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Revision as of 11:02, 26 May 2006
Tatters of the King[1] is a new Call of Cthulhu campaign written by Tim Wiseman and published by Chaosium and through which our role-playing group is currently being run. Play started on May 8th 2006. See current events for next session date.
The game is being played in the suburb of Ellerslie, in Auckland, New Zealand.
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.........
A note on British Gun LawsItalic text
GM
The Keeper of Arcane Lore is Mark Chiddicks
Players
The players are:
Player Characters
Nathaniel Browne - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer
Captain George Withers - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.
Doctor Frederick Bartlett - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.
Andrew Saunders - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.
Notable Non-Player Characters
Prologue
Talbot Estus - 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
Dr. Charles Highsmith - Asylum Superintendent
Alexander Roby - Incarcerated Madman
Lucius Harriwell - Incarcerated Madman
Price and Evans - Asylum Nurses
Chapter Two
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
Vincent Tuck - Private Detective, hired by Grahame Roby
Lawrence Bacon - Antiquarian and occultist
The Tall Man - Sinister stalker, possibly named Coombes
Literary Works
Carcosa, or The Queen and the Stranger - a fantasy in two acts, script by Talbot Estus
Le Roi en Jeune - a rare French play, playwright anonymous
The King in Yellow - a collection of short stories by Robert W Chambers
An Inhabitant of Carcosa and Haita the Shepherd - by Ambrose Bierce
Der Wanderer durch den See - by Alexander Roby
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
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
