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"There's Gold in That Thar Penal Settlement!"
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Most people would be aware that the early colonial history of Australia included major gold rushes in the 1840s and 1850s. But what few people know is that decades prior to these great discoveries, a discovery of precious gold sent ripples through the very fabric of New South Wales. The find, made by a lowly convict,... [click here for more] |
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"Some Gentlemen Prefer Crime!"
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Not everyone who was sentenced to be a convict in the penal settlements came from the poorer, criminal classes of Britain. Some were wealthy men and women, sentenced to transportation sometimes because of their criminal ways, but other times because of their politics. And some of these so-called... [click here for more] |
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"Better Not Shout, Better Not Cry, Something Evil is Watching the Orphans. Something hungry."
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Perhaps the most vulnerable people in the penal colonies of early Australia were the (surprisingly many) unwanted and destitute children. Most roamed the streets, prey to wicked and degenerate sorts -- but a scant few of the unwanted... [click here for more] |
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"Who knows what unknown terrors lurk in the unexplored bushland of Australia?"
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Strange stories have recently been circulating in Sydney Town. Tales about a catastrophic event that caused widespread devastation to a staging point along the Parramatta River much... [click here for more] |
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"Medical Malpractice. Of the Cthulhu Mythos Kind."
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The medical arts of the late 18th Century were, by our standards, horrific in themselves. And yet, in the isolated Australian penal colonies, the standards of surgical and medical treatment were made even more primitive by a reliance on a supply of European-made drugs and treatments... [click here for more] |
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"Good Luck. Bad Luck. Neither Means Much When Facing the Cthulhu Mythos"
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The convicts and settlers of the early penal colonies of Australia were, by our standards, highly superstitious people. To their way of thinking, the world was full of nebulous evil spirits that could bring misfortune and calamity. Fortunately long traditions... [click here for more] |
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"Ominous Bells Toll Their Ominous Knells"
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The penal settlements of New South Wales were cruel and desperate places, but even in such darkness there existed rare hints of culture and civilisation. One of these was the existence of music, which was performed at surprisingly... [click here for more] |
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"So Vile A Place, It Cries Out To Receive the Mythos' Touch"
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In 1803 the penal settlements at New South Wales are a mere fifteen years old, but are already synonymous with harshness and brutality. Back in England their reputation has been well-established as a hellish place, half a world away from any form of civilsation.... [click here for more] |
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"The Turbulent Mason"
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The early penal settlements of Australia were filled with colourful (sometimes roguish) characters who lived larger-than-life. Anthony Fenn Kemp, army paymaster, opportunistic entrepreneur, and master mason is a figure that certainly fits this bill. Deftly skirting the edges of the political maelstrom... [click here for more] |
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"The Master of Convicts"
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The early penal settlements of Australia were powered by convict labour: every workgang and every domestic servant came from the enormous pool of convicts arriving in the colonies. Nicholas Divine, the man who served as Superintendent of Convicts was thus someone whose decisions can make a big difference to the life of a convict, as well as most free settlers.... [click here for more] |
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"A Convict's Only Record of Privilege: A Grubby Sheet of Paper"
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It's easy to imagine that games of Lovecraftian investigation set in the 18th Century penal colonies of Australia would need to dispense with the notion of document-based clues. After all, with a colony full of undesirable convicts, being guarded by an equally-undesirable set of military guards, and which lived perpetually... [click here for more] |
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"Lifting the Veil on a Scientific Marvel in the Darkest Corners of the Colony"
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Several nights ago, the whole colony of New South Wales was witness to a most remarkable meteorite storm which culminated in an enormous fireball streaking across the sky and falling to earth. Men of science among the colonial administration know... [click here for more] |
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"A Whaleship from Kingsport finds Peril in the Antipodes"
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Whaling and sealing were both important industries in the Convicts & Cthulhu era; industries which took brave and doughty men out to the remotest stretches of lonely waters, far from home. Nowhere... [click here for more] |
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Bring H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham to Life with a Lavish and Detailed in-world prop: a full cover-to-cover issue of the Arkham Advertiser from 1928.
“It may be that centuries of dark brooding had given to crumbling, whisper-haunted Arkham a peculiar vulnerability as regards such shadows …” – H.P. Lovecraft, “The Shadow Out Of Time”
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Arkham is one of H.P. Lovecraft’s... [click here for more] |
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Period newspaper props and handouts are a much-treasured staple of Investigative and Mystery roleplaying games, in particular Jazz Age horror games like Call of Cthulhu and Trail of Cthulhu.
Making your own realistic-looking period newspaper clippings is not necessarily a quick and easy task. There are distinctive typographic styles, including font choice and layout... [click here for more] |
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