Call of Cthulhu adventure help - Fathead, stay out!

[Turanil]

Hey Tewligan!

Do you mind if I propose your adventure idea for making an "horror cooperative dungeon"?

I like your idea, and would like to use it to create an adventure. Just I intend to make it a science-fiction adventure in space. Maybe it's not a great idea in fact, as I want to complicate it a bit. Here is the idea:

As described in the posts above, except that all of this happen in space colonies in an asteroid belt. Before the PCs discover that the little girl is in fact a monster, they could be led to believe she was genetically engineered and something went wrong or what not. However, this is only one part of the adventure. The other part involves an alien starship buried in an asteroid and a secret laboratory conducting illegal genetical engineering experiments. Some hideous monster had been discovered in the starship; but it wasn't fit for human life conditions. As such it psychically influenced the scientists of the secret base to make a new race based on it and humans, so it could propagate there. When the PCs reach the climax of the adventure, they of course understand that several little girls do now live in various parts of the asteroid belt (hidden and protected by their adoptive parents).

 

[Tewligan]

Hey Tewligan!

Do you mind if I propose your adventure idea for making an "horror cooperative dungeon"?

Hey, that's fine with me, man. The more people who get some enjoyment from the idea, the better!

 

[snarfoogle]

Maybe she's 1/2 human, 1/2 color from beyond space! She must have had really munchkin parents...

 

[VirgilCaine]

Once the PCs discover the girl (and by the way, she needs a name -- preferably a really cutesy one like Annabell), I would play up the pathos of the situation. She may be a monster to them, but to herself she is a scared kid who has felt compelled to eat a bunch of animals and people in order to give birth. To an egg sack. Eww... but anyway, Annabell may not even fully understand what or why things are happening. She doesn't know that she has psychic powers; she just knows that she wants people to protect her, and then she perceives other females as threats.

It would be really cool if you grabbed a picture of a cute little girl from somewhere and let the PCs have it as a prop. Then, when they finally encounter Annabell in her transformation, she is still -- barely -- recognizable. And pitiful. And dangerous. Muuhahaha!

This would really add to the horror and the problem of the aftermath. Yes, she has done some terible things, but she has no idea why...

Maybe she's 1/2 human, 1/2 color from beyond space! She must have had really munchkin parents...

Nah, the "Colour" template is just like the half-dragon template in D&D--you can add it to anything, even plants.