Horror on the Orient Express (Red Fez Prologue)
A horrific tale spanning the ages and centered on that most famous of trains. Will your investigator survive with their mind intact?
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Weekly / Saturday - 7:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3.5–4 hours
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About the adventure
Prologue: The Blood-Red Fez Your friend, the young and upcoming Professor Smith, sends you a note regarding a matter of great urgency. He does not elaborate with his correspondence - brought by way of young, homeless child - other than to provide an address and the simple instruction to bring a gun with you. Main Campaign: It is the cold winter of January, 1923. Your good friend, Professor Julius Arthur Smith, invites you to attend the Challenger Trust Banquet Lecture. Smith is a skeptic of the occult and supernatural, with a rational explanation for everything. He has helped with previous investigations into occult matters and, frankly, you owe him a great debt. Still, when such a rational man speaks of the topic of hauntings and other worlds you cannot help but be curious. When Professor Smith is later assaulted by mysterious cultists, he calls upon you to stop them. You must board the Orient Express, collect the pieces of the Sedefkar Simulacrum and transport them to Constantinople that you might bear them into the Shunned Mosque and perform the necessary occult ritual to destroy them and end the threat they pose to humanity. As for why would Constantinople would have such works? That's nobody's business but the Turks. Discord Community Link; https://discord.gg/7GBEeDKKPA
Game style
Combat Lite
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Roleplay Heavy
Theater of the Mind
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(33)
2 years on StartPlaying
352 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Knows the Rules
About me
~A heads up, I am British. As such my weekday availability generally ends by 7pm EST.~ Feel like joining my Discord community? You can link up with fellow RPG players, see what projects are on the horizon and make requests of your own or vote in polls to influence future campaigns. Also feel free to spectate on any active sessions via the Discord Stage channel. Discord Link; https://discord.gg/7GBEeDKKPA A veteran player and GM, and developer for Pokemon Tabletop Reunited 1st and 2nd edition, having had at least 1 session a week now since 2004 - running and playing. Open to GMing a variety of systems. Got my start in D&D 3.0, but branched out about a decade ago into a variety of other games. Would consider learning new systems on request, though would likely charge more for the added effort to do so. I also do development work for system mechanics add-ons. Perhaps most importantly though, I am all too happy to work with you to integrate you into my worlds and create a very personalised character-specific story-line within the broader narrative of the campaign. Figuring out who your character is, their relationship dynamics and what drives them - with room for specific rivalries and more. I'm Autistic and ADHD like many other members of our community, and can provide a lot of support and advice to help with any barriers you might feel you face with neurodivergence. Willing to consider group-booking discounts depending on the number of players looking to book together. Contact me to discuss particulars. Feel free to ask about joining my Discord community to get a look at what else I have going on, along with future projects in the pipeline and the opportunity to discuss personalised requests for campaigns.
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Creating your character
Character creation can be done on Dhole House or in Foundry VTT. I can make myself available to do a guided run through character creation, or you can make your Investigator independently. Investigators will be assumed to have a degree of veterancy and should take an Experience Package from the Investigator's Handbook (details will be provided). In the absence of a more fitting experience package, we will use the Mythos Experience one by default.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Players should make sure that they are on Discord, have a microphone and sign up for my community server so that they can attend sessions and collaborate with other players. It is preferable if players can source their own character art, but not mandatory.
What Chris 'Fox' brings to the table
I'll be making available a lobby in the Foundry VTT service with an eye to providing ambient audio and accompanying images/handouts/maps as well.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Internet
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Chris 'Fox' creates a safe table
Call of Cthulhu is, of course, a horror game and will touch on a number of uncomfortable topics. We'll discuss lines and veils at Session Zero, and if anything gets uncomfortable during play we can always take a break.
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