The Red Room

A campaign for the role-playing game “Kult”

by Wojciech Krzymiński (2009)

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Introduction In 1518 the token fell into the hands of

The campaign takes place in Los
Angeles, July, 2009. It consists of three
scenarios, ordered chronologically, but the
game master can switch them or merge as
he sees it fit.
1 Pretty Corpses
2 The Collector
3 The Derlett Island
What is the Red Room?
Malkuth carved the Red Room out of
her own body and placed it between
Metropolis and the Illusion. It was a
labyrinthine stronghold with doors to many
places, thus Lictors could travel safely and
quickly. Malkuth gave them small objects,
made from her flesh. Those tokens allowed
the travellers to locate the Red Room
regardless of their current position. After
uttering a password the owner of the token
could enter the haven of Malkuth. In
addition, a black-skinned angel was
guarding the Red Room.
After the Malkuth’s rebellion other
Archons put the angelic guardian to sleep
and destroyed all tokens except for the one
that looks like a blood-red amber tear drop.
MLKVTh smuggled this token to Earth and
hid it in Rome. The Archons gave up the
search.
Isidoro García, a Spanish mercenary of
violent temper from Valencia. Isidoro found
the shrine, dedicated to the Great Mother
while he was hiding in the catacombs
beneath Rome. He left the Old World and
enlisted in the expedition force, led by
Hernán Cortés. Isidoro fought bravely in
the conquest of the Aztec empire. It seemed
that no arrow or blade could do serious
harm to him. García never showed the
strange “amber” drop to anyone, even to his
confessor. After his death in 1560 Emilio
Pablo de García, Isidoro’s only son, sold the
token to an eccentric collector who dabbled
in alchemy and astrology. That nobleman
died childless in his Californian estate forty
years later, his collection of rare books and
curiosities was taken over by the Roman
Catholic Church. The local bishop
authorized the destruction of the collection
but he retained the token, driven by an
unexplainable wish. Malkuth visited the
bishop in a dream as the Virgin Mary and
told him that it was a solidified blood of
Jesus Christ. However, she forbade the
bishop to show the drop to anyone lest the
Satan claims it for his own sinister purpose.
The token remained in the possession of
the archdiocese of Los Angeles until 1977
when Father Robert Howard, a secretary of
the archdiocese, stole it and wanted to sell
to cover his poker debts. Howard only
knew the token was precious but he At that
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moment Togarini became aware of the
token. The Death Angel sent Simon Reed, a
young and eager necromancer to recover
the token. Reed lured Father Howard to a
derelict motel and sacrificed him there; he
then arranged the priest’s body to suggest a
crime of passion. Since that time the token
has been in Reed’s hands.
Togarini against Thaumiel
the magician Simon Reed, prof. Wayne
Herbert, Joe Morgan
Tezcatlipoca, Jeffrey Allen Seyan, Carlos
Luis Royo, Christopher Pike, Smoking
Mirror Inc.
The Player Characters
It is preferable that the players create
new Player Characters (PCs) according to
the following requirements. The PCs belong
to various law enforcement agencies (the
police, FBI or even Department of
Homeland Security). They have substantial
work experience as they have been working
in the force for at least seven years.
These advantages are not available: Bête-
noir ally, Endomorphic body, Luck, Nodal
time perception, Old soul, Psychic power.
These disadvantages are not available:
Amnesia, Anxiety disorder, Asthma, Bad
Luck, Blindness, Cowardice, Deafness,
Haemophilia, Haemophobia, Hypo-
allergenic, Maimed, Mistaken identity,
Narcolepsy/Epilepsy, Persecuted, Split
personality, Socially inept, Symbiotic link,
Wanted.
The players have 250 skill points to
distribute for skills, modified by the Mental
Balance of their PCs.
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Each PC has to know following skills at
least on 5: Handguns* (AGL), Unarmed
Combat* (STR), Drive (PER), Languages:
Latin, Spanish (EGO), First Aid (EGO),
Forensics (PER), Information Retrieval
(EGO), Meditation (EGO), Occultism (EGO),
Survival (EGO), Written Report (EGO),
Humanities (EDU): Anthropology or
Religion, Psychology, Natural Sciences
(EDU), Social Sciences: Law.
1: Pretty Corpses
[introductory fiction, a panorama of L.A.]
In year 1988 had Togarini sent the
necromancer Simon Reed, to gather
followers in the Illusion. Reed chose L. A. as
the base of operations, specifically the
territory of the Mexican Mafia. He offered
his services as a fortune teller and torturer
to the gang. The Mafia bosses were
impressed with Reed’s magical abilities,
thus he gained respect and some influence
in the criminal world. Five years after
beginning of the co-operation with the MM
Reed founded a gang called “the Sugar
