Call of Cthulhu LCG

Ye Essential Saltes

The following are entries from an anonymous diary found in a Boston second-hand book store.

January 29th, 1925.
Here we are, finally arrived in Arkham. The house is much larger than our townhouse back in Boston but we shall just have to spread ourselves out. Lucy, our beautiful Siamese, has settled in already. She has found herself a new favourite patch in the sun on the window sill. It is Charles’ first day at the new shop tomorrow and he is a little nervous, but I have told him Mr Hutchinson is sure to be very pleased with him.

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Fhtagn!

Arkham Sanitarium Patient No. 1652: Carter, R.
Case file: March 1, 1925.
Transcript of handwritten note found in empty cell.
Patient missing, whereabouts unknown.

Mankind’s oldest fear is fear of the unknown. While the familiar and the mundane offer comfort and safety, the Other always lurks menacingly at the edges of our thoughts. The unknown can be found in many places, in strange streets where the faces are unfamiliar and no one meets your gaze, or in dim-lit grottos where eerie fungi grow and the air is heavy with a miasma that clouds the mind, or on bleak cold-swept plains where nothing has ever grown nor ever will and yet the shrill cries of unnamed birds echo disturbingly, or in cosmic voids of limitless space where the Outer Gods play and laugh and dance to the thin hideous piping of a nightmare flute.

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More non-Euclidean goodness

I got a Bag-O’-Cthulhu.

The figurines are stored in a separate dimension and accessed through a portal within the plastic bag.

While watching some videos of Call of Cthulhu tournament games on The You-Tube, I saw people were playing with tiny little Cthulhus as their domain markers, and not the large ones that come with the core set.

A little research later and this bag of cyclopean fun was winging its way to me.

It is a real thing: A bag of Cthulhu. You get six regular large Cthulhus and twenty-four tiny little Cthulhus!

The little ones are great for using in games, and they don’t take up as much room in the box, which leaves more space for cards.

I now have far too many of the big Cthulhus what with all those that came with the card game core set, but I can probably re-use them in any number of other games.

Here they are, when manifested fully into our dimension:

Great Old Ones up the wazoo. Aren’t they cute?

Of course, one cannot just send rabid lunacy through the post without the proper health and safety warnings. See the age warnings on the back of the label: