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London is the capital of an empire covering a quarter of the globe and governing one quarter of the human race. The people busy themselves with concerns of politics and government, finance and production, work and recreation. How fragile things are. What ignorance there is. | London is the capital of an empire covering a quarter of the globe and governing one quarter of the human race. The people busy themselves with concerns of politics and government, finance and production, work and recreation. How fragile things are. What ignorance there is. | ||
There are those whose engage in different pursuits - who would see an inhuman power come to Earth such that it would make mundane activity seem like a last twitch before dying | There are those whose engage in different pursuits - who would see an inhuman power come to Earth such that it would make mundane activity seem like a last twitch before dying... | ||
==Keeper of Arcane Lore== | ==Keeper of Arcane Lore== | ||
Revision as of 14:21, 10 September 2007
Tatters of the King[1] is a Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by Chaosium and which our role-playing group played. Play commenced on May 8th 2006 and ran until October 2nd 2006.
The game was played in the suburb of Ellerslie, in Auckland, New Zealand.
Guest Book
Add your comments here in the Guest Book.
Setting
The game is initially set in London, 1928. It is the start of a bitterly cold winter, the worst in decades.
London is the capital of an empire covering a quarter of the globe and governing one quarter of the human race. The people busy themselves with concerns of politics and government, finance and production, work and recreation. How fragile things are. What ignorance there is.
There are those whose engage in different pursuits - who would see an inhuman power come to Earth such that it would make mundane activity seem like a last twitch before dying...
Keeper of Arcane Lore
The Game Master is Mark Chiddicks
Players
The players are:
Nathaniel Browne - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer
Andrew Saunders (Deceased) - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.
Captain George Withers - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.
'Umberto' (Deceased) - Mysterious former Vatican investigator. Played by Marcus Gustafsson.
Doctor Frederick Bartlett (deceased) - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.
Notable Non-Player Characters
Prologue - Opening Night
Talbot Estus (deceased) - American novelist, now debuting as a playwright
The Group - an amateur theatrical troupe:
Michael Gillen - Retired publisher, amateur actor and acquaintance of Doctor Frederick Bartlett. Estus's friend and companion.
Hannah Keith - Amateur Actress and sister of Andrew Saunders
George Keith - Amateur Actor and husband of Hannah Keith
Walter Paige - Amateur Actor
Jean Hewart - Amateur Actress
Chapter One - The Madman
Dr. Charles Highsmith - Asylum Superintendent
Alexander Roby - Incarcerated Madman
Lucius Harriwell - Incarcerated Madman
Price and Evans - Asylum Nurses
Chapter Two - A Walk in the Park
Dr. Lionel Trollope (deceased) - Roby family physician
Grahame Roby - Financier, Alexander Roby's brother
Detective Inspector Andrew Taylor - of New Scotland Yard
Delia Hartston - Alexander Roby's former fiancee, now Delia Morrison
Peter Morrison (deceased) - Abusive husband of Delia
Vincent Tuck - Private Detective, hired by Grahame Roby
Michael Coombes (deceased?) - Sinister stalker, Bacon's ex-bodyguard.
