The Awakening • Cthulhu by Gaslight • For Advanced Players
Call of Cthulhu | Campaign
About the adventure
What do you see when you look into the Abyss? What do you feel when you touch the sky? What would you say if you could understand the secrets of life? Or discover the secrets beyond? Would you give yourself fully into the eternal fire to achieve them? Would you destroy yourself only to reborn as a greater entity? Would you sacrifice everything you have to have more? Or to become one with everything? This game is for experienced Call of Cthulhu players to discover esoteric part of the game and the Gaslight era with the new resources from Chaosium. If you're kinda new to Cthulhu, but trust yourself to be a part of a roleplay-heavy game, you can message me and we can talk about it before you join.
Game style
Rule of Cool (RoC)
“Rule of Cool” emphasizes creative story beats over sticking to a system’s rules as written. Players have the ability to push the limits of the rules or even break core rule mechanics at times if the Game Master thinks it is interesting, fun, or cool enough.
Theater of the Mind
“Theater of the Mind” uses little to no visuals for scene settings and combat. Instead, the narrative imagery comes from the Game Master’s descriptions and character action and movement comes from Players’ descriptions.
Roleplay Heavy
“Roleplay Heavy” games place the focus on the story, the characters, and the world they live within, and tend to lean hard into the various roleplaying elements of the game. These games will frequently find the party talking with NPCs, exploring the personal elements of their backstories, or even having emotional moments around the camp fire.
5.0
(42)
2 years on StartPlaying
342 games hosted
Highly rated for: Sets the Mood, Creativity, Teacher
Average response time: 4 hours
Response rate: 100%
Game Master Reviews (42)
Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Sets the Mood
Creativity
Teacher
Robert
Played 18 sessions
I'm enjoying having Shatargat as my GM for Call of Cthulhu, he's v. knowledgeable on the system and his english is very good, would definitely recommend him as G.M.
Terry
Played 19 sessions
Fantastic Keeper! He communicates well, and he runs the games smoothly and professionally.
James
Played 3 sessions
Great storyteller/GM, flexible and can adapt to player actions, very knowledgeable with the rules and able to help players understand, makes sures player understand what they're getting into
Sarah
Played 1 sessions
Shatargat did a great job of walking us through playing Alice is Missing and as a first time player to any kind of role-playing game made the game easy to play and kept things moving along while also explaining exactly what we were doing.
Adam
Played 1 sessions
I joined an Operation/campaign in progress and was welcomed and not made to feel like I was an outsider FNG. I feel like the player's were equally important to moving forward and this is my first DG character and Operation. I was shell-shocked at the in game situation. It was great. Shatargat knows the game and the mythos and Foundry VTT. I'll look forward to next Saturday.
Heyden Santosh
Played 1 sessions
Great for beginners and was a lot of fun to learn more about D&D
Additional details
How to prepare
I can give you a couple of recommendation as inspiration: • Eyes Wide Shut (movie, 1999) • Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (movie, 2018) • Crimson Rivers I & II (movie, 2000, 2004) • Lust For Darkness & Lust From Beyond (video game, +18 CW, 2018, 2021) • Immortality (video game, +18 CW, 2022) • The Last Door, season 1 & 2 (video game, 2014, 2016) You will need to have a PC and stable internet connection to connect the interface. You will need to have a microphone that captures your voice clearly. Webcam is not a need, but might be good to have if the group wants to.
What I provide
This game will provide an esoteric homebrew adventure in Cthulhu's gaslight era.
Gameplay details
This homebrew scenario deals with the occult society in London in Gaslight era. There will be classism, sexism, political conflicts, power conflicts as well as some sort of perversion. For the scenes that might disturb you, feel free to give a warning during or before the game. We will also talk about red flags in session zero as well.
Content warnings
• Blood
• Body Horror
• Classism
• Cults
• Deep or Large Bodies of Water
• Drugs (addiction, use, withdrawal)
• Extreme Violence
• Fire
• Gore
• Mental Illness
Safety tools used
• Breaks
• Session 0
• X, N, and O Cards
How will character creation work
We will have a session zero, and during the session zero we will discuss the matters like what kind adventure you want to have, game rules in my terms, and character creation. I offer two options: 1. Player characters will be outside of the occult matters but they will try to solve mysteries. 2. Player characters will be people who will have initiation ceremonies and become a member of an esoteric society, start to learn their secrets and will try to overcome dangers according to this new life.
Players can expect
Combat / Tactics
Medium
Roleplay
High
Puzzles
Medium
Experience level
Advanced
Platforms used
• Foundry VTT
• Discord
$25.00
/ Session
Each player will be charged when a session starts.
Details
Weekly / Tuesday - 5:00 PM UTC
3-3 Hour duration
0 / 5 Seats filled
Requirements
Experience required: Advanced
Age: 18+