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Boot Hill – The Manchester Mangler & Stable Fire and Bank Hold Up

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Three people entered Promise City, Texas, on Monday, June 5, 1876. They had been travelling west for over a week together and had gotten to know each other pretty well. The stage had proven too expensive, so they were travelling on foot. The Reverend Jonathan McCreary was a preacher of the good word of the Lord. Todd Wolf looked like a boy and had a relatively soft voice. Juan Wallobee rode his mule, Sandy, who he had for years.

On Nov. 9, 2014, I ran a play test of Boot Hill (3rd Edition) to review it in Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine, using the introductory scenario from the game book. My players were James, Peri, and Logan.

Role playing journal of the game session can be found here:

http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1910-Boot-Hill-The-Manchester-Mangler-amp-Stable-Fire-and-Bank-Hold-Up

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

“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDp0ule5VF8nMioB8U9HsJk-”

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Teenagers from Outer Space – Enter the Drag Race

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In the 1980s, aliens invaded the earth. Their goal wasn’t to take over the planet or destroy mankind. Rather, they wanted better educations for their children. They enrolled their kids in our schools; shopped in our shopping malls; hung out in our fast food joints. Interplanetary travel became common. Otherwise, life on Earth didn’t change much.

Gruf of Purrsephoni X, Zaxil from Jabidar-3, Johann Strovavich, and Grood were three of those alien teens. This is one of the stories of the television sit-com of their life.

On Sept. 7, 2014, I ran a play test of the Teenagers from Outer Space rpg to review it in Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine, using the introductory scenario from the game book. My players were Nissa, James, John, and Bo.

Role playing journal of the game session can be found here:

http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1889-Teenagers-from-Outer-Space-Enter-the-Drag-Race

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

“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDrx3sUYzepokRuuEptHMbbS”

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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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Call of Cthulhu – The Curse of Dudleytown

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Six people traveled to Dudleytown, Connecticut, from Cornwall on Monday, Sept. 16, 1811. All of them had their own reasons for traveling to the tiny village near Cornwall Bridge. They had no idea that the curse of the town would strike them, endangering all of their lives.

On March 30, 2014, at CaesarCon 2014, I ran the original Call of Cthulhu scenario “The Curse of Dudleytown” to explore the legendary curse on that tiny hamlet. My players were Josh, Xavier, Steve, Scott, Natalie, and Laura.

Role Playing Journals of the session can be found here:

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2705-the-curse-of-dudleytown-part-1/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2704-the-curse-of-dudleytown-part-2/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2703-the-curse-of-dudleytown-part-3/

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

“http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDpMn18NJ1NJpV9S2i3TTHka”

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Call of Cthulhu – Leaflet Mission II

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It was around 18:00 hours on Sunday, February 25, 1945, when the crew of the Big Money, a Boeing B-17 bomber with the 492nd Bomb Group, 406th Bomb Squadron Night Leaflet Squadron of the 8th Army Air Force, entered the mess hall at Cheddington Airfield in Buckinghamshire, England. It was unusual, to say the least, as the crew usually met with the crew of their sister ship, the Pretty Lady, in the Mail Briefing Room for pre-flight pre-briefings.

On March 29, 2014, at CaesarCon 2014, I ran the original Call of Cthulhu Scenario “Leaflet Mission II” to learn the fate of the sister ship to the Pretty Lady, the B-17 Bomber in Leaflet Mission. My players were with Scott, Adam, Terina, Natalie, Stephen, Chris, D.J., Lilly, Matt, and Josh. We had a full crew of 10 players for the 10 positions on the bomber.

Role playing journals of the session can be found here:

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2701-leaflet-mission-ii-part-1-an-unusual-mission/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2700-leaflet-mission-ii-part-2-horrors-and-home/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2699-leaflet-mission-ii-part-3-escaping-the-ward/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-2698-leaflet-mission-ii-part-4-horror-in-the-air/

The video was, unfortunately, entirely corrupted for this one.

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