Editing The Strange Death of Sir Redmond Barry (Cthulhu by Gaslight)

[[Category:Call_of_Cthulhu]]
[[Category:Cthulhu_by_Gaslight]]


== Overview ==

This is the resource page for an offline [[Call of Cthulhu]] campaign set in 1890s Melbourne, Australia. Thanks to [http://www.rpg.net rpg.net] for providing this resource!

More detail will be forthcoming. At the moment this is just lists of stuff.

== Scenario Hook ==

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 ==

===Game Aids===

*[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/article-coc-quick-start-rules.pdf Chaosium's Quick Start Rules] from the excellent [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/ Yog-Sothoth] [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=3&min=0&orderby=titleA&show=10 Downloads Section]

===Historical Information===

*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t1354 Whitehead's map of Melbourne and suburbs 1881]
*[http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/biogs/E000344b.htm Socialism in Australia - 1800s]
*[http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/doview/nla.aus-vn2649295-p 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)
*[http://pictures.slv.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First SLV Pictures Catalogue] for contemporary photographs.
*[http://www.nla.gov.au/ National Library of Australia] digitised document searches for [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=melbourne+1880&type=all&limits=&submit=Find 1880] and [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=melbourne+1881&type=all&limits=&submit=Find 1881]
*[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8497 Dining by Gaslight] - food in the Victorian era.
*[http://www.antiquecaneworld.com/index.php Anique Cane World] a fascinating resource for that most-requested gentleman's accessory, the sword-cane!
*[http://www.kirkgatevictorianstreet.org.uk/pages/walkthestreet.htm Kirkgate Street], a replica Victorian street at [http://www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk/Page/Index.aspx York Castle Museum]
*[http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/High-Tech/victorian_guns.html Two] [http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=3471 Pages] of Victorian firearms, spec'd for GURPS. Can be converted to CoC weapons. Please select items manufactured PRIOR to 1881.
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Created by [[User:Prismatic7|Prismatic7]] 16:41, 2 March 2009 (PST)