthulhu to life again.

Appears in: Different Worlds #19, Fragments of Fear

 

 

 

 

LANDS OF MYSTERY

Justice Inc. - 1985 - CoC3

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Expedition to Koram, the

SYNOPSIS:

The world of Zorandar, a savage, timeless land where brave natives battle ferocious dinosaurs. Can the investigators solve Zorandar’s ancient mysteries and help a beautiful cavewoman princess? Will they be able to defeat the despotic Emperor of the lost Roman Legion and his evil lizard slavers?

Adventure inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Sir Henry Rider Haggard.

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PARAPSYCHOLOGIST' HANDBOOK

Chaosium - 2003 - CoC5.6 - Pages: 112

Author: Chris Jerome

Setting: 1890s, 1920s

NO SCENARIO

 

END TIME

Chaosium - 2003 - CoC5.6 - Pages: 96

Author: Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere

Setting: Near Future

NO SCENARIO

 

RAISING UP

Chaosium - 2004 - CoC5.6 - Pages: 48

Author: Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere

Setting: Modern

The fight against the forces of the Mythos is fraught with peril and it is all too easy for even the strongest will to be tempted by the dark secrets whispered in the cold and empty places of the world.

Bookstore, the

Player of Hell

Bone Dealers, the

Tomb of Ash

Putting Down

 

ABBEY, the

Chaosium - 2004 - CoC5.6 - Pages: 60

Author: Michael Patty

Setting: Dark Ages

Saint Bartholomew's Abbey is an autonomous Benedictine monastery situated along the Lot river, nestled below the Cévennes mountains within the Massif Central region of southeastern France. The year is 962 A.D., and this monastery is presented as an excellent place to begin your Cthulhu Dark Ages campaign. A second section of this monograph provides an overview of tenth-century France, intended to provide a backdrop against which to begin play. The third section presents the Order of St. Jerome. Within its ranks characters can find allies and invaluable support in their fight against darkness.

 

CTHULHU INVICTUS

Chaosium - 2004 - CoC5.6 - Pages: 128

Author: Chad Bowser, Andi Newton, Deanne P. Goodwin

Setting: Ancient Rome

Scenario: Morituri Te Salutmus

Chuma Invictus!

 

MYSTERIES OF MOROCCO

Revised edition: Secrets of Morocco - 2008

Chaosium - 2004 - CoC5.6 - Pages: 90

Author: William Jones

Setting: 1920s

NO SCENARIO

 

FIRST BOOK OF THINGS

Chaosium - 2004 - CoC5.6 - Pages: 64

Author: Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere

Setting: any era

NO SCENARIO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MASKS OF NYARLATHOTEP, the

Chaosium - 1984 Box - CoC2 / 1989 - CoC4

COMPLETE MASKS OF NYARLATHOTEP, the *

Chaosium - 1996 - CoC5 / 2001 - CoC5.5 / 2006 - CoC6 / 2010 - CoC6

MASKS OF NYARLATHOTEP COMPANION, the **

Bloody Tongue Edition - 2013 - CoC6

TERROR AUSTRALIS***

Chaosium - 1987 - CoC3

SECRETS OF KENYA****

Chaosium - 2007 - CoC6

CLASSIC 1920 SETTING --- from Jan. 1925 til Jan. 1926 ---

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1989 Edition 160 pages / 1996 Edition 248 pages / 2010 Edition 252 pages

 

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

--- H.P. Lovecraft, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family ---

 

SYNOPSIS:

Every morning the famous playboy millionaire Roger Carlyle, Chief Executive Officer of the Carlyle Corporation, related strange recurring dreams full of Egyptian symbols and mystic beckonings. Though never before interested in Egypt's history or archaeology, Carlyle suddenly organized an archaeological expedition to that ancient land. His friends were puzzled, and the newspaper gossip columns were fascinated...

NOTE: It is very helpful to introduce Jackson Elias as a loyal and indispensable NPC support prior to the start of the campaign. This will add an emotional aspect to his death.

NOTE: The campaign is a death box, with multiple total-party-kills possible. So it will be helpful to have a method of replacing dead chars, i.e. they all work for the same organisation or were soldiers in the Great War who know each other.

 

New York

Locations: New York

Creatures: Chakota the Spirit of Many Faces, Zombie

Tomes and Artifacts: Pnakotic Manuscripts, Selections de Livre d’Ivon, People of the Monolith, Life as a God, Africa’s Dark Sects, Mask of Hayama

 

In early January 1925, an investigator receives a telegram from his close friend Jackson Elias requesting to gather a team to look into a matter concerning a certain Carlisle Expedition which disappeared in Africa in 1920.

