Dead Man Stomp
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 9:41 pm
this is the first time i've posted, and will soon be the first time I run CoC. Im not sure if this is were I should be posting this,but hopefully it is. I have a few years of DMing under my belt, so I Know the basics of story telling and messing with players.
I've decided to run Deadman stomp. i think i can make it fun, though apparently opinions are split on it. anyway I have this Idea that narleythope has masqueraded as most of humanity's gods at one point or another, and also their heralds.
I mention this because as soon as I read about the trumpet that brings the dead back to life, I thought of Gabriel's trumpet that will raise the dead on the day of judgment...and if Narl had it...who was Gabriel?
Im not sure how i would revel that to the players, but when i do i should think it would a mind bending revelation, as it implys that at least one religion was, at the least, manipulated by an outer force. at worse it implys its all a joke played on humanity by a bored sociopaths god. ( its the second in the game)
I have this idea that Narl loves humanity because we are so close to being like him beings of chaos and madness,
he doesn't really want the GOO's to rise since it would ruin his plans to make himself playmates....
my reasoning is that unlike the GOOs,who are, to my understanding, evolved beings, albeit billions of years older and so diffrent that they warp the mind just to see them, Narly is a true immortal surving the OG Azathoth, who i understand in his madness created the universe.
Even a completely alien life form surely gets lonely especially after uncounted eons. While I know that Narly doesnt really care whether we die or not, he is still fascinated by something so like him, or at least with the potential to become like him. Plus he loves chaos since he knows that order is truly unnatural, in his alien mind helping humanity "break free" of the shackles of sanity, which are to him just silly dillusion, is helping elevate us as a species. Though what he thinks of as elevation we would undoubtedly think of as destroying.
For the Inscription Im thinking something like: "This is the horn of Gavri'el, messenger of God, also called Jibra'il, first in the angelic choir of Yasod, chief of the angelic guard, he who stands at the right hand of god."
This would of course just be part of the inscription, mostly telling them what they have.
Then I think it would continue: " and lo the lord gave unto his messenger a horn, granting Unto him the power to raise the dead, And the lord said unto him " use this on the day of judgment to resurrect the righteous that they may strike down the wicked, and make the plains run red with the blood of evil ones." Now what I really want is for it to be more ambiguous or even paradoxical in someway. Implying the corruption and evil that is really behind it.
I'm thinking I will use enochion which is as language developed by a philosopher and a spiritualist to speak to angels and has a fun alphabet and unique sound. I considered translating it into hebrew then into enochion but thats only cause im mildy crazy about little details.
I still am trying to think up stats for the trumpet as im pretty sure my players wont destroy the trumpet immediately (even if they could, if so it wont be easy).
What do you guys think? any suggestions?
I've decided to run Deadman stomp. i think i can make it fun, though apparently opinions are split on it. anyway I have this Idea that narleythope has masqueraded as most of humanity's gods at one point or another, and also their heralds.
I mention this because as soon as I read about the trumpet that brings the dead back to life, I thought of Gabriel's trumpet that will raise the dead on the day of judgment...and if Narl had it...who was Gabriel?
Im not sure how i would revel that to the players, but when i do i should think it would a mind bending revelation, as it implys that at least one religion was, at the least, manipulated by an outer force. at worse it implys its all a joke played on humanity by a bored sociopaths god. ( its the second in the game)
I have this idea that Narl loves humanity because we are so close to being like him beings of chaos and madness,
he doesn't really want the GOO's to rise since it would ruin his plans to make himself playmates....
my reasoning is that unlike the GOOs,who are, to my understanding, evolved beings, albeit billions of years older and so diffrent that they warp the mind just to see them, Narly is a true immortal surving the OG Azathoth, who i understand in his madness created the universe.
Even a completely alien life form surely gets lonely especially after uncounted eons. While I know that Narly doesnt really care whether we die or not, he is still fascinated by something so like him, or at least with the potential to become like him. Plus he loves chaos since he knows that order is truly unnatural, in his alien mind helping humanity "break free" of the shackles of sanity, which are to him just silly dillusion, is helping elevate us as a species. Though what he thinks of as elevation we would undoubtedly think of as destroying.
For the Inscription Im thinking something like: "This is the horn of Gavri'el, messenger of God, also called Jibra'il, first in the angelic choir of Yasod, chief of the angelic guard, he who stands at the right hand of god."
This would of course just be part of the inscription, mostly telling them what they have.
Then I think it would continue: " and lo the lord gave unto his messenger a horn, granting Unto him the power to raise the dead, And the lord said unto him " use this on the day of judgment to resurrect the righteous that they may strike down the wicked, and make the plains run red with the blood of evil ones." Now what I really want is for it to be more ambiguous or even paradoxical in someway. Implying the corruption and evil that is really behind it.
I'm thinking I will use enochion which is as language developed by a philosopher and a spiritualist to speak to angels and has a fun alphabet and unique sound. I considered translating it into hebrew then into enochion but thats only cause im mildy crazy about little details.
I still am trying to think up stats for the trumpet as im pretty sure my players wont destroy the trumpet immediately (even if they could, if so it wont be easy).
What do you guys think? any suggestions?