u/Tendi_Loving_Care

So my group have made 3 of their 4 characters so far. We're just in the initial wave of character generation and haven't quite polished the characters off, but it's looking like we've got:

A hacker/E-Girl 30 year old who loves to prowl the dark web. She's stalked by an online presence that is untracable... a literally ghost in the web that's feeding her information but has an unhealthy obsession with her.

An occultist researcher who has an interest in the occult. Of course most of his stuff is bogus and nonsensical and the kind of tat you find in most book stores and creepy pasta forums... but then he's been having bad dreams all of a sudden... and then he hears voices as an involuntary medium.

The third is the most difficult to make sense of. A friend wants to play a nun. A nun who was raised in a convent that was really evil. One day they were raided by the ATF, lots of gunfire going off, the nun escaped but her more senior nuns were all slaughtered. Why? We haven't figured it out yet and it's hard to tie them into the others... BUT they do have the ability to lay on hands and the chosen one dark secret.

The Estate seems a good start because they're chasing a fellow influencer, the place is haunted so the medium can find things.

Wondering if anyone's had any experience with this scenario?

I've done Delta Green before, and had some horrific things occur in our games.... a family burned to death, a child was crushed by a falling giant, someone dissolved by an acidic spider. I was wondering though, with Kult, what's some of the most depraved or weird things sprung by a player or DM/GM?

Naturally keeping within the rules of Reddit of course.

Just wondering because I've begun writing a few story ideas and I want to be sure I don't go too far off the deep end.

So I'm brand new to Kult and I'd like to have a go at GM/DMing it. I'm fascinated by the lore that I've read, and I want to try and introduce my friends to some real grimdark horror. My prior experience has been Delta Green and Cthulu, and World/Chronicles of Darkness.

I'm guessing the game is a lot like Jacob's Ladder, Shutter Island, The Matrix, Hellraiser, and Dark City, combined with Silent Hill (especially the UFO/Dog endings), Inception, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (or to a lesser extent The Amazing Digital Circus), and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

Just the weird thing is, I'm not too sure on how to get the ball rolling. I can show dark and sinister, unnatural things to the group. I can do stories of weirdness unfurling, shadowy conspiracies trying to bring them down... nightmares, dreams, insanity, reality shifts...

But how do I avoid it becoming either weird for the sake of weird (shock for the sake of shock), or the other extreme, revealing too much too soon, and spoiling the whole experience of unleashing the dark and demented honesty of the prison?

Secondly I wanted to ask, is Metropolis just a singular city, or is that the name for any urban dwelling on Earth and the concept of us becoming addicted to Earthly modern comforts?

Also does anyone have any other sources of inspiration they enjoy for Kult?

A big thank you in advance.

Hi, sorry to bug you all but I had a couple questions about what it's like in a day to day environment in an RTC?

Mainly I wanted to ask, what happens if you don't want to join in group therapy, or the group activities? I ask because I prefer to just be alone, and frankly, listening to other people talk about their problems would likely only bring me down further.

If an attendee gets violent, does that usually shut down everything for everyone else?

How much alone time do you traditionally get in a 24 hour window?

What happens if I refuse to take part in general, or stay in bed?

What sort of tricks should I watch out for from staff? Is everything said there likely to be turned against me?

Thank you. (EDIT - And to all those who survived it, after reading those answers, a huge Thank You. I was very naïve until I read this post).