CthulhuTech Nightmare

Tower Games came through for me this week. They were able to come up with a copy of CthulhuTech for me. I’ve only had a few minutes to page though it, but I know that I’m already a fan. I’m already trying to figure out how I’m going to con a group of RPG players to give it a go.

Last night, after I paged through it while watching Women’s Olympic Gymnastics, I had very disturbing Mythos dreams that still haunt me.

I was in my home. I was fixing dinner, what I don’t remember, but it was a very common occurrence. Then hooded Cultists broke my door down and pinned me to the ground. They tore my shirt off and started to tattoo my chest. I remember it so vividly that I can still feel sore. When they were finished they welcomed me into their society and led into the bathroom to see their work in the mirror.

The Cultists had tattooed the following on my chest, and strangely, I could read it in the mirror even though it should have been backwards:

Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
The shadows lengthen
..................................................In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
.................................................Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
.................................................Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
................................................Lost Carcosa.

The Yellow Sign.” The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers. Ed. S.T. Joshi. Chaosium, Inc. 2004

I was told that I had no choice. I was now a subject of The King in Yellow.

Anyway, the book looks really good. It is Anime meets Mythos. I will put up a review of how it plays in a couple of months, or as soon as I can get a group together to give it a realy go.