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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8110856" data-attributes="member: 4534">I'm toying with the idea of running a Call of Cthulhu campaign and I'm kicking around a premise.  The investigators are cultist (though they likely won't see themselves as cultist), and they are tasked by their, well, let's just say benefactor, with thwarting the machinations of other mythos forces.  Now that I think about it, this sounds more like Charlie's Angels + Call of Cthulhu.  Their benefactor is the Great Race of Yith, who are manipulating the investigators into performing tasks for the benefit of their glorious race.  For those of you who might be unfamiliar with the Great Race, they're a bunch of weirdos who abandoned their bodies millions of years ago to inhabit the bodies of creatures on Earth in the distant past, ended up getting into a war with the flying polyps, and then projected their minds millions of years into the future after the extinction of humanity where they inhabit the bodies of giant beetles.  The Great Race is manipulating the investigators to ensure events come to pass that will allow them to enjoy their Beetlemania millions of years in the future.  But here's the gimmick, if/when the PCs fail one of their missions, the Great Race can give them another crack at it.  The Great Race presses the reset button, the minds of the investigators are transferred to their own bodies from right before the mission starts,and they being again but this time they have all the knowledge they gained from their failed attempt.  This might lead to some sanity blasting fun where the investigator distinctly remembers some eldritch horror belching spittle all over him which dissolved him into a goo but now he's alive and well and about to face it again.</blockquote>

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