The fact that their nom de guerre is a morbid one is a treasured perk. The job of the Order is to Reify, Engage and Protect. Incidentally the OLM have adopted the nickname of ‘REAPers’ from the motto that accompanies their sigil. I can’t say too much about this, other than we’ll be making the scenarios available to download, as Robert has some ambitions to bring the REAPers into the graphic novel medium. It’s gone from reasonably exciting but fairly predictable investigate-eliminate engagements to equally exciting, completely unpredictable, darker, more mature, often surreal and deeply disturbing affairs. Thereafter my gaming brother in arms Robert took over the running of the campaign and has since made an absolute masterpiece out of it. I conceived the initial back story – the Mythos and the Roman origins of the OLM – and the initial three or four scenarios pretty much as if it were a TV series story arc, which was an interesting novelty I’d not enjoyed before. This was a campaign that I set up because our group has always enjoyed Call of Cthulhu, but wanted to try something in a modern, real life setting. The players begun the campaign utterly ignorant of all this, and soon become caught up in the fighting. It’s a modern day horror RPG, a cross between Call of Cthulhuand X-Files, but with a harder edge than Delta Green: an actual war is being fought between the powers of darkness and the Ordo Lucis Manentis – the Order of the Enduring Light. This week I’ve added a couple of bits and pieces from a campaign my little group has been running intermittently for a couple of years: REAPers. In the meantime I’ve managed to add a couple of things to the Gaming Stuff page. Hey ho, it’s July now and I’ll soon be away on my holidays. So little time to work on the Dark Ward project this week, thanks to the impending arrival of the Olympic Games and the subsequent need for my university to get it’s entire summer’s work done in the month of June.

Call of cthulhu one shot