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TRAIL OF CTHULHU
Arkham Detective Tales
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TRAIL OF CTHULHU
Arkham Detective Tales
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TRAIL OF CTHULHU
Arkham Detective Tales
We’re Doomed
and I Love It
put it together. Something connected
the mirror, the invisible monsters, a
12th century monastery, legends of
werewolves, a private club in London
and our poor band of seminary students,
but we were missing the key revelation
that would draw it all together. We had
all the clues, but we were running out
of time and had to deduce the solution.
game – bizarre cosmic horror,
genuine mystery and an atmosphere
of confusion leading to a moment of
terrible revelation as all the pieces fall
into place.. The Mythos Detectives
series is designed to evoke that mood,
dropping the players into the middle
of a mystery. The GUMSHOE system
ensures that the players get all the
clues, but putting them together is still
a challenge for the players.
My first encounter with Call of Cthulhu
was at the very first games convention
I attended. I had only ever played
Dungeons & Dragons and variations
thereof before, and had no idea that
anything like Call of Cthulhu existed. I
signed up and an hour later I find myself
naked, running through the sewers of
London with five other naked priests,
pursued by an invisible monster.
I’ll never forget the excitement and
intellectual exhilaration of knowing
that if I didn’t work out this puzzle, we
were doomed to be eaten by horrible
invisible monsters that were in some
way connected to 12th century monks.
So, if you’re stuck in the middle of
a mystery, with a big pile of clues
and a bigger pile of bodies, with
strange omens multiplying and doom
impending, remember – it’s all down
to you. Work it out before the monsters
eat you.
Oh, and my hand had been turned to
crystal by a magic mirror.
We failed dismally, as it happens, but it
was still tremendous fun.
The other players and I knew something
was going on. We had letters, diaries,
clues, evidence that a cult was engaged
in a nefarious plot, but we couldn’t
Ever since, this story has been my
template for the ideal Call of Cthulhu
CREDITS
Publisher: Simon Rogers
Written by: Gareth Hanrahan
Art and Layout: Jérôme Huguenin
Extended Edition Editing & Layout: Beth Lewis
Proof-Reading: Sam Friedman
King’s Men Handouts: Beth Lewis
Playtesters: Christopher Smith, Mark Loveland II, Patrick Loveland, Arianne Adair, Jay Mueller, Ronald
Johnson, Elaine Johnson, John Santry, Carlos Needham, Sam Friedman, Daniel Bayn, Chris Malone, Harris
Burkhalter, L.C.,Yaochong Lou, Belinda Kelly, Philippa Borland, Dave Byrne, Malcolm Edwards, Bernadette
Foster, Sandra Wilkinson, Tony Wilkinson, Kev Hickman, Iain-K Peake, Tony Sweeting, Dave ‘Minty’ Lodge, Nick
Pickard, Mike Grace, Ralf Achenbach, Florian Merx, Wilfried Wurch, Peter Reimann, Guy Sodin, Vince Fisher,
Allison Hadley, Chris McReynolds, Erik Wallenius, Aaron Jackson, Barry Dismorr, Krzysztof Kowalski
Polish translation (p 78): Piotr Burzykowski (LocWorks)
Trail of Cthulhu was written by Kenneth Hite, based on the GUMSHOE system by Robin D Laws
Trail of Cthulhu was created by arrangement with Chaosium, Inc.
© 2010 Pelgrane Press Ltd. 2nd Edition. All Rights Reserved. Published by arrangement with Chaosium, Inc.
Trail of Cthulhu is a trademark of Pelgrane Press Ltd.
www.pelgranepress.com
Publisher’s Note to the Extended Edition
The editing and proofing for the first edition was rather poor, for which I take full responsibilty. It also had
no adventures set in Arkham. This version is completely corrected with an additional adventure set in that
gloomy conurbation. I’ve learnt my lesson and In future, I will confine myself to mere publishing.
