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Coniunctio Regnum Silvanus
by Richard Kershaw

A two session scenario of modern horror for four players

Darkness has flown through the shadow of lifes dreaming Fear Terror Apprehension
"Come quickly, somethings happened to Monique"
Life without Pain has no meaning.
"No I don't want to call the cops. Monique said not to do that." Can't take my eyes from the circling skys. Tired torn twisted, just an earth bound misfit, I "OK I'll get there as soon as I can"
13 time widdershins baby, 13 times widdershins. Monique The woman in need Aaron The engineer in shining armour (well, suit)
Leah The font of all knowledge Death is but a door. Pity it's one way. Mostly.
Well its all a door. Mostly one way.
Tobi Like I broke a Na-il
Hilary Shaggy is a way of life Valerie The distraught Housemate If thy right hand offends thee, cut it off.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear. 1998 Melbourne Never go that way, that way goes straight to that castle
Sometimes when I'm all alone, I still make believe that something bigger then us, better then us still exists. But it doesn't. Humans is it. The fairies at the end of the garden never existed. They were always just make believe. As was the seductive killer in the night, the beasts of darkness in the woods. Even God looks more and more like a fairy tale. Just cause of some mad bastard, still dreaming of something bigger then himself. And deciding that his view was better then anyone elses.
A two session, four player game using the Storyteller rules, but not the World of Darkness background.
Characterisation:3Rules Knowledge1
Adult Content: M+Seriousness 3

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DECEMBER 1999
by Ian Thomas

A single session Call of Cthulhuesque story for four players

The first day of our new millennium is approaching. What does it mean to humanity? For some, it heralds the coming of Our Lord or the beginning of our rescue. To others, it is the end to civilisation as we know it, the dawn of another bitter day, or perhaps just the best excuse for the biggest party of all time. Hey, some even complain that we're all a year early!

In any case, they can't all be right. Can they?

A Call of Cthulhuesque, single session story for four True Believers on a collision course with the new age.
Characterisation:4Rules Knowledge:2
Adult Content: MASeriousness: 3-5


The Perfect Crime
by Toby Seidel

A single session modern day crime story for four players

"Right, you all know the plan. We will pull the job in 2 days till then you will have to stay here, we don't want anybody to be seen out and about. The Boss does not want anything to go wrong with this heist, you pull this one off and you'll be living happy for the rest of your lives, stuff up and the Boss will see to it that you will never have a chance to screw up again."

The Perfect Crime is a single session modern day crime story for 4 experts in the art of crime written to use the Cyberpunk system.
Characterisation: 3Rules Knowledge1
Adult ContentPG/MSeriousness:2


The goldenhaired and the silvercrowned
by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski

A single session Harn scenario for four players

A ghastly Harn scenario for four stout defenders of the coast. No previous experience with Harn required.
Characterisation 5 Rules Knowledge 0
Adult Content MA Seriousness 4


Vox Populi
by Rob Shankly

A single session GURPS Discworld scenario for four players.

The city of Ankh Morpork huddled beneath a fierce summer storm. Lighting flashed, reflected from a million puddles, damply illuminating the night's furtive transactions. But even the rain and wind came fitfully to the deeper alleys and courtyards, as if cautious of venturing too deep within, for its shadowed tenements are the breeding place of evil, the sort of place death comes so quickly that the lucky recipient sometimes doesn't realize it until quite some time later.

Ensconced within his opulent palace, protected from the storm by velvet screens, walls of stone and iron-clad guards, the Patrician studied a stained sheet of vellum. Several crumpled balls of paper lay scattered at his feet. Prone beneath a nearby sofa, a primitive assassin stared unblinking, slitted eyes and hunter's brain measuring and calculating. Fluid muscles slowly began to tense...

"Dammit all" muttered the Patrician, crumpling another secret report, slender fingers wadding and crushing the paper in a way that would chill the heart of its author. "What's really going on down- Aaaaargh!"

As a guard burst in, sword bared, and the Patrician swore again and dabbed at his lacerated ankle, a fluffy white kitten*, claws agleam, scampered across the room and pursued the crumpled paper ball beneath a bookcase.

*The kind of kitten intended to be patted and fondled on a despot's knee, purring and grinning, while unfortunate interviewees are sentenced to torture or worse.

