Graveyards of Arkham | Call of Cthulhu Actual Play | Episode 6

[@davepeller8185]

Battered and scarred, all of them... but still alive! I really hope we can see this same party again next year. "Laboratories of Arkham" perhaps?

[@Adventurine504]

This was so good! Absolutely love Mark Meer as the keeper and all the players and NPCs were wonderful!!! Chaosium, I would happily back another kickstarter campaign for more!!

[@zenaudio108]

A fitting conclusion. Thank you to all involved and everyone who backed this. Will there be another iteration? Sewers of Arkham?

[@Mu91c14n]

I vote for Churches of Arkham.

[@zenaudio108]

@@Mu91c14nI could get behind that!

[@jupiterzombies]

Big Betty Bertha dealt 50dmg in one round to an incomprehensible god-parasite thus, making it flee. which is cool. but it also means that making the avatar of a MYTHOS GOD turn tail took only slightly more time than the one-punch fight against Reggiati at the docks. Betty is *crazy* in a fight!... very cool.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

A happy ending is not very Call of Cthulhu, but it does happen 😂

[@korowheke3182]

This is the first CoC actual play Ive ever been compeled to binge watch - amazingly good work guys!

[@Sir_Howie]

Sad that this is the conclusion to another great production from Chaosium. We need more series like this. Please make more!

[@dmeep]

Chaosium has partnered up with the glass cannon network for their masks of nyalrlothotpoperoepopojdbflksbdf campaign. the show is called time for chaos and you can watch the currently around 29 episiodes on their youtube channel with new episodes comming on fridays. It has more Noura in it, always a good thing

[@Desertpuma]

@@dmeep More Noura is always a good thing. She quickly became a favorite of mine after she started appearing on RealmSmith a couple of years back during the Strahd campaign and also with her appearances on the Glass Cannon podcast

[@deathpunchdingo2981]

LOVE Josephine's increasingly disheveled costume. She is super pro!

[@leesimpson6334]

Agreed

[@gordianusthefinder9862]

Yes! I was about to comment on that myself. I thought that was a fantastic touch ❤💕

[@xerenas1593]

Such amazing visual storytelling!!

[@trueblueedits4673]

That exchange between Theodore and Archibald at the very end was 11/10. It was so human and vulnerable and a perfect example of what Archibald was talking about earlier regarding how the goodness of mankind is real and worth fighting for: Theodore, out of everyone here, is probably the most run-of-the-mill, everyday person, yet she was willing to lay her life down for the greater good and was so kind throughout the whole adventure. Ugh, the series was amazing.

[@benjones1452]

A standing ovation to all the players and the masterful keeper of arcane lore, bravo.

[@paladinwolf]

I have greatly enjoyed this series, Mark Meer has an excellent voice acting that goes with this type of adventure!! Patrick Logan also has that stoic voice that can be very real inside this type of nightmarish stories. Loved Josephine McAdam interpretation, her characters are always charismatic and you want to route for them, remember her in her vampire attire. Noura Ibrahim brings the funny stuff, she clearly enjoys all the roles she takes and appears to push her acting boundaries every single time. Lucia, second time I saw her (previous participation on Books of Arkham) in an excellent role Hoping for more of these short stories

[@pwm5453]

I am 62 and never watched anything like this before. I found it interesting and rewarding. Loved the keeper and cast. Great acting everyone you were believable. I salute you all.

[@wolfclient3323]

I would love a “Betty’s on a rampage” t shirt

[@koros6111]

Time for Chaos on Fridays, Graveyards of Arkham on Sundays.. What a way to scratch an eldritch itch.

[@matthew_thefallen]

Hell yeah 🙌💀

[@ashleyblake4899]

Wonderful ending..amazed the PCs came through with no losses except for their minds of course. Oh well..better cancel that holiday to Arkham, place needs rebuilding I think…

[@ryanahr2267]

Man, so good. Thanks to the Society for alerting me to this and thanks to both the Keeper and players for a gripping campaign :)

[@SoFlyBmOr3]

Thank you Chaosium and thank you Mark Meer and the whole group for being amazing! 🙏🏾

[@leesimpson6334]

Stupendous finale ... It brings me back to my first time playing CoC when i broke, ganied insane insight and took out a creature by stuffing a stick grenade into its maw, losing my arm in the process.

