Trail of Cthulhu - Dark Continent
Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 6:07 pm
This might take a while to orchestrate. I'm just learning Trail of Cthulhu, so it may become just a straight up CoC game by the end.
It's been a while since I ran a PbP but the ones I did worked out pretty good. Still, best to judge the concept and interest of a game before diving in.
Looking for up to six players, but heck I'll play one-on-one if it comes to that too.
What I'm proposing is a game set in the pre-WWII era. The players are a bunch of missionaries, scholars, adventures, treasure hunters, smugglers, soldiers, etc. all trapped on the front lines at Makale, in Ethiopia. It's October 10th, 1935. Italian Fascists are heading their way, after 5 swift days of grinding through Ethiopia's finest.
Being foreign nationals (or close friends with one) they have been strenuously advised by their home governments to make their way into neighbouring countries for evacuation.
Eventually they all flee the doomed town together, taking whatever they can and heading west to circumvent the encroaching invaders.
Along the way a terrible storm hits. Disoriented, desperate and half-drowned the group takes shelter in the ruins of a long-abandoned jungle city. Yet their relief of being saved from the tempest outside may prove short-lived, as it soon becomes apparent that the desolate ruins may not have been made by human hands - nor completely as empty as first assumed.
As the night wears on, and the gloom of the Dark Continent presses in on them, the wayward refugees may soon learn what exactly happened to the vanished builders of such a forsaken place. And in doing so share the fate visited upon anyone foolish enough to have ever ventured there.
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So post below anything thoughts or suggestions. And hopefully it sounds good enough to get off the ground sometime.
It's been a while since I ran a PbP but the ones I did worked out pretty good. Still, best to judge the concept and interest of a game before diving in.
Looking for up to six players, but heck I'll play one-on-one if it comes to that too.
What I'm proposing is a game set in the pre-WWII era. The players are a bunch of missionaries, scholars, adventures, treasure hunters, smugglers, soldiers, etc. all trapped on the front lines at Makale, in Ethiopia. It's October 10th, 1935. Italian Fascists are heading their way, after 5 swift days of grinding through Ethiopia's finest.
Being foreign nationals (or close friends with one) they have been strenuously advised by their home governments to make their way into neighbouring countries for evacuation.
Eventually they all flee the doomed town together, taking whatever they can and heading west to circumvent the encroaching invaders.
Along the way a terrible storm hits. Disoriented, desperate and half-drowned the group takes shelter in the ruins of a long-abandoned jungle city. Yet their relief of being saved from the tempest outside may prove short-lived, as it soon becomes apparent that the desolate ruins may not have been made by human hands - nor completely as empty as first assumed.
As the night wears on, and the gloom of the Dark Continent presses in on them, the wayward refugees may soon learn what exactly happened to the vanished builders of such a forsaken place. And in doing so share the fate visited upon anyone foolish enough to have ever ventured there.
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So post below anything thoughts or suggestions. And hopefully it sounds good enough to get off the ground sometime.