Cool Air

Cool Air tells the tale of a reclusive doctor who keeps to himself and never leaves his refrigerated rooms. His obsession with staving off death leads to more extreme experimentation and a mastery of the healing arts, which helps a neighbour when he has a heart attack. Over time the doctor becomes more and more sickly, continuously lowering the temperature of his rooms until they are sub-zero. He is eventually found dead, severely decomposed and clutching a note explaining that he had died many years before, but had kept himself going though alchemical means and strictly controlling his temperature.

As part of the Interface 19.40 book, I can imagine Modiphius starting to cover this in some detail with refrigerated armour to be worn by important high ranking officials within Nachtwolf in order to save off final death. If they don't... Well. Chalk one up to me to think on some more if/when the time comes.

I could certainly see key bunkers in Germany being super cooled in order to carry out more research into extending the life span of soldiers after death. Imagine a 1940s version of the guy who manufacturs eyes in Blade Runder and you wouldn't be too far off the mark.

The Terrible Old Man

The Terrible Old Man returns to a similar theme to the case of Charles Dexter Ward. In this tale we hear about a man so old that no-one knows who he is, or how old he is... Just that he has lived in the house for a longer than anyone can remember Ad talks to some bottles as if they are long lost friends. Local rumours have him owning a mirage horde of treasure that is too good an opportunity to turn down for three burglars; unfortunately for them things don't quite go their way and they are found mutilated as if hacked apart by cutlasses and stomped by boots.

In the Charles Dexter Ward tale, Curwen is able to store and reanistores dead, who he stores in bottles. We can only assume that in his travels, this old man discovered how to keep s friends close in a similar manner; wether through malice, or loneliness we don't know. It does, however, raise an interesting idea that the Germans, Russians or Japanese may decide to follow similar experiments in order to drop large armies behind enemy lines more easily.... Just imagine dropping a crate of bottles and one person to animate the dust contained within? Invading a city would be easy... Who would suspect one man and a crate?

Charles Dexter Ward

The Charles Dexter Ward tale revolves around a young man who discovers a mysterious lineage to an ancient wizard who somehow managed to defy the aging process and who looks exceedingly like him. Charles becomes more and more frantic in his search modernise information about this ancestor, eventually discovering his connections to wizards in Eastern Europe and a mysterious bungalow in Pawtuxet. As the tale unfolds, we discover that Joseph, Charles' ancient relative is attempting to resurrect himself through Charles.

Most, if not all, of the manuscripts from the Curwen/Ward libraries will have either been destroyed, or moved to  Miskatonic university, but we don't know what happened to the notes created by Curwen's allies in Europe. It is not belond the realms of possibility that they have ended up in the hands of the Nachtwolf, or one of the other occult groups working inside Germany.

Some of Curwen's experiments lived on, entombed within the basements beneath the bungalow for years, so the investigators could be tasked to investigate an abandoned research facility in Eastern Europe or hunt down and prevent the nazis from creating the essential salts needed to keep a man alive forever... Fom what I can remember, the salts were created from the bodies of the recently dead; could this explain some of the mass cleansings that took place during the war?