[@Oddlogical]

Excellent! I think I liked this even more than "Bookshops"! Would have loved if you did a "1 month later..." with the 4 of them in a therapy group led by the good doctor. 😃

[@AenVegra]

I mean... The good doctor doesn't have any new phobias, lost... relatively very little Sanity, and had enough Power to just *nope* away most of the mind-based effects thrown at him. He seems like he might need a stay in the hospital, but other than that... he might be able to head right off into the next adventure after a little bit of respite.

[@LukeStowe1979]

Loved this! So sad it's over

[@Telorion]

Fantastic! Count me in for backing the next one 😃

[@tisbor2]

Lots of really great ideas in this campaign! And I love the sighs of relief from the players at the end 🖤

[@andrewfisher1013]

Absolutely fantastic series! Both Bookshops and Graveyards of Arkham characters and casting have been wonderful! The storytelling is colorful and full of detail! I am very hopeful for more and will be backing the next series! ❤

[@gyulaszabo6117]

Thank you all very much! Excellent performance from all participants, as usual. Hoping a new series! (...will rewatch Bookshops, i think...)

[@DannyH7923]

Outstanding performances by the players and a simply incredible job by the Keeper. When can we expect more?

[@dolos4301]

everyone holding hands in the end is just cute.

[@anthonym.austin5346]

Big Betty for the MFing Win! & I can’t get over how Vic went from pristine, serious & put together to disheveled & going bonkers. Loved the transformation. This is now my #1 CoC ttrpg story!

[@JenIsHungry]

This was amazing and I desperately hope y'all are planning another!

[@Driger1792]

Need more Actual Plays from you guys!! I love your roleplaying, presentation, everything!

[@rachek7958]

The cast for this is so good! Please make more! ❤

[@MrAmurray73]

Mark Meer, chef's kiss

[@saraann8140]

Wow - Super amazing episode 🥰 Ty ty all for a stellar story in HP Lovecrafts world 🥰 And ty ty Chaosium for making it all possible 🥰

[@oliviawolcott8351]

I need more, please?!

[@danielgranda896]

Call of Cthulhu lends its itself to theatrical horror. This was a great group and Mark Meer is a fantastic Keeper. Critical Role are voice actors playing dungeons and dragons. If you like this do yourself a favor and listen Dark Adventure Theatre from HPLHS. It is fantastic!

[@bloodyswordsvids4463]

Excellent! I hope Chaosium does a cast reaction episode.

[@JeffandBCProductions]

The cast holding hands at the very end struck me harder than words can describe! I was expecting a much worse outcome! Yay humanity! :)

[@matthew_thefallen]

I will await, silently lurking in the dark depths for the next adventure, if not months, years if not years, aeons. But i will wait, patiently... Amazing job as always! 💀

[@koyore]

I old lady who barely understands D&D. I have enjoyed this greatly!💕. Thank you all! The NPCs are amazing! I just wish the ghoul leader met them after the defeat.

[@oldlaw67]

As an old man who played D&D for many years, I feel exactly the same way!

[@paladinbob1236]

a great tale with great cast, excellent keeper, and a great thank you equally to all in the background that made this, a enjoyable[if scarey] tale ..take a bow all :P

[@ShadowEquinox1982]

A true joy to watch from Mr meer to the players a joy from start to finish, I Hope for season 3 😊😊😊😊

[@sworddragonsliege]

That player death count was surprising. Hehehe, might scare some people looking at the comments before watching. But seriously, I was surprised any of them survived. Thank goodness for Betty.

[@oyajiru]

This series was incredible. The cast really brought it to life!

[@joshwasinger5353]

I admire the craft and dedication that went into this amazing story! Thank you for sharing, I hope to see more.

