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 '''Artist(s):''' [[Jeff Woodall]]
-'''Setting:''' [[1700s]] [[Aylesbury]], [[Connecticut]] ("Colonial" North America, post Revolution)
+'''Setting:''' [[1700s]] [[Aylesbury]], [[Connecticut]] ("Colonial" North America, post Revolution), [[Halloween]]
 '''Appears in:''' [[Dead Leaves Fall]] and Other Halloween Horrors
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 ===Synopsis===
-victims, mostly children gathered to participate in a scavenger hunt and party for [[Halloween|All Hallow's Evening]], are kidnapped and hypnotized by the [[Dark Order of Baphomet]] cult (dedicated to an avatar of [[Shub-Niggurath]] and their monstrous servitor "Crow People" in order to perform a ritual that will extend the lives of the cultists by mind-swapping the cult members with the children.  The investigators should try to stop the mind-transfer ritual before it is completed at dawn, when the children (whose minds have been transferred into the elderly bodies of the cultists) have been slain and the cultists take their places.
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 ===References===
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 * Altar of [[Baphomet]]/[[Shub-Niggurath]]
 * 13 Black Candles (made from human fat and enchanted for a mind-transfer ritual)
 '''Campaigns / Scenarios:''' (none)

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 ===Comments===
 List dedication, trivia,  images, anything else of note.
 ===Keeper Comments===

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 Special Notes:
-* Bless their hearts: I'm rather fond of the Crow People, and they seem to have some background folklore to justify them as characters in a horror story, but even after giving it a couple weeks of consideration, they're still kind of goofy.  Keepers might want to substitute something a little more traditionally Lovecraftian for these mook monsters - Deep Ones or Ghouls, perhaps, or Byakhees, or (in keeping with the Baphomet theme) satyrs, or even Sasquatch or something.
+* Keepers might want to substitute something a little more traditionally Lovecraftian for the [[Crow Person|Crow People]] mook monsters - Deep Ones or Ghouls, perhaps, or Byakhees, or (in keeping with the Baphomet theme) satyrs, or even Sasquatch or something.
 * Keepers might get some thematic mileage from raising the age of the children, and having the cult instead lure the repressed teenaged sons and daughters of devout Protestant folk out to frolic in the woods at night with the bestial servitors of Baphomet, the avatar of a nightmarish and debased fertility goddess (Shub-Niggurath).  Some unspeakable, nameless rite that blasts the kids' sanity would be the key step to open the way for the mind-transfer: unstopped, the teens go into the woods as innocent but curious children, and come back aged and soiled before their time with the corrupt, wizened, cynical, and sophisticated souls of Shub-Niggurath cultists.  Bonus points for working in some Hawthorne references: the minister veiled in black, some of the aged cultists branded with scarlet letters, etc.

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 ===Synopsis===
-victims, mostly children gathered to participate in a scavenger hunt and party for [[Halloween|All Hallow's Evening]], are kidnapped and hypnotized by the [[Dark Order of Baphomet]] cult (dedicated to an avatar of [[Shub-Niggaruth]] and their monstrous servitor "Crow People" in order to perform a ritual that will extend the lives of the cultists by mind-swapping the cult members with the children.  The investigators should try to stop the mind-transfer ritual before it is completed at dawn, when the children (whose minds have been transferred into the elderly bodies of the cultists) have been slain and the cultists take their places.
+victims, mostly children gathered to participate in a scavenger hunt and party for [[Halloween|All Hallow's Evening]], are kidnapped and hypnotized by the [[Dark Order of Baphomet]] cult (dedicated to an avatar of [[Shub-Niggurath]] and their monstrous servitor "Crow People" in order to perform a ritual that will extend the lives of the cultists by mind-swapping the cult members with the children.  The investigators should try to stop the mind-transfer ritual before it is completed at dawn, when the children (whose minds have been transferred into the elderly bodies of the cultists) have been slain and the cultists take their places.
 ===References===

