Cain's Clan - Revision history

Ywhateley: Spoiler Code

2016-06-26T03:05:03Z

Spoiler Code

Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

2015-09-20T23:03:38Z

Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

2015-09-20T23:01:47Z

Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

2015-09-20T22:48:51Z

Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

2015-09-20T22:46:11Z

Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

2015-09-20T22:45:28Z

Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

2015-09-20T22:34:07Z

Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

2015-09-20T22:29:50Z

Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

Ywhateley: Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

2015-09-20T22:25:28Z

Details, typo corrections, and clarifications.

ShimminBeg: Disclaimer

2012-12-10T11:44:52Z

Disclaimer

@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 '''Artist(s):''' (the illustrations "by Lorem Ipsum" seem to be either anonymous, or uncredited by mistake)
-'''Setting:''' [[Modern]] Jakob's Bluff, [[Wisconsin]]
+'''Setting:''' [[Modern]] Jakob's Bluff, [[Wisconsin]], [[Halloween]]
 '''Appears in:''' [[Bride of Halloween Horror]]
@@ Line 23: / Line 23: @@
 ===Synopsis===
-Over three hundred years ago, on what would be celebrated now as [[Halloween]], a Sauk Indian brave named Kiakiwaka entered an underground cave complex where the Great Old One [[Nyogtha]] was resting after ravaging Kiakiwaka’s tribe. Kiakiwaka succeeded in driving Nyogtha back into the deep places under the earth where it lairs. However, Kiakiwaka severed a pseudopod of Nyogtha’s in the struggle.  The pseudopod inched along dark passageways, and crevasses in the earth, until it found an acceptable resting spot near Jakob's Bluff, Wisconsin, in the limestone caves southwest of Madison. There it rested, nursing its hurt and its hate, feasting on animals and the occasional lost human that stumbled across its path.  A little over three years before the scenario begins, four friends from Jakob's Bluff went exploring in these caves and got lost; they eventually found their way, but one of them Came Back Wrong, and now, on each [[Halloween]], the fragment of [[Nyogtha]] exacts bloody vengeance on humanity through its human vessel.
+{{spoiler|
 ===References===

@@ Line 31: / Line 31: @@
 * A long quote from an FBI consultant for the police on the case could serve as a handout.
 * Some descriptions of the crime scenes seem like they might better have been presented as handouts for coroner's and police reports.
 * No map is provided, but could have been useful for suggesting the relationship between the caverns, woods, and crime scenes.

@@ Line 26: / Line 26: @@
 ===References===
-'''Player Handouts:'''
+'''Player Handouts:''' (none, though there would seem to have been a couple wasted opportunities for them)
 '''Locations:'''
@@ Line 58: / Line 63: @@
 Setting: nominally Modern Wisconsin, but can be changed to classic Lovecraft Country and other settings fairly easily (nothing but the "local flavor" provided in the descriptions places the setting in rural Wisconsin, and nothing in particular sets the date in the modern era, and the setting could just as easily be [[Dark Ages]] Europe as [[Modern]] Wisconsin).
-Special Notes: The scenario includes Keeper Advice, which is a nice touch.  There doesn't seem to be any real plot traditional plot or clear resolution to the scenario, and the loose, sandboxy nature of the scenario might be frustrating for all but the most self-motivated and pro-active groups.
+Special Notes: The scenario includes Keeper Advice, which is a nice touch.  There doesn't seem to be any real plot traditional plot or clear resolution to the scenario, and the loose, sandboxy nature of the scenario might be frustrating for all but the most self-motivated and pro-active groups.  The scenario does not include handouts; enterprising keepers might want to create some in the form of coroner's reports, newspaper articles, quotes from diaries and the weird fiction novel, and maps, which would go a short way toward giving the players some direction in this scenario.
 Dependence on Halloween:  Minimal.  Halloween decorations provide some background descriptions and the date serves as an arbitrary anniversary for the killings to happen on, but doesn't seem to play much of a part in the scenario otherwise.  If keepers unfamiliar with Halloween want to use the holiday as-is, the scenario includes a few details to describe the decorations and celebration with.

@@ Line 43: / Line 43: @@
 ** Spell:  Enchant Demonbane  (can be cast on any blade made of pure iron, costs 1 POW, 1d4 SAN, and requires the sacrifice of an animal of SIZ 4 or greater in the light of the moon. The blade now can damage extranormal beings; ignore any special damage reduction or immunity rules.)
 * Enchanted Roman Gladius (obtained from the Sauk Indians by the University of Wisconsin, which will not willigly part with it)
-* A weird fiction novel by a Wisconsin writer named Darius Gustofsen (1851-1915), called "The Thing in the Mound", which tells a tale similar to LeBlanc's story, "A wise Swedish priest and a cunning Indian brave team up to face an evil from beyond the stars in an ancient burial mound"; first edition in good shape, about 110 pages long, stodgily-written and containing nothing useful in itself.
+* A (fictional) weird fiction novel by a Wisconsin writer named Darius Gustofsen (1851-1915), called "The Thing in the Mound", which tells a tale similar to LeBlanc's story, "A wise Swedish priest and a cunning Indian brave team up to face an evil from beyond the stars in an ancient burial mound"; first edition in good shape, about 110 pages long, stodgily-written and containing nothing useful in itself.  (This is presumably a fictional stand-in for Wisconsin's [[August Derleth]].)

