The Haunt

Pick Your Haunt
Have every member in the group make a 2d10 roll, then pick your favorite roll combination to establish the baseline for your Haunt.

These rolls will help give you a foundation to start with, but be sure to elaborate on them. Take turns around the group adding on at least two details for both the location and cause of the haunting – if you roll "College," what kind of college is it, and is the focus a dormitory or class hall?

If you roll "Disappearances," decide whether the disappearances were of specific types of people, or occurred at specific times. When did these events happen?

Are there conflicting versions of events? You want to craft a few tantalizing hooks here, but not over-explain the place – you’ll be developing the details of the haunting during game play.

Dice #1 will determine where we are, while Dice #2 will determine what is rumored to have happened there!

Dice #1
1. Mansion
2. College
3. Asylum/Hospital
4. Prison
5. Ocean Liner/Freighter
6. Hotel
7. Casino
8. Military Fort
9. Theme Park/Circus
10. Industrial SiteDice #2
1. Serial Killing
2. Massacre
3. Murder-Suicide
4. Tragic Accident
5. Disappearances
6. Doomed Love Affair
7. Forbidden Rituals
8. Profaned Sacred Ground
9. Witch Hunt
10. Evil Experiments

Let's go to an asylum to investigate a sacred ground!
...wait, no, this is just Outlast.

Let's see what we get...

Jackpot! College + Forbidden Rituals

Sorority Coven terrorizes liberal arts school? Fraternity ritual summons up the kind of spirit you can't buy at a liquor store? A professor agrees to a dark pact to secure tenure? The possibilities are endless 😂

A college? My character is going to have a fit. I love it. XD

Also, this sounds like a genuine intro to a show episode!

Where will we die? College with a tragic accident. Laaaaame!

Give us something good, dice!

Evil experiments in a mansion? Are we fighting ghosts or Frankenstein?

Look at this beautiful unanimity!

Unlike over in the other poll 😄

Okay, so it looks like we are going with the College, which is rumored to have been the staging point for some forbidden rituals.

The College is functional according to my 1d2 roll above. So, people still go here. Perhaps it’s a section of the college that’s been shut down, while the rest of the grounds are in use. Or… maybe not!

That’s where you all come in. Everyone needs to add at least one detail about the College, or the rumored rituals.

I’m too tired tonight to compile a list of questions. Will try to get on it tomorrow morning. We just want short rumors here. No huge backstories or anything. I guess there could even be conflicting stories about the place too.

Maybe instead of the college itself, it's a frat house/sorority

Let the rumours concern the college's (or whatever building it is) basement. Or attic. These are always great for The Vibes! :0

How about an entire dormitory that's been shut down, ostensibly for "remodelling", for over a decade and it having become a spot that students like to break into.

There's always the homage to the OG "Satanic Panic" D&D days and having to explore the warren of service tunnels below the college itself. Extra points for Mazes& Monsters references 😂

I like this.

Off the top of my head as I walk for a coffee:

1. What’s the name of the College?
2. Is it a top-tier Ivy League school or a community college?
3. Where is the college? State. Urban, or Rural.
4. People who typically attend; rich, middle-income, etc etc.
5. What reason does the school give for isolating this section of the grounds?
6. What urban legends do students share about the situation?
7. Was the ritual carried out by staff or students? Which ones in particular?
8. What was the reason for the ritual? A bargain? Drunken fuck up? Knowledge? Curiosity?
9. Who tried to stop the ritual? What happened to them?
10. What type of ritual was it? Summoning? Sacrificial? Binding?
11. What went wrong?
12. Which government agency is rumored to be involved in the cover up?
13. When was the ritual? Decades ago? A few years back?
14. Who is still around from that time? What’s their reputation like?
15. Who took the fall for the whole thing? Was there a scapegoat? Were they innocent?

I’ll try to think of more after I’m juiced up! Take one or two that you like. A short little blurb for an answer. The ritual stuff will largely be rumors, so leave lots of space for a last minute switcheroo.

"WHAT? It was actually the kindly, old school custodian, Mr. Rogers?!"

3. Where is the college? State. Urban, or Rural.
It's an urban college, right in the center of a big city. Filming will suck with all the traffic noises in the background. At least until we get into a basement or something...

5. What reason does the school give for isolating this section of the grounds?
What reason does anyone ever give? Asbestos. Curiously, other parts that were built at the same time don't need to be locked up.

10. What type of ritual was it? Summoning? Sacrificial? Binding?
It was a seance, an attempt to contact the dead. Not quite unlike what we're planning, except that we're not going to sacrifice someone for it. I hope.

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What if this is the same university that Leigh attended and the Professor taught at? For some personal connection.

1. What’s the name of the College?
The Kravis School of Fine Arts
2. Is it a top-tier Ivy League school or a community college?
It's a private school for fine arts, music, and film
4. People who typically attend; rich, middle-income, etc etc.
Rich and middle-income students on scholarships.
7. Was the ritual carried out by staff or students? Which ones in particular?
It was led by one teacher but everyone else were students.

8. What was the reason for the ritual? A bargain? Drunken fuck up? Knowledge? Curiosity?
After the fact, the teacher who led the ritual claimed that it was an art installation. An inspiring demonstration of an occult atmosphere for the students to absorb and then depict in paint, music or on film. As you might imagine the police didn't exactly buy this excuse, and after it came out that there was a big party just the evening before, the whole thing was brushed off as a case of too much to drink. Although, there were some strange drawings and mannequins on the scene...

14. Who is still around from that time? What’s their reputation like?
Apparently, the only staff member who was present for the event and is still working at the college is the night janitor, a rather reclusive person with way too many ways to move around the building without being noticed. The students think they are creepy and the teachers call it eccentric, but very few people ever dare to talk with the janitor at all. There are even rumours that the janitor *is* the undead ghost summoned by the ritual, either possessed or just a zombie. But surely it's nothing to be concerned by?

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I don't mind it being the same college, it'll give my character more reasons to be an ass. XD

My brain isn’t fully functioning after a night of work, but I can’t help but chuckle over it being a possible drunken fuck up. "Do you guys smell that near the pentagram? It smells like…fireball whiskey?"