Article written by Gamemaster Anna Maria Ristori -Finale- The Church Ready to discover what is truly going on with Saint Kieran, Seamus and Nicky arms themselves with torches, ropes, hammers and crowbars and dive into the dark tunnel. The darkness engulfs them with no other option but going straight forward. Surrounded only by stench and […]
Article written by Gamemaster Anna Maria Ristori The Mismatched Church Nicole is shocked to hear her missing friend’s voice calling for help. She is sure that it was her voice crying ”Help… Nicky… I’m here… I don’t know…..”, but decides to keep it to herself. Meanwhile, Seamus decides to keep on investigating the left side […]
Article written by Gamemaster Anna Maria Ristori The Gravediggers While the city of Leighlinbridge is asleep, Nicky and Seamus sneak out from the Inn to reach the Gravediggers Pub in the slums of the village. Now that the pub is open, they can see why the town don’t recommend it: drunkards and gamblers are making […]
We has just finished our D&D campaign that has run since 2021 with 45 sessions spread over 100 hours and while we took a break over the summer before starting the next one, I decided to try and run something entirely new. To keep the learning curve low, I chose the Lovecraftian Eldritch Hack rules from Professor […]
Article written by Gamemaster Anna Maria Ristori The Parrish We left our Nicky and Seamus stepping into the St. Kieran Parrish in Leighlinbridge, only to be met with a dreadful feeling of despair and suffocation that cost them 2 Sanity Points. After the first impression with the church and jumping back, Nicky and Seamus get […]
Article written by Gamemaster Anna Maria Ristori Dublin, Spring 1979 A black Shamrock approaches the Silver Harp Pub. Here we meet Father Martin O’Donoghue, priest in the capital’s parrish. The holy man enjoying a good glass of beer meets Nicole ”Nicky” Dunne, history college dropout, barista and rock enthusiast. Nicole has reported to the police […]
Friday 22 November 1957 Evening. Peak of Turning Tide. Diana is swinging her hammer towards the huge glass tank when Rúna’s face appears in the unclear, unclean sea water, with a frantic grin that rapidly changes to other emotions, fear, anger. Diana pauses as Einar and two other men appears down from the path that […]
Friday 22 November 1957 morning. Both investigators have had an odd but pleasant night’s sleep. They had dreamt they were laying in the ocean bed looking up at the surface of the sea with lights from above coming through in rays. They notice the light outside looks like their dream as they discuss over the […]
Thursday 21 November 1957. Late morning. After last night’s events Lucille and Diana wakes up late and makes it down for breakfast around 10. Afterwards they visit Jonas as they want to visit the chapel ruin again, but he is busy especially as he is organising the search party trying to find Einar who disappeared […]
Wednesday 20 November, 1957 Investigators waking up for a long night’s sleep. Lucille has vivid dreams of drowning. The investigators learn, from Margrét Halldórsdóttir, the bubbly owner on the Guesthouse, that dreams of drowning or being submerged in the sea are known as having Salt-Laced Dreams in Skeljavik. Margrét provides further information as the day […]
Sunday 17 November 1957 Telegram from MI6 arrives at the home of Marine Biologist, Diana Deporres and Occult Author and Expert, Lucille Bellview. Monday 18 November, 1957 Diana and Lucille both make their way to Bergen Norway. Lucille arrives first in Bergen where a helicopter modifed for long distance travel awaits to take her to Skeljavik, a […]
As we have just finished our D&D campaign that has run since 2021 with 45 sessions spread over 100 hours, I have decided to run a mini campaign of an entirely different character, that of Lovecraftian horror! But I know asking my players to learn a full new rule system like Call of Cthulhu would […]