Cthulhu Death May Die S1E3: Dance Macbre

In a decayed English seaport town shrouded in darkness and rain, investigators race to uncover and stop a sinister masquerade ritual orchestrated by sorcerers, cultists, and grotesque Deep Ones to summon an Elder God. As they traverse eerie, dilapidated halls filled with undead dancers and shadowy horrors, they face an ancient evil threatening to consume the world.
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[@picklebuckeye]

I love this episode too, great lore addition

[@TalesFromTheMythos]

Thank you! It got a lot more murderery than I was planning when I started writing it. But seeing the circus elements in the episode discovery cards gave me the idea of turning the dancers into circus performers that were murdered by the cultists. All those pieces just fit into place perfectly.

[@kenfrmcape2355]

You got the Innsmouth look.

[@TalesFromTheMythos]

😂 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♂️🧟‍♂️😂

[@sailbot1]

As the kids say, we eating good now.

[@TalesFromTheMythos]

Yeah it’s been fun revisiting these.

[@chloeredfieldGG]

Do you write this intros yourself or is it a passage of a story?

[@TalesFromTheMythos]

I write the intros myself. There’s a little bit of text in terms of the description of the scenario from the game but it’s usually just a brief couple sentences. I take that plus I go through all the discovery cards and the game mechanics for that particular scenario and use as a basis that to write the prologues. However it’s usually very little story so wow that might be some of the ingredients I add a lot of additional ingredients to the recipe so it’s more of an engaging story versus a snippet of lore. If that makes any sense.
This particular episode is a very good example of the stuff that I add to the bit of lore from the game. And some of the discovery cards they talk about circus performers. And then of course there’s this dance with these sort of trance to people. So I took the bit about Circus performers and said they were murdered by a cult and then turned into the dancing zombies that are at the masquerade. All those pieces just fit together perfectly and made it a little bit more horrific than anything from just the game would have.