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TRAIL OF CTHULHU
Contents
We’re Doomed and I Love it
2
The Wisner House
21
Ma Wisner
21
Campaign Frame Mythos
Detectives
Ambrose Wisner
21
5
From Below
21
Setting
6
More Like His Father
22
Style
6
Mythos
6
Return to Red Hook 23
The Hook 23
The Horrible Truth 23
The Spine 23
Antagonist Reactions 24
Victory Conditions 24
Shadows over Red Hook 24
Scenes 25
A Plea for Help 25
Initial Investigations 25
The Missing Mr. Hirt 25
Records of the Red Hook Cult 26
Hirt’s Apartment
Investigators
6
Reoccurring NPCs
6
Rules Variations
6
Pitch
6
The Kidnapping 7
The Hook 7
The Horrible Truth 7
The Spine 7
Antagonist Reactions 8
Victory Conditions 8
Scenes 8
The Kidnapping 8
The Missing Child 9
Background Checks 10
The Scene of the Crime 10
The House 10
The Gardens & Outside 11
Olga 12
Olga’s Tale 12
Maria’s Diary 12
If Jacob Knows… 14
Maria’s Family 14
Awkward Questions 14
Jerry Grant 14
The Letter 14
NewYork 15
Word On The Streets 15
45th Street Station 16
The Poster 16
Drunk At His Post 16
On The Train 17
On The Streets 17
Arresting Gang Members 17
The Horror on the Docks 17
The Hideout 17
The Fateful Telegram 17
Raiding the Shack 18
Death in the Water 19
The Trail to Shavertown 19
The Town 19
Investigations in Shavertown 20
Gary Olden, the Postman 20
Herman Long, the Spokesman 20
The Church
27
More Conversations
28
With Marlene
28
The Agent
29
Marlene’s Apartment
30
The Bookseller
31
Confronting Marlene
32
The Cult Strikes Back
33
Cat-Thing From Beyond
33
Return to Red Hook
33
The Red Hook Cult
34
Madness By Moonlight
35
Blasphemous Rites
36
The Thing In The
37
Moonlight 37
Game Statistics
37
Investigation
37
The Nameless City
38
Welcome to the City
38
The Cats of the City
40
A Procession
40
The Bridge
40
The Bloody Trail
40
The Ceremony
41
Escape to NewYork
41
The Book
42
The Hook
42
The Horrible Truth
42
The Spine
43
Antagonist Reactions
44
Victory Conditions
44
Scenes
44
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The First Killing
44
Mad Zeke
20
What Happened Here
44
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Arkham Detective Tales
Geoffrey Hill’s Apartment
44
Drawn Up, Hideously Chang’d 66
The Innsmouth Dreams
Locked-Room Murder 83
Room 317 84
Talby’s Widow 85
Speaking Ill Of The Dead 86
The Other Woman 86
The Funeral 86
The Arkham Investigation 87
Talby’s Movements in Arkham 87
Events in Arkham
The Landlady
45
66
Hill’s Corpse
45
Dreams Of The Book
66
The Flatmate
45
Dreams of the Deep
66
The Second Killing
46
A City Going Mad
66
The Tenement
46
Investigating the Artifact
67
Room 56
46
Investigating The Steamer
68
The Second Corpse
46
Atlas Industries
68
Investigations in NewYork
47
Contacting Atlas Industries
68
88
Fordham University Library
47
The Innsmouth Connection
68
Arkham Historical Society
88
Professor Drew
47
Holding the Evidence
68
Miskatonic University
89
Martin Bellgrave’s History
47
The Crew of the Star of
Mauritius
The Arkham Police
90
Lewis Holland
48
69
The Stolen Child
90
Francis Moon
48
Dockside Encounter
69
The Unvisited Isle
90
Francis Moon
48
Ships Passing In The Night
69
The Island
91
Introducing The Detective
49
Joe Palry
70
The Sleeper
91
Reading The Invisible Path
49
The Drowned
70
Irene Rosewall
91
Level 1: Hallucinations
50
The Break-In
71
Examining Irene
91
Level 2: Images of Martin
Bellgrave
Return to the Scene of
the Murder 71
Robert’s Boarding House 72
Agent Croft 73
Malcolm Croft 73
Meet Agent Croft 73
Croft and The Artifact 74
The Island 74
The Wilcox House 74
Henry Anthony Wilcox, Esq. 75
‘Dreams Older than
Tyre or Babylon’ 76
The Artifact & Wilcox 76
No More Sorcerers! 77
They Rise! 77
The Artifact 77
Fighting Back 77
Escape! 77
Bargaining with the Deep Ones 79
Escaping the Island
Playing Irene
92
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Threats from the Cult
92
Level 3 – Conversations
51
A Warning
94
The Horror at the Library
53
A Break-In
94
The Annotated Book
53
The Curse
94
Helena Tyler
53
Peine Forte et Dure
95
The Killer Strikes Again
53
Into the Dark Woods
95
Investigations in Providence
54
The Graveyard
95
Gollam & Sons
54
The Gravedigger
95
Lewis Holland
54
Kingdom of the Ghouls
96
Haunted By The Past
55
Poor, Doomed Souls
96
Next Steps
56
The Rosewall House
96
The Bellgrave Ruins
56
Playing Harvey
96
Lights in the Sky
56
The Woods
97
Buster Locke
57
The Final Confrontation
98
The Society for American
Poetry
Terrible Knowledge
98
57
The Cairn
99
Miskatonic University
58
Aftermath
99
Confronting Francis Moon
58
Holland’s Death
58
79
Banishing Bellgrave
59
Dreams of the Future
79
Handouts
100
The Wreck 61
The Hook 61
The Horrible Truth 61
The Spine 61
Antagonist Reactions 61
Victory Conditions 62
Scenes 62
Worse Things Happen at Sea 62
Ten Green Bottles 62
A Cold, Cold Morning 63
Exploring the Star of Mauritius 63
The Last Few Entries
The King’s Men
80
The Hook
80
The Horrible Truth
80
The Spine
80
Antagonist Reactions
80
Victory Condition
80
Detective Thomas Talby
80
Optional Complication:
Haunted by the Past
81
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Optional Complication:
A Tainted Ancestry 81
Dreams in Arkham 81
The Lonely Death of Thomas Talby 83
The Artifact
65
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