bump

For some of these, it would be obvious what you're trying to do (then again, depending on what you're trying to accomplish, that may not necessarily be a bad thing). I really love the more subtle, "Everything will be OK. This is not your fault." It sounds to me like a real message you'd get from a GM when you're accused of a crime, so that would freak them the hell out.

>"Something seems to be off about the rest of them... just a note."

Previously:

>>>/rs/creepy+moments

Fuck it, I've got nothing better to do:

>"She was just a baby."

>"Are you absolutely sure your mother is OK?"

>"Have you noticed if the others have blinked recently?"

>"I'm very sorry for what's about to happen."

>"OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK"

>"You're the only one of these people I trust."

>"I'd be so happy if your heart just stopped."

>"Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."

>"You are a tremendous disappointment to your parents. You do WHAT for a living?"

>"Did you know that if you plan your nutrition accordingly, you never need to close your eyes? I haven't slept in a long time."

>"Die."

>"No matter where you turn, he'll always be right at the nape of your neck. Don't try to avoid him, you'll only inconvenience him."

>"How sick do you have to be to bite another human being? I mean just imagine your teeth slowly sinking into their dully warm flesh and the slippery copper taste of blood as your jaw is squeezing just so FUCKING HARD ON THEIR BONES. Disgusting."

>>17382903
You know
>"Die."
is probably terrible to have on a GM note. If I handed that to one of my players they would take it quite literally and try to get their character killed ASAP. Then say "What? You told me to do it, I thought you had a plot hook or something you wanted or were going to do something cool!"

>You've been putting on a bit of weight lately, that's good, continue with that.

>Do you like me? Y/N/Maybe

>>17382926
Heh, I wish my pcs trusted me enough to blindly throw away their characters life.

>>17382942
even better when the player is willing to kill themselves for you, not their character

What is CoC?

>>17382971
Call of Cthulhu.

>>17382971
>What is CoC?
Get out.

>Hurt a little

>>17382971
Call of Cthulu

Call of Cthulhu, a high-lethality tabletop game based on the works of HP Lovecraft, it has players gradually going insane as a core mechanic, and trying to fight anything is likely to get you killed if you are not very careful.

>>17382974
Ive never heard of it, it souns like a mystery game, is it?

If alone with another character:
>if you screamed, would anyone but [other person] hear it?
>You could kill them right now. Just a thought.

>>17382982
Waithe point is to make the PCs go insane and kill them?

I've only got one or two...
>"They don't sleep when you do..."
>"It would be easy, just pick up that pipe. Quick, he's not looking."

GMs in Apocalypse World aresupposed to ask questions every now and then. Those usually start out fairly normal like "Where did your character get that sword?" and "You stumble upon Mary who really wants to hurt you. What did you DO to her?".
But later you'Re expected to go into more and more bizarre territory.
"What does her breath under your hand feel like?", "What is it like to know you've just killed your best friend's boy?", "What is the most terrible thing you have ever forgotten?"

Thought this might be relevant to your interests and the topic.

>>17382985
Usually yes. You're often investigating occult situations that involve rituals and cults dedicated to the Great Old Ones or general bizarre paranormal.

>>17382998
Because Lovecraftian horror is supposed to be grimdark and have incredible odds stacked against humanity. The entire genre puts an emphasis on it and the tabletop adaption is no different.

>>17382985
It's a horror game.

>She's missing you.

>They don't really care, do they?

>"Don't feel bad, you could have done something but we all make mistakes"

>"Feeling sick?"

>"That's not sweat on their hands"

>"Why is the water so dirty?"

>"Even Jesus died. For a short while"

>"Hand me that slice of pizza"

>"Ever wonder what it would feel like to have no mouth?"

>"You suddenly feel very, very sick at the sight of X. Then it passes."

>"You stat to doze off, then snap to awareness again as everybody else's eyes disappear. Then they're back."

>"Can you trust them? Y [] N [] Maybe [] THEY ATE MY CHILDREN [XXXXX]"

>"What does X's insides look like?"

Ok /tg/ youve intrigued me, how exactly does a CoC usually play out

>"Whenever you don't look, they're grinning so hard it hurts."

And since we're at it:
>"ITHURTSITHURTSITHURTSITHURTSITHURTS"

>"They watch you while you sleep."

>"The walls have body parts inside them. Don't look. They might be your own."

>>17383048
>>17383048
Just read the book

>"The truth will be written on Walls of Flesh."

>"That flashlight she's holding is not a flashlight at all."

>ZUUL MOTHERFUCKER"

Coincidentally, I received an e-mail 10 hours ago from Amazon with the title "H. P. Lovecraft's New Book". I feel like answering the mail with THAT IS NOT DEAD WHICH CAN ETERNAL LIE AND WITH STRANGE ÆONS EVEN DEATH MAY DIE.

>"You are pretty sure you've seen X die already. Ask them about it."

>"The Cattle are ready. The Harvesting will soon begin."

>>17382585

>>"It's weAring his skin. iT's watChing you frOm behind hiS eYes"

Oddly capitalizing the letters a, t, c, o, s, and y.

>Atcosy

What the fuck is Atcosy? Is it an anagram?

Cat soy? Is that it? Is soy secretly made out of cats?!

Scat yo? Should I listen to the scat man? Does his strange musical words contain a hidden message about the elder ones?

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS MEAN?!

> That pony sure is pretty.

>>17383076
>>17383076
TACOS!

>you're the only one who can see the supdog
what supdog?
>everyones faces when

>>17383076
>"The soy is made of cats. It still tastes delicious."

>"Did you hear that? I could've sworn I heard something..."
>"Whatever you do... don't turn around right now."
>"Do you know where they are when you sleep?"
>"I do."
>"Heh."
>"Oh my. That isn't good."
>"Where's [Insert Name]? I haven't seen them in a while."
>"Shhhhh."
>"They're here..."

>No. No. No No No No NO no.
(for more mindfuckery hand then this note after they make a decision, especially a mundane one)

>Most prison inmates are killed in the shower or on the toilet. Food for thought.

>Pay Attention.

>You're focused on the wrong thing.

>A message that reads like it was meant for another player and you give it to them accidentally.

>Bueno... (Lick you lips when your player looks at you after reading it.)

>>17383082

WHAT ABOUT THE 'Y', FAGGOT?!

FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!

Bringing some Doctor Who in here:

>"Don't blink. They move while you do not see them."

>"The shadows eat people."

>"If you stop watching it now, you will forget about ever having seen it."
Followed by either
>"Too late."
or
Blank refusal of ever having written that note.

>"The others are made of metal. Try tasting their blood."

>>17383103

>Don't turn around, if you look at them you'll forget as soon as you look away.

Then refuse to ever having written the note, keeping glancing over their shoulder for long moments.

>This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

This one only works if they have an NPC they like who died, doesn't matter how.
> You remember the fate [Dead NPC]. It was your fault.

> You've noticed [Party Member X] has been watching you intently.

Later on, as the Crazy train advances
> They others are talking about you behind your back.

Finally:
> They are plotting something. Beware.

>Someone in your party isn't human.

>Your character has been poisoned. The antidote is child hair.

>For the next 444 minutes, your character loses health whenever someone asks you a question.

>What do you really know about your parents?

>Exposure to sunlight now causes you 1 point of sanity damage per minute. You can see the things that live in it.

>There will be a sound in 44 minutes. If you hear it, you will die.

>You will die if anyone touches you.

>>17383103
all too obvious to a doctor who fan, these would be comical.

But damn /tg/, you creepy! Keep going, I've got a CoC game coming up soon; brilliant idea OP. Here's some more confusing ones

>if the pause creeps upside the house fallen walls. LOOK!

>Pretty please, don't let them touch me

>feel me move, hear me screech....see me in the deep...

>come. Eat. Stay. Feast. Writhe. Bathe. Spill. Keep...

>>17383114

>all too obvious to a doctor who fan

>Have you noticed your celery's turned purple?

>>17383112
>p1, you will die if anyone touches you
GM: p1, roll to avoid falling off the balcony
P2: I roll to to grab P1
P1: I roll to jump off before P2 can grab me
Everyone: what?!?
Gm: *huge grin*

I can just see it

hide a note in a loaf of meatbread
serve to players
wait for one of them to bite into note
????
profit

Again, after any sort of mundane decision or act:

>The spiders will come in ten minutes. Use that time to prepare.

>That was the point of no return.

>I'll give you one more chance to save yourself. It's already too late for the others.

>If they sacrifice you, they can live.

>"Your eyes are pretty vulnerable, now that you think about it. Anyone could just ram his thumb right in there and POP.

>"I can't breathe. Oh god help me I can't breathe."

>"When you're buried alive, you can feel your own breath hitting the lid just inches away."

>"There are millions of ants just dying to run through your body hair."

>"Teeth."

>"What do you think a baby's skull would feel like in your squeezing fist? What would its last sound be?"

>"You know."

>"I get so mad some days I just want to tear my own scalp off. What are you looking at?"

>"What if you had a secret admirer? What if he was barely human?"

>"There is no such thing as a happy ending, because even the loving couple will die some day."

>"You are five of three. Some day they will find you."

>"It doesn't care. It doesn't care. It doesn't care. It doesn't care."

>"There is something inside the piping. It's coming for you."

>CoC
>lolrandom insanity

...

>"The Matrix has you."

>"The world is filled with vampires. Those who seek The Truth burn in Its Glorious Light."

>"The others want to eat you."

>"The spiders are watching. They like it. They like it VERY much."

>"Our species' brains grew when we first began eating meat. They grew even larger when we began to eat cooked food. What do you think we'll have to eat to advance from there?"

>"The sound of water dripping and the wind moaning sounds like your name. It's mocking you. But it sounds like it is also filled with pity."

>>17383076
isnt it
> i a, t, c, o, s, y
from my point of view and the text it came from, it's pointing at a person with a y in its name.
> it's Coay

>>17383139
nah, I think the point of these is to build suspense/mood/tension. Some could be tailored to a specific campaign where they have to protect a child; and some loses a ton of sanity, gets
>I wonder what a child's skull, slowly being crushed in my hand would feel like

>>17383155
>"It's ocay. I'm here now."

>>17383157
>"I bet it tastes delicious if you powder it and put it in coffee."

>>17383146
FFUUUUAAARRRRKKKKK! I was thinking about this earlier tonight, those exact lines, that exact train of thought. Creepy dude.

>>17383161
>2012 in 3.5hrs
>not powdering infant skulls into your coffee for that morning kick and glory to Khorne
ISHYGDDT

>Light hides some beings just as well as dark.

>Ever notice that weird twitch in your eyelid? Like something in there?

>Ignore that strange ringing sound.

>Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there's an invisible demon about to rip off your face.

>Ever notice how flammable people are?

>Spider love shacking up under the rim of the toilet seat.

>You DID swallow that fly, your trachea makes a lovely home.

>Everyone has a twin in the world, and that twin's already plotting.

>That van has been parked outside for a while, hasn't it?

>Ever wonder what they replaced Cocaine with in Coca-Cola?

>The Hokey-Pokey really is what it's all about.

Obligatory Seuss/Lovecraft thread.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14032179/

>Make sure you don't pay any attention to the dog.
Then a dog walks in.

>The next room is a trap.

>In five minutes, the door is going to disappear and the windows are going to go black. There is a clue somewhere in this room.

A series of note cards, each with one line only, in sets.
>"Smile."
>"Work."
>"Consume."
>"Submit."

>"Relax."
>"Tell us."
>"NOW."
>"Submit."

>"Remain."
>"Sit."
>"Watch her."
>"Love her."
>"Submit."

>"Conform."
>"Inform."
>"Submit."

Don't give an explanation, just hand them to the player at random intervals, at appropriate times. Maybe when their character is sleeping, or unconscious, or perhaps listening to a radio.
These would be good in a game where there is some emphasis on government activity...

"Warning, prepare."

Have a entire stack of these cards, every time a player speaks IC, given them this card

>"Hey Listen"

>>17383204
>Everyone has their own number. Your number is 74322842. Do not forget your number. Return this note to me once you have read it.

>Let him persuade you.

>Don't go with him, he's in Their service.

>They have your daughter.
The character does not need to have children.

>>17383218
>"Hey Listen"

Horror worthy of an Old One

>>17382585
>You realise that the others seem a bit more pale than usual and sometimes they have a few seconds where they dont breathe - almost as if they forget it for a moment.


>As you blink, all the others dissappear. Blinking again in disbelief, they all return and as they do you see skeletal features quickly dissappear from their face.


>You have a feeling that its not your fault - it never was. One of the others was out to get you and must have framed you. Who could it be?


>You hear a quiet clearing of the throat behind you. As you turn around you see no one there.

ITT: A bunch of retards who would derail their own game because they dont realise that players would take those notes literally.

Stop saying "die" or "kill them!" or shit like that. If you must include that stuff, make sure to write that you get a feeling that ... or you hear a voice saying that ...

Just writing "kill them" will make players think you have a deeper meaning with it and that you are asking them to kill the other players as an out-of-game note rather than making it part of the game.

