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Chaosium Digest Volume 35 Number 04
Chaosium Digest Volume 35, Number 04
Date: Saturday, December 22, 2001
Number: 1 of 2
Contents
* The Whippoorwill House Affair, Chapter 4 (CTHULHU FICTION)
by Brooke Johnson (Z_signal@hotmail.com)
Editor's Note:
Happy Holidays to everyone. May Santa 'Thulhu bring you all matter of
mind-shattering goodies!
A reminder to all you budding authors out there, December 31 is the deadline
for entries for this quarter's Chaosium Contest. As usual, the prize is $40
of Chaosium product. Check out the Announcements below to see the great new
stuff they have coming out soon.
This issue features the fourth chapter of The Whippoorwill House Affair. You
can find Chapter One in issue 32.02. Chapter Two is in issue 32.03 and
Chapter Three can be found in issue 34.02. All these past issues may be
found at http://pages.prodigy.net/gobackstage in the Chaosium Digest
Archive. One caveat to readers, this chapter does contain a very graphic
scene of both a sexual and violent nature as well as some harsher language
than previous chapters. Anyone offended by such material should probably
steer clear. You have been warned.
Everyone else,
Enjoy!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Greetings to Observers of the Glorantha Trading Association.
Prefinished Work Almost Finished!
Issaries, Inc. is pleased to announce that it will soon release a new
Prefinished Work. For those who do not know, Prefinished Works are
Gloranthan sourcebooks that are nearly complete, but which contain
information too esoteric or specialized for the normal retail markets. They
are available through Wizards Attic for retail sale, but are not available
to distributors.
Revealed Mythologies will be released by the end of November. Previously
listed as The Gloranthan Encyclopedia, there was simply too much material
for a
reasonably sized and priced book, so the contents and focus of this book
were changed. Revealed Mythologies details the mythologies of the Malkioni,
Vithelans (Easterners), and Doraddi (Pamaltelans) of Glorantha, which
previously have been obscured by the mythology of Central Genertela. Each
section of the book provides the core mythologies of these powerful and
important cultures, accompanied by Godtime maps from the culture's point of
view. Each mythology is also accompanied by a glossary of the important
divinities, places, events, and philosophies of the culture.
Revealed Mythologies can be Pre-Ordered now at
<http://www.wizards-attic.com/Issaries.html>.
Glorantha's Trolls Unleashed for Christmas
Unspoken Word will produce Uz: the Trolls of Glorantha, a 68-page full-size
book in December. Largely written by James Frusetta, series author for
Issaries' longer Uz work in progress, this book presents all-new information
on trolls as characters and NPCs, as well as cults and spirits. It will
include key elements of previous, out-of-print works on the Uz. The book
retails for $12.00 US, and is scheduled for a December 10th release. It will
be available both from the Unspoken Word and through Wizards Attic. For more
information, please see <http://www.celtic-webs.com/theunspokenword>.
Lunar Map Drawing Winners
The Glorantha Trading Association is pleased to congratulate the two
Observers who won the Lunar Map Drawing announced in last month's
newsletter. Janice
Sellers and Shannon Wright were selected at random to receive the wonderful,
full color map of the Lunar empire created by Wesley Quadros and Mark Laurie
and produced by the Unspoken Word.
Thanks to Issaries, Inc. for arranging and running this drawing and
providing the prizes. There will be similar offers in future, so watch your
email for the next newsletter.
* Guild Corporation Releases Japanese Hero Wars
November 16, 2001
(Oakland, CA) Issaries, Inc. announced today the imminent release of the
Japanese edition of their Hero Wars roleplaying game.
Guild Corporation of Japan will release the game in Tokyo on November 24th.
To commemorate this great event, they are sponsoring a gaming convention
along with Atelier THIRD, a business partner who translated Hero Wars and
also publishes an independent gaming magazine. Greg Stafford will be present
at this convention as Guest of Honor.
"We are very pleased that the Japanese edition of Hero Wars will finally be
available," says Stephen Martin. "Guild Corporation and Atelier THIRD plan
to aggressively market the game, and we are certain that they will be
successful in popularizing it in Japan."
The Japanese edition of Hero Wars includes the contents of both Hero Wars
(ISS 1101) and Narrator's Book (ISS 1104), the core Hero Wars rule books.
