I've been playing in a online 'soap opera with supernatural elements' game, which spawned this: http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/games/001343.shtml Which is an edited version of of this: http://www.dreamlyrics.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=110;t=000135;p=7 So I get the stupid idea of turning it into a Call of Cthulhu convention game.... The premise is that the PCs are connected with a heavy metal band who's singer is into Things Man Was Not Meant To Know. The plot revolves around his inclusion of passages of the Necronomicon in song lyrics, and worse still, getting audiences to chant "Ph'nglui Mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn! Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fthagn!", which causes dire and horrible things to happen. Do you think this idea will work? Will something like this actually make a good convention scenario? I'm trying to work out who should be the PCs in the game. I think the singer would pretty much have to be an NPC, as he would either start the game insane, or go insane during the game. I think some of the rest of the band *could* be PCs. Other PCs might be the band's sleazy manager, a roadie, a music journalist and a groupie. I'm not sure about pacing. I'm envisaging the game starting off as This Is Spinal Tap, the RPG, then shifting gears to horror half way through, as the chant makes horrible things happen. Then there's the question of the nature of the horrible things. Would the chant summon some Squamous and Rugose Mythos creature? Or should the singer *become* the monster, as a sorcerer wielding unholy power? I think I have the core of an idea, but it still needs a lot of work. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
