(Outer) Iron Gods? (also, Spoilers for Fires of Creation)

[DrMartin]

I have been thinking of sprinkling this Adventure Path with elements from the Mythos - some elements like misterious things coming from other space and the bands of crazy cultist that venerate them overlap quite well I think. For instance:

- Unity, Hellion and the other Iron Gods are either possessed or uplifted vessels for some kind of Terrible and Malevolent Horror From Outer Space, rather than self-awakened AIs a-là Skynet

- The Kasatha in the habitat module lived on as eternal cultist of some kind of eldritch horror from outer space that has been somehow bound to the habitat module itself

- Meyanda and her troupe caused (maybe intentionally) this creature to escape when they started exploring the mountain

- some companions of Meyanda are at the moment in the town of Torch, doing rituals to keep said creature in check - I would use this as the "kick off" for the campaign, running a scenario like Carrion Hill (scaled down for 1st level characters) in which the characters have to hunt down the cultist of the Iron Gods hiding in Torch and ending up fighting a (weakened) horror from outer space, as an appetizer before Fires of Creation.

- The transfer of power to Scrapwall causes strange dreams and unexplicable bursts of disturbing artwork rather than headaches.

Could it make sense? or am I heading into genres overload territory, by mixing too many things? Is anybody else thinking about this crossover or am I the only one hearing the voices? :)
Also I haven't read the next episodes of the AP yet, am I writing myself into a corner?

Also I'd greatly appreciate suggestions on how to make it work, or comments on more things to change and tweak, or maybe even what kind of creatures from CoC could fit the setting and the story - haven't played Chtulhu in many many years and my memory is a bit rusty.

Thanks!

[Gratz]

Overall, I think your ideas can all work very well, but it's hard to judge at the moment, as we don't know what the endgame of Iron Gods is exactly. We have some idea what Unity is about, but as long as we don't have the last book, it's hard to tell.

[Misroi]

Well...:

Book 4 is the most Mythos heavy yet, with a faction of mi-go, their gug servants, and a colour out of space all in one area. For bonus points, their leader is a priest of Shub-Niggurath, and you fight against monsters that are essentially dark young. It's sort of ironic, given the nature of the opposition in that book, but that part needs no modification!

[DrMartin]

Thanks for the feedback! especially the heads up on book four, that's actually really good to hear! I was afraid I'd be heading in Chtulutech territory, glad to read that the designers are also in for some sprinkling of Mythos :D Had the first session, putting together a story inspired from a couple of Pett's modules and some older CoC adventures, and is turning out to work quite well...still trying to figure out when to spring the main plot of the AP, the characters are busy investigating Torch's gritty underbelly at the moment :)