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“The Venerable Mr. Milliton” a Continuing One-Shot in the Call of Cthulhu system, led by Jimthalon
Tarryford's local magistrate, the venerable Mr. August Milliton, has died, leaving behind a large estate and a bereft community. The funeral will be held at St. Bidget's Church. All are invited. Hopefully, Mr. Milliton's long-estranged children will come, if for no other reason than to hear what their father left for them in his will. It will undoubtedly be a reflective, sober affair with nary a murder no mystery in sight. And indeed, no unspeakable horrors.
This game will be great if you like Pride and Prejudice, The Thing, and Agatha Christie.
Players may build starter Cthulhu characters ahead of time or use characters from a previous Regency Cthulhu game. Pre-gen characters are available. Starter Cthulhu
Guidelines for character creation will be provided in an email
New players are welcome.
You’'ll be learning the system together with the game runner
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the con’s discord server. Spectators are welcome.
CW: Invasive body horror, Murder most foul, family estrangement, insects
“The Venerable Mr. Milliton” a Continuing One-Shot in the Call of Cthulhu system, led by Jimthalon
Tarryford's local magistrate, the venerable Mr. August Milliton, has died, leaving behind a large estate and a bereft community. The funeral will be held at St. Bidget's Church. All are invited. Hopefully, Mr. Milliton's long-estranged children will come, if for no other reason than to hear what their father left for them in his will. It will undoubtedly be a reflective, sober affair with nary a murder no mystery in sight. And indeed, no unspeakable horrors.
This game will be great if you like Pride and Prejudice, The Thing, and Agatha Christie.
Players may build starter Cthulhu characters ahead of time or use characters from a previous Regency Cthulhu game. Pre-gen characters are available. Starter Cthulhu
Guidelines for character creation will be provided in an email
New players are welcome.
You’'ll be learning the system together with the game runner
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the con’s discord server. Spectators are welcome.
CW: Invasive body horror, Murder most foul, family estrangement, insects
Call Of Cthulhu: The Barrier Islands
A game in the Call of Cthulhu system, led by Liberty the Referee.
The remote Barrier Islands are situated on the coastline outskirts of The Antebellum American South - - - Or is this America? The Barrier Islands are reported to be the habitation of many strange things, men have had meetings with hooded black men who hide a second hyena-head behind their hood, women have heard the crying laughter of Boohags in the bogs at night, Tommy Rawbones stalks that night in the swamps and lakes, and even towns, and there is a lighthouse whose light mutates those it touches deep in the wilds of the islands. Or so the people say - - - You are a pirate on the coast of the Barrier Islands in the employment of Deadly Smedley, notorious pirate captain. With them, you ply the rivers and the sea of the Barrier Islands and care not for the strange tales of the islands. That is until Deadly Smedley wants to attempt helping a slave runaway-escape on a plantation - - - that is where the truth behind the tales begin to enter your life.
This game will be great if you like Django Unchained, Lucio Fulci's the Beyond, Pumpkinhead, the horror stories of Ambrose Bierce, Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard.
Players should build starting characters ahead. You have to create a pirate character in the service of Deadly Smedley.
This game will be great for new players.
This game will balance silliness with seriousness and lean heavily toward role play over combat.
This game will be hosted on the con’s Discord server in room #3 and spectators are welcome.
CW: Racism and slavery, though you are fighting against the slave masters. Violence.
Call of Cthulhu: Rumblings in Personville's Crossroads
A Call of Cthulhu game, led by Liberty the Referee.
The Supernatural has been revealed. There ARE things out there, going bump in the night. Or so you have been told, they are many skeptics. Whatever the case, things are bad in Personville, USA. Entrenched poverty has plagued the city for longer than people can remember and crime grows crazy because of it. Yet now, recently, figures associated with the supernatural have been appearing at an abandoned and condemned metro station and Daniel Gordon, local official, wants to know why they are manifesting there. You may be a friend of Daniel Gordon, a private investigator, a tv news reporter, or someone else, but whoever you are, you are getting to the bottom of the newly-appearing figures and the secrets of the metro station. However, you have to survive the deadly streets of Personville as well. Criminals and civil unrest run rampant and they just might be working for people, or things, other than crime bosses.
