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The Creeping Madness - Concept Reel

It has been a while since we’ve posted anything specifically for TCM, but here it is at last. This trailer showcases how we envision the flow of TCM and forms a part of our conceptualisation phase. 

If you see anything you like, want to join the discussion or just want to enter into a dark pact for some Twinkies, you can join our sub Reddit here. 

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Fhtagn! Discord server and other thrilling news

Fhtagn! Discord Server

Do you like...

✅ Interactive stories

✅ Fun community hangouts

✅ Imaginary bootleg liquor

✅ Cultist shenanigans

Then you will love Fhtagn!'s discord server!

There is only one thing we like more than making games and that is to connect with the community. We’ve created a Discord server, called That Fhtagn! Server, to connect with players and create a space for community members, who enjoy a fun community hangout, interactive stories and imaginative worlds, to just chill and enjoy the insanity together.

The server has various interesting channels, but below are a few examples.

#Fhtagn! Chat

Where you can chat and explore the bizarre and maddening world of Fhtagn!

#Story Time

In Story Time you can write short stories for the game and vote on other community members’ contributions. This can be a great way to practice your writing muscles, hang out with the community, have a platform where you can read a bunch of awesome short stories or just get a kick out of seeing people interact with your story.

#Madame Fufu’s

Madame Fufu’s, is the best speakeasy in town and the only thing smoother than the jazz band is the bootleg whisky. Here you can just sit back, relax and order a drink from Fred O'Leary. This channel is meant to be a light roleplaying experience. Think prohibition, mafia, flappers, swing and jazz and fun words like “bee’s knees, giggle water, phonus balonus and zozzled”!

Other channels include Interactive Fiction, Writer’s Nook, Mod Room, Official News etc. Don’t be a stranger, come check it out!

Monthly event packs

Every month we will upload a Fhtagn! event pack (downloadable mod) with interesting event stories, beginning with March. You can now download the first event pack, which contains 8 backstories that will feature in cycle one of Fhtagn!’s intro stories. These stories will give your character a randomised backstory, with a unique new flavour. Each backstory is a wildcard that will give you massive starting strengths and weaknesses. Will you be the corrupt politician, the twin sister with a dark family secret or a lovestruck loafer on an African adventure? The backstories will not only entertain and make you laugh, but more than one might creep you the hell out! To access the mod, just go to your Mods button in-game, select More mods and subscribe to the Character backstories mod. Enjoy!  

The Creeping Madness (TCM)

Fhtagn!’s world is based on our flagship title, The Creeping Madness, currently in production.

The Creeping Madness (TCM) is Black and White meets Evil Genius in the 1930s, inside a Lovecraft novel, with a hint of Dieselpunk. You are a Cthulhu-esque Ancient One hellbent on walking the mortal realm once more. Build up your cult in secret. Summon powerful monsters and play through tactical scenarios from your favourite Lovecraftian novels, as you slowly infiltrate, manipulate, corrupt and drive people insane to orchestrate your return.

We are currently hard at work on this project and we hope to share more news about TCM with you soon!

Connect with us

We want to remind you of the best way you can enhance and experience Fhtagn! We have various social platforms available from our website, twitter, subreddit, newsletter and now our newly launched Discord server.

What the Fhtagn! are you waiting for? Talk to us!

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5 reasons why you will love the stories in Fhtagn!

A few months ago we released Fhtagn! a choose-your-own-adventure game on Steam, where you can play as one of four cultists intent on releasing an Ancient Horror. In this text-driven game you decide how you will be preparing for the final ritual by visiting various locations in the unsuspecting town of Arkham and navigating iconic Lovecraftian events. Battle investigators, gangs, corrupt cops and horrors from the Depths to bring about the end of the world!

Even though Fhtagn! was created to be a casual, replayable game, there is a lot of content: a total of 93 000 words, played across 113 events with 370 potential story outcomes, 24 roles with 56 role feedback stories and 142 different character endings. With so many stories, we wanted to make sure that the player would experience ludicrous, action-packed and creepy stories through quality and immersive content. Below we look at the 5 things we incorporated in our stories to do just that.

Engaging content

In this party/boardgame-esque game, stories are written to provide the player with multi-optional stories, with continual replay value and various outcomes and results. Each event is written like a mini-saga, allowing the player to fully experience the bizarre world of Fhtagn!, the milieu, actions and consequences, in just a few paragraphs. Instead of experiencing one long and exhaustive story, we wanted players to have the satisfaction of experiencing a bunch of awesome stories in one playthrough while having a singular purpose of summoning an Eldritch Horror and ending the world.  