They have included additional information from several other Hero Wars
books, including Thunder Rebels (ISS 1301), Glorantha: Introduction to the
Hero Wars (ISS 1102), and Anaxial's Roster (ISS 1103). In addition to a
glossary and a comprehensive index, the book also has individual indexes of
the many gods, keywords, magical abilities, and mundane abilities mentioned
in the rules.
Sample pages of their production can be found at
<http://www.a-third.com/hw/sample.html>.
For more information, go to <www.HeroWars.com>.
* December 6, 2001
Contact:
Russell Williams
Flying Lab Software
rustyw@flyinglab.com
http://www.flyinglab.com/
1905 Queen Anne Ave. N Suite 300
Seattle, WA 98109-2549
(206) 272-9814
---
YOU ARE THE CONSPIRACY
Manipulation, Betrayal, and Horrific Action All In A Day's Work With the
Delta Green Computer Game coming in 2003
Inside the federal government, a grim conspiracy steals satellite access,
spies on the FBI, and siphons funds from the IRS to conduct outlaw
operations of assassination, blackmail, and counter-insurgency -- all to
keep us safe from a secret world of ancient, supernatural horror that
threatens us from the shadows.
This conspiracy is Delta Green. And you're in charge.
Delta Green is based on Pagan Publishing's award-winning series of tabletop
role-playing games, novels, and shared-world fiction anthologies with an
international following. Inspired by the work of H.P. Lovecraft and lavishly
detailed with up-to-date government and military agencies -- both real and
rumored -- Delta Green posits an underworld of secrets in which conspirators
manipulate the federal bureaucracy to keep the darkness of cosmic evil at
bay for one more day.
The game features both strategic and tactical play, in which you build your
conspiracy, solve mysteries, and fight alien horrors in real-time small-unit
combat. The Seattle design studio, Flying Lab Software, is collaborating
with Delta Green creators Dennis Detwiller, Scott Glancy, and John Tynes to
develop the game for a 2003 release.
Ever wonder where your tax dollars really go? Did you actually believe the
military paid six hundred dollars for a hammer? Delta Green knows the
score: when ultimate evil lurks and plots, deception is a right, truth is a
privilege, and innocence is a luxury.
Flying Lab Software is a Seattle-based design studio. Their first game,
Rails Across America, has won Editor's Choice Awards from both Computer
Gaming World and Computer Gaming Magazine, and is available in stores
nationwide. www.flyinglab.com
Delta Green first appeared in late 1992 in Pagan Publishing's tabletop
roleplaying game magazine The Unspeakable Oath, and later in the RPG
sourcebooks Delta Green and Delta Green: Countdown, both of which won the
industry's highest honor: the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement
of 1997 and 1999. The novel Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement also won
the 1999 Origins Award for Best Game-Related Novel. Pagan Publishing's
newest book is a collection of short stories, Delta Green: Dark Theatres,
now available in stores. To join the conspiracy, visit www.delta-green.com.
--
<- John Tynes - rev@tccorp.com - http://www.JohnTynes.com/ ->
The avoidance of adventure is not adventure. --Mitch Gitelman
* The State of Chaosium Address
(see also http://www.chaosium.com)
Happy Holidays from Chaosium!
We want to thank all of you for your support over the past year. 2001 saw us
greatly improve our printing schedule over that of 2000, from six printing
cycles (new books and reprints) to about fourteen this year. For the first
time in a couple of years we are not out of the CALL OF CTHULHU rulesbook
over Christmas (huzzah!). We've celebrated the 20th anniversary of the
original release of CALL OF CTHULHU. Since 1981 we have published about 100
supplements and adventures for the game, some of them quite memorable. We
look forward to bringing you another 100 Call of Cthulhu releases in the
coming years.
As we head into the new year, we want to take an opportunity to let you
know some of our goals for 2002. So here we will go out on a limb.
Usually, we try not so speak of projects too far ahead. Merely mentioning
upcoming books without knowing specific release dates, sizes, and prices
results in Dustin getting way too much email. But we feel it is important to
be clear with our most important audience, our fans, about what we are
doing. This is the latest, mostly up-to-date information and prognostication
that we are capable of. Be aware that this is a rough outline only. Events
in the course of business can alter these general release dates.
