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Padded Cell
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"Husband and wife were committed to Roxbury Sanitarium, a few miles from Boston. Vittorio is still quite mad, and an interview with the mumbling, huddled man uncovers nothing. Gabriela is conscious and approachable, but has little to say. An evil presence lives in their house, one of which she hates to think of. At night she would sometimes wake to find it leaning over her..."
Adapted from "The Haunting"
Chaosium Inc. 2004
Of course it was my intention to make a series of maps for Roxbury, the grounds, the building with its bleak corridors and dark forbidding rooms, but I ended up with just the one map. This was just a test piece in the beginning, a test to see if I could do a menacing piece, handrawn because I am completely befuddled by 3d software. I think I realised something in creating it, the maps were not the main focus to constructing a Call of Cthulhu adventure, yes they could set the scene, create the atmosphere, but the props were more important. Those essential clues gathered in the game, now that would be a challenge...
So the maps for this adventure became snapshots, very minimal, but always dark, scary and I hope somehow subtly unnerving...
