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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1144795" data-attributes="member: 4144">It is 1891, the height of the British Empire, and also a time of great change.  In India, British officials are being killed off by a group calling themselves the Thuggee, worshippers of the goddess Kali.  The first stirrings of the Fenians (later known as the IRA) are being felt in Ireland.  An occult group calling itself the Golden Dawn, claiming several famous (and infamous) members has sprung up in the fashionable West End, while the squalid East End is still recovering from the horror of one bloody autumn three years ago.  And a grotesquely malformed man sits in a lonely basement room in the London Hospital, watching it all and writing poetry. I'm starting up a game of Call of Cthulhu in the Gaslight (Victorian Era) time period.  A bit about the game: it's influenced mostly (at least at first) by From Hell (the graphic novel much moreso than the movie), the stories of Arthur Machen, and the Golden Dawn.  During the course of the game, you'll meet some famous individuals of the Victorian period.  Of course, I don't want to say too much about the game itself, but I can tell you that the opening hook is a real event (though I moved it forward ten years, poetic license, you understand <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />). Character generation will be 28-point buy, and, like all of my games, the characters will start at 3rd level.  Being Victorian England, of course, social class is quite important, however I'll go into that more in the next post.  All I ask in the way of concepts is that at least one upper-class character have in their backstory a connection with the Jack the Ripper case and most importantly a reason that others of the police force would trust him or her (likely a consulting doctor or investigator if male, a patroness or even investigator if female).  No former suspects. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Any other questions, let me know, like always I'm sure I forgot some things.</blockquote>

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