http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=202.74.211.168 2026-10-24T21:03:12Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.46.2 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Doctor_Frederick_Bartlett&diff=1745 2006-05-15T00:35:01Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Friends */</p> <hr /> <div>Doctor Frederick Bartlett is an eminent research psychologist. He attained a first class degree in Moral Sciences in 1914 at the age of 28. <br /> <br /> In the same year as his graduation and appointment as an Assistant in Experimental Psychology, war broke out and all of his seniors in Cambridge left for war service. Bartlett was ineligible for service due to a heart condition (he tried to enlist three times), so he was appointed Temporary Director of the department. He went almost immediately from undergraduate student status to head of Psychology at Cambridge.<br /> <br /> Two years ago he left Cambridge to work for the [[Tavistock Clinic]] in London. <br /> <br /> ==Family==<br /> <br /> Parents dead. No siblings. No children. Wife: Emily Mary (formerly Smith), married in 1920 (met her during a research project). They live in Wimbledon.<br /> <br /> ==Passions==<br /> <br /> Has (he believes) the largest swallow-tail butterfly collection in England.<br /> <br /> ==Friends==<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]].<br /> <br /> William Tyrell, Permanent Under-Secretary (Foreign Office), met him during <br /> Bartlett's South Africa trip 1923-24. Their wifes get on rather well.<br /> <br /> Laurens van der Post, a young Afrikaaner gentleman, journalist, humanitarian and explorer that Frederic has taken a liking to. Frederick and Mary attended his wedding on March the 8th at Dorset. He has been staying in England this year and he tends to visit London on a regular basis and always remembers to stop by, entertaining everyone with his stories and ideas.<br /> <br /> As reader and former director of the Cambridge laboratory, Bartlett has some research <br /> staff at his disposal and present &amp; former colleagues in medicine and academia. He also has access to the not inconsiderable resourses of the [[Tavistock Clinic]].<br /> <br /> ==Secrets==<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett’s Secrets]]</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Doctor_Frederick_Bartlett&diff=1744 2006-05-15T00:34:39Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Friends */</p> <hr /> <div>Doctor Frederick Bartlett is an eminent research psychologist. He attained a first class degree in Moral Sciences in 1914 at the age of 28. <br /> <br /> In the same year as his graduation and appointment as an Assistant in Experimental Psychology, war broke out and all of his seniors in Cambridge left for war service. Bartlett was ineligible for service due to a heart condition (he tried to enlist three times), so he was appointed Temporary Director of the department. He went almost immediately from undergraduate student status to head of Psychology at Cambridge.<br /> <br /> Two years ago he left Cambridge to work for the [[Tavistock Clinic]] in London. <br /> <br /> ==Family==<br /> <br /> Parents dead. No siblings. No children. Wife: Emily Mary (formerly Smith), married in 1920 (met her during a research project). They live in Wimbledon.<br /> <br /> ==Passions==<br /> <br /> Has (he believes) the largest swallow-tail butterfly collection in England.<br /> <br /> ==Friends==<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]].<br /> <br /> William Tyrell, Permanent Under-Secretary (Foreign Office), met him during <br /> Bartlett's South Africa trip 1923-24. Their wifes get on rather well.<br /> <br /> Laurens van der Post, a young Afrikaaner gentleman, journalist, humanitarian and explorer that Frederic has taken a liking to. Frederick and Mary attended his wedding on March the 8th at Dorset. He has been staying in England this year and he tends to visit London on a regular basis and always remembers to stop by, entertaining everyone with his stories and ideas.<br /> <br /> As reader and former director of the Cambridge laboratory, Bartlett has some research <br /> staff at his disposal and present &amp; former colleagues in medicine and academia. He also has access to the not inconsiderable resourses of [[the Tavistock Clinic]].<br /> <br /> ==Secrets==<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett’s Secrets]]</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Doctor_Frederick_Bartlett&diff=1743 2006-05-15T00:34:28Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Friends */</p> <hr /> <div>Doctor Frederick Bartlett is an eminent research psychologist. He attained a first class degree in Moral Sciences in 1914 at the age of 28. <br /> <br /> In the same year as his graduation and appointment as an Assistant in Experimental Psychology, war broke out and all of his seniors in Cambridge left for war service. Bartlett was ineligible for service due to a heart condition (he tried to enlist three times), so he was appointed Temporary Director of the department. He went almost immediately from undergraduate student status to head of Psychology at Cambridge.<br /> <br /> Two years ago he left Cambridge to work for the [[Tavistock Clinic]] in London. <br /> <br /> ==Family==<br /> <br /> Parents dead. No siblings. No children. Wife: Emily Mary (formerly Smith), married in 1920 (met her during a research project). They live in Wimbledon.<br /> <br /> ==Passions==<br /> <br /> Has (he believes) the largest swallow-tail butterfly collection in England.<br /> <br /> ==Friends==<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]].<br /> <br /> William Tyrell, Permanent Under-Secretary (Foreign Office), met him during <br /> Bartlett's South Africa trip 1923-24. Their wifes get on rather well.<br /> <br /> Laurens van der Post, a young Afrikaaner gentleman, journalist, humanitarian and explorer that Frederic has taken a liking to. Frederic and Mary attended his wedding on March the 8th at Dorset. He has been staying in England this year and he tends to visit London on a regular basis and always remembers to stop by, entertaining everyone with his stories and ideas.<br /> <br /> As reader and former director of the Cambridge laboratory, Bartlett has some research <br /> staff at his disposal and present &amp; former colleagues in medicine and academia. He also has access to the not inconsiderable resourses of [[the Tavistock Clinic]].<br /> <br /> ==Secrets==<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett’s Secrets]]</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Doctor_Frederick_Bartlett&diff=1742 2006-05-15T00:33:35Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Doctor Frederick Bartlett is an eminent research psychologist. He attained a first class degree in Moral Sciences in 1914 at the age of 28. <br /> <br /> In the same year as his graduation and appointment as an Assistant in Experimental Psychology, war broke out and all of his seniors in Cambridge left for war service. Bartlett was ineligible for service due to a heart condition (he tried to enlist three times), so he was appointed Temporary Director of the department. He went almost immediately from undergraduate student status to head of Psychology at Cambridge.<br /> <br /> Two years ago he left Cambridge to work for the [[Tavistock Clinic]] in London. <br /> <br /> ==Family==<br /> <br /> Parents dead. No siblings. No children. Wife: Emily Mary (formerly Smith), married in 1920 (met her during a research project). They live in Wimbledon.<br /> <br /> ==Passions==<br /> <br /> Has (he believes) the largest swallow-tail butterfly collection in England.<br /> <br /> ==Friends==<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]].<br /> <br /> William Tyrell, Permanent Under-Secretary (Foreign Office), met him during <br /> Bartlett's South Africa trip 1923-24. Their wifes get on rather well.<br /> <br /> Laurens van der Post, a young Afrikaaner gentleman, journalist, humanitarian and explorer that Frederic has taken a liking to. Frederic and Mary attended his wedding on March the 8th at Dorset. He has been staying in England this year and he tends to visit London on a regular basis and always remembers to stop by, entertaining everyone with his stories and ideas.<br /> <br /> As reader and former director of the Cambridge laboratory, Bartlett has some research <br /> staff at his disposal and present &amp; former colleagues in medicine and academia.<br /> <br /> ==Secrets==<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett’s Secrets]]</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Tavistock_Clinic&diff=1741 2006-05-15T00:33:14Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Founded in 1920 by psychiatrist Hugh Crichton-Miller, the Tavistock Clinic made a significant contribution to the understanding of the traumatic effects of shell shock and how it could be treated by psychotherapy: talking, listening and understanding. Before that, soldiers who suffered these symptoms in battle were regarded as cowards and were punished, even shot.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] is the current assistant director.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Doctor_Frederick_Bartlett&diff=1740 2006-05-15T00:32:36Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Doctor Frederick Bartlett is an eminent reaerch psychologist. He attained a first class degree in Moral Sciences in 1914 at the age of 28. <br /> <br /> In the same year as his graduation and appointment as an Assistant in Experimental Psychology, war broke out and all of his seniors in Cambridge left for war service. Bartlett was ineligible for service due to a heart condition (he tried to enlist three times), so he was appointed Temporary Director of the department. He went almost immediately from undergraduate student status to head of Psychology at Cambridge.<br /> <br /> Two years ago he left Cambridge to work for the [[Tavistock Clinic]] in London. <br /> <br /> ==Family==<br /> <br /> Parents dead. No siblings. No children. Wife: Emily Mary (formerly Smith), married in 1920 (met her during a research project). They live in Wimbledon.<br /> <br /> ==Passions==<br /> <br /> Has (he believes) the largest swallow-tail butterfly collection in England.<br /> <br /> ==Friends==<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]].<br /> <br /> William Tyrell, Permanent Under-Secretary (Foreign Office), met him during <br /> Bartlett's South Africa trip 1923-24. Their wifes get on rather well.<br /> <br /> Laurens van der Post, a young Afrikaaner gentleman, journalist, humanitarian and explorer that Frederic has taken a liking to. Frederic and Mary attended his wedding on March the 8th at Dorset. He has been staying in England this year and he tends to visit London on a regular basis and always remembers to stop by, entertaining everyone with his stories and ideas.<br /> <br /> As reader and former director of the Cambridge laboratory, Bartlett has some research <br /> staff at his disposal and present &amp; former colleagues in medicine and academia.<br /> <br /> ==Secrets==<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett’s Secrets]]</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Alexander_Roby&diff=1716 2006-05-14T19:32:27Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Alexander_Roby.jpg|right]]<br /> Born in 1892 to a wealthy middle class London family, Roby dropped out of Peterhouse prior to knocking around the Foreign Office for a couple of years. He left the FO and spent his time studying fringe interests (astronomy, art, the occult) and mixing with people of whom his family did not approve.<br /> <br /> On October 14th 1926 Roby's father Herbert and sister Georgina were brutally murdered at the family home in Curzon Street. Alexander was the only other person at home, and initially claimed responsibility. He was arrested, but instead of being charged was committed to St Agnes Asylum. The papers committing him were signed by Dr [[Highsmith]], Roby's older brother [[Grahame Roby]] and the Roby family physician, [[Dr Lionel Trollope]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] believes Roby suffers from 'sympathetic mania', which manifests as severe night terrors, or scotophobia, that start each year at the anniversary of the muders and continue until the Spring. These attacks are being well-managed with laudanum, and Highsmith believes him fit for release to the care of his family or a convalescent home. Highsmith also believes Alexander innocent of the murders.<br /> <br /> His release hearing is scheduled for November 30th 1928.<br /> <br /> Roby spends his time studying poetry and has made unusual marginal notes in his poetry books referring to various elements common to both the [[play]] 'Carcosa' and Robert W Chambers's '[[King in Yellow]]' stories.<br /> <br /> He made an unusual [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf statement] to [[Dr Bartlett]].</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=The_White_Acolyte&diff=1715 2006-05-14T19:23:27Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Alexander Roby]] states that [[Malcolm Quarrie]] believes that [[the King in Yellow]] &quot;has called himself the White Acolyte&quot;.<br /> <br /> The significance of this statement, if any, is unknown.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=The_White_Acolyte&diff=1714 2006-05-14T19:22:58Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Alexander Roby]] states that [[Malcolm Quarrie]] believes that [[the King in Yellow]] &quot;has called himself the White Acolyte&quot;.<br /> <br /> The significance of this statement, in any, is unknown.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=The_White_Acolyte&diff=1713 2006-05-14T19:21:57Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Alexander Roby]] states that [[Malcolm Quarrie]] believes that [[the King in Yellow]] 'has called himself the White Acolyte.<br /> <br /> The significance of this statement, in any, is unknown.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Malcolm_Quarrie&diff=1712 2006-05-14T19:20:20Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Referred to by [[Alexander Roby]] during his monologue to [[Dr Bartlett]], Quarrie is an unknown individual of whom the following is stated:<br /> <br /> - Roby does not know where Quarrrie is.