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1930 - Arkham, Massachusetts. A new school year is approaching at Miskatonic University. The last few weeks of summer are dropping off the calendar as students prepare for the upcoming semester. A notice appears on the student bulletin boards announcing extra credit to participate in a small expedition to the nearby hills of Vermont to gather more input from the previous year's expedition. Gossip about last year's expedition - which resulted in 2 students going missing and the death of another - spreads through the student body. But extra credit is extra credit.... 🗺️ Illustrative maps, handouts, and artwork 🎭 Professional theatrical storytelling with dynamic NPCs 🎸 Soundtrack and ambient noise to heighten the mood 🖥️ All official game resources to begin your investigations 🔍 Beginner-friendly while still challenging more experienced investigators 🏳️‍🌈 Inclusive environment for all identities, in and out of game 💖 Dedicated Discord server for questions, concerns, and casual banter A Time To Harvest is a five-chapter campaign designed for the seventh edition of Call of Cthulhu. Based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, you will take on the role of university-affiliated investigators, students and faculty seeking to unravel the mysteries surrounding the seemingly quiet town of Cobbs Corners, VT. Solve the mysteries before the madness (or something worse) consumes you! Estimated 3-4 Sessions per chapter (15-20 Sessions) plus a Session 0 for character creation & campaign development catered to our group. Can be played in Classic or Pulp settings - decided by our group. Register here: https://startplaying.games/adventure/clrp6h1rk001p08ju752necr9

A blind PC - or a PC with any sort of disability is totally acceptable. Just as people afflicted with loss of sight IRL get by - so can a PC. Give them a bigger Listen Base and turn Spot Hidden into Scent in order to offset their increase in other senses.The creatures of the Mythos are not just something horrible to see - they often have odor of decaying bodies or vegetation, make horrendous sounds and give off an aura of horror even if you can't see them. Sure they won't take Sanity losses from "glimpsing" something but think of the horror that comes with hearing something inhuman in the room with you - or feeling its breath on the back of your neck. Have them make a POW roll to "sense" the unnatural thing in the room or across the field and if they do - hit them with the same SAN checks as everyone else. To dismiss it - or suggest that someone would only want to play a character with a disability as a sole grab for attention as has been suggested in this thread - is incredibly small minded and reductive. As a Keeper who has run games for players and PCs who have been blind I speak from experience and am all for keeping TTRPGs moving in the direction of more accessibility and inclusivity. And no discussion or vote is needed from the other players - whom I sure didn't have to get the approval from the group when creating their own PCs.

I am prepping Ties That Bind from Doors to Darkness and can't seem to wrap my head around the timeline before the scenario actually begins. Help from anyone who has run it is greatly appreciated. The scenario states that sometime on Day 0 (no timeframe is given) the Marsh Wizard summons the byahkee who then kills him. Then (for reasons unknown) she leaves the seclusion of the swamps to lay her eggs in Mrs. Carrington's fountain (which she destroys) before flying home. It's then stated that the construction workers find the fountain destroyed and notify Mrs Carrington and she orders the egg placed in the cellar. Construction worker Hackett steals one of the eggs, drops off a note to Mary Carrington at her dorm and then goes home. On Day 1 the investigators are called in to see the eggs. They find the fountain just then being cleaned up and Mrs. Carrington decides to have 24 hour surveillance by the construction workers. So...since the workers weren't on 24 hour surveillance previously that means the Byahkee would have had to have laid the eggs/destroyed the fountain while all the construction workers were all still doing construction at the site during the day/early evening before "quitting time"....why would it have chosen a busy construction site as opposed to the deserted swamp to lay the eggs? But mythos beings have different logic so..ok. But how did the construction workers not see it happening? Let's say I'm wrong and they were already on 24 hour surveillance (for some reason) - they still would have seen it. Or if by chance they didn't, it couldn't have been too late at night because Hackett is able to leave a note for Mary at her dormitory before going home to bed - and Dorothy Pickman Hall surely has a curfew being a woman's dorm - so it couldn't have been later than 9 or 10. And if Hackett was on the 'surveillance team' - how did he go home after moving the eggs - and why was he expected at work the next day if he was supposed to be on overnight watch? Any help figuring out a timeline that makes sense would be appreciated - or if I've misinterpreted the setup (possible) I'm happy to be corrected (lol). Thanks!

