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--A map of the state forest containing the Overlook Mountain House ruins. There is even a lake nearby, although probably not quite close
enough for Belial's purposes.
The Big Finale
pg235 - "Y'golonac will, unless delayed, get to Hubert before he can summon Glaaki."
Q: So what happens if Hubert *does* somehow manage summon Glaaki in time?
A1: The summoning takes so long that the odds against it are vanishingly slim. If he somehow does slow Y'golonac down for a few hours Y'golonac would back off and wait for Glaaki to go dormant again. Or else trick the Delta Green agents into heroically abducting Hubert a safe distance from the lake, right under Glaaki's nose like the bad-ass SWAT ninjas they all want to be, then follow, find, and go crazy. Y'golonac may have some mommy issues, but he's smarter than the agents and Alphonse.
A2: It takes so long to perform the ritual to Call Glaaki. But if there is a GOO fight at the lake I would highly suggest that the PCs get the hell out of the way. Such a fight is likely going to involve both GOOs summoning a heap of fuggly servitors types to attack each other. Dark Young, Hunting Horrors, Servitors of the Outer Gods, Byakhee, Night Gaunts, Fire Vampires, Dimensional Shamblers, Shantaks... that sort of thing. Check the Summon Bind Spells and figure out which ones take the least amount of time to whip up.
In such a fight, Y'Golonac is going to use summoned creatures to attack Glaaki's Servants. Glaaki, for whatever reason, seems to want to create more and more of them, and so will want to protect them. This will keep the summoned creatures busy and out of Y'Golonac's hair while he is stealing the book. Glaaki's summoned creatures will be busy protecting the Servants. That could be as simple as something with wings snatching a servant up in its claws and flying out of the war zone.
If it's going to take to long to summon creatures, Y'golonac's avatar isn't going to hang around and go toe to to with Glaaki. Y'Golonac wants the book. That's it. He'll steal it and run for it. Or steal it and make sure his 'assassin' gets it. Y'Golonac's avatar is simply more fragile than the GOO Glaaki. His avatar will get pulled apart like so much wet toilet paper... unless you (as the Keeper) would like Stephen Alzis, if you are playing him as an aspect of Nyarlathotep, to step in and save him because he has plans to make poor Ramierez his newest slave?
Music in Club Apocalypse
The band Bal-Sagoth sounds like a close matchup for Merriweather's brand of music, so if you set a game in Club Apocalypse, it might not hurt to get some of their music to play as background.
When Todd Shearer was illustrating "Eyes Only" here is what he was picturing in his head. Club Apocalypse was being written in the late 80's and early 90's so the music would probably reflect that time period somewhat, while also having to cater to the current crop of post Gen X gamers too. It would also need to be suitably dark and forbidding to suit the Lovecraftian themes and somewhat mesmeric in nature.Todd was imagining (and listening to) a collection of music ranging from Bauhaus (Bela Lugosi's Dead in particular), Nine Inch Nails (pretty Hate Machine), Corvus Corax (a funky German medieval metal band, the song "In Taberna" in particular) along with some Cowboy Junkies, Mazzy Star and Blue Oyster Cult (ETI, Extraterrestrial Intelligence in particular).
While Todd pictured Alzis as sort of a "young beatnik Hugh Hefner from Hell" he also suspect Alzis would see the potential use of all that psychic energy generated by a club full of hypnotized trance dancers. Oh and as a silly art sidenote, the pics of both Charnel Dreams, the house band, and Emmanuel Hutchins feature them wearing t-shirts for Charnel Dreams' upcoming CD "Carcosa Drowning".
Here are some thoughts on Club Apocalypse acts (and Conqueror Worm Music) from a hardcore music snob, professional radio dj currently between station gigs and former Music Row sound & light guy Pope Jonny X. The whole metal band thing never appealed to Pope X. He always pictured the following types of acts at Club Apocalypse - google the ones you aren't familiar with. Most have some NYC connection:
* industrial/experimental/noise *
Einsturzende Neubauten
Coil
Dead Can Dance
Nurse with Wound
Current 93
Merzbow
The Residents
Jim O'Rourke (now part of Sonic Youth)
KK Null
Arcane Device (a Bleeker St. local, started in the late-1980s) - - also see Pulsewidth
Z'ev
Psychic TV (ToPY might make a good cult)
Glenn Branca
Lydia Lunch
Boyd Rice
Painkiller
The Haters * avant-garde *
Laurie Anderson
John Cage
Philip Glass
Bill Laswell
Meredith Monk
Steve Reich
John Zorn/Naked City * rock *
Lou Reed (probably a regular with his own table reserved 24/7) - - try "Metal Machine Music" if you want your players to experience massive SAN losses, not just their PCs - - dunno if the Velvet Underground would have played CA, due to Hubert and Warhol's rivalry
Sonic Youth
The New York Dolls
Patti Smith
The Talking Heads
Blondie
The Strokes
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - - especially "Murder Ballads"
Tom Waits
David Bowie * punk *
The Cramps
The Misfits (Glen Danzig era)
The Ramones
Richard Hell
Iggy Pop * ska? *
The Toasters
The Slackers * rockabilly/psychobilly *
The Rev. Horton Heat
Jesus Christ Superfly * performance art *
The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow
Mumenschanz
Survival Research Labs (smaller installations and performances) * jazz *
John Coltrane & Miles Davis at their most experimental
The Lounge Lizards
Sun Ra
Carla Bley * blues *
John Lee Hooker or Howlin' Wolf at their darkest
anyone who can channel Robert Johnson Stevie Ray Vaughn, just before his death * a steady stream of club djs, both local and visiting *
The main dance floor & public areas of CA would host the dancier/clubish
acts, or bizarre spectacles, like:
Neubauten on tour;
a hot new club dj from the UK;
The Haters with a wall of Marshall amps cranked to "11," all feeding back as they grind down live microphones on lathe.
The Residents in all of their eyeball-headed and tuxedoed glory.
...while the private/invite-only areas might feature (for example):
John Zorn or Sonic Youth experimenting with new material;
one-shot collaborations (ie - Bjork and Bowie are in town & wind up doing an impromptu set of Velvet Underground covers with Lou Reed);
performance art pieces and exhibitions (ie - BME sponsored piercing,branding and scarification rituals, flesh hook suspensions, etc; an SRL performance featuring animal skins and cadavers animated by mechanical endoskeletons; David Myers, aka Arcane Device/Pulsewidth, and his feedback machines).
I wonder, does Belial have a collection of Ye Essential Saltes from famous dead musicians? Might make for some very interesting and *very* exclusive performances.
Conqueror Worm Music - I always saw this as a prestige label, one that released expensive and extremely limited edition recordings, items that are as much artifact as album or cd (or book). See this label for inspiration:
CWM might, for instance, release a cd of the above-mentioned Bjork/Bowie/Reed jam for $50, limited to 200 copies and only available via their website. 50 copies of a deluxe two-cd autographed and boxed edition of the entire unedited set, from start to finish, would only be available to subscribers who pay ~$500/yr for membership. And there's a waiting list for membership applicants.
PS - Of course, if you *want* a metal act to model Charnel Dreams on, try the band Carcass; their "Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious" cd focuses on "economical ways to dispose of dead bodies," including using adavers as pet food, fertilizer, musical instruments, etc.
Club Apocalypse might also having things like this stashed away in various places, just waiting for some visiting musician to freak out and beg to record an album on it: "Murzin named his invention in honour of the composer Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (ANS). Scriabin (1872 - 1915) was an occultist, Theosophist and early exponent of colour-sound theories in composition; hence the tribute."
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