Johansen Narrative
The Johansen Narrative is statted out in the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook, and originates in H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu (fiction).
Description
A handwritten account of sailor Gustav Johansen's violent encounter with a ship full of violent pirate-cultists in the Pacific Ocean, followed by the discovery of a strange, recently-surfaced volcanic island covered in strange, alien ruins. (A couple paraphrases of this account - one a guarded account quoted from a newspaper for public consumption, and the other the narrator's version of Johansen's full story - are a centerpiece to Lovecraft's novella, The Call of Cthulhu.)
- author: Gustav Johansen
- date: 1925
- language: English
- number of known copies (if rare): (unique)
- last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (to be found among the papers of the late
Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston)
- study: 6 weeks
- sanity loss: minor
- mythos lore: minimal
- occult lore: none
- spells: none
Associated Mythos Elements
- deity: Cthulhu
- location: R'lyeh
- cult: Cult of Cthulhu
Appearances
- fiction: H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu (fiction)
- sourcebook: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook
