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Today’s Hook: A new power enhancing (instantly level 20 for a minute) drug has made its way into the streets and is causing people to rampage and then drop dead...(Rhys Brown on Facebook) Talk about having drug problems… On this very special Halloween episode, the Adventure Hook guys endeavor to make your darkest dreams of running a game based on horror movie tropes into a waking nightmare by enlisting the aid of horror GM extraordinaire Mattiaz Fredricksson (of the Red Moon Roleplaying podcast) to bring his particularly dark imagination fully to bear upon this creepiest of RPG hooks… And it should come as little surprise that things almost immediately take a turn towards the Cthulhu Mythos! From a secure military installation working on a secret project to harness the powers of “The Color” (Out of Space?) to an MK Ultra style program utilizing a variation of Dr. Herbert West’s eerie supernatural drug which transform its users into invincible undead slasher maniacs and sets them on a rampaging kill-spree massacre… there is nowhere you can run to… nowhere to hide from all the varied (and vicious) scenarios your co-hosts and their special guest manage to conjure up for you… again and again! And like many horror stories (and most Lovecraftian ones) there’s no guarantee you’ll survive this night of horrors all the way to the end… certainly not before the greatest mystery of them all is solved: What’s inside Area 52?!!! Plus!: Rob give a quick dissertation on the mysterious concepts surrounding the mystically fatal Climaxtus drug created by the Aeonuian people of the Reliquum setting. Banter Topic: to kick this show off, the Adventure Hook guys welcome Mattiaz Fredricksson by talking a bit of shop about all things gaming related (but of course, especially Lovecraft) before diving into this episode’s super spooky hook… LINKS Adventure Hook (on Patreon) Red Moon Roleplaying (two-time ENnie winner for best actual-play podcast) Descent into Avernus (on Amazon) KULT: Divinty Lost (on Amazon) Scion: Demigod (on Kickstarter) Call of Cthulhu (Swedish translation) KULT, an Echo of the Past (the Jim Morison episode) Project MK Ultra (on Wikipedia) Operation Paperclip (on Wikipedia) Halloween III (on Amazon) Hack/Slash comic by Tim Seeley (on Amazon) Delta Green (on DriveThru RPG) Reanimator (on Amazon) Call of Cthulhu 7e (on DriveThru RPG) The Monsters are Due on Maple Street - Twilight Zone Episode (on Netflix) Night of the Comet (on Amazon) Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead (on Amazon) Super 8 (on Amazon) Jacob’s Ladder (on Amazon) Universal Soldier (on Amazon) Stranger Things (on Netflix) The Color Out of Space (on Amazon) Edward Scissorhands (on Amazon) Music by Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com made available for use under the Creative Commons By Attribution 4.0 License. Supernatural 8-Bit Dungeon Level Be sure to submit your own Adventure Hook ideas using the hashtag #newadventurehook and they could end up the topic of a future episode! Also you can use the hashtag #Critfail to instead give us your worst ideas which will occupy a place on our dreaded Critical Failure Chart... Can we design a great adventure around a terrible hook? Try us! We love a challenge! And please consider supporting Adventure Hook on Patreon where you can gain access to our entire back catalog of episodes and special releases! Blackspire RPG Campaign (Rob’s actual-play podcast)