Below is a list of original scenarios the You Too Can Cthulhu crew has run at conventions and other gaming events over the years.
Beneath an Indifferent Sky
Old friends and veterans of the Civil War find work escorting a group of settlers to a new life in the Wyoming Territory. Leaving the ravaged East behind, will these refugees find peace in the West, or will their hopes and aspirations come to naught, beneath an indifferent sky? [Bob]
A Cold, Dark Knight
Scores of travelers have ventured down the pilgrim road between Jerusalem and France. For some, the road leads to salvation—but for others, the path to deliverance has long been abolished. [Michael]
The Contender
A young man hits the canvas, shudders, and breathes his last. The crowd roars. How could a washed-up palooka take out a rising star? An investigation into corruption will yield no easy answers. [Bob]
The Corridor
In a quiet New England town, an old house with a mysterious past has become vacant following the death of the reclusive owner. [Dave P]
The Cosmonaut
Missing and presumed dead for decades, a Soviet cosmonaut returns to Earth alive and without aging since his disappearance. Join the joint investigation taking place on the Moon and on Earth to solve the mystery of his extraterrestrial absence. [Dave P]
Cthulhu Raids Again
For the past 60 years, Cthulhu and other Mythos entities have appeared for brief periods bringing death, destruction, and madness with them. Play the part of a brave defense force striving to save Tokyo from another onslaught. [Dave P]
The Depths of Madness
It is December 1944, and World War II rages on in the Pacific Ocean. Germany and Japan are on the defensive. You and the crew of the attack submarine U.S.S. Angelfish are on patrol. War is hell, yes—but what other horrors exist beneath the depths? [Dave P]
Descent into Avernus
Two worlds collide, one of myth and legend intersecting one of science and reason. Your paths into imprisonment were easy, but can you find your way free? [Perry, Jason]
Distance Learning
A tedious online course. A requirement to be fulfilled in the cheapest, easiest possible fashion and nothing more. A mandatory study group filled with a handful of resentful students. One mysterious member’s odd behavior sets him apart from the group. Bizarre and inexplicable events online and off seem to follow in his wake. What should be a mildly annoying slog through online learning becomes something entirely more sinister and deadly as this stranger’s incredible secret comes to light. How will these everyday students survive their new, horrific reality? [Jake]
Do Spirits Return?
The year is 1926, and a small group of admirers are summoned to the reading of Harry Houdini’s last will and testament. Nothing on this earth could hold Houdini, but what of worlds beyond? [Dave C]
Double Exposure (2016 Black Letter Event)
The first ever Black Letter Event sequel! This story involves the son of Janice Banks from the 2013 Black LetterEvent, The Queen of a Lost Planet. Predicate Stargrove, an actor and fledgling director, is desperate to make a great film as a tribute to his mother. Alas, other have more diabolical plans. [Bob]
Dust to Dust (2011 Black Letter Event)
Set in a small town during the Dust Bowl, the players must contend with this ecological disaster. However, a well-intended madman is going to make the situation unimaginably and unendurably worse. [Dave P]
Eye for an Eye
A message from their old college mentor draws a group of Miskatonic University Alumni to Africa. This journey will continue their education and they will learn some of the terrible mysteries of the Dark Continent, to their peril. [Michael]
Fall Into Light
A group of amateur true crime authors gather to hone their craft. [Dave C]
Field Study
A course hunting for Bigfoot and lasting just a few days sounds like a good time and an easy A. The worst thing about it will probably be the weather. [Bob]
Flaming Star (2006 Black Letter Event)
It’s October 1962. Kennedy is in office; it’s a time of great expectations, but recent events have shaken the nation’s confidence. You and your fellow passengers are aboard a cross-country flight while these events unfold. As the flight progresses, the survival of the passengers and perhaps even the world rests, on the shoulders of few brave individuals. [Dave C]
The Forbidden Fane (2014 Black Letter Event)
Bob’s opus and tribute to Robert E. Howard. The players take on the roles of Pict, Gauls, and Romans. Bob plays Julius Caeasar, and Dave C plays Conan the Cimmerian’s archnemesis Thoth-Amon. [Bob]
Friendly Fields
The stars of a popular children’s television show awake to find their lives changed forever. How will they navigate this new and terrifying reality? [Jake]
The Golden Mask (2008 Black Letter Event)
LUCA’s expedition to South America. The researchers discover an ancient artifact which can literally make one’s wildest dream come true. When they realize this power is in their hands, what choice will they make? (NOTE: when we ran the game, it was a poor one.) [Bob]
