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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 4845622" data-attributes="member: 6562">(Time loop, CoC system ...) A loooooong time back, inspired by the movie Hellboy and a Stargate SG1 re-run, I thought up an interesting twist on a time loop...Briefing: "Welcome to Arrowhead Secondary OpCom and do NOT touch any of the runes, yes Lieutenant I just said 'runes', that means all the the glowing s--- on the doors and windows, now all of you SIT DOWN and SHUT UP! As of this moment you are cleared to know the truth about Operation Arrowhead."Your radios and uplinks will NOT work in this room, and neither will any VOMaT*, this is the most secure location on the whole godrotting Earth, don't ask me maggot, look it up in the briefing book I just handed you."This mission is what we refer to as a milk run. You are here as security for those scientists through that one-way mirror, in the control room. If anything tries to interfere with their work, or if any of them start to look 'unscientific', your orders are to liquidate with extreme prejudice."This will be a trial run for Operation Arrowhead. You will also be acting as security for the real thing. Today, you will all sit tight and read that briefing manual as though your godrotting soul depends on it, because if the stars go to s--- on us, it damn well might."The milk run starts in two hours. Dismissed." The general salutes and walks out.(Of course, the stars do indeed go to s--- on them.)The party sits and reads their briefing manuals for two hours, after which a sickly green light fills the control room. They see the scientists' bodies twist into terrible, unnatural shapes; a wave of hideous purple darkness roils across the sky, followed by tentacles dripping like lice from the bloated clouds; when suddenly in the control room a slavering, bespectacled horror in a lab coat scuttles over a bulbous, oversized red button. Everything goes all wavy lines..."The milk run starts in two hours. Dismissed." The general salutes and walks out.- - -The party is a group of modern-day soldiers, combat scientists, and tactical occultists. Their goal is to head off some kind of planar breach in the space of two hours. However, they have some hard limits:1/ They keep their sanity score across iterations, which will be hit every time a PC dies (because death is traumatic).2/ Every iteration, the corruption of the Elder Things reaches further into the "past", because each iteration is a violation of causality**. So they're not operating in a static time loop: things get worse each iteration.That's about as far as I got. There were no specifics. Perhaps the whole thing took place during the activation of the Large Hastur Collider.Cheers, -- N- - -*) VOMaT - Voodoo, Occult, Magic and Theology; catch-all MilSpec for the supernatural.**) ... because the PCs bring knowledge of the future back to affect the past. They are the causality violation.</blockquote>

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