[@niccolomereghetti4808]

Once again an amazing job, the Keeper and the cast are excellent, also the story is meaningful, complex yet well articulated. Love the oniric sequences and the antropology notes of Abigail Trout 😄

[@akhasshativeritsol1950]

Great series to listen for Halloween! The keeper did a fantastic job. I do wish we had a denouement for the characters though. Hopefully we'll get to see them again!

[@ChipSuey207]

This was top tier all the way through. Everyone was amazing, can't wait for the next installment!

[@PelleStrandberg]

Same comment as ep1: Big Betty MVP

[@LukusOh-ii1xi]

Loved it. Well done all. A behind the scenes or bloopers etc would be lovely. Seems like the team had a lot of fun.

[@manofaction1807]

HARD CORE!!!!!!

[@coreyh02]

amazing production :D

[@k.c.8658]

So good! Thanks.

[@jonathandryon8205]

Once again great session with a good story. Looking forward to seeing more in the future.💖

[@louisecphotographer]

Wow! What a bone chilling scenario, I loved it! Well done to everyone involved. Hoping to see more of these in time.

[@paulseeman6481]

Awesome series, after Bookshops and Graveyards we want, nay we demand more Arkham! Thanks to all for putting this together.

[@mirjamin1]

Would be great to have this released as a podcast as well

[@neshirst-ashuach1881]

An excellent end to a great series! Looking forward to more series in this style in the future.

[@R_FangZ]

Oh my GOD what a ride... Archibald and Betty are the sweetest 🖤 And Theodore's and Vic's progression as they lost more and more of their sanity is just... [chef's kiss] So glad Instagram recommended me a short reel from you guys, otherwise I might have never found this gem

[@Zee-iv9oe]

this blew my mind but thankfully not as literally as for some in this story 😅

[@cecilwinchester9222]

Wow. I think this series taught me how to run horror/grimdark games with hopeful, rewarding spins applied to certain aspects of them. Y'all are great

[@avenovum148]

This was an amazing story

[@endreverland811]

Mark Meer is one of the best things that has ever happened to the internet.

[@nightcatarts]

I swear I thought that axe was a piece of ginger when it first entered the frame. That was momentarily confusing. This series has been fantastic; congrats & well done to all. The ramping up of tension & dread was especially good.

[@pablomuslera9469]

I want more, this was utterly awesome.

[@TheFaulkned]

Great story. Glad big Betty made it after all. Loved the cast. And mad respect to Archibald

[@electra3162]

This was amazing! I binged it in a weekend, well done all! Thank you and more please! ❤️

[@easteuropecollusion468]

Unpopular opinion: this is better than Critical Role.

[@FleshyInterloper]

Not unpopular with me

[@benjamineddings6563]

Agreed.

[@swingin.n]

You are safe with that opinion here 😂

[@m_presents]

Not unpopular

[@RekoneInkings]

Factual

[@T1J]

bro wtf this was so good

[@jupiterzombies]

maybe (after a break for the cast to breathe first) you could film a little 'epilogues' section at the end for the characters that survive/if any. a real quick roll call thing. id much appreciate to see what happens immediately after the big bad is dispatched and what future the players envision for their characters.

[@WhiteHareGames]

Fantastic story all of you. For future consideration - it is always lovely to have each character (who survives) give some sort of summation of their life over the following few months - how/if they try to get back into normal life, or go down the insanity rabbit hole. This was such an abrupt end that it would have been awesome to get a little bit of "life after" as a wrap up.

[@thomassmart4088]

what a tasty treat! thankyou to everyone who made it happen!

[@jacobstringer5170]

Great one yet again, ready for the next series

[@landog606]

Archibald allegedly Scottish? There’s no way he’s humming god save the king

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Hahaha true

[@SascosCorner]

Vic taking Theodore...under their wing? Too Soon?!

[@tomjohnson4922]

so now what do I do? Will there be another series with these four? My first time delving into Call and Chaosium in general but I really enjoyed this.

[@derik99k1]

Excellent and ty. More please

[@c.wolf8231]

I enjoy the voice acting.

[@ClancyNacht]

Sad I missed the premier but excited to watch this!!