The Green Valley Incident
In 1982, something strange is brewing in Green Valley. The Californian town has been struggling as unemployment and drug use have risen. Now a serial killer runs free on the city streets. [Perry, Jason]
The Greenwich Horror
It’s an ordinary story: Sweet girl from the suburbs moves to the city and falls in with a fast crowd. Starts wearing black and spouting poetry, running around with wild and unkempt men. Stops visiting and calling home. Heartbreaking to her family, but hardly unusual. Except she was murdered—horribly, with a brutality to shock even the most jaded New Yorker. This heinous event draws a varied group of loved ones and acquaintances to Beat-era Greenwich Village one cold Saturday night, seeking justice, vengeance, and absolution. But terrible questions lead to more terrible answers, some too awful to comprehend. [Jake]
The Grey Baby
In Alaska, folklore is a vibrant part of the small community life. As investigators, your job is to separate the myth from the terrible truth for one local legend. [Dave P]
The Hangman’s Well
Horror and madness in the Wild West. An original scenario by YTCC alumnus Chris Spivey, of Darker Hue Studios.
High Stakes
In the year 2329, you have all gathered in a warehouse on Mars colony 16b. What better way to spend your Saturday night than planning the greatest casino heist in history? [Michael]
High Water (2009 Black Letter Event)
Flood waters threaten to overtake a small community. A desperate family attempts to escape from nature’s wrath, and something far worse. [Bob]
Homecoming (2019 Black Letter Event)
It’s the end of senior year at Willowbrook High (Go Ravens!), and almost time for the prom. The students don’t have much more time together; will secrets tear the class apart? [Dave C]
Horror in the Hall
A party of Norse heroes has been summoned to seek the truth surrounding a terrible tragedy. Will the warriors be able to solve the mystery of this misery and further their fame and fortune? [Chris H]
Hysteria
In the 1890s, the Seven Steeples gathers troubled women from across Indiana. In these halls dwells a menace more horrible than madness, that threatens to devour them all. [Jake]
Into the Black (2018 Black Letter Event)
Labor unrest is the least of the problems confronting this West Virginia mining town. An unfortunate explosion unleashes an eldritch terror that threatens to unravel the fabric of reality. [Jake]
Kronos Theater 1—Captain Kronos and the Golden River
In the eighteenth century, in central Europe, a black terror swept across the face of the land. The curse of vampirism, which had been a half-forgotten memory for hundreds of years, returned with a fury that struck unholy fear into the hearts of every man, woman, and child. One man dared to hurl a challenge of cold steel against the terror of the undead. He was Captain Kronos—Vampire Hunter! Role-playing inspired by the Hammer Classic, Captain Kronos—Vampire Hunter. [Dave C]
Kronos Theater 2—Captain Kronos and the Woman’s Way
More role-playing inspired by the Hammer Classic, Captain Kronos—Vampire Hunter. [Dave C]
Kronos Theater 3—Captain Kronos and the Stumbling Sonambulist
Even more role-playing inspired by the Hammer Classic, Captain Kronos—Vampire Hunter. [Dave C]
The Last Days of Central State
It’s November, 1994. Central State Hospital in Indianapolis has officially closed its doors after 150 years of housing the region’s insane. Only a skeleton crew and a few problem patients remain, awaiting release from this historic institution. But something ancient and malevolent isn’t ready to let them go. [Jake]
Last Resort (2010 Black Letter Event)
Desperate couples dream of bringing new life into the world, and hope the Verdant Life Center can help. Will this faraway island facility with its reclusive physician make this dream come true? [Bob]
a little child shall lead them
You work for the Abrams County Department of Family Resources, in Tennessee. Saving children’s lives makes it all worth it. An informer in a seedy dive on Halloween is odd, but nothing surprises you anymore. Surely it’s just a routine case. [Bob]
The Lost and the Damned
Somewhere in the Southwest lies a fortune of gold in the Lost Dutchman’s Mine. Will you and your comrades be the ones to find it, or will you be joining the hosts of the lost and the damned? [Kit]
Lost Legends: Utopians
The Utopians inspired millions with their heroics in the 2000s, but they vanished a decade ago. In their wake, dozens of superhero teams have risen up to battle the dire machinations of supervillians. Your current case has turned up a clue about their disappearance. Can you find out what happened to the Lost Legends? Can you bring hope back to the hopeless? Can you resist the darkness without losing your minds? An original scenario by YTCC alumnus Chris Spivey, of Darker Hue Studios.
