The Dead School - Revision history

Manx at 15:00, 27 April 2023

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Manx at 14:42, 27 April 2023

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dead School, The}}
 [[Category:CoC:Scenarios]]
 [[Category:CoC:Halloween_scenarios]]
 [[Category:CoC:Scenarios_set_in_Massachusetts]]
 [[Category:CoC:Scenarios_featuring_the_Dreamlands]]
-[[Category:CoC:Dream_scenarios]]
+[[Category:CoC:School_scenarios]]
 [[Category:CoC:Self-contained_scenarios]]
-[[Category:CoC:Everything has changed scenarios]]
+[[Category:CoC:Voodoo_scenarios]
 __NOTOC__

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 [[Category:CoC:Dream_scenarios]]
 [[Category:CoC:Cultist_scenarios]]
-[[Category:CoC:Self-Contained_scenarios]]
+[[Category:CoC:Self-contained_scenarios]]
 [[Category:CoC:Everything has changed scenarios]]
 __NOTOC__

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 '''Artist(s):''' (none)
-'''Setting:''' [[1920s]] [[Massachusetts]]
+'''Setting:''' [[1920s]] [[Massachusetts]], [[Halloween]]
 '''Appears in:''' [[Plan 09 From Halloween]]
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 ===Synopsis===
-Principal George Edgerton came to Temple Hill Boarding School highly recommended, however he isn’t the bland administrator that he initially seems, but is in truth a long lived sorcerer looking to extend his life further.  A former reverend, on his deathbed from a fatal fever Edgerton denounced God and called out for someone to save him.  During the final stages of his fever he imagined signing a book held by a figure he couldn’t make out in a featureless room. After his vision, Edgerton made a startling recovery, returning to full health in a matter of days, and he has a loose understanding that his disease was cured by the god [[Nyarlathotep]], but everything else he knows is rumor or misunderstanding.  Delving deeper into forbidden occult lore, Edgerton uncovered what he assumed to be a Voodoo ritual to grant immortality by bargaining with the Voodoo death god [[Baron Samedi]], unaware that he was dealing yet again with an avatar of [[Nyarlathotep]].  The alleged immortality ritual required 200 sacrifices to make it work, and Edgerton pulled a favor to get himself installed at Temple Hill Private School for a ready source of isolated victims.  To help him, Edgerton recruited three other teachers at the school; the cult believes [[Halloween]] to be a sacred day that will improve their favor with Baron Samedi, and by 8:00pm on October 31st they are ready to begin, unaware that the sacrifice will end in disaster.
+{{spoiler|
 ===References===
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 * [[Zombie]]s
 * Insane Cultists
-* "[[Baron Samedi]]"
+* "[[Baron Samedi]]", an Avatar of [[Nyarlathotep]]
 * [[Ghost|Poltergeist]]

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 [[Category:CoC:Scenarios_set_in_Massachusetts]]
 [[Category:CoC:Scenarios_featuring_the_Dreamlands]]
 [[Category:CoC:Dream_scenarios]]
 [[Category:CoC:Cultist_scenarios]]

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 [[Category:CoC:Scenarios_set_in_Massachusetts]]
 [[Category:CoC:Scenarios_featuring_the_Dreamlands]]
 [[Category:CoC:Cultist_scenarios]]
 [[Category:CoC:Self-Contained_scenarios]]
 [[Category:CoC:Everything has changed scenarios]]
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 Keep general DISCUSSION on the talk page.
-Setting:  Nominally a private school in rural Massechusetts in the 1920s, but the scenario includes a little advice for setting the scenario in other eras (Gaslight to Modern), and the scenario should be easy to relocate to any isolated rural area.
+Setting:  Nominally a private school in rural Massachusetts in the 1920s, but the scenario includes a little advice for setting the scenario in other eras (Gaslight to Modern), and the scenario should be easy to relocate to any isolated rural area.
 Special Notes:  This scenario probably works best as a "one-shot":  the PCs are students at a private school, and do not seem to survive the scenario as-written.  This sort of scenario could really have used some pre-gen student characters; keepers may wish to prepare some in advance.  Some groups may find the bleak ending and somewhat "railroady" plot frustrating.

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 ===Comments===
-Trivia:  The students are held for "Detention", a form of school discipline preventing them from going to the school party; in U.S. schools, this means the students got in trouble somehow, and have been locked in a school room for a specified amount of time, where they are expected to remain seated and silent, perhaps performing some designated task (homework, extra writing assignment, etc.)
+Trivia:  The students are held for "Detention", a form of school discipline preventing them from going to the school party; in U.S. schools, this means the students got in trouble somehow, and have been locked in a school room for a specified amount of time by teachers or other school staff, where the students are expected to remain seated and silent, perhaps performing some designated task (homework, extra writing assignment, etc.)
 ===Keeper Comments===

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 '''Player Handouts:'''
 * "What They [the Investigators] Know" at the beginning of the Scenario
 * "First Note"
 * "Second Note"

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 Setting:  Nominally a private school in rural Massechusetts in the 1920s, but the scenario includes a little advice for setting the scenario in other eras (Gaslight to Modern), and the scenario should be easy to relocate to any isolated rural area.
-Special Notes:  This scenario probably works best as a "one-shot":  the PCs are students at a private school, and do not seem to survive the scenario as-written.  Some groups may find the bleak ending and somewhat "railroady" plot frustrating.  This sort of scenario could really have used some pre-gen student characters; keepers may wish to prepare some in advance.
+Special Notes:  This scenario probably works best as a "one-shot":  the PCs are students at a private school, and do not seem to survive the scenario as-written.  This sort of scenario could really have used some pre-gen student characters; keepers may wish to prepare some in advance.  Some groups may find the bleak ending and somewhat "railroady" plot frustrating.
 Dependence on Halloween:  Minimal - the scenario is set on [[Halloween]] and this holiday probably fits the villain somewhat, and there are some references to the investigators being put in detention and missing the party, but the scenario should be pretty easy to set on any holiday or festival date instead, with minimal rewriting.