The investigators arrive on January 15, at Room 410 of the Chelsea Hotel in New York, Upon entering they find Elias' lifeless body, horribly killed, his chest torn open, his tongue pulled out, a hideous strange sigil carved into his forehead, and the room ransacked. If not interrupted, the assassins will steal items containing clues to key locations for further investigations and make their way down the fire escape outside Elias' window. When the police appears the investigators are questioned by Lieutenant Martin Poole. In the process the investigators learn that there have been nine other similar murders in the past two years, and all the victims had the same strange marks cut into their heads.

The investigators begin to piece together Jackson Elias' trail, with clues and contacts leading to London, Britain - Cairo, Egypt - Nairobi, Kenya - Port Darvin, Australia and Shanghai, China... but the assassins are not far behind.

Elias was a famous author. All his writings characterize and analyze death cults. His best known book is 'Sons of Death', chronicling modern Thuggee cults in India. All books illustrate how cults manipulate the fears of their followers. A skeptic, Elias has never found proof of supernatural powers, magic or dark gods.

All of Elias' books were published by Prospero Press in New York, and all were edited by owner and editor Jonah Kensington. He reveals that Elias was investigating an ancient African cult that had survived into the present day. He also unveils that Elias believed the members of the Carlyle Expedition might still be alive. The investigators also learn that Elias' mental state seemed very disturbed.

The investigators realize their fate is intertwined with the infamous Carlyle Expedition of 1920, and their mysterious disappearance on an archaeological quest in the wilds of Kenya, in a brutal massacre by angry natives. When the investigators gather informations about the Carlyle expedition, searching various archives and libraries, they uncover numerous articles tracing the path of the ill-fated expedition. According to the last official report the principal members of the expedition were massacred in the wilds of Kenya's Kikiyu province by rampaging Nandi tribesmen.

Neither establishment is too keen to deal with the investigators and the police warns them against making a nuisance of themselves. Dr Mordecai Lemming, a folklorist, who is helping the New York police investigate the ritual murders in the city, knows nothing of any use.

Visiting the Library of Harvard University, the librarian Miriam Artwright tells the investigators that a key book Elias wished to research, Africa's Dark Sects, had been stolen some time before. And she knows that the symbol is used by the Cult of the Bloody Tongue, an ancient Kenyan cult that disappeared centuries ago.

The investigators may also speak with Erica Carlyle, sister to the Carlyle Expedition's chief sponsor Roger and heir of the Carlyle fortune. She has useful information about the case and also a number of vital but unpleasant occultish tomes in her safe, but she is particularly disinclined to discuss her brother's doings.

An Interview with Professor Anthony Cowles in Arkham reveals that another ancient death cult exists in Australian called the Father of All Bats.

Following another of the leads found in Elias' room, the investigators come upon the importer Mr Arthur Emerson, Emerson Imports. His only Mombassan client is Mr Ahja Singh, and Singh's only New York client is Mr Silas N'Kwane, manager of a Ju-Ju House in Harlem. The investigators learn that the cult meets to perform its hideous rituals with, usually human, sacrifices at a Ju-Ju House and that those rituals are led by a high priest by the name of Mukunga M'Dari who is often found at a bar named Fat Maybells. Breaking in the Ju-Ju house the investigators discover a trap door behind the counter. Tthey find a corridor ending in a door, inscribed with mystical symbols. Behind the door is a Sacrificial Chamber with a large circular pit covered with a wooden cover in the center. Within the pit is a Chakota, a Spirit of Many Faces. At the far end of the room is a small curtained alcove with Zombies and an altar covered in books and ritual objects.

Step by step the investigators learn the true back story of the Carlyle expedition: In 1917, Roger Carlyle met an mysterious african woman who was dressed in pharaonic costumes, M'Weru, actually a priestess of Nyarlathotep, and was entranced by her. In 1918, he became obsessed with Africa and especially Egyptology. In 1919, he departed for Egypt along with his companions - his friend Sir Aubrey Penhew, his psychologist Dr Robert Huston, Hypatia Masters, an amateur photographer long rumored to be romantically linked with Carlyle, and his friend Jack Brady. In Cairo, the expedition met Nyarlathotep who promised to reward them if they followed his plan to open a Great Gate to our world and Hypatia became pregnant with his monstrous spawn. And no one ever imagined that the expedition would meet such a terrible fate in Kenya, a few months later. All trace of the expedition was lost until the gruesome discovery of a massacre site deep in the bush. And the members of the expedition were declared dead after a short and lazy investigation by the british colonial forces. Hypatia was taken to the Mountain of the Black Wind by the cultists where she waits for the birth. Brady abducted his friend Carlyle to protect him and went to Hong Kong, where he told Jackson Elias about the cults. Huston left for Australia to search for the City of the Great Ones. And Penhew went to Shanghai to build a rocket.

