Sahib, They Are Coming
The cultists press their assault on the bungalow in two savage waves, and the defenders hold — at cost.
The Arbuthnott Papers
A campaign journal of Tournament of Shadows, the Call of Cthulhu epic, written in the voice of a Victorian periodical.
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The Collective fight their way through the jungle to Leighton's bungalow, and pay a heavy price at the threshold.
Of the Elephant Train, and What Met Them at the Trees
The Collective receives intelligence at the Bombay Club, makes arrangements, and travels north by elephant train into uncertain country.
Of Seas Red and Arabian
The Beast does not return — but the voyage east brings its own unsettling episodes, a fancy-dress ball at Aden, and at last the docks at Bombay.
Of the Beast's Return, and Amin's Stratagem
The Beast returns to the SS Verona — but Amin has a theory about the amulet, and the nerve to test it.
The Beast in the Boat
Below decks aboard the SS Verona, the Collective descend into smoke, steam, and carnage — and confront the Beast at last.
Of the Voyage to Marseilles, and the Return of the Amulet
The Collective sail from Tilbury to Marseilles aboard the SS Verona — and at Marseilles a pendant they believed lost comes back to them.
Of the Council at Bloomsbury, and the Burial at Arbuthnott
GNR Stirling Single No. 544. Photograph by Tony Hisgett, Birmingham, UK. Source . Licensed CC BY 2.0 . The papers from the week following the party's return from Garway are more substantial than those that preceded them, and the Editor is able to present a continuous account. The Council at Bloomsbury The party convened at his Lordship's Bloomsbury address for dinner, and to discuss their various…
From the Collective's Notes, of the Days in London
The papers from the week following the party's return to London from Garway are fragmentary. What survives is largely in his Lordship's hand, and in such notes as Sergeant Tomlinson set down at the time. The Editor has assembled them into such order as could be managed, and presents them here as memoranda rather than narrative. The party arrived at Paddington upon the evening of Monday the ninth…
Of the Disposition of the Dead, and the Vicar at Garway
The papers from the second day at Garway are brief, and the Editor has assembled them from such fragments as survived. The substance, however, may be set down. Captain Leighton persuaded his Lordship to return with him to the local inn, to allow Spencer and Tomlinson to clean up after the skirmish in the grove. Much to the Sergeant's shock, the butler stripped himself naked and started butchering…