@@ Line 41: / Line 41: @@
 '''Tomes and Artifacts:'''
 * Father Leblanc's Diary (belongs to the University of Wisconsin, which will not willingly part with it; counts as a Tome, and contains a spell)
-** Spell:  Enchant Demonbane  (can be cast on any blade made of pure iron, costs 1 POW, 1d4 SAN, and requires the sacrifice of an animal of SIZ 4 or greater in the light of the moon. The blade now can damage extranormal beings;
+** Spell:  Enchant Demonbane  (can be cast on any blade made of pure iron, costs 1 POW, 1d4 SAN, and requires the sacrifice of an animal of SIZ 4 or greater in the light of the moon. The blade now can damage extranormal beings; ignore any special damage reduction or immunity rules.)
 * Enchanted Roman Gladius (obtained from the Sauk Indians by the University of Wisconsin, which will not willigly part with it)
 * A weird fiction novel by a Wisconsin writer named Darius Gustofsen (1851-1915), called "The Thing in the Mound", which tells a tale similar to LeBlanc's story, "A wise Swedish priest and a cunning Indian brave team up to face an evil from beyond the stars in an ancient burial mound"; first edition in good shape, about 110 pages long, stodgily-written and containing nothing useful in itself.

@@ Line 59: / Line 59: @@
 The scenario includes Keeper Advice.
-Setting: nominally Modern Wisconsin, but can be changed to classic Lovecraft Country and other settings fairly easily.
+Setting: nominally Modern Wisconsin, but can be changed to classic Lovecraft Country and other settings fairly easily (nothing but the "local flavor" provided in the descriptions places the setting in rural Wisconsin, and nothing in particular sets the date in the modern era, and the setting could just as easily be [[Dark Ages]] Europe as [[Modern]] Wisconsin).
 Dependence on Halloween:  Minimal.  Halloween decorations provide some background descriptions and the date serves as an arbitrary anniversary for the killings to happen on, but doesn't seem to play much of a part in the scenario otherwise.  If keepers unfamiliar with Halloween want to use the holiday as-is, the scenario includes a few details to describe the decorations and celebration with.

@@ Line 56: / Line 56: @@
 Possibly how to run it successfully.
 Keep general DISCUSSION on the talk page.
-<!-- written without access to the scenario or detailed reviews -->
 [[Category:CoC:Scenarios]]
 [[Category:CoC:Modern scenarios]]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 ==Details==
 [[Image:MULA-The-Bride-Of-Halloween-Horror.jpg|thumb]]
 '''Author(s):''' [[Ed McLinn]]
-'''Setting:''' [[Modern]]
+'''Artist(s):''' (the illustrations "by Lorem Ipsum" seem to be either anonymous, or uncredited by mistake)
 '''Appears in:''' [[Bride of Halloween Horror]]
 ==Summary==
-Three years ago, something terrible happened. On Halloween night, Margot Alfredsen was brutally murdered. No killer was caught, and it was hoped that he had moved on. On Halloween night two years ago Bob and Janet Cawley were killed in the same fashion. But still there were no clues and no leads. Just last Halloween, Danica Andersen and Officer Lars Skoller were murdered, again in the same brutal fashion. Again, no killer was caught. Halloween is again approaching, and fear is gnawing at the pit of the stomachs of the good people of Jakob’s Bluff.
+Three years ago, something terrible happened. On Halloween night, Margot Alfredsen was brutally murdered. No killer was caught, and it was hoped that he had moved on. On Halloween night two years ago Bob and Janet Cawley were killed in the same fashion. But still there were no clues and no leads. Just last Halloween, Danica Andersen and Officer Lars Skoller were murdered, again in the same brutal fashion. Again, no killer was caught. Halloween is again approaching, and fear is gnawing at the pit of the stomachs of the good people of Jakob’s Bluff, and the investigators arrive to investigate the strange murders.
 ==Links==
@@ Line 19: / Line 23: @@
 ===Synopsis===
-Describe the adventure in detail; no bias allowed.
+Over three hundred years ago, on what would be celebrated now as [[Halloween]], a Sauk Indian brave named Kiakiwaka entered an underground cave complex where the Great Old One [[Nyogtha]] was resting after ravaging Kiakiwaka’s tribe. Kiakiwaka succeeded in driving Nyogtha back into the deep places under the earth where it lairs. However, Kiakiwaka severed a pseudopod of Nyogtha’s in the struggle.  The pseudopod inched along dark passageways, and crevasses in the earth, until it found an acceptable resting spot near Jakob's Bluff, Wisconsin, in the limestone caves southwest of Madison. There it rested, nursing its hurt and its hate, feasting on animals and the occasional lost human that stumbled across its path.  A little over three years before the scenario begins, four friends from Jakob's Bluff went exploring in these caves and got lost; they eventually found their way, but one of them Came Back Wrong, and now, on each [[Halloween]], the fragment of [[Nyogtha]] exacts bloody vengeance on humanity through its human vessel.
 ===References===
 '''Player Handouts:'''
-'''Locations:''' Jakob's Bluff
+'''Locations:'''
-'''Creatures:''' Contaminated locals, contaminated wildlife, (severed part of [[Nyogtha]]?)
+'''Tomes and Artifacts:'''
-'''Campaigns / Scenarios:'''
+'''Campaigns / Scenarios:''' (none)
 ===Comments===
-List dedication, trivia,  images, anything else of note.
+"So times were pleasant for the people there / Until finally one, a fiend out of hell, / Began to work his evil in the world." -Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney)
 ===Keeper Comments===