Call of Cthulhu Inspiration
Was watching TV the other night with the wife and saw a commercial for Saw V. Have also been playing a lot of Silent Hill lately. Got me to thinking I need to run a Call of Cthulhu game. Played in one a few years back based on Twin Peaks meets Silent Hill and that was great (except for one player who played as a lunatic who thought he was a Leprechaun...seriously, WTF?). Thinking I can combine the blood, rust and twisted morals of the Saw series with the otherworldliness and psychosis of Silent Hill for a VERY messed up game of CoC. Still debating how to work the killer into this, though. For those that don't know, Saw has a killer, Jigsaw, who puts people who are wasting their lives or are parasites on society into death traps. Their is always a way out, but at the cost of their own flesh (except in Saw 3, but thats cause Jigsaw had an apprentice...don't want to ruin it for anyone that may watch it). In this setting, would he be part of the cult trying to raise whatever elder god through the torturous tests and blood sacrifice? Or is he an angel of retribution pushing the cultists into this to force them into seeing the errors of their ways? In the first, he would obviously be the big bad guy that the investigators would be after. In the second, the investigators may join with him. Either could involve the investigators becoming trapped in one of Jigsaw's games. Very tough choice...
Also can't think of which elder god to have involved. Big fan of the old classics such as Dagon or Cthulhu, but anyone know of a particular one with a torture theme?
Also can't think of which elder god to have involved. Big fan of the old classics such as Dagon or Cthulhu, but anyone know of a particular one with a torture theme?