CoC A Handful of Dust.pdf

A Delta Green Scenario for the Call of Cthulhu Role-Playing Game

INTRODUCTION............................ Page 5

PROLOGUE................................ Page 9

FBI Headquarters, Washington DC

PART ONE................................ Page 13

Powel, Highway 54, New Mexico

PART TWO................................ Page 23

Calvin’s Ranch, Powell, New Mexico

EPILOGUE................................ Page 33

Well of Rhagorthua, Powell, New Mexico

STATISTICS.............................. Page 34

HANDOUTS................................ Page 36

rial by Paul Maclean. Published by Yog-Sothoth.com.

This adventure was originally presented as a tournament model at Conquest 1994, Melbourne, Australia for The Cthulhu Conglomerate .

Liam Routt and Judy Routt of Darcsyde Productions performed the editorial on the tournament edition. A Handful of Dust was originally an

adventure concerning an FBI investigation and predated Delta Green, so the references to Pagan Publishing’s creation were only added later

in this edition. Thanks go to Paul Maclean, Liam Routt, David Witteveen and Peter Tracy who assisted with this scenario.

Call of Cthulhu is the Registered Trademark of Chaosium Inc., for their role-playing game of horror and wonder, and is use with their per-

mission. Chaosium Inc. is the Registered Trademark of Chaosium Inc.

The intellectual property known as Delta Green is TM and © the Delta Green Partnership. All material in this scenario is considered unofficial

and non-canon in the world of Delta Green, although every attempt has been made to check existing facts and conform to the published

world view. It is up to individual Keepers what material they shall incorporated into their view of Delta Green.

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It is Monday morning, the 16th of July 1945. The dim pre-

dawn advances across the vast desert as some of the world’s

greatest scientific minds and highest ranking officers in the

United States military gather at a remote location many miles

outside of Alamogordo, New Mexico. They wait just beyond

the marked danger perimeter, believing that they are distant

enough to be safe, assuming that the whole atmosphere of the

earth does not ignite as a result of their deadly experiment.

All eyes are glued a lone tower in the centre of the zone.

They all know the site by its name: Trinity.

Rain has postponed the test once already. If the test

cannot be completed before dawn, then the experiment will

have to be postponed until the following night. Each delay

delays the end of the War in the Pacific and the final defeat

of the last Axis Power. With less than an hour to go the

weather finally clears, a decision is made to proceed and the

announcement is made. Sirens howl a last warning as the re-

stricted area is cleared. At 5:30am the night sky is lit up as if

by day. There is a flash of light from an expanding bubble of

pure energy. From behind the blinding heat wave rises a huge

cloud of vaporised matter that ejects radioactive dust into the

atmosphere and down across the desert like black rain. The

energy of the sun burns briefly on the surface of the earth as

the first atomic bomb in human history is detonated. The

world moves into the atomic age.

In the earth, deep in a well that leads to the underworld

of Indian legend, something not of the earth stirs in its slum-

ber. After millions of years in a death-like state a Great Old

One is awakening. The stars are not yet right, it can feel that,

but it knows that its time is near…

twenty kilotons of atomic power and used that energy to par-

tially free itself from its prison. It sent out radioactive winds

bearing a call for someone to fully free it and still waits for

assistance nearly sixty years on. But Rhagorthua is patient,

and centuries mean nothing after aeons of imprisonment, it

can wait a few decades more.

More than 30 years before these events and half a con-

tinent away in Arkham Massachusetts, a coven of witches

was being reformed, and old members were being brought

back from the dead to teach the new members the ways of

their order. They called themselves The New Coven of Sa-

lem, many members of which were descendants of witches

from the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and those that followed

later in Arkham of old. The New Coven worshipped Nyar-

lathotep in his guise as the Black Man. In return, the Outer

God granted the witches powers and magic beyond their

wildest dreams and the sane limitations of their minds.

In the latter part of 1939 the Arkham Police, with the

help of two private investigators Harrison Zamsky and

Roger Shaw uncovered the Coven’s activities. After several

raids and arrests the Coven was closed down. The leaders of

the Coven disappeared and nothing was heard of them again

until recently when the Coven seemed once again to undergo

a resurgence in Arkham. (For more information on these

events, Keepers are referred to the Witch Cycle Part I –

Devil’s Children .)

One of the surviving descendants of the New Coven

of Salem was Maurice Calvin, who was only a young boy

during the raids of 1939. After he was taken away from his

parents during the arrests, he was sent to an orphanage in

Arkham where he spent the remainder of his childhood. His

parents died in prison, but Calvin secretly kept the Coven’s

traditions alive by continuing to worship Nyarlathotep on the

dark nights on the witches’ sacred days.

As an adult Calvin completed a degree in psychiatry

at Miskatonic University in Arkham and for a time he led a

relatively unremarkable life, running a small psychiatric

practice. Occasionally he would sacrifice animals to Nyar-

lathotep and conducted rituals honouring the god’s name,

but he was reluctant to take more daring steps, such as sacri-

ficing humans.

This all changed two years ago when he was con-

tacted by a group of four new witches who were intent on

reviving the old Coven. Calvin was informed by these

Background

Rhagorthua is a Great Old One trapped in a death-like state,

waiting for the day when the stars are right and it can return.

Its prison is a bottomless well in the desert of New Mexico.

The Navajo, Apache and Hopi Indians believe the well is one

of the many entries to the underworld from where all Indian

tribes originated, although none would venture there again

because of the evil nature of the inhabitant.

However, in the early morning of 16 July 1945,

Rhagorthua was prematurely awakened by the Trinity atomic

blast of the Manhattan Project. The Great Old One absorbed

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