Balancing horror with dark humour

The Cthulhu mythos, in all its stygian glory, has various dark elements that make for interesting stories, but which can drain the sanity of even the staunchest reader. That is why maintaining balance between horror and humour in our stories is crucial to ensure that the stories do not get too overwhelmingly disturbing and disrupt the immersive qualities of the narrative. Eldritch Horrors, doomsday cults and the occult are finely balanced with humour and the surprisingly bizarre. The dark stories that your character encounter give the game its unique personality.

Fun game mechanics  

Serving an Eldritch Horror never ends well. In Fhtagn! failing is just as fun as winning. To ensure a healthy dosage of both, the stories were not just created to be an interactive novel, but also to balance stat requirements. Choose your options carefully based on the stats you have accrued, but don’t worry, failure still rewards a few stats … we’re not monsters after all. Tired of guessing what stat you need for that option? Use the “Elder Signs” you gain after every playthrough to show you exactly what is needed.  There is a lot of fun to be had with different cults and game modes. You can play alone or with your friends in local co-op or screenshare where you can stab them in the back and make sure it is them on the chopping block and not you.

Choices and content fatigue management

Based on your choices in the final ritual, Fhtagn! has more than 140 different endings. With so many stories and with more that you can download, what stops you from seeing the same old story over and over again? With our content fatigue management system, we ensure that stories and outcomes you have not seen before get a higher chance of appearing, ensuring that you are guaranteed to experience all the stories if you play long enough. Additionally, if you download a new mod or story, these will show up preferentially, till all the stories start to balance out again.

Write your own stories

We are so passionate about the idea of stories that we created an additional application, the Fhtagn! Content Creator, for players to write their own stories for the game and enjoy it with their friends. We expected players to rush through our stories quicker than we could generate them. So, to help with content fatigue, we encourage players to make use of our Steam Workshop feature, to create their own stories and share them with the community, so that we all can enjoy new, fun and silly encounters. All that is needed is a story idea and no programming is required. We provided players with a Quick Start Video Guide, Content Creator Guide and even released all of Fhtagn!'s event stories in a Google Sheet online, to aid in this process.

Bonus reason: We love surprises!

From secret encounters to hidden achievements, there are some unexpected and concealed elements to the game. Some activities are purposefully more challenging to achieve, to reward the more determined player. For the eagle-eyed reader, we also included numerous ‘Easter eggs’ in our content and these geeky gems promise to elicit a guffaw or two.

These are just some of the highlights that make our stories enjoyable. Fhtagn! is packed with bizarre characters, a fantastical 1930s world and intriguing events, all of which can be experienced with a jazzy/swing soundtrack, snazzy neo-noir visuals and just a hint of betrayal.

We hope you enjoy our stories as much as we enjoyed writing them. We’d love to hear what you think of the stories and the world of Fhtagn! So, what the Fhtagn! are you waiting for? Drop us a comment.

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Halloween Party Game: Sacrifice your friends and summon an Ancient Horror in the new Dark Young expansion!

With the Halloween season in full swing, celebrate the most frightful of holidays with an indie game that will both chill and tickle your funny bone! On 22 October 2018, we will be launching a new expansion (the Dark Young) for our game Fhtagn! - Tales of the Creeping Madness.

Dubbed the "funniest take on mystic doomsday cults in years", Fhtagn! is a choose-your-own-adventure game where you can play as one of four cultists intent on destroying the world by summoning an Ancient Horror. Decide how you will be preparing for the final ritual by visiting various locations in the unsuspecting town of Arkham and navigating iconic Lovecraftian events. Battle investigators, gangs, corrupt cops and horrors from the Depths to bring about the end of the world!

In other words...

This text-based adventure game boasts:

93 000 words.

Across 113 events with 370 potential story outcomes.

Fulfil 1 of 24 roles with 56 role feedback stories.

142 different character endings.

Mother is coming: New in the expansion

In its first instalment, this party/boardgame-esque game saw the cult of The Dreaming Eye trying wake the thing of the idols, that green, sticky spawn of the stars (can you guess who?) to claim the world. Now, there is a new cult in town – The Thousand Young. These sycophantic backstabbers are devoted to the All-Mother and Mother only wants the best and the brightest. You have 6 rounds to build up the required stats needed to use the ritual items in the final ritual, but you also need to outwit your “friends” and make sure it is them on the chopping block and not you. For every successful round you complete, you get ‘Not It’ stacks, which you use in the end of the game to determine who will be sacrificed to dear Mother. The player who receives the most votes will become the juicy glazed ham on the altar in the Dark Forest. Or will they? Should you be voted as the sacrifice, you will have the chance to escape and GTFO outta there!

