/ysg/ - Yog-sothothery General

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Make sure to go on the mailing list and actually vote. There are enough entries that the winner will only win by 2 or 3.

Does anyone have EMERALD HAMMER? All the links I've found have been dead.

Two more, based on the consolidation and reorganization of MJ12 and DG into the Program between old and new Delta Green.

elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/search/label/Metropolis

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Has anyone actually tried any of the shotgun scenarios? I've got a long form campaign idea, but I want to warm my players up to the system a little first.

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I wrote and ran Snakes on a Plane for two different groups. Another guy in my group ran Schrodinger's Dilemma a few weeks ago and The Button today. RPPR has a recording of Burner and I have to assume at least a few other of the scenarios.

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haha his leg looks like a giant boner in the preview haha

Case Officer's Handbook fucking when?

Supposed to be first quarter of 2017, user.

Of course it could get pushed back again.

Last things Last, which is in the Delta Green quikstart rules is a shotgun scenario. Was pretty fun for new players, not exactly throw them in the deep end, but creepy enough when ran as an Evil Dead kinda scenario.

gimme gimme

>I paid money for a super-crude meme pic that ain't even funny

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benis :-DDDDDD

So other than Lovecraft's own gods (Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, etc.) what are interesting Great Old Ones/Outer Gods made by other people who added to the Mythos?

Hastur was expanded on by Robert Chambers.

Glaaki is pretty interesting too, he's featured in the 7th ed CoC starter adventure.

Ithaqua is my personal favorite.

At the GenCon panel they said 2017, "somewhere between Valentines and Halloween (and closer to Halloween)"

I use the "self-replicating machine elves" described by Terrence McKenna as things he witnessed during his highs on DMT-19. Dude was rich material for mining, in between his drugs, his travel and his contributions to eschatology in the form of "novelty theory", Timewave Zero and being one of the bigger advocates for a 2012 Apocalypse.

>over a year late
>but remember to subscribe to our patreons! the thousands of shekels you gave us on kickstarter weren't enough!

Fucking pathetic

Don't know if y'all heard, but Cthulhu Invictus is getting three years of new support starting in 2017.

Hey /ysg/, I'm holding a Lovecraft-themed party for the winter Solstice. What foods should I prepare?

Cool. I'll see about writing up a Delta Green conversion when it drops so I don't have to use 7E.

Anybody?

I didn't know it was an actual campaign. I thought it was just a list of 'plot hooks' and 'adventure seeds' and other unfinished ideas, like everything else on Fairfield Project

BPRD is great. It was a real disappointment when it turned out that the Ogdru Jahad and friends were just a pile of clay created by angels created by G_d, but everything else about the Hellboy mythos is gold.

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I am making a game that features /ysg/ elements. In it, the characters live in a mildly fantastical city similar to post-WWI London. After being struck by personal tragedy, they are given strange Gifts by sympathetic Great Ones. Using these Gifts pushes them closer to the brink of madness, but they are forced to use them to survive - they are being hunted by other Gifted, now Beasts, who have given in to the madness of their abilities. The longer they live with their Gifts, however, the more they begin to realize that the world itself is not quite right - and no one else can see it.

No one thinks it strange that the old ways - the old buildings, arts, religion - are mocked and idols of madness put in their place. No one thinks it strange that more and more people go missing, more and more are found murdered. No one thinks it strange that no one seems to enter or leave the city. When the Gifted try to warn them, they are dismissed as raving madmen.

What are some other ways to reinforce the idea of a world gone mad beneath the surface?

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The geography, the urban planning, is confused and.. wrong. It's hard to see without the view of a bird, or a sewer rat, or an architect. Streets, pipes, sewers, things that should flow do flow. And yet there are pipes without names, without source, without origin, without end. Sometimes, streets slip between districts. There are buildings that cast the wrong shadow, whose windows reflect sunny skies on cloudy days. The sewers seem to run and fall without purpose, never meeting the sea; you just go deeper into more cavernous brickwork cisterns than can be counted.

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What are your groups of agents, anons?

My group (with me as Keeper):
1) Young, driven U.S. Marshall with a fiancee and a minor gambling problem. Leader and face of the cell and generally the only one who's competent at investigation.
2) Nerdy, kinda withdrawn young Army intelligence officer who's in a little over his head. Bookworm and foreign policy/military expert but not much at other parts of the job, though he does have a bunch of Washington contacts.
3) Loner, paranoid Green Beret who's on "mental wellness leave" after a disastrous raid on a "Taliban" compound. Jackass (irl as well) but competent at combat. Little too much metaknowledge of the Mythos for my taste but whatever.

>I didn't know it was an actual campaign. I thought it was just a list of 'plot hooks' and 'adventure seeds' and other unfinished ideas, like everything else on Fairfield Project
From what I've heard of it, it's apparently an actual campaign, going from a book sale gone bad to finding Zombie Cook in a Karotechia base (who summons Azatoth to blow it up?)

I might use The Black Tree in something. Perhaps in Deadlands or some other weird western. Throw in a small town or cult that worships it as a deity and sacrifices someone to it every year, and this year it's supposed to be the unsuspecting party.

My last DG character Dr Marianne Gould, a Medicin-San-Frontieres HIV specialist. She was working in Africa preaching the gospel of the anti-retroviral to combat the local HIV epidemic and trying to shout down faith healing and other miracle cures with evidence-based medicine; investigating one such source of alleged cures for AIDs led her to the Cult of the Worm. Has amnesia of that encounter, but has a clean bill of (physical) health. Rapidly switched to an epidemiological research position at the CDC under the auspices of the Program. Highly intelligent, does not like being touched. Called on most heavily to map and model potential vectors of infection and spreads of Unnatural threats, treating the mythos as an epidemic.

