The "Wipers" Pals
Source: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Investigator’s Handbook
7e Official
Headquarters
London, England (with branches in Ypres, France and Boston)
Leader / Figurehead
Captain Arthur Pendelton (Ret.)
Era
Classic 1920s
Purpose & Directives
Comrades from the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) who witnessed supernatural abominations in no-man’s-land and sworn to protect humanity from the encroaching horrors.
Membership & Recruitment
Great War veterans, field medics, nurses, and sympathetic military chaplains.
Suggested Occupations
Soldier/Marine, Military Officer, Doctor of Medicine, Nurse, Chauffeur, Engineer, Clergy.
Resources & Benefits
Military armaments, battlefield contacts across Europe, private camaraderie, and war pensions.
Background & Lore
During the horrific bombardment of Passchendaele in autumn 1917, soldiers of the regiment unearthed strange cyclopean tunnels beneath the mud and witnessed horrors that bullets could barely slow.
A tight-knit brotherhood of Great War veterans investigating occult occurrences across post-war Europe and America.