The expansion includes:

New cult

New Ancient One

Now with useable items

More stories

New game mechanics

More investigators

Players can write their own stories for the game

If Fhtagn!’s stories aren’t scary enough for you this Halloween, you can write your own stories for the game! The Steam version of the game has a Content Creator feature where you can create your own stories and play it with your friends. All that is needed is a story idea and no programming is required. It is a modern take on the classic creepy campfire stories where you can frighten the living daylights out of your friends. Who remembers telling creepy stories like The Licked Hand, The Attack of the Hook-man or The Vanishing Hitchhiker? We’re sure you can do better this year with your own mad creation, by using the Fhtagn! Content Creator.

The game shines in local co-op or screen-share with friends and it is a casual game that will provide loads of entertainment. With snazzy graphics, betrayal is best served with a jazzy/swing soundtrack and neo-noir visuals. Don’t miss out on this thrilling experience and get the game on Steam or Itch.io on 22 October 2018!

Talk to us

We’d love to hear what you think of the game and the new expansion. What the Fhtagn! are you waiting for? Drop us a comment. You can also check out r/FhtagnGame or our Steam page for more information.

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Splattercat reveals our stinky secret and other Fhtagn! good news

Ever wondered how a fart joke can summon an Ancient Horror from another dimension? You’re in luck and you might also have serious psychological issues! 

We recently launched Fhtagn! – a choose-your-own-adventure mini-game where you can play as one of four cultists intent on releasing the Ancient One. Fhtagn! is intended to be a short, replayable game where you experience ludicrous, action-packed and hilarious stories in a Lovecraftian setting. Fhtagn! is to the vein of Yawhg and Monster Prom, with a hint of Cultist Simulator.

Check out Splattercat’s awesome and hilarious playthrough of the game in the video above!

Why would you want to play Fhtagn!:

·  The game shines in co-op with friends.

·  Hilarious, ludicrous and fun stories (it’s a laugh a minute).

·  It’s casual and easy to get into.

·  What is better than zombies… crazy doomsday cults of course!

·  To end the world – for reasons.

·  Great jazzy/swing soundtrack.

·  Neo-noir visuals (we swear we didn’t make that word up).

Other interesting news

We also developed a Content Creator, where players can create their own stories and share them with the community. All that is needed is a story idea and no programming is required. The community has already added a few mods.

We’re currently working on the ‘Dark Young’ update, that will contain a new Ancient One, more stories, ritual items, new game modifiers and more investigators! You can find more information on the update here. 

On sale now!

Fhtagn! is also part of the Steam Summer Sale, so now you can end the world for just $4.49!

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You can end the world for just $4.49 now on Steam! What the Fhtagn are you waiting for, get your copy now!

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Fhtagn! Dark Young Reveal

It's been almost a month since the launch of our mini-game Fhtagn! - Tales of the Creeping Madness and we are excited to announce our first major content update, lovingly called the "Dark Young update". Okay, okay, we admit we could have chosen a subtler name and if you know anything about Lovecraft, it will be no surprise to you who the new Ancient One will be, but we just couldn't resist! So without further ado … Iä! Iä! Let's get this party started!

What can you expect:

The Dark Young update includes a new cult who worships the All-mother. This cult is far more back-stabbing than the Dreaming Eye, since Mother does not look kindly on failing and her children know that she will not suffer the weak to live.

To help even the most altruistic player embrace their inner backstabber, the game mode includes two new mechanics. "Disappointed Mother" will cause the player to spawn Dark Young across the map and let's just say they didn't come to congratulate you on a job well done. "Survival of the fittest" gives players stacks of "Not it!" whenever they pass an event or complete special objectives. At the end of the game players will use their stacks to determine which of them will be the sacrifice, but beware, Mother will not be happy if there are no snacks for her little babies.

These are just a taste of what you can expect! We are looking forward to have the update in your hands as soon as possible!

If you haven't done so yet, you can get your copy of the base game on Steam.

Fhtagn! is a choose-your-own-adventure mini-game where you can play as one of four cultists intent on releasing the Ancient One. Fhtagn! is intended to be a short, replayable game where you experience ludicrous, action-packed and hilarious stories in a Lovecraftian setting.