Fucking retards

Give this one to players when the party travels to any foreign country, particularly in Asia, Africa or South America.
>Locked-in syndrome is a condition in which a patient is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except for the eyes. Total locked-in syndrome is a version of locked-in syndrome where the eyes are paralyzed as well. The term for this disorder was coined by Fred Plum and Jerome Posner in 1966. Locked-in syndrome is also known as cerebromedullospinal disconnection, de-efferented state, pseudocoma, and ventral pontine syndrome.
>Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower portions are spared, locked-in syndrome is caused by damage to specific portions of the lower brain and brainstem with no damage to the upper brain.
>Possible causes of locked-in syndrome include:
>Traumatic brain injury
>Diseases of the circulatory system
>Medication overdose
>Damage to nerve cells, particularly destruction of the myelin sheath, caused by disease (e.g. central pontine myelinolysis secondary to rapid correction of hyponatremia)
>A stroke or brain hemorrhage, usually of the basilar artery
>A bite from a snake most commonly found in $COUNTRYWHERETHEPLAYERSARE (Common Krait snake)

How about giving the players notes while they are in a crowded place? And then "it wasn't your fault" as they are shot down by the cops? While in the thoughts of how they died you reveal to the player that it was just a dream and have them wake up in the house that was described in the beginning of the season.

Do whatever you'd do for spot checks/detecting weird magic shit

>You feel a lurching in your stomach, like you've just been dropped from the top of a rollercoaster. Small objects start rattling and look like they're about to fall, but not down or in any earthly direction

Also, if characters get sleepy, roll lots of spot checks and occasionally tell them they see something out of the corner of their eye darting into shadows. If you want the characters to be going insane, make it indistinguishable from how you'd tell them they actually are becoming a vampire/have a demonic possession/are being sent messages by aliens.

>>17383050
have you talked with the tall man recently?

>CoC

>MFW I forgot this was /tg/ instead of /d/.

>Note: Your phone rings

When they pick up and say "hello" lock eyes with them, stay silent for a minute or two. Long enough for them to start freaking out. Then, publicly

>Your phone rings

>"They know"

>"All is discovered"

>"Do you really trust them"

>"Do they trust you?"

>"Keep those thoughts to yourself"

>"They think you died 10 turns ago"

The best part about making your players paranoid with notes like these is giving them sound advice sometimes.

>>17383451
when was the last time any of you brushed your teeth?

>He's here. You can feel it

>What colour are [other PC]'s eyes?

>>17383464
Not exactly what I meant but yeah, that works too.
I'm suggesting you make stuff like "The walls have body parts inside them. Don't look. They might be your own." actually happen.

>>17383048
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZyYvb-GD8

Something like this.

>>17382971
Corruption of Champions.

>>17383451
>The best part about making your players paranoid with notes like these is giving them sound advice sometimes.

I'd actually say making it dependent on rolls would be great. You meet a stranger who (unbeknownst to you) means you harm, and the GM hands you:

>Something is off about him. He wishes to harm you.

And you don't know if a) you just did well on the perception check the GM just rolled behind his screen (DH player here, not sure what the CoCthulhu equivalent is), or b) the ritual murders you've been investigating are making you paranoid.

>>17383259
Nonsense. When they've lost enough SAN points, "Kill them, it's the only way to save their souls" would be an excellent note.

/tg/, I want to take this to another level, but still keep it within the same realm as OP.

In my next campaign, I want to be the professor leading a band of students on an archaeological digsite, where they stumble upon a band of Natives that mysteriously disappeared. The major plot point will be mysterious notes left for each player, each student, to unravel. Basically, I want to create a set of hieroglyphics (or a sub. cypher) that each player must decode using context clues, but ideally each player's codex should be slightly different from the next. I hope to use this to my advantage giving each player the same message and have them decode different meanings (like the ones listed here). Problems abounding:
A.) Should I use a substitution cypher? (replace one letter for another) Would that be too difficult to make?
B.) The opening "quest" will be a homework assignment for each player to translate a set of sentences as they can best do, and this homework will act as the student's bible for further notes. What basic sentences should I craft that are ambiguous enough to fit the model? Should I just write out different dictionaries for each player and hope they don't check each other's?
In the end, I'd like to have each player do what they think is right, and every person pull in a different direction thanks to the ambiguity of the messages left. Preferably, the confusion is due to the player's own devices, and not my forcing upon them.

The best way to fuck with players is to mix in both lies and truths, it puts the information they're receiving from you in a different light than if you send them just one or the other.

>You itch, maybe you should get that looked at

>X has shifty eyes, can you trust him?

>What's that noise? Can anyone else hear it?

