Call of Cthulhu: Turn of a New Leaf - Session 20
Session 20: This session finds Jim Calloway, a highly-respected hitman for the O'Shaughnessy mob forced into semi-retirement by leukemia, tracking down the crime reporter, Callum McInnes, with the lean and deadly young killer who is gunning for his job. As the clock ticks the dead continue to rise to massacre his friends and mad talk of miracle healings and a new way to live spreads through the hungry streets of Boston.
Setting: Now featuring a trio of investigators and three independent solo investigations, this campaign is set in Boston in 1931 using the 6th edition of @ChaosiumInc 's Call of Cthulhu. Turn of a New Leaf opened with a struggling reporter for the Boston Globe being sent after hours to get information from a contact and old friend, then continued with the addition of a true crime reporter to document the impossible details surrounding the case. This pair, after witnessing impossible things sought out a learned antiquarian of their acquaintance to help them figure out what - if anything - they could do to extricate themselves from peril and more importantly, rescue Albert Gavigan from whatever abductor has him in thrall...
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The Turn of a New Leaf Campaign: Branch 1
Boston Post cub reporter Terrence McSweeney and his friend in journalism, Callum McInnes, a true crime photographer, searched for the vanished Albert Gavigan and the curious impossibilities of the book the maimed socialite left behind, with the aid of Alfred Smalls, a local Antiques Dealer. [Investigation 1 complete! Sessions 1-4, 6, 7, 10, 11, and 13. Investigation 2 is in progress and its sessions are in the editing queue now].
The Turn of a New Leaf Campaign: Branch 2
Alex Thornton, Treasury Agent assigned to Boston's Prohibition Bureau, wrestles with dark questions raised by the sudden overturn of the O'Shaughnessy Mob's hold on Boston's docks by the mysterious Morgan Outfit. His trail leads from missing books to missing persons to murder and massacre. [Play of Investigation 1 is complete! Sessions 5, 8, 9, 12, and 16 with more in the editing queue. Play of Investigation 2 has begun.]
The Turn of a New Leaf Campaign: Branch 3
Edward Call, Jr., a troubled man unsure of where and when he is meets personal demons in the form of a friend's request to use his psychiatric knowledge to help solve a horrifying case of mass murder in Boston's underworld. [Investigation 1 begins in Session 15]
The Turn of a New Leaf Campaign: Branch 4
Drawn from Boston's violent underworld, Jim 'Jimmy' Calloway, wrestles with death and the dead, from within and without. What really happened to Mickey O'Shaughnessy? Who sent former-cripple, Old Lou Malone, to kill The Boss? What can be done about any of it if all you know is killing and the sands of your own life are quickly running out?
The Turn of a New Leaf: Branch 5
Currently merged with Branch 1!
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