New Business in an Old Town
Brooksville, Oklahoma is like every other town in 1934, near the breaking point because of the Great Depression. Your town has rallied together, but a pillar of the community just turned up dead. An original scenario by YTCC alumnus Chris Spivey, of Darker Hue Studios.
Nightmare of Hobbes’ Landing
Renaissance Renovations project involves the sleepy New England community Hobbes’ Landing. Everything was going well until the founder fell ill. Now it’s up to you to get the project back on track. [Bob, Dave C]
Nostalgia (2007 Black Letter Event)
The year is 1975 and disco is king, but a tyrant king choking the life out of rock. Desperate to reverse this trend and turn back the clock is the multi-platinum selling band Blood Lust. The band has regrouped against all odds, and shuffling differences, bad feelings, and grudges aside, they are putting the final touches on their follow-up to Silent Suicide Stiletto—their new album, Nostalgia. It has been five years of hell since SSS took the world by storm. Now, sleepless nights, drugs, booze, and countless women are bringing them no closer to filling the abyss. [Dave C]
One-Way Ticket
A group of strangers travel a lonely highway in the dark of night. A lot of things can bring one out on a night like this. Broken hearts, broken dreams, a new start, a frivolous diversion. [Jake]
The Only Thing We Have to Fear
Being a Gastarbeitnehmer or “guest worker” in World War II Germany is not what anyone would call an easy job. But you do have a roof over your head and food to eat, and you even get a small salary for your work. You just want to keep your head down and make it through this war. Things are bad, but they could be much worse. When a friend asks a small favor, it seems so simple—but something does not want you to complete your errand. [Eric]
The Queen of a Lost Planet (2013 Black Letter Event)
An alien menace threatens the set of a 1950s sci-fi film. So apropos. The challenges of making a film, the masterwork of director J.W. Ellison, are complicated by terrible conditions, a terrible cast, unwelcome visitors, and the directorial decisions of Ellison himself. [Jake]
The Queen’s Got Your Number
It’s good to have friends, especially when that friend is Stephanie “Queenie” St. Clair, the Numbers Queen of Harlem. One of her men has come up dead and the police can’t be bothered to investigate. Queenie has questions, and needs you to find answers. Protect your community as you explore the Harlem Renaissance in this scenario inspired by the award-winning Call of Cthulhu supplement, Harlem Unbound. [Josh]
The Red Assembly
You’ve come to Hawaii to seek a new start, to embrace your ancestral culture, to bury the past, or simply to enjoy yourself. However, beneath the idyllic beauty lies dark forces which have existed for eons, and wait for their time to awaken. [Bob, Rachel]
Safety Deposit
A last gift from an old friend unlocks a terrible mystery. [Dave P]
Savages
Sumatra is the largest and most mysterious of the islands of Indonesia. The wild landscape of jungles and volcanoes has swallowed up the latest expedition. You face tigers and primitive natives amongst other horrors, if you dare to discover their fate. [Dave P]
Seven Virtues
The Age of War is raging in feudal Japan. Only the samurai code and honorable warlords stand between the people and unimaginable horrors. [Dave P]
Shadows Descent on the Hurston
Major corporations battle against each other and the weakened world government; a lone mining station circling Mars, unbeknownst to those aboard, stands as the only salvation for Earth. Ancient shadows stir, as pawns call on their dark masters to arise. Will the dark master rise to destroy them, or will Earth’s power struggle vanquish them first, before they can save us all? An original scenario by YTCC alumnus Chris Spivey, of Darker Hue Studios.
