Campaign Info

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1. Pulp: Medium
2. Home Base: NE U.S (Cambridge/Boston)
3. Year: Late 1920's, early 1930's
4. Character Generation: Online Tool <or> Manual
5. CharSheet: Save CharSheet as PDF to Google Shared Drive, Google Docs Spreadsheet
6. Campaign Approach: Smaller Scenarios with embedded Plot Hooks (one or more plots. Group decides which ones to pursue)
7. Lovecraftian Pulse: Push all scenarios as close to the Lovecraftian Spirit as possible, while maintaining Medium Pulp
8. Character Relationships: Characters have known each other for some time, perhaps 6 months, and have been plotting their initiation into the Lovecraftian adventure/investigations.
9. Campaign ID: 889

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1st Draft for Ptolemy's Scriptorium description:

Ptolemy's Scriptorium
Description
A four story Brownstone on Massachusetts Avenue across from Harvard Yard, in sight of the Widener Library, (whose stacks are only exceeded by the Library of Congress) is one of the better shops in Cambridge for general occult volumes. There is an alcove off the history room, which is packed with such books, including rare volumes of stage magic. (Marullus, Grognardsw)

Twaddle maintains a personal apartment on the top floor (4th), a meeting room on the 3rd floor (all Investigators trusted therein), and the shop on the bottom two floors. Three overstuffed armchairs on the ground floor provide for suitable waiting, watching, and conversing with Harvard students and other clientele who wander in. All the doorframes and lintels are covered in delicate tracings of runes, symbols, and various languages. (Marullus)

Public Collection:
1st Floor - Caters to college students (molding young minds), items easy to sell to those who wander in as curios and curiosities (including little occult charms and amulets), way too many handwritten volumes

Special Collection:
2nd Floor - Reserved for select clientele, includes artifacts from ancient sites not turned over to museums, select furniture and antiques for true connoisseurs, and of course ill-advised or dangerous items collected during fits of mania that he may or may not even remember. (Marullus)

Inner Sanctum:
3rd Floor - Each character has their own ornate skeleton key to unlock the door and enter into the Inner Sanctum (this might be a little cheesy...Thoughts?)

Elevator:
When Originally bought and remodeled by a wealthy entrepreneur, the Scriptorium Brownstone sports a small Otis elevator allowing a maximum 1–3 passengers and up to 525 lbs. The elevator services all 4 floors. The elevator was in poor condition when Twaddle took ownership, and was completely overhauled over the course of six months. As a result it occasionally stops the car between floors and requires manual intervention (from the roof, 2 people) to reset and restart. A large hand-crank wheel and braking system allows for manual operation. Roof access is via a ceiling hatch in Dr. Twaddle's appt (4th floor). The elevator requires an Investigator skeleton key to operate. (DexterWard)

Tenants:
Dr. Rupert Twaddle – Maintains a personal apartment on the 4th floor.

Menes the Black Cat (Midnight) - Frequents the shop – He wanders in from the street, or from the back of the shop, or wherever. He's a glossy black, except for a white tip on his left ear. His eyes are brilliant green. Chip calls him Midnight (but the cat never responds to the name). He's well-fed, and keeps the rodent population under control. (Urson) Thurston maintains that Midnight has communicated with him, revealing his name is Menes and that in a past life he was a boy from the town of Ulthar in some foreign land. (Grognardsw)

Mr. Jangles - A solitary mouse. Enjoys a regular diet of crackers, grape jam, and potted meat that Wayne gives him. He is a spritely and clever little mouse that, perhaps due to superior nutrition, always seems to outrun and out-wit Midnight. (Bluehorse)

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Campaign map

Each marker has a pic with it (newspaper article, picture of building, etc.)
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