@Shimmin has been running David A. Hargrave’s 1984 adventure – even the charitable describe it as “all setting, no plot”, but after a few bashes with the Librarians-and-Leviathans scenario spanner… it meets us.
Session 1: They Say He Worked With Hanrahan: In the 1950s, three intrepid agents travel to Providence to find a missing scientist, Should be easy enough. Why did they send three of us?
Session 2: Walther PPK, Shaken Not Stirred: Investigations continue. Why is the Fun House next to the Tunnel of Terrors?
Session 3: Non-Poisson: We make a useful contact. Probably he will betray us and we’ll all die horribly.
Session 4: He Might Be Foreign: After the Not At All Sinister Speech, we attempt to gather information about our target. Some of it may even be valid.
Session 5: Blue-Tinted Hands Reaching Up From the Pan: Every adventure has a dungeon.
Session 6: Don’t You Generally Throttle People In Toilets?: What are we here to do again? Not to fight the monster, thanks.
Unless there were two David A. Hargraves who wrote RPGs…
According to the Yoggie Wiki, his other CoC adventure is Black Devil Mountain (first in The Asylum and Other Tales, 1983). I’ve heard people being quite scathing about that too.
Not surprising, really. His usual approach to gaming never struck me as particularly suited to cosmic horror. Visceral, turbo-charged, gore-splattered, bionic horror, sure…
Unless there were two David A. Hargraves who wrote RPGs…
Well, there were three Steve Jacksons in the industry at one point
By a terrifying conjunction of cosmic events, I JUST finished listening to all the Hanrahan episodes again. I finished immediately before this episode posted. Hold me, I’m scared.
Nice website! I quite liked the “Burn the world waltz” (in D minor, no less). More Nordic metal than I was expecting, but could be good for an action-oriented game intro!
