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Modern Setting LFP Second week of July (horror/adventure/action)

The HOOK I have spent my life in the singular pursuit of warning humanity of the horrors that exist beyond the scope of most's perceptions. Indeed, I have tried to express the themes of our collective reality, without significantly altering that reality, most of my life. I first became aware that I had the ability to see the changes in our shifting reality, that others seemed to be unaware victims to, in 1897;  Aurora Texas was invaded by a strange alien entity that destroyed the local crops, set fires to the town, and killed many of the residents. It was a world wide panic and the military quarantined the city until the entity returned into the skies months later. Within days after the alien left our planet the papers began recanting their previous stories. The News papers explained away the damage the entity had caused, to Aurora, as being from mundane occurrences and the only mention of the alien was of a UFO citing that had been explained away as a hoax. As the new narrative began to spread throughout the world and the publics perception of what happened in Aurora changed, reality changed with it. Understand me I don’t mean that people simply forgot, but past issues of the newspapers changed; the stories were different. Monuments built in remembrance of what happened in Aurora disappeared from existence. The world, the universe changed. In the last 40 years I have seen this reality shift happen many times. News papers, art work, books, radio and movies all have the ability to change reality if enough people see and believe. I am unsure why I have been able to see these changes and others don't; I suspect I will never know. My father has been in a psychiatric institution since I was three and I suspect he is cursed with the same extrasensory perception that has befallen me and is what eventually broke his mind. I in fact have begun the same dissension into madness, which is why I have left my beloved Sonia and returned to Providence to begin writing my secret memoir before I am unable to document my life’s work. A memoir that must be hidden from all but hopefully a scattering of exceptional individuals, or reality could cease to exist. The burden I have endured is to protect reality and instill a warning in our culture all without changing reality. As I now know that collectively humanity can access enough of our souls power to change reality. The information I share in this cipher could literally destroy heaven, hell, earth and more if it was able to become public consumption. I have spent most of my 45 years researching, exploring and dealing with evils that would eventually lead me to revealing the creation of the universe. With deepest regret I share these burdens with you as I know they will most assuredly be the death of you if you’re lucky or the death of your sanity if you are not. Protecting humanity from the consciousnesses of the universe, however, requires the sacrifice of individuals such as us. I do not know if there was a beginning. All my research has revealed to me is that our universe is unique and not always existed as it has now. Our universe is an abomination, a tortured existence for a treason long passed. Before our universe was as it is now it existed as pure consciousness interacting with other peers of pure consciousness. Our universe, Azathoth, revolted against these other beings. Azathoth created many generals ordering them to birth their own warriors to lead against the other conscious universes. Four of these generals are commonly known today as the Four Horsemen; Death, Famine, War and Victory. These generals created their own warriors; now known to some as Alphas. Death created the reapers as his warriors, War created the Leviathans, Famine created beings that represented aspects of consciousness (many of which are referred to as gods in humanities various mythos), and Victory created angels. Azathoth and his army failed in their revolt against the other outer gods (conscious universes).  As punishment the Outer Gods fractured Azathoth from a singularity; his fractured consciousness became matter and his screams the energy of our Universe. Without Azathoth’s Guidance his creations did what they were created for, they warred. The Old Ones (Generals) and the Elders (the generals’ warriors) battled over controlling pieces of Azathoth’s fractured existence to their own ends. The Generals use these fractures of Azathoth to grow their armies. The Four Horsemen alone remained loyal to Azathoth and joined forces. They fought the other Old One’s armies with the intention of protecting Azathoth so he could be reassembled. These wars continued since the beginning of time in our Universe until the horseman Victory discovered a creation that would change everything. Victory created beings that possessed unlimited power; a creation that could not only store a great deal of Azathoth’s consciousness, but the only creation found that could replicate the fractions of his existence. This creation is what we call the human soul. Victory placed the creation in a vessel (the human body) that cut the souls off from its own power and thus humanity was born. The Four Horseman now had a renewable power source, but the newly created treasure would cause conflict between the Horsemen. The Horseman, War, wanted to use humanity to