Freakiness in town

[Helaman]

Kudos on some excellent creepy stuff to have as events in town - some of it is top notch.

Was wondering if there was other stuff they thought of or have implemented as general freakiness...

[Dark_Mistress]

Well not completely sure what you are asking. But the Game Mastery Guide introduced Haunts, which is what is in much of the first CC AP.

[Helaman]

Dark_Mistress wrote:

Well not completely sure what you are asking. But the Game Mastery Guide introduced Haunts, which is what is in much of the first CC AP.

More referring to the events that happen in the town itself... I suppose I can move new haunts migrating from Harrowstone but I was thinking a mysterous gathering of rats for instance... all fleeing Harrowstone and the town itself, Children all through the town spontaneously screaming/crying at the same time that sort of thing.

There is a good section on events for the GM to have spill over into Harrowstone.

[Brodyz]

One night when they were all in town all of the steetlamps went out at the same time...the players were on edge waiting for something to happen until the lamplighter began relighting them. I had them roll initiative when everything went dark.
Another trick is to have someone close to a dark alley roll a perception check and not notice anything.

[Einherjar101]

I got this from somewhere else and applied it to this setting.

Let there be an old abandoned little house on the outskirts of the town, which has been abandoned since its last owner, one of the prison guards, died in the fire. Anyone who has tried to live in the house since then was driven out by horrid nightmares and a terrible sense of unease. The house now stands there decaying and crumbling with parts of it collapsed.

Give the PC's some reason to investigate the house, maybe the guard left a journal or something. Anyway the PCs enter the old bedroom in a great state of decay. The roof has collapsed and the beams from the ceiling have fallen in and punched through the floor in one place.

A faint scratching sound can be heard from below. Anyone adventurous enough to peer down into the gloom can see something small and pale moving near where the beam ends. With additional light, a human corpse lies at the bottom crushed firmly beneath the beam with much of the rest of the body coved with other debris. All you can see is the head, shoulder and one arm. The arm slowly reaches out and claws at the ground as if trying to drag itself free. the fingers are worn nearly to the palm with only polished stubs of bone protruding. It claws outwards again and you notice that that there are five deep grooves in the wooden floor where this creature has been trying to escape its sad fate.

I had it so that the guard had been an abusive husband who had beaten his wife to death in a fit of rage and placed the body under the floor boards the day before he died.
Now with the dead now rising in the wake of the evil released from Harrowstone, so has the corpse under the floor, filled only with anger and a lust for vengeance. However it finds itself trapped under the the collapsed beam. I used this as a haunt in the town for the PC's to lay her spirit to rest.