theslasher99

in this game system, stats only get you so far, as much of the non-human opposition will have stats far above pc possibilities, but it sounds like you handled things well. its even written into the module in this case not to be afraid to let pc's perish for making terrible decisions.

my group decided to try the fighting route instead of fleeing, and the dark young got a hold of one of the pcs as well as 2 of the party's npcs before being driven off by gunfire and the backup showing up to some effect. my group has also run into a few points where they cant decide amongst themselves what to do and turn to one of the npcs that was with them, which i used to steer them in the right direction, that being said, the base was rather deadly. going in there was 3 pcs along with morrison and his tommy gun and matherson and her .38. the party consisted of a priest in training more or less, a ROTC student, and a pilot to be, the ROTC character being the most combat adept but also having suffered indefinite insanity when the dark young attacked the farmhouse. they raised alarm in the first computer room they found by taking down the mi-go scientists there, but were adept enough at stealth to avoid the mi-go soldiers once they showed up until they found the captives room and were on the way out, more than one player fumbled a stealth roll, so i had them knocking a number of things over in a storage room, drawing in a few soldiers, in the ensuing firefight, two pc's went down with major wounds, and one succumbed to his wounds before he could be tended to. but the gang scarpered off into one of the drains shortly after before more trouble could show up. we more or less finished chapter 5 today which went rather quick due to the party avoiding potential danger and seeking out the town for shelter/way out of the valley. they met up with replacement characters (the one that died in the base and one that died fleeing the attack on the farmhouse) en route to the b team camp, the replacement characters were rolled in as part of the backup team, a merc and a back up investigation team member who escaped the slaughter due to fleeing/temporary insanity. they got the gyst of what happened there and went closer to town before becoming wary of the things going down and skirting around the outside of town looking for operational vehicles (which they were unsuccessful) before deciding to seek shelter or possibly a boat at the port and warehouses at the north end of town. on the way they spotted what was going down at the memorial before getting to the sheriffs offices in search of weapons/supplies, having ruined much of their ammo escaping the base. they found the powder and fuses and put 2 and 2 together, deciding to be heroes. 3 of the 4 pc's decided to try to disrupt what was going on at the memorial and the most wounded member (the one that was stabilized at the base) went on to the warehouse with morrison and matherson who were both wounded. they were successful in their stealth to get the cannon loaded and fired while two others fired at the deputy from the best distace they could before fleeing, they managed to do a crazy amount of damage to cutter and outright killed him and caused enough chaos to give the townsfolk a chance to escape, but the arrival of shub-niggurath as they were fleeing to their rendeveauz point caused two characters to go insane outright and one to lapse into a bout of madness. so as it sits beginning chapter 6 we have two investigators that have survived since chapter 1 but are barely hanging on, one has less than 25 sanity left and the other has 1 hp, and the other two realized fully the glory of the mother. this turned out to be more than just a "how i got them into the migo base" but i didnt think it was enough to warrant a new thread. my players have been a combination of brazen and avoiding smaller confrontations. im interested in seeing where they go with chapter 6, what with cobb's corners decimated and shub-niggurath having departed.