List of Events involving the Carlyle Expedition

11.01.1918 Dr. Huston first sees Roger Carlyle as a patient. Carlyle has been having strange dreams.

03.01.1919 Faraz Najir writes to Roger Carlyle.

05.04.1919 Carlyle Expedition leaves New York for England.

20.04.1919 Carlyle Expedition arrives in London.

28.04.1919 Carlyle Expedition leaves London for Egypt

04.05.1919 Carlyle Expedition arrives in Cairo.

11.05.1919 Digs at Giza start (and end 21.05.1919).

23.05.1919 Digs at Saqqara start (and end 31.05.1919).

01.06.1919 Digs at Dhashur start (and end 30.06.1919).

03.07.1919 Carlyle Expedition plans a vacation in Kenya.

18.07.1919 Carlyle Expedition leaves Eqypt for Kenya.

24.07.1919 Carlyle Expedition arrives in Mombasa.

03.08.1919 Expedition departs from Nairobi on a Camera Safari.

15.10.1919 Carlyle Expedition feared lost.

11.03.1920 Erica Carlyle arrives in Kenya to search for her brother.

24.05.1920 Multilated remains of the Carlyle Expedition (but not its principals) are found.

19.06.1920 Five Nandi tribesmen are executed following a short trial.

30.03.1923 'Nails' Nelson claims to have met Jack Brady in Hong Kong.

25.06.1924 Jackson Elias departs New York City, bound for Nairobi.

08.08.1924 Elias writes to Jonah Kensington from Nairobi.

19.09.1924 Elias wires Kensington for money from Hong Kong.

07.11.1924 Miriam Atwright, Harvard Librarian, replies to Elias's letter.

07.11.1924 Elias arrives in Cairo.

25.11.1924 Elias arrives in London from Egypt.

16.12.1924 Still in London, Elias wires Kensington again.

17.12.1924 Elias takes passage on a freighter for New York.

13.01.1925 Jackson Elias arrives in New York.

15.01.1925 Death of Jackson Elias at Room 410 in the Chelsea Hotel, New York.

PLUG-IN SCENARIOS

Thoth's Dagger --- Appears in: The Asylum & Otter Tales, Different Worlds #27, Cthulhu Classics, The Cthulhu Casebook, Curse of the Chthonians ---

Dead Man Stomp --- Appears in: Core Rulebook 5th & 6th Edition ---

Only After Dark --- Appears in: The Book of Dark Wisdom, Issue 1, Volume 1 ---

People of the Monolith --- Appears in: Shadows of Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu Classics ---

 

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Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

--- Samuel Johnson ---

 

London

Locations: London

Creatures: Serpent Man, Servitor of the Outer Gods, Thing in the Fog, Werewolf, Shantaks, Lesser Other God

Tomes and Artifacts: G'harne Fragments, Book of Dzyan, Liber Ivonis

 

The trip with an ocean liner to the Limehouse docks and into London’s fog takes four days. The investigators first stop is The Scoop a sensational paper edited by journalist Mickey Mahoney, a good friend and source to Jackson Elias. He does point them to three articles that Elias had been looking into. These articles regarded a local painter of particularly gruesome and disturbing vistas, a series of murders in London that had become known as the Egyptian Murders due to the nationality of most of the victims, and a strange case of some mysterious beast haunting the villagers of Lesser Edale in Derbyshire.

The Painter Miles Shippley, has one picture in his collection that is of particular interest to the group. It is of a group of cultists in Kenya worshipping a great tentacular beast and bearing all the insignia of the cult of the Bloody Tongue. The artist is clearly deranged but offers to show the investigators the special painting, but they are assaulted by Miles' mother Bertha who transforms into some kind of rapacious, bi-pedal lizard-like creature.

The investigators then follow another of Elias' trails into the pleasant English countryside, to Castle Plum, resulting in a number of interviews providing information about the horror that has been terrorising the community of Lesser Eadale, canine-like tracks have been found, and the residents of the castle, Lord Arthur Vane's family, has a dark secret. The family daughter, Eloise, suffers from lycanthropy and the investigators are soon under attack of a vicious Werewolf.

