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Having tracked down Sticky Jack’s address, the gang splits into pairs. The lady of the house provides a dubious welcome with a steaming pot of coffee. Investigating the upper floors of the building, all sense of direction is soon lost, along with blood and sanity. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Screen Pack: https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cth...

The gang continues their search for the stolen goods at Miskatonic University. Luckily, Wendy “No Nonsense” Kelly knows her way around a bookshelf. After a trip to the restricted section to learn about the missing tome, it's off to the local speakeasy to hunt down a lead on Sticky Jack’s whereabouts.  Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Screen...

Arkham, 1922. Four gangsters have screwed up. Badly. Now they’re in deep trouble with their boss, Mordecai ‘The Hammer’ O’Leary. Instead of receiving a hand tool-related beating, they’re sent on a punishment mission to find a missing man and collect his unpaid debt. But they might come to wish Mordecai had taken his hammer to them after all…  Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself?...

In this new feature on Lightless Beacons, we’ll be opening the book on Lovecraft’s classic tales of terror. In lively and incisive panel discussions we’ll talk about the stories themselves, their relationship to the Call of Cthulhu RPG and their influence on other horror media and weird fiction. Tonight we focus on Dagon, the story of a sailor haunted by his discovery of a nightmarish island beari...

The Thirteen are well and truly fragmented, with Bradley’s powers only growing stronger. Melinda attempts to seek answers in a shared but distorted memory. A broken Erik refuses to yield while Alicia overpowers him, and Maggi performs her final ritual. Will the group break the Moonchild’s hold, or will Bradley get what he’s always wanted? Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase...

David, in a moment of lucidity, grants Erik and Maggi further insight into a possible way out of their predicament. The duo turn on Bradley while Alicia and Melinda struggle with their sense of self. In the chaos, Melinda is transported to a time and a place that for twenty years has only existed as a bitter memory. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Nameless Horrors sc...

In the basement of Mari’s house, Melinda is flooded with memories and hidden truths about her companions. Arguments ensue, both verbal and physical, much to Bradley’s delight. Erik eventually storms away from the conflict with Maggi in tow, only to find that David has also arrived. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Nameless Horrors scenario collection here, available i...

Mari retrieves Nathan and the college alumni from the canteen. Maggi has a dark realisation as to the extent of their servitude. More hallucinations torment Erik and Alicia. The alumni finally meet basement-confined Bradley. Melinda approaches him first, and a connection between them ignites.  Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Nameless Horrors scenario collection...

Nathan buys coffee for the group in the college canteen. He reveals more about their hallucinations, and offers an ultimatum to get to the bottom of them. Erik struggles with Alicia as her intrusive thoughts return, and Maggi attempts to dissect her scar.  Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Nameless Horrors scenario collection here, available in PDF and hard copy:...

The college alumni return to campus to find privacy to talk plainly with Sarah. Melinda encounters her ex-husband for the first time in years. Fresh panic floods the group as they question what is real and what is not. Realisations are made about other strange encounters from earlier, and theories begin forming in the group’s minds.  Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase...

Maggi learns about Stacey’s son Bradley, and the jealousy Sarah holds towards them both. After more confrontation with Sarah, she and her daughter start to open up about how they truly feel about David. The group concludes that everything happening to them must be linked to what they did that night in the woods, all those years ago. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Na...

The group are forced to address the growing tension between them all while they wait for Shaun to be seen at hospital. Erik’s illness is brought out into the open. Alicia consoles Erik outside in private, while C continues to torment him. Maggi visits their old friend Stacey Kimble, and is shocked by her general state.  Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Nameless H...

Erik and Sarah patch up Shaun’s wound and arrange a taxi to visit A&E. Alicia arrives at the house, and the group tries to jog hazy memories from their student days. Pizza arrives seemingly without being ordered, and Maggi deduces that Sarah is not being as genuine with the group as they first thought. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Nameless Horrors scenario col...