Why would you want to play Fhtagn!:

The game shines in co-op with friends.

Hilarious, ludicrous and fun stories (it’s a laugh a minute).

It’s casual and easy to get into.

What is better than zombies… crazy doomsday cults of course!

To end the world – for reasons.

Great jazzy/swing soundtrack.

Neo-noir visuals (we swear we didn’t make that word up).

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Create your own Lovecraftian stories with Fhtagn’s Content Creator

Hopefully by this time you have played Fhtagn and thought: "Hey, I can write better stuff than they can!". If the thought had not yet crossed your mind, it should. We believe that the best person to tell a creepy story, is you. And we're not just saying that because we think you're creepy, but also because we believe that we all have dreams and we want to help you express yours.

All you need is a story idea and to populate our Content Creator with that story idea. No programming is required and we are committed to simplify the app as much as possible to make sure anyone can create their own stories.

We made the following resources available to kickstart your creation process (but these do contain spoilers, so be aware):

·         You can find our guide on how to use the content creator here.

·         We also made all of Fhtagn’s stories available to the community here.

·         You can watch our Youtube video on how to use the application here.

Please visit our forum for more information, to make suggestions or to see discussions regarding the mod.

We hope that you enjoy the Content Creator and we can’t wait to play your stories!

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Announcing the end of the world with the release of Fhtagn! on 22 May 2018!

We are excited to announce that our story-adventure mini-game, Fhtagn, is releasing on Steam tomorrow, 22 May 2018! The time is finally at hand to perform the great ritual and everything has been meticulously prepared. The sacred spoon of Scoo’p has been polished to an evil gleam, the Shoggoth was given a juicy bone and the altar was sprinkled with ketchup (the Ancient One’s favourite). All we need now is for you to fulfil your ritual role and to end the world for good… or evil in this case!

To help you prepare for your fiendish role, we’ve created a gameplay video that will provide you with a sneak peek of what to expect. You will need all the help you can get when you battle investigators, corrupt cops and Ancient horrors, as you traverse the unsuspecting town of Arkham.

The story-adventures don’t end when you’ve completed the game, you can download playable mods from the Steam Workshop or you can create your own Lovecraftian events (or any story you want) with our content creator.

We’re looking forward to ending the world and descending into madness with you! 

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Create your own Lovecraftian stories with our quirky choose-your-own-adventure mini-game!

Fhtagn! is a choose-your-own-adventure mini-game with couch co-op and just a hint of betrayal. Play as one of four cultists intent on releasing the Ancient One. Decide how you will be preparing for the ritual, by visiting various locations in an unsuspecting town and navigating iconic Lovecraftian events. Battle investigators, gangs, corrupt cops and horrors from the Depths, to bring about the end of the world!

We are excited to announce that our Steam Store Page is now live! “Fhtagn! – Tales of The Creeping Madness” will be released on Steam soon! The Store Page boasts cool new in-game screenshots and a thrilling trailer for you to check out. Make sure you are notified when the game is released, by following the game on Steam and hitting the ‘Add To Wishlist’ button! We’d love to hear from you. Drop us a comment on Steam or DB let us know what you think. Link to Steam Store Page: Store.steampowered.com

Fhtagn! is intended to be a short, replayable game where you experience ludicrous, action-packed and hilarious stories in a Lovecraftian setting. In short, there's reading involved, not a lot, but if you don't like reading a few sentences of text, this might not be the game for you. If in doubt, we recommend that you watch a few gameplay videos and see if we can lure you to the dark side with one our knee-slappers!

The game is also short, so expect a game to take about 15 minutes if you're playing on your own or about 30 minutes if you are playing with friends… or enemies. We are fully committed to bring out more stories, Ancient Ones to summon, items and modes, but it is expected that you will rush through these quicker than we can generate content. To help with content fatigue, we encourage players to make use of our Steam Workshop feature to create their own stories and share them with the community, so that we all can enjoy new, fun and silly encounters.

We want your experience with Fhtagn! to be as enjoyable as possible, so please do not hesitate to provide us with any feedback. If you want to just chat, report some bugs or if you find anything misleading on our store page, we'd like to hear from you on our social media or here on the forums.

Thank you for taking the time to read about our game and we hope you will enjoy playing it (seriously if you could read this you'll cruise through the in-game text).

Gameplay

You are a cultist intent on destroying the universe by summoning the Ancient One. Why? Damned if we know…

You can play on your own or with up to 3 friends in couch co-op.

