Blog - Eternal Lies - Saving the world at a cost
This is my final write up from our #EternalLies campaign using the #TrailofCthulhu #ttrpg which we recently completed after 48 sessions and four years.
There are spoilers, obviously. Hat tip to @TheTweedmeister
and Rich, plus @pelgranepress.
https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2025/06/eternal-lies-saving-world-at-cost.html
60. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
Archie and Cassie creep into the Zoog compound and weigh up their options. Having previously sacrificed to Nodens they call on his help when dreaming a torrent of water to drown the Minions of Karakal summoned by the Cats from Saturn but instead end up creating a lake covering the whole village. Fortunately the cage with the Zooglets is made of wood and floats to the surface. Some Cats escape by jumping to the Moon by overall a triumph.
We finished #EternalLies for @pelgranepress's #TrailofCthulhu #ttrpg tonight. I'm still in shock from the ending.
48 sessions since 2021 (we had a hiatus year).
Played as a duo with @TheTweedmeister and run by Rich.
It all came down to a roll at the end. @TheTweedmeister was going to save my character from the void. All he had to roll was anything but a '1' on a D6.
Our characters, firm and fast friends parted as the hyperspace gate closed, a lingering touch from the hand that didn't save.
I just updated my free brochure with Lovecraftian inspirations from the real life, history, science and culture - for RPG, books etc. You can use all of them for free in You own content: https://adeptus7.itch.io/lovecraftian-inspirations-from-real-life-and-beliefs
Below, current table of contents. #callofcthulhu #trailofcthulhu #TRRPG #RPG #indiegame #plothooks #Lovecraftian #deltagreen #cosmichorror #horror
I just updated my free brochure with Lovecraftian inspirations from the real life, history, science and culture - for RPG, books etc. You can use all of them for free in You own content: https://adeptus7.itch.io/lovecraftian-inspirations-from-real-life-and-beliefs
Below, current table of contents. #callofcthulhu #trailofcthulhu #TRRPG #RPG #indiegame #plothooks #Lovecraftian #deltagreen #cosmichorror #horror
57. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
Archie and Cassie prepare in Ulthar and go deep into Zoog territory, Houndsditch, the village where the Cats from Saturn hold Zooglets prisoner. The Zoogs are being forced to build a giant contraption, perhaps some kind of airship. Is it for attacking Ulthar or are the Cats from Saturn filling the void left by the Moonbeasts and aiming to become slavers? Or perhaps even both?
52. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
Much investigation into how magic works in the Dreamlands and search in the Great Library leads to a revelation tying up lose ends all the way back to session 10, 9 years ago. It goes to the very core of what the Dreamlands is. But next week, a trip back into the Enchanted Wood to see what the Cats from Saturn have been up to with the Zoogs.
A friend vanishes in 1930s Madrid. Rumors swirl, loyalties fracture. Inspired by the real disappearance of José Robles, Soldiers of Pen and Ink explores betrayal, memory, and truth lost to history—or Carcosa. Would your character ask questions… or look away? #TTRPG #TrailOfCthulhu
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47. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
Not my regular group, I ran a Fearful Symmetries one shot on the Raspy Raven for four willing fellows. They investigated a screaming stone on Pendle Hill, it's link to witches, local folklore and legends (bogarts, ghosts, giants and the Dun Cow) and averted the presence of something terrible in the town of Clitheroe. It was great fun.
#ttrpg
#2025Games
46. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
It seems the Cats from Saturn have taken over several Zoog village and have them building something that breathes fire. It is a rocket? It's not clear but Archie and Cassie make it back to Ulthar and discuss tactics with the cat general. They need to get a closer look at whatever the zoogs are up to. In the meantime, the monk is worried about how his news might be received by the Library so Cassie promises to test the water.
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#2025Games
Tonight, in @pelgranepress's #EternalLies, we contrived a Great Old One to be wiped from existence. It may not have been a wise choice.
Hat tip to @TheTweedmeister and Rich.
43. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
The monk has a strange document with him that Cassie gets a good look at. I pertains to a deep magic, and it's not clear what he's doing with it. The way back is long but fortunately Archie's study of Zoog ways and language mean they make good time and keep out of trouble most of the way. And then, nearly back to Ulthar, well, we'll just have to see next week.
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#2025Games
41. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
Archie and Cassie attempt some magic in the Dreamlands and it works, but not as intended. This is the first time they've been here in dream and so they have to use Dreaming to affect the world around them. Their magical training makes them good at this and then soon get on with what they came here for, a 15C monk caught in a stasis spell.
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#2025Games
39. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
A gentle reintroduction to Ulthar, getting to know some of the locals and learning all about Zoogs in the library.
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36. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
Meet up with the Library contact who might have suggested that not everyone sees eye to eye in its leadership. But he hands over the dream drug and Archie and Cassie are soon in Ulthar looking up previous contacts.
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#2025Games
Demà una primera entrega de la pàgina IEP d'EL RASTRE DE CTHULHU (2008)
Amb el material de Basidiomicot.
33. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
There's no time to chase Crispin this week as Austin Osman Spare has been brought in to reinforce the sigil guarding the portal. There are some difficulties but overcome with careful magics and the job is done. Next week, back to the Dreamlands to see where the portal is coming from.
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#2025Games
28. #TrailofCthulhu(#PelgranePress)
Clear the air with Muster, keeping him away from his mine and then scry for the missing student Crispin with his wicket-keeping glove, with protection. Once again, they are confronted by the fly they get each time they scry for Carthusians. It seems to be guarding the library directly, so is Crispin in the library, or in the fly?
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#2025Games
#FearItself: Shattered Veil Edition @pelgranepress.bsky.social will soon be offering the #Horror #ttrpg via crowdfunding. The crowdfundings #13thAge 2e & #TrailOfCthulhu 2e have not yet been delivered. I had to wait years for e.g. #SwordsoftheSerpentine. I don't like their business approach at all
We realised that we still had more to investigate in Bangkok in @pelgranepress's #EternalLies tonight. Both @TheTweedmeister and my characters are severely changed by their experiences and it becomes more apparent that a return to normality for them is probably off the cards. That makes all the more bittersweet that we have just let an NPC we trust into the secret of what is going on.
