Time to catch up with games played as I have been helping the Miskatonic playhouse with its creative endeavours you should check it out!
Viral – 7th Edition Cthulhu, Modern day
In July for the Miskatonic Playhouse again I played Viral – the super popular scenario by Alex Guillotte. This adventure as become a best seller on the Drivethrurpg Miskatonic Repository and had the prestigious honour of being reviewed by Seth Skorkowsky. With so much hype for the game I was looking forward to playing this one!
The set-up for the game is my pre-generated character is part of the Spektral Krew, a team of paranormal investigator for YouTube that visits spooky places and then fakes ghost sightings to get ratings advertising and sponsorship. Our assignment is to visit a hospital on a deserted island during a festival when the villagers will be occupied. We are to stay the night and stream live segments of our activities and investigations.
So what was the game like? We were lucky enough to have Alex Guillotte running the game for us and he had just released an update for the game where we got to take part in festival activities prior to going on the island. This was a really interesting contrast as on the island there is very little that is obvious and we have to piece the legend together with the information we have and what we see. A lot of the game play is exploration as the premise of the adventure is to be on the island and stream what you are doing. There is a mystery to be uncovered if you pay attention and investigate!
What did I enjoy the most? This game has one of the best uses of Pregens as they get extra information to reveal to the party during the game. It’s really unexpected when a member of your party delivers Keeper level information as they have secrets the have been keeping! What would I have wanted more of in the adventure? Viral uses a different approach to investigators that I’m not used to as we don’t carry guns, or have a good spot hidden or library use! I think I would have preferred being a more standard investigator paid to investigate what happened to the Spektral Krew on the island rather than the Krew itself.
