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Call of Cthulhu Campaign (High Point, NC) – Restless Dreams Part 2

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I ran a short Call of Cthulhu 1920s campaign for some friends in High Point, North Carolina, back in 2012. The campaign started in Arkham, Massachusetts, but quickly moved to Silent Hill, Maine. Unfortunately, the campaign ended due to lack of interest in the players and was never completed.

The fourth session continues the original scenario “Restless Dreams,” my adaption of Silent Hill II to Call of Cthulhu. In this one, the characters actually enter the lost town of Silent Hill and begin to encounter strange and terrible things.

This game took place on April 26, 2012. My players were Ken, Steve, and Erik.

The role playing journals for this session can be found here:

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2161-silent-hill-restless-dreams-2-1-a-pleasant-mornings-drive/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2160-silent-hill-restless-dreams-2-2-entering-silent-hill/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2159-silent-hill-restless-dreams-2-3-the-thing-in-the-street/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2158-silent-hill-restless-dreams-2-4-neelys-bar-and-a-body/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2157-silent-hill-restless-dreams-2-5-wood-side-apartments/

Additionally, this was when I started video-recording game sessions. The playlist of six videos of the game session can be found here:

“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAB25DAD4A87E6AC6”

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Call of Cthulhu Campaign (High Point, NC) – Restless Dreams Part 1

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I ran a short Call of Cthulhu 1920s campaign for some friends in High Point, North Carolina, back in 2012. The campaign started in Arkham, Massachusetts, but quickly moved to Silent Hill, Maine. Unfortunately, the campaign ended due to lack of interest in the players and was never completed.

The third session starts the beginning of the original scenario “Restless Dreams,” my adaption of Silent Hill II to Call of Cthulhu. The session saw them start to follow their leads to Silent Hill, head for Maine, and do some research.

This game took place on March 28, 2012. My players were Jeff, Ken, Steve, and Erik.

The role playing journals for this session can be found here:

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2124-silent-hill-restless-dreams-1-1-beginnings-and-introductions/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2123-silent-hill-restless-dreams-1-2-more-questions-from-the-police/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2122-silent-hill-restless-dreams-1-3-assignations-are-arranged/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2121-silent-hill-restless-dreams-1-4-discussions-with-professor-loomis/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2120-silent-hill-restless-dreams-1-5-the-storm-coffee-and-cigars/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2119-silent-hill-restless-dreams-1-6-unsaid-secrets-and-a-proposal/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2118-silent-hill-restless-dreams-1-7-another-morning-in-paradise/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2117-silent-hill-restless-dreams-1-8-road-to-bangor/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2116-silent-hill-restless-dreams-1-9-research/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2115-silent-hill-restless-dreams-1-10-pleasant-river/

Additionally, this was when I started video-recording game sessions. The playlist of six videos of the game session can be found here:

“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLED8C98D8B3E28713”

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Call of Cthulhu Campaign (High Point, NC) – The Edge of Darkness Part 2

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I ran a short Call of Cthulhu 1920s campaign for some friends in High Point, North Carolina, back in 2012. The campaign started in Arkham, Massachusetts, but quickly moved to Silent Hill, Maine. Unfortunately, the campaign ended due to lack of interest in the players and was never completed.

The second session sees the introductory scenario “The Edge of Darkness” from the Call of Cthulhu 6th Edition Rule book continue with .

This game took place on Feb. 27, 2012. My players were Steve, Jeff, Ken, and Erik.

The role playing journals for this session can be found here:

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2067-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-0-enter-michael-oshea/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2066-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-1-a-new-associate/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2065-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-2-unconvincing-arguments/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2064-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-3-the-police-again/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2063-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-4-night-of-terror/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2062-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-5-the-day-after/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2061-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-6-the-end-of-the-house/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2060-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-7-brotherly-love/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2059-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-8-a-visit-to-vanderholdt/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2058-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-9-comparing-horrors/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2057-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-2-10-dénouement-and/

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Call of Cthulhu Campaign (High Point, NC) – The Edge of Darkness Part 1

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I ran a short Call of Cthulhu 1920s campaign for some friends in High Point, North Carolina, back in 2012. The campaign started in Arkham, Massachusetts, but quickly moved to Silent Hill, Maine. Unfortunately, the campaign ended due to lack of interest in the players and was never completed.

The first session sees the introduction of the players and then their involvement in the introductory scenario “The Edge of Darkness” from the Call of Cthulhu 6th Edition Rule book.

This game took place on Jan. 30, 2012. My players were Steve, Jeff, and Ken.

The role playing journals for this session can be found here:

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2029-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-1-1-it-begins/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2028-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-1-2-hospital-visit/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2027-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-1-3-the-box/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2026-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-1-4-the-journal/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2025-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-1-5-research-and-search/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2024-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-1-6-return-to-orne-library/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2023-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-1-7-dr-armitage/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2022-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-1-8-subterfuge-and-the-arkham-police/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2021-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-1-9-rosss-corners/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2020-the-edge-of-darkness-pt-1-10-the-house/

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Call of Cthulhu – The Harlotville Horror

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Since the Hobbs Oil Strike of 1927, Dr. Adam Silverberg, a history professor at the University of New Mexico, had been doing research in the hopes of finding the location of another huge oil field and making some extra money on the side. In the spring of 1928, he stumbled across something that seemed to bear fruit.

The information he’d found was an account of a ghost town in the western part of the state in the Plains of San Augustine. The town was called Harlotville and what he could piece together was that it was settled in 1825 by a group of prostitutes headed west to make a better life for themselves. There was some trouble with a wagon and the harlots made a home where they found a spring in the desert. Over the next 20 years, enough people (mostly men) migrated to the area and stayed that it actually became a town. The town no longer existed. During the Mexican American War, everyone was either killed in the town or fled.

By the early summer of 1928, Silverberg had contacted the Midwest Refining Company, the same company that had made the Hobbs Oil Strike of the year before in eastern New Mexico. That had put him in contact with a vice president of the company, one Roger Stanford. An expedition was set up to investigate the site.

On April 26, 2014, at NerdCon 2014 at Appalachian State University, I ran the original Call of Cthulhu scenario “The Harlotville Horror.” My players were Teri, James, John, Katie, Caitlin, and Logan.

The Role Playing Journals of the game session can be found here:

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2663-the-harlotville-horror-part-1-it-begins/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2662-the-harlotville-horror-part-2-attack-in-the-night/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2661-the-harlotville-horror-part-3-further-investigation/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2660-the-harlotville-horror-part-4-the-thing-in-the-house/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2659-the-harlotville-horror-part-5-escape/

A playlist of seven videos of the game session can be found here:

“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDrZa-s7RuItyGLGspU44VHr”

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