Berlin - The Wicked City

**Berlin - The Wicked City** (ang. *Berlin - Zepsute Miasto*) jest podręcznikiem historycznym, sceneryjnym, osadzonym w scenerii 1920, do 7 edycji Zewu Cthulhu wydanym przez Chaosium w 2019. Podtytuł podręcznika brzmi *Unveiling the mythos in Weimar Berlin* (ang. *Odkrywanie Mitów z weimarskim Berlinie*).

Polskie wydanie podręcznika planowane jest na rok 2021.[1]

## Opis z okładki

W pokłosiu Wielkiej Wojny, Berlin zyskał opinię rozwiązłego miasta. Miejsca gdzie za odpowiednią cenę można dostać wszystko. Jest to miasto zarówno hedonizmu jak i biznesu; ulice przepełniają kalecy weterani, prostytutki, nędzni imigranci i polityczni agitatorzy - spotykają się ze staromodnymi biznesmenami, uczonymi i artystami. Rynsztoki spływają krwią politycznych zabójstw, kiedy to Komuniści i volkijscy Nacjonaliści zderzają się zarówno ze sobą, jak i z policją. Późną nocą najsławniejsze kabarety Berlina oferują muzykę, taniec i podniecającą rozrywkę surowo kontrastującą z szarymi budynkami ciągnącymi się bezkresnymi kilometrami pośród uliczek bezkresnego miasta.

Into this bubbling stew, Berlin: The Wicked City introduces
the weird elements of the Cthulhu Mythos. A hotbed of occult
organizations, strange cults, and half-whispered lore. Amid the
wicked air of the world’s capital of sin, the very nature of what it
means to be human is questioned. And, as the city hurtles toward its
inevitable dark destiny, the oppressive atmosphere pushes the sanity
of investigators to its breaking point.

This book presents an overview of 1920s Berlin as it would be
experienced by visitors and residents of the time. Guidelines are
presented for creating investigators for a Berlin-centric campaign,
as well as investigator organizations to help bind groups together.
Notable personalities, key locations, and a system for generating
details of the urban landscape on the fly are provided. With crime
and punishment, the city’s underworld, and also its high culture
detailed, the tools provided help the Keeper gain an understanding
of what makes Berlin unique.

Three scenarios are included, spanning the events and history of
Berlin between the end of the Great War and the rise of Adolf Hitler
and the Nazi Party. Each contains colorful details of Berlin and its
inhabitants, focusing on differing themes of horror, and may be run
together as a Berlin-centered campaign or as stand alone adventures
for either Berlin residents or visitors to the city.

In The Devil Eats Flies Germany teeters on the brink of economic
ruin and political chaos. The ghost of a madman stalks the city,
turning its own citizenry against itself. To stop a demonic spirit
and save a Russian princess in exile, the investigators must strike a
bargain with other sinister forces and ask themselves: who else are we
prepared to see die in order to save the city?

Dances of Vice, Horror, and Ecstasy takes place in the city’s golden
years, when things have become superficially stable and prosperous
again. A bungling sorcerer, a debauched dancer, and a strange cult of
gnostic Saturn-worshippers threaten to put all of that to an end and
turn Berlin into a pit of madness and depravity.

Schreckfilm sees Berlin racing toward its grim future. The
investigators come face to face with a shadowy cabal of the city’s
movers and shakers who are determined to turn the city’s worldfamous
film industry toward ill ends. Trapped in a labyrinth of their
own making and hounded relentlessly by dark forces beyond their
ken, the investigators must confront the fundamental question of
what is real and what is illusion.