Gameplay

Martha has now lost 9 sanity points in one day, 1/5 of her starting Sanity, meaning she has hit Indefinite Insanity.

With Temp Insanity, the character gets an INT test to try to avoid the effects but not so with Indefinite.

As with both types of Insanity, the investigator initially suffers a Bout of Madness, lasting 1d10 rounds. I'll roll below for the effects:

With the creature safely tethered to its prison, you emerge from the cellar. With the evidence you gathered, including the rounded piece of bones that turns out to be a piece of Rose's skull, and the sigil, it casts doubt on the case against Arthur Blackwood. The bones found in the cellar show signs of an animal attack and the sigil itself suggests a third party involved, perhaps cultists.

None of you leave that place unscathed and for some the scars last for years and your eyes have been opened to a deeper understanding of the world around you.

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Rewards:

Finding the skull +1d4 sanity
Trapping the creature +1d6 sanity

You can also roll against each skills successfully used. If you roll over, gain 1d10

Calvin - Occult
Spot Hidden
English Language

Reggie - Spot Hidden

Martha - Brawl

Samuel - First Aid

Jeffrey - Medicine

Also, Martha has gained 5 Cthulhu Mythos points, as entering a Bout of Madness for the first time grants insight to the world beyond.

Oh wow! That was so cool! I really appreciate the game and getting to play with all of you! Thanks for a great time!

You’re welcome. Feel free to make your improvement rolls here, Calvin might have more tales to tell.

Also, as I run these one shots for the Cult of Chaos, I welcome any feedback of your experience. Did you enjoy it? Would you play CoC again?

I've got mixed feelings. It was great sometimes; sometimes it wasn't. I felt like it was the first day of swimming lessons, and we were unceremoniously dumped into the deep end and told to start swimming.

I'm surprised that it ended quite so suddenly. I was preparing for our next course of action, but we were, in fact, done.

I appreciate the opportunity to play CoC, but I'm not sure that it's a fit for me.

The one shots are very short and usually consist of a little more research first than on this scenario. I personally prefer longer form campaigns but the thing about CoC is that encounters usually end in death or madness so avoiding direct combat is always the best solution. I’m glad you stuck around and have it your best shot.

Rolling for skill improvement and sanity regained

Yeah, I get that from reading the stories. The beast in the cellar forced (some of) us into combat when it went after Martha and blocked our escape. It is what it is. Fortunately, Calvin figured out what to do.

Incidentally, it never came into play, but Dr Jeffrey is also a distant descendant of the Blackwood line. Had he entered the cellar fully, there might have been a different ending!