The Strange Death of Sir Redmond Barry (Cthulhu by Gaslight)
Overview[edit]
This is the resource page for an offline Call of Cthulhu campaign set in 1890s Melbourne, Australia. Thanks to rpg.net for providing this resource!
More detail will be forthcoming. At the moment this is just lists of stuff.
Scenario Hook[edit]
New Year's Day, 1881. Sir Redmond Barry, late Vice-Chancellor of the University, has been dead just barely a month. The quiet quadrangles of that noble institution are abuzz with gossip, despite the summer heat: that it was perhaps not "congestion of the lungs and a carbuncle in the neck" that did for the old man, but something darker - more sinister by far.
On this sweltering Saturday, you are roused from your customary morning's activity by one of the university's porters, an uncouth fellow despite his sombre grey attire.
A visiting card requests you attend the rooms of Mjr Albert Deveny (rt'd), Visiting Reader in Antiquities at the Faculty of the Arts. A note is scrawled on the reverse - and its implication is that you cannot refuse...
Online Resources[edit]
Game Aids[edit]
- Chaosium's Quick Start Rules from the excellent Yog-Sothoth Downloads Section
Historical Information[edit]
- Whitehead's new map of Melbourne and suburbs 1881
- Whitehead's new map of Victoria, 1881-2
- Railway Map of Victoria, 1880
- Socialism in Australia - 1800s
- The war between heaven & hell in Melbourne : being a graphic and interesting sketch of the recent crusade against sin and social wickedness in the city, October to December 1890. by Henry Varley. (A contemporary anti-gambling pamphlet)
- SLV Pictures Catalogue for contemporary photographs.
- National Library of Australia digitised document searches for 1880 and 1881
- Dining by Gaslight - food in the Victorian era.
- Anique Cane World a fascinating resource for that most-requested gentleman's accessory, the sword-cane!
- Kirkgate Street, a replica Victorian street at York Castle Museum
- Two Pages of Victorian firearms, spec'd for GURPS. Can be converted to CoC weapons. Please select items manufactured PRIOR to 1881.
Created by Prismatic7 16:41, 2 March 2009 (PST)
