A Chill Down Your Spine - Revision history

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	** Oakwood Cemetary		** Oakwood Cemetary
	* the [[Dreamlands]]		* the [[Dreamlands]]
	** Land of [[~~Zak~~]] or "Land of Forgotten Dreams", City of ~~[[Zar]]~~		** Land of [[Zar]] or "Land of Forgotten Dreams", City of Zak

	'''Creatures:'''		'''Creatures:'''

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	'''Artist(s):''' (none credited, probably [[Harris Burkhalter]])		'''Artist(s):''' (none credited, probably [[Harris Burkhalter]])

	'''Setting:''' [[1990s]], Anoka, [[Minnesota]] in October 26-31 of 1991, and the [[Dreamlands]]		'''Setting:''' [[1990s]], Anoka, [[Minnesota]] in October 26-[[Halloween\|31]] of 1991, and the [[Dreamlands]]

	'''Appears in:''' [[Bride of Halloween Horror]]		'''Appears in:''' [[Bride of Halloween Horror]]

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	===Synopsis===		===Synopsis===
	Members of the Anoka County Historical Society are approached by a confused teen asking about the history of the area — he thinks he is seeing ghosts. His later disappearance and strange investigation leads to the dream work of Dr. Kline and his sole surviving patient. A clue lies on the grounds of a historic sanitarium, where a corn maze has been constructed. As snow begins to blow in the icy breeze, dream begins to merge with reality. The sanitarium was the site of bizarre dream research by the deceased Dr. James Franklin Kline, who considered the mythos elements discovered in his research to be based in Freudian psychology; his experiments took the doctor and his patients on journeys into a Land of Forgotten Dreams in the [[Dreamlands]], "curing" about half the patients by helping them to forget the causes of their illnesses. The grounds where the Corn Maze was built is a relic of this research, and festival-goers walking the paths of the maze are opening doors into the Dreamlands, allowing creatures of dream to enter the waking world, including ~~[[Nightgaunt]]s~~, who have dragged an imaginative teen dreamer into dream; the investigators should rescue the dreamer and close the gates of dream, while a blizzard threatens waking Minnesota.		{{spoiler\|
			Members of the Anoka County Historical Society are approached by a confused teen asking about the history of the area — he thinks he is seeing ghosts. His later disappearance and strange investigation leads to the dream work of Dr. Kline and his sole surviving patient. A clue lies on the grounds of a historic sanitarium, where a corn maze has been constructed. As snow begins to blow in the icy breeze, dream begins to merge with reality. The sanitarium was the site of bizarre dream research by the deceased Dr. James Franklin Kline, who considered the mythos elements discovered in his research to be based in Freudian psychology; his experiments took the doctor and his patients on journeys into a Land of Forgotten Dreams in the Dreamlands, "curing" about half the patients by helping them to forget the causes of their illnesses. The grounds where the Corn Maze was built is a relic of this research, and festival-goers walking the paths of the maze are opening doors into the Dreamlands, allowing creatures of dream to enter the waking world, including Nightgaunts, who have dragged an imaginative teen dreamer into dream; the investigators should rescue the dreamer and close the gates of dream, while a blizzard threatens waking Minnesota.
			}}

	===References===		===References===

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2016-04-29T18:26:32Z

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Innsbruck at 23:59, 7 March 2016

2016-03-07T23:59:26Z

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	Dependence on Halloween: Moderate; Halloween occurs in the background due to the date of the blizzard, and is the reason for the corn maze which plays a role in the scenario's plot, but Halloween itself is not a focus of the scenario. Enough information is provided for groups unfamiliar with Halloween to figure out how it is being celebrated by the locals in ways that pertain to the plot, though. It would be difficult to run the scenario around a different time of year and omit all Halloween references without a considerable rewrite of the plot, in any case.		Dependence on Halloween: Moderate; Halloween occurs in the background due to the date of the blizzard, and is the reason for the corn maze which plays a role in the scenario's plot, but Halloween itself is not a focus of the scenario. Enough information is provided for groups unfamiliar with Halloween to figure out how it is being celebrated by the locals in ways that pertain to the plot, though. It would be difficult to run the scenario around a different time of year and omit all Halloween references without a considerable rewrite of the plot, in any case.