A group of lucky city employees are sent on a fact-finding tour through Ankh. Yes, the other side of the river.
Characterisation3 Rules knowledge2
Adult ContentPG/M Seriousness2


Lil Cultists
by Anthony Baxter

Being A Play In One Act

The Story Of The Trials And Tribulations Of Four Young Deep One Hybrids, Cruelly Removed From Their Homes And Their Families And Forced Into Institutions By An Uncaring And Hostile Society.

How Will They Fit In?
Will They Ever Get To Swim In The Open Seas Again With Dagon And Hydra?
And How Will They Avoid Appearing On "60 Minutes"?

A single session, four player somewhat variant Call of Cthulhu scenario.
Characterisation:3 Rules Knowledge: 2
Adult Content:PG/M Seriousness:2


Mixed Emotions
by Mark Limburg

A single session scenario set in tomorrow for four players.

Man, things are looking up. The company is doing well now that the new government is in place, and it is great to see the neighbourhood for a change. The violent crime report last night said that our region is at an all time low for over 15 years. Maybe I'll start giving something back to the community myself, well, if I can drag myself out of bed that is. Ahhh, nothing quite like the warmth of nanoenhanced blanket.

But .. where is that harsh light coming from?

Take one Call of Cthluhu adventure, inject an unhealthy dose of Paranoia, then beat with a Cyberpunk until it starts to scream. For four players with a sure sense of their identity.
Characterisation3 Rules Knowledge2
Adult ContentM Seriousness4


Decompiling Eternity
by Aaron Wigley

A single session systemless science fiction scenario for four players.

"Science Watch", May 13, 2107
... and Astronomers this week are expectantly turning their attention towards Sagittarius, where there are signs of a possible supernova some time later this month. The star, Sagittarius-eta, was not expected to go nova for several million years according to models of star evolution, so this event will be closely monitored...

News Flash, "System News", May 24, 2107
"... News has just come to hand that Pluto has just ... simply ... disappeared. Inner-system telescopes monitoring the Sagitarius event are being redirected as I speak. As yet, there are no explanations for the disappearance, which happened within seconds of the supernova. Fears are held for the research outpost ..."

"Voice of Sol", June 2153
"The Ring is a structure 200 light-years in the direction of Sagittarius, discovered in 2109 as the target of the message sent by the fateful implosion of Pluto. That day, humanities' future changed. For no longer could we believe that they were alone in the Universe. ... Today, we wish our emissaries luck on their four-hundred year voyage, as they seek to make contact ..."
Characterisation4 Rules Knowledge0
Adult ContentMA Seriousness4


The Great Escape!
(from the big green thing with point teeth)(!)

by Sarah Johnson

A single session, four player systemless and silly scenario

It it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's a... a... Flying Rhinoceros?!?!?!?!?

A high fantasy game involving a flying purple rhino, a dog with a three second memory, a turtle with an inferiority complex, and a monkey.

Join these four insane characters as they attempt to swim, fly and roller skate out of... The Big Scary Castle!! Fight the Big Green Thing with Pointy Teeth! Play a friendly game of thump the tarantula! And you don't even want to know what that thing is crawling up your neck!

A single session not-just-high-actually-off-its-face fantasy scenario for four players.
Characterisation3 Rules Knowledge0
Adult ContentG Seriousness-2


Side On
by Andy Smith

A single session Call of Cthulhu scenario for four players

The detective's problem is always the same. Perspective. The world comes at you upside-down, back to front, and inside out. You don't see the events in a logical sequence, just whatever damned order they happen to happen in, or whatever order you find out about them. Maybe you get sent to find some guy, but there's every chance he's not important. His disappearance is just a consequence of what's really going on, just a side-effect of fantastic machinations beyond your imagination. And you're still just trying to find this guy, so you come to everything in the case from the wrong point of view. You see everything obliquely, side on. Even once the right events grab your attention, they seem jumbled. They share a sort of common theme, but the patterns you can see in the them are maddeningly incomplete. So you run all over town trying to unjumble them, and slowly you get an odd feeling about things. A sort of fascination mixed with unease and the anxious premonition of something to come. Maybe this is your subconscious starting to work things out, or maybe you're just starting to feel like a sap, but there's nothing you can do to shake it. For days its like an itch you can't scratch, and then you have a revelation. You see something, or someone says something, and it triggers a memory - and in a split-second of revelation your perspective shifts. And you yell out or drop your coffee or stop dead crossing the street because you can see now how close you came, and what you need to do.

A detective story for Gödel Rocks Cthulhu

Characterisation3 Rules Knowledge2
Adult ContentMA Seriousness3