I would like to start a Masks campaign on Roll 20 using Pulp rules. I'd love for the campaign to be character/story driven for 4-5 investigators. Due to the length of it, we would meet weekly on Roll 20/Discord. If you're interested then sign up using the questionnaire below (all times are EST) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6gSXHZ2t1BThvrmJpIvkdk71WgsaJFN4wBKxNC5DeVvT_QA/viewform

Thats a good idea.. I'm running a test play through tonight with some friends and I'll use that if they don't think of it on their own Thanks!

I have a question for Keepers who have run the Ides of Winter scenario new to the Convention circuit this year. The scenario states "Between what they can learn from Atellus and their own research the investigators should be able to deduce that the Mithraeum is under St Cuthberts and the cellar of the Rose & Crown was once the sacred cave of the Caillí." I see how the players can draw a connection to St. Cuthberts - but I'm having a hard time seeing where they will link the Rose & Crown to the sacred cave of Cailli. Is there something I am missing? Did your players make that connection? Trying to prep for GenCon...

3/24 New York - Part 2 January 16, 1925 (cont) Donovan was soon met by Lt. Poole who stated that some of his story hadn’t checked out and since there were 2 gunshot victims found along with Elias’ body -- and Donovan had a gun on him AND a bag with a tomahawk in his apt -- he took Donovan to the station for questioning and held him overnight. Ailis headed to the NYU Library to research the symbols that Jade had found in the Ju Ju House basement and the the symbol carved into Elias’ head. She found that the symbol on Elias was associated with The Cult of The Bloody Tongue - an African cult based out of Kenya that had migrated over from Egypt. The other symbols eluded her. Pela went to Harlem to interview Thomas Witherspoon - who’s car was used as the getaway for Elias’ killers. Witherspoon was fairly uncooperative but confirmed that the car had been stolen earlier in the evening on the 15th. She also spoke to some locals outside his building who warned her not to mess with the ‘gang’ that had taken the car - and to stay away from “Fat Maybelle’s”. Jade, Nosaj and Joseph visited the House of JuJu again - but it was closed. A young African man let them in for a few minutes but quickly hurried them out (Silas was nowhere to be seen). Jade had another vision of the man in the store in ceremonial dress presiding over large group of dancing naked cultists. Pela joined them and they decided to stake out the House of JuJu from the roof of a neighboring building. After several hours a white van w/o license plates backed into the alley and 4 black men unloaded 2 very large wrapped parcels. The van drove away and the 4 men took up positions in they alleyway as if they were homeless. Jade and Pela decided to stay watching the store while Joseph and Nosaj went in search of Donovan. They found an unmarked policeman watching his building but snuck in the back. They found the apt ransacked and Nosaj’s bag missing. They snuck out and picked up Ailis form the library. On the way back to the stakeout, they picked up some coffee at the corner store and asked about Fat Maybelle’s - they were told it was a local speakeasy that opened at 10PM. Joseph and Jade stayed behind to watch the store while Pela, Nosaj and Ailis checked out Fat Maybelle’s. Pela flirted with one of the customers and the group decided to follow them as the whole joint slowly emptied out around 11:30 or so. They followed them back to the steakout and joined Joseph and Jade. They watched as a long line of people entered the House of JuJu, eventually including the 4 ‘guards’ who had been watching the alley all day. Joseph and Nosaj snuck in and found boxes of clothes and a box of cultist headgear. Joseph stripped down and posed as a cultist - dancing across the ceremonial chamber where a man and the woman front desk clerk form the Chelsea Hotel now dangled from leather straps over a large stone tablet as the man from the store in a feathered robe, and wearing lion’s claws and guarded by 4 disembowled zombie-like creatures conducted the group. Joseph made it into the curtained alcove, took Africa’s Dark Sects and an African style wooden mask from their resting places - noted the strange markings on a copper bowl that he left behind - and danced back to the tunnel where Nosaj waiting. They ran back to the group, called in an anonymous tip to the police and fled to Joseph’s hotel. January 17, 1925 The next morning, Donovan was released from the NY Police and joined the group at Ailis’ apt in Greenwich Village. The papers mentioned a raid on a Harlem Sex Orgy but mentioned nothing about murders. Ailis began to read through Africa’s Dark Sects. Donovan read about a fundraiser in Yonkers being held by the Carlyle Corporation on Monday - and talked his way into an invitation (with guest).

