Auguste Du Bert was a painter of exceptional talent and ambition. He was also fortunate to live in Paris during the unprecedented peace
and prosperity it enjoyed between the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the beginning of The Great War. During this happy period of his life, in the early 1890s, August met the second great love of his life, Sophie. Sophie was a dancer in one of Paris’s many music halls. Theirs was a tumultuous love, full of sound and fury. Deep and tender affection one moment, raging hatred and shattered vases the next.
It was not to last—Sophie became ill. Doctors could not discover the cause of her malady, but it ate away at her piece by piece. Auguste’s soul went with it. On her death bed, Sophie promised Auguste that if there was an afterlife, she would find a way to get a message through to him—that their love would transcend death. Auguste was broken and bankrupt. Sophie was buried in a pauper’s grave and Auguste retired to a Paris slum to die at the bottom of a bottle of absinthe.
But then he began to change...
Landscapes Of The Lost Soul is a scenario for the Gaslight era of Call of Cthulhu by Mr Christian Grundel esq with the trail of clues taking investigators from London to Paris. It is designed for 3–5 investigators and should take a few nights to complete. It may be useful to have the new Cthulhu By Gaslight books by Chaosium Inc and Hudson & Brand: Inquiry Agents of the Obscure by Stygian Fox but are not necessary.
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