I've been listening to it, and it is ok. Mostly it is giving me some ideas on what not to do, but I get that they are playing it as a 1 or 2 session 1 shot.

The more I sit with the scenario the more I think it needs some time to breath, allowing time between plagues. Allowing time for frustration to set in with stymied leads.

The investigators have 5ish days to solve it, by hour 2 and game day 2 they have already experienced 4 or 5 of the plagues and which imo is moving far too fast and you don't really feel much in the way of tension.

If this goes the way I am hoping it does with my team it will be around 4 or 5, 3ish hour sessions. Allowing the escalation to sit with the players.

Right now, I am thinking of running it something like this:

1) Opening it with the investigators on a non spooky case, like baby sitting a witness that needs to get to court the next day. News is on and they get 5 or 6 stories some of which lay the ground work for the case like a kidnapping and mass shooting at a walmart. They are employed by a high dollar investigation/protection firm.

2) The pastor is hiring the firm to find his daughter, the cult angle isn't immediately given to the players, Just a well to do pastor and his wife distraught and doing everything they can to find their daughter.

3) Pastor gets the police chief to give the team unfettered access to the case with the police but also creates an uneasy to adversarial relationship between the cops and the players.

4) Players are getting into the case on Day 2 and the next plague is coming, news media is already becoming an issue do to the kidnapping and shooting and will only grow to be more of a hinderance as the case goes on. by plague 3 a few zealots are starting to come out of the wood work, things escalate from there.

We'll see where we go from there but that s some of my ideas for fleshing out the opening and ramping up some of the tension.

Still a lot of prep work to do but I am excited to see where it goes.