After a tense exchange between Sarah and her eldest Angelica, Maggi and Melinda leave with them to get Shaun from Sarah’s house, with Erik rejoining them. Over a cuppa, Shaun sits glued to the television playing video games while more hallucinations ensue. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Nameless Horrors scenario collection here, available in PDF and hard copy: https...

Tension turns to chaos in Market Square as a violent crash unfolds before everyone’s eyes. Alicia is convinced one of the victims is her deceased husband, Gary. Sarah inadvertently reveals Erik’s terrible secret to the group, and Alicia takes a walk to clear her head. Back on campus, Erik comes to terms with his illness while suffering from strange hallucinations. Like this scenario and fancy play...

Still with fresh hangovers, Alicia, Maggi and Melinda head into town to see Sarah, while Erik is too sick to tag along. Their old friend reveals that she has been seeing David in secret and has had a child with him. But their questionable relationship has since taken a very dark turn. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the Nameless Horrors scenario collection here, availabl...

It is May, 2013. Four Nene College alumni have arrived back at their campus in Northampton to attend an Occult Society reunion party. Twenty years have passed since these alumni, and their extended Society friends, have seen each other in person, and since the Occult Society experienced its damning watershed. Our alumni have a lot of catching up to do. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yours...

Jayson sits down with Aurora Blue author Bridgett Jeffries to talk playing and running black stories in a predominantly white community, in this exclusive interview. Purchase Aurora Blue and the No Time To Scream scenario collection here, available in PDF and hard copy: https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-no-time-to-scream-hardcover/ Purchase Harlem Unbound by Chris Spivey here, available in...

Deep within the Chugach Mountains, the raid on the Beaker family ranch continues on. Their time running out, our agents face horrors from both within and without. All the while, the Aurora Borealis looms overhead, casting those down below into a steep spiral of insignificance. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Purchase the No Time To Scream scenario collection here, available in PD...

It is the Winter Solstice, 1932. Four Bureau of Prohibition agents set out to an isolated Alaskan ranch, suspected of manufacturing and supplying the newest bathtub gin on the market: Aurora Blue. Their job is to raid the property, detain all suspects and acquire all evidence, before their white mainland US counterparts swoop in and take all the credit for themselves.  Like this scenario and...

In our final episode of the season, a series of gruesome discoveries in Madame de Tisson’s apartment show Theo how high the stakes have become. The truth behind the Mask of Desire is finally laid bare. Meanwhile, Lucas struggles between love and ambition, and Anna waits for the biggest audition of her career. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Here’s a link to buy Does Love Forgive?...

Visiting a Chinese-owned bookshop in search of someone to translate the mysterious notes, Theo runs into his new acquaintance Professor Kiryl Nienart. International threats and a dark conspiracy threaten to cast a shadow over them both. Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Here’s a link to buy Does Love Forgive? , published by Chaosium. https://www.chaosium.com/does-love-forgive-pdf/...

The morning after Madame de Tisson’s party, Theo finds himself alone in the flat, but his hangover is interrupted by a succession of visitors. Opening a parcel meant for Lucas, he finds an intriguing artefact and an ominous note.  Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Here’s a link to buy Does Love Forgive? , published by Chaosium. https://www.chaosium.com/does-love-forgive-pdf/ C...

Theo becomes suspicious of Madame de Tisson’s motives. How much does she really know about the armed intruder and his pleas for help?. When he overhears the hostess trying to strike a mysterious bargain with his flatmate Lucas, Theo becomes determined to find out the truth.  Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Here’s a link to buy Does Love Forgive? , published by Chaosium. http...

In our newest Call of Cthulhu story, Jayson and Lydia play a one-to-one scenario about love, ambition, intrigue, and the masks we all wear when they collide. It is Depression-era New York, where a young banker tries to uncover the true face of a centuries-old horror.   Like this scenario and fancy playing it yourself? Here’s a link to buy Does Love Forgive? , published by Chaosium. https...