<br /> <br /> - He may be attempting to 'bring' [[the King in Yellow]].<br /> <br /> - It appears Quarrie disagreed with Roby and [[Edwards]] on one or more issues.<br /> <br /> - Quarrie believes that [[the King in Yellow]] has called himself [[the White Acolyte]].<br /> <br /> Roby also asks Bartlett to pass on a stanza of poetry to Quarrie as a warning or piece of advice:<br /> <br /> <br /> '' The stars that burn their charcoal death,''<br /> <br /> '' Shrink back, they feel the hoary breath,''<br /> <br /> '' Of he who ransoms great Carcosa.''<br /> <br /> '' He flees where queen and prophet met,''<br /> <br /> '' Where twin suns fall but never set,''<br /> <br /> '' Escapes the tomb of lost Carcosa.''</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Malcolm_Quarrie&diff=1711 2006-05-14T19:19:47Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Referred to by [[Alexander Roby]] during his monologue to [[Dr Bartlett]], Quarrie is an unknown individual of whom the following is stated:<br /> <br /> - Roby does not know where Quarrrie is.<br /> <br /> - He may be attempting to 'bring' [[the King in Yellow]].<br /> <br /> - It appears Quarrie disagreed with Roby and [[Edwards]] on one or more issues.<br /> <br /> - Quarrie believes that [[the King in Yellow]] has called himself [[the White Acolyte]].<br /> <br /> Roby also asks Bartlett to pass on a stanza of poetry to Quarrie as a warning or piece of advice:<br /> <br /> ''The stars that burn their charcoal death,''<br /> <br /> ''Shrink back, they feel the hoary breath,''<br /> <br /> ''Of he who ransoms great Carcosa.''<br /> <br /> ''He flees where queen and prophet met,''<br /> <br /> ''Where twin suns fall but never set,''<br /> <br /> ''Escapes the tomb of lost Carcosa.''</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Malcolm_Quarrie&diff=1710 2006-05-14T19:19:09Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Referred to by [[Alexander Roby]] during his monologue to [[Dr Bartlett]], Quarrie is an unknown individual of whom the following is stated:<br /> <br /> - Roby does not know where Quarrrie is.<br /> <br /> - He may be attempting to 'bring' [[the King in Yellow]].<br /> <br /> - It appears Quarrie disagreed with Roby and [[Edwards]] on one or more issues.<br /> <br /> - Quarrie believes that [[the King in Yellow]] has called himself [[the White Acolyte]].<br /> <br /> Roby also asks Bartlett to pass on a stanza of poetry to Quarrie as a warning or piece of advice:<br /> <br /> ''The stars that burn their charcoal death,''<br /> ''Shrink back, they feel the hoary breath,''<br /> ''Of he who ransoms great Carcosa.''<br /> ''He flees where queen and prophet met,''<br /> ''Where twin suns fall but never set,''<br /> ''Escapes the tomb of lost Carcosa.''</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Edwards&diff=1709 2006-05-14T19:18:05Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Referred to by [[Alexander Roby]] during his monologue to [[Dr Bartlett]], Edwards is an unknown individual of whom the following is stated:<br /> <br /> - Edwards told Roby to work only with him.<br /> <br /> - Roby and Edwards were in some way opposed to, or in disagreement with [[Malcolm Quarrie]].<br /> <br /> - Roby also says 'What Edwards and I are doing now harms no one.'</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Malcolm_Quarrie&diff=1708 2006-05-14T19:15:48Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Referred to by [[Alexander Roby]] during his monologue to [[Dr Bartlett]], Quarrie is an unknown individual of whom the following is stated:<br /> <br /> - Roby does not know where Quarrrie is.<br /> <br /> - He may be attempting to 'bring' [[the King in Yellow]].<br /> <br /> - It appears Quarrie disagreed with Roby and [[Edwards]] on one or more issues.<br /> <br /> - Quarrie believes that [[the King in Yellow]] has called himself [[the White Acolyte]].<br /> <br /> Roby also asks Bartlett to pass on a stanza of poetry to Quarrie as a warning or piece of advice:<br /> <br /> ''The stars that burn their charcoal death,<br /> Shrink back, they feel the hoary breath,<br /> Of he who ransoms great Carcosa.<br /> He flees where queen and prophet met,<br /> Where twin suns fall but never set,<br /> Escapes the tomb of lost Cracosa.''</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Session_1.5&diff=1707 2006-05-14T19:08:31Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* October 30th 1928 */</p> <hr /> <div>This was a special one on one session with Dr [[Bartlett]] as the only player character.<br /> <br /> ==Session Report - Played Thursday 11th May, 2006==<br /> <br /> ===October 20th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett]] receives [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/04_The_Letter_from_Dr_Highsmith.pdf a letter] from [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]], superintendent of St. Agnes Asylum in [http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/images.big/weobley01big.jpg Weobley], Herefordshire, requesting a meeting on the 28th at the Great Western Hotel in London.<br /> <br /> ===October 28th 1928===<br /> <br /> At the meeting, Highsmith explains that the patient he wishes to consult [[Bartlett]] about is [[Alexander Roby]], who has been committed to St Agnes for the last 2 years following the [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/05_Two_Newspaper_Stories_on_the_Roby_Murders.pdf brutal murders] of his father and sister, killings he initially claimed responsibility for, but was never in fact charged with.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] has to make a recommendation for the release, or otherwise, of [[Roby]] and was leaning towards release when he came under pressure from the Roby family, through the conduit of family physician [[Dr Lionel Trollope]] to keep [[Alexander]] confined. The head of [[Alexander]]'s family is his brother, the prominent banker [[Grahame Roby]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] wishes to understand the motives behind the family's position, but they hasn't been able to get them to reveal any details. He also wants Bartlett's professional opinion of the state of mind of [[Alexander Roby]], and asks [[Bartlett]] to accompany him when he returns to Herefordshire on the 30th. Intrigued, though unsure of his suitability for what amounts to a private investigation, he agrees.<br /> <br /> ===October 30th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] joins [[Highsmith]] on the 10.20am train, to change at Bristol for Hereford. A car meets them and takes them the 20 miles to the village of Weobley. The asylum squats on a hill overlooking the village - a grim Victorian building.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] describes [[Roby]]'s symptoms - extreme night terrors, or scotophobia, which manifest around the anniversary of the Roby murders in October each year and continue until April. The attacks are controlled with high doses of laudanum. apart from these attacks, Roby is uncommunicative and seems to live in a world of his own. [[Highsmith]] suggests that [[Bartlett]] examine [[Roby]] on his own initially, and instructs two of his male staff, Nurse Price and Reeves, his secretary, to accompany Bartlett.<br /> <br /> En route to Roby's cell Price asks if Bartlett is here about 'the murder', which turns out not to be the Roby killings, but a murder that happened within the asylum a year before. Bartlett asks if he can talk to Price about that after seeing Roby.<br /> <br /> In [[Roby]]'s cell, the madman is reading a book and does not react to his visitors. Bartlett examines Roby's books, which are all poetry by modern poets such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Graves] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound Pound], and discovers marginal notes in pencil throughout them. He is astonished to find a note referring to [[Carcosa]] and soon finds other referring to [[Cassilda]], [[Hastur]] and other elements of the [[play]]. <br /> <br /> Eventually [[Bartlett]] gets a reponse from [[Roby]], who soon goes into a strange monologue, which Reeves records in shorthand and types up later. Amongst other things, Roby refers to unknown associates called [[Malcolm Quarrie]] and [[Edwards]]. When Roby asks Bartlett if he's seen the [[Yellow Sign]], Bartlett says 'yes'.<br /> <br /> [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/06_Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf Roby's statement]<br /> <br /> After that, [[Roby]] returns to reading his poetry, so [[Bartlett]] sends Reeves to type up the statement and goes with Price to the staff break room to hear about the asylum murder of November 27th, 1927.<br /> <br /> The murder was brutal and mysterious. A nurse called Cuthbert Yates was slashed to death with at least 2 knives in the cell of Roby's neighbour, the brain-damaged [[Lucius Harriwell]]. The police suspected [[Harriwell]], but since he was clearly insane and already indefinitely incarcerated they saw no point in prosecution. The asylum staff, however, don't believe Harriwell capable of such a thing - he was found cowering in his cell, insisting 'the Devil' was responsible, and no weapon was found. Roby was heavily sedated, and despite the interesting parallels with the [[Roby]] murders, could not have been involved.<br /> <br /> The stange thing, however, was that the amount of blood found in the cell far exceeded that which could have been lost by the victim alone. No second victim was found, and nobody was reported missing. Price says that Hereford CID handled the case.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] agrees with [[Highsmith]] that [[Roby]] seems harmless, and says he'll see what he can find out in London. In further discussion with Highsmith, Bartlett finds out that Roby befriended the nurse, Mark Evans, and Evans gave him pencils on 2 occasions, against instructions. Evans himself says that Roby talked to him about poetry and asked him for pencils so he could 'complete his work'. He knows he shouldn't have done it, and won't again.<br /> <br /> That evening, Bartlett visits the Wheatsheaf pub with Price and other staff, and they talk about the murder, Roby and Highsmith, but Bartlett learns little more.<br /> <br /> ===October 31st 1928===<br /> <br /> After breakfast, [[Bartlett]] visits [[Roby]] again, this time in the company of Evans, but Roby is uncommunicative, except to say &quot;Don't forget to tell Quarrie.&quot; just as Bartlett leaves.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] is driven back to Hereford, has lunch at the station hotel and returns to London. He has an appointment to play bridge with [[Withers]], [[Browne]] and [[Saunders]] at his Wimbledon home that evening.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Mark_Chiddicks&diff=1706 2006-05-14T11:48:24Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>A data analyst and father of 2 small eldritch things (aka children). A resident of of Auckland NZ since 1994, when his wife Sonja brought him back as a souvenir of her travels, Mark continues to be English despite being told to stop on several occasions. He has been playing Call of Cthulhu since the Great Old Ones were merely the Great Middle-aged Ones.<br /> <br /> He owns copy 127 of the leather-bound Miskatonic University Edition of the Call of Cthulhu rulebook, and 1/3 of the R'Lyeh Disk.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> chiddicks@woosh.co.nz</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Tatters_of_the_King&diff=1705 2006-05-14T11:45:26Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Tatters_Cover.gif|right]]<br /> '''Tatters of the King'''[http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=773&amp;osCsid=07f84f248e3a49f3cf6199ee7fbb6629] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by [http://chaosium.com Chaosium] and through which our role-playing [http://tentaclesandunderpants.info group] is currently being run. Play started on May 8th 2006. See [[current events]] for next session date. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Setting==<br /> <br /> The game is initially set in [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/1928.doc 1928].<br /> <br /> ==GM==<br /> <br /> The Keeper of Arcane Lore is [[Mark Chiddicks]]<br /> <br /> ==Players==<br /> <br /> The players are:<br /> <br /> [[Darryn Mercer]]<br /> <br /> [[Julia Blackmore]]<br /> <br /> [[Nicola Bishop]]<br /> <br /> [[Marcus Gustafsson]]<br /> <br /> ==Player Characters==<br /> <br /> [[Nathaniel Browne]] - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]] - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Saunders]] - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.<br /> <br /> ==Notable Non-Player Characters==<br /> <br /> '''Prologue'''<br /> <br /> [[Talbot Estus]] - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright<br /> <br /> ''The Group'' - an amateur theatrical troupe:<br /> <br /> [[Michael Gillen]] - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]]. Estus's friend and companion.