	Sequel Plot Hooks: "Future adventures may take the investigators deeper into the [[Dreamlands]] or perhaps the sinister true reasons for George Green’s creation of the [[Halloween]] festival in Anoka. For instance, is it possible that Anoka is an area prone to dreaming? Perhaps a strange new city appears; [[Lake Wosmee]], a bucolic rural American town seemingly stuck in the 1950s. What horror lives in the lake that could threaten even the Waking World? And who created it? Could George Green have encountered the apparition of [[Jack_O'Lantern\|Jack O'Lantern]], an aspect of [[Nyarlathotep]] hoping to increase public acceptance of the occult by linking it to consumerism and greed for reasons known only to the [[Great Old Ones (~~Dieties~~)\|Great Old Ones]]?"		Sequel Plot Hooks: "Future adventures may take the investigators deeper into the [[Dreamlands]] or perhaps the sinister true reasons for George Green’s creation of the [[Halloween]] festival in Anoka. For instance, is it possible that Anoka is an area prone to dreaming? Perhaps a strange new city appears; [[Lake Wosmee]], a bucolic rural American town seemingly stuck in the 1950s. What horror lives in the lake that could threaten even the Waking World? And who created it? Could George Green have encountered the apparition of [[Jack_O'Lantern\|Jack O'Lantern]], an aspect of [[Nyarlathotep]] hoping to increase public acceptance of the occult by linking it to consumerism and greed for reasons known only to the [[Great Old Ones (Deities)\|Great Old Ones]]?"

	{{DEFAULTSORT:Chill Down Your Spine, A}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Chill Down Your Spine, A}}

Innsbruck at 16:39, 7 March 2016

2016-03-07T16:39:04Z

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	Dependence on Halloween: Moderate; Halloween occurs in the background due to the date of the blizzard, and is the reason for the corn maze which plays a role in the scenario's plot, but Halloween itself is not a focus of the scenario. Enough information is provided for groups unfamiliar with Halloween to figure out how it is being celebrated by the locals in ways that pertain to the plot, though. It would be difficult to run the scenario around a different time of year and omit all Halloween references without a considerable rewrite of the plot, in any case.		Dependence on Halloween: Moderate; Halloween occurs in the background due to the date of the blizzard, and is the reason for the corn maze which plays a role in the scenario's plot, but Halloween itself is not a focus of the scenario. Enough information is provided for groups unfamiliar with Halloween to figure out how it is being celebrated by the locals in ways that pertain to the plot, though. It would be difficult to run the scenario around a different time of year and omit all Halloween references without a considerable rewrite of the plot, in any case.

	Sequel Plot Hooks: "Future adventures may take the investigators deeper into the [[Dreamlands]] or perhaps the sinister true reasons for George Green’s creation of the [[Halloween]] festival in Anoka. For instance, is it possible that Anoka is an area prone to dreaming? Perhaps a strange new city appears; [[Lake Wosmee]], a bucolic rural American town seemingly stuck in the 1950s. What horror lives in the lake that could threaten even the Waking World? And who created it? Could George Green have encountered the apparition of [[Jack_O'Lantern\|Jack O'Lantern]], an aspect of [[Nyarlathotep]] hoping to increase public acceptance of the occult by linking it to consumerism and greed for reasons known only to the [[Great Old Ones]]?"		Sequel Plot Hooks: "Future adventures may take the investigators deeper into the [[Dreamlands]] or perhaps the sinister true reasons for George Green’s creation of the [[Halloween]] festival in Anoka. For instance, is it possible that Anoka is an area prone to dreaming? Perhaps a strange new city appears; [[Lake Wosmee]], a bucolic rural American town seemingly stuck in the 1950s. What horror lives in the lake that could threaten even the Waking World? And who created it? Could George Green have encountered the apparition of [[Jack_O'Lantern\|Jack O'Lantern]], an aspect of [[Nyarlathotep]] hoping to increase public acceptance of the occult by linking it to consumerism and greed for reasons known only to the [[Great Old Ones (Dieties)\|Great Old Ones]]?"

