[CoC] Adventure Idea

[DnDChick]

Set in England in April, 1912. Characters tracking down the largest known collection of pages of the original Al-Azif come to find that they are in the possession of a collector. Further investigation shows that the collector has smuggled them into an equisitely jewled copy of The Rubiyat by Omar Khalid. The collecter has booked passage on a trans-atlantic voyage to America where he hopes to sell the pages to interests in New York City.

By now you may have guessed what ship the collector booked passage on...

RMS Titanic.

Did it hit an iceberg? Or is an 'iceberg' the only thing the minds of the survivors could comprehend as being out in the middle of the North Atlantic. What could tear a massive gash in the side of the Unsinkable?

Think of the fun youll have as your investigators battle Deep Ones in the belly of the sinking ship, stumble into the Turkish Baths on F deck and interrupt some profane cult ceremony, or flee in terror from the sight of the Thing rising up out of a flooded corridor, only to find themselves slipping inexoribly down as the ship tilts on its way to oblivion...

Get deck plans, crew and passenger lists, and more here:

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/index.shtml

 

[trancejeremy]

The PCs can also kill that annoying Leonardo guy...

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Or also remember one of the Great Old Ones who got left out of CoCd20, Rlim Shaikorth... the ice-worm who travels about inside an iceberg. Given the place the Titanic went down, I'd also guess at Ithaqua involvement.

Rlim Shaikorth is referenced in a Clark Ashton Smith story, though I can't recall the title.

 

[Crothian]

That's a cool idea. Really test the metagaming urges of the players.

 

[hellbender]

Or also remember one of the Great Old Ones who got left out of CoCd20, Rlim Shaikorth... the ice-worm who travels about inside an iceberg. Given the place the Titanic went down, I'd also guess at Ithaqua involvement.

Rlim Shaikorth is referenced in a Clark Ashton Smith story, though I can't recall the title.

I believe the story is called, 'The Coming of the White Worm'. Smith was a prolific Mythos writer, whose stories are pretty eerie in themselves.

hellbender

 

[Horacio]

Wow! Thanks for the idea... and for the link!

 

[DnDChick]

That's a cool idea. Really test the metagaming urges of the players.

Yup! And to make sense of the metagame urges, you could even throw this adventure at a group of MODERN invesitgators.

90-year time gate, anyone?

 

[Angelsboi]

Can someone convert the stats?

 

[DnDChick]

Can someone convert the stats?

Rlim Shaikorth never got stats even in the Chaosium version of the game. Lacking any game info on RS, if you want to use the Titanic adventure idea, Id stick with Deep Ones or Mi-Go for a low-level group, a dimensional shambler or spectral hunter (or two) for a mid-level group, or a formless spawn (or three) for a higher level group. Those would be the critters inside the ship, and of course there would be cultists. There were so many people from so many places on the Titanic, it would even be completely feasible that some of the steerage passengers were Tchho-Tchos.

As for what could have torn the hole in the great ship? Maybe it was just a mundane iceberg...a coincidence with no relation to the fact that fragments of the Al-Azif were on board.

If you must have a creature be responsible for the destruction of the ship, a shoggoth or hunting horror are large enough and strong enough to sink a ship that size. The hunting horror would be tough to work in, though, since the gash was torn below the water line the HH isnt known for its ability to swim. Id go with a shoggoth--that could also explain why so many bodies were never recovered from the water...munch munch!

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Actually...

Actually, Rlim Shaikorth was statted in Chaosium. He appears in Ye Booke of Monstres (which, along with its sequel, is a great source of new Lovecraft gods, including Bugg-Shash, Q'yth-az, and Hydra [Kuttner's version, not Mother Hydra]).