The Ballad of Bass Rock (Scenario)

Details

Pages: 17

Author(s): Stuart Boon

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Setting: 1920s

Appears in: The Ballad of Bass Rock published by Cubicle 7

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Summary

When a leisure cruise out to Bass Rock goes awry and a summer thunderstorm traps the investigators on the barren island with only a ruined castle and a run-down lighthouse as shelter, things can’t seem to get much worse. But as the storm rages on into the black night, they discover just how wrong they are.

Links

• Buy The Ballad of Bass Rock from DriveThruRPG (PDF)
• Buy Shadows Over Scotland from Cubicle 7

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Synopsis

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References

Player Handouts:

• Lighthouse Keeper’s To-Do List
• Excerpt from Moby-Dick
• Lighthouse Keeper’s Logbook
• Carluke’s Letter

Locations: Bass Rock (off the east coast of Scotland)

Creatures: Shoggoth

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Comments

This scenario was originally meant to be part of Shadows Over Scotland but was subsequently separated out when the book ran over-long in layout. Cubicle 7 plans to publish it as a standalone PDF. Essentially, Ballad is a very dark, very dangerous little one-shot that was to be a counterpoint to many of the longer, investigative scenarios in Shadows Over Scotland. The situation is desperate, the time is short, and the investigators are horribly out-gunned, if you will. The horror is the thing here and the insignificance of the characters is brought to light.

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