3/19 New York - Part 1 January 13, 1925 Six months after their adventure in the Yucatan, the group received another telegram from Jackson Elias stating that he was following leads about the ill-fated Carlyle Expedition. The members of the group who were not already in NYC traveled to the city - Nosaj boarding with Donovan, Pela renting a room at the Chelsea Hotel, and Joseph securing travel and lodgings through Elias’ publisher, Jonnah Kensington. January 15, 1925 Jade woke from a disturbing dream to Elias calling and asking her to assemble the group at the Chelsea Hotel tonight at 8PM - and not to be followed. Expecting the unexpected, the group gathered their armaments and some belongings and met - only Elais wasn’t there to meet them. Donovan inquired at the front desk and learned Elias was in room 410 but no one answered when they rang up. He left a note with the female desk clerk letting Elias know that the group was waiting for him in the lobby. Jade, Pela and Joseph decided to go up to his room - and found a cold draught coming from under his door. Jade picked the lock and was surprised when a large machete swung through the door and cut her. 3 cultists (2 black/1 white) in robes and disturbing headgear were ransacking the room - which was covered in Elias’ blood as he lay disemboweled on the bed with a symbol matching the cults’ headgear carved into his forehead. Jade and Pela blew away the 2 black cultists, but the white one escaped down the fire escape into a waiting black Hudson sedan (lic plate SK something) that sped past Donovan who was exploring the outside of the hotel. The group, hearing gunshots, fully assembled in the room and gave it a quick search finding: a business card for Edward Gavin at the Penhew Foundation in London, a postcard addressed to Roger Carlyle (c/o Dustan, Whittleby and Grey) from Faraz Najir in Cario, an empty matchbox from the Stumbling Tiger bar in Shanghai, a blurry photograph of a yacht bearing the letters DAR---- at a harbor in Shanghai, a business card for Emerson Imports in NYC with the name Silas N’Kwane written on the back, a letter from Miraim Atwright of Harvard U, and a flyer for a lecture given by Prof Cowles at NYU. They retired to Joseph’s hotel nearby to look at what they found and make a plan. The group, save Joseph, tried to catch Prof Cowles at NYU only to find that his lecture was the night before and he had returned to Miskatonic U in Arkham Mass. The group retired for the night with Pela staying at Jade’s apt. January 16, 1925 Elias’ murder was front page news and Lt. Martin Poole made a public request to speak with Donovan who was recognized from the hotel. Poole arrived at Donovan’s apt to question him but was met with some resistance as Donovan and Nosaj told him half truths about the night before. Poole asked them to remain in the city until further notice. Donovan left word with Prof Cowel’s secretary at Miskatonic U and was promised to receive a call at 3 - then he and Nosaj fruitlessly retraced their steps at NYU the night before. Joseph, seeing the paper, called Jonnah Kensington who asked the group to meet at Prospero House later in the day. Ailis spoke with Miriam Atwright and found that Elais’ had hoped to acquire Africa’s Dark Sects, a rare and scandalous self-published book by Nigel Blackwood - however it was stole from their library a few months before Elias’ request. She also tried to speak with Bradley Grey, the Carlyle family lawyer but was shut down fairly quickly. Jade spoke with her contact, Michael, at Emerson Imports and learned from Arthur Emerson that Elais had stopped by the day before researching exports to Mumbasa (Africa). Emerson Imports ships between Ajah Singh in Mumbasa and the House of JuJu in Harlem run by Silas N’Kwane. While Pela bought supplies, Jade canvased the House of JuJu and found an uncooperative N’Kwane. A moment of clairvoyance led her to knock him out, steal the key around his neck and explore the hidden basement below. She found strange African carvings on the walls of a tunnel that led to large chamber containing drums, a stone circle attached to a pulley system over which leather straps dangled. In a side room, 4 mutilated zombie like creatures chased her out. The group reconvened at Prospero House where Kensington explained that Elias had gone to Nairobi to research a possible blood cult that may have killed the Carlyle Expedition, only to discover that at least some of the expedition were possibly still alive and natives were afraid of a cult that worshipped a bloody tongue god. He sent his notes to Kensington and asked for more money to fund his way to Cairo then eventually London - where he wrote a crazed telegram talking about worldwide conspiracy theories. He arrived in New York and dropped off his London notes which were scattered and crazed - then was murdered. Kensington implored the group to sort out who killed him and continue his final work so it could be published in his memory. Being close to 3PM, Donovan left the group to return to his apt for his phone call with Prof Cowels only to find his door open and his rooms ransacked.

