Walker in the Wastes - Keepers only


You've reached the Walker in the Wastes resource site. Since this is intended mainly as a resource collection, I'll make it quick and just index the files that are lying around here.

Newer documents will be added on top, so that old hands can find what they're looking for faster.

If you're a player and not the Keeper, I'm sure your Keeper would think that this is a good time to go browse somewhere else.

By the way, some interesting news. I think I've finally located someone who can convert Blair's diary to PDF. Hopefully I'll be able to translate it in the next couple of weeks.
NEW! Dead of Winter Maps 181kb Two high-resolution images detailing alternative maps for Dead of Winter, created and submitted by Boris Lohmann. The zip file includes a detailed explanation of the ship drift route and a text file explaining the nomenclature.

Expedition Information: The Artic 614kb A PDF doucment with information on the artic, suitable as a handout for your players before they get to the prologue. Created and submitted by Morten Kjeldseth Pettersen.

Exploration of the Artic Regions 604kb A pretty good looking PDF document with information on exploration of the artic regions, Lord Franklin, the Inuit and what not, created and submitted by Morten Kjeldseth Pettersen.

Reinhold Blair's diary 39kb A document created collaboratively on the Walker in the Wastes mailing list intended to be used as Reinhold Blair's diary. It's a zipped RTF file, and here are the fonts for it.

Right now it contains segments by Ricardo Christe and Ricardo J. Méndez, and submissions are welcome. I'd like to distribute it as a PDF file. If anyone has a way to create them, please let me know.

Ritual of Knowledge 640kb A loopable mix of two of the sounds (DrumSong and Kwakiutl) that I plan to pass as the Ritual of Knowledge. It's mainly the Shaman repeating Kwakiutl - where Sila is chanted out loud several times - mixed with an ocassional drum-and-song retort from the choir.

This version is in mono, but let me know if you wish to have the stereo version and I'll send it over.

Chapter 7 NPC graph 12kb A diagram of the NPCs and main points of chapter 7, including one I created for my campaign.

Some extra NPC sheets 6.36kb The Byakhee character sheets for Reinhold Blair, Jason Decker, Carter MacBane and Alfred Barrow, but this time including their portraits from the sourcebook.

Kwakiutl.zip 370kb A rather unsettling Inuit chant submitted by Morten Kjeldseth Pettersen. You can clearly hear Sila called out several times.

Chapter 4 NPC graph 63kb A diagram of the NPCs and main points of chapter 4, including some that I concocted for my own campaign.

Chapter 5 NPC graph 50kb A diagram of the NPCs and main points of chapter 5.

Information on Anchorage 25kb More information from Morten Kjeldseth Pettersen, this time on Anchorage from an exchange with William F. Hostman. Quite an enlightening read.

Misc. documents on the artic 480kb Several documents on the artic on RTF format provided by Morten Kjeldseth Pettersen. I've edited them somewhat to remove references to the late 20th century, but please let me know if you find anything that slipped by. They are:
  • First hand experience with the Inuit
  • First hand experience with the Artic
  • The Inuit
  • The eskimo dog
  • Other native americans
  • Obscure dieties of the world
  • History of the Artic regions
  • Greenland
  • General knowledge
  • The Franklin expedition
  • Folklore on wind dieties
A night at the gallery 100KB A Night At The Gallery is a short adventure I wrote for introducing new players to my Walker in the Wastes campaign. Comments are welcome.
Enlil.zip 473kb So your investigators want to research any of the gods mentioned in Bridgeman's books beyond what's on the sourcebook? Here's an RTF document with information on the Sumerian god Enlil that you can give to your players. It also contains some confusing and misleading hints that will be helpful in driving your investigators crazy. It is explained in more detail in Enlil.txt
Dead of Winter NPC sheets 7kb A collection of files for the Byakhee character editor for Windows 95 containing the NPCs the Prologue, contributed by Ricardo Christe.
Chapter 1 NPC sheets 7kb A collection of files for the Byakhee character editor for Windows 95 containing the NPCs for chapter 1. Do you use Windows, play Call of Cthulhu and DON'T use Byakhee? You don't know what you're missing.
Reinhold Blair sheets 1.7kb The Byakhee character sheet for Reinhold Blair.
Prologue NPC graph 35kb A graphic characterizing the NPCs from the prologue, including a couple of personal notes on them.
Chapter 1 NPC graph 76kb A graphic characterizing the NPCs from chapter 1, including some that I concocted for my own campaign.
Inuit ritual song 1.3MB This is a loopable WAV file that you can use for a song in an Inuit ritual. It was originally taken from the album Songs of the Inuit II: Drum Dance Songs in Inuvik, where it appeared as song #13 (Ungaliq - North Wind). Colonel Panic did a lot of work on it, mixing it up and patching diffferent sounds so now it has that special not quite fitting sound you would expect on a weird ritual. He also made some changes so that it loops well, and the end result is a chant that after five minutes will have your players on their toes and ready to bolt (not to mention with a serious headache).


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Created on November 09, 1998
Updated on October 21, 2001