Terror on the Thames

Details

Pages: 39

Author(s): Peter Wright

Artist(s): Jon Hodgson (Cover), Scott Purdy (Interior Artwork)

Editor(s): Andrew Kenrick

Setting: 1920s

Appears in: Cthulhu Britannica: London Box Set

Campaign: None

Summary

The invesitgators are invited on a boat ride on the Thames, but it won't be the quiet evening they were hoping for.

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Synopsis

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• The investigators are invited on boat ride on board of the Lady Louisianna
• They spend the evening talking to the other passengers
• After they've been drugged they wake up on the abandoned ship and find out that most of the other passengers have been murdered
• They try to stop the ritual of the cultists and free the captured passengers on Dead Man's Island

References

Player Handouts: Newspaper cutting, Letter from Cunliffe to James Blunden, Inscription inside a birthday card, Blackmail letters, Alfred Prebble's incomplete letter, Crew Roster, Passenger List

Locations: Thames, Dead Man's Island.

Creatures: Swale Zombies, Fosterling of Y'golonac

Tomes and Artifacts: None

Keeper Comments

• Suggestions for drugging the investigators
• useful images:
  • mentioned Paintings
    • Hippolyte Sebron's Giant Steamboats at New Orleans
    • Gary Lucy's The Omaha Cutting Firewood by Moonlight
    • George F. Fuller's Steamboat Race on the Mississippi

• music ideas:
  • live Dixieland-Jazz for the band:
    • Satanic Blues
    • Ice Cream
    • Fidgety Feet (only part of video, talking at the beginning and end)
    • Darktown Strutters Ball
    • Tiger Rag

• recorded Dixieland-Jazz:
  • Livery Stable Blues

• music for abandoned ship:
  • Frostbitten Heartbeat - Scarbeater (free, CC)

• music on Dead Man's Island:
  • The Fifth Crew Member - Sunshine OST