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 Special Notes:
 * Bless their hearts: I'm rather fond of the Crow People, and they seem to have some background folklore to justify them as characters in a horror story, but even after giving it a couple weeks of consideration, they're still kind of goofy.  Keepers might want to substitute something a little more traditionally Lovecraftian for these mook monsters - Deep Ones or Ghouls, perhaps, or Byakhees, or (in keeping with the Baphomet theme) satyrs, or even Sasquatch or something.
-* Keepers might get some thematic mileage from raising the age of the children, and having the cult instead lure the repressed teenaged sons and daughters of devout Protestant folk out to frolic in the woods at night with the bestial servitors of the avatar of a nightmarish and debased fertility goddess.  Some unspeakable, nameless rite that blasts the kids' sanity would be the first step of the mind transfer.  Bonus points for working in some Hawthorne references: the minister veiled in black, some of the aged cultists branded with scarlet letters, etc.
+* Keepers might get some thematic mileage from raising the age of the children, and having the cult instead lure the repressed teenaged sons and daughters of devout Protestant folk out to frolic in the woods at night with the bestial servitors of Baphomet, the avatar of a nightmarish and debased fertility goddess (Shub-Niggurath).  Some unspeakable, nameless rite that blasts the kids' sanity would be the key step to open the way for the mind-transfer: unstopped, the teens go into the woods as innocent but curious children, and come back aged and soiled before their time with the corrupt, wizened, cynical, and sophisticated souls of Shub-Niggurath cultists.  Bonus points for working in some Hawthorne references: the minister veiled in black, some of the aged cultists branded with scarlet letters, etc.
 Sequel Plot Hooks:  None, exactly, but the village is described in enough detail (aside from nameless NPCs) to be re-used in sequel scenarios.  The ghost of the madman seems like it might be a plot hook for an investigation into what happened to the madman and why he was killed.

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	Dependence on Halloween: Minimal. The scenario nominally takes place during a [[Halloween]] party that gathered the children of the town together when they were kidnapped, and the holiday was apparently chosen by the cultists for its occult significance, but little time is spent elaborating on any of this (beyond some minimal description of how the town celebrates the holiday), and an alternative date could be used with very little re-writing.		Dependence on Halloween: Minimal. The scenario nominally takes place during a [[Halloween]] party that gathered the children of the town together when they were kidnapped, and the holiday was apparently chosen by the cultists for its occult significance, but little time is spent elaborating on any of this (beyond some minimal description of how the town celebrates the holiday), and an alternative date could be used with very little re-writing.
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		+	Special Notes:
		+	* Bless their hearts: I'm rather fond of the Crow People, and they seem to have some background folklore to justify them as characters in a horror story, but even after giving it a couple weeks of consideration, they're still kind of goofy. Keepers might want to substitute something a little more traditionally Lovecraftian for these mook monsters - Deep Ones or Ghouls, perhaps, or Byakhees, or (in keeping with the Baphomet theme) satyrs, or even Sasquatch or something.
		+	* Keepers might get some thematic mileage from raising the age of the children, and having the cult instead lure the repressed teenaged sons and daughters of devout Protestant folk out to frolic in the woods at night with the bestial servitors of the avatar of a nightmarish and debased fertility goddess. Some unspeakable, nameless rite that blasts the kids' sanity would be the first step of the mind transfer. Bonus points for working in some Hawthorne references: the minister veiled in black, some of the aged cultists branded with scarlet letters, etc.

	Sequel Plot Hooks: None, exactly, but the village is described in enough detail (aside from nameless NPCs) to be re-used in sequel scenarios. The ghost of the madman seems like it might be a plot hook for an investigation into what happened to the madman and why he was killed.		Sequel Plot Hooks: None, exactly, but the village is described in enough detail (aside from nameless NPCs) to be re-used in sequel scenarios. The ghost of the madman seems like it might be a plot hook for an investigation into what happened to the madman and why he was killed.

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 ==Links==
 * [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/articles.html/_/main/reviews/dead-leaves-fall-r1908 review by Skyman and NeferSutekh at Yog-Sothoth.com]
+* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/22076-review-of-dead-leaves-halloweenmonographbut-not-dead-leaves/ Reviews by Skyman and NeferSutekh, with Feedback from Scenario Authors]
 ==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==

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 * [[Crow Person|Crow People]]
 * [[Baphomet]], an avatar of [[Shub-Niggurath]]
 '''Tomes and Artifacts:'''
 * [[Book of the Dark Order of Baphomet]]
 '''Campaigns / Scenarios:''' (none)
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 Dependence on Halloween:  Minimal.  The scenario nominally takes place during a [[Halloween]] party that gathered the children of the town together when they were kidnapped, and the holiday was apparently chosen by the cultists for its occult significance, but little time is spent elaborating on any of this (beyond some minimal description of how the town celebrates the holiday), and an alternative date could be used with very little re-writing.
-Sequel Plot Hooks:  None, but the village is described in enough detail (aside from nameless NPCs) to be re-used in sequel scenarios.
+Sequel Plot Hooks:  None, exactly, but the village is described in enough detail (aside from nameless NPCs) to be re-used in sequel scenarios.  The ghost of the madman seems like it might be a plot hook for an investigation into what happened to the madman and why he was killed.
 [[Category:CoC:Scenarios]]