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The Kerberos Club
A
Wild Talents
Sourcebook of Strange Victorian Adventure
respectively. The One-Roll Engine is © Greg Stolze. The
Wild Talents
rules are © Dennis Detwiller, Kenneth Hite,
Shane Ivey, and Greg Stolze. Edited by Shane Ivey and Jess Nevins, with copy editing by Sarah Baugh and Joe Crowe.
Page design by Fred Hicks and Shane Ivey.
Special thanks to Jason Hockley, John Marron, Jakob Pape, Shawn O’Steen and Rowdy Scarlett for proofreading and
playtesting.
This is a work of fiction. Any similarity with actual people and events, past or present, is purely coincidental and
unintentional except for those people and events described in historical context.
No portion of this work may be reproduced by any means without the express written permission of the copyright
holders. All rights reserved worldwide by their respective holders.
The Kerberos Club
Arc Dream Publishing
12215 Highway 11, Chelsea, AL 35043, U.S.A.
ISBN 978-098188264-2
Stock number ARC2003
First printing, 2009
www.arcdream.com
THE KERBEROS CLUB
is written by Benjamin Baugh, © 2009. Illustrated by Todd Shearer and Lanny Liu, © 2009
Contents
Introduction ...................................................... 6
How to Use This Book ............................................. 8
Superheroic History ................................................. 9
Who Are the Characters
and What Do They Do? ......................................... 10
The World in Brief ................................................. 11
“Touched by a Strangeness”................................ 12
Ripped From the Headlines ...................................13
Unnatural History.............................................. 14
The Scope of This Book .................................... 14
. . . Doomed to Repeat It ........................................14
References, Resources and Inspirations .................. 15
Non-Fiction ....................................................... 15
Fiction ............................................................... 15
Comics............................................................... 16
Roleplaying Games ............................................ 16
Movies ............................................................... 17
TV ..................................................................... 17
The Web ............................................................ 17
Chapter 1: The Kerberos Club ........................... 18
Welcome to the Kerberos Club .............................. 20
Cloak of Lies, Waistcoat of Obscurity,
and Opera Hat of Exaggeration ......................... 21
Origins Mysterious ............................................ 22
The Purpose of the Club .................................... 22
I Shall Dine at the Club Tonight, My Dear ............23
The Charter, the Rolls, and Grand Old Tradition ... 24
The Three Laws of the Club ....................................25
Running the Challenge ...................................... 26
The Traditions as Plot Device.................................26
After the Challenge ........................................... 26
The Lost ................................................................27
Filthy Lucre ....................................................... 27
Beneath Stairs: Playing the Help ............................28
Age Before Beauty ............................................. 29
Madness to the Method ......................................... 30
Spies, Damned Spies, and Informers .......................31
For Queen and Country..................................... 32
Gentlemen, the Queen! ..........................................32
Through the Eyes of the Common Man ............ 33
Unwanted Admirers ..............................................35
The Kennels ........................................................... 36
Cluttered With Strangeness............................... 37
Evenings at the Club ......................................... 39
Enemies Foreign and Domestic ............................. 40
Borrowed Wonders ................................................40
Special Branch ................................................... 41
The Oxford Movement ...................................... 43
Le Société Scientifique ...................................... 44
Section Seven..................................................... 44
The Americans ................................................... 46
Mint Juleps and Mass Murder ...............................47
Schweigsame Übereinstimmung ........................ 48
Famous Members, Associates and Rivals ............... 48
Richard Dadd .................................................... 48
Lady Ada Lovelace ............................................ 49
Christina Georgiana Rossetti ............................. 52
The Turk ............................................................ 53
Joseph Carey Merrick
(AKA The Elephantine Man) ............................ 56
Tides of Change:
The Club Through the Century .............................. 57
Early (1800 to 1849) .......................................... 57
A Favorite Scapegoat .............................................58
Middle (1850 to 1879) ....................................... 59
Late (1880 to 1901) ........................................... 60
A Modern Geek’s Perspective ......................................63

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