Back in London they interview Inspector James Barrington of Scotland Yard about a series of 17 murders of people of Egyptian extraction. They discover that Elias had floated a theory with the inspector that the murders had been committed by the Cult of the Black Pharoah. Consultation with Edward Gavigan of the Penhew Foundation led the police to conclude that this was a false lead but perusal of the coroner’s reports regarding the victims does show a marked similarity between the way they were killed and the means by which the cult committed ritual murder. The Foundation is a respectable cover for the activities of the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh, a cult devoted to Nyarlathotep, and the investigators may find leads to Australia and Shanghai. An interview with Edward Gavigan sees the urbane and charming head of the Penhew foundation answering questions with patience. Some research reveals his place in Who’s Who? and turns up his expertise in Egyptology as does an interview with the curator of the British Museum. Gavigan is a man of habit; he visits the Blue Pyramid, a seedy nightclub with egyptian music and dancing, owned by Abdul Nawisha and a Spice Shop, owned by Tewfik al-Sayed in Soho.

PLUG-IN SCENARIOS

Vile Bodies --- Appears in: The London Guidebook ---

Horror of the Glen, the --- Appears in: Green and Pleasant Land ---

Blanford Horror, the --- Appears in: The Whisperer #1 ---

Death in the Post --- Appears in: Green and Pleasant Land ---

Mouthbreathers --- Appears in: Minions ---

Beast in the Abbey, the --- Appears in: The Unspeakable Oath #5, The Resurrected Vol. III ---

Lambton Worm, the --- Appears in: The Unspeakable Oath #5, The Resurrected Vol. III ---

Signs Writ in Scarlet --- Appears in: Sacraments of Evil ---

Paddington Horror, the --- Appears in: White Dwarf #88 ---

Vanishing Conjurer, the --- Appears in: The Vanishing Conjurer ---

 

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Cairo

Locations: Egypt

Creatures: Black Sphinx, Cat-Demon, The Black Sphinx, Children of the Sphinx, Hunting Horror, Nyarlathotep, Ghoul

Tomes and Artifacts: Al-Azif

 

Wherein the investigators come to Egypt, and soon better understand the awful past of that land and the plan which threatens everyone. Faraz Najir, an antique dealer, provides information about the Carlyle expedition and the current activities of the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh, a cult devoted to Nyarlathotep.

PLUG-IN SCENARIOS recommended**

Thoth's Dagger --- Appears in: The Asylum & Otter Tales, Different Worlds #27, Cthulhu Classics, The Cthulhu Casebook, Curse of the Chthonians ---

Horror on the Orient Express --- Appears in: Horror on the Orient Express ---

 

Kenya

Locations: Kenya

Creatures: Fire Vampire, Who-Is-Not-What-She-Seems, Spawn of Nyarlathotep

Tomes and Artifacts: Flywhisk, incense, Cthäat Aquadingen in Hindi

 

Wherein is retraced the final journey of the Carlyle expedition, leading inland to the ultimate horror at the Mountain of the Black Wind. Many clues point to Kenya as the possible epicenter of the conspiracy. The Carlyle Expedition did disappear there, after all. Before the investigators can pick up the trail in Nairobi, they must first pass through the port city of Mombasa. The cults of the Crawling Chaos are now on the lookout for them, so travel will be more difficult. In Kenya, the investigators face peril from the Cult of the Bloody Tongue, devoted to Nyarlathotep. Travelling by rail from Mombasa to Nairobi, they will be attacked by Fire Vampires. A tribal magician will lead them to the Mountain of the Black Wind.

PLUG-IN SCENARIOS recommended**

Rescue, the --- Appears in: Cthulhu Companion ---

Valley of the Four Shrines, the --- Appears in: Cthulhu Companion ---

Mister Corbitt, the --- Appears in: Mansions of Madness ---

Secrets of the Congo --- Appears in: Secrets of the Congo (Monograph) ---

 

Secrets of Kenya****

 

Madness of the Ancestors

SYNOPSIS:

The investigators get involved with an archeological dig site. Someone has uncovered new evidence about the possible origins of mankind, and the investigators join the expedition to investigate an accident on the dig site.

 

Cats of Lamu

 

Savage Lands

SYNOPSIS:

A settler’s wife is murdered by a leopard, which has dragged his children off into the bush. The official write it off as a 'normal' wildlife attack and declares the children dead, but the man insists that things are not as they seem and that his children may still be alive.

