[UA] Lingo Lower Now, How Low Can You Go?

[Tim Bisaillon]

>>>sounds good though .... I like it ....
>>>
>>It does doesn't it. It might make a realy intense session, especially
>>with a creepy soundtrack in the background.
>
>
>yeah creepy soundtrack, creepy scenario, and most important creepy
>room to play in which could be most difficult.
>
>actually most of the time i have only creepy players ....
>
>but I already know one scene fitting that kind of mood.
>
>Walk in the woods at night .... no lights .... suddenly its dead cold.
>Then you find an altar on which lies a headless body and you know for
>sure that this is the body of the friend you went out looking for ....
>
>This is even better because I did this scene as a playtest with two of
>the players so they are going to see it coming once it turns cold ... I
>am going to enjoy this ....
>
>I think Joy & Sorrow would be a fitting scenario to run afterwards =)
>
>Now all I must do is get them to stay awake for 24 hours before playing ...

It also helps when Mother Nature helps as well. Pay attention tot he 
surrounding at a game table, not what happenws when it is windy outside, 
since I live close to the train tracks and the shunting of cars clang and 
echo throughout the area.

One evening we were playing a CoC game (this was before UA) and it was 
getting close to the climatic scene where our intrepid investigators where 
to come upon a sinister plot happening at a rail way yard. For background 
music I selected a john williams track from Raiders Of The Lost Arc and it 
was relatively eerie as the squeal of a train can be heard and the cars 
clanging together.

One of the my players was freaking because a wind had picked up as well, 
since the window was open and the curtians where billowing as well. As I 
discribed the scene as the characters approached a rail car, they where 
going to see who was going to slide open the rail door, and who is getting 
their guns ready for action.

It was really intense, the wind, the sound of rail cars along the tracks and 
as one of the characters slowly reached for the handle of the car...

Well all got the shit scared from us when a branch outside the window 
decided to come crashing down. I screamed like a little child, everyone 
jumped up and then one of players piped up "Umm, can we hold this for a for 
tomorrow and play some cards!"

With the right music, tone and atmosphere you can scare the hell out of 
anyone. :)


tjb

"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
             Ted Theodore Logan
             Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure


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