The Show Must Go On (2012 Black Letter Event)
The circus is coming to town! The Yankee Travelling Continental Circus (YTCC) is headed to Arkham for the last show of the season. However, an ancient visitor has plans of his own. An unlikely group comprised of circus performers must stop the threat using their highly eclectic skillset. [Bob]
Sleepaway
Being away from home can be scary. Sometimes it can be terrifying. A group of young campers must face greater fears than each other and growing up to stop a cosmic evil from entering the world. [Bob, Rachel]
Strangers
A grisly discovery in a garbage truck initiates a federal investigation of drug trafficking, and organized dog-fighting. The operation is being covertly spearheaded by Delta Green, a clandestine intergovernmental shadow agency. Why would an organization dedicated to eradicating uncanny and horrific threats be involved in something so routine? [Bob]
The Sweater
A job at a thrift store is no one’s lifelong dream, but when an unusual sweater is donated, it quickly becomes a nightmare! [Dave C]
Thing on the Ice
In 1845, Sir John Franklin left England to discover the Northwest Passage. You and your comrades were fortunate enough to accompany him on this grand endeavor. Now it is 1848, and events have not gone as planned. Beset in the ice, you battle the world’s most inhospitable clime, starvation, disease, and an ancient evil that lurks in the eternal arctic twilight. [Bob]
A Time of Crisis
A patriot, a champion of change and reform, has lost his zeal and abandoned the revolution. As agents of the Committee, you have been sent to arrest this respected scientist, physician, and philosopher; gather what remains of his work; determine why he tried to destroy it; and return him to Paris for his appointment with Madame Guillotine. [Bob]
The Traveling Dream
In the middle of the Depression, a group of migrant workers hitch a ride on the Santa Fe line through the Oklahoma Panhandle. [Perry, Jason]
Tunguska (2015 Black Letter Event)
In June 1908, a large explosion occurred near the Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia. Thirty years later, a Soviet-sponsored expedition returns to the site to research the cause and survey the region’s recovery. What they discover poses a terrible danger to Mother Russia! [Dave P]
Under the Bharat Sun
Following in the footsteps of the legendary Beatles, a group of Americans travel to southern India seeking enlightenment. However, all things in the land of heaven are not what they seem as sinister forces have darker plans to unfold. [Michael]
What Do the Cards Say?
The carnival has come to town, and things seem strange. Is it due to these odd visitors, or is something else, something older and darker returning to threaten you and those you hold dear? [Tony]
Whispers of Harlem (2017 Black Letter Event)
An original scenario by YTCC alumnus Chris Spivey, of Darker Hue Studios.
Cthulhu Raids Again
For the past 60 years, Cthulhu and other Mythos entities have appeared for brief periods bringing death, destruction, and madness with them. Play the part of a brave defense force striving to save Tokyo from another onslaught. [Dave P]
The Depths of Madness
It is December 1944, and World War II rages on in the Pacific Ocean. Germany and Japan are on the defensive. You and the crew of the attack submarine U.S.S. Angelfish are on patrol. War is hell, yes—but what other horrors exist beneath the depths? [Dave P]
Descent into Avernus
Two worlds collide, one of myth and legend intersecting one of science and reason. Your paths into imprisonment were easy, but can you find your way free? [Perry, Jason]
Distance Learning
A tedious online course. A requirement to be fulfilled in the cheapest, easiest possible fashion and nothing more. A mandatory study group filled with a handful of resentful students. One mysterious member’s odd behavior sets him apart from the group. Bizarre and inexplicable events online and off seem to follow in his wake. What should be a mildly annoying slog through online learning becomes something entirely more sinister and deadly as this stranger’s incredible secret comes to light. How will these everyday students survive their new, horrific reality? [Jake]
Do Spirits Return?
