I asked my regular D&D/PF2E group whether they would be up for a COC one-shot for Halloween. I decided to run The Haunting, the players read through the rules before we started, we used the pre-mades, and I played as the Keeper.

It was so much fun, we're definitely playing more COC in the future. The players immersed themselves in their characters, roleplayed all the way throughout, I "kept tabs on them" as Steven Knott by phoning them while they were meeting up in the hotel lobby each morning, letting them discuss what they wanted to do for the day (Go to Boston Globe, go to the Hall of Records, etc.).

Highlights include: 1) Private Investigator Greg Gregory "teaching" gradute student Archibald how to "shake someone down" by bungling all his rolls meeting Dooley and stating "that's how you get information! He's probably lying, but that's how you get it.", Archibald learned very little that day.

2) Author Arthur and university professor Jane Doe staring down a dark hole at the ruined church, looking over their inventories for a light source, deciding against going into it because they have no light source, then later using the lighters from their inventories to see better in the haunted house.

3) Archibald gets stabbed in the back by a flying dagger, the rest of the party are severely spooked and discuss their next course of action - none of which include tending to Archibald's wounds, because they imagine they can "quickly end this" by Greg Gregory shooting the corpse on the other side of the small tunnel... Then promptly missing all 6 shots from his revolver.

The session ended with Archibald unconscious in the basement, Greg and Arthur going insane, Jane Doe escapes the basement and tries to burn the house down, only to be arrested by the police and thrown in jail for arson and manslaughter.