<br /> <br /> [[Hannah Keith]] - Amateur Actress and sister of [[Andrew Saunders]]<br /> <br /> [[George Keith]] - Amateur Actor and husband of [[Hannah Keith]]<br /> <br /> [[Walter Paige]] - Amateur Actor<br /> <br /> [[Jean Hewart]] - Amateur Actress<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Chapter One'''<br /> <br /> [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] - Asylum Superintendent<br /> <br /> [[Alexander Roby]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Lucius Harriwell]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Price and Evans]] - Asylum Nurses<br /> <br /> ==Literary Works==<br /> <br /> [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] - a fantasy in two acts, [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] by [[Talbot Estus]]<br /> <br /> [[Le Roi en Jeune]] - a rare French play, playwright anonymous<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow] - a collection of short [http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/chambers/stories/kinginye/contents.htm stories] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers Robert W Chambers]<br /> <br /> [[An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd]] - by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> <br /> ==Locations==<br /> <br /> [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.htm Map of England and Wales, 1928]<br /> <br /> [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], England - [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/roads-central.htm Map of London, 1926]<br /> <br /> The [[Scala Theatre]], Charlotte St, London<br /> <br /> [http://www.homestead.com/valfleming/AutumnHeaven.html Weobley], Herefordshire, England<br /> <br /> ==Sessions==<br /> <br /> [[Session 1]] - Opening Night<br /> <br /> [[Session 1.5]] - The Madman<br /> <br /> [[Session 2]] - A Game of Bridge</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Tatters_of_the_King&diff=1704 2006-05-14T11:44:59Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Tatters_Cover.gif|right]]<br /> '''Tatters of the King'''[http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=773&amp;osCsid=07f84f248e3a49f3cf6199ee7fbb6629] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by [http://chaosium.com Chaosium] and through which our role-playing [http://tentaclesandunderpants.info group] is currently being run. Play started on May 8th 2006. See [[current events]] for next session date. <br /> <br /> ==Setting==<br /> <br /> The game is initially set in [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/1928.doc 1928].<br /> <br /> ==GM==<br /> <br /> The Keeper of Arcane Lore is [[Mark Chiddicks]]<br /> <br /> ==Players==<br /> <br /> The players are:<br /> <br /> [[Darryn Mercer]]<br /> <br /> [[Julia Blackmore]]<br /> <br /> [[Nicola Bishop]]<br /> <br /> [[Marcus Gustafsson]]<br /> <br /> ==Player Characters==<br /> <br /> [[Nathaniel Browne]] - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]] - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Saunders]] - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.<br /> <br /> ==Notable Non-Player Characters==<br /> <br /> '''Prologue'''<br /> <br /> [[Talbot Estus]] - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright<br /> <br /> ''The Group'' - an amateur theatrical troupe:<br /> <br /> [[Michael Gillen]] - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]]. Estus's friend and companion.<br /> <br /> [[Hannah Keith]] - Amateur Actress and sister of [[Andrew Saunders]]<br /> <br /> [[George Keith]] - Amateur Actor and husband of [[Hannah Keith]]<br /> <br /> [[Walter Paige]] - Amateur Actor<br /> <br /> [[Jean Hewart]] - Amateur Actress<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Chapter One'''<br /> <br /> [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] - Asylum Superintendent<br /> <br /> [[Alexander Roby]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Lucius Harriwell]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Price and Evans]] - Asylum Nurses<br /> <br /> ==Literary Works==<br /> <br /> [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] - a fantasy in two acts, [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] by [[Talbot Estus]]<br /> <br /> [[Le Roi en Jeune]] - a rare French play, playwright anonymous<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow] - a collection of short [http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/chambers/stories/kinginye/contents.htm stories] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers Robert W Chambers]<br /> <br /> [[An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd]] - by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> <br /> ==Locations==<br /> <br /> [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.htm Map of England and Wales, 1928]<br /> <br /> [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], England - [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/roads-central.htm Map of London, 1926]<br /> <br /> The [[Scala Theatre]], Charlotte St, London<br /> <br /> [http://www.homestead.com/valfleming/AutumnHeaven.html Weobley], Herefordshire, England<br /> <br /> ==Sessions==<br /> <br /> [[Session 1]] - Opening Night<br /> <br /> [[Session 1.5]] - The Madman<br /> <br /> [[Session 2]] - A Game of Bridge</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Pallid_Mask&diff=1703 2006-05-14T11:38:45Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>The Pallid Mask is alluded to, but never described by Robert W Chambers in his stories of [[the King in Yellow]].<br /> <br /> In the play [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]], [[The Stranger]] wears a featureless white mask of which he tells the people of [[Yhtill]] to wear copies to protect themselves from [[the King in Yellow]]. At the end of the play, [[the Stranger]], now called [[Haita]] reveals that that which appears to be a mask is in fact his true face.<br /> <br /> When the King makes his appearance at the end of the play, and overwhelms Haita, he curses the people of Yhtill and tells them that the price of victory over Alar shall be 'the fixing of the mask'.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Pallid_Mask&diff=1702 2006-05-14T11:38:31Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>The Pallid Mask is alluded to, but never described by Robert W Chambers in his stories of [[the King in Yellow]].<br /> <br /> In the play [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]], [[The Stranger]] wears a featureless white mask of which he tells the people of [[Yhtill]] to wear copies to protect themselves from [[the King in Yellow]]. At the end of the play, [[the Stranger]], now called [[Haita]] reveals that that which appears to be a mask is in fact his true face.<br /> <br /> When the king makes his appearance at the end of the play, and overwhelms Haita, he curses the people of Yhtill and tells them that the price of victory over Alar shall be 'the fixing of the mask'.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Pallid_Mask&diff=1701 2006-05-14T11:37:52Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>The Pallid Mask is alluded to, but never described by Robert W Chambers in his stories of the [[King In Yellow]].<br /> <br /> In the play [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]], [[The Stranger]] wears a featureless white mask of which he tells the people of [[Yhtill]] to wear copies to protect themselves from [[the King in Yellow]]. At the end of the play, [[Th stanger]], now called [[Haita]] reveals that that which appears to be a mask is in fact his true face.<br /> <br /> When the king makes his appearance at the end of the play, and overwhelms Haita, he curses the people of Yhtill and tells them that the price of victory over Alar shall be 'the fixing of the mask'.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Camilla&diff=1699 2006-05-14T11:31:58Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Camilla is the daughter of [[Cassilda]], queen of [[Yhtill]] as described by the play [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]]. Camilla's main role is to determine of the sucession of the rulership of [[Yhtill]] by choosing which of her brothers to take as her husband. She refuses to accept the diadem of rulership herself as she is fearful of receiving the [[Yellow Sign]]</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=1698 2006-05-14T11:30:55Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Next Session:<br /> <br /> '''Monday, May 18th 2006'''</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Session_2&diff=1696 2006-05-14T11:29:00Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* October 31st 1928 */</p> <hr /> <div><br /> ==Session Report - Played Monday 15th May, 2006==<br /> <br /> ===October 31st 1928===<br /> <br /> The four friends meet at [[Dr Bartlett]]'s Wimbledon home on Wednesday evening, for a game of bridge.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Session_1.5&diff=1695 2006-05-14T11:27:56Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>This was a special one on one session with Dr [[Bartlett]] as the only player character.<br /> <br /> ==Session Report - Played Thursday 11th May, 2006==<br /> <br /> ===October 20th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett]] receives [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/04_The_Letter_from_Dr_Highsmith.pdf a letter] from [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]], superintendent of St. Agnes Asylum in [http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/images.big/weobley01big.jpg Weobley], Herefordshire, requesting a meeting on the 28th at the Great Western Hotel in London.<br /> <br /> ===October 28th 1928===<br /> <br /> At the meeting, Highsmith explains that the patient he wishes to consult [[Bartlett]] about is [[Alexander Roby]], who has been committed to St Agnes for the last 2 years following the [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/05_Two_Newspaper_Stories_on_the_Roby_Murders.pdf brutal murders] of his father and sister, killings he initially claimed responsibility for, but was never in fact charged with.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] has to make a recommendation for the release, or otherwise, of [[Roby]] and was leaning towards release when he came under pressure from the Roby family, through the conduit of family physician [[Dr Lionel Trollope]] to keep [[Alexander]] confined. The head of [[Alexander]]'s family is his brother, the prominent banker [[Grahame Roby]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] wishes to understand the motives behind the family's position, but they hasn't been able to get them to reveal any details. He also wants Bartlett's professional opinion of the state of mind of [[Alexander Roby]], and asks [[Bartlett]] to accompany him when he returns to Herefordshire on the 30th. Intrigued, though unsure of his suitability for what amounts to a private investigation, he agrees.<br /> <br /> ===October 30th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] joins [[Highsmith]] on the 10.20am train, to change at Bristol for Hereford. A car meets them and takes them the 20 miles to the village of Weobley. The asylum squats on a hill overlooking the village - a grim Victorian building.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] describes [[Roby]]'s symptoms - extreme night terrors, or scotophobia, which manifest around the anniversary of the Roby murders in October each year and continue until April. The attacks are controlled with high doses of laudanum. apart from these attacks, Roby is uncommunicative and seems to live in a world of his own. [[Highsmith]] suggests that [[Bartlett]] examine [[Roby]] on his own initially, and instructs two of his male staff, Nurse Price and Reeves, his secretary, to accompany Bartlett.<br /> <br /> En route to Roby's cell Price asks if Bartlett is here about 'the murder', which turns out not to be the Roby killings, but a murder that happened within the asylum a year before. Bartlett asks if he can talk to Price about that after seeing Roby.<br /> <br /> In [[Roby]]'s cell, the madman is reading a book and does not react to his visitors. Bartlett examines Roby's books, which are all poetry by modern poets such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Graves] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound Pound], and discovers marginal notes in pencil throughout them. He is astonished to find a note referring to [[Carcosa]] and soon finds other referring to [[Cassilda]], [[Hastur]] and other elements of the [[play]]. <br /> <br /> Eventually [[Bartlett]] gets a reponse from [[Roby]], who soon goes into a strange monologue, which Reeves records in shorthand and types up later. When Roby asks Bartlett if he's seen the [[Yellow Sign]], Bartlett says 'yes'.<br /> <br /> [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/06_Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf Roby's statement]<br /> <br /> After that, [[Roby]] returns to reading his poetry, so [[Bartlett]] sends Reeves to type up the statement and goes with Price to the staff break room to hear about the asylum murder of November 27th, 1927.<br /> <br /> The murder was brutal and mysterious. A nurse called Cuthbert Yates was slashed to death with at least 2 knives in the cell of Roby's neighbour, the brain-damaged [[Lucius Harriwell]]. The police suspected [[Harriwell]], but since he was clearly insane and already indefinitely incarcerated they saw no point in prosecution. The asylum staff, however, don't believe Harriwell capable of such a thing - he was found cowering in his cell, insisting 'the Devil' was responsible, and no weapon was found. Roby was heavily sedated, and despite the interesting parallels with the [[Roby]] murders, could not have been involved.<br /> <br /> The stange thing, however, was that the amount of blood found in the cell far exceeded that which could have been lost by the victim alone. No second victim was found, and nobody was reported missing. Price says that Hereford CID handled the case.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] agrees with [[Highsmith]] that [[Roby]] seems harmless, and says he'll see what he can find out in London. In further discussion with Highsmith, Bartlett finds out that Roby befriended the nurse, Mark Evans, and Evans gave him pencils on 2 occasions, against instructions. Evans himself says that Roby talked to him about poetry and asked him for pencils so he could 'complete his work'. He knows he shouldn't have done it, and won't again.<br /> <br /> That evening, Bartlett visits the Wheatsheaf pub with Price and other staff, and they talk about the murder, Roby and Highsmith, but Bartlett learns little more.<br /> <br /> ===October 31st 1928===<br /> <br /> After breakfast, [[Bartlett]] visits [[Roby]] again, this time in the company of Evans, but Roby is uncommunicative, except to say &quot;Don't forget to tell Quarrie.&quot; just as Bartlett leaves.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] is driven back to Hereford, has lunch at the station hotel and returns to London. He has an appointment to play bridge with [[Withers]], [[Browne]] and [[Saunders]] at his Wimbledon home that evening.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Session_1.5&diff=1694 2006-05-14T11:27:35Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>This was a special one on one session with Dr [[Bartlett]] as the only player character.