This game will be great if you like Clive Barker, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Silent Hill, The work of Dashiell Hammett, the Warriors, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, the works of H. P. Lovecraft and Ramsey Campbell, the films of David Lynch, Modern Noir fiction with a supernatural spice.
Beginning characters will be built in session. Come with an open mind, flexibility and creativity.
This game will be great for new players.
This game will be super dark and lean heavily toward role play over combat.
This game will be hosted on the con’s Discord server in room #1 and spectators are welcome.
CW: Horror images, slime, and violence.
Call of Cthulhu: Statue of the Widow
A game in the Call of Cthulhu system, led by Liberty the Referee.
You think the past is dead and gone. You are wrong. You think the wicked witch is dead. You are mistaken. They are awakening . . .
Unearthed recently by local muckraking is the story of the stolen statue of the widow:
A new archaeological discovery of an ancient Hindu temple in the regency of Tabanan has created a huge flurry of tomb-robbing in Bali.
The "Widow Statue" rumor has emerged from this underground black market. The statue is an effigy of Rangda, a terrible manifestation of the Great Goddess Durga in Hindu mythology, and is worth a considerable amount to the historical society as well as priceless for private collectors.
You may be a journalist, archaeologist, grave robber, or even a cop on the search for the Widow Statue and you are determined to get it.
However, don't let your curiosity, or even greed, get the better of you, for there are serial killings happening on this slice of the island of Bali, so watch your step. Guard your soul as well, for there is something even more sinister lurking than just stolen statues and stalking psychos.
Disclaimer: I am using the actual folklore and mythology of Bali and, more broadly, Indonesia. I respect the source material involved to the best of my ability. The depiction is not accurate due to my inability to know everything about Indonesian folklore and the limitations of tabletop RPGs. Liberty has expressed that he would like it that if anyone becomes interested in this mythology that they decide to research into the mythology.
**If anyone reading this is Indonesian, the DM would like to get in contact with you and hear your thoughts.
This game will be great if you like H.P. Lovecraft, Twin Peaks, Indiana Jones, Tintin, Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, Condemned:Criminal Origins, The Wailing.
This game is for level 1 characters. Character creation guidelines: This is going to be my most experimental convention game so come with an open mind and be prepared to figure out why your character is there and interested in the Widow Statue MacGuffin.
This game will be great for new players.
This game will be heavily weighted toward the grimdark and will feature little combat in favor of role play.
This game will be hosted on the con’s Discord server in room #1 and be open to spectators.
CW: Violence and scary things happening.
Call of Cthulhu: Scritch Scratch
A game in the Call of Cthulhu system, led by Liberty the referee.
Scritch, scratch, see the rat, Bright eyes and twitching tail, Scritch, scratch, chase the rat, 'Cross hill, stream, and dale. Scritch, scratch, catch the rat, Hang him by his tail, Scritch, scratch, good old rat, Their appetites curtail Scritch, scratch, no more rats, The children all shall wail, Scritch, scratch, the wood's come back, The falling of the veil . . . Set in the modern-day, in a quiet valley somewhere in the north of England, this adventure concerns the demise of an age-old tradition in the quaint village of Muscoby—and the consequences of forgetting the Old Ways. Muscoby has never not had a rat catcher. Old Gurteen has been carrying on the tradition in the village, but recently he was involved in an accident and is now hospitalized. With Old Gurteen away, who will ensure the rat population is kept in check?
This game will be great if you like Works of H.P. Lovecraft. The Blair Witch Project. The Wicker Man (1973). Midsommar. And other folk horror.
Level 1 characters will be provided. keep an open mind. Read your character's sheet and background before the game.
This game will be great for new players.
This game will be deadly seriuos and favro role play over combat.
This game will be hosted on the con’s Discord server in room 1 and spectators are welcome.
CW: Scary things happening, cruelty to animals, general inescapable doom.
Stars Over Sturbridge, a Call of Cthulhu Oneshot
A Game in the Call of Cthulhu system led by Adam Mc
Set in the 1920s in the sleepy New England town of Sturbridge, try to uncover the whereabouts of missing a astronomer in this horror one shot where all is not what it seems on the surface.
This game will be great if you like horror, detective stories, film noir.
Characters will be provided.
This game will be ideal for players who have played some RPGs before.
The stakes will be dire for this game and it will balance combat with role play.
This game will run on the con’s Discord server.
CW: Horror Themes