From publisher blurb:
“It was the ultimate product of ... cannibal nutrition above and below the ground; the
embodiment of all the snarling and chaos and grinning fear that lurk behind life”
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“Physiology of Acquired Taste” is a thrilling investigative scenario of Cthulhu Mythos horror, set in 1830 in the months following the infamous "Three Days in July", sometimes called the Second French Revolutions. It can be played with access to just the open-source Cthulhu Eternal Age of Revolutions SRD, which (for convenience) we have bundled with the scenario. The adventure also comes with digital versions of all props and maps, to make it easier to run on a VTT of your preference.
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About The Scenario: Life in France in the turbulent days after the July Revolution is dominated by factional conflicts -- some remain loyal to the ultra-traditionalist King Charles X, who was forced to abdicate to make way for his more inclusive replacement, the Orleanist King Louis-Philippe. Others still retain loyalty to the defeated Emperor Napoléon ... and others still strive for a true Republic of the kind that existed in the days just after the original revolution in 1789.
In the North-Eastern city of Reims, all these factional concerns are part of normal daily life ... but in recent days life in the city has been anything but normal. Wild stories have circulated for some time about a Werewolf that haunts the streets of town after dark, snatching up animals and waifs to serve as its supper. More recently still, a bizarre tale has emerged of a wagon laden with corpses -- each hidden inside a hessian sack -- found abandoned on the road North of town, seemingly left after its axel broke.
What horrifying secret or secrets lie behind these baffling ... and frankly disturbing ... rumors and discoveries? Is this the work of bodysnatchers in the style of the English "resurrectionists" Burke and Hare? Has a curse descended on Reims born out of the horrors of the recent Revolution? Or from the bloody Napoleonic wars that preceded it? Or the grisly Reign of Terror that accompanied the first revolution? Certainly France has suffered more than its share of terrors over the past 50 years ... but none of them came - like this one - in darkness with slavering jaws.