Hey, its lalonde from the N@TO server. I'm creating a campaign centered around the King in Yellow in Las Vegas and the mundane cops that get dragged into his influence. It is titled "The Western Book of the Dead" partially after the True Detective episode of the same name. Might begin a devlog or something like that, but here's what I've got so far:
The campaign concerns the strange disappearance of Alice Finch and the crimes connected to her. Alice is a design student by day and a dancer at The Velvet Room gentleman's club by night. The club is connected to a part of the Las Vegas mafia, and I plan on part of the campaign being concerned with them and their own meddlings with the King. Part 1, "Seeing Ghosts," begins with Alice going missing and the player characters, normal LVMPD detectives, looking into her disappearance, and becoming haunted by the King on the way. I have plans for her to be connected to drug trafficking crimes due to her mafia connections, but I also think it'd be cool if she committed an arson in the '80s *after* she disappeared into Carcosa, using it to go to other times and places. That bit comes from a scrapped idea to have an arson investigation played by different characters interspersed with the standard investigation, which I have decided was too clunky. The scenario hopefully ends with the players, led with red herrings, suspecting that the mafia may have kidnapped her, and raiding the mafia's meth lab and human trafficking hub, which dunks them into the true influence of the King amidst the firefight.
The second scenario, "Event Horizon" (tbd), is set a few years after the first. Alice, after however many years, has been seen again, inside a casino owned by the mob. This dives into an investigation into them again, and reveals an old, high society cult of the King that have been behind many disappearances in Vegas throughout the years, usually of employees of the casinos and clubs they own. They practice ritualized human sacrifice to reveal prophecies and ancient secrets, and are desperately trying to keep themselves trapped in the King's amber, despite age and corruption catching up to them. This scenario is less thought-out so far, but will hopefully end with the characters descending into Carcosa to find Alice. That may instead be split into another scenario, like IL's fourth scenario, though I am not sure if it will count as a full one by the definitions of this contest. We will see.