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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tun Kai Poh" data-source="post: 8410183" data-attributes="member: 6761960">I ran As Good As A Feast, a Cthulhu Dark scenario written by <a href="https://www.holkar.net/" target="_blank">Mo Holkar.</a> It's a Kickstarter exclusive for backers of the Cthulhu Dark "big book" (which I <a href="https://youtu.be/iubKJhZjm3Qhttp://roleoverplaydead.com/rpg-review-cthulhu-dark-2017/" target="_blank">reviewed</a> a while ago).The players of my online game (Danial and Doug) were members of an Oklahoma farming family fleeing the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl" target="_blank">Dust Bowl</a> drought crisis in 1935, hence the Grapes of Wrath reference. On their way to California, they visited the prosperous farm of their relative Uncle Jack in the foothills of Northern Arizona. But Jack had gone missing, and the sinister source of the bountiful crops lay beneath the nearby ghost town of Plenty. Alfred, the family patriarch, and his daughter Laura-Jane (who wants to become a movie star) set out in search of Uncle Jack.The scenario is more creepy atmosphere and gradually growing dread than it is jump scares. Although Danial got a surprise jump scare when the thunderstorm fried his power supply just as we were getting to the climactic revelations, and had to log back in by smartphone!At the very end, with both characters severely affected by hunger and the tempting visions of an eldritch entity named Edom, the investigators entered the abandoned gold mine where Jack had entered. After descending deep into the earth, they found a "stone bubble" that miners had uncovered long ago. Inside, Edom manifested gleaming fruits to tempt the hungry travellers. Doug's character Laura-Jane failed her Insight roll for the last time, reaching the maximum score, which meant that her mind was lost to the horrific knowledge of the Mythos.But since Laura-Jane was more tempted by stardom than food, we played out the scene with the girl seeing the little strawberry people cheering her on, her adoring fans, asking her to come forward to accept her Academy Award... The player really leaned into it with great gusto, with Laura-Jane bowing and smiling and giving her acceptance speech to the strawberries. It was surreal and hilarious, and just like that, Laura-Jane was absorbed by the bubble and taken for Edom!(Alfred rescued her later and they escaped, but it was still a great scene)</blockquote>

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