>You see something move in your peripheral vision

So where could I find this book?
Thepiratebay is just giving me some vidya game with a similar name.
[tghasnospoilers]I know, I'm a dirty pirate and hurr, why can't I just buy the book? I will, if I decide to run a game with it. First, I want to preview it.[/tghasnospoilers]

>>17383907
Found this in five second through google
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4188447

>>17383907

>/rs/ helps most of the time. 6th edition is the newest for the english version, right?

>There is no such thing as ghosts

>There is no suchigbafdnauy8igbI.wsbgtsee'magsnidoyou,ngpaBGBewueboigas

>No matter how much you scrub, you'll never be clean!

>Usted está utilizando este software de traducción incorrecta. Por favor, consulte el manual.

>You've been in this room yesterday. This is where she killed you.

>NEVER BE CLEAN!

These are mainly just for the humour. I can't do creepy.

>Do you think anyone would notice if you were taken now?

>You notice everyone else's shadows are pointed opposite of yours. What does it mean?

>When was the last time you saw anyone eat?

>They're waiting for you.

>The ceiling conceals eyes. Don't look, they might be yours.

>For a moment, you swear the carpet just tried to tie itself around your feet.

>You could have stopped (character) from dying. But you didn't. You monster.

>>17383146
Uh. Overcooked meat?

>>17384115
Slightly unoriginal, but I don't hate you, you monster.

>>17384115
>You notice everyone else's shadows are pointed opposite of yours. What does it mean?
They're standing on the other side of the lightbulb. Oh mah gawd!

>>17384191
Yeah, but the PC is going insane.
So think about it like an insane person.

>>17384194
The lightbulb is trying to get between you and the group. Split up the party so you're an easier target. Who put it there? What's their evil plan?

>>17383259
Who let the "YOU MUST ALWAYS PLAY BY THE RULEBOOK" D&D faggot cunt in here?

>>17384226
That's how you do it.

>>17384226
>"The lightbulb doesn't have a shadow."
>"It's splitting you away from the group..."
>"The thing in the lightbulb wants your shadow."
>"Don't look away from your shadow."
>"Don't look away..."
>"Don't look away."

>>17383224
Hand the same note to all the players, along with adding in: "If anyone speaks your number, you are to kill them- lest they kill you first."

>>17384266
>"The lightbulb doesn't have a shadow."
But lightbulbs don't have shadows.

>>17384476
That's the point.

>>17384476
yea they do. that little metal part that you screw in casts one, it's just usually out of your sight, held safely within the base

>>17383087

Saved four pages of these to Word now to use in my horror-esque Dark Heresy campaign. Now if only there was a quick way to make small business cards out of each line without a fuckton of copy-pasting.... (Hint?)

Do keep going, though these are delicious.

>>17384521
Do use the previous ideas too, dear sir.

>>17382855

>>17384521

Search/Replace a line break with a page break, set the pages to a business card template?

In this order, to the same player:

>"I feel sorry for you."

>"You forgot, didn't you?"

>"Remember: Don't forget it."

>"It's important."

>"You now know too much."

>"They are coming for you now."

>"You now know Their biggest secret."

>"There we go."

>"They a"

>Your liver was delicious. Don't worry, I didn't leave a mark.

>Did you remember too lock the door?

>They're already here.

>Don't worry, we won't hurt you.

>Stay in the light, maybe they can't get you there.

>Did you leave the stove on?

>Are you certain there's nothing in the room you just left?

>They don't want you, just your soul.

>The first person to pick his nose will die by your own hand.

>>17384995
>Did you leave the stove on?
god fucking damn it

>>17383076
>>17383076
>>17383076
>>17383076
>>17383076
A T Cosy, maybe?

>>17384995
>The first person to pick his nose will die by your own hand.
Uh oh...

>Act.
>Why are they wearing masks?
>Your teeth feel hollow, like there's something hidden inside them.
>You're a coward hiding in make believe.
>Stop holding back. You have more potential than them.

>>17385043
oh god why did i laugh

>It hurts, [charname]

>It's not right!

>[charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname] [charname]

>You can't understand his attacks

>>You hear the gentle rattle of <charnames> fingernails falling off, one at a time. Claws grow in their place.

>>In a moment, everyone else's eyebrows spontaneously combust and ash away. Nobody seems to care.

>>Your case of gas has developed into odd squeaking noises, and you can feel something writhing slowly in your colon.

>>The floor is now lava.

To clarify. Is this GM to Player or Ominous voice to Character?