 

Wooden Death

 

Australia*

The section in Australia was submitted at the same time as he rest of this campaign, but not included in the first two editions (due to cost/space constraints). It appeared individually in Terror Australis as the adventure City Beneath the Sands. It was later re-incorporated into the 3rd and 4th editions.

PLUG-IN SCENARIOS recommended**

The Rescue --- Appears in: Cthulhu Companion ---

Old Fellow, That Bunyip, the --- Appears in: Terror Australis ---

 

Shanghai

Locations: Shanghai

Creatures: Bloated Woman, The Demon-Cat, Deep One, Shoggoth

Tomes and Artifacts: Statue of the Bloated Woman, Livre d’Ivon, True Magick, Goddess of the Black Fan, R’lyeh text commentary, Tale of Priest Kwan, Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan

 

Wherein the Investigators have the chance to strike a great blow against evil, and learn that the serenity of China cannot be theirs. The Shanghai followers of Nyarlathotep belong to the Order of the Bloated Woman. A bar owner will give the Investigators a lead to the High Priest of the Order, Ho Fong. Carl Stanford is a guest of Ho Fong. Jack Brady is hiding out in Shanghai. He has knowledge that may foil the plans of the cultists.

PLUG-IN SCENARIOS recommended**

Shanghai Bullets --- Appears in: Stunning Eldrich Tales ---

Tatterdemalion --- Appears in: Fatal Experiments ---

Dead Man Stomp --- Appears in: Core Rulebook 5th & 6th Edition ---

One in Darkness --- Appears in: The Great Old Ones ---

It's one of the best and most deadly campaigns ever. It's a set of two-fisted pulp scenarios, and the whole campaign feels like 'The Adventures of Indiana Jones'.

 

El Clásico campaign - highly atmospheric - MUST PLAY

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NIGHTMARE IN NORWAY

Games Workshop - 1985 - CoC2

CLASSIC 1920 SETTING

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Settings: February 1925

Locations: Vikenberg, Norway

Creatures: Troll, Formless Spawn of Tsathoggua

SYNOPSIS:

'WAR HERO KILLED BY WOLVES' The body of Lieutenant Cleary is found near the village of Vikenberg. It has been badly mutilated. The locals say Cleary fell while skiing and was attacked by wolves... yet Cleary was an accomplished skier, and his cousin, Sit Eustace Cleary, is perturbed... Behind the tragedy lie blackmail threats, and the hint of something darker in the mountains. Sir Eustace cannot afford any scandal, as he is standing for Parliament. He has heard of your investigative abilities, and offers you a good fee. Will you enter the nightmate in Norway?

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PURSUIT TO KADATH

Theatre of the Mind - 1983 - CoC2

CLASSIC 1920 SETTING

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Pursuit to Kadath

Setting: 1920s

Locations: Massachusetts, Turkey

Creatures: Avatar of Yig, Ghoul, Nightgaunt, Vampire

Tomes and Artifacts: Pnakotic Manuscripts

SYNOPSIS:

The Investigators are college students at Miskatonic University. They recognise a fellow student, Nils Lindstrom, in a gruesome newspaper photo.

 

All-Seeing Eye of Alskali, the

Setting: 1920s

Locations: Turkey, Crimea

Creatures: Alskali

SYNOPSIS:

Quentin Halward, an English archeologist resident in Turkey, is missing. He went to Crimea in search of an ancient race of humanoids. The Investigators are recruited to find him.

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TRAIL OF THE GOLD SPIKE

Hero Games - 1984 - CoC3

CLASSIC 1920/1930 SETTING

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Chapter 1: A Timely Intervention,

Chapter 2: The Lady Tells her Story,

Chapter 3: The Big City,

Chapter 4: The Gold Spikes,

Chapter 5: Suspects and Victims,

Chapter 6: The Condor Moves In,

Chapter 7: Battle in the Condor's Lair,

Chapter 8: Optional Complications,

Chapter 9: Characters,

Chapter 10: Game Conversions.

SYNOPSIS:

Death stalks a lost mine; the Gold Spike Mine, located deep in the Rockies. The mine has seen a series of accidents and mishaps - all clearly intended to drive the owners away. Who is the Condor? Can the investigators rescue the beautiful Beth Whitley?

Actually a scenario for Hero Games' Pulp RPG Justice Inc. which also includes statistics for running the adventure in Call of Cthulhu.

