A devout believer in the legacy of Atlantis, Arjan Van Rader scours the earth looking for evidence of the lost civilization. These quests often take him far from traditional locations associated with Atlantis (the Bermuda Triangle, the Mediterranean Sea) as he has all manner of theories explaining where the ancients went. Continue reading Arjan Van Rader
A blog about props for Call of Cthulhu and other horror role-playing games. The site’s tagline says it all: “Curious devices, forbidden artifacts, mysterious creatures, and intriguing documents.”
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This journal is actually a serial letter written by Lord Reginald Roland, Roberts, Fellow of the Royal Society, to his wife when Roberts was captain of the H.M.S. Centaurus. The Centaurus was a British antarctic exploratory vessel that went missing in February, 1935, only to show up as a “ghost ship” in New York Harbor two years later. The whereabouts of Roberts are unknown; he is presumed dead. Continue reading Journal of Lord Reginald Roland Roberts, RFS
“We knew a war was coming. We thought it was going to be the Fascists or the Communists, but by God it was the Martians!” — Old Man Gilmore in Episode 10.
Seeking to gain ever greater boons from their dark goddess, a fertility cult tried to summon and bind one of her servants at the Pleasant Grove Resort in Queenston, New York. Instead, they unleashed a horror upon the Catskills that saw the entire cult killed and left their leader, the tycoon and cultist Oscar Slaughter, a babbling madman.
The Wardens — Andrew Buchanan, Rikard Greystone, and McGinnis — arrived too late to stop the ritual and to save the half-dozen odd teenagers sacrificed as part of it. Instead they were left to deal the monstrosity the cult had summoned: a tentacled, hoover monster that loomed over the trees and destroyed all it came in contact with. They attempted to kill it with explosives and electricity, but failed on both accounts. Continue reading Episode 10: Strange Thunder
Casting spells like “fireball” and “magic missile” is fine for Dungeons & Dragons, but with Weird Pulp we like something a little stranger and esoteric sounding. The Marvel Database has a list of all of Dr. Strange’s favorite spells any of which are easily twisted to serve our purposes:
Episode 10 of Weird Pulp will be Sunday, 8/24/14
“I can’t be bought … but I can be paid.” — Old Man Gilmore, Proprietor of the Queenston General Gas Station in Episode 9.
Randall Sinclair is the intelligent, disciplined, and well-armed butler of the Wardens HQ in New York City. He was trained at the esteemed Albright Academy in the Netherlands in the early 1900s, and served as British Colonel Richard Wellington’s man servant during World War I. The Colonel himself was a field operative for the Wardens, and Sinclair accompanied him on many of his missions, some of which took them behind enemy lines. Continue reading Randall Sinclair, Butler
Billing itself the “photographic time machine”, Retronaut documents the past with amazing, sometimes surreal images from the past. It’s all great fodder for a Weird Pulp campaign (or any other campaign set since the dawn of photography).
“So what you’re telling me is that a bunch of sex-crazed, drug addicted crazies broke into the Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to steal Egyptian fertility relics to impress Catherine Livingstone, a young woman who is one of the top socialites in the city and whom they may or may not have kidnapped to serve as their goddess?” — Det. Jason Carl Carlson in Episode 9
Burglars broke in to the Metropolitan Museum of Art intent on stealing a number of artifacts related to the Egyptian goddess Isis. The Wardens stopped them, killing all but one of the would-be thieves.
Greystone interviewed the sole survivor, Andre Bellard, who fell in and out of coherence. He ranted about a “Golden Doe”, the “Tears of Isis”, and “Horned Master” (aka the Chevron, aka Ba-neb-djedet). From him they learned that he and the other thieves were worshippers of this “Chevron” figure, and they the rest of the cult lived in a tenement on the extreme northern end of Manhattan.
“Salt, gathered from the tears of a thousand angels, restraining the essence of Sammael, the Hellhound. The Seed of Destruction. This I can promise, Sammael, for every one of you that falls, two shall arise.” — Grigori Rasputin, Hellboy
Episode 9 of Weird Pulp will be Sunday, 6/1/14
A rundown of popular cars (and their costs) in the 1930s including Cadillacs, Buicks, and Chevrolets.