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Session Report - Played Thursday 11th May, 2006==<br /> <br /> ===October 20th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett]] receives [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/04_The_Letter_from_Dr_Highsmith.pdf a letter] from [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]], superintendent of St. Agnes Asylum in [http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/images.big/weobley01big.jpg Weobley], Herefordshire, requesting a meeting on the 28th at the Great Western Hotel in London.<br /> <br /> ===October 28th 1928===<br /> <br /> At the meeting, Highsmith explains that the patient he wishes to consult [[Bartlett]] about is [[Alexander Roby]], who has been committed to St Agnes for the last 2 years following the [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/05_Two_Newspaper_Stories_on_the_Roby_Murders.pdf brutal murders] of his father and sister, killings he initially claimed responsibility for, but was never in fact charged with.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] has to make a recommendation for the release, or otherwise, of [[Roby]] and was leaning towards release when he came under pressure from the Roby family, through the conduit of family physician [[Dr Lionel Trollope]] to keep [[Alexander]] confined. The head of [[Alexander]]'s family is his brother, the prominent banker [[Grahame Roby]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] wishes to understand the motives behind the family's position, but they hasn't been able to get them to reveal any details. He also wants Bartlett's professional opinion of the state of mind of [[Alexander Roby]], and asks [[Bartlett]] to accompany him when he returns to Herefordshire on the 30th. Intrigued, though unsure of his suitability for what amounts to a private investigation, he agrees.<br /> <br /> ===October 30th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] joins [[Highsmith]] on the 10.20am train, to change at Bristol for Hereford. A car meets them and takes them the 20 miles to the village of Weobley. The asylum squats on a hill overlooking the village - a grim Victorian building.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] describes [[Roby]]'s symptoms - extreme night terrors, or scotophobia, which manifest around the anniversary of the Roby murders in October each year and continue until April. The attacks are controlled with high doses of laudanum. apart from these attacks, Roby is uncommunicative and seems to live in a world of his own. [[Highsmith]] suggests that [[Bartlett]] examine [[Roby]] on his own initially, and instructs two of his male staff, Nurse Price and Reeves, his secretary, to accompany Bartlett.<br /> <br /> En route to Roby's cell Price asks if Bartlett is here about 'the murder', which turns out not to be the Roby killings, but a murder that happened within the asylum a year before. Bartlett asks if he can talk to Price about that after seeing Roby.<br /> <br /> In [[Roby]]'s cell, the madman is reading a book and does not react to his visitors. Bartlett examines Roby's books, which are all poetry by modern poets such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Graves] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound Pound], and discovers marginal notes in pencil throughout them. He is astonished to find a note referring to [[Carcosa]] and soon finds other referring to [[Cassilda]], [[Hastur]] and other elements of the [[play]]. <br /> <br /> Eventually [[Bartlett]] gets a reponse from [[Roby]], who soon goes into a strange monologue, which Reeves records in shorthand and types up later. When Roby asks Bartlett if he's seen the [[Yellow Sign]], Bartlett says 'yes'.<br /> <br /> [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/06_Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf Roby's statement]<br /> <br /> After that, [[Roby]] returns to reading his poetry, so [[Bartlett]] sends Reeves to type up the statement and goes with Price to the staff break room to hear about the asylum murder of November 27th, 1927.<br /> <br /> The murder was brutal and mysterious. A nurse called Cuthbert Yates was slashed to death with at least 2 knives in the cell of Roby's neighbour, the brain-damaged [[Lucius Harriwell]]. The police suspected [[Harriwell]], but since he was clearly insane and already indefinitely incarcerated they saw no point in prosecution. The asylum staff, however, don't believe Harriwell capable of such a thing - he was found cowering in his cell, insisting 'the Devil' was responsible, and no weapon was found. Roby was heavily sedated, and despite the interesting parallels with the [[Roby]] murders, could not have been involved.<br /> <br /> The stange thing, however, was that the amount of blood found in the cell far exceeded that which could have been lost by the victim alone. No second victim was found, and nobody was reported missing. Price says that Hereford CID handled the case.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] agrees with [[Highsmith]] that [[Roby]] seems harmless, and says he'll see what he can find out in London. In further discussion with Highsmith, Bartlett finds out that Roby befriended the nurse, Mark Evans, and Evans gave him pencils on 2 occasions, against instructions. Evans himself says that Roby talked to him about poetry and asked him for pencils so he could 'complete his work'. He knows he shouldn't have done it, and won't again.<br /> <br /> That evening, Bartlett visits the Wheatsheaf pub with Price and other staff, and they talk about the murder, Roby and Highsmith, but Bartlett learns little more.<br /> <br /> ===October 31st 1928===<br /> <br /> After breakfast, [[Bartlett]] visits [[Roby]] again, this time in the company of Evans, but Roby is uncommunicative, except to say &quot;Don't forget to tell Quarrie.&quot; just as Bartlett leaves.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] is driven back to Hereford, has lunch at the station hotel and returns to London. He has an appointment to play bridge with [[Withers]], [[Browne]] and [[Saunders]] at his Wimbledon home that evening.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Session_1.5&diff=1693 2006-05-14T11:27:06Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>This was a special one on one session with Dr Bartlett as the only player character.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Session Report - Played Thursday 11th May, 2006==<br /> <br /> ===October 20th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett]] receives [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/04_The_Letter_from_Dr_Highsmith.pdf a letter] from [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]], superintendent of St. Agnes Asylum in [http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/images.big/weobley01big.jpg Weobley], Herefordshire, requesting a meeting on the 28th at the Great Western Hotel in London.<br /> <br /> ===October 28th 1928===<br /> <br /> At the meeting, Highsmith explains that the patient he wishes to consult [[Bartlett]] about is [[Alexander Roby]], who has been committed to St Agnes for the last 2 years following the [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/05_Two_Newspaper_Stories_on_the_Roby_Murders.pdf brutal murders] of his father and sister, killings he initially claimed responsibility for, but was never in fact charged with.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] has to make a recommendation for the release, or otherwise, of [[Roby]] and was leaning towards release when he came under pressure from the Roby family, through the conduit of family physician [[Dr Lionel Trollope]] to keep [[Alexander]] confined. The head of [[Alexander]]'s family is his brother, the prominent banker [[Grahame Roby]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] wishes to understand the motives behind the family's position, but they hasn't been able to get them to reveal any details. He also wants Bartlett's professional opinion of the state of mind of [[Alexander Roby]], and asks [[Bartlett]] to accompany him when he returns to Herefordshire on the 30th. Intrigued, though unsure of his suitability for what amounts to a private investigation, he agrees.<br /> <br /> ===October 30th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] joins [[Highsmith]] on the 10.20am train, to change at Bristol for Hereford. A car meets them and takes them the 20 miles to the village of Weobley. The asylum squats on a hill overlooking the village - a grim Victorian building.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] describes [[Roby]]'s symptoms - extreme night terrors, or scotophobia, which manifest around the anniversary of the Roby murders in October each year and continue until April. The attacks are controlled with high doses of laudanum. apart from these attacks, Roby is uncommunicative and seems to live in a world of his own. [[Highsmith]] suggests that [[Bartlett]] examine [[Roby]] on his own initially, and instructs two of his male staff, Nurse Price and Reeves, his secretary, to accompany Bartlett.<br /> <br /> En route to Roby's cell Price asks if Bartlett is here about 'the murder', which turns out not to be the Roby killings, but a murder that happened within the asylum a year before. Bartlett asks if he can talk to Price about that after seeing Roby.<br /> <br /> In [[Roby]]'s cell, the madman is reading a book and does not react to his visitors. Bartlett examines Roby's books, which are all poetry by modern poets such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Graves] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound Pound], and discovers marginal notes in pencil throughout them. He is astonished to find a note referring to [[Carcosa]] and soon finds other referring to [[Cassilda]], [[Hastur]] and other elements of the [[play]]. <br /> <br /> Eventually [[Bartlett]] gets a reponse from [[Roby]], who soon goes into a strange monologue, which Reeves records in shorthand and types up later. When Roby asks Bartlett if he's seen the [[Yellow Sign]], Bartlett says 'yes'.<br /> <br /> [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/06_Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf Roby's statement]<br /> <br /> After that, [[Roby]] returns to reading his poetry, so [[Bartlett]] sends Reeves to type up the statement and goes with Price to the staff break room to hear about the asylum murder of November 27th, 1927.<br /> <br /> The murder was brutal and mysterious. A nurse called Cuthbert Yates was slashed to death with at least 2 knives in the cell of Roby's neighbour, the brain-damaged [[Lucius Harriwell]]. The police suspected [[Harriwell]], but since he was clearly insane and already indefinitely incarcerated they saw no point in prosecution. The asylum staff, however, don't believe Harriwell capable of such a thing - he was found cowering in his cell, insisting 'the Devil' was responsible, and no weapon was found. Roby was heavily sedated, and despite the interesting parallels with the [[Roby]] murders, could not have been involved.<br /> <br /> The stange thing, however, was that the amount of blood found in the cell far exceeded that which could have been lost by the victim alone. No second victim was found, and nobody was reported missing. Price says that Hereford CID handled the case.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] agrees with [[Highsmith]] that [[Roby]] seems harmless, and says he'll see what he can find out in London. In further discussion with Highsmith, Bartlett finds out that Roby befriended the nurse, Mark Evans, and Evans gave him pencils on 2 occasions, against instructions. Evans himself says that Roby talked to him about poetry and asked him for pencils so he could 'complete his work'. He knows he shouldn't have done it, and won't again.<br /> <br /> That evening, Bartlett visits the Wheatsheaf pub with Price and other staff, and they talk about the murder, Roby and Highsmith, but Bartlett learns little more.<br /> <br /> ===October 31st 1928===<br /> <br /> After breakfast, [[Bartlett]] visits [[Roby]] again, this time in the company of Evans, but Roby is uncommunicative, except to say &quot;Don't forget to tell Quarrie.&quot; just as Bartlett leaves.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] is driven back to Hereford, has lunch at the station hotel and returns to London. He has an appointment to play bridge with [[Withers]], [[Browne]] and [[Saunders]] at his Wimbledon home that evening.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Session_2&diff=1692 2006-05-14T11:26:32Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* October 31st 1928 */</p> <hr /> <div><br /> ==Session Report - Played Monday 15th May, 2006==<br /> <br /> ===October 31st 1928===<br /> <br /> The four friends meet at [[Dr Bartlett]]'s Wimbledon home for a game of bridge.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Session_1.5&diff=1690 2006-05-14T11:25:26Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Session Report */</p> <hr /> <div>This was a special one on one session with Dr Bartlett as the only player character.<br /> <br /> ==Session Report - Played Thursday 11th May, 2006==<br /> <br /> ===October 20th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett]] receives [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/04_The_Letter_from_Dr_Highsmith.pdf a letter] from [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]], superintendent of St. Agnes Asylum in [http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/images.big/weobley01big.jpg Weobley], Herefordshire, requesting a meeting on the 28th at the Great Western Hotel in London.<br /> <br /> ===October 28th 1928===<br /> <br /> At the meeting, Highsmith explains that the patient he wishes to consult [[Bartlett]] about is [[Alexander Roby]], who has been committed to St Agnes for the last 2 years following the [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/05_Two_Newspaper_Stories_on_the_Roby_Murders.pdf brutal murders] of his father and sister, killings he initially claimed responsibility for, but was never in fact charged with.