This is a book of scenarios for the s version of Call of Cthulhu. If you are a Delta Green or Call of Cthulhu player you may wish to ask your Keeper if they intend to run any scenarios in that book before reading this write-up, as pertinent scenario information will be revealed. After the spinning stopped and the swirling mist disappeared, Agent MORGAN found himself before a buffet table in an opulent room filled with fine, late 19th Century furniture.
A dozen occupants in evening dress milled about, while several servants brought them champagne and hors d'oeuvres. A string quartet in a corner of the room played Schubert. The soothing feeling came from the body he now inhabited.
Memories that weren't his came to him, unbidden. Freiburg owned an antique shop in a high class commercial district of Vienna, Austria. He was attending an auction late one night in November, Austria was suffering from the results of The Great War.
Inflation had devalued the kroner to the point where the preferred currency was the British pound. This auction was a sign of the times. They included the effects of a once-wealthy Austrians who now had to divest their property for hard cash. The auction was to be conducted in pounds sterling. The auction was being held at the Auspberg House, a fine, upstanding establishment with impeccable credentials. In his hand was a copy of this evening's Ausperghaus catalog. The catalog listed the event as a "Special Auction of Occult Paraphernalia".
There were 17 lots up for bid:. Freiburg had been approached by one Monsieur Pappineau, a Frenchman who came to Austria to acquire a particular Tarot deck, lot 9 in the Ausperghaus auction.
