Session 5 (adventure 4 + epilogue of my Call of Cthulhu mini-campaign)

Pre-Mission: one of the investigators got a magic item as a reward for their last mission. It was intended to be a magic mask that could impersonate
anybody, but the last mission and epilogue, would require not much social interactions, so it was changed to a little clay statue of a bird. (The investigator
was missing his stolen canary, Tweety, so now he had a living clay bird called Two-ty. I'm not ashamed to say that it took me less than a second to determine
that name when he said the name of his missing pet.)

Adventure "The Case of the Unseen Voice"

With my investigators back at the movie, only one person was missing: Diego, the sound engineer of the movie. A brilliant engineer anno 1929, he had arguments with
everybody on the movie when he started to make changes to the script and he got awfully insulted when others refused to follow his changes, taking all the sound
recordings of the movie with him.
The team went to his house, finding his script with changes and a single page with the word "Alele" and many variant spellings of it. Travelling to the Mojave desert,
they found out that Diego had moved his self-built highly advanced equipment to caves to get less disturbing sound when working on it. Que a map of "The Colossal Cave
" text adventure, spiced up with Rat Things and Ghouls and a couple of dead bodies to keep things interesting. They never figured out Alele's backstory, but it's
basically an evil spirit that (name meaning "Echo") that lures innocents into the caves and leaves them to die there. So a lot of Willpower saves required from our
team whenever they hear a faint sound. They luck out in their exploration, missing all the Ghouls and have only fight with a group of Rat-Things before running
into the make-shift labs. They notice that there are three tapes: one with the sound of the movie, one with a soft changting unknown text (too soft for two of the four
investigators to even hear) and a third tape that also seems to be just the sound of the movie.

Two corridors further, they found Diego, but did not get into combat with him or his spiritual master. They got a bit of a backstory dump here as they questioned him.
Alele was a spirit trying to use an old ritual (the same a few others were also trying) to become a new god, but they were only a disembodied voice, so
they needed a body; a character Diego was trying to write into the movie (the ritual requires basically something non-human appearing to a large group of humans, but
speaking to them with a voice. It only works for once though, so whatever being is first, wins.) Arthur tricked Diego into drinking some drugged wine (drugs and wine stolen from Dr. Hartman's office in the last session by Ray).

The team returned quickly home, not facing either Ghouls or Alele themselves and delivering all tapes and Diego on set. (Which opened the shot for my planned ending
for this mission). The team was rewarded their 10,000 dollars reward and also some free movie tickets. A few days later they visit the movie and they notice
that a certain cartoon mouse speaks and all people in the audience for a short moment belief in his existence. That night a black*&white cartoon sketch of a mouse visits
them in their dream, thanking them for this opportunity to ascend (with a small comment that that damned rabbit nearly got to ascend if he hadn't murdered him).
My players were smart enough to get what they had actually done. But he still needed them to do one thing: stopping the living planet (The New Sun, a result of Akenaten
's ritual thousnds of years ago) that was hurling towards Earth.

Adventure 5 and epilogue "The New Sun"

Originally it was intended that they would get an object at the end of each mission that would assemble together into a weapon that would combine with
Dr. Hubble's telescope to shoot down the living planet, but alas, my investigators were not investigating enough. So plan B: Assassins of the new Sun had tried
to kill the other candidate New Gods ascending or Old Gods trying to revive/boost themselves with the ritual. In Mammon's temple (now reachable via one of the
first Academy Awards, they found a giant body of Mammon, speared with a godslaying weapon. The death causing a financial depressing, but Mammon had more than one
body and his High Priest approached the investigators to use the access to the Soul of the World from his temple.

Inside the Soul of the World, the team meets the Mouse again and he offers them weapons to kill the soul of the New Soul, turning the creature about to crash into
Earth into boring rock again that would obey the laws of physics and just pass the world. The weapons were the weapons of the newly created Buck Rogers (explosive
bullet pistols and rocket-belts) though a few of the team decided to keep their preferred weapons.

The team were very lucky with their damage roles (an average of 17 on a d20), so they went quickly through the New Sun's HP (I thought 100HP should have been enough
but 200 would have been better). Oh well, we got a happy enough ending. The Black Rose as a movie flopped, but our investigators received their pay. The Mouse
quickly grew in power, but the investigators never approached him again. Mammon recovered from his serious injuries, though it cost a lot of people a lot of
money.

So overall: all the investigators were high STR, low INT type of characters, so a lot of planned content was never touched, but I'm happy that we got to the Rise of
the Mouse which was basically the point of the whole campaign. Also by mixing real history with complete nonsense, the players were kept guessing what
was real or not.