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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arravis" data-source="post: 4198068" data-attributes="member: 327">After those adventures we move on to Tatters of the King (I actually placed the play between The Haunting and Edge of Darkness). The investigators got an invitation from the lawyer handling the will of Meriwether….[sblock=photo]<img src="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/images/arravis-props-16.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]The letter is done on parchment, mostly I love Gaspard Phillippe Narcisse’s signature… did I mention the NPC he’s named Gaspard Phillippe Narcisse? He’s one of the NPCs that the players love to hate, and he’s not a bad guy, he’s their lawyer <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. He’s 3/4ths Louis Cyphre from Angel Heart, and 1/4 Dan Fielding from Night Court, and all French (but oddly enough, he’s banned from practicing law in France ever again). Anyway, the envelope I made out of high quality drawing paper from instructions on the web, and I used an existing “N” wax seal I had on it. Narcisse’s calling card is on cardstock, cut with a specialty scissors to give it a nice edge. None of these took beyond a few minutes to make. The flyer I made in Photoshop out of art by Beardsley and I’m particularly fond of the font I used for it.Some details on the inside of the Playbill:[sblock=photo]<img src="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/images/arravis-props-17.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Here is the play Carcosa / The King in Yellow that I slightly re-edited and highly warped. The original text I worked from was from forum member King_in_amber, which, I think, itself was warped from the Blish/Carter text. So it’s a bit of a Frankenstein monster.As those of you who are familiar with the TotK campaign know there are three versions of Act 1/Section 3, this being an effect of the displaying of the Yellow Sign at the end of the section. The version I’m posting is made up of eight totally different versions (one for each potential player I had that evening). I changed some of the locations of TotK there. The play takes place in Le Petit Theatre (<a href="http://www.lepetittheatre.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lepetittheatre.com/</a>) in the French Quarter. Here is the pdf of the DM’s version of it:<a href="http://www.docezra.com/temp/Carcosa_KiY_Play.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.docezra.com/temp/Carcosa_KiY_Play.pdf</a> The Playbill was a great deal of work, not only warping, editing, and re-writing parts of the existing text but having a layout that would be useful in-game, finding all the ads, etc. The cover is a modified Piuemont piece, I didn’t use a cover relating to the Carcosa play, since at the time most Playbill covers were did not refer to the play, but the theatre itself. I ran the inside pages in black and white, and did the outside on cardstock in color with a full-bleed (ie no white outline, trimmed to fit print area). The tickets were laid out in In-design, printed in black and white on yellow cardstock, with no perforations unfortunately. Since most of the borders are clip-art, it only took a few minutes to put together.After the events in Edge of Darkness, the players got a letter for the now dead Meriwether from Dr. Highsmith from Tatters of the King... this included a note explaining that the drawings attached were made by the patient soon after he arrived:[sblock=photo]<img src="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/images/arravis-props-18.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />This is just the text from TotK, laid out in Word, and printed on parchment. This only took a few minutes to make.Here are the drawings… including one the patient (Alexander Roby) attempted to eat.[sblock=photo]<img src="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/images/arravis-props-19.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Drawings were done in vine charcoal on the cheapest newsprint I could find. By the way… the half-eaten drawing is a very, very faded partial close-up of Hastur himself. It all took less than an hour.And two drawings I decided not to include, since I felt they showed too much detailed of the Byakhee (yes, my version has 4 wings, not 2):[sblock=photo]<img src="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/images/arravis-props-20.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Lastly here is a handout I made for a modern one-shot game. The players were all playing members of a CDC team investigating a strange disease in Alaska. I mailed out the info packet two weeks before the game, with no hint that it was from a game on it. The wife of one of my players freaked out when she opened the envelope, thinking that it was the military wanting her husband back <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.[sblock=photo]<img src="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/images/arravis-props-21.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]The whole thing is around twenty pages of fairly technical stuff, each player got a packer specifically made for their character:[sblock=photo]<img src="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/images/arravis-props-22.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Finding just the right folder was the tough part, I was able to dig these up in an obscure corner of Office Depot. The logos, signatures, and other CDC imagery I was able to extract from actual CDC pdfs online. Writing the actual text was what took the longest. I put this together a few years ago, but I think it only took maybe two hours worth of work.Faxes of the pictures taken by the local doctors. Seems that some insane cultist/doctor was attempting to turn his patients into shoggoths.[sblock=photo]<img src="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/images/arravis-props-23.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]The photos are just elephentitus images I warped in Photoshop, added in a Polaroid frame to, and passed through the copier several generations to make it look like a bad scan. And here’s a prop of a book they found in the said doctor’s office:[sblock=photo]<img src="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/images/arravis-props-24.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]I made the cover out of thick cardboard pieces to which I hot-glued faux leather. The inside layout was done in InDesign. This too was done several years ago, but I think it took two or three hours worth of work.[sblock=photo]<img src="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/images/arravis-props-25.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]And yes... I'll try to find out who did those drawings too <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it and if anyone would like some of the PDFs of these documents and such, please let me know!-ArravisP.S.: For those interested, I have the text of the journal, I can post it here or you can check the yog-sothoth.com link above</blockquote>

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