[Britannia-pendragon] The Laundry Files

[Andrew Daborn]

Hi all,

The Pendragon campaign is coming to an end (it's going to be bloody!) and will be over within the next session or two.  It seems I will be running the following game and so I thought I would send out an email around with some background so you can start thinking about it.    So far we've established we'll be playing The Laundry Files, a horror-espionage game based on the series of stories by Charles Stross.  

The premise of the setting is that firstly Lovecraft 's mythos is real, giant tentacled monsters from the nth dimension are going to eat you and secondly that whilst breaking the Enigma code during WWII Alan Turing discovered that magic is just really advanced maths and with the right equations or computer programs you can change reality.  In the early 20th Century in response to these revelations governments set occult espionage agencies to manage the threats of magic and monstrous
aliens.  You'll be playing agents from on of these organisations, I was thinking of setting it in Australia in a small, underfunded sub-directorate of ASNO.  Have a think about what kind of characters you would like to play.  People are usually employed after having some contact with the supernatural during their previous job (police officer, systems analyst, phd student), bound by powerful spells and legal threats into secrecy and given a new role by the government.  If you want to have a look through the rules attached I recommend the sections on background and character generation.  Please don't read the scenarios at the end - I will be using them and it would probably spoil your enjoyment.

Rodney is happy to share the rules pdf with players, and will be handing out CDs with it on next week - thank you! The official website has (better explained) background and a useful character sheet download to play with. 

If you would like to do some background reading for the setting Charles Stross has a number of stories in his Laundry Files series.  The books are pretty easy to come by in libraries/book shops etc. There are two free short stories available online, The Concrete Jungle, and Overtime. Anything by Len Deighton is probably solid reading too.  

Please let me know what you think or if there is anything you would like to play in this sort of setting.

Regards

Andrew



 		 	   		  
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