Start by choosing which Ancient One you want to summon. This will then reveal the prophecy and the ritual items you have available to summon your chosen Ancient One.

You have 6 rounds to build up the required stats needed to use the ritual items, but you will need to figure out which stats those are through some trial and error.

You can visit 1 location per round and attempt the Lovecraftian stories at that location, to improve your stats.

Finally, put your stats to the test as you try to summon the Ancient One.

Will everyone pass or fail or will one of you betray the rest and grab all the glory?

Features

Short and silly events in a Lovecraftian universe.

Randomized stories based on location.

Community created content. Experience new stories from the community or create your own.

Replayability and minimization of content fatigue by giving new or unseen stories a higher chance of appearing.

Short gameplay, ideal for those downtime moments or while in a queue for another game.

Non-linear gameplay.

Multiple endings.

Multiple Ancient Ones, items and opponents. (Available shortly after release).

Steam Achievements.

Steam Cloud Support, to track your progress.

Play cooperatively or be a backstabbing traitor.

Language

Unfortunately, Fhtagn! is only available in English. We currently don’t have the resources to produce the game in other languages, in a way that is authentic and will do the stories and humor in it justice. However, we encourage players to create content in any languages they want and spread the madness that is Fhtagn! We will happily support any UI language localization changes should there be sufficient need.

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We are excited to announce that our Steam Store Page is now live! “Fhtagn! – Tales of The Creeping Madness” will be released on Steam soon! The Store Page boasts cool new in-game screenshots and a thrilling trailer for you to check out. Make sure you are notified when the game is released, by following the game on Steam and hitting the ‘Add To Wishlist’ button! We’d love to hear from you. Drop us a comment on Steam or Tumblr and let us know what you think. Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/802400/Fhtagn__Tales_of_the_Creeping_Madness/

Fhtagn! is a choose-your-own-adventure mini-game with couch co-op and just a hint of betrayal. Play as one of four cultists intent on releasing the Ancient One. Decide how you will be preparing for the ritual, by visiting various locations in an unsuspecting town and navigating iconic Lovecraftian events. Battle investigators, gangs, corrupt cops and horrors from the Depths, to bring about the end of the world!

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Fhtagn! – Tales of the Creeping Madness

Design Imps is excited to present "Fhtagn! Tales of the Creeping Madness". In an effort to raise extra funds for our flagship title "The Creeping Madness", we will be launching "Fhtagn!" within the next few months on Steam. Fhtagn! is a choose-your-own-adventure style mini-game with couch co-op and just a hint of betrayal. Play as one of four cultists intent on releasing the Ancient One. Decide how you will be preparing for the ritual, by visiting various locations in an unsuspecting town and navigating iconic Lovecraftian events. Battle investigators, gangs, corrupt cops and horrors from the Depths, to bring about the end of the world! To stay up to date with development, keep an eye on our social media or join the newsletter on our website.

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Happy Holidays from Design Imps

As we approach the end of another eventful year, we would like to take a moment to thank everyone for their wonderful support. It is such an incredible experience and a privilege to be able to create a game and to take you on this special journey with us. 

From all of us at Design Imps, we wish you and your family a wonderful and joyous holiday season.

As a small token of our appreciation, we leave you with a sneak peek of a pre-alpha image that illustrates the sanity system. An enemy squad runs away in fear as madness scratches at the edges of their minds! We are really looking forward to the new year and we can’t wait to show you what’s in store for 2018!

Happy Holidays!

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Act 2: A helping hand

Bart sat down on the wooden bench. He didn’t even notice it creaking under his bulk and just kept staring at his bare and callused hands. He thought back to his Mama’s last words: “Bartholomew Finch, the Good Lord did not see fit to give you much of a brain, but he gave you all that strength for a reason. Make sure you use it to help folk.” And that’s what he did. Bart made sure he always used his strength to help the folk of Illswich. Like the day when widow Mayweather’s donkey fell ill and Bart pulled her cart all the way to the market or when farmer Hastings was buried under all those beams, after the twister, it was Bart that lifted half the building so the others could get him out. It just made no sense, Bart thought. The things they’re saying ... it just made no sense.

Bart rested his weary head in his hands as a familiar throbbing started behind his temples. If only this confounding headache would stop. Ever since Sister Mary gave him that weird little statue with the squid head, the headaches and nightmares had started. He remembered the first big headache, it was the day before Mr Parker, the shopkeeper, was found hacked to pieces in Myrtle alley. He was the first. In the days to come, each morning saw a new body chopped to pieces and left for the rats. Bart wanted to go out at night and see if he could help protect people on the streets. He could swing an axe pretty good after all. But each night there would be that strange sound, he’d dose off and the nightmares would start. 

