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Call of Cthulhu – The Last Voyage of the Ivory Pride Session One (Skype Game)

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On July 22, 2015, we played a one-shot Call of Cthulhu game with some people on Skype who had asked me to run for them. The scenario is “The Last Voyage of the Ivory Pride” which I found online and printed out some years ago. It seems to have completely disappeared from the internet since then. The year is 1925 off the Ivory Coast of Africa. The investigators are passengers (and one crewman) of the Ivory Pride, a steamship bound for Morocco. Something goes wrong on the second day. Can a con man, a radio announcer, an undertaker, and a big game hunter unravel what is going on aboard the ship before the Singing Man arrives? My players were Tim, Jeff, D.J., and Lily. Part one of three.

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

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2886-the-last-voyage-of-the-ivory-pride-session-one-skype-game/

No video recording of this game session.

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Call of Cthulhu Providence Campaign 17 – The Play’s the Thing: The Pirates of Candle Cove

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In London in the summer of the year 1600, a new play has come to the Globe Theatre: “The Pirates of Candle Cove.” But strange things soon start happening. Can an actor, a stage hand, and a musician stop the play or will Candle Cove unfold?

I started running a Call of Cthulhu campaign for students at Appalachian State University in March 2014. The game was set in Providence, R.I., starting in the summer of 1925. The seventeenth session of the game took place on July 5, 2015, with the original scenario “The Play’s the Thing: The Pirates of Candle Cove.” While not technically in Providence or with the Providence group, this interim game has connections with the campaign game that will soon be revealed. My players were Nissa, Kyle, and Hannah.

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

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2876-the-plays-the-thing-the-pirates-of-candle-cove-part-1-a-new-play/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2875-the-plays-the-thing-the-pirates-of-candle-cove-part-2-marionettes/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2874-the-plays-the-thing-the-pirates-of-candle-cove-part-3-massingberds-dilemma/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2873-the-plays-the-thing-the-pirates-of-candle-cove-part-4-the-play/

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

“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDoSSI7wAWfdNvDN8FOHgXUv”

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Call of Cthulhu – Terror Over Tokyo: The Obake Shima Incident

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I ran a Call of Cthulhu Game at NerdCon 2015 at Appalachian State University. “Terror Over Tokyo: The Obake Shima Incident” took place during the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942. The B-25 Bomber that is part of the raid must make hard choices when one of the fuel tanks is punctured. My players were Teri, Toli, Carl, Walker, and Devin.

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

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2844-terror-over-tokyo-the-obake-shima-incident-part-1-the-doolittle-raid/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2843-terror-over-tokyo-the-obake-shima-incident-part-2-rising-terror/

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

“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDqFyfLYOqrJKa3Mh_QHRAHA”

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Call of Cthulhu: The Haunted Place

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A man has gone mad and his brother wants investigators to find out what in his Providence house could have caused it. Unfortunately, they bite off a little more than they can chew.

On April 12, 2015, the Appalachian State University Game Club had a LAN party and the president of that club asked if I could run a game of Call of Cthulhu during it. I was happy to oblige. I pulled out the original scenario “The Haunted Place” which I’d run as part of the Providence campaign some months before, though the player in that case had not finished it. This serves as a follow-up of the initial investigation. My players were James, Mike, Darian, Nissa, Elizabeth, and Katelyn.

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

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2834-the-haunted-place-part-1-the-house-on-academy-avenue/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2833-the-haunted-place-part-2-investigation-and-return/

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

“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDoVm5bAikYPTnUhxSphcCxC”

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Cadillacs and Dinosaurs – Lurkers in the Swamp

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In the late 20th and early 21st century, a series of cataclysms struck the Earth. Volcanoes began to erupt everywhere. Earthquakes and tsunamis became common. The poles started to melt and the water levels of the world began to rise dramatically. Soon, shelters were built in geographically stable areas of the world’s crust. They were made to be self-sustaining in the hopes that they would last long enough to save some number of mankind.

Those within stayed for as long as they could but, after some 450 years, even the self-sustaining bunkers could no longer support life. Those who had kept the shelters working, the old-blood mechanics, had only done so by formalizing a code of living called the Machinatio Vitae (the Machinery of Life). The basis of the code was an acceptance of humanity’s place as one element of a balanced ecosystem no more or less important than any others.

When mankind returned to the surface from his various bunkers, the world had gone mad. Man had expected alterations in the geology and climate, but not what had happened to the ecosystem. Plant and animal life from every geologic age of the earth were simultaneously present on the surface. Dinosaurs and mammoths had reappeared.

This is the story of three of those survivors, men living in the City in the Sea: Bartholomew Riggins was a farmer who in charge of many of the farms west of the city. Soggy Beard was a well-respected sailor and fisherman, captain of the fishing boat S.S. Shanty. Yung Ricky was a criminal who specialized in mugging people in the City in the Sea.

On January 4, 2015, I ran a play test of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs to review it in Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine, using the introductory scenario from the game book. My players were Kyle, Logan, and Bo.

The role playing journal of the session can be found here:

http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1921-Cadillacs-and-Dinosaurs-Lurkers-in-the-Swamp

A playlist of 10 videos of the game session can be found here:

“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDrw6HMBYO1abI6hKBOPKont”

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