CALL OF CTHULHU
Generally speaking, we feel that we have not been releasing enough support
material for CALL OF CTHULHU. We would like to produce more, and we are
pushing authors to get more material ready. We want to keep certain core
books in better supply. The INVESTIGATOR's COMPANION and CREATURE COMPANION
are perennial good-sellers and both are at the printers at this moment.
We've just received a reprint of the Investigators Companion, and will start
shipping it soon.
On the board, in various states of readiness, include the THE KEEPER'S
COMPANION VOL. 2, which contains additional background and source material
for Call of Cthulhu keepers.
The SAN FRANCISCO GUIDEBOOK contains 1920s background and adventures for
Call of Cthulhu. The layout is supposed to be done by the end of December.
This project has been plagued by minions of the mythos resulting in several
delays, so we best not speak too loudly of this book.
We have revised H.P. LOVECRAFT'S DREAMLANDS. We are including a fold-out,
color Map of the Dreamlands that has been redrawn and beautifully
illustrated by Andy Hopp. He also doodled-up an array of page and box
decorations. Four scenarios that appeared in the first edition, and that
were omitted from the fourth ed., are restored and updated to reflect rules
modifications made since then. We will be releasing this book in a hardback.
We're also working on a Japan sourcebook for Call of Cthulhu, a modern Day
Arkham Sourcebook, and somewhere out there is one hell of a Miskatonic
University Sourcebook & Campaign for the Roaring 20's.
D20 CALL OF CTHULHU
March heralds the release of the d20 edition of CALL OF CTHULHU under
license from Chaosium and released by Wizards of the Coast. We have been
working with a number of authors and artists to prepare supplements for that
rulesbook. Our first effort will be PULP CTHULHU, Reckless Adventures in the
1930s. The idea is that we develop the decade of the 1930s for the d20
system, to be a bit more action-oriented. Another author is already
signed-up to also create a separate PULP CTHULHU adventure. Of course we'll
be making this Pulp Cthulhu material available to our core Basic Roleplaying
System audience as well!
For DRAGON LORDS OF MELNIBONÉ:
SLAVES OF FATE is now an 88 page adventure, up from our original plan of a
32-page book. This book is nearly ready for the printer. Its companion,
STRAITS OF CHAOS, will have a manuscript here in about a week. Finally, we
will release a core book called CULTS OF LAW & CHAOS which explores the
religious structures of the Young Kingdoms and gives a plethora of
information about spells, prestige classes, and other secrets from those
sacred orders.
For STORMBRINGER:
RIVER OF TEARS is a Stormbringer adventure, the manuscript should be here by
the end of December. We'll also be releasing a new Stormbringer GM screen in
the coming months. We also hope to finally release a Young Kingdoms
Bestiary.
For CALL OF CTHULHU FICTION:
We'll have a full slate of fiction in the coming year. We are about to ship
NAMELESS CULTS, a collection of the Mythos tales of Conan creator Robert E.
Howard. In early 2002 we will release DISCIPLES OF CTHULHU II, new Mythos
fiction edited by Berglund. THE BOOK OF EIBON, edited by Robert Price will
also see print soon.
We want to reprint a couple of fiction titles as soon as we can, namely the
NECRONOMICON and the ENCYCLOPEDIA CTHULHIANA. Speaking of the latter: we
also want to release a hardback edition of the Encyclopedia in a special
Illustrated Edition. It would be great to have many of the entries
illustrated, and the whole printed on a good coated paper-stock, a two-color
page format, and new cover illustration.
OTHER STUFF:
This summer our buddies at Headfirst will release their Dark Corners of the
Earth Call of Cthulhu Computer game. Bringing new blood into the world of
Call of Cthulhu.
Last but certainly not least, we're looking at the possibility of releasing
a 15th anniversary edition of ARKHAM HORROR, our classic Call of Cthulhu
board game.
Don't see the Chaosium book that has been haunting your dreams? We're taking
submissions for all of our game lines. You too could be a Chaosium writer.
Thanks again for your support!
Charlie, David, Dustin & Lynn.
The Chaosium Dudes.
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