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] has to make a recommendation for the release, or otherwise, of [[Roby]] and was leaning towards release when he came under pressure from the Roby family, through the conduit of family physician [[Dr Lionel Trollope]] to keep [[Alexander]] confined. The head of [[Alexander]]'s family is his brother, the prominent banker [[Grahame Roby]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] wishes to understand the motives behind the family's position, but they hasn't been able to get them to reveal any details. He also wants Bartlett's professional opinion of the state of mind of [[Alexander Roby]], and asks [[Bartlett]] to accompany him when he returns to Herefordshire on the 30th. Intrigued, though unsure of his suitability for what amounts to a private investigation, he agrees.<br /> <br /> ===October 30th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] joins [[Highsmith]] on the 10.20am train, to change at Bristol for Hereford. A car meets them and takes them the 20 miles to the village of Weobley. The asylum squats on a hill overlooking the village - a grim Victorian building.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] describes [[Roby]]'s symptoms - extreme night terrors, or scotophobia, which manifest around the anniversary of the Roby murders in October each year and continue until April. The attacks are controlled with high doses of laudanum. apart from these attacks, Roby is uncommunicative and seems to live in a world of his own. [[Highsmith]] suggests that [[Bartlett]] examine [[Roby]] on his own initially, and instructs two of his male staff, Nurse Price and Reeves, his secretary, to accompany Bartlett.<br /> <br /> En route to Roby's cell Price asks if Bartlett is here about 'the murder', which turns out not to be the Roby killings, but a murder that happened within the asylum a year before. Bartlett asks if he can talk to Price about that after seeing Roby.<br /> <br /> In [[Roby]]'s cell, the madman is reading a book and does not react to his visitors. Bartlett examines Roby's books, which are all poetry by modern poets such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Graves] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound Pound], and discovers marginal notes in pencil throughout them. He is astonished to find a note referring to [[Carcosa]] and soon finds other referring to [[Cassilda]], [[Hastur]] and other elements of the [[play]]. <br /> <br /> Eventually [[Bartlett]] gets a reponse from [[Roby]], who soon goes into a strange monologue, which Reeves records in shorthand and types up later. When Roby asks Bartlett if he's seen the [[Yellow Sign]], Bartlett says 'yes'.<br /> <br /> [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/06_Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf Roby's statement]<br /> <br /> After that, [[Roby]] returns to reading his poetry, so [[Bartlett]] sends Reeves to type up the statement and goes with Price to the staff break room to hear about the asylum murder of November 27th, 1927.<br /> <br /> The murder was brutal and mysterious. A nurse called Cuthbert Yates was slashed to death with at least 2 knives in the cell of Roby's neighbour, the brain-damaged [[Lucius Harriwell]]. The police suspected [[Harriwell]], but since he was clearly insane and already indefinitely incarcerated they saw no point in prosecution. The asylum staff, however, don't believe Harriwell capable of such a thing - he was found cowering in his cell, insisting 'the Devil' was responsible, and no weapon was found. Roby was heavily sedated, and despite the interesting parallels with the [[Roby]] murders, could not have been involved.<br /> <br /> The stange thing, however, was that the amount of blood found in the cell far exceeded that which could have been lost by the victim alone. No second victim was found, and nobody was reported missing. Price says that Hereford CID handled the case.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] agrees with [[Highsmith]] that [[Roby]] seems harmless, and says he'll see what he can find out in London. In further discussion with Highsmith, Bartlett finds out that Roby befriended the nurse, Mark Evans, and Evans gave him pencils on 2 occasions, against instructions. Evans himself says that Roby talked to him about poetry and asked him for pencils so he could 'complete his work'. He knows he shouldn't have done it, and won't again.<br /> <br /> That evening, Bartlett visits the Wheatsheaf pub with Price and other staff, and they talk about the murder, Roby and Highsmith, but Bartlett learns little more.<br /> <br /> ===October 31st 1928===<br /> <br /> After breakfast, [[Bartlett]] visits [[Roby]] again, this time in the company of Evans, but Roby is uncommunicative, except to say &quot;Don't forget to tell Quarrie.&quot; just as Bartlett leaves.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] is driven back to Hereford, has lunch at the station hotel and returns to London. He has an appointment to play bridge with [[Withers]], [[Browne]] and [[Saunders]] at his Wimbledon home that evening.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Session_1&diff=1688 2006-05-14T11:24:39Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Session Report */</p> <hr /> <div>==Session Report - Played Monday 8th May 2006==<br /> <br /> ===October 17th 1928===<br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]], a retired psychiatrist, is invited by former patient [[Michael Gillen]] to see the premiere of the play [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] at the [[Scala Theatre]] on Charlotte Street, and to make an informal assessmekeithnt of the mental state of playwright [[Talbot Estus]], Gillen’s companion and housemate. Bartlett offers his second ticket to his friend [[Captain George Withers]], a career army man. Before the performance, while sitting in the bar, they meet [[Andrew Saunders]]. Saunders, a museum curator with a special interest in mythology, is an acquaintance and former patient (after a very strange experience on a train journey) of Doctor Bartlett. Saunders' sister [[Hannah Keith]] is starring in the [[play]], and he has invited his friend [[Nathaniel Browne]], with whom he shared the aforementioned train journey. Nathaniel, an author, is very enthusiastic about seeing this new play by the noted novellist, [[Talbot Estus]].<br /> <br /> Watching the [[play]], the PCs observe that the audience is reacting strangely to the performance. Gasps of horror, surprise and even laughter are expressed at points in the performance that seem wholly inappropriate.<br /> <br /> During the intermission between the two acts, Nathaniel reveals that the play is affecting him deeply, especially the appearance of the [[Yellow Sign]]. Similarly Andrew admits to being affected, though not as much. Captain Withers seems unimpressed, and Doctor Bartlett seems more interested in the audience's reaction to the play than the play itself. While they are talking, the group overhear a couple talking heatedly about the play, with the woman insisting she saw things which the husband disputes were there at all. Nathaniel is also puzzled that he saw two people get up and leave in the midle of the performance whereas the others saw no such thing.<br /> <br /> Many of the patrons do not return for the second act.<br /> <br /> The PCs watch the second act during which the emotions of the crowd appear to become more intense, culminating in a near riot at the end of the [[play]]. Some people cry out and others scream. Nathaniel is left crying uncontrollably, while the man on his left punches his wife and grabs Nathaniel. Fortunately Captain Withers, mystified rather than affected by the performance, remains clear-headed enough to save Browne from his assailant. Someone sets off the fire alarm and there is a stampede toward the exits before the ushers restore order.<br /> <br /> Partly to avoid the police, who have arrived in the wake of the riot, the four companions go to the after-play reception and meet with the cast, who are largely unaware of any untoward incident. [[Browne]] meets [[Talbot Estus]] and discusses the play, whikeithch has inspired him, and its meaning with great fervour. [[Saunders]] discovers that his sister, [[Hannah Keith]] has been dreaming of [[Carcosa]] and seems to find the [[play]] disturbing, as does young [[Jean Hewart]]. [[Michael Gillen]] tells [[Doctor Bartlett]] that [[Talbot Estus]] seems to have a fear of the stars, as well as a mania for the [[play]], which he is attempting to novelise.<br /> <br /> The reception breaks up after Estus has a heated exchange with the [[Scala Theatre]]'s manager, who is pulling the plug on the production because of the riot. Arrangements are made by the new acquaintances to meet for lunch at the weekend.<br /> <br /> ===October 18th and 19th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Nathaniel Browne]] dreams several times of playing in a discordant orchestra, with a picture of the [[Yellow Sign]] instead of music. Researching the play’s origins he discovers the works of [[Robert W Chambers]] and that multiple plays of the same name appear to have existed in the past. He starts to write stories featuring elements from the play.<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Saunders]] dreams several times of confronting an armed doppelganger of himself in a [[Carcosa]]n Palace, and arranges to see his sister after the lunch with his friends.<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]] thinks little of the play until he encounters a landscape of [[Carcosa]] during a regimental function at a gallery.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] also thinks little of it, but does notice the [[Yellow Sign]] in a piece of London graffiti that says “The King will change London”. He also discusses [[Talbot Estus]] with [[Michael Gillen]], but states there’s little he can do if Estus is unwilling to see him.<br /> <br /> ===October 20th 1928===<br /> <br /> The four new friends meet for lunch at Overton’s Oyster House. The play is discussed. [[Nathaniel Browne]], given a script by [[Talbot Estus]], has discovered that the play as performed does not match the [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] that Estus wrote. [[Andrew Saunders]] agrees to mention this to his sister, [[Hannah Keith]].<br /> <br /> At tea, Saunders discovers that both his sister and her husband have identical scripts to Browne's, and claim to have performed the play as written.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, [[Dr Bartlett]] recieves an intriguing letter from an asylum superindendent in Herefordshire…<br /> <br /> ==Audio Recording==<br /> <br /> [http://www.tentaclesandunderpants.info/downloads/download.html;jsessionid=29aqjq0onsbds?id=12754 Audio Recording of the First Session]</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Tatters_of_the_King&diff=1687 2006-05-14T11:23:53Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Sessions */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Tatters_Cover.gif|right]]<br /> '''Tatters of the King'''[http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=773&amp;osCsid=07f84f248e3a49f3cf6199ee7fbb6629] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by [http://chaosium.com Chaosium] and through which our role-playing [http://tentaclesandunderpants.info group] is currently being run. Play started on May 8th 2006.<br /> <br /> ==Setting==<br /> <br /> The game is initially set in [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/1928.doc 1928].<br /> <br /> ==GM==<br /> <br /> The Keeper of Arcane Lore is [[Mark Chiddicks]]<br /> <br /> ==Players==<br /> <br /> The players are:<br /> <br /> [[Darryn Mercer]]<br /> <br /> [[Julia Blackmore]]<br /> <br /> [[Nicola Bishop]]<br /> <br /> [[Marcus Gustafsson]]<br /> <br /> ==Player Characters==<br /> <br /> [[Nathaniel Browne]] - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]] - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Saunders]] - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.<br /> <br /> ==Notable Non-Player Characters==<br /> <br /> '''Prologue'''<br /> <br /> [[Talbot Estus]] - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright<br /> <br /> ''The Group'' - an amateur theatrical troupe:<br /> <br /> [[Michael Gillen]] - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]]. Estus's friend and companion.<br /> <br /> [[Hannah Keith]] - Amateur Actress and sister of [[Andrew Saunders]]<br /> <br /> [[George Keith]] - Amateur Actor and husband of [[Hannah Keith]]<br /> <br /> [[Walter Paige]] - Amateur Actor<br /> <br /> [[Jean Hewart]] - Amateur Actress<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Chapter One'''<br /> <br /> [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] - Asylum Superintendent<br /> <br /> [[Alexander Roby]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Lucius Harriwell]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Price and Evans]] - Asylum Nurses<br /> <br /> ==Literary Works==<br /> <br /> [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] - a fantasy in two acts, [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] by [[Talbot Estus]]<br /> <br /> [[Le Roi en Jeune]] - a rare French play, playwright anonymous<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow] - a collection of short [http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/chambers/stories/kinginye/contents.htm stories] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers Robert W Chambers]<br /> <br /> [[An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd]] - by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> <br /> ==Locations==<br /> <br /> [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.htm Map of England and Wales, 1928]<br /> <br /> [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], England - [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/roads-central.htm Map of London, 1926]<br /> <br /> The [[Scala Theatre]], Charlotte St, London<br /> <br /> [http://www.homestead.com/valfleming/AutumnHeaven.html Weobley], Herefordshire, England<br /> <br /> ==Sessions==<br /> <br /> [[Session 1]] - Opening Night<br /> <br /> [[Session 1.5]] - The Madman<br /> <br /> [[Session 2]] - A Game of Bridge</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Tatters_of_the_King&diff=1685 2006-05-14T11:23:19Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Sessions */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Tatters_Cover.gif|right]]<br /> '''Tatters of the King'''[http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=773&amp;osCsid=07f84f248e3a49f3cf6199ee7fbb6629] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by [http://chaosium.com Chaosium] and through which our role-playing [http://tentaclesandunderpants.info group] is currently being run. Play started on May 8th 2006.