"Whereisitwhereisitwhereisit"

I like the ones that actively seem like meta instruction, but cause the player to 'act out' in character

>>The next door is booby trapped, do NOT open it.
>>X is trying to separate you from the group dont be alone with X.
>>If someone touches you, you lose health and SAN
But theres a lot to be said for these type too.

>>When did you last eat?
>>Does anyone remember driving here?
>>Everyone is humming between sentences and seems oblivious to it
>>X has a strange spider like creature on his back, and it is biting him every time he uses the word "And" but nobody can see it.

>

>You know, you don't really need to blink. It's just a reaction caused by all the white noise. Don't you hear it?

>Where are your parents right about now? You realize they have a guest at the door?

>Do you ever wish she hadn't gotten onto that plane?

>Ring Around the Rosie, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall dOWN

>Ring Around the Rosie, what do you suppose we, can do to fight the darkness, in which we drOWN?

>Ring Around the Rosie, this evil thing IT KNOWS ME, Lost Ghost surround me, I can't fall dOWN

>So this man walks into a bar, right? And he says to the Bartender "MY LEGS, WHERE ARE MY LEGS?!" and the Bartender just looks at the camera and smiles

Here's some stuff I wrote for a friend of mine, you might like some pieces of it. It was originally made for Zalgotext, but it will serve our purpose here. Oh, and feel free to replace the word 'Derse' with whatever you want.

The Derse waits.
Poisoning his soul.
Feel your minds touch.
From the power of the void.

He who was born of the Derse.
Shall follows the stars.
Feel the void.
Caress.

Never known.
A secret locked.
The Derse awaits.
The slumbering one.

THE ALTERATION EXISTS.
POISONED BELOW
THE SIGN COMES.
THE DERSE IS.
WATCHING.

>>17386298

Generations.
Unfathomable.
Countless eons.
It waits Forever locked.
A slumbering one watches.
The tendrils poisoning his mind.
For eternity, it cripples the will of man.
The CRISIS comes, shrouded in doubt.
Unstoppable, unalterable, the CRISIS comes.
Unchangeable, the CRISIS comes, without regard.

Chaos soon.

THE CRiSIS wILL IgNITE HIS staGNATING PoWER
(repeated ad nauseam with random capitalization)

>>17385636
>the floor is now lava

Using that!

Give every player an identical note:
>Ignore this note. Nothing is happening to you.

Give player a blank note.

If he tells you it's blank and gives it back, apologize, crumple the note, and give him a new note.

>The note wasn't blank. You shouldn't have given it back.

>>17386412
>"You are on a shoggoth."

Fun fact: 'Shogg' means 'realm of darkness' while '-oth' means 'native of'. A human would be known as a 'shuggoth' - a native of the realm of Earth.

Start the game by telling everyone that hidden conditions turn characters into servants of Cthulhu. Tell them you will inform the turned players in a note mixed among the others.

Don't turn any of the characters. Tell everyone this when the game is finished. Pass out the other notes ITT during the game.

bump

>>17386840

Oh shit this is a good one.

use invisible ink for part of the message.

I think for this to work, OP, you are going to need to put some notes which are actually helpful in there.

Perhaps a 70:30 ratio, or 75:25. Just enough that they feel they should be wary of what is on the notes, but not so much that they rely on them. They should feel paranoid as all fuck about them.

>>17390241

Got any ideas for what could be useful notes? I'm new to GM'ing but would really like to try this.

>"You shouldn't have done that."

>>17392921
Well maybe clues at to the big bad, one might be.. "Salt will burn it", "don't fall asleep, it gets you in your dreams", "It's not his real face", "she smells like old blood".
Really messes people up when they have no way fo telling good clues from mindfucks.

>>17393089

So sometimes, if it's a mystery campaign where they need to find clues, I tip them through notes that can be helpful if they interpret them correctly, and after they have gotten used to that, mindfuck?

>>17393160
Naw naw, keep it mixed up all the time.
Best effect is bullshit notes most of the time mix in a good clue, and then when they realize that one of the notes was actually helpful they'll be doubly mindfucked.

>>17382939
Horrifying.

I'm gonna use this.

There's a place in my 3.5 campaign setting where, if the party steps in it, the game immediately shifts to a horror campaign, sanity rules and all. I'm going to give two of the characters different reasons to "receive messages" and then let the third be thoroughly creeped out by being left out of the loop. One will be a surprise, and the other will be voluntary. One will tell helpful lies and the other will tell harmful truths.