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It has a sequel in ''WebVideo/GraveyardsOfArkham.''
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* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Lucas is killed by the PCs to make the others gods.]]

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* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Lucas is killed by the PCs [=PCs=] to make the others gods.]]
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* Hazel Berkovitch played Saige Ryan: A parapsychologist and aunt of Neil Black. She is arrogant and confrontational but also witty.
* Neil Black played by Carlos Luna: A diminutive fan of weird fiction. While a grown man, he looks like a thirteen year old boy.
* Judith Van Horne played by Lucia Versprille: A medium and vegetarian occultist. She is either incredibly tuned in to the supernatural or stark raving mad.
* Mickey Sykes by Patrick Logan: A mob enforcer who has encountered the supernatural and seeks to protect the world from it.

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* Hazel Berkovitch Berkovitch, played by Saige Ryan: A parapsychologist and aunt of Neil Black. She is arrogant and confrontational but also witty.
* Neil Black Black, played by Carlos Luna: A diminutive fan of weird fiction. While a grown man, he looks like a thirteen year old boy.
* Judith Van Horne Horne, played by Lucia Versprille: A medium and vegetarian occultist. She is either incredibly tuned in to the supernatural or stark raving mad.
* Mickey Sykes Sykes, played by Patrick Logan: A mob enforcer who has encountered the supernatural and seeks to protect the world from it.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: What the Salem Bequest can do. [[spoiler: It makes you part of Yog-Sothoth, however.]]
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* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Lucas is killed by the PCs to make the others gods.]]


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* TheReveal: The monster from Episode One is a Dimensional Shambler.
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* 11thHourSuperpower: The four protagonists are infused with the power of Yog-Sothoth that they use to slay the Dimensional Shambler. However, it is the end of the campaign..

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* 11thHourSuperpower: EleventhHourSuperpower: The four protagonists are infused with the power of Yog-Sothoth that they use to slay the Dimensional Shambler. However, it is the end of the campaign..
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* 11thHourSuperpower: The four protagonists are infused with the power of Yog-Sothoth that they use to slay the Dimensional Shambler. However, it is the end of the campaign..
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Lucas Chambers planned this but ends up the sacrifice instead.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Lucas Chambers is revealed to be the BigBad and behind the Dimensional Shambler.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: After being empowered with the power of the gods, Mickey and Judith stay to fight the supernatural. Hazel and Neil ascend to become part of Yog-Sothoth, though. They manage to kill the Dimensional Shambler, though, and prevent the end of the world.]]
* BreakingTheFellowship: Hazel and Neil [[spoiler: become part of Yog-Sothoth]] while Mickey and Judith [[spoiler: stay on Earth to fight evil.]]
* CameBackWrong: Neil has 10 points of SAN removed by his resurrection as well as learned the secrets of Hastur's sorcery. He also has a phobia of the color yellow as well as hooks or pointed objects.
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler: Hazel and Neil choose to become part of Yog-Sothoth and are just another part of his infinite persona.]]
* GrandFinale: The campaign ends decisively with a confrontation with [[spoiler: Yog-Sothoth]]
* ImAHumanitarian: The player characters all, reluctantly, agree to take part in the BlackMagic ritual to drink of the blood of [[spoiler: Lucas Chambers.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Yog-Sothoth is the being that is behind the gods and ancient Sumeria and the threat to the Earth.
* PhysicalGod: The player characters are turned into this by the ritual.
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Hazel shows this to Neil, willing to leave behind Elizabeth to be with him forever.]]
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[[https://youtu.be/9BAC43WI_og?list=PLJNnec52PzjOlCr7gVTu4ym6SlEQIadJx It is available here on Youtube's Chaosium channel]].

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[[https://youtu.be/9BAC43WI_og?list=PLJNnec52PzjOlCr7gVTu4ym6SlEQIadJx [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJNnec52PzjOlCr7gVTu4ym6SlEQIadJx It is available here on Youtube's Chaosium channel]].

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* ApocalypseHow: What the ''Salem Bequest'' will do if they are brought together.

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* ApocalypseHow: What the ''Salem Bequest'' will do if they are brought together. [[spoiler: It is implied the books are the key to summoning Yog-Sothoth into the physical world, which will end reality as we know it.]]



* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: The third book in the ''Salem Bequest'' can apparently resurrect someone with BloodMagic but there are more moral ways to do it that will have lesser and lesser results. The player characters, being GenreSavvy go for a HumanSacrifice instead.]]



* EldritchAbomination: The player characters don't know what the massive blood monster is or what its relationship to the ''Salem Bequest'' is.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: What will happen if the ''Salem Bequest'' falls into the wrong hands. Well, wronger hands than it already has.



* KickTheDog: The player characters [[spoiler: kill Lottie Potts to resurrect Neil.]]


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* ShootTheDog: The player characters [[spoiler: kill Lottie Potts, a complete innocent, to resurrect Neil.]]


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* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: The discovery the ''Salem Bequest'' must be either buried away or destroyed lest the world end.]]

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* BackFromTheDead: Angus Jackson in the most horrifying way possible.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The player characters successfully destroy their second monster by destroying Tristan Gottard.

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Angus Jackson in the most horrifying way possible.
** [[spoiler: Neil using a HumanSacrifice.]]
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The player characters successfully destroy their second monster by destroying Tristan Gottard.Gottard.
** Mickey destroys the mysterious BloodMagic monster by stabbing it with the knife they recovered from the tree in Episode Two.
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* {{Antihero}}: Mickey Sykes is one of these, being a mob enforcer. As of Episode Three, [[spoiler: Hazel and Judith have joined him in murdering an innocent woman to resurrect Neil.]]


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* KickTheDog: The player characters [[spoiler: kill Lottie Potts to resurrect Neil.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: What the ''Salem Bequest'' will do if they are brought together.


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* WhamLine: "The Key and the Gate." [[note]]This is a reference to Yog-Sothoth, one of the BigBad gods of the Cthulhu Mythos. It means this is not a local problem but could end the world.[[/note]]
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[[folder: Episode Three]]
* BackFromTheDead: Angus Jackson in the most horrifying way possible.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The player characters successfully destroy their second monster by destroying Tristan Gottard.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Angus Jackson's severed head is brought back to life with necromancy and mad scientist.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Hazel attempts this on the church librarian and misses her, resulting in Mickey punching the librarian in the face.
* MadScientist: Tristam Gottard was resurrected by the third book of the Salem Bequest and is now conducting necromantic experiments.
* MadScientistLaboratory: A fusion of science and sorcery has been set up in the church's center.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Tristam Gottard is a MadScientist articulate revenant who needs to be shot a massive amount of time to put him down.
* ShoutOut: The episode is one extended one to ''Literature/HerbertWestReanimator.''
* WouldHitAGirl: Mickey punches out the church librarian in an attempt to calm her down. Everyone else thinks he's gone way too far after inflicting four damage.
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* AlienSky: Carcosa has two suns among other elements that mark it as an alien world.
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The premise is a group of bibliophile Investigators attend a book auction in a Unitarian church in Arkham, Massachusetts where the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Salem Bequest]] is up for auction. After introductions are made, the player characters find themselves subjected to a horrifying speech by a visiting guest lecturer that ends in his murder by an EldritchAbomination.

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The premise is a group of bibliophile Investigators attend a book auction in a Unitarian church in Arkham, Massachusetts where the [[TomeOfEldritchLore ''[[TomeOfEldritchLore Salem Bequest]] Bequest]]'' is up for auction. After introductions are made, the player characters find themselves subjected to a horrifying speech by a visiting guest lecturer that ends in his murder by an EldritchAbomination.
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The premise is a group of bibliophile Investigators attend a book auction in a Unitarian church in Arkham, Massachusetts where the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Salem Bequest]] is up for auction. After introductions are made, the player characters find themselves subjected to a horrifying speech by a visiting guest lecturer that ends in his murder by an EldrtichAbomination.

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The premise is a group of bibliophile Investigators attend a book auction in a Unitarian church in Arkham, Massachusetts where the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Salem Bequest]] is up for auction. After introductions are made, the player characters find themselves subjected to a horrifying speech by a visiting guest lecturer that ends in his murder by an EldrtichAbomination.
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The premise is a group of bibliophile Investigators attend a book auction in a Unitarian church in Arkham, Massachusetts where the Salem Bequest is up for auction. After introductions are made, the

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The premise is a group of bibliophile Investigators attend a book auction in a Unitarian church in Arkham, Massachusetts where the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Salem Bequest Bequest]] is up for auction. After introductions are made, the
the player characters find themselves subjected to a horrifying speech by a visiting guest lecturer that ends in his murder by an EldrtichAbomination.