Chapter Three - Springer Mound & the Canal
Harold Jennings (deceased) - Unfriendly Suffolk farmer
Montague Edwards (deceased) - Alexander Roby's secret guardian
Lawrence Bacon (deceased) - Antiquarian, occultist and sorcerer
Chapter Four - The Flight North
Cec Watts (deceased) - Tabloid Journalist
Henry Lister - Terrified cultist and necrophobe
Aleister Crowley - Famed Occultist
Chapter Five - To Walk Upon the Earth in Carcosa
Quentin Spence - Poet and Failed Cultist
Noss of Yhtill - Leather worker from an alien world
Yolanda - Noblewoman from Cassilda's court
Chapter Six - Talk of Goatswood
Wilfred Gresty (deceased) - Writer of letters and spy for the Goatswood cult
Chapter Seven - Nug's Farm
Hillary Quarrie - Estranged wife of Malcolm and priestess of the Goat
Atkinson (deceased) - Ailing leader of the Goatswood Shub-Niggurath cult
Chapter Eight - The Brothers of the Yellow Sign
Paolo Tuminardo - Milanese Guide and young Fascist
Giuseppe Colombo - Ancient, curmudgeonly Italian Brother of the Yellow Sign
Thomas Villiers (deceased) - Insane artist and Brother of the Yellow Sign
Chapter Nine - The Viceroy of India
Julian Knight - Minor diplomat and lounge lizard, en route to India
The Reverend Ian Gore - Missionary, en route to India
Mrs Henrietta Tullis - Matronly figure, en route to India
Stephen Thomas - Quiet, bookish man, en route to India
Miss Francesca Nicholson - Bright young thing, en route to India
Miss Patricia Berry - Quiet, shy young lady, en route to India
Chapter Ten - A Thousand Miles
Sivakumar Patel - Guide and translator from Bombay
Jigme Rinzing - Nepalese merchant/guide
Chapter Eleven - To Drakmar
Tsewan Pemba - Tibetan Guide
Carlo Schippone (deceased) - Graduate student and Himalayan adventurer
Chapter Twelve - The Upper House
Major Ricardo Delnegro (deceased) - Alpini officer and Himalayan adventurer
Roberto Anzalone (deceased) - Professor of Asian History and Brother of the Yellow Sign
Malcolm Quarrie (deceased) - Elusive scientist and occultist
The King in Yellow - Beautiful, yet terrible, alien god
Literary Works
Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger - a fantasy in two acts, script by Talbot Estus
The King in Yellow - a collection of short stories by Robert W Chambers
Le Roi en Jeune - a rare French play, playwright anonymous
An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd - by Ambrose Bierce
Der Wanderer durch den See - by Alexander Roby
British Gods: Religion and Myth in the Western Kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon Britain - by Malcolm Quarrie
The Turner Codex: A translation of Mesoamerican prayers and libations to Hastur - trans. M. Turner et al
The Tatters of the King: A book of short stories by Nathaniel Browne
The Revelations of Glaaki: The Goatswood cult's compilation of occult knowledge
Locations
Map of England and Wales, 1928
London, England - Map of London, 1926
The Scala Theatre, Charlotte St, London
St Agnes Asylum, Weobley, Herefordshire, England
Clare Melford, Suffolk, England
Loch Mullardoch, near Inverness, Scotland
Carcosa, a dream city made flesh
Goatswood, an area of the Severn Valley in Gloucestershire
Nug's Farm, Hillary Quarrie's home, in the Goatswood region
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
The Viceroy of India - Modern P&O passenger liner, en route to India
India, the gateway to Nepal
Bombay, port of entry to India
Nepal, mountain kingdom, closed to Westerners
Mustang, a small kingdom in Northern Nepal
Drakmar, in Mustang, the legendary site of the death of the ogress Balmo
Leng, legendary icy plateau - not on this Earth
The Upper House, labyrinthine alien structure, found in Leng
Sessions
As referred to in the session reports below, there have been a number of murders related to the Roby case.
Session 1 - Opening Night
Session 1.5 - The Madman
Session 2 - The Plot Thickens
Session 3 - Alexander's Friends
Session 4 - Teeth of Winter
Session 5 - Four Go Mad in London
Session 6 - Death by Night, Death by Day
Session 7 - Missing Persons
Session 8 - To Walk Upon the Earth in Carcosa
Session 9 - Aftermath - a Year in the Lives...
Session 10 - Nug's Farm, or "Are You Local?"
Session 11 - Il Fratelli di Signo Giallo
Session 12 - The Viceroy of India, or "May I Have This Dance?"
Session 13 - A Matter of Honour
Session 14 - The Trail of the Pilgrims
Session 15 - Drakmar and Beyond
Session 16 - The King Steps Down
Aftermath - Forever Wondering