	{{DEFAULTSORT:Chill Down Your Spine, A}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Chill Down Your Spine, A}}

Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

2015-11-13T06:22:19Z

Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

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	Keeper Notes: There don't seem to be any hostile creatures in this scenario, and so there's almost no combat unless the investigators really force it (the creatures actively involved are, arguably, only trying to help their victims; the other creatures just appear in the background). This seems like it might be a nice scenario to introduce players new to Call of Cthulhu and other RPGs to this style of game, and in fact may work better for them than for players with some experience in hack-and-slash genres of RPGs, though keepers should be advised that I'm not convinced about some of the sanity rewards for the conclusion of the scenario, and should be encouraged to consider carefully whether punishing investigators for allowing Dreamlands creatures to escape would send the right message, and some reward for giving Myrtle Larson a happy ending should be encouraged. The scenario includes quite a bit of background information for keepers (including much more information in the [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=4442 errata and bonus material]) is also available), as well as advice and plot-hooks for sequels. There are references to more than one "mythos tome", but details are really only provided for one of them (that should be enough for the scenario, but if the others come into play, keepers may need to detail them). The descriptions of the [[Dreamlands]] location(s) could probably use a little attention from keepers familiar with the style of Dreamlands stories from Dunsany and Lovecraft, etc.		Keeper Notes: There don't seem to be any hostile creatures in this scenario, and so there's almost no combat unless the investigators really force it (the creatures actively involved are, arguably, only trying to help their victims; the other creatures just appear in the background). This seems like it might be a nice scenario to introduce players new to Call of Cthulhu and other RPGs to this style of game, and in fact may work better for them than for players with some experience in hack-and-slash genres of RPGs, though keepers should be advised that I'm not convinced about some of the sanity rewards for the conclusion of the scenario, and should be encouraged to consider carefully whether punishing investigators for allowing Dreamlands creatures to escape would send the right message, and some reward for giving Myrtle Larson a happy ending should be encouraged. The scenario includes quite a bit of background information for keepers (including much more information in the [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=4442 errata and bonus material]) is also available), as well as advice and plot-hooks for sequels. There are references to more than one "mythos tome", but details are really only provided for one of them (that should be enough for the scenario, but if the others come into play, keepers may need to detail them). The descriptions of the [[Dreamlands]] location(s) could probably use a little attention from keepers familiar with the style of Dreamlands stories from Dunsany and Lovecraft, etc.

	Dependence on Halloween: Moderate; Halloween occurs in the background due to the date of the blizzard, and is the reason for the corn maze which plays a role in the scenario's plot, but Halloween itself is not a focus of the scenario. Enough information is provided for groups unfamiliar with Halloween to figure out how it is being celebrated by the locals in ways that pertain to the plot, though. It would be difficult to run the scenario around a different time of year and omit all Halloween references without a considerable rewrite of the plot, ~~though~~.		Dependence on Halloween: Moderate; Halloween occurs in the background due to the date of the blizzard, and is the reason for the corn maze which plays a role in the scenario's plot, but Halloween itself is not a focus of the scenario. Enough information is provided for groups unfamiliar with Halloween to figure out how it is being celebrated by the locals in ways that pertain to the plot, though. It would be difficult to run the scenario around a different time of year and omit all Halloween references without a considerable rewrite of the plot, in any case.

	Sequel Plot Hooks: "Future adventures may take the investigators deeper into the [[Dreamlands]] or perhaps the sinister true reasons for George Green’s creation of the [[Halloween]] festival in Anoka. For instance, is it possible that Anoka is an area prone to dreaming? Perhaps a strange new city appears; [[Lake Wosmee]], a bucolic rural American town seemingly stuck in the 1950s. What horror lives in the lake that could threaten even the Waking World? And who created it? Could George Green have encountered the apparition of [[Jack ~~O’Lantern~~]], an aspect of [[Nyarlathotep]] hoping to increase public acceptance of the occult by linking it to consumerism and greed for reasons known only to the [[Great Old Ones]]?"		Sequel Plot Hooks: "Future adventures may take the investigators deeper into the [[Dreamlands]] or perhaps the sinister true reasons for George Green’s creation of the [[Halloween]] festival in Anoka. For instance, is it possible that Anoka is an area prone to dreaming? Perhaps a strange new city appears; [[Lake Wosmee]], a bucolic rural American town seemingly stuck in the 1950s. What horror lives in the lake that could threaten even the Waking World? And who created it? Could George Green have encountered the apparition of [[Jack_O'Lantern\|Jack O'Lantern]], an aspect of [[Nyarlathotep]] hoping to increase public acceptance of the occult by linking it to consumerism and greed for reasons known only to the [[Great Old Ones]]?"

