Pyramid Review
Final Flight (for Call of Cthulhu
Published by Pagan Publishing
Written by John H. Crowe III
Cover by Richard Sardina
Illustrated by Marius Hamilton & Heather Hudson
30-page b&w softcover; $9.95
What's this?! A brand new release from Pagan Publishing that is most definitely not a reprint and arrives on the shelves at your local gaming store all but unannounced? It is not a supplement for Delta Green -- Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity is due soon though -- nor is it an anthology of scenarios like Mortal Coils,, or a campaign like The Realm of Shadows. It is, in fact, a single scenario, and also a bargain.
Written by John H. Crowe III (the author of both The Realm of Shadows and Walker in the Wastes), Final Flight is set in South America in 1938 with the investigators as passengers aboard a flight bound for Bogotá from Curaçao in the Dustch West Indies. As the scenario's cover shows -- in one big spoiler -- the flight is destined to come to a bad end. Crash landing in the Amazon basin, the passengers and crew of the Pan Caribbean Flight 101 will not only have to survive the perils of the jungle, but find their way back to civilization. This still leaves the question of how the passenger plane was brought down.
This is where the scenario gets interesting with a series of small but strange events hounding the flight and hinting at more to come. They culminate in the aftermath of the crash itself. Some of the passengers and crew are clearly dead, other injured, and a lucky . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: September 12, 2008
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