The Armitage Files
The Armitage Files presents a boldly innovative way to generate blood-chilling adventures for your Trail Of Cthulhu investigators. Players seize on clues presented in the ten mysterious documents.
"They choose which leads to track down. The Keeper¸ using clearly broken down step-by-step techniques introduced in this volume¸ improvises suitably mind-blasting mysteries in response to their choices. Weave these together into an epic campaign of madness¸ dread and danger.
"Mystery takes on written form when pages from a disturbing manuscript fall into the investigators' hands. Can your mind correlate the awful beauty of 10 stunningly distressed handouts realized by acclaimed illustrator Sarah Wroot? A series of scrawled messages¸ comprising a free-floating cacophony of facts¸ speculations¸ and fevered imaginings¸ portends cryptic doom. Preliminary inquiries reveal that they are written in the hand of Dr. Henry Armitage¸ director emeritus of the Mistakonic University Library.
"Combine the documents with pre-prepared elements such as supporting characters (in sinister¸ heroic or in between versions)¸ organizations¸ locations and artifacts to create your unique version of the Armitage Files. An article on improvising GUMSHOE¸ by Steve Dempsey¸ shows you how.