CoC: Everyone is dead.
- Thread starter SpuneDagr
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Psychotic Dreamer
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Sounds like it did go well. However the details would be nice. 
SpuneDagr
Explorer
Details details details.
All right.
Last night I finally got to run my CoC adventure that I had been planning for weeks (it's finals time here so we hadn't gotten around to it until now). The weather was perfect - it was dark and thunderstormy - I was psyched!
Spoilers for Slices of Death...
Anyway, the game was going pretty well except for the fact that the characters were not really a cohesive group - they all just kind of did their own investigation at the same time. One was a troubled (psychic) grad student who went to the clinic complaining of nightmares. One was a professor of psychology at the nearby university who was volunteering at the clinic. The other was an off-duty cop playing a security guard. The characters were on night four - the climax.
Dr. Hawthorne III, the professor character decides to spend the night at home instead of the clinic (he'd been keeping an eye on what was going on there but he was getting a bit freaked out).
Roth turned on the machine for the last time, summoning the terrors from beyond and, of course, all hell broke loose. Sam Brendel went ballistic and broke open the door on his first try. Diego, the security guard character, tried to subdue him and got the snot beaten out of him. Mark, the troubled psychic woke up with a start to find the Terrors were real - he failed his sanity check and went temporarily insane (I think I rolled something like 6 hours). So he was sitting up, blithering in his bed.
Having no one to stop them, the Terrors killed and consumed everyone in the clinic (I think Sam got off a couple shots with Diego's gun, but it doesn't really matter at this point).
The professor comes back the next morning to find police tape everywhere and everyone horribly slaughtered. He talks to the police (he was actually a suspect for a little while, but they let him go). He goes home that night - little does he know the machine is still on (unplugging it doesn't turn it off). He awakens in the middle of the night, noticing an intruder in his house. He manages to dial 911 and promptly die when the Terror eats him.
All in all, it was quite satisfying.
All right.
Last night I finally got to run my CoC adventure that I had been planning for weeks (it's finals time here so we hadn't gotten around to it until now). The weather was perfect - it was dark and thunderstormy - I was psyched!
Spoilers for Slices of Death...
Anyway, the game was going pretty well except for the fact that the characters were not really a cohesive group - they all just kind of did their own investigation at the same time. One was a troubled (psychic) grad student who went to the clinic complaining of nightmares. One was a professor of psychology at the nearby university who was volunteering at the clinic. The other was an off-duty cop playing a security guard. The characters were on night four - the climax.
Dr. Hawthorne III, the professor character decides to spend the night at home instead of the clinic (he'd been keeping an eye on what was going on there but he was getting a bit freaked out).
Roth turned on the machine for the last time, summoning the terrors from beyond and, of course, all hell broke loose. Sam Brendel went ballistic and broke open the door on his first try. Diego, the security guard character, tried to subdue him and got the snot beaten out of him. Mark, the troubled psychic woke up with a start to find the Terrors were real - he failed his sanity check and went temporarily insane (I think I rolled something like 6 hours). So he was sitting up, blithering in his bed.
Having no one to stop them, the Terrors killed and consumed everyone in the clinic (I think Sam got off a couple shots with Diego's gun, but it doesn't really matter at this point).
The professor comes back the next morning to find police tape everywhere and everyone horribly slaughtered. He talks to the police (he was actually a suspect for a little while, but they let him go). He goes home that night - little does he know the machine is still on (unplugging it doesn't turn it off). He awakens in the middle of the night, noticing an intruder in his house. He manages to dial 911 and promptly die when the Terror eats him.
All in all, it was quite satisfying.
teitan
Legend
mmadsen said:
Actually, increased firepower doesn't help much. What ensures party survivability in CoC is intelligent use of resources available. No amount of firepower should be able to help them out in the climactic conflict, their intelligence should be their strongest asset. Even magic is a bad idea.
Jason