<br /> <br /> ==Setting==<br /> <br /> The game is initially set in [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/1928.doc 1928].<br /> <br /> ==GM==<br /> <br /> The Keeper of Arcane Lore is [[Mark Chiddicks]]<br /> <br /> ==Players==<br /> <br /> The players are:<br /> <br /> [[Darryn Mercer]]<br /> <br /> [[Julia Blackmore]]<br /> <br /> [[Nicola Bishop]]<br /> <br /> [[Marcus Gustafsson]]<br /> <br /> ==Player Characters==<br /> <br /> [[Nathaniel Browne]] - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]] - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Saunders]] - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.<br /> <br /> ==Notable Non-Player Characters==<br /> <br /> '''Prologue'''<br /> <br /> [[Talbot Estus]] - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright<br /> <br /> ''The Group'' - an amateur theatrical troupe:<br /> <br /> [[Michael Gillen]] - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]]. Estus's friend and companion.<br /> <br /> [[Hannah Keith]] - Amateur Actress and sister of [[Andrew Saunders]]<br /> <br /> [[George Keith]] - Amateur Actor and husband of [[Hannah Keith]]<br /> <br /> [[Walter Paige]] - Amateur Actor<br /> <br /> [[Jean Hewart]] - Amateur Actress<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Chapter One'''<br /> <br /> [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] - Asylum Superintendent<br /> <br /> [[Alexander Roby]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Lucius Harriwell]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Price and Evans]] - Asylum Nurses<br /> <br /> ==Literary Works==<br /> <br /> [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] - a fantasy in two acts, [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] by [[Talbot Estus]]<br /> <br /> [[Le Roi en Jeune]] - a rare French play, playwright anonymous<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow] - a collection of short [http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/chambers/stories/kinginye/contents.htm stories] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers Robert W Chambers]<br /> <br /> [[An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd]] - by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> <br /> ==Locations==<br /> <br /> [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.htm Map of England and Wales, 1928]<br /> <br /> [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], England - [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/roads-central.htm Map of London, 1926]<br /> <br /> The [[Scala Theatre]], Charlotte St, London<br /> <br /> [http://www.homestead.com/valfleming/AutumnHeaven.html Weobley], Herefordshire, England<br /> <br /> ==Sessions==<br /> <br /> [[Session 1]] - 8th May - Opening Night<br /> <br /> [[Session 1.5]] - 11th May - The Madman<br /> <br /> [[Session 2]] - 15th May - A Game of Bridge</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Tatters_of_the_King&diff=1684 2006-05-14T11:21:57Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Locations */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Tatters_Cover.gif|right]]<br /> '''Tatters of the King'''[http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=773&amp;osCsid=07f84f248e3a49f3cf6199ee7fbb6629] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by [http://chaosium.com Chaosium] and through which our role-playing [http://tentaclesandunderpants.info group] is currently being run. Play started on May 8th 2006.<br /> <br /> ==Setting==<br /> <br /> The game is initially set in [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/1928.doc 1928].<br /> <br /> ==GM==<br /> <br /> The Keeper of Arcane Lore is [[Mark Chiddicks]]<br /> <br /> ==Players==<br /> <br /> The players are:<br /> <br /> [[Darryn Mercer]]<br /> <br /> [[Julia Blackmore]]<br /> <br /> [[Nicola Bishop]]<br /> <br /> [[Marcus Gustafsson]]<br /> <br /> ==Player Characters==<br /> <br /> [[Nathaniel Browne]] - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]] - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Saunders]] - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.<br /> <br /> ==Notable Non-Player Characters==<br /> <br /> '''Prologue'''<br /> <br /> [[Talbot Estus]] - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright<br /> <br /> ''The Group'' - an amateur theatrical troupe:<br /> <br /> [[Michael Gillen]] - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]]. Estus's friend and companion.<br /> <br /> [[Hannah Keith]] - Amateur Actress and sister of [[Andrew Saunders]]<br /> <br /> [[George Keith]] - Amateur Actor and husband of [[Hannah Keith]]<br /> <br /> [[Walter Paige]] - Amateur Actor<br /> <br /> [[Jean Hewart]] - Amateur Actress<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Chapter One'''<br /> <br /> [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] - Asylum Superintendent<br /> <br /> [[Alexander Roby]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Lucius Harriwell]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Price and Evans]] - Asylum Nurses<br /> <br /> ==Literary Works==<br /> <br /> [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] - a fantasy in two acts, [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] by [[Talbot Estus]]<br /> <br /> [[Le Roi en Jeune]] - a rare French play, playwright anonymous<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow] - a collection of short [http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/chambers/stories/kinginye/contents.htm stories] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers Robert W Chambers]<br /> <br /> [[An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd]] - by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> <br /> ==Locations==<br /> <br /> [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.htm Map of England and Wales, 1928]<br /> <br /> [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], England - [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/roads-central.htm Map of London, 1926]<br /> <br /> The [[Scala Theatre]], Charlotte St, London<br /> <br /> [http://www.homestead.com/valfleming/AutumnHeaven.html Weobley], Herefordshire, England<br /> <br /> ==Sessions==<br /> <br /> 8th May [[Session 1]] - Opening Night<br /> <br /> 11th May [[Session 1.5]] - The Madman<br /> <br /> 15th May [[Session 2]] - A Game of Bridge</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Tatters_of_the_King&diff=1683 2006-05-14T10:31:07Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Sessions */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Tatters_Cover.gif|right]]<br /> '''Tatters of the King'''[http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=773&amp;osCsid=07f84f248e3a49f3cf6199ee7fbb6629] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by [http://chaosium.com Chaosium] and through which our role-playing [http://tentaclesandunderpants.info group] is currently being run. Play started on May 8th 2006.<br /> <br /> ==Setting==<br /> <br /> The game is initially set in [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/1928.doc 1928].<br /> <br /> ==GM==<br /> <br /> The Keeper of Arcane Lore is [[Mark Chiddicks]]<br /> <br /> ==Players==<br /> <br /> The players are:<br /> <br /> [[Darryn Mercer]]<br /> <br /> [[Julia Blackmore]]<br /> <br /> [[Nicola Bishop]]<br /> <br /> [[Marcus Gustafsson]]<br /> <br /> ==Player Characters==<br /> <br /> [[Nathaniel Browne]] - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]] - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Saunders]] - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.<br /> <br /> ==Notable Non-Player Characters==<br /> <br /> '''Prologue'''<br /> <br /> [[Talbot Estus]] - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright<br /> <br /> ''The Group'' - an amateur theatrical troupe:<br /> <br /> [[Michael Gillen]] - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]]. Estus's friend and companion.<br /> <br /> [[Hannah Keith]] - Amateur Actress and sister of [[Andrew Saunders]]<br /> <br /> [[George Keith]] - Amateur Actor and husband of [[Hannah Keith]]<br /> <br /> [[Walter Paige]] - Amateur Actor<br /> <br /> [[Jean Hewart]] - Amateur Actress<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Chapter One'''<br /> <br /> [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] - Asylum Superintendent<br /> <br /> [[Alexander Roby]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Lucius Harriwell]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Price and Evans]] - Asylum Nurses<br /> <br /> ==Literary Works==<br /> <br /> [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] - a fantasy in two acts, [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] by [[Talbot Estus]]<br /> <br /> [[Le Roi en Jeune]] - a rare French play, playwright anonymous<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow] - a collection of short [http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/chambers/stories/kinginye/contents.htm stories] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers Robert W Chambers]<br /> <br /> [[An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd]] - by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> <br /> ==Locations==<br /> <br /> [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.htm Map of England and Wales, 1928]<br /> <br /> [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], England - [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/roads-central.htm Map of London, 1926]<br /> <br /> The [[Scala Theatre]], Charlotte St, London<br /> <br /> [http://www.homestead.com/valfleming/AutumnHeaven.html], Herefordshire, England<br /> <br /> ==Sessions==<br /> <br /> 8th May [[Session 1]] - Opening Night<br /> <br /> 11th May [[Session 1.5]] - The Madman<br /> <br /> 15th May [[Session 2]] - A Game of Bridge</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Tatters_of_the_King&diff=1682 2006-05-14T10:30:01Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Tatters_Cover.gif|right]]<br /> '''Tatters of the King'''[http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=773&amp;osCsid=07f84f248e3a49f3cf6199ee7fbb6629] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by [http://chaosium.com Chaosium] and through which our role-playing [http://tentaclesandunderpants.info group] is currently being run. Play started on May 8th 2006.<br /> <br /> ==Setting==<br /> <br /> The game is initially set in [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/1928.doc 1928].<br /> <br /> ==GM==<br /> <br /> The Keeper of Arcane Lore is [[Mark Chiddicks]]<br /> <br /> ==Players==<br /> <br /> The players are:<br /> <br /> [[Darryn Mercer]]<br /> <br /> [[Julia Blackmore]]<br /> <br /> [[Nicola Bishop]]<br /> <br /> [[Marcus Gustafsson]]<br /> <br /> ==Player Characters==<br /> <br /> [[Nathaniel Browne]] - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]] - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Saunders]] - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.<br /> <br /> ==Notable Non-Player Characters==<br /> <br /> '''Prologue'''<br /> <br /> [[Talbot Estus]] - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright<br /> <br /> ''The Group'' - an amateur theatrical troupe:<br /> <br /> [[Michael Gillen]] - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]]. Estus's friend and companion.<br /> <br /> [[Hannah Keith]] - Amateur Actress and sister of [[Andrew Saunders]]<br /> <br /> [[George Keith]] - Amateur Actor and husband of [[Hannah Keith]]<br /> <br /> [[Walter Paige]] - Amateur Actor<br /> <br /> [[Jean Hewart]] - Amateur Actress<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Chapter One'''<br /> <br /> [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] - Asylum Superintendent<br /> <br /> [[Alexander Roby]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Lucius Harriwell]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Price and Evans]] - Asylum Nurses<br /> <br /> ==Literary Works==<br /> <br /> [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] - a fantasy in two acts, [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] by [[Talbot Estus]]<br /> <br /> [[Le Roi en Jeune]] - a rare French play, playwright anonymous<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow] - a collection of short [http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/chambers/stories/kinginye/contents.htm stories] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers Robert W Chambers]<br /> <br /> [[An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd]] - by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> <br /> ==Locations==<br /> <br /> [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.htm Map of England and Wales, 1928]<br /> <br /> [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], England - [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/roads-central.htm Map of London, 1926]<br /> <br /> The [[Scala Theatre]], Charlotte St, London<br /> <br /> [http://www.homestead.com/valfleming/AutumnHeaven.html], Herefordshire, England<br /> <br /> ==Sessions==<br /> <br /> [[Session 1]] - Opening Night<br /> <br /> [[Session 1.5]] - The Madman<br /> <br /> [[Session 2]] - A Game of Bridge</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Tatters_of_the_King&diff=1681 2006-05-14T10:28:26Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Locations */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Tatters_Cover.gif|right]]<br /> '''Tatters of the King'''[http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=773&amp;osCsid=07f84f248e3a49f3cf6199ee7fbb6629] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by [http://chaosium.com Chaosium] and through which our role-playing [http://tentaclesandunderpants.info group] is currently being run.<br /> <br /> ==Setting==<br /> <br /> The game is initially set in [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/1928.doc 1928].