From publisher blurb:
“A Lost Golden-Age Scenario by Gary Sumpter & Rob Malkovich: A Sequel to a Classic Tale”
"Second Coming" is a sequel of sorts to events described by H.P. Lovecraft in his seminal tale "The Call of Cthulhu". One strand of that tangled story focuses on a terrible cult that is active in the bayous close to New Orleans. A plucky young Inspector Legrasse leads a police raid on a debased ritual taking place deep in that remote swamp-country, not only interrupting their foul ceremonies and capturing many cultists but also seizing a bizarre idol of a squid-headed god. Legrasse believes that his decisive action has defeated the cult ... but could such a nebulous secret order be so easily smashed? And what of the so-called "Unseen Masters" that degenerate members of the cult spoke about under interrogation? Certainly no such leaders were ever apprehended ... is it possible they are still out there somewhere?
This scenario picks up the tale some 20 years later. John Raymond Legrasse is now retired from the force, but has always kept the strange statuette taken during the raid. It's attracted occasional interest from fringe academics, but has mostly just served as a memento of that terrible night in November 1907. But one day -- without warning -- the weird idol disappears, and under the most inexplicable circumstances. Could the persistent whispers about the cult planning a return -- a second coming -- actually have some substance? Legrasse wants answers, and knows that it will take a special type of investigator to plumb the depths of this most unusual case. Brave (perhaps even foolhardy) souls ... just like the Protagonists.
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Set in and around New Orleans during the mid-to-late 1920s, "Second Coming" weaves in both a complex multi-strand investigation and a truly terrifying series of brushes with the Mythos. It makes no assumptions about the professions or home base of the Protagonists making it easy to drop into an on-going Cthulhu Eternal Jazz Age campaign.
Will the Protagonists recover the strange Cthulhu idol? Will they learn who took it, and why? And perhaps most importantly ... can they finish the job that Legrasse started back in 1907? Or are they destined to become just another group to venture out into the bayou, never to be heard from again?
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The scenario can be played with access to just the open-source Cthulhu Eternal Jazz Age SRD, which (for your convenience) we've bundled with the scenario. The adventure also comes with isolated digital versions of all props and maps, to make it easier to run on a VTT of your preference.
This is the second in our "Lost Materpieces" line of self-contained scenarios hailing from classic vintages of the Lovecraftian RPG hobby, but obscure or unfairly forgotten. "That is not dead which can eternal lie ..."