April Playtesting

Soldiers of Pen and Ink

System: Trail of Cthulhu

Author: Adam Gauntlett

Duration: 1-2 sessions

Deadline: 30th April

Description: The protagonists, sponsored by the Paris-based political organisation BNVS, have come to Spain to shoot a documentary on the war, and find themselves marooned in Madrid. One of their team goes missing, and their literary colleagues say it’s pointless – even dangerous – to ask what happened to him. In a war of competing ideologies, unorthodoxy can merit the death penalty, but is this Communist oppression or something more sinister?
 

Cthulhu Apocalypse: Slaves of the Green Man

System: Trail of Cthulhu

Author: Gareth Hanrahan & Graham Walmsley

Duration: 2-4 sessions

Deadline: 30th April

Description: These three scenarios comprise the second quarter of the Cthulhu Apocalypse campaign and pick up three years after the final part of The Dead White World. It is now the summer of 1939. The decision that the characters made at the end of The Dead White World continues to haunt England. Horrors now stalk the empty and overgrown streets of the civilisation that once existed here. The passage of three long, strange years has transformed the world into an unrecognisable landscape of horrors. There are a few survivors, living in the ruins of the past, but under the unfathomable pressure of the Mythos, their humanity is slipping away, cracking and moulting in the process of becoming something new.
 

Mythos Expeditions – An Incident at the Border

System: Trail of Cthulhu

Author: Kenneth Hite

Duration: 1-2 sessions

Deadline: 30th April

Description:
On August 13 of 193-, during the Perseid meteor shower, something struck the Earth somewhere in the remote reaches of the Gran Chaco, a disputed and inhospitable borderland between Bolivia and Paraguay. Now, it’s late September, and the University has asked the Investigators to assist with a scratch expedition to find the impact site, make a full report of the incident, and recover any extraterrestrial material there, if any.
 

Mythos Expeditions – Cerulean Aureole

System: Trail of Cthulhu

Author: Matthew Sanderson

Duration: 1-2 sessions

Deadline: 30th April

Description:
Tuesday July 17th 1934. Present Franklin D. Roosevelt, on a 12,000 mile voyage from the Caribbean to Portland, Oregon, arrives at Clipperton Island. Four years later, in the summer of 1938, the President is organising a return to the island as part of a 6,000-mile cruise examining various islands known for their curious wildlife, including the Galapagos. As the short-list of candidates is prepared, the Miskatonic decides to organise an expedition of its own to Clipperton Island. With the journey taking a week from the southern tip of Baja California, they will have a week on the island before they have to head back to civilisation before they make their report. Upon an island with a dark past, of which humanity knows so very little, a week can seem a very long time indeed…
 

Mythos Expeditions – Lost on a Sea of Dreams

System: Trail of Cthulhu

Author: Adam Gauntlett

Duration: 1-2 sessions

Deadline: 30th April

Description:
The group, en route to Bermuda with a bathysphere to assist naturalist and oceanographer William Beebe, is blown off course. The captain is injured in the storm, and few others aboard know much about navigation. Moreover what little they do know seems contradicted by the stars; none of the constellations are in the right place. How will the expedition get back on course?
 

Mythos Expeditions – Tongued With Fire

System: Trail of Cthulhu

Author: Bill White

Duration: 1-2 sessions

Deadline: 30th April

Description:
The investigators are members of a Miskatonic University expedition whose purpose is to travel to a Christian settlement in India which some evidence suggests dates as far back as the 1st century AD. Their destination is the village of Usmavasati, which lies in the Siwali Hills on the edge of the Punjab region of northwestern India. Their aim is to advance historical knowledge of early Christianity, as well as possibly locate the source of a Prester John legend.
 

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