Scenario (Japanese): 【CoCシナリオ】『自室待機、してますか？』 製作者：湯島結代
KP: Konpeito
PL: M. Réglisse
*The scenario itself and KP's part was in Japanese and translated to English by PL
Investigator: Dick Hertz
Hertz is a 35 years old male. He suffered from the trauma of him home and parents burnt to the ground overnight. With severe burnt scars all over his body and face, he had no choice but to develop interpersonal communication skills.
He is an artist and likes to carry around sketch books and pens. He have been working with a trafficker and thus learnt how to fake documents. He knew English and hold fake English driver's license and passport, too.
KP:
Scenario: Are you in quarantine?
Start
Outline: You came to the apartment where your friend lives.
Intro
Hertz woke to a immense pain in your abdomen. Hertz remembered that you was indeed in your friend's room... realizing the vision was dark, you started to search for light.
Spot Hidden = 1D100 - 20
5/9 fail
Hertz can see nothing.
Hertz checked his possessions.
Everything is there.
Please search for the switch for lighting electronics.
→ Please do RP
Dick Hertz: Slowly sitting up while trying to remember had he ate anything weird lately.
Then proceed to stand up.
KP: Raising slowly, with a pain in the abdomen.
Dick Hertz: Spread his arms in search of furniture or walls, thinking that if he touched some furniture he could figure out where he is; if he didn't, he would walk along the walls.
KP: Hertz touched something that looked like a shelf, but soon hit the wall.
Dick Hertz: Carefully touched the shelf.
"(Friend's name), you there?"
He muttered "dammit, what did I eat that go so wrong?"
KP: The shelf have a strange shape.
Hertz called out to the space, but there is no reply.
(Fast forward a lot of exploring)
Hertz: Decided to leave the room, find the friend and ask WTF is wrong with them... and get painkiller.
KP: Hertz get out of the bedroom, the entrance is in front of him, there is a door to the left and the kitchen t the right.
Dick Hertz: Opens the door to the left.
KP: Remembering the location of the friend's room, it is the washroom. The door is unlocked.
Listen = 1D100
40/36 Sucess
He heard a little popping sound.
(The toilet is not working well)
Dick Hertz: "Schitt, I was going to take my throne".
"Whatever!" It was unimportant comparing to the immediate need.
He rushed to the toilet and lifted the lid.
KP: Something was clogging the toilet and the water does not seem to flow.
Dick Hertz: Apparently Hertz is delighted t be sat on the 'throne'.
'Even if the missing link is in there, nothing is going to stop me from shitting.'
KP: Hertz used the toilet, and of course it did not flush.
Dick Hertz: Relieved, he proceed to flush. A true men never look back at his own schitt.
Just like explosions.
KP: Please decide your next action
Dick Hertz: He rubs his abdomen and check if all things are clear
KP: Next.
Dick Hertz: He stepped out of the lavatory and again called out for his friend
(Fast forward a lot of investigation)
KP: Hertz goes into the bedroom
Gachan! He heard a loud noise and looked at where the sound came from, someone was trying to cut the chain lock on the front door with a chain cutter.
Instinctively, the explorer thinks that the invasion cannot be stopped and must be hidden. Hide somewhere with RP.
Dick Hertz: Quietly, he hid under the bed, grabbing his tiny little box cutter.
He kept an eye on the direction where the door is
(Fast forward 3hours of battle with NPC)
KP: The man died.
Dick Hertz: Hertz took a closer look to this man
Idea = 1D100
60/56 Success
KP: Hertz remembered. The man is the apartment keeper. He was a slender and handsome guy.
Dick Hertz: Things could not have get weirder. Hertz sit himself down and take care of his wounds.
First aid = 1D100
30/34 failKP: Hertz tried self-first aid but couldn't because she didn't know where to start.
He head back to the room and decided to get some sleep
'Wait, ' he thought "the smell of blood. I could hide the body in the peculiar shaped... thing?'
He struggled to drag the body close, and proceed to cut up the body
...and shoved body parts into the can shaped cupboard.
Doing so, he investigate it again
Dick Hertz: "Hope that my dump did not clog toilet though' he watched the toilet while flushing again
However, there is more than one way to get rid of the body.
Hertz remembered how much food there is, and take the rest of the body, put it in the fridge.
"there, I have food now"
The loss of blood may have resulted in the loss of rational thinking. He searched the fridge again, and picked up the expired milk
'there is no use for this' he thought, and pouring it down the drain
He opened the cupboard to find a bucket or pot, now that he need water to wash it down
He searched the cupboard again, just in case he missed anything
Spot hidden = 1D100
He turns on the tap, and get his water
he finished his work by pouring some water down the kitchen sink, washing the expired milk down
Hertz was very puzzled. He pulls out the leaflet he found from before, and reads it again.
"it must have made it into the news, ' he thought 'only if I had my phone... or a computer... or the telly'
'Was the management guy infected?' he thought
'Fuck, it is too late to report.' Hertz calmed himself down and thought of a million ways to get rid of a body.
He eventually decided to go out: to find his friend, and have them help him hide a body.
(In case of spoilers, I am not going to post the ending.)
Player's verdict:
The scenario was carefully written and covered almost everything an investigator would want to and need to know. It would be a fairly easy job to do for the keeper, I think. Thank you to the author for the awesome scenario.
After completing the scenario, I finally know what KP meant when he said Hertz was lucky: his SAN is still in tact. And he had 2 HP.
During the painfully long battle (nobody had anything powerful) I thought Dick Hertz is going to die any time but no, he survived. That battle was half the reason the supposed 3 hour scenario is 6 hours long.
Loved it when KP tried so hard to keep things straight when Hertz was intentionally giving KP headache. It was fun.
It was our first time playing CoC and TRPG for that matters. Could have done more roleplay and that would have felt like writing fiction.
As a person who write his own stories, I know that too much background story and details will ruin a character, therefore I intentionally did little description to my character. Only when KP asks to give explanation to how I allocate those points.
In retrospect, creating one's own character is part of the fun, and I could have enjoy it more. I thought of it as mandatory and just wanted a character to being the scenario with and missed it, sort of.