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Revision as of 20:23, 29 August 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.........
GM
The Keeper of Arcane Lore is Mark Chiddicks
Players
The players are:
Doctor Frederick Bartlett (deceased) - Eminent research psychologist, played by Marcus Gustafsson.
Nathaniel Browne - A failed writer, looking for his big story, played by Darryn Mercer
Andrew Saunders - British Museum curator and proud Scot, Played by Julia Blackmore.
Captain George Withers - Coldstream Guards. Career soldier. Played by Nicola Bishop.
Notable Non-Player Characters
Prologue
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
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
Peter Morrison - Abusive husband of Delia
Vincent Tuck - Private Detective, hired by Grahame Roby
Coombes (deceased?) - Sinister stalker, Bacon's ex-bodyguard.
Chapter Three
Harold Jennings (deceased) - Unfriendly Suffolk farmer
Montague Edwards (deceased) - Alexander Roby's secret guardian
Lawrence Bacon (deceased?) - Antiquarian, occultist and sorcerer
Chapter Four
Cec Watts (deceased) - Tabloid Journalist
Henry Lister - Terrified cultist and necrophobe
Quentin Spence - Poet and Failed Cultist
Noss of Yhtill - Leather worker from an alien world
Yolanda - Noblewoman from Cassilda's court
Aleister Crowley - Famed Occultist
Chapter Five
Wilfred Gresty (deceased) - Writer of letters and spy for the Goatswood cult
Hillary Quarrie - Estranged wife of Malcolm and priestess of the Goat
Atkinson (deceased) - Ailing leader of the Goatswood Shub-Niggurath cult
Chapter Six
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
Robert Anzalone - Professor of Asian History and Brother of the Yellow Sign
Carlo Schippone - Graduate student and Himalayan adventurer
Major Ricardo Delnegro - Alpini officer and Himalayan adventurer
Malcolm Quarrie - Elusive scientist and occultist
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
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
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 Frateilli di Signo Giallo
