What is your preferred conclusion to a CoC scenario?
The common view of Call of Cthulhu games is that they always end with every character either dead or insane. However, in all the years I've been playing and Keeping (Keepering?), I've only actually had a genuine TPK a handful of times, and a number of those have been more like pyrrhic victories than outright failures.
I'm curious what everyone's preferred outcome is for a CoC scenario?
Outright success, with the Investigators victorious and the eldritch threat defeated.
A perceived success, where the Investigators think they have beaten the threat, but the players know they haven't.
Pyrrhic victory, where the Investigators sacrifice their lives or sanity to defeat the threat.
Abject failure, reinforcing the concept that there is no triumph in the face of cosmic horror.
I realise that the answer might well be "depends on the scenario", or "a mix of all four".