Although I'm mostly basing the D&D campaign that I'm running off of my old Cult of Undeath outline, it's sufficiently different in system and tone that I don't really want to call it the same thing, and I reserve the right to make changes—possibly even radical ones—on the fly. So, I came up with another name for it. I might yet change it, but I dunno. Maybe not.
I feel like the title itself is kind of a spoiler. But we'll see; and maybe it's not. I also feel like maybe it's too dramatic. But; it is also quite descriptive of Otto von Szell's actual goal of awakening Gol-Goroth, a Lovecraftian being of madness sequestered in the swamp, which serves as a slightly less dramatic setting than the bottom of the ocean. But otherwise, there's a lot that's deliberately echoing several Lovecraft stories in Eltdown; the Snake Cultists of Heqet and the raising of Gol-Goroth from where he lies slumbering deep in the swamp where mortals cannot go.
I can't help it. I just can't run 5e, or any other heroic fantasy system without dragging it through at least a superficial horror wringer. Sure, sure, the system won't really back me up on this one, but it's the best I can do.