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Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

2015-10-22T23:30:44Z

Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

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	** Spell: "Close Gate of Oneirology"		** Spell: "Close Gate of Oneirology"
	** Spell: "Dream Vision"		** Spell: "Dream Vision"

			'''Organizations:'''
			* Anoka Society for the Paranormal (ASP)
			* Anoka County Historical Society

	'''Campaigns / Scenarios:''' (none)		'''Campaigns / Scenarios:''' (none)

Ywhateley: Additional information provided by the Scenario's Author, including Errata and Bonus Content.

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Additional information provided by the Scenario's Author, including Errata and Bonus Content.

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	==Links==		==Links==
	*[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/content/1016-Bride-of-Halloween-Horror-Nine-Dread-Encounters-on-All-Hallows-Eve Malcojones' review on YSDC]		* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/content/1016-Bride-of-Halloween-Horror-Nine-Dread-Encounters-on-All-Hallows-Eve Malcojones' review on YSDC]
			* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/29186-when-to-set-a-modern-scenario/page-2#entry307476 Errata and Bonus Content by MrNorrell]

	==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==		==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
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	* Eric Green's Journal Entry		* Eric Green's Journal Entry
	* Spiritualist Arrives Press Clipping		* Spiritualist Arrives Press Clipping
			* Additional content found in the ([http://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=4442 errata and bonus content]):
			** Four Pre-generated Characters
			** Photo of Kline's Sanitarium
			** Halloween Blizzard Weather Map
			** Mazes in Folklore
			** Location of Anoka County
			** Scenario Map (Map of Anoka, Minnesota)

	'''Locations:'''		'''Locations:'''
	* Anoka, [[Minnesota]]		* Anoka, [[Minnesota]]
	** Anoka County Historical Society		** Anoka County Historical Society History Center and Library
	** Main Street		** Main Street
	** Windego Park		** Windego Park
	** Kline Sanitarium		** Kline Sanitarium
	** Anoka ~~County~~ Library		** Anoka City Library
			** Anoka-Metro Regional Treatment Center
			** Mercy Hospital
	** Oakwood Cemetary		** Oakwood Cemetary
	* the [[Dreamlands]]		* the [[Dreamlands]]
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	* [[Nightgaunt]]s		* [[Nightgaunt]]s
	* [[Ghoul]] (friendly by default)		* [[Ghoul]] (friendly by default)
	* "Kangaroo"/"Bunny" creatures (in background; dream creatures, ~~possibly~~ [[~~Ghast~~]]s?)		* "Kangaroo"/"Bunny" creatures (in background; dream creatures, these are harmless [[Dreamlands]] animals)
	* Dreamlands [[Cat]]s (in background, friendly by default)		* Dreamlands [[Cat]]s (in background, friendly by default)
	* Ghosts and Visions (in background, non-hostile)		* Ghosts and Visions (in background, non-hostile)
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	* Rath, Jay. “The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota’s Unexplained Phenomena.” Wisconsin Trails: Madison, WI, 1998.		* Rath, Jay. “The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota’s Unexplained Phenomena.” Wisconsin Trails: Madison, WI, 1998.
	* Pre-generated characters, maps, pictures, and bonus handouts available soon at Yog-Sothoth.com!		* Pre-generated characters, maps, pictures, and bonus handouts available soon at Yog-Sothoth.com!
	** (~~To date, these don't seem~~ to ~~have materialized~~. - ~~Wiki Editor, Sept~~. ~~2015~~)		** The scenario's author has provided the bonus material ([http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/29186-when-to-set-a-modern-scenario/page-2#entry307476 here]) and ([http://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=4442 here]).
	* Special Thanks to the Playtesters and Editors: Sam Friedman, L.C., and “Weird” Dave Olson.		* Special Thanks to the Playtesters and Editors: Sam Friedman, L.C., and “Weird” Dave Olson.

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	Setting: Modern Anoka, Wisconsin, late October 1991; probably difficult to change the setting to other eras or other locations without considerable rewriting, due to the way that Anoka landmarks and history are woven into the story.		Setting: Modern Anoka, Wisconsin, late October 1991; probably difficult to change the setting to other eras or other locations without considerable rewriting, due to the way that Anoka landmarks and history are woven into the story.

