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Dok, thanks for the posting, it got me thinking about a horror themed game I could run!

I'm writing one for my group, starting with the party being chased through strangely empty streets (that also shift & change) by "something", and split up during the chase, though both groups arrive at a mansion (one at the front, one at the back). The mansion belongs to a once prominent member of the Harmonium, who long ago retired from public office, since he was publicly embarrassed by his wife eloping with her lover, and taking his children with her. One group will meet said member of the Harmonium - he's going to be played by another friend of ours who normally can't make it to these sessions thanks to his new job.

They'll take refuge in the mansion from the thing pursuing them, and find it haunted. My goal is for them to try and solve its mystery, and put its ghosts to rest. There will be various puzzles, and a lot of the description will be just atmospheric, a couple of encounters (i'm thinking one with stirge swarms, another with a shambling mound, not to mention various ghost encounters - though I'm thinking of just taking the stats of any monster I find interesting and describing it as a ghost).

Eventually, the players will discover that the secret of the mansion is that the haunting is the ghosts of the wife and children - the Harmon(ist?) suspected the wife of infidelity, and grew obsessive about it, eventually grew mad, then murdered the wife & children (believing that they weren't his). He could never bring himself to put them to rest though, but he will latch onto assisting the players; once the deed is done however, he will try to kill them, so that noone knows the truth behind his family's disappearance.

This is all just being written today, so there's plenty of work to be done. I think it will actually be the wife's ghost that pursues them in the streets; her attention will be drawn by an item the one of the players had, as it used to be hers (I'm thinking a present from the husband, which she pawned to try and get travelling money, as his madness grew - though she put off leaving too long). Hoping the players can put her children to rest, she will chase them in order to get them into the mansion. The condition for her being put to rest will be that her two sons find peace.

I've found some plans for actual mansions, and will write the session based around the one I like most.

::EDIT:: The campaign is set in Sigil by the way ^^