<br /> <br /> ==GM==<br /> <br /> The Keeper of Arcane Lore is [[Mark Chiddicks]]<br /> <br /> ==Players==<br /> <br /> The players are:<br /> <br /> [[Darryn Mercer]]<br /> <br /> [[Julia Blackmore]]<br /> <br /> [[Nicola Bishop]]<br /> <br /> [[Marcus Gustafsson]]<br /> <br /> ==Player Characters==<br /> <br /> [[Nathaniel Browne]] - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]] - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Saunders]] - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.<br /> <br /> ==Notable Non-Player Characters==<br /> <br /> '''Prologue'''<br /> <br /> [[Talbot Estus]] - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright<br /> <br /> ''The Group'' - an amateur theatrical troupe:<br /> <br /> [[Michael Gillen]] - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]]. Estus's friend and companion.<br /> <br /> [[Hannah Keith]] - Amateur Actress and sister of [[Andrew Saunders]]<br /> <br /> [[George Keith]] - Amateur Actor and husband of [[Hannah Keith]]<br /> <br /> [[Walter Paige]] - Amateur Actor<br /> <br /> [[Jean Hewart]] - Amateur Actress<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Chapter One'''<br /> <br /> [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] - Asylum Superintendent<br /> <br /> [[Alexander Roby]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Lucius Harriwell]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Price and Evans]] - Asylum Nurses<br /> <br /> ==Literary Works==<br /> <br /> [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] - a fantasy in two acts, [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] by [[Talbot Estus]]<br /> <br /> [[Le Roi en Jeune]] - a rare French play, playwright anonymous<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow] - a collection of short [http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/chambers/stories/kinginye/contents.htm stories] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers Robert W Chambers]<br /> <br /> [[An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd]] - by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> <br /> ==Locations==<br /> <br /> [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.htm Map of England and Wales, 1928]<br /> <br /> [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], England - [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/roads-central.htm Map of London, 1926]<br /> <br /> The [[Scala Theatre]], Charlotte St, London<br /> <br /> [http://www.homestead.com/valfleming/AutumnHeaven.html], Herefordshire, England<br /> <br /> ==Sessions==<br /> <br /> [[Session 1]] - Opening Night<br /> <br /> [[Session 1.5]] - The Madman<br /> <br /> [[Session 2]] - A Game of Bridge</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Hastur&diff=1680 2006-05-14T10:24:32Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>In Talbot Estus's play [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] Hastur is the name of the land in which the Lake of [[Hali]] and the city of [[Yhtill]] are situated. Strictly speaking it is 'the land of Hastur' which could, of course mean that it is 'Hastur's land', rather than Hastur being the name of the land itself.<br /> <br /> The single mention of 'Hastur' in the work of Robert W Chambers is ambiguous and could equally refer to a land or an entity.<br /> <br /> In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> 's 'Haita the Shepherd', Hastur is the name of an apparently benign pagan God.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Hastur&diff=1679 2006-05-14T10:23:45Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>In Talbot Estus's play [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] Hastur is the name of the land in which the Lake of [[Hali]] and the city of [[Yhtill]] are situated. Strictly speaking it is 'the land of Hastur' which could, of course mean that it is 'Hastur's land', rather than Hastur being the name of the land itself.<br /> <br /> The single mention of 'Hastur' in the work of Robert W Chambers is ambiguous and could equally return to a land or an entity.<br /> <br /> In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> 's 'Haita the Shepherd', Hastur is the name of an apparently benign pagan God.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Session_1.5&diff=1678 2006-05-14T10:21:43Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* October 30th 1928 */</p> <hr /> <div>This was a special one on one session with Dr Bartlett as the only player character.<br /> <br /> ==Session Report==<br /> <br /> ===October 20th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett]] receives [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/04_The_Letter_from_Dr_Highsmith.pdf a letter] from [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]], superintendent of St. Agnes Asylum in [http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/images.big/weobley01big.jpg Weobley], Herefordshire, requesting a meeting on the 28th at the Great Western Hotel in London.<br /> <br /> ===October 28th 1928===<br /> <br /> At the meeting, Highsmith explains that the patient he wishes to consult [[Bartlett]] about is [[Alexander Roby]], who has been committed to St Agnes for the last 2 years following the [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/05_Two_Newspaper_Stories_on_the_Roby_Murders.pdf brutal murders] of his father and sister, killings he initially claimed responsibility for, but was never in fact charged with.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] has to make a recommendation for the release, or otherwise, of [[Roby]] and was leaning towards release when he came under pressure from the Roby family, through the conduit of family physician [[Dr Lionel Trollope]] to keep [[Alexander]] confined. The head of [[Alexander]]'s family is his brother, the prominent banker [[Grahame Roby]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] wishes to understand the motives behind the family's position, but they hasn't been able to get them to reveal any details. He also wants Bartlett's professional opinion of the state of mind of [[Alexander Roby]], and asks [[Bartlett]] to accompany him when he returns to Herefordshire on the 30th. Intrigued, though unsure of his suitability for what amounts to a private investigation, he agrees.<br /> <br /> ===October 30th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] joins [[Highsmith]] on the 10.20am train, to change at Bristol for Hereford. A car meets them and takes them the 20 miles to the village of Weobley. The asylum squats on a hill overlooking the village - a grim Victorian building.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] describes [[Roby]]'s symptoms - extreme night terrors, or scotophobia, which manifest around the anniversary of the Roby murders in October each year and continue until April. The attacks are controlled with high doses of laudanum. apart from these attacks, Roby is uncommunicative and seems to live in a world of his own. [[Highsmith]] suggests that [[Bartlett]] examine [[Roby]] on his own initially, and instructs two of his male staff, Nurse Price and Reeves, his secretary, to accompany Bartlett.<br /> <br /> En route to Roby's cell Price asks if Bartlett is here about 'the murder', which turns out not to be the Roby killings, but a murder that happened within the asylum a year before. Bartlett asks if he can talk to Price about that after seeing Roby.<br /> <br /> In [[Roby]]'s cell, the madman is reading a book and does not react to his visitors. Bartlett examines Roby's books, which are all poetry by modern poets such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Graves] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound Pound], and discovers marginal notes in pencil throughout them. He is astonished to find a note referring to [[Carcosa]] and soon finds other referring to [[Cassilda]], [[Hastur]] and other elements of the [[play]]. <br /> <br /> Eventually [[Bartlett]] gets a reponse from [[Roby]], who soon goes into a strange monologue, which Reeves records in shorthand and types up later. When Roby asks Bartlett if he's seen the [[Yellow Sign]], Bartlett says 'yes'.<br /> <br /> [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/06_Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf Roby's statement]<br /> <br /> After that, [[Roby]] returns to reading his poetry, so [[Bartlett]] sends Reeves to type up the statement and goes with Price to the staff break room to hear about the asylum murder of November 27th, 1927.<br /> <br /> The murder was brutal and mysterious. A nurse called Cuthbert Yates was slashed to death with at least 2 knives in the cell of Roby's neighbour, the brain-damaged [[Lucius Harriwell]]. The police suspected [[Harriwell]], but since he was clearly insane and already indefinitely incarcerated they saw no point in prosecution. The asylum staff, however, don't believe Harriwell capable of such a thing - he was found cowering in his cell, insisting 'the Devil' was responsible, and no weapon was found. Roby was heavily sedated, and despite the interesting parallels with the [[Roby]] murders, could not have been involved.<br /> <br /> The stange thing, however, was that the amount of blood found in the cell far exceeded that which could have been lost by the victim alone. No second victim was found, and nobody was reported missing. Price says that Hereford CID handled the case.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] agrees with [[Highsmith]] that [[Roby]] seems harmless, and says he'll see what he can find out in London. In further discussion with Highsmith, Bartlett finds out that Roby befriended the nurse, Mark Evans, and Evans gave him pencils on 2 occasions, against instructions. Evans himself says that Roby talked to him about poetry and asked him for pencils so he could 'complete his work'. He knows he shouldn't have done it, and won't again.<br /> <br /> That evening, Bartlett visits the Wheatsheaf pub with Price and other staff, and they talk about the murder, Roby and Highsmith, but Bartlett learns little more.<br /> <br /> ===October 31st 1928===<br /> <br /> After breakfast, [[Bartlett]] visits [[Roby]] again, this time in the company of Evans, but Roby is uncommunicative, except to say &quot;Don't forget to tell Quarrie.&quot; just as Bartlett leaves.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] is driven back to Hereford, has lunch at the station hotel and returns to London. He has an appointment to play bridge with [[Withers]], [[Browne]] and [[Saunders]] at his Wimbledon home that evening.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Tatters_of_the_King&diff=1677 2006-05-14T10:18:57Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* Locations */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Tatters_Cover.gif|right]]<br /> '''Tatters of the King'''[http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=773&amp;osCsid=07f84f248e3a49f3cf6199ee7fbb6629] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by [http://chaosium.com Chaosium] and through which our role-playing [http://tentaclesandunderpants.info group] is currently being run.<br /> <br /> ==Setting==<br /> <br /> The game is initially set in [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/1928.doc 1928].<br /> <br /> ==GM==<br /> <br /> The Keeper of Arcane Lore is [[Mark Chiddicks]]<br /> <br /> ==Players==<br /> <br /> The players are:<br /> <br /> [[Darryn Mercer]]<br /> <br /> [[Julia Blackmore]]<br /> <br /> [[Nicola Bishop]]<br /> <br /> [[Marcus Gustafsson]]<br /> <br /> ==Player Characters==<br /> <br /> [[Nathaniel Browne]] - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer<br /> <br /> [[Captain George Withers]] - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Saunders]] - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.<br /> <br /> ==Notable Non-Player Characters==<br /> <br /> '''Prologue'''<br /> <br /> [[Talbot Estus]] - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright<br /> <br /> ''The Group'' - an amateur theatrical troupe:<br /> <br /> [[Michael Gillen]] - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]]. Estus's friend and companion.<br /> <br /> [[Hannah Keith]] - Amateur Actress and sister of [[Andrew Saunders]]<br /> <br /> [[George Keith]] - Amateur Actor and husband of [[Hannah Keith]]<br /> <br /> [[Walter Paige]] - Amateur Actor<br /> <br /> [[Jean Hewart]] - Amateur Actress<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Chapter One'''<br /> <br /> [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] - Asylum Superintendent<br /> <br /> [[Alexander Roby]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Lucius Harriwell]] - Incarcerated Madman<br /> <br /> [[Price and Evans]] - Asylum Nurses<br /> <br /> ==Literary Works==<br /> <br /> [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] - a fantasy in two acts, [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/CARCOSA.pdf script] by [[Talbot Estus]]<br /> <br /> [[Le Roi en Jeune]] - a rare French play, playwright anonymous<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow The King in Yellow] - a collection of short [http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/chambers/stories/kinginye/contents.htm stories] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers Robert W Chambers]<br /> <br /> [[An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd]] - by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce Ambrose Bierce]<br /> <br /> ==Locations==<br /> <br /> [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.htm Map of England and Wales, 1928]<br /> <br /> [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-london-guide-1928.pdf London], England - [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/roads-central.htm Map of London, 1926]<br /> <br /> The [[Scala Theatre]], Charlotte St, London<br /> <br /> [http://users.whsmithnet.co.uk/philbufton/History.htm Weobley], Herefordshire, England<br /> <br /> ==Sessions==<br /> <br /> [[Session 1]] - Opening Night<br /> <br /> [[Session 1.5]] - The Madman<br /> <br /> [[Session 2]] - A Game of Bridge</div>

