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“Shelter Me O God”

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“Shelter Me O God” , written and GMed by Keith Nov 1957 : With the Cold War intensifying, Americans increasingly feared a surprise Soviet nuclear attack. Those fears were amplified when in October, the Soviets launched Sputnik 1 , demonstrating rocket technology capable of potentially delivering nuclear warheads across continents. The launch of Sputnik 2 (with its dog astronaut Laika) only weeks later fueled the fear!   Clarksville, Arkansas was no major target like New York or Washington, but fallout could drift hundreds of miles. Thus, you are all greasers hired by a construction company to build an individual’s bomb shelter. The Aardvarks - group of local greasers in Little Rock, Arkansas (Brian): 21yo Silver /criminal- small crimes has him taking the job to hide from the police. (Dave): 17yo Gina /HS cheerleader now waitress. Needs the job to be able to pay for facial surgery. (Duane): 18yo Freddy - left the racial ...
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The Great Trap-Conclusion

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  The Great Trap-Conclusion (written by Heinrich D. Moore for Call of Cthulhu), GM-Alex The Esoterics : each of us touched by something unnatural in our past. Ai-Ling (Bill) 48yo Chinese Astrophysicist   Florence Maxley (Chance) 29yo attractive black medical Student Professor Flint Larson (Mark) Former MI-8 codebreaker now Mathematician Professor Nathaniel Daystrom (David) 53yo History Professor Julia Chase (Xiao) 40ish Accountant , former cult member   ReCap : We left the 1892 Kreuz Observatory dedication party in the East Hall and followed the particle beam east towards the Zodiac Hall. The beam ended at a drawn curtain. Over the speaker, Walter warned, “Don’t you see what they are trying to do? Make sacrifices of you like they did my sister.” A wailing noise invited us to check behind the curtain. Flint was the first to open the curtain and ripped down the curtain in sh...
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The Great Trap.Part 2

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  The Great Trap  (written by Heinrich D. Moore for Call of Cthulhu), GM-Alex The Esoterics : each of us touched by something unnatural in our past. Ai-Ling (Bill) 48yo Chinese Astrophysicist   Florence Maxley (Chance) 29yo attractive black medical Student Professor Flint Larson (Mark) Former MI-8 codebreaker now Mathematician Professor Nathaniel Daystrom (David) 53yo History Professor Julia Chase (Xiao) 40ish Accountant , former cult member   Study : Nathan knelt over Osterman who was prone on the floor, blood seeping around the book clenched in his mouth. As Ling frantically searched the study desk for any seizure medication bottle, Flint searched for clues of what the professor had been working on; why he called on us in particular.  He found a variety of books: Marvells of Science , Azathoth and other Horrors , etc. While Nathan discretely pocketed 2 of the book...
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The Great Trap.Part 1

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The Great Trap (written by Heinrich D. Moore for Call of Cthulhu), GM-Alex The investigators receive a letter from themselves: one that they have no recollection of signing. The letter urges them to meet at the home of professor and physicist Adhemar Osterman. You are all part of an investigator group called The Esoterics , based out of the University of Chicago. The Esoterics meet up semi-regularly for investigations into the unknown, meetings you colloquially referred to as the “book club”. Ai-Ling (Bill-Nebraska) 48yo Chinese. Parents hoped she’d marry rich; to their displeasure, she’s an Astrophysicist at CU hypothesizing interstellar civilizations communicating with the human race.     Florence Maxley (Chance) 29yo attractive black Student , fashionably dressed. Professor Flint Larson (Mark-Australia) Former MI-8 codebreaker now Mathematician . Only call him “The Old Man” as he wears elbow patc...
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After the Flood.Conclusion

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After the Flood.Conclusion (written and GMed by Keith Craig) Alexa Barnham - photographer (Sawyer) Estella (aka Estel) Avery - Botanist (Bill) Dr Gretchen Levard (Nathan) Henrietta (aka Hen) Posch - Zoologist (Jen) Mark Lockhart - Forensic Scientist (Alex) Estel questioned Mark, “Did you ask them about their 1952 test results they did on the fungus?” Another call only pissed off the secretary, who tried to be polite, “Nebraska isn’t the only state dealing with flooding. I’ll research your request and get back to you later.” While Hen used her phone to check Cardona’s social footprint (Facebook, SnapChat, etc.) without success, Gretchen helped lead deputy Sgt White lay out a county map on the hood of his cruiser to begin evaluating the extent of the needed quarantine. Estel researched wind patterns from a week ago when the mushroom spores probably spread, “Mostly east, southeast of here for 20 miles but ...
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