[@robbee8079]

absolutely loved this .... sorry I got here so late .... glad I made it

[@Koolcat1800]

Really enjoyed this series and the story! I have ordered the new Arkham sourcebook because of it! Happy to see some alumni of Vampire the Masquerade (Joesephine and Noura) playing CoC :)

[@PotterFreak22]

Well……that’s as good an ending as I’ve seen in these games. More often, everyone dies or goes insane. This was a rare ending for sure but a good one. I’m glad those ladies got to rest after being so horribly taken by others. I feel good about this end. I would like to have an epilogue with each of them to find out how they’re doing, but there is still the Q&A to watch so maybe there. It’s is 4am now, I binged watched all the episodes because I am an impatient chaos gremlin but this was good. Gave my brain something else to focus on for once. Sleeping is going to be a different issue altogether but we’ll see. This was awesome, amazing, wonderful, everyone was amazing from the start (actors, props, writers, makeup, costume, etc) and I look forward to seeing what goes up next. My first thought was “Ghosts of Arkham” since there are so many other stories we haven’t heard about this place. I thank you for the entertainment.

[@AetherflyerGames]

Wow! Great performances and story!

[@hollyweaver7292]

I can’t wait for more!!

[@MM-qm9ld]

Loved this series so much, I'm now a new subscriber. Thrilled to check out the archives and future vids! More mature/adult than other RPG content I see elsewhere. Great storytelling and immersion. 5/5 for me.

[@b_g_c3281]

_Absolutely SUPERB!!!_

[@AncientArk]

So bloody good!!!

[@reylann2965]

Fantastic

[@Orange_Pith]

what a superb series!

[@cullenST92]

this was an excellent series and the cast has great chemistry.

[@RideshareOtter]

Very much enjoyed

[@scrathed]

whoa. I am *blown* by this play, this story. This is ttrpg how I've never seen it, and I am in so many ways fully taken and filled with awe! There's so much inspiration and aspiration to be taken from this fantastic series which I've bingewatched over two days last week, and then eagerly waiting for the release of this grand finale. Thank you so much to everyone involved with this. The authors did a fantastic job at creating an apocalyptic, eerie, disgusting and alltogether equally heartwrenching tale and atmosphere. The players - I love how everyone has thrown themselves into their character, put on display all the emotions and the deterioration only a CoC story can evoke. Well, the keeper - a new great inspiration for my own keeping and game mastering, especially regarding the construction of a tangible atmosphere, changing in the instants of the stories pace. Incredible. And last but not least, the team behind the camera, behind the scenes, who created this beautiful set with all its lovely little details, who created all those amazing props I could only wish to hang framed to my walls (well maybe not the cooked torso, but...), and who did such an outstanding job with light and fog and sound to support everything we experienced together with these fine investigators. Thank you all so much for this. I already know I'll come back to this over and over again in the future.

[@benjamineddings6563]

I'm so excited for this.

[@Cyg_nus]

All got a bit D&D for a sec (6D6 + 1D4 with your magic pickaxe)

[@chemgeektim]

Very well done!

[@princevylrune8963]

Loved it!!

[@DaboooogA]

I have no idea what this is but its pretty cool

[@cipherdust2285]

This one blew the doors off the bookshop!

[@job5861]

Really? :( I was about to go watch the bookshop next. This is the first I've seen.

[@davIDlikesgames3]

So.... Betty Killed a god with a bone pickaxe

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Technically it was banished while injured, but yeah. The magic bone pickaxe.

[@cadaverouspawn]

can't wait for the next campaign

[@doctorxombie]

Personally I would have preferred a little less melodrama from the player characters, but this was awesome! Great job all around. Very entertaining.

[@blackguardunlimeted]

what a series ! congrats to the whole team, simply perfect, I really enjoyed it !

[@anthonyragan2696]

Very, very enjoyable, and congratulations to all involved. I hope we see more, soon. It did, however, leave open the sanity-blasting question of why a woman running a small inn in 1920s eastern Massachusetts is named "Theodore" and dressed like Annie Oakley? Then again, there are some things Man was not meant to know.