The Second Weird Thing: An Evil Surgeon Preys on the Unhinged!
Suitable for Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds Horror, Cypher System Stay Alive, GURPS Horror or any other horror-themed system of your choice!
Inspired by the Graphic