Flying Coffins

Enemy planes are not the only things hunting in the sky…

Early winter, 1918. You are members of the Royal Flying Corps stationed near the Front and rumour has it, the next big push is about to begin. The squadron’s being worked to death, and its champion ace is on the verge of cracking up. Meanwhile the new Hun Circus is racking up kill after kill – but is it the enemy or something else that’s to blame?

A sortie into Hunland to tackle an observation balloon ends in a fierce scrap with Jasta 32. Great winged beasts, agents of Death itself, are glimpsed flying in and out of the clouds. On the ground, flying ace MacMurdo knows more than he’s letting on but he is on the edge. Reporting it to Command won’t do any good, but talking to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, military journalist, might. Combat takes its toll, and the date of the Push draws near. It’s up to you to make the skies safe and not just from the German planes.

Flying Coffins, an adventure for Trail of Cthulhu, was written by Adam Gauntlett (Not So Quiet, Hell Fire) and it has now been published alongside The Repairer of Reputations, RMS Titantic: The Millionaire’s Special, Many Fires, and Hell Fire, in the Out of Space anthology.