	Keeper Notes: There don't seem to be any hostile creatures in this scenario, and so there's almost no combat unless the investigators really force it (the creatures actively involved are, arguably, only trying to help their victims; the other creatures just appear in the background). This seems like it might be a nice scenario to introduce players new to Call of Cthulhu and other RPGs to this style of game, and in fact may work better for them than for players with some experience in hack-and-slash genres of RPGs, though keepers should be advised that I'm not convinced about some of the sanity rewards for the conclusion of the scenario, and should be encouraged to consider carefully punishing investigators for allowing Dreamlands creatures to escape, and some reward for giving Myrtle Larson a happy ending should be encouraged. The scenario includes quite a bit of background information for keepers (~~the footnotes indicate even~~ more ~~background~~ information ~~was planned, such as maps, etc~~.~~, but this editor could not locate it~~), as well as advice and plot-hooks for sequels. There are references to more than one "mythos tome", but details are really only provided for one of them (that should be enough for the scenario, but if the others come into play, keepers may need to detail them)~~. A map of the town would have been a helpful inclusion, and enterprising keepers may wish to make one of their own~~. The descriptions of the [[Dreamlands]] location(s) could probably use a little attention from keepers familiar with the style of Dreamlands stories from Dunsany and Lovecraft, etc.		Keeper Notes: There don't seem to be any hostile creatures in this scenario, and so there's almost no combat unless the investigators really force it (the creatures actively involved are, arguably, only trying to help their victims; the other creatures just appear in the background). This seems like it might be a nice scenario to introduce players new to Call of Cthulhu and other RPGs to this style of game, and in fact may work better for them than for players with some experience in hack-and-slash genres of RPGs, though keepers should be advised that I'm not convinced about some of the sanity rewards for the conclusion of the scenario, and should be encouraged to consider carefully whether punishing investigators for allowing Dreamlands creatures to escape would send the right message, and some reward for giving Myrtle Larson a happy ending should be encouraged. The scenario includes quite a bit of background information for keepers (including much more information in the [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=4442 errata and bonus material]) is also available), as well as advice and plot-hooks for sequels. There are references to more than one "mythos tome", but details are really only provided for one of them (that should be enough for the scenario, but if the others come into play, keepers may need to detail them). The descriptions of the [[Dreamlands]] location(s) could probably use a little attention from keepers familiar with the style of Dreamlands stories from Dunsany and Lovecraft, etc.

	Dependence on Halloween: Moderate; Halloween occurs in the background due to the date of the blizzard, and is the reason for the corn maze which plays a role in the scenario's plot, but Halloween itself is not a focus of the scenario. Enough information is provided for groups unfamiliar with Halloween to figure out how it is being celebrated by the locals in ways that pertain to the plot, though. It would be difficult to run the scenario around a different time of year and omit all Halloween references without a considerable rewrite of the plot, though.		Dependence on Halloween: Moderate; Halloween occurs in the background due to the date of the blizzard, and is the reason for the corn maze which plays a role in the scenario's plot, but Halloween itself is not a focus of the scenario. Enough information is provided for groups unfamiliar with Halloween to figure out how it is being celebrated by the locals in ways that pertain to the plot, though. It would be difficult to run the scenario around a different time of year and omit all Halloween references without a considerable rewrite of the plot, though.

Ywhateley: Categorizing.

2015-09-21T01:10:00Z

Categorizing.

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	Sequel Plot Hooks: "Future adventures may take the investigators deeper into the [[Dreamlands]] or perhaps the sinister true reasons for George Green’s creation of the [[Halloween]] festival in Anoka. For instance, is it possible that Anoka is an area prone to dreaming? Perhaps a strange new city appears; [[Lake Wosmee]], a bucolic rural American town seemingly stuck in the 1950s. What horror lives in the lake that could threaten even the Waking World? And who created it? Could George Green have encountered the apparition of [[Jack O’Lantern]], an aspect of [[Nyarlathotep]] hoping to increase public acceptance of the occult by linking it to consumerism and greed for reasons known only to the [[Great Old Ones]]?"		Sequel Plot Hooks: "Future adventures may take the investigators deeper into the [[Dreamlands]] or perhaps the sinister true reasons for George Green’s creation of the [[Halloween]] festival in Anoka. For instance, is it possible that Anoka is an area prone to dreaming? Perhaps a strange new city appears; [[Lake Wosmee]], a bucolic rural American town seemingly stuck in the 1950s. What horror lives in the lake that could threaten even the Waking World? And who created it? Could George Green have encountered the apparition of [[Jack O’Lantern]], an aspect of [[Nyarlathotep]] hoping to increase public acceptance of the occult by linking it to consumerism and greed for reasons known only to the [[Great Old Ones]]?"

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