Whispers of the Dead (Dagon and Hydra)

pixel art by Brian "ink" T

Mutable Godhood

The exact nature of Father Dagon and Mother Hydra's existence is unclear. Some say they're a pair of alien gods, some say they're just extremely powerful Deep Ones. Others claim this distinction is meaningless. The two leading theories are that they're either the ancient progenitors of the Deep One 'species,' or an aspirational future goal, when the children of the ocean become just like the Old Ones. 

Likewise, the ritual can be performed in two modes: communing with Dagon and Hydra as if they were Deep Ones of immense power or as if they were Great Old Ones in their own right. The only difference seems to be the operator's perspective on the matter and how willing they are to push through the boundaries of reality. If contacted as Deep Ones, the ritual costs 9 WP and 1D6 SAN. The operator gains an overarching sense of the Deep Ones' plans. Without a high or critical activation roll, the visions are mostly limited to wherever the operator performs the ritual, or the locale of whatever tradition they learned the ritual from. If they spend 1 POW, the operator contacts the pair as Great Old Ones and loses 1D8 SAN. They are overwhelmed with visions of the Deep Ones' past, present, and future.

ARCHINT: The Five-Sided Ankh

Last month, I ran a short scenario centered around an unnatural artifact. The scenario leaves the exact mechanics up to the Handler, so I thought I'd write them up, plus some spot rules for Raise From Essential Saltes. I recommend making Potemkin an archeologist of some sort and having journals from the dig he recovered the ankh at. They contain sketches and descriptions of the ankh enough for an Agent to guess at the later clues, but not draw any solid conclusions.

When an Agent wears the amulet for the first time, they lose 0/1D4 SAN from a brief moment of dissociation as they feel a wave of dry heat. Ask the the player if they want to shut it out (ie: project onto a Bond). What they learn from the vision depends on the amount of SAN lost after projection, if any.