Creepy Horror RPG Story: Secrets Of The Skeleton Town

when I first got into RPGs dungeon drag is my staple for a long time after a while I wanted to get into an RPG that was flavored differently and themed to something other than maybe you know generic fantasy the group turned to call it Cthulhu which had paper-thin characters you could make in a few minutes and just like paper on contact with water they travel up and die it's a horror RPG and in most Horrors it usually follows characters who die one by one our first story took place in 1923 in Alaska our private investigator Dick Tracy an engineering student Walter were hired out by a family because their son David who was in university had gone missing David studied Native American history in his research he had found out that there were some strange rituals that ancient Native American tribes had performed at a mountain and traveled there to see if we could uncover any secrets but he hadn't returned the players tracked the missing person to copper 10 a town far away from any civilized cities with no roads in the wilderness they had to take dog sleds out toward diverse the wilds after two days of eventless travel across the featureless landscape they arrived in the City of Compton a mining town it's out in the boonies locked on all sides by silent mountains the town is very quiet and the players see no one out on the streets a thin veil of snow passes across the town like a soft paintbrush dusting the roofs with white powder they wander the abandoned streets their footsteps echoing out with no response they enter into the general store calling out hello hello is anybody in here the to break down the door and go into the back room a wardrobe had been moved to block the doorway the players get spooked when they noticed a skeleton slumped on the floor well I guess you could say someone had skeletons in their closet seriously though you think the owner killed someone and stuffed them into this closet searching the monk houses next the players saw a similar site several sets of bones on the floor hmm seems like maybe someone's been killing people and hiding the bodies around town after searching for hours they notice the house that is boarded up with wood planks over the windows and doors the board's appeared to be nailed out from them inside the players knew that they had to get to the bottom of this mystery and knocked aside the wood breaking in the house was pitch dark the here muttering coming from the back room and explore to find a man rocking back and forth covered tightly in a blanket looking up at the ceiling he didn't acknowledge the group just saying to himself they come they come at night take they take and they take they take everything the noises that they make and he continued to look up at the ceiling okay sure just you can hang out in here we'll be here if you need us a soft clap of thunder and that goes across the sky it seems like there might be a storm coming on the horizon it's starting to get late so he decided to rest in the town for the night even though this guy is crazy he seems to be the only one who's okay well physically so this house may be supposedly safer than anywhere else they decide to stay the night with him they take the dog to the bar and and close the men the son's head sinks below the horizon and it turns from dusk tonight the players pull out their blankets light a fire and try to fall asleep but it's tough with their psychotic friend who keeps muttering to himself raucous behind more and the last fourth line together there's no hiding from them there is no hiding there's rattling as the wind is starting to pick up trees pecking at the side of their home then a howl comes her outside followed by barking and whimpering it's the dogs something's happened to them god damn it Tracy says pulling out his gun in flashlight you stay here I'm going out there's a soft crunch crunch of the snow the crackle of lightning the howl on the wind and the cry of the dogs Tracy creeps his way over to the doors of the barn which are rattling and shaking while appalled as there something on the inside pounding on it pompom he cautiously lifts the latch unlocking the door as several the dogs bolt out of the bar and running towards the woods and are gone inside is the high-pitched whistling noise that bugs make he turns his flashlight inside to see one of the dogs bodies on the floor several insects were on it eating the corpse there were some bizarre type of bug that had a strange form like fungus with multiple sets of wings it flew unlike any insect Tracy had ever seen before the insects if you call them that we're taking bites out of the body of a dead dog lapping up the blood swarming upon it like locusts and they were ripping the flesh right from the bone and I described how outside as the storm approaches it started to sound clearer and has a hum almost like a swarm we cut back over to the house where Walter is standing in front keeping a lookout he sees Tracy running towards him screaming at the top of his voice as he's running in Walters direction a black cloud passes across the town blocking the moon flesh-eating locusts are descending landing on them and taking bites out of their skin the to rush into the house and slam the door shut the locusts start warming their way in through the cracks wrapping the blankets around them rocking back and forth even more violently this time the two players ran through the house sealing up the windows and doors with boards but the bugs were working their way in through the slits in the wood the house creaked as the insects crashed to the board's pulling them off outside the roar the hive was deafening as it swirled around the house desperately trying to find a way in after hours and hours of fighting them killing the ones that had gotten in and sealing up cracks morning reluctantly arrived and the bugs are chased off traveling towards the mine the players are both physically and mentally exhausted we have to go we got to get into that mine we got to get to the bottom of this do we go after that incident the players both had lost enough sanity to both develop a permanent character quirk ever since then for the rest of their lives Walter would sometimes slap his body as if there was a bug there even though there was nothing well Tracy would sometimes see black specks on the horizon and be afraid of storms the two players stood up with their harnesses and helmets and explore the mines what they discover when they enter is an underground forest with odd plants growing long ago a meteor carrying life from a dead world arrived at earth and became buried underground the plants had festered in the caves for years until miners had dug it up and uncovered them the group rescued someone from the mine and detonated dynamite in the opening causing the things collapse sealing the monstrous things in there to be locked away until some other unfortunate soul went looking for them again out of some bizarre sense of curiosity once out they had low sanity and a missing person David was completely mentally checked out the group traveled out of copper tin rusting for the night in the woods however what they didn't know was that there was something else that was wandering the forest something that had escaped from the mind before they detonated it which hunted them that night they encountered an alien creature known as silent walking towards David the creature took its long fingers unwound them and stabbed them through David's eyes and they emerged out through the back of his skull panic they hid away but the creature seemed to be content just with David not noticing the others it turned towards the edge of the cliff and started walking and walking but instead of descending he rose up and up toward the starry night sky the figure became smaller and smaller drifting toward one star before its body merged with the blackness of space and vanished the players returned back to the city in the aftermath of the incident their crazy friend was taken into an insane asylum and was treated he couldn't talk much but he would sometimes draw strange images in his journal of a bizarre creature on a moonlit night of some event that even words were too much for him and would complain about the noises all the noises was start to panic if he heard clicking in the air-conditioning or a fan sometimes he would take his blanket and stuff it under the door around a window the nurses didn't bother him too much about it after all he seemed to sleep better like that Dick Tracy started to get sick I was admitted to the hospital treated for a baffling disease that the doctors just couldn't seem to recognize though in his fevered state he'd muttered out something salient in fact there's no cure it's from the darkness between the stars but he clearly wasn't in his right mind for one month through sicker and sicker day-by-day before finally fighting it off and it took him another month to fully recover just as dice they were not on his side that time Walter kept David's book that had notes about the mine the mountains and a strange one the only other one who knew much was David but he had perished that night on the cold mountaintop and anything else he knew went with him instead of reading it Walter decided to keep it shot sometimes late at night out of curiosity he would open it up and read a page or two just a quickly snap it shut again the book would just bring back bad memories and strange dreams later on decades after several investigators were sent out to figure out what had happened at Compton after the cold case was reopened hopefully with any luck they would find nothing give up and walk away but if they were unfortunate to have someone who was just a little too curious it might uncover something that should have been laid to rest but that's a tale for another day and that was where that session ended [Music]

Channel: Puffin Forest

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Keywords: RPG, Roleplaying, Call of Cthulhu, Horror, Story, Cartoon, Animated

Id: sAstnfyZPZ0

Length: 10min 7sec (607 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 21 2019