Dark Dreams of Dagon
Casebook filed Nov 16, 2009 by Dr. Armitage (per request by Old Man Whateley)
Property of Miskatonic University, Special Archives
It has been quite a long time since you last seen or spoke to your uncle, Samuel Osgood, who has been considered somewhat of a black sheep on your father’s side of the family for decades. So, it came as quite a shock when you recently received a letter from Uncle Osgood in his home in Newburyport, MA. Despite your familiarity with your uncle’s eccentricity, the letter did little to reverse this belief. However, daily obligations prevented you from following up on your uncle’s strange letter or attempts to contact him. That is until this morning.
This morning, while reading the Arkham Advertiser over breakfast, you by chance find an article towards the back. It detailed a rescue of a man off the coast of Glouchester, MA who was snatched from the chilly waters by a passing boat. What you are unprepared for is the identity of the hapless victim – your uncle. Immediately, you telephone the Arkham Asylum and discover that, indeed, Mr. Osgood has been transferred there. Being the nearest relative, and probably the only one willing enough to help out the estranged man, you inform the doctor that you would most happy to visit Samuel and help uncover what lead up to this unfortunate accident.
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English Version 2.0 Contains .EON files for most elements of the game, plus some .DOC and .PDF files for game components and handouts. You will need Strange Eons to print out this casebook. |
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Great work by Old Man Whateley, I especially liked the incorporation of passages from the works of H.P Lovecraft.
This Investigation seems to have been intended for one player to handle, even more so since the Timeline does not force a loss of the investigation. I would recommend playing this Investigation with 1-3 investigators, tops.
A little short and in use of a slight polish, but very much a playable Case Investigation. (reviewed version: 2.0)
Download not working, does anybody have it? Pleas repost or send directly to masatmilan@email.cz with Arkham case or so in subject. I can even host it on my webpage.
Thanks to Achaz, who mailed me, you can now download it at
http://vodnyk.wz.cz/download/Dark Dreams of Dagon.zip
I finally managed to play it during the summer. It was overall very nice. This one is by far the most verbose of the series.
There is a typo in the paragraph reference on the location tile. Just ignore what is printed in the locations, use the book case instead.
This was the second casebook I played (after Cthulhu: Dread Sleeper of R’Lyeh), and I played it with my wife and my sister, so we had three investigators going.
I liked the general writing style and attention to detail, and the plot is basically an interesting one as well. I also liked the scope: While the massive Dread Sleeper scenario is more immersive, this one here is playable in on afternoon. Thanks to the author for going through all the effort of creating this!
However, there are many flaws in this that, in the end, spoiled it for us: There are heaps of style and word errors in the texts. It is noticable that an automated spell checker has worked on this, but there were missign words, word duplicates, or just plain wrong words within the texts (“the horror have been abated”, “If, on the other hand, if you wish”, etc.). The style errors have you jump through various tenses within one paragraph, which makes the reading eperience rather confusing.
Also, the story always addresses exactly one recipient; it should probably played with just one investigator alone. The texts often feel wrong and out of place, because as part of a player group, you don’t feel as the addressee. Also, it is not clear that you have to make sure to take the last step together as a team, or some player will be left behind during the end game.
Speaking of which – when the time line ends, you’re directed towards the “end game”, which you just can’t find in the vignette index or anywhere. So basically, the game doesn’t end at all until you purposefully move to a certain location where you GUESS the plot will go on.
Also, there are too few monsters, the game never feels dangerous. Same goes for the locations, actually: There aren’t enough plot related locations, and it’S sometimes hard to be able to guess which locations are the important ones. It’s easy of course if you do what I consider “cheating”: The case book mentions only the relevant locations. You could visit only those, and thus solve the plot pretty quickly. We solved this problem by assigning one reader, and not allowing him to vote for which locations to check.
All in all, I cannot recommend this case, at least not in Revision 2. Maybe if more work was put into it, this might be fun to play. Unfortunately, it seems like both Arkham Investigations as a project, and this case in particular, aren’t active any longer.
you are suppose to put the unlock tokens on the board (if I understood correctly). That fixes the guessing problem.
I apologize for delays on replying to everyones comments concerning the case book. I am aware of flaws or mistakes in the case book – I was hoping that people playing it could point the mistakes out so that I can go ahead and fix them with a new revision. I am in the process of editing this particular case and then plan on editing “The Haunting” after that. Hopefully I can get in touch with nephilim to upload the new revised case book.
I am also working on a news case book. Go over to the Fantasy Flight Games forum for more details.
Cheers, Old Man Whateley
Oh no! Megaupload is down so can’t download this!!!!
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Plus is the night street locations going to be sorted?
Perhaps I’m hoping for too much.
Arkham Investigators is such a great project! Thank you.
I have all cases on my computer. Drop me a mail at amikezor_at_gmail.com so I can send them to you.
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I would love to play this one out if possible!!