The Handout to End All Handouts
The City Guide That Shatters Reality
At the end of the 19th century, an American art student went to Paris, read a play, and lost his grip on reality.
The play was called The King in Yellow.
Having read it, head reeling from absinthe, bedeviled by unseen adversaries, he realied that the alien world it described, Carcosa, has sunk its traces throughout the City of Lights.
Yoked together from existing travelogues, newspapers, and the disquieting ephemera of the occult tradition, it laid out a skewed portrait of a haunted city:
- Art student life, from hazing rituals to fabulous bacchanals at the Moulin Rouge
- Hangouts and nightspots, from everyday beaneries to ghoulish cabarets
- Neighborhoods and attractions, with useful maps
- Sources of knowledge, from museums to institutes of technology
- Operations of the justice system, from the city's police to its prisons
- Rites of death, from funeral fees to the notorious, bone-stacked catacombs.
- Details of everyday life, including currency, communications, and essential phrases
- A timeline of recent historical events
In the margins appear the increasinly fervid scrawls of the anonymous compiler. Through them determined investigators of the Yellow Sign mystery will learn:
- Who to see aid from
- Where madness lurks
- And to never waver in their distrust of clowns
Absinthe in Carcosa is an indispensable city guide for The Yellow King RPG and a stunning, full-colour visual artifact in its own right.
Give it to your players and let them find the mysteries of Paris.
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