Here's a question I often ponder. What would you call the "core" Mythos?

By this, I mean - well, look at the model Star Wars used. It had tiered of canonicity - if it was in the movies, that was better than if it was in a novel, for instance. Would you apply that sort of thought to the Mythos and, if so, how would you go about it?

How much of what Lovecraft's personal writings do you use? I rarely use the Dreamlands, personally, because it's just.. well, Dream-Quest isn't very good. And there are a few nuggets out there that aren't Lovecraft originals (Hastur, the Hounds of Tindalos) that I throw into my "Lovecraft canon" while other things from similar sources I disregard entirely.

I use a shitload of my own take on Dreamlands, along with heavy foundational use of Azathoth. Otherwise I've cherry picked a bunch of scenarios around Mi-Go, shoggoths, and the rare horror.

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Federal Agent - Bureau of Land Management
Federal Agent - US Marshals
Intelligence Analyst - NSA
Computer Scientist - Booz Allen Hamilton
Computer Scientist - RAND Corporation (me when I'm not GMing)

Gingerbread cookies shaped like the the Elder Thing "money" in At the Mountains of Madness.

Does anyone have images of the Elder Sign? The original one, not the Derleth one.

Anybody want to sing some Cthulhu carols this solstice?

One of these days I'll get an opportunity to replace the department store's christmas carol playlist with a HPLHS solstice carol album. I have a feeling most people probably wouldn't even notice something was amiss.

Sounds like a good modern Cthulhu plot actually. Cultist take control of a big corporation and slowly and subtly pushes Cthulhu worship in pop culture.

Ygolonac is a bro

I like a lot of Ramsey Campbell's contributions. Glaaki, Y'Golonac, the Insects from Shaggai, etc

I'm going to stand on my balcony and sing "A Brumalian Wish". It's one of their best.

youtube.com/watch?v=s0Wd1004SUY

The King in Yellow predates Lovecraft's works, and Hastur wasn't a god in it.

user, I'm not even entirely sure if an English translation of the book exists, but if you're not afraid of digging up obscure books, check out Mr. G.A. in X by Tibor Déry. It's a book quite similar to what you want, featuring the titular Mr. G.A. travelling to the city of X, which seems to exist beyond the furthest reaches of civilization, surrounded by an indeterminately sized junk heap, itself being an endless urban landscape built without rhyme or reason (pertaining both to city layout and the buildings themselves), badly maintained and torn down/rebuilt at the whims of its inhabitants, who seem to have little concept of the world beyond their city, or even common sense, and have a reckless disregard for their own or anyone else's lives or needs or even social obligations. There's pretty much no nature to be found, and even where the food sold in the city comes from seems to be a mystery disregarded by everyone.

It's a weird, surreal (and sometimes unnerving) book, and I only skimmed the immediate surface when describing it, but it should fuel your imagination plenty.

I thing Shrug-Niggurath would be funnier, but I smiled.

Isn't the Fate kinda doing that (or did that) with Club Apocalypse/Charnel Dreams?

The first occurence of the name Hastur (Ambrose Bierce, "Haita The Shepherd") does refer to him as a deity, albeit a benign one who watches over shepherds. In Chambers' writings, the name describes both a person (a mortal man, a falconer in Demoiselle D'Ys) and a place (Repairer of Reputations).

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The Thassogua Cycle is a pretty fun read. Basically the ancient hyborean god of neckbeards.

Attaching a cult to it ruins the horror of it.

The horror of a cult depends very much on its execution. Cult horror often comes from the same place as conspiracy horror - who is a member? Can you trust those around you? What machinations go on just out of your view? So having it be around a black tree that does weird shit, I mean, it could work. But it reallly depends on what else the cult does beyond "worship a weird tree"

I guess the Cult could work as a reverse cult.

The friendly natives turn hostile when you ask about [THING], cops and government officials begin harassing you, culminating in violence and murder if you stay near [THING].

Like the natives in that horror film about some infectious eldritch thing inside an Aztec temple that had a whole salted "moat" around it (it was a plant based monstosity).
Dumb American tourists enter it, get spooked by [THING], try to leave, and then the villagers start sniping the tourists, forcing them to go back inside the temple to die.

Oh, the Ruins! That was a pretty interesting movie, I like how it learns as time goes on.

Is CthulhuTech allowed?

No.

Maybe on >>>r/cthulhu

I agree but unless your group is up for really playing into the "the biggest threat is our own curiosity" aspect of the horror there isn't much of a game when the threat is just a weird tree. Unless you used whatever those creatures hanging out in the branches were more than they were used in the comic I guess.

How about this - the players are arctic explorers, same as the comic. They come to a tree. They go "huh, a tree, weird", make some notes but they got a mission to go explore more Arctic. So they do. They travel, in the night they lose a dog, they push on - and they come right on back to the tree, but this time there's some bones lying at its feet. Did they get lost, turned around the the expansive white nothing of their treacherous environment? Or is there something far more sinister going on?

Make a batch of cookies that are quite bland. Recruit a couple of friends to go on and on about how good the cookies are. See if you can start influencing the others. Maybe get more insistent about it as the night goes. It's your party, you should fuck with your guests.

>fuck with your guests
This, all of my this.

Get a mannequin. Get a yellow robe, preferably tattered, if not just shred it yourself a little. Put in on the mannequin, put the mannequin in the center of the room or anywhere else where it can be in the way and really inconvenience people. When you greet people, give every guest a fortune cookie, all of which should contain "Ignore it, maybe it will go away". Then pretend to not see it at all, possibly recruit friends to do the same.