2/24 Character Creation & The God of Mitnal My players met to learn the game (some have never played an RPG before) - we made characters using a mix of the Pulp Rules and the 7E Regular Rules and played through The God of Mitnal from the Masks Companion. Character Creation Jade Bond - 25 year old woman with a mysterious past, who knows her way around a gun. Pela Rusalski - 29 year old photographer, activist and alcoholic with a streak of adventure. Ailis Shelley - 36 year old author of Egyptian Lore. Donovan Wells - 32 year old British stage actor known well in both NYC and the UK. Joseph Oda - 33 year old hard boiled police detective from Chicago. Nosaj - 28 year old Navajo shaman with a knack of the esoteric arts. June 7 - 15, 1924 Jackson Elias, noted author & adventurer contacted the investigators, asking them to assist him in the Yucatan with something associated with both Walter Kimble, known & wanted gun runner, and the Ah Puch cult. Ailis and Joseph researched the cult while the others gathered supplies and then they all traveled to Campeche, Mexico. After everyone became acquainted, the group followed Elias’ instructions to meet Guillermo, the local RR stationmaster. Elias had left further instructions with Guillermo and directions to his camp in the Rainforest. Guillermo promised to secure some supplies for the journey the next day. After a long train ride and a warning from a superstitious local woman about the god Ah Puch being active in the area, the group began another long trek through the jungle with Jade and Pela leading the way. Several hours later, the group found Elias’ camp - ransacked. Moments later a figure appearing to be Ah Puch appeared, but when Joseph almost shot it, it was revealed to be the work of 3 of Walter Kimble’s flunkeys who confirmed that Elias was being held at their pyramid camp further in the jungle. Arriving at the camp, Pela and Nosaj found Kimble and his lieutenant asleep, a stockpile of guns and Elias and some others in a cell. After breaking into the cell, Kimble got the jump on them - until Jade and Donovan went to see what was taking so long and go the jump on Kimble. The group negotiated the captive’s release and made off with some guns as well. Elias thanked them but hurried off to his next adventure.

Name: Shaun Country: USA City: Tampa/St. Petersburg FL Ran A Time To Harvest with an online group, GMed at GenCon last year (back this year). Currently running Masks of Nyarlathotep with my personal group and looking to run some intro scenarios at local game stores.

I'd be happy to as well.

Great job! I also made one and was going to upload it here for ppl to use but you beat me to it lol Mine is on youtube (unpublished) - I run an online game and one of our players is blind so I thought this would be a nice addition. I had a couple of friends who are voiceover actors record the parts. Feel free to use this one as well -

I'm getting ready to run Episode 1. I had a question about what you did to keep the players in the Surveyor group involved on Day 2. The interviewers are having a ball an collecting stories - and they only thing that the scenario offers Group 2 is the possibility of an arrowhead. Should this be used as more character development between the PCs and NPCs? Is there anything that you did special to not bore that group (I will likely have more in the Surveyor Group than the Interviewers)?

I'm also running Episode 1 via Google Hangouts in a few weeks. We had our a 'Character Creation' Session yesterday - so I've got about 7 MU freshmen all set up for disaster >:) Only 2 have played COC before - and only 2 others have played any RPG before. So it should be interesting. We're going to run about 2 sessions a month (I'm guessing Ep 1 & 2 will take about 2 sessions a piece) - so I should hopefully end in line with the roll out dates.

I joined the group after it was relased. I'll contact him - Thx

Hello. I'm new to the Cult - and received the 1st installment of the campaign with my welcome letter. The campaign book says that future installments are available for Keepers to download from Chaosium.com after they come out. I missed signing up in time to receive the email about the 2nd installment - and can't for the life of me find it on the website either. Where should I be looking? Thanks!!