Ghost Jackal Kill (Scenario)
Details
Pages: 7
Author(s): Graeme Davis
Artist(s): Dave Carson, Steve Begg
Setting: 1924
Appears in: White Dwarf, Issue 79.
Summary
An investigative reporter looking into a mysterious death contacts an Investigator to have a strange text translated.
Links
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Synopsis
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The investigators are contacted by a reporter looking into the mysterious death of a Hollywood screenwriter. The screenwriter had inadvertently made use of a spell to summon a Hound of Tindalos he had found in a copy of Nameless Cults. The investigators must determine just what happened and stop the film from going ahead, without bringing the Hound down upon themselves.
The copy of Nameless Cults mentioned in the scenario is not available for player consultation. If they investigate they will find that it has been stolen from the bookshop. Following up this theft was intended to form part of a future scenario or scenarios by the author that were either never written or remain unpublished.
References
Player Handouts: List the player handouts here.
Locations: San Francisco, University of San Francisco, Apartment of Paul Collins, Mawley's Antiquarian Bookshop
Creatures: Hound of Tindalos
Tomes and Artifacts: Nameless Cults (Golden Goblin) - Mentions only.
Comments
The scenario is a prequel to the scenario The Statue of the Sorcerer and takes place about one year before that scenario begins.
Author Dashiel Hammet appears as an NPC.
Keeper Comments
- This scenario could be used as the beginning of a San Francisco based campaign, the long gap between this scenario and the Statue of the Sorceror, could be a problem, other scenarios from the Secrets of San Francisco could be used to fill in this period.
- As the scenario is intended to tie into the later scenario the Statue of the Sorceror at least one of the investigators needs to be associated with the University of San Francisco, Archaeology Department.
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