Little undead minions, Part 1

A while ago I picked up a string of these little guys. A skeleton garland for Halloween decorating. They're OK I guess but a little dull.

A bit of time with a razor saw, some brass rod, epoxy putty and some odd bits and pieces proves things.

Now this little guy is ready to his master's dastardly bidding, scouring around for reagents and ingredients for the dark lords experiments.

Eldritch Horticulture

There are some unexpected things out there, keeping the world around you a little bit weird. This poster for instance was on the wall of a cemetery I walked past this afternoon. I have no idea why or who put it there but I'm glad they did.

Science! (books)

I have a great fondness for old science textbooks and treatise. I find them fascinating, both the old obsolete theories and reading the birth of our current thinking.

They serve another very useful purpose though, one more relevant here. I've yet to meet someone who can recognize the female sexual apparatus of a crayfish when handed a diagram of said organ, so they're a great source of exquisite line drawings of both familiar and alien organs and body parts. The perfect thing for a mi-go manual.

Scroll of Learning

Apart from a few paper props this was my first attempt in creating something a bit more interesting. A small scroll carrying symbols from the Simon Necronomicon as a sort of proof of concept.


It's a simple of construction, a softwood dowel with a draw handle at each end, varnished, kicked about the back garden then varnished again for a bit of distress. The scroll itself is canvas painted with acrylics, scrunched up and dyed in tea.

As a prototype I'm fairly happy with it, cheap to make and a nice apart from the usual spell book an eldritch scroll will make a nice prop for a game once scrawled in Latin and embellished with some weird symbols.

It occurs to me a large wall scroll with some disturbing diagrams of lands and creatures beyond our imagination would be great in a gaming room.

Intro

I've recently set out on a mission to create a Call Of Cthulhu campaign of epic proportions. My intentions are to create a wealth of paper and more substantial props for the campaign. Here I'll share works in progress, ideas and hopefully a few finished articles.

Also included will be curiosities and the such which whilst not being CoC specifically may be a fine source of inspiration.