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<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scala.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> [[Image:Scala2.jpg|right]]<br /> <br /> The Scala is an old and gloomy theatre, its red-painted walls still illuminated (in 1928) by gas lamps. On the night of the 17th of October 1928, only the first few rows are filled and the lights in the dress-circle are unlit, creating a cavernous void above the patrons.<br /> <br /> The Scala refuses to continue to host performances of [[Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger]] after the first performance ends in a near riot.<br /> <br /> The Scala frequently hosts amateur productions and earlier in 1928 was the venue for the first national drama festival of the Women's Institute. <br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> See the Scala [http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Scala.htm here]</div>

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<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Lucius_Harriwell.jpg|right]]<br /> Harriwell is an inmate of St Agnes' Asylum, and lives in the cell next door to [[Alexander Roby]]. He is a brain-damaged lunatic who is likely to be institutionalised until his death.<br /> <br /> Harriwell was a witness to, and possible suspect in, the brutal murder of nurse Yates, who was killed in Harriwell's cell on November 27th 1927. Harriwell claims the killer was 'the Devil'. The asylum staff insist Harriwell is incapable of violence.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Lucius_Harriwell&diff=1674 2006-05-14T10:13:52Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Lucius_Harriwell.jpg|right]]<br /> Harriwell is an inmate of St Agnes' Asylum, and lives in the cell next door to [[Alexander Roby]]. He is a brain-damaged lunatic who is likely to be institutionalsied until his death.<br /> <br /> Harriwell was a witness to, and possible suspect in, the brutal murder of nurse Yates, who was killed in Harriwell's cell on November 27th 1927. Harriwell claims the killer was 'the Devil'. The asylum staff insist Harriwell is incapable of violence.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Dr._Charles_Highsmith&diff=1673 2006-05-14T10:12:45Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Dr_Charles_Highsmith.jpg|right]]<br /> Superintendent of At Agnes Asylum. Very much the country gentleman in tweeds and brogues. A pipe-smoker. A man of science with a limited conversational range and no real interests outside his work. Member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He is unmarried.<br /> <br /> Highsmith is one of the 3 men who signed [[Alexander Roby]]'s commitment papers, and is the only one who seems keen to allow his release. He engages [[Dr Bartlett]] to consult on the matter and to make a recommendation either way.<br /> <br /> He has coined the term 'Sympathetic Mania' to describe Roby's condition.</div>

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<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>Older brother of [[Alexander Roby]]. Prominent city banker. One of the three men to sign Alexander's commital papers after the Roby murders. Apparently unwilling to see his brother released.</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Session_1.5&diff=1671 2006-05-14T10:09:55Z

<p>202.74.211.168: /* October 28th 1928 */</p> <hr /> <div>This was a special one on one session with Dr Bartlett as the only player character.<br /> <br /> ==Session Report==<br /> <br /> ===October 20th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Doctor Bartlett]] receives [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/04_The_Letter_from_Dr_Highsmith.pdf a letter] from [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]], superintendent of St. Agnes Asylum in [http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/images.big/weobley01big.jpg Weobley], Herefordshire, requesting a meeting on the 28th at the Great Western Hotel in London.<br /> <br /> ===October 28th 1928===<br /> <br /> At the meeting, Highsmith explains that the patient he wishes to consult [[Bartlett]] about is [[Alexander Roby]], who has been committed to St Agnes for the last 2 years following the [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/05_Two_Newspaper_Stories_on_the_Roby_Murders.pdf brutal murders] of his father and sister, killings he initially claimed responsibility for, but was never in fact charged with.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] has to make a recommendation for the release, or otherwise, of [[Roby]] and was leaning towards release when he came under pressure from the Roby family, through the conduit of family physician [[Dr Lionel Trollope]] to keep [[Alexander]] confined. The head of [[Alexander]]'s family is his brother, the prominent banker [[Grahame Roby]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] wishes to understand the motives behind the family's position, but they hasn't been able to get them to reveal any details. He also wants Bartlett's professional opinion of the state of mind of [[Alexander Roby]], and asks [[Bartlett]] to accompany him when he returns to Herefordshire on the 30th. Intrigued, though unsure of his suitability for what amounts to a private investigation, he agrees.<br /> <br /> ===October 30th 1928===<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] joins [[Highsmith]] on the 10.20am train, to change at Bristol for Hereford. A car meets them and takes them the 20 miles to the village of Weobley. The asylum squats on a hill overlooking the village - a grim Victorian building.<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] describes [[Roby]]'s symptoms - extreme night terrors, or scotophobia, which manifest around the anniversary of the Roby murders in October each year and continue until April. The attacks are controlled with high doses of laudanum. apart from these attacks, Roby is uncommunicative and seems to live in a world of his own. [[Highsmith]] suggests that [[Bartlett]] examine [[Roby]] on his own initially, and instructs two of his male staff, Nurse Price and Reeves, his secretary, to accompany Bartlett.<br /> <br /> En route to Roby's cell Price asks if Bartlett is here about 'the murder', which turns out not to be the Roby killings, but a murder that happened within the asylum a year before. Bartlett asks if he can talk to Price about that after seeing Roby.<br /> <br /> In [[Roby]]'s cell, the madman is reading a book and does not react to his visitors. Bartlett examines Roby's books, which are all poetry by modern poets such as Graves and Pound, and discovers marginal notes in pencil throughout them. He is astonished to find a note referring to [[Carcosa]] and soon finds other referring to [[Cassilda]], [[Hastur]] and other elements of the [[play]]. <br /> <br /> Eventually [[Bartlett]] gets a reponse from [[Roby]], who soon goes into a strange monologue, which Reeves records in shorthand and types up later. When Roby asks Bartlett if he's seen the [[Yellow Sign]], Bartlett says 'yes'.<br /> <br /> [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/06_Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf Roby's statement]<br /> <br /> After that, [[Roby]] returns to reading his poetry, so [[Bartlett]] sends Reeves to type up the statement and goes with Price to the staff break room to hear about the asylum murder of November 27th, 1927.<br /> <br /> The murder was brutal and mysterious. A nurse called Cuthbert Yates was slashed to death with at least 2 knives in the cell of Roby's neighbour, the brain-damaged [[Lucius Harriwell]]. The police suspected [[Harriwell]], but since he was clearly insane and already indefinitely incarcerated they saw no point in prosecution. The asylum staff, however, don't believe Harriwell capable of such a thing - he was found cowering in his cell, insisting 'the Devil' was responsible, and no weapon was found. Roby was heavily sedated, and despite the interesting parallels with the [[Roby]] murders, could not have been involved.<br /> <br /> The stange thing, however, was that the amount of blood found in the cell far exceeded that which could have been lost by the victim alone. No second victim was found, and nobody was reported missing. Price says that Hereford CID handled the case.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] agrees with [[Highsmith]] that [[Roby]] seems harmless, and says he'll see what he can find out in London. In further discussion with Highsmith, Bartlett finds out that Roby befriended the nurse, Mark Evans, and Evans gave him pencils on 2 occasions, against instructions. Evans himself says that Roby talked to him about poetry and asked him for pencils so he could 'complete his work'. He knows he shouldn't have done it, and won't again.<br /> <br /> That evening, Bartlett visits the Wheatsheaf pub with Price and other staff, and they talk about the murder, Roby and Highsmith, but Bartlett learns little more.<br /> <br /> ===October 31st 1928===<br /> <br /> After breakfast, [[Bartlett]] visits [[Roby]] again, this time in the company of Evans, but Roby is uncommunicative, except to say &quot;Don't forget to tell Quarrie.&quot; just as Bartlett leaves.<br /> <br /> [[Bartlett]] is driven back to Hereford, has lunch at the station hotel and returns to London. He has an appointment to play bridge with [[Withers]], [[Browne]] and [[Saunders]] at his Wimbledon home that evening.</div>

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<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Alexander_Roby.jpg|right]]<br /> Roby dropped out of Peterhouse prior to knocking around the Foreign Office for a couple of years. He left the FO and spent his time studying fringe interests (astronomy, art, the occult) and mixing with people of whom his family did not approve.<br /> <br /> On October 14th 1926 Roby's father Herbert and sister Georgina were brutally murdered at the family home in Curzon Street. Alexander was the only other person at home, and initially claimed responsibility. He was arrested, but instead of being charged was committed to St Agnes Asylum. The papers committing him were signed by Dr [[Highsmith]], Roby's older brother [[Grahame Roby]] and the Roby family physician, [[Dr Lionel Trollope]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] believes Roby suffers from 'sympathetic mania', which manifests as severe night terrors, or scotophobia, that start each year at the anniversary of the muders and continue until the Spring. These attacks are being well-managed with laudanum, and Highsmith believes him fit for release to the care of his family or a convalescent home. Highsmith also believes Alexander innocent of the murders.<br /> <br /> His release hearing is scheduled for November 30th 1928.<br /> <br /> Roby spends his time studying poetry and has made unusual marginal notes in his poetry books referring to various elements common to both the [[play]] 'Carcosa' and Robert W Chambers's '[[King in Yellow]]' stories.<br /> <br /> He made an unusual [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf statement] to [[Dr Bartlett]].</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Alexander_Roby&diff=1669 2006-05-14T10:07:54Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Alexander_Roby.jpg|right]]<br /> Roby dropped out of Peterhouse prior to knocking around the Foreign Office for a couple of years. He left the FO and spent his time studying fringe interests (astronomy, art, the occult) and mixing with people of whom his family did not approve.<br /> <br /> On October 14th 1926 Roby's father Herbert and sister Georgina were brutally murdered at the family home in Curzon Street. Alexander was the only other person at home, and initially claimed responsibility. He was arrested, but instead of being charged was committed to St Agnes Asylum. The papers committing him were signed by Dr [[Highsmith]], Roby's older brother [[Grahame Roby]] and the Roby family physician, [[Dr Lionel Trollope]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] believes Roby suffers from 'sympathetic mania', which manifests as severe night terrors, or scotophobia, that start each year at the anniversary of the muders and continue until the Spring. These attacks are being well-managed with laudanum, and Highsmith believes him fit for release to the care of his family or a convalescent home. Highsmith also believes Alexander innocent of the murders.<br /> <br /> His release hearing is scheduled for November 30th 1928.<br /> <br /> Roby spends his time studying poetry and has made unusual marginal notes in his poetry books referring to various elements common to both the [[play]] 'Carcosa' and Robert W Chambers's '[[King in Yellow]]' stories.<br /> <br /> He made an unusual [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf statement] to [[Dr Bartlett]].<br /> <br /> [[George Roby]]</div>

202.74.211.168 http://tatterswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Alexander_Roby&diff=1668 2006-05-14T10:07:12Z

<p>202.74.211.168: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Alexander_Roby.jpg|right]]<br /> Roby dropped out of Peterhouse prior to knocking around the Foreign Office for a couple of years. He left the FO and spent his time studying fringe interests (astronomy, art, the occult) and mixing with people of whom his family did not approve.<br /> <br /> On October 14th 1926 Roby's father Herbert and sister Georgina were brutally murdered at the family home in Curzon Street. Alexander was the only other person at home, and initially claimed responsibility. He was arrested, but instead of being charged was committed to St Agnes Asylum. The papers committing him were signed by Dr [[Highsmith]], Roby's older brother [[Grahame Roby]] and the Roby family physician, [[Dr Lionel Trollope]].<br /> <br /> [[Highsmith]] believes Roby suffers from 'sympathetic mania', which manifests as severe night terrors, or scotophobia, that start each year at the anniversary of the muders and continue until the Spring. These attacks are being well-managed with laudanum, and Highsmith believes him fit for release to the care of his family or a convalescent home. Highsmith also believes Alexander innocent of the murders.<br /> <br /> His release hearing is scheduled for November 30th 1928.<br /> <br /> Roby spends his time studying poetry and has made unusual marginal notes in his poetry books referring to various elements common to both the [[play]] 'Carcosa' and Robert W Chambers's '[[King in Yellow]]' stories.<br /> <br /> He made an unusual [http://greywolfnz.homeip.net/wiki/attachments/Typed_Transcript_of_Alexander_Robys_Verbal_Responses.pdf statement] to [[Dr Bartlett]].</div>

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