When a Turing-Lovecraft Gate to a parallel universe opens up in an apartment above the local Chelsea Girl shop , Her Majesty’s Extra-Secret Service are scrambled into their XR3i’s* to investigate…
The year is 1985. You are new members of Her Majesty’s Extra-Secret Service, Group Codename ‘Blondie’, about to embark on your first mission. Your job remit is to investigate any discoveries of the Turing –Lovecraft Theorem, and suppress them. Tonight, somebody has unexpectedly discovered a derivation of the theorem, and a Gate has opened up in downtown Middleriver. Even worse, the resident Schrodinger’s Cat has just had three to five kittens.
You prepare your gear, and start to head out, only to be stopped by a senior member of the Accounts Department (a.k.a. roving Gruppenfuhrers Inc. ) who has found several gross anomalies during this evenings scheduled audit.
Time to use that field training to talk your way out of this, and do some REAL work !
Game Notes :
[1] Set in the UK during the 1980’s this scenario is open to beginners, and experienced players alike.
[2] Contains background elements as detailed in Charles Stross’ ‘Laundry’ novels, although no prior reading is necessary.
[3] The pop group ‘Blondie’ does not exist in this alternate reality, however, your team, in appearance at least are identical. Everything else, is ‘our’ 1980’s.
*fully equipped with a car phone that tunes perfectly into Radio Luxembourg, a load of loose change for phone box calls, a ZX Spectrum, several Interfaces , Epson dot matrix printer, Kempston joystick, cassette recorder, Laundry specific software on C15, C30, C60, C90 and C120 tapes [ Chromium Dioxode – Oh yes ! ] a pocket sized Sinclair MTV-1 televison, and a backpack containing a huge battery to charge it all whilst sans car cigarette lighter. Lastly, enough wiring, plugs and leads to make a small model of your favourite Great Old One. The manuals have been lost, but the first ten issues of CRASH are there with some readers programs in. You never know…