Berlin CoC 7e
WELCOME TO BERLIN!
Stepping off the train at Anhalter Station, you are plunged into a cacophony of sounds reverberating from the soaring, cathedral-like roof, crisscrossed with iron girders. All around you swirl fellow travelers from across Europe and around the world. Nearby, a legless veteran of the Great War, propped against the back of a ticket booth, shakes his cap at passersby, jingling the few coins within. His entreaties are ignored.
Dressed in a heavy frock coat and wearing an impressively ostentatious shako helmet, a policeman approaches.
“Auto, Droschke, oder Gepäck?” he asks. He is inquiring which mode of conveyance you require. You ask for a cab, and he hands you a metal ticket with a stamped number. Hefting your luggage, you walk out of the station, clutching your coat collar tight against the cold wind blowing in through the arches of the vast foyer with its ever-swinging doors.
The vista outside is even more bustling than the station within. The streets, still wet with the day’s earlier rain, gleam like glass in the darkness of the night, reflecting the neon and electric lights that adorn the gray buildings ringing the square. Cars compete for space with horse-drawn carriages
and double-decker omnibuses. Trains and trams rattle by on elevated platforms. Everywhere pedestrian traffic swarms: men and women, young and old. A newspaper vendor seated on a one-legged stool with several different papers hung around his neck shouts the day’s latest headlines: the value of the Reichsmark continues to fall and there is talk of an economic collapse.
You spot the cab with the number matching yours. Hurrying over, you hand the ticket to the cabbie and slide into the back. You give him the address of your ultimate destination: the Hundegustav, a cabaret of ill repute in north Berlin. Your contact there, a dissolute man known only as “The Anti-Franz,” has tracked down a fascinating old book he thinks might interest you.
Berlin - The Wicked City is a place full of vice, drugs and political intrigues with more than a little Mythos in the mix. This is a 7e Call of Cthulhu game based in Berlin between the wars. It is a mixture of hedonism and debauchery on the one hand and of political dog-fighting between Bolshevism and National Socialism on the other with all shades in between. Investigators can be natives of Berlin or can be incomers. You can be which ever political stripe takes your fancy but will need my approval beforehand to ensure there are not 2 opposing political views which stop the party being effective (or even just getting along). Although it is a criminal offence (but not one that is generally enforced) LGBT investigators are allowed, bear in mind that the rich and powerful can and will take advantage if necessary and use the law to thwart such investigators if they need to. The are a number of clubs, secret (and not so secret) societies that investigators might want to be members of. I will give more information during character generation. If you have a copy of Berlin the Wicked City you are at liberty to use it during character creation, if not I can give you a hand if required. Caution is advised in this game as the setting/time does have the likelihood of anti-semitic views. These are not my own personal views but fair warning is given that you may meet Joseph Goebbels and other proto-Nazis in the course of the game.