This morning Sister Mary came to his hut with a couple of police. They broke the door down and said that he was the “Midnight Maniac”. Now, Bart sat in the tiny cell, staring at his hands and thinking, “It just don’t make no sense.” 

That night after Bart’s hanging, the sound of digging could be heard in the old cemetery. White masked Sister Mary stood up from the shallow grave, protectively cradling a severed callused hand, as she made her way back to the cloister.

Written by: Janke van Jaarsveld

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Game mechanic: Mission Unstoppable - part 1

So far we have introduced you to the pillars surrounding the design of TCM and one of our main gameplay features, the sanity system. By now you know that our aim is to make you feel like an Ancient One from the Lovecraft mythos, but what will the main gameplay be? As was described last month, there are different components to TCM, including some base/cult management and some global strategic gameplay, but as the player you will spend the bulk of your time experiencing the situations from your favourite Lovecraft scenarios.

Let’s take the example of one of the iconic Ancient One scenarios … the ritual. In most stories or movies, the investigators have found out about a ritual to summon some Ancient Evil and they have gathered the necessary clues as to where and when it will take place and what they will need to stop it. In TCM, however, you play the role of the Ancient One attempting to complete the ritual, while stopping the investigators from interfering, but how will this work? Below we will discuss the important mechanics that form part of the ‘missions’ game system.

The build up Firstly, through previous missions/excursions and strategic map gameplay you would have uncovered the location where the ritual needs to take place, as well as all the items you would need; now it is time to start your mission.

Pre-battle For the sake of the example, let’s imagine the ritual needs to take place in the sewers underneath Bangkok. At the start of the mission you will be able to spend your preparation points (gained through strategic map activities). For example you could spend the points on buying statues in the sewers. These appear to be part of the architecture, but come alive to attack investigators who get close. A short story linked to the option explains how the architect of the sewers was one of your cultists. Another option could be to sabotage the artifact the Investigators will be using to stop the ritual. The story linked to the option explains how you tricked the artificer, four thousand years ago, to use corrupted materials in its construction. Now if the investigator uses it, it will speed up the ritual and heal your minions in combat.

The Units During combat you are given access to two sets of units, powerful Eldritch units, such as Ameerah, capable of laying waste whole groups of enemies and a whole host of expendable cultists, because who are we kidding, cultists are only useful as ritual components and meat shields. In TCM, you always have direct control of your agents, but only minor control over the cultists, through waypoints. Don’t worry though, cultists will usually spawn in continuous waves … and then run to their deaths.

Objectives In our sewer ritual example, you will have a couple of main objectives, such as securing the ritual site and the ritual components and defending key areas while the ritual takes place. In TCM there is also a huge exploration and RPG component. While the cultists are holding back the investigators and their police allies, why not take the time to investigate the secret passageways in the sewer complex. Did you find the hidden room, containing that powerful artifact? Could you solve the puzzle, which gave you access to more powerful traps? Were you able to find the key to that barred door at the end of the corridor? Could you answer the riddle from the eerily fearless beggar? 

End of part 1 Unfortunately, that is all we have time for. Join us next month when we go into a bit more detail on the combat aspect of missions.

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A demonstration of our insanity system on idle units, as described in our Game mechanics update: Oh, the insanity!

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Trivia: Oh R’lyeh?

H.P. Lovecraft, as he himself professed, was in various ways a very flawed person. Still, his life’s work continues to inspire the Cthulhu mythos as we know it today and galvanised the creeping fear that something unthinkable is lurking in the shadows, just waiting to consume humanity in apocalyptic fashion. Below are some interesting tid-bits about the horror-fiction writer.

Lovecraft was a coffee lover. In his time living in New York, he frequented a coffee chain created by Theodore Roosevelt’s sons – the Double R Coffee House. He was so enamored with the Brazilian-style coffeehouse that he even wrote a poem about it. 

Lovecraft never used the term “Cthulhu Mythos’ as it is used today. He categorised his stories as the Arkham Cycle.

Lovecraft wasn’t such a recluse as commonly believed. He had a close group of friends and traveled around New England and beyond. 

In 1997, a Lovecraftian fan tried to dig up his body, however he/she stopped digging after only 3-feet … duh duh duuuuuh (make own conclusion here).