Something Truly Awful

I had my players break into the mansion of a cult leader at night, to free his wife Angela, who he had tied to the bed in her bridal gown. But little did they know that the wife had died several years ago, and the cult leader had brought her back from the dead... but she came back wrong...

So just as the players removed the wire around her wrists, she revealed her ghoulish long teeth, and terrifying speed and strength. This resulted in a terrifying chase scene, where Angela smashed through the bedroom door that the players tried to close on her. And as the players quickly rushed down the stairs, Angela leaped down to the first floor in an instant. They barely made it to their motorbike in time, as Angela chased after them for quite a while.

The cult leader had apparently been trying to conceive a child with her. They found the charred remains of these babies in urns in his family's tomb, later on in the campaign. The remains wouldn't even burn well. Angela, being a ghoul, could only conceive horrible abominations. But that didn't stop the cult leader from trying every night. EWWWW!

(Since this was for Call of Cthulhu, this encounter was not set up to allow them to escape easily. Death was very likely. They survived with some heavy injuries, thanks to their own quick thinking. It's when the players know that the DM is not afraid to kill their characters, that things get serious.)
 
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