[That's it! The rest of the magazine was taken up with "Within You Without You," which you'll find in THE RESURRECTED VOLUME TWO: OF KEYS & GATES. I suppose this may not seem like much (about 13,000 words) but that was TUO 1 (minus, as I wrote, a couple of things). Conspicuously absent is the…
TUO 1
TUO 1: Creating and Using Mythos Tomes
©1990 John Tynes [Sigh again. I wanted to encourage people to send in rules-oriented articles, so I wrote one. This system for creating tomes is one that I created for TUO1. I never used the darn thing. Why bother? It more or less works, at least as a good guideline. Just one of those useless…
TUO 1: A Tale of Terror: Little Death
©1990 Steve Hatherley [This needs some explanation. The original edition of TUO1 did not have this piece in it; Steve sent it in after he read the first edition. In the first mass-market (i.e. more than 100 copies) edition I added this piece to the magazine. Steve had published a booklet collecting dozens of Tales…
TUO 1: The Road to Hali
©1990 John Tynes [Hoo boy. For the better part of a year (during which time Pagan Publishing was born) I was experiencing a period of profound mental instability and depression. For a time I believed that the following was real, in some strange way I can no longer grasp. I suppose this means that I'm…
TUO 1: New for Cthulhu
©1990 John Tynes [A review section of sorts. Unremarkable and too brief.] The past several months have seen a flurry of activity in the Call of Cthulhu game. Below are capsule reviews of six recent products: Mansions of Madness, from Chaosium, is a compilation of five new 1920′s scenarios, all of which involve mysterious buildings.…
TUO 1: Good Tidings From Shantak Claus
©1990 John Tynes [I wrote most of the first issue myself, having almost no one to draw on. This was your typical Cthulhu filk song kind of thing. Sigh.] Here’s something truly unspeakable. Perhaps players can sing this as they take a sleigh-ride into the peaceful little town of Solace, Massachusetts, as seen in the…
TUO 1: The Dread Page of Azathoth
©1990 John Tynes [This is your basic editor's column. Originally, I'd planned to use it for convention announcements and miscellaneous garbage after the first issue was released, but it has remained a very personal soapbox for me and my views, however ludicrous. It is unabashedly inspired by "The Cosmic Streetcorner," a column in my all-time-favorite…
Introduction to TUO 1
©1993 John Tynes The Unspeakable Oath owes its existence to Jeff Carey, a Cthulhu keeper of renown and stature (he even appears as a villain in the first scenario in Chaosium’s ADVENTURES IN ARKHAM COUNTRY book!). At GenCon 1990 I played in Jeff’s “Journey Into Darkness” adventure and afterwards received a broadcast letter from him…
The Annotated Unspeakable Oath, Issue 1
(It was the first issue, so I had to write a lot of it myself, okay?) Introduction to The Annotated Unspeakable Oath by John Tynes Introduction to TUO 1 by John Tynes The Dread Page of Azathoth by John Tynes Good Tidings From Shantak Claus by John Tynes New for Cthulhu by John Tynes The…
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