Trail of Cthulhu: Sisters of Sorrow Released from Pelgrane Press

Oct 29, 2012

A new adventure for Trail of Cthulhu from Pelgrane Press has been released on RPGNow. In Sisters of Sorrow, The crew of German U-boat UC-12, is sent on a standard mission; penetrate the North Sea defensive zone, make their way to Tyneside, lay their mines and return. But nothing in the Great War is that simple. While underwater, the crew start to hear a strange, muffled booming noise, ringing like a sequence of church bells. It’s not whales. It’s not enemy forces. Something else is down here. While settled on the sea floor to get some much-needed rest, the crew starts to act suspiciously. Someone is up to no good. The ship’s cat disappears and a strange weed is found growing on board.

Then the tapping on the hull begins.

Sisters of Sorrow seems to have it’s origins in the HP Lovecraft short Story, The Temple, in which a German U-boat brings aboard a strange idol found on the lifeless body of a crewman found clinging to the sub after sinking a British freighter. Things begin to go badly when the crew has horrible nightmares and see the dead crew of the British freighter watching them through the portholes.

The commanding officer begins whipping and executing members of the crew that begin to go mad, a mutiny is stages, the U-Boat is disabled, and begins to drift toward a nightmare of a city at the bottom of the ocean.

It is an excellent short story that hasn’t had much attention over the years, hopefully the adventure is just as well done. Sisters of Sorrow is available now for $6.95 on RPGNow.