Heads.” The gang is focused on performing
sacrifices to Mictlantecuhtli, Lord of the
Dead. However, their activity has been
noticed by Tezcatlipoca, an Incarnate of
ThML. The Smoking Mirror moved the
police and FBI against Reed but they could
not find him. He finally commanded Seyan
and Royo to destroy the Reed’s gang.
The Sugar Heads and Reed committed
seven ritual murders this year. They
adorned corpses with flowers and offerings
such as feathers or jewellery. All victims
were attractive young people; the most
famous victims is a young, promising
gangsta rapper called “Black Hound.”
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The Summary of Events
1 The briefing on 12 July 2009 (Saturday):
Carmen Ruiz, the Los Angeles City
Attorney, calls the PCs to a meeting. He
explains to them that he decided to create a
task force because of seven strange
murders. The City Attorney has been
elected a week ago, thus he is anxious to
resolve the murder cases quickly and
discreetly. No contact with the mass media
is allowed.
2 seven victims and their murky past
3 Carlos Luis Royo calls a PC and proposes
to meet in the “Fleshbot,” a porno cinema.
Royo tells the PC about the villa in
Pasadena where the Sugar Heads have their
base. Royo is a werejaguar but not an
Oaxici. He hints at true identity of the
priest, telling the PCs to “search for a reed.”
[Regeneration, Lore of Death 12]
4 The final confrontation: The first
adventure ends with the violent
confrontation between the Sugar Heads and
the PCs in the Angeles National Forest.
2: The Collector
On 23 July 2009 Carmen Ruiz, the Los
Angeles City Attorney, calls a meeting to
present the PCs with a fresh case. Three
wealthy collectors and antiquarians were
killed in the same gruesome way – the
murderer cut the heart out. The City
Attorney decided to give the case to the PCs
right away because it is quite similar to the
previous one.
On 19 July 2009, about a quarter past
midnight, Ethan Mapother was killed in the
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storage room of his book shop in Los Feliz
(near the Griffith Park). The murderer
stunned Mapother with a blunt object and
bound him with rope to the desk, then he
cut the heart out with an obsidian knife. At
twelve noon a customer who had an
appointment with Mapother discovered the
body (the door was not shut).
On 20 July a cleaning lady visited the
apartment of Benjamin Linus as usual at 20
o’clock on each Monday. She found Linus’
body in his study, he was lying on his back
on the floor. The murderer used the same
technique as before to remove the heart.
Linus’ apartment is in Yarmouth Avenue in
the district Granada Hills.
Danielle Boone was ambushed while she
was bathing. She died at 16 o’clock. Her
lover Miriam Horovitz found her on 21 July
2009 two hours later. The killer cut out the
heart and left the body in the bath tub.
The three victims knew each other very
well because they were business partners
and friends. They operated in a common
niche in the antiquarian market: the
Mesoamerican cultures. From 1971 to 1975
Mapother, Linus and Boone lived on the
Derlett Island and heard lectures of the
mystic and anthropologist August Derlett.
They frequently contacted with him and
this caused their demise. The necromancer
Simon Reed also lived then on the Island
but he quarrelled with August and left the
Island after a year.
Mrs. Boone lived in a fancy house in
Beverly Hills. Her house is full of figurines
and masks from different cultures. If the
PCs search the living room diligently they
will find a hidden compartment in the bed.
There is a wooden box with one hundred
photos that Boone had shot while living on
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the Derlett Island. The black-white photos

depict Boone, Mapother, Linus, Simon Reed
and about ten other young people playing
on a beach or dancing naked around a
bonfire at night. Among them is a tall man
in his prime, wearing a long grey robe. The
man’s dark hair is cut short, he looks
straight into the camera. It is August Derlett;
the full description of him is in the third
scenario – “The Island.”
One can find faint tracks of a big
predatory cat on each crime scene. It was
Carlos Luis Royo in his jaguar shape who
committed the three murders. He sacrificed
the victims to the dark and mighty god
Tezcatlipoca. Royo acted under the
guidance of his master, Jeremy Allen Seyan,
who communicates with the Smoking
Mirror directly. The god commanded to
silence the three antiquarians because
August Derlett disclosed to them the truth
about the Smoking Mirror – that he is but an
aspect of a greater power. Derlett is next on
the hit list but he is not as vulnerable as the
antiquarians.

3: The Island
August Derlett has not left his island for
twenty years. He dismissed all his disciples
but he maintained strong contact with three
of them: Ethan Mapother, Benjamin Linus
and Danielle Boone. He often told them his
visions