Role Playing Journals

[Max_Writer]

On June 7, 1917, the British Army pushed into Messines to take it from the Germans. A group of eight men in a British Mark IV tank of the Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps took part in that battle, but saw and dealt with something terrible they had never expected to see: The Colossus of Messines.

On March 30, 2019, I ran a one-shot Call of Cthulhu scenario for NerdCon 2019 at Appalachian State University. "The Colossus of Messines" saw the six players running soldiers who were the crew of a Mark IV tank during the Battle of Messines.

The role-playing journals for the game session can be found here:

https://www.yog-sothoth.com/blogs/entry/...dcon-2019/

Additionally, a playlist of seven videos of the game session and a short highlights video can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...6iY5qnyiSq

Players were:

Sydney Sharpstene as Private Oliver Wells "Lucky" (loader/machinegunner)
Bruce Dodges as Private Leo Saunders (gunner)
Carl Corini as 2nd Lieutenant John Walker (tank commander)
Roy Grafton as Corporal Ethan Middleton "Jinx" (lead driver)
Alexis Torres as Lance Corporal Matthew Carr (gunner)
Alex Wotell as Private Edward Burke (loader/machinegunner)