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TRAIL OF THE LOATHSOME SLIME

Games Workshop - 1985 - CoC2

MODERN 1990 SETTING

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Settings: Modern

Locations: South Atlantic, Antarctica

Creatures: Shoggoth

SYNOPSIS:

Russell Corey was a respected authority on Occult mysteries and phenomena. For some time he had been investigating the possible links between an old shipwreck in the South Atlantic, and a sect practicing human sacrifice in the 1920s. Corey was haunted by the visions of some arcane evil coming back through time to wreak havoc today... but his death on the verge of a major breakthrough could mean that all his work is wasted. You knew Corey slightly, and are a little uneasy about his death; after all, he was not an old man...

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TRAIL OF TSATHOGGUA*

Chaosium - 1984 - CoC2

COMPACT TRAIL OF TSATHOGGUA, the**

1997 - CoC5

CLASSIC 1920 SETTING

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Trail of Tsathoggua, the

Setting: 1920s

Locations: Greenland

Creatures: Formless Spawn of Tsathoggua, Gnoph-Keh

SYNOPSIS:

Investigators join a scientific expedition to Greenland to examine a strange wall found protruding from a glacier.

 

The wall provides clues to the location of an ancient Hyperborean city. The Hyperboreans fought a pre-human race called the Voormis. The Voormis mated with Viking settlers in Greenland. Some people in the present day have Voormis genes.

 

Curse of Tsathoggua**, the

Setting: 1920s

Locations: Canada

Creatures: Sasquatch

SYNOPSIS:

Investigators follow a trail of clues that leads them to the last survivors of a mythical race.

 

Terrence Bhule accompanied the Investigators to Greenland. He discovered that he is a descendant of the Voormis, a pre-human race. He travelled to Canada to find if the Voormis, now called sasquatch, are still alive.

 

Haunted House*, the = The Haunt

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WHISPERS FROM THE ABYSS

Theatre of the Mind - 1984 - CoC2

CLASSIC 1920/1930 SETTING

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On the Wings of Madness

Setting: 1930s

Creatures: Byakhee

SYNOPSIS:

The Investigators are recruited to recover a stolen Egyptian papyrus scroll held by the German anthropologist, Dr Schlupp. He is leaving for Germany on board the zeppelin ‘Friedrich der Grosse’.

 

De Schip Zonder Schaduw

*The Ship Without Shadows

Setting: 1920s

SYNOPSIS:

The Investigators have a bizarre rendezvous. A wealthy American, Mrs Marietta Cosgrove, is travelling to London aboard the zeppelin 'Der Grosse Kurfürst'. She has in her possession a legendary jewel, the Polar Star.

 

Whispers from the Abyss

Setting: 1920s

Creatures: Croaton

SYNOPSIS:

The Investigators are recruited for an archeological expedition and explore the strange events that lead to the abandonment of Roanoke Island: site of the failed North America's first colony.

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WHITE DWARF

BRIT MAGAZINE

Published by Games Workshop

 

--- Date of publication 1977 to 2014 ---

--- Rollpaying Publications til 1988; #99 ---

 

WHITE DWARF #50

1984 - CoC2

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Watchers of Walberswick, the

Setting: 1930s

Locations: Walberswick, Southwold, Deep One Caverns

Creatures: Deep One, Deep One Hybrid

SYNOPSIS:

Members of the Bedford Archaeological Research Society are asked to identify a bone found in a village museum.

Appears in: Best of White Dwarf Scenarios #3

 

WHITE DWARF #60

1984 - CoC2

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Bleeding Stone of Iphtah, the

 

WHITE DWARF #63

1985 - CoC2

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Draw the Blinds of Yesterday

Creatures: Gorgon, Dimensional Shambler

 

WHITE DWARF #66

1985 - CoC2

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Horse of the Invisible

Creatures: Squarch

 

WHITE DWARF #69

1985 - CoC2

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Surrey Enigma

Creatures: Skeleton

 

WHITE DWARF #72

1985 - CoC2

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Fear of Flying

Setting: 1920s

Locations: The plane, rest stop, airfield

Creatures: Shantak

Tomes and Artifacts: Fetish of Nyarlathotep

SYNOPSIS:

An ordinary long-distance flight for twelve passengers and three crew members proves eventful in more ways than one.

 

On board the airliner is a wealthy arms magnate, who is travelling by air to shake off possible assassins; a cultist of Azathoth, sent to steal a crude Fetish of Nyarlathotep and an insane chemist and former developer of lethal nerve gas.

NOT TO BE CONFUSED with the scenario of the same name in Fearful Passages, 1992.

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