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A Lonely Thread (from No Time to Scream)

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 So -  its been a while since I had a go at blogging - teaching during cuts, Covid, having a young son.... all meant I was never to have time.  Will have another go here. I am currently finally successfully running a 5e Ptolus campaign  - woot - more on that another time.  However, 2 of the players fell ill on the day of play (online via Roll20) so - what to do?  I quickly did some searching online for a one shot Call of Cthulhu scenario  - and found the new shiny No Time to Scream collection from Chaosium.  I already had an Arkham Country sandbox mini-campaign going with pre-existing PCs on Roll20 (no need to create new PCs on Roll20 which is a bore).  I quickly bought and downloaded the pdf from Chaosium, and scanned it, fixing on to A Lonely Thread.  It was ideal - looked great fun, some roleplaying, investigation and a bit of combat. All wrapped up within 2 hours. Nice - so I printed it off and got reading, highlighting, and then u...