Call of Cthulhu: Turn of a New Leaf - Session 34

Session 34: This is a Double-Feature! Weirdly, these two sessions were also spliced together from videos recorded within a week of each other. Both coincidentally also include difficulties with players being able to join in at the start. This gave me the opportunity to juggle things until they could connect. The first of the two conjoined recordings reveals what has been happening with Smalls' gangster guardian, Tommy O'Reardon, and Smalls and MacSweeney get their answers about the book and the machinations of Morgan. Scott Erickson continues in his excellent interpretation of former-NPC Edward Driscoll, Confidential Investigator and close friend of McSweeney. Driscoll is on the ropes as he comes to terms with being tapped inside another man's form. The second recording features Driscoll dealing with a sudden visitation by the Dry Agents his new ID tells him he works with...

Setting: Now featuring a trio of investigators and five independent solo investigations, this campaign is set in Boston in 1931 using the 6th edition of @ChaosiumInc 's Call of Cthulhu. Turn of a New Leaf opened with a struggling reporter for the Boston Globe being sent after hours to get information from a contact and old friend, then continued with the addition of a true crime reporter to document the impossible details surrounding the case. This pair, after witnessing impossible things sought out a learned antiquarian of their acquaintance to help them figure out what - if anything - they could do to extricate themselves from peril and more importantly, rescue Albert Gavigan from whatever abductor had him in thrall. Now, aided by Confidential Investigator Edward Driscoll, they wrestle with even darker secrets.

Watch a period tourism film of Boston in the 30s:
   • Boston Common and Proper, 1930s  

Watch the Reporters' Branch (Where our investigations began!)
   • The Reporter's Branch (Call of Cthulhu)  

Watch The Agent's Branch (A Prohibition Agent gets drawn into darkness!)
   • The Agent's Branch (Call of Cthulhu)  

Watch The Gangster's Branch (A hitman discovers horror in Boston!)
   • The Gangster's Branch (Call of Cthulhu)  

Watch The Doctor's Branch (A self-destructive psychiatrist faces madness)
   • The Doctor's Branch (Call of Cthulhu)  

The Full Playlist: (Including commentary videos)
   • Cthulhu Actual Play  

The Turn of a New Leaf Campaign: The Reporters' Branch
Boston Post cub reporter Terrence McSweeney after losing his friend in journalism, Callum McInnes, a true crime photographer, began his investigation of missing people, the new Morgan Outfit, the wealthy and reclusive Albert Gavigan, and the curious impossibilities of the vile grimoires that maimed socialite wants destroyed. Now in his second investigation, allied with McSweeney are Alfred Smalls, a local Antique Dealer with a spine of steel, and Eddie Driscoll, P.I.

The Turn of a New Leaf Campaign: The Agent's Branch
Now in the second stage of its investigation! Alex Thornton, Treasury Agent, wrestles with dark questions raised by the sudden overturn of the O'Shaughnessy Mob's hold on Boston's docks by the mysterious Morgan Outfit, brutal murders and mass murders, and the strange and inhuman powers some among the underworld are displaying.

The Turn of a New Leaf Campaign: The Doctor's Branch
Edward Call, Jr., a troubled man who cannot trust where he stands in space and time meets personal demons in the form of a friend's request to use his psychiatric knowledge to help solve a horrifying case of mass murder in Boston's underworld.

The Turn of a New Leaf Campaign: The Gangster's Branch
Drawn from Boston's underworld, Jimmy Calloway, wrestles with death and the dead, from within and without.

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