Penelope Love's Porphyry & Asphodel

In a forgotten corner of Earth’s dreamlands, a mysterious structure has appeared. A sprawling and oddly-shaped castle known only as “Sleep.”

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Meanwhile, in legend-haunted Arkham, a young girl lies in a Sanitorium bed from which she has not risen for five years. A tragic victim of the world-wide plague of “sleepy sickness.”

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These two developments, linked by unseen bonds spanning across dimensions, threaten the soul of a young dreamer and perhaps the very equilibrium of the Dreamlands themselves. Only by undertaking a desperate journey can dreamers hope to defeat the cruel machinations of a heartless god that fuel these terrible events in both the waking world and the realms of slumber.

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Featuring the most famous dream character and artefact depicted in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, Porphyry & Asphodel, is a classic Dreamlands quest scenario by one of Call of Cthulhu’s most passionate and accomplished writers.

Dare to revisit the Enchanted Forest . . .

Originally written in 1994 and published in the (text-based) online Chaosium Digest, this version entirely revamps and expands Penelope Love's original manuscript text, and sets it amid evocative period art. Provided in both a screen-friendly (texture rich) version and a high-contrast printer-friendly version.