Now it's up to them to find the books that are now out in the wild, wrecking havoc.


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* ArtifactOfDoom: The Salem Bequest is not like normal books in the ''Call of Cthulhu'' series where the revelation inside the most dangerous thing about them. Instead, they are full-on RealityWarper artifacts.
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* LooksLikeCesare: Hazel is a rare female example of this and is part of her PerkyGoth theme.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Hazel definitely has this look going for her.
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* AlienLandscapes: The player characters are transported to Carcosa by the Lullabies of Carcosa.

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* AlienLandscapes: AlienLandmass: The player characters are transported to Carcosa by the Lullabies of Carcosa.
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* AlienLandscape: The player characters are transported to Carcosa by the Lullabies of Carcosa.

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* AlienLandscape: AlienLandscapes: The player characters are transported to Carcosa by the Lullabies of Carcosa.

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* AlienLandscape: The player characters are transported to Carcosa by the Lullabies of Carcosa.



* BabaYaga: The old woman is very clearly based on this archetype.



* FracturedFairyTale: The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Bean Stalk, and Snow White are all there.
* TheHeroDies: Neil gives his life to protect the others against TheHecateSisters

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* FracturedFairyTale: {{Grimmification}}: The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks, Jack and the Bean Stalk, and Snow White are all there.
there. All of them are trying to kill our heroes.
* TheHecateSisters: The Marthas have become a little girl, mother, and crone that work together in the realm of Carcosa.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Neil gives his life to protect the others against TheHecateSistersTheHecateSisters.]]



* MysteriousWaif: Martha Monarch was reduced to catatonia due to the deals she made in the deal. She's now become part of the trio of crones.

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* MysteriousWaif: Martha Monarch was reduced to catatonia due to the deals she made in the deal. pocket dimension. She's now become part of the trio of crones.TheHecateSisters.
* WickedWitch: The old woman is very clearly based on this archetype. She is a powerful sorceress living in a hut.
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* AudioAdaptation: Due to technical issues resulting in the episode being lost, they narrate the events for the audience.
* BearsAreBadNews: A group of three skinless bears attack the heroes before they barely manage to escape.
* BabaYaga: The old woman is very clearly based on this archetype.
* CoolOldLady: Penelope Monarch seems to be this before it's proven to be a lie and she's a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* BuryYourGays: Elizabeth and Hazel are a lesbian couple in the 1920s when one of them is driven insane by forces unknown. Tragically, Hazel gives up her memory of Elizabeth to the witch in order to gain her aid.
* DealWithTheDevil: The old witch agrees to help them in exchange for ears, eyes, a tongue, or teeth. The [=PCs=] refuse and instead trade stories, which proves to be even worse.
* EvilIsNotAToy: The player characters find out that dealing with the supernatural cannot be done safely, even in controlled conditions.
* FracturedFairyTale: The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Bean Stalk, and Snow White are all there.
* TheHeroDies: Neil gives his life to protect the others against TheHecateSisters
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Every story the player characters tell has the subject removed from their minds.
* MysteriousWaif: Martha Monarch was reduced to catatonia due to the deals she made in the deal. She's now become part of the trio of crones.
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** ''A Modern Woman's Guide to Mythology'' contains a large amount of Sumerian Mythos secrets despite its quirky author.
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* EldritchAbomination: The unnamed monster that kills Lucas Chambers and Angus Johnson.

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* EldritchAbomination: The unnamed monster that kills Lucas Chambers and Angus Johnson. It is a HumanoidAbomination that smells foul and moves like a spider.

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* EldritchAbomination: The unnamed monster that kills Lucas Chambers and Angus Johnson.



** Angus Jackson arrives disshelved and confused before delivering a mad incoherent rant to the book auction.

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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Neil manages to do this by breaking the spell that kept them trapped inside the forest of books.


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* EldritchAbomination: The Book Forest Tree is something that rests at the center of the evil pocket dimension they found themselves in. It is a living thing that holds a large number of impaled prisoners in its branches.


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* SanitySlippage: Hazel suffers a breakdown in the face of the two-dimensional monsters and living tree.
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* EldritchLocation: The book store slowly shifts into one of these, becoming a living forest of books and mossy growths.

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