Hutoth

So I've managed to run Dreaming of Carcosa (extended edition) to completion with my main group at last, and then managed to let many moons go by without posting anything about it here. **extremely slow face-palm**

I'm now at the point of having Episode 2 ready to start though it may be a while before that's played as the group is now widely separated and well, anyway - let's talk about the Cult...

Spoiler:

[From Dreaming of Carcosa II, coming soon]

As the investigators begin to reveal the nature of the [secret society] - specifically, the Cult lurking at its heart - they begin to realise there is some kind of apocalyptic meaning to the dreams and myths concerning this 'Carcosa' and Le Roi En Jaune.

They will become aware that the worshippers of this King think of it as a kind of protection from a fate worse than death.

They will learn that the Cult believes that there are Forces in the universe which prey specifically upon the minds or souls of thinking beings, and from which death is no protection at all.

They believe that being preyed upon by such “forces” literally amounts to endless horrible torture, and that this ‘fact’ is the source for mankind's concept of hell.

The believers are convinced that, to escape this otherwise near-guaranteed fate, you need to have the very nature of your mind and soul altered; a gift which is offered by the King in Yellow.

They see this Lord wherever they look, associating him with Dionysus, Hades, Nirvana and points/beings in between, and with delirium and enlightenment. The "extinction of the self" means to them the extinction of the thing which would otherwise suffer eternally at the hands of these “forces” which are feared by the cultists, and which drive them into the “arms” of the King.

But what are these forces? An invention? Are there others working against the Cult? Why?

More "soon".