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AlexanderHowl · 09-13-2020, 10:36 PM

I usually run Halloween sessions rather than Halloween games, but the pandemic means that nothing is happening right now. I do have an idea for a session.

Imagine a pool in a forest. The pool offers anyone who looks into it their idealized image. If they are foolish enough to touch their image, they (and any of their companions) will be transported to a horrific world where they need to be their idealized version of themselves to have a chance to survive. In effect, each character is given a bonus 400 CP, but they will face dangerous enemies and lethal complications that will be challenging even with an extra 400 CP.

If they die in the horrific world, they die in real life. If they survive for twenty-four hours though, they will return to the real world with 20 CP of permanent traits, as they now know what they might be capable of. When they return to the real world though, the pool has disappeared for another century, and the corpses of their dead companions are stacked where the pool once existed. If, however, they have intimately and/or positively connected with any entity from the horrific world, they will have permanently returned with the character to the real world (and will have equivalent capabilities as the PCs, regardless of their former nature).

09-13-2020, 10:36 PM	#5
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: 2020 Halloween game thread I usually run Halloween sessions rather than Halloween games, but the pandemic means that nothing is happening right now. I do have an idea for a session. Imagine a pool in a forest. The pool offers anyone who looks into it their idealized image. If they are foolish enough to touch their image, they (and any of their companions) will be transported to a horrific world where they need to be their idealized version of themselves to have a chance to survive. In effect, each character is given a bonus 400 CP, but they will face dangerous enemies and lethal complications that will be challenging even with an extra 400 CP. If they die in the horrific world, they die in real life. If they survive for twenty-four hours though, they will return to the real world with 20 CP of permanent traits, as they now know what they might be capable of. When they return to the real world though, the pool has disappeared for another century, and the corpses of their dead companions are stacked where the pool once existed. If, however, they have intimately and/or positively connected with any entity from the horrific world, they will have permanently returned with the character to the real world (and will have equivalent capabilities as the PCs, regardless of their former nature).