Welcome! Tekelites, these are two of my regular players (Necropolitans and Hell’s Rebels for any enthusiasts)
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Hi new people!
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yeah Jaal from Necro and the GM from Hell’s Rebels
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A downright strange campaign, that. Great fun to listen, though.
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I’m forever grateful to Naith for putting up with Mal’s antics 
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I have listed the six pregens on another thread, to keep this one less cluttered. Please pick one and post here. Gender, ethnicity etc. is up to you - the doctor is of Japanese heritage in the original (hence the language).
I quite fancy author, or ex-constable, but will be happy with anything.
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I like the look of the Dilettante, the Journalist and the doctor. Slight preference to dilettante cause of
talk your way into any trouble you want
I like the look of the Antiquarian if that works?
Content warnings
I should have flagged this up earlier, sorry. The premise of the scenario is therapy to deal with past trauma that’s causing long-term sleep problems. Fairly common themes - no ‘adult themes’ like abuse, sex, gruesome violence etc. Content warnings for the following:
- Dreams/flashbacks of being trapped in deadly situations
** Rats
** Drowning
** Death by fire
** Gun violence
** Ghosts - Loss of loved ones
- Arachnaphobia and spiders
Most of that can be glossed over or even removed, but please give me a heads-up, and of course we can chat about the best way to handle things. If there’s anything in particular you’d like to be sure about that isn’t in the list, again, let me know.
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Doctor, constable, journalist all piqued my interest. I’ve got a journalist type in another game so maybe one of the other two preferable?
Sorry it took so long, still unsteady navigating this place
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Looks like we have:
@Naith Dilettante
@Asydic Antiquarian
@RogerBW and @EliScrubbs constable is up for grabs if it’s either of your first choice? Otherwise Author and Doctor it is.
Trying out a different (non-CoC) system for this, basically 3D6 roll under. I’ll send you basic charsheets.
*deliberately not naming the system, so if you recognise it, please keep mum.
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I’ll go for Author.
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Sign me up as Doctor then
I have shared character sheet links by private message (although you can all see each other’s, it just so the internet as a whole isn’t rummaging around in my spreadsheets).
Mostly this should be pretty straightforward: you tell me what you’re doing, I’ll ask for a 3D6 roll if necessary and let you know what happens. Your individual special notes are mostly for roleplaying and flavour but do have some relevance in game too so feel free to remind me of them if you think I’ve forgotten something.
If you somehow manage to start a fight, there’s a lot of options (you can try to spin-kick someone in the nadgers, you can uppercut, or you can just I Fight Them) so we’ll cross that bridge if that actually happens.
Being January, it is bitterly cold outside and a layer of snow covers the ground. The university hospital is on the outskirts of town, close to the university campus.
Once a manor house belonging to a former chancellor of the university, the building was left to the university in his will. A large set of iron gates opens through the eight-foot wall surrounding the grounds. The drive is long and wide, passing through a large garden decorated with immaculate topiary of geometric shapes.
just posting a bit of boxed text to get you in the mood 
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Each of you has struggled with sleeplessness, disturbed sleep and nightmares for a considerable time. For most of you, the problems began after a recent traumatic experience that seems to have influenced your dreams. For others, your insomnia is a long-term issue but has taken a more severe and disturbing turn after a recent traumatic event.
GM: you can choose which.
One way or another, you ran across the following advertisement for participants in a medical study of sleep disturbance, and contacted Dr. Thorne. You are all amongst those selected to participate, and are due to arrive at the university shortly.
You already know the basic outline of the study:
- A small group of patients will have medical readings taken before and after sleep.
- The contents and nature of any dreams will be explored in a group discussion, to help draw out memories and commonalities.
- Sedative drugs and hypnotism will be used to induce semi-consciousness and supervised lucid dreaming to directly address the underlying trauma.
- No contact with the outside world is allowed until the program had ended and the patient has left the hospital. Therapy is being conducted in a carefully controlled environment; external stimuli can disrupt this and affect the study’s results.
- Limited personal possessions are permitted into the ward; again, this is to avoid disrupting the therapy.
- No alcohol, opiates and other sleep-altering substances are permitted.
- Your participation in the study will consist of up to five sessions, each one month apart, lasting for seven nights.
(there are other groups of patients participating in the study at different times)
Please introduce your characters briefly (they’ll actually meet each other after they arrive)
How did you come across the advert and join the study?
Is there anything particular you would like to have done in the time leading up to the study?
Is there anything particular you’d like to bring with you, other than what is on your character sheet?
Vincent McQueen is a name you may know, a few steps above the dime magazines. He writes what Dorothy Parker dismissed as “horror for the little man”: a typical McQueen novel has the protagonist experiencing a small unexplained dislocation that somehow, with the logic of dreams, grows into the most important thing in the word.
The money means nothing to him, of course, but his editor’s been pressing him for more words, and he can’t get that recurrent dream about the tunnel and the rats out of his head. And you can really only use that in one story, maybe two if you use a pseudonym.
He’s packed a suitcase with good quality clothes, and a knapsack with cigarette-papers and tins of best Latakia. The night before he motors up to Albany, he goes out with friends, drinking and socialising and seeing how well he can do with no sleep at all (perhaps helped along by some of Scotty’s Bolivian marching powder) – can’t have that during the study! He’s apparently not taking it all terribly seriously, but he accepts that he has a problem and really does want to try to fix it.
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Stella Clairmont steps lightly off the bus from Bennington, a notebook in one hand and an overnight bag in the other. Beyond a few toiletries and change of clothes, her bag contains spare pencils and paper, the latest McQueen paperback, a hot water bottle and a flashlight. If there’s a ‘lights out’ policy at the hospital, her usual late night scribblings won’t be interrupted.
It took a lot of persuading from her husband before Stella answered Dr Thorne’s advertisement. Her husband has been getting increasingly alarmed by his wife waking up terrified in the middle of the night, trying to fend off someone (or something) that wasn’t there. And although she would never admit it, Stella is beginning to feel desperate herself.
Because Stella is a journalist through and through, she has already had a dig around for the low down on this Dr Thorne. Nothing headline grabbing yet but she intends to find out more during her stay at the hospital. She has justified her leave to her boss at the Bennington Post by promising to at least get a good story out of it.
roll me 3D6 to see how much you dig up in your investigations