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Nightmare Fuel / Bookshops of Arkham

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Episode One

  • Angus Jackson's blubbering incoherent speech when he arrives at the auction, slowly revealing that his wife was murdered by something on the way here and that it is related to the monster presently stalking him.
  • Mickey Sykes describing how his gang was slaughtered except for one.
  • The arrival of the monster in the auction who rips the head off of Angus Jackson in a particularly gruesome and horrifying way, severing the spinal chord as well as splattering Hazel with blood in the process before the lights go out.
  • The fact the players came incredibly close to gunning down an innocent guard due to bad rolls.
  • The catatonic state of "Patient X" who has been reduced to an utter shell of his former self.
  • Doctor Gray turning a roleplaying game exercise into an occult ritual.

Episode Two

  • The Arkham Asylum swiftly turns from a modern (for the 1920s) psychiatric hospital to a Bedlam House and Medical Horror story as they're subdued by the insane doctors White and Gray as well as their orderlies. They're then wheeled down to the basement, which is filthy and full of blood and other fluids as well as hospital staff imprisoned in the cells.
  • They are promptly wheeled into the surgical wing where the surgeons wear filthy gowns, have nothing in their eye sockets, and are featureless besides. They are tended by nurses who have horrific cancerous growths on their faces and give them rusty syringes.
  • Doctor White suggests they receive electroshock therapy before receiving lobotomies.
  • Hazel is subjected to electroshock therapy with the others forced to watch. It provides her a brief moment of supernatural insight.
  • The horrific degenerated state of Norris. He has completely lost his minds, ate one of the Salem Bequest papers, and now has something growing out of him.
  • The subtle Mind Screw of the book store that becomes an Eldritch Location where the architecture shifts around.

Episode Two and a Half

  • Mark Meer's terrifying description of the Baba Yaga-esque witch who is lacking eyes and has a centipede crawl into her mouth during her conversation with the PCs. The fact she keeps talking while it's happening and crunches it up just adds to the disgust.
  • Hazel discovering that her memory of her One True Love is gone is one that the audience is horrified by.
  • The skinless bears that are chasing the PCs during one segment.
  • Neil's death. Heroic Sacrifice or not, he's proceeded to be murdered with a meat hook to the back of the neck and left to die over The Hecate Sisters' stewpot.

Episode Three

  • The horrific fate of Angus Jackson as he is turned into a fully aware decapitated head on a plate that is kept alive with mad science.
  • Judith's reaction to being covered in maggots and reduced to her knees due to the foul stench of Gottard's demonic breath.
  • The murder of Lottie Potts by the player characters to bring back Neil.

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