Fae!

I'm currently running Insanitarium for my players (one experienced, three newbies whose first dips into CoC is this mini-campaign) and the one-shot seems to fall flat compared to its predecessors. I inserted Dead Light immediately after Inheritance to give players the option to use the coffer to provide abortions to the pregnant women if they so desire. I've left a summary of my thoughts at the bottom of the post. As mentioned earlier, there's a long grind when it comes to interviewing all the pregnant women and close to no information about how far along in their pregnancies they are. They've also made the mistake of asking Evan for directions to the older women's residencies. Unfortunately, they continue to split the party or make rash decisions and have blundered multiple interviewing attempts. My players are thankfully on the less historically-knowledgable side and aren't aware that pregnancy tests in the 20's were unreliable at best. They have, however, immediately cottoned on to suspecting Doctor Gray. He's a predictable culprit and I'm hoping that I can use the coterie to further scare them or at least distract from him. I wish I read this thread earlier and included some men in the pregnancies (who would die after delivering a full-term hybrid child), merged Rose and Anna into one character (plus weakened the link to Mud Lake), made the Brethren a stronger source of horror, and further obfuscated the gold brooches from Dr Gray by making the coterie deliver them. I'm thinking of including some of the Nolannes after the party botched Inheritance and lost both the hybrid investigator and the needle to Innsmouth. PROS: Interesting inclusion of the hybrid investigator (assuming they're still in play) though not as well done as Inheritance Some evocative language in the actual descriptions. CONS: Predictable resolution and faulty premise weaken the storyline a lot Insanitarium doesn't provide much new insight towards Deep Ones that wasn't already covered in The Star Brothers or Inheritance The layout of the one-shot is on the messier side. Information for certain characters are scattered throughout the entire document and both Victoria and Floyd are mentioned only a handful of times without much in the way of plot hooks despite being integral to the coterie. There's also at least one instance of copy-pasted information on the Brethren being undemanding neighbours. An irrelevant Elder Sign is pasted into the corner of one page (for what reason?) The scenario tends to drag on with fewer than desirable horror elements.