From: "John & Christine Thompson" To: Subject: Chaosium Digest v35.04 Date: Saturday, December 22, 2001 4:08 AM 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 . 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 . 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 . For more information, go to . * 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. 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