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'Fall Out' a Call of Cthulhu scenario - Keepers perspective (Spoilers, Spoilers and more Spoilers)

Played on  RPG Nook Discord Server VTT used was Roll20 Players: Foxkitty / Hedge / Orf / Cosmic Keeper: Stef1885 This review contains SPOILERS! When I hear ‘Fall Out’ two items immediately spring to mind.   The first is the scariest BBC programme I ever saw, Threads , and the second is ‘Omnicide’, a term from the book ‘ The Doomsday Machine – confessions of a nuclear war planner ’. Maybe it’s just me and my age but growing up in the 80s the threat of nuclear war seemed ever present and I couldn’t stop worrying about the few mins we’d have to react if missiles were launched from soviet subs off of the coast…..Fortunately the Fall Out scenario written by Paul Fricker of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias (TGFoJE) podcast has nothing at all to do with nuclear warfare and total annihilation of the human race, so after getting over the initial shock of the title I could read on and prepare without any of my teenage fear.   It does however have a lot to do with a crazy cult, time travel an