Machine Tractor Station Kharkov-37

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Front Cover

Product Code: CHA0310

Publishing Year: 2004 (minor revision 2007; corrected and expanded through the addition of character sheets for the major characters of the adventure)

Pages: 113

Cover Price: $20.00

Author: Bret Kramer

Artists: Mithras, with cartoon containing elements from Goomi

Setting: 1930s (U.S.S.R.). Mentions Delta Green

Format: MULA Monograph

Released as PDF: Yes

Contents

A Scenario Set in Stalin's U.S.S.R.

Life for the average soldier in the Red Army is never easy, but it is a better life than for most Russians in the late-winter of 1933. You have a bed, steady rations, and place of security in a dangerous time. There are duties to perform, yes, and sometimes they are hazardous. They are the price you pay for what you have.

But now there are new orders — to repair the telegraph lines at a distant outpost. It seems like a simple task, but you have doubts. Why not wait until the roads have cleared? Why send the Army to do what prisoners should do, even if at gunpoint? Why haven’t our comrades at the station repaired the line themselves? Why are the Telegraph Agency men wearing pistols?

There are horrors enough in the Worker’s Paradise. The new collective farms have failed to provide as was promised, and famine stalks the land. A knock at the door might mean death in the gulag. In distant Moscow there are rumors of a coming purge of enemies, both real and imagined.

And yet . . . there are worse things to be found at Machine Tractor Station Kharkov-37.

Machine Tractor Station Kharkov-37 is a Call of Cthulhu scenario set in the 1930s era Soviet Union. It comes with six pre-generated characters and extensive handouts. It is intended for, at most, a few sessions of play.

Front Cover Text

A CTHULHU SCENARIO SET IN STALIN'S USSR

Comments / Trivia

The 2007 revision contains several changes: -Glossy cover -Removal of a number of typos and text errors -Improved character sheets, created by Patrick Murphy

Dedications: "For my father and his copy of Grof Conklin's Omnibus of Science Fiction.

Links

• Review on Yog-Sothoth.com
• Review by James on Ideology of Madness
• Review by Matthew Pook in Pyramid (Subscription to Pyramid Online required.)
• Run-through by Kinnygraham

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