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Call of Cthulhu
"Intimate Encounters" (2022)
- The monster is an extra-dimensional creature using human meat suits to survive in our reality. This requires him to suck out all of the fat of human beings in order to survive and they've been using a dating app to gain new victims.
- Seth Skorkowsky suggests that the digitally altered profiles of the dating app all suffer from the Uncanny Valley to make sure the players know there's something inhuman behind it.
"Crimson Letters" (2022)
- The Horror in Ink is a horrifying creature trapped within the letters of a witch hunter from Salem who can affect lights, mechanical devices, and animate the dead. Once you have handled the papers, it will hunt you down and kill you and is always searching for a way to escape.
- The zombie form of the original thief animated in the morgue and manages to chew off one of the mobster's ears.
- Flinders has completely covered his torso in horrific scar marks and mortification, including an enormous pentagram. The player characters are nonplussed because he's a Satanist (and thus completely wrong about the occult) but every bit as dangerous as other foes they've faced.
- After the player characters dispose of the wizard, Wick, and his two ghouls, they are shocked to find his shop is destroyed from below. The ghouls of Arkham didn't want it known how many of their kind were really in the city.''
"The Dare" (2022)
- The description of tearing open the witch's dragon to reveal that he is actually an animated skin suit filled with bugs. The fact he's a fourteen-year-old child (school bully or not) doesn't help the matter.
- One of the children is dragged off to be devoured by the human-faced rats inhabiting the mansion.
- The witch giving birth to a human faced rat bearing the face of a dead player character. So much so that Jack the NPC calls out Seth for adding this detail.
"Viral" (2022)
- The finale of the adventure has the Elder God manifesting as an enormous pile of Meat Moss made of the various corpses offered to it. A female survivor with the player characters will disintegrate into a pile of gross decaying flesh before being absorbed, willingly going to do their doom along with any corrupted player characters.
"Missed Dues" (2020)
- The player characters find themselves in an apartment that has been warped into an avatar of Azathoth. Reality is completely out to lunch and the apartment shifts and turns like the demo for PT. Seth even talks about how the movie Inception is a good inspiration for how to run in it.
- The PCs can look upon Azathoth himself and go completely insane. It will drive anyone who looks at irrevocably insane. Seth comes up with a wide variety of ways to warn the PCs not to open the door he's behind.
"Dead Light" (2019)
- Seth comes up with an idea to make the Dead Light more horrifying. He suggests that the Eldritch Abomination was used as a means of safe abortion among the upper-class families of Dunwich. They paint a doodle on the belly of a pregnant woman, and it sneaks inside and eats the results. No matter your opinion of it in RL, Evil Is Not a Toy.
"Disassociation" (2019)
- The player characters suffer an alien abduction after a slow start where the majority of the passengers are sucked out of the side of the plane. They then wake up in an absolutely dark room, black out, and then wake up again in different bodies covered in blood at the scene of a murder. Oh, and the police are outside. Hell of an opener.
- They also suffer switches to their sex the next time around before everyone dies in a horrible explosion.
- The PCs eventually track down their original brains in brain cylinders at the base of a strange tunnel. They can switch bodies to more comfortable ones but are unable to restore their brains to their original form. Instead, they have to live with their bodies having information projected into them from then on.
- Seth proceeds to explain that the Mi-Go LET the players do this and they'll be watched as a twisted form of reality TV for the rest of their lives.
The Two Headed Serpent campaign (2018-2019)
- One of the player characters did this by taking one of the lobotomized slaves, dolling them up to look pretty, and then EATING THEM in order to gain a human appearance (they had been turned into a Serpent Man).
"The Mansion of Madness" (2018)
- The horrifying final third which some game masters even suggest using content warnings for. Seth Skorkowsky admitted one player had to take five to deal with the imagery, and the exposition character of Jack the NPC described it as the players, not the characters, losing a sanity roll. For those wondering Crater, a cursed insectoid man, has been kidnapping women to bear his freaky bug-monster children to give himself an army. The player characters find the woman they're looking for chained to a bed, pregnant, with her hands and feet cut off and her sanity gone. She becomes excited when she realizes they're trying to save her...which induces labor and causes multiple bug-babies to eat her from the inside out as they're born, gruesomely killing her in front of the characters. YIKES.
"Ladybug Ladybug Fly Away Home" (2017)
- Seth describing how Nyarlathotep was able to succeed and unleash the "Black Wind" which kills every first-born child in the area, meaning his own character died alone and afraid along with most of the other characters dying too.
"Blackwater Creek" (2017)
- The art for this module depicts everyone as suffering Body Horror horrific pustules and other nightmarish deformities, which Seth Skorkowsky actually says is a bit over the top.
- The player characters successfully destroyed the avatar of Shub Niggurath. This doesn't actually cure things, though, but results in the local sheriff crucifying the couple that took them in.
Cyberpunk
"A Night at the Opera" (2023)
- Lord Ruthven aka Professor Huntver (who has gone cyberpsycho) has an obsession with Barbara Dahl, a news anchorwoman, as his intended vampire bride. But unable to attain her for whatever reason, he resorts to kidnapping young women and attempting to biosculpt them into her likeness.
KULT: Divinity Lost
"Oakwood Heights" (2022)
- This is the darkest scenario Seth and his players played, mostly due to the backstory and the premade player characters:
- The backstory? Franklin Mills grew up in an abusive home, with his abusive and religious mother Martha abusing him and his sister. He ran away at fifteen, and Martha killed his sister, for which she was committed. Martha's evilness attracted the death angel Sathariel, who she turned herself over to, becoming a Nepherite. She was then able to find and torment Franklin from beyond the grave until he found a solution: trick her into thinking another boy was him, by killing the boy's whole family and torturing the boy the same way he was tortured.
- The player characters? One is an alcoholic cop who killed a young girl and covered it up; one is a self-promoting prosecutor who told his depressed mother to kill herself, which he then used to further his career from the sympathy of her death; and the psychiatrist has a god complex and manipulates patients she deems worthless into killing themselves. Oh, and there's also the normal cop who just wants to pass his psyche exam after witnessing Franklin's murders.
- Then, to make it darker, Martha takes control of the story once they're all on the ship and makes it so only the player who brings her Franklin gets out alive. Everyone else is going to be trapped forever.
"Atrocity Exhibition" (2022)
- The sheer terror of how the playable part of the game starts. You're at an art exhibit and suddenly the security guards chain the doors shut and the woman who brought the exhibit together brutally kills her husband, splashing his blood over one of the paintings which come to life and monsters start coming out of them while the chief of security rips open to reveal a monstrous death magician that used to be the artist who made the exhibit. And you're only now asked "what are you going to do?"
- Why is Vauquelin not paying attention to you after you flee during the first twenty-four or so hours of the adventure? He's hunting down everyone else in the museum to rip them open and use their bodies as his paint pots.
