On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:06:50PM -0500, Tim Hall wrote:

>Do you think this idea will work?  Will something like this actually 
>make a good convention scenario?

I've played in a game with this premise, though I don't know whether it
was a published Cthulhu adventure or something the GM made up. The only
problem was that we knew in advance it was _Call of Cthulhu_, so we were
_expecting_ eldritch nastiness.

>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.

If you've access to a copy of Misty Lackey's _Children of the Night_,
there's some decent group-dynamic in there as a band comes under the
influence of a dubious Svengali-figure. 

>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?

In a longer-term game the audience would become cultists, going off and
starting their own... "fan clubs". :-)

-- 
Roger, gaming grognard
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