make his Leviathans’ an unstopped fighting force. Victory, however wanted to use humanities power to reassemble Azathoth. As to War’s nature he took what he wanted by flooding the humans habitat (the great flood) and having his Leviathans devourer them. Victory retaliated against War, he sacrificed most of the remaining souls to banish the Leviathans to Purgatory; the prison the horsemen created to hold the Old Ones and their warriors. Victory and War then battled each other until eventually they both became weaken and imprisoned each other on earth . Cthulhu (War) became imprisoned in the Baltic Sea and Victory (Yahweh) under Mount Sinai. Over the next many millennia humanity grew as the horseman Famine battled other old ones deep in space. Famine left some of his Elders to watch over humanity as he continued with the cause of protecting Azathoth. These elder watchers are what became know today as the gods of Greece, Rome, Norse, Egypt, India ect.  Cloaked under the name Yahweh the horseman Victory used a man named Moses to help him escape from under Mount Sinai. Yahweh ordered Moses to gain followers and worship him as a god. As more and more people began to worship Yahweh the power of their souls began to shift reality. Yahweh granted Moses power over death and plague, which Moses used to free worshipers for Yahweh. With the new followers and their sacrifices eventually reality changed enough that Yahweh grew in strength and escaped his prison under Mount Sinai. After being freed Yahweh began stockpiling Souls and created a new dimension called heaven that would contain the Souls while channeling their power. The Arch-Angel Lucifer deduced that Yahweh intended to destroy all of the universe with the souls he was collecting. Lucifer lead a revolt against Yahweh to release the souls from heaven, but failed. Yahweh created the dimension Hell to imprison Lucifer and his fallen angels and banished them within. Although trapped and driven crazy Lucifer has been able to continue to collect souls and resist Yahweh's plan to reform Azathoth. With his new found power Yahweh granted Moses immortality and bestowed on him domain over pestilence. Yahweh continuing to grow in power beyond that of all other Old Ones ascends beyond his title of the horseman Victory and grants Moses (Pestilence) his empty spot as the fourth horseman, now called Pestilence. As Yahweh pushed his followers to grow their ranks and encouraged them into  monotheism it becomes harder for Death to reap souls to power Famine’s war against the other Old Ones. Famine confronts Yahweh and the horsemen come to an agreement about how to split the souls. Yahweh takes the souls who worship him, Pestilence takes the souls that worship Allah, Famine takes the souls that worship the gods of Hinduism, and death takes a percentage of the souls he collects upon the vessels destruction.  Yahweh decided to take a personal role in growing his collection of souls by placing a portion of his consciousness into a human vassal. As Jesus he was successful in motivating his followers to grow his worshipers, but before Yahweh was able to use his acquired souls to reform Azathoth he became a victim of his worshipers’ adoration. Christianity had grown so predominant that the collective will altered reality turning Yahweh from the God of the Old Testament to the more ethereal (yet physical) Christian God. Yahweh's vassal limited his ability to channel the souls in heaven and was unable to wield the power necessary to reconstruct Azathoth. Today, however, as Christianity weakens so does Yahweh’s banishment from his true form. With the rise of secularism and science the human soul has begun to ease Azathoth’s existence. We explore the universe and thus begin to explore Azathoth’s existence, which will ultimately strengthen Azathoth enough to reform and thereby destroy our universe as we know it. This knowledge I can only burden a few with or risk changing the delicate balance of humanities existence. There are beings so powerful that they could destroy humanity with little more then a thought and the only reason we prevail is to be used as tools and consumed for power. The Universe is reforming as it collapses upon itself, Gods battle to be the first to either control the universes’ power or fight to hasten its renewed destruction, and there are Gods and powerful beings that fight to free themselves from captivity in order to take vengeance upon humanity. Unfortunately this only begins to lift the veil covering reality, there are limitless horrors that exist; I have hidden other ciphers such as this and my published works reveal some truths to aid others. Hopefully, it is enough to assist you in battling the tides of chaos. Sincerely, Howard Phillips Lovecraft
I've been wanting to run this campaign and the above is actually the reveal of the first 13 story lines I have written (the game would be like a flash back from this reveal).  It would be a game about normal humans who have been trained to hunt monsters much more powerful then the PC's with ingenuity and big freaking GUNS.  loosely based off the Super Natural TV series, Call if Cathulu, White Wolf and Actual True Events. We would be using the cortex system (it's an easy system to learn). It would have to be a week day/night starting the second week of July. Let me know if this is something that would interest you.
sound like a very interesting idea :D
Id love to play