The year is 1926, and a small group of admirers are summoned to the reading of Harry Houdini’s last will and testament. Nothing on this earth could hold Houdini, but what of worlds beyond? [Dave C]
Double Exposure (2016 Black Letter Event)
The first ever Black Letter Event sequel! This story involves the son of Janice Banks from the 2013 Black LetterEvent, The Queen of a Lost Planet. Predicate Stargrove, an actor and fledgling director, is desperate to make a great film as a tribute to his mother. Alas, other have more diabolical plans. [Bob]
Dust to Dust (2011 Black Letter Event)
Set in a small town during the Dust Bowl, the players must contend with this ecological disaster. However, a well-intended madman is going to make the situation unimaginably and unendurably worse. [Dave P]
Eye for an Eye
A message from their old college mentor draws a group of Miskatonic University Alumni to Africa. This journey will continue their education and they will learn some of the terrible mysteries of the Dark Continent, to their peril. [Michael]
Fall Into Light
A group of amateur true crime authors gather to hone their craft. [Dave C]
Field Study
A course hunting for Bigfoot and lasting just a few days sounds like a good time and an easy A. The worst thing about it will probably be the weather. [Bob]
Flaming Star (2006 Black Letter Event)
It’s October 1962. Kennedy is in office; it’s a time of great expectations, but recent events have shaken the nation’s confidence. You and your fellow passengers are aboard a cross-country flight while these events unfold. As the flight progresses, the survival of the passengers and perhaps even the world rests, on the shoulders of few brave individuals. [Dave C]
The Forbidden Fane (2014 Black Letter Event)
Bob’s opus and tribute to Robert E. Howard. The players take on the roles of Pict, Gauls, and Romans. Bob plays Julius Caeasar, and Dave C plays Conan the Cimmerian’s archnemesis Thoth-Amon. [Bob]
Friendly Fields
The stars of a popular children’s television show awake to find their lives changed forever. How will they navigate this new and terrifying reality? [Jake]
The Golden Mask (2008 Black Letter Event)
LUCA’s expedition to South America. The researchers discover an ancient artifact which can literally make one’s wildest dream come true. When they realize this power is in their hands, what choice will they make? (NOTE: when we ran the game, it was a poor one.) [Bob]
The Greater Good
An investigation into a missing person uncovers a greater mystery. The stakes are high, and currency is human life. But really, what are a few lives when weighed against the greater good? A new Delta Green game. [Bob]
The Green Valley Incident
In 1982, something strange is brewing in Green Valley. The Californian town has been struggling as unemployment and drug use have risen. Now a serial killer runs free on the city streets. [Perry, Jason]
The Greenwich Horror
It’s an ordinary story: Sweet girl from the suburbs moves to the city and falls in with a fast crowd. Starts wearing black and spouting poetry, running around with wild and unkempt men. Stops visiting and calling home. Heartbreaking to her family, but hardly unusual. Except she was murdered—horribly, with a brutality to shock even the most jaded New Yorker. This heinous event draws a varied group of loved ones and acquaintances to Beat-era Greenwich Village one cold Saturday night, seeking justice, vengeance, and absolution. But terrible questions lead to more terrible answers, some too awful to comprehend. [Jake]
The Grey Baby
In Alaska, folklore is a vibrant part of the small community life. As investigators, your job is to separate the myth from the terrible truth for one local legend. [Dave P]
The Hangman’s Well
Horror and madness in the Wild West. An original scenario by YTCC alumnus Chris Spivey, of Darker Hue Studios.
High Stakes
In the year 2329, you have all gathered in a warehouse on Mars colony 16b. What better way to spend your Saturday night than planning the greatest casino heist in history? [Michael]
High Water (2009 Black Letter Event)
Flood waters threaten to overtake a small community. A desperate family attempts to escape from nature’s wrath, and something far worse. [Bob]
Homecoming (2019 Black Letter Event)
It’s the end of senior year at Willowbrook High (Go Ravens!), and almost time for the prom. The students don’t have much more time together; will secrets tear the class apart? [Dave C]
Horror in the Hall
A party of Norse heroes has been summoned to seek the truth surrounding a terrible tragedy. Will the warriors be able to solve the mystery of this misery and further their fame and fortune? [Chris H]
Howlers
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: $20,000 Reward for the capture or execution of the Holt Craven Gang. For murder, kidnapping, horse thieving, and suspected cannibalism. See Marshal Josiah Wright Claremont County. [Kit]
Hysteria
In the 1890s, the Seven Steeples gathers troubled women from across Indiana. In these halls dwells a menace more horrible than madness, that threatens to devour them all. [Jake]
Into the Black (2018 Black Letter Event)
Labor unrest is the least of the problems confronting this West Virginia mining town. An unfortunate explosion unleashes an eldritch terror that threatens to unravel the fabric of reality. [Jake]
Kronos Theater 1—Captain Kronos and the Golden River
In the eighteenth century, in central Europe, a black terror swept across the face of the land. The curse of vampirism, which had been a half-forgotten memory for hundreds of years, returned with a fury that struck unholy fear into the hearts of every man, woman, and child. One man dared to hurl a challenge of cold steel against the terror of the undead. He was Captain Kronos—Vampire Hunter! Role-playing inspired by the Hammer Classic, Captain Kronos—Vampire Hunter. [Dave C]
Kronos Theater 2—Captain Kronos and the Woman’s Way
More role-playing inspired by the Hammer Classic, Captain Kronos—Vampire Hunter. [Dave C]
Kronos Theater 3—Captain Kronos and the Stumbling Sonambulist
Even more role-playing inspired by the Hammer Classic, Captain Kronos—Vampire Hunter. [Dave C]
The Last Days of Central State
It’s November, 1994. Central State Hospital in Indianapolis has officially closed its doors after 150 years of housing the region’s insane. Only a skeleton crew and a few problem patients remain, awaiting release from this historic institution. But something ancient and malevolent isn’t ready to let them go. [Jake]
Last Resort (2010 Black Letter Event)
Desperate couples dream of bringing new life into the world, and hope the Verdant Life Center can help. Will this faraway island facility with its reclusive physician make this dream come true? [Bob]
a little child shall lead them
You work for the Abrams County Department of Family Resources, in Tennessee. Saving children’s lives makes it all worth it. An informer in a seedy dive on Halloween is odd, but nothing surprises you anymore. Surely it’s just a routine case. [Bob]
The Lost and the Damned
Somewhere in the Southwest lies a fortune of gold in the Lost Dutchman’s Mine. Will you and your comrades be the ones to find it, or will you be joining the hosts of the lost and the damned? [Kit]
Lost Legends: Utopians
The Utopians inspired millions with their heroics in the 2000s, but they vanished a decade ago. In their wake, dozens of superhero teams have risen up to battle the dire machinations of supervillians. Your current case has turned up a clue about their disappearance. Can you find out what happened to the Lost Legends? Can you bring hope back to the hopeless? Can you resist the darkness without losing your minds? An original scenario by YTCC alumnus Chris Spivey, of Darker Hue Studios.
New Business in an Old Town
Brooksville, Oklahoma is like every other town in 1934, near the breaking point because of the Great Depression. Your town has rallied together, but a pillar of the community just turned up dead. An original scenario by YTCC alumnus Chris Spivey, of Darker Hue Studios.
Nightmare of Hobbes’ Landing
Renaissance Renovations project involves the sleepy New England community Hobbes’ Landing. Everything was going well until the founder fell ill. Now it’s up to you to get the project back on track. [Bob, Dave C]
Nostalgia (2007 Black Letter Event)
The year is 1975 and disco is king, but a tyrant king choking the life out of rock. Desperate to reverse this trend and turn back the clock is the multi-platinum selling band Blood Lust. The band has regrouped against all odds, and shuffling differences, bad feelings, and grudges aside, they are putting the final touches on their follow-up to Silent Suicide Stiletto—their new album, Nostalgia. It has been five years of hell since SSS took the world by storm. Now, sleepless nights, drugs, booze, and countless women are bringing them no closer to filling the abyss. [Dave C]
One-Way Ticket
A group of strangers travel a lonely highway in the dark of night. A lot of things can bring one out on a night like this. Broken hearts, broken dreams, a new start, a frivolous diversion. [Jake]
The Only Thing We Have to Fear
Being a Gastarbeitnehmer or “guest worker” in World War II Germany is not what anyone would call an easy job. But you do have a roof over your head and food to eat, and you even get a small salary for your work. You just want to keep your head down and make it through this war. Things are bad, but they could be much worse. When a friend asks a small favor, it seems so simple—but something does not want you to complete your errand. [Eric]
The Queen of a Lost Planet (2013 Black Letter Event)
An alien menace threatens the set of a 1950s sci-fi film. So apropos. The challenges of making a film, the masterwork of director J.W. Ellison, are complicated by terrible conditions, a terrible cast, unwelcome visitors, and the directorial decisions of Ellison himself. [Jake]
The Queen’s Got Your Number
It’s good to have friends, especially when that friend is Stephanie “Queenie” St. Clair, the Numbers Queen of Harlem. One of her men has come up dead and the police can’t be bothered to investigate. Queenie has questions, and needs you to find answers. Protect your community as you explore the Harlem Renaissance in this scenario inspired by the award-winning Call of Cthulhu supplement, Harlem Unbound. [Josh]
The Red Assembly
You’ve come to Hawaii to seek a new start, to embrace your ancestral culture, to bury the past, or simply to enjoy yourself. However, beneath the idyllic beauty lies dark forces which have existed for eons, and wait for their time to awaken. [Bob, Rachel]
Safety Deposit
A last gift from an old friend unlocks a terrible mystery. [Dave P]
Savages
Sumatra is the largest and most mysterious of the islands of Indonesia. The wild landscape of jungles and volcanoes has swallowed up the latest expedition. You face tigers and primitive natives amongst other horrors, if you dare to discover their fate. [Dave P]
Seven Virtues
The Age of War is raging in feudal Japan. Only the samurai code and honorable warlords stand between the people and unimaginable horrors. [Dave P]
Shadows Descent on the Hurston
Major corporations battle against each other and the weakened world government; a lone mining station circling Mars, unbeknownst to those aboard, stands as the only salvation for Earth. Ancient shadows stir, as pawns call on their dark masters to arise. Will the dark master rise to destroy them, or will Earth’s power struggle vanquish them first, before they can save us all? An original scenario by YTCC alumnus Chris Spivey, of Darker Hue Studios.
The Show Must Go On (2012 Black Letter Event)
The circus is coming to town! The Yankee Travelling Continental Circus (YTCC) is headed to Arkham for the last show of the season. However, an ancient visitor has plans of his own. An unlikely group comprised of circus performers must stop the threat using their highly eclectic skillset. [Bob]
Sleepaway
Being away from home can be scary. Sometimes it can be terrifying. A group of young campers must face greater fears than each other and growing up to stop a cosmic evil from entering the world. [Bob, Rachel]
Strangers
A grisly discovery in a garbage truck initiates a federal investigation of drug trafficking, and organized dog-fighting. The operation is being covertly spearheaded by Delta Green, a clandestine intergovernmental shadow agency. Why would an organization dedicated to eradicating uncanny and horrific threats be involved in something so routine? [Bob]
The Sweater
A job at a thrift store is no one’s lifelong dream, but when an unusual sweater is donated, it quickly becomes a nightmare! [Dave C]
Thing on the Ice
In 1845, Sir John Franklin left England to discover the Northwest Passage. You and your comrades were fortunate enough to accompany him on this grand endeavor. Now it is 1848, and events have not gone as planned. Beset in the ice, you battle the world’s most inhospitable clime, starvation, disease, and an ancient evil that lurks in the eternal arctic twilight. [Bob]
Think of the Children
They just want to play Heavy Metal, but what will they do when faced with true darkness? [Jake]
A Time of Crisis
A patriot, a champion of change and reform, has lost his zeal and abandoned the revolution. As agents of the Committee, you have been sent to arrest this respected scientist, physician, and philosopher; gather what remains of his work; determine why he tried to destroy it; and return him to Paris for his appointment with Madame Guillotine. [Bob]
The Traveling Dream
In the middle of the Depression, a group of migrant workers hitch a ride on the Santa Fe line through the Oklahoma Panhandle. [Perry, Jason]
Trick or Terror
Halloween night can be full of fun, innocent frights and candy. For a group of kids from two neighborhoods inside a small Midwestern town, trick or treating could mean something dark and foul. This 12-player, 5-GM exclusive was written for Gamehole Con 2019. [Michael]
Tunguska (2015 Black Letter Event)
In June 1908, a large explosion occurred near the Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia. Thirty years later, a Soviet-sponsored expedition returns to the site to research the cause and survey the region’s recovery. What they discover poses a terrible danger to Mother Russia! [Dave P]
Under the Bharat Sun
Following in the footsteps of the legendary Beatles, a group of Americans travel to southern India seeking enlightenment. However, all things in the land of heaven are not what they seem as sinister forces have darker plans to unfold. [Michael]
What Do the Cards Say?
The carnival has come to town, and things seem strange. Is it due to these odd visitors, or is something else, something older and darker returning to threaten you and those you hold dear? [Tony]
Whispers of Harlem (2017 Black Letter Event)
An original scenario by YTCC alumnus Chris Spivey, of Darker Hue Studios.