User:Ywhateley

I'm helping out with adding synopses and other details to Scenarios in the wiki.

In progress

Scenarios I'd like to contribute:

Dreamlands: Role-Playing Beyond the Wall of Sleep

• To_Sleep,_Perchance_to_Dream
• Captives_of_Two_Worlds
• Pickman's_Student
• Season_of_the_Witch
• Lemon_Sails (I've finished this, it's free for further revision and review!)
• The_Land_of_Lost_Dreams

On the Drawing Board

Someone else can feel free to do any of the following - just let me know so I don't start working on them at the same time :) Scenarios I could contribute to, but won't be able to do immediately:

Done

I've finished updating these scenario pages, feel free to provide further editing and reviews:

Halloween Horror (2005)

• Eyes_That_Should_Not_See
• Halloween_in_Dunwich
• Terror_at_Erne_Rock

Halloween Horror 2 (2006)

• Of_Angels_and_Bones
• The_Devil's_Agents
• Haunted_Molesbury
• Way_Down._In_Ioway.
• The_Smokestack_Horror
• Halloween_Candy
• Enter_the_Gaijin
• A_Ring_of_Toadstools

Halloween Horror Returns (2007)

• Hope_(Scenario)
• The_Return_of_the_Headless_Horseman
• Halloween_At_St._Odilio's
• Masks_of_Halloween
• Shadows_Of_War_Past
• The_Mask_Of_Neil_Marlow's_Pet

The Bride of Halloween Horror (2008)

• The_Beloved_Dead
• Cain's_Clan
• A_Chill_Down_Your_Spine
• The_Dragon_and_the_Wolf
• Earth:_Rest_Stop,_Body_Shop
• Longa_Obscuritas
• Jubai_Kaidan
• Revenge_of_the_Hei_People
• Who's_That_Knocking?

Plan 09 From Halloween (2009)

• Flesh_Festival
• You_Are_What_You_Eat
• The_Faculty_Party
• The_Return_of_the_Magician
• Halloween_Nuit
• Must_The_Show_Go_On?
• The_Dead_School

Dead Leaves Fall and Other Halloween Horrors (2011)

• Fear_in_a_Bottle
• The_Lock-In
• The_Ilsley_Variant
• The_Confessions_of_St._Augustine,_Chapter_CCLXVIII
• The_Great_Old_Ones_On_The_Great_White_Way
• The_Costume_Party review!)
• Lemuralia
• 13_Black_Candles
• Dead_Leaves_Fall_(Scenario)

Cthulhu Dark Ages (2004)

• The_Tomb_(Scenario)

I plan to blog some reviews for these, and add links for the reviews, but they could probably use some additional review links (YSDC has some great reviewers, I just haven't been able to concentrate on tracking their reviews down!)

It looks like many of the scenarios have "red links" for monsters, tomes, locations, cults, and organizations, some of which are unique to those scenarios (or their authors' other works). I may try to fill some of those red links, but feel free to add them yourself if you get to them first.

Out of Scope

Additionally, I've done the following things that were originally outside my "Halloween Scenario" scope:

• Lemon_Sails (I've finished this, it's free for further revision and review!)
• new category for scenarios set in schools (location-based scenarios)
• new category scenarios set in Japan (places)
• I contacted the author of one of the scenarios to see about including "lost" background information on the Village of Sogailraugh; it should be OK to include a link to the website that is hosting the supplemental information, and provide a map key.
• Created redirects for "Orne Library" and "Orne library" (they point to Miskatonic University (Location)).
• Added, organized, and cited Miskatonic University staff and books in the Orne Library, making heavy changes to Miskatonic University (Location).
• Created categories for Sthood (a Dreamlands deity).
• Added illustrations for the Miskatonic University Library, Corbitt House ("The Haunting"), and lighthouse for "Terror at Erne Rock", plus additional illustrations and alternate floor plans for buildings that have appeared in the first couple Halloween Monographs (I "built" the houses in 3D using The Sims 3, and posed them for screenshots).
• Created a page about Halloween, mainly to answer the question of why cultists would choose to perform spells and rituals on Halloween (which has quickly become a good question, considering the number of Halloween scenarios I've seen so far in documenting the Halloween Monographs!)
• New Venue Category: Farms
• New Venue Category: Restaurants
• Created an entry for "The Book of the Dark Order of Baphomet"; I took the opportunity to begin sketching in the foundations of a loose Tome template I may use for future entries (based loosely on the entry for the Necronomicon).
• What do you know? "Foxfield" is a Lovecraft creation, one I'd never heard of before, used in one of the scenarios I synopsed(?). I was unable to find the map Lovecraft was said to have drawn, but I suspect the map included in the scenario is probably at least based on it, so I created a cheap imitation. (Anyone with access to a copy of Lovecraft's original can feel free to replace my poor drawing, if there's no problem with copyright on Lovecraft's original.)
• New categories for a few eras (Invictus, 18th and 19th centuries, etc.; surprisingly these did not already exist, but there don't seem to have been too many Colonial American or Imperial Roman scenarios archived in any great detail in the Wiki until I started documenting some of Halloween scenarios that use off-beat settings.)
• New category for scenarios, Venue: Library
• Added some variations of mythos tomes included in a couple of scenarios, and created several pages for new tomes.
• Redirects for "Hyborea", "Hyborean" to "Hyperborea".
• Details about town of Aylesbury.
• Illustration for Deep Ones (taken from a creepy old woodcut)
• A new page for Gloon.
• Better organization of Occult Books
• New illustrations for Erne Rock lighthouse.
• Added details to "Cultes des Goules" and "Comte d'Erlette" as a result of running across some details in a Delta Green story.
• Built and uploaded screenshots of the MU "Miskatonic University English Department", based roughly on a design included in one of the scenarios I looked at ("The Faculty Party"). Seems like the basic floor-plans could be re-used for any generic University classroom building, and might come in useful in other scenarios.

Personal Thoughts

• It occurs to me that there are WAY too many different home-made Mythos entities and deities and books and organizations and Arkham clones out there, and I thought I would be the LAST person to say that! Sturgeon's Law applies. In the original spirit of the shared universe, I think there's something to be said for re-using (or putting a new spin to) some of the existing content, especially the better-written content created by Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and the others in the Lovecraft circle, as well as some of the better-detailed and better-written NPCs, tomes, cults, towns, monsters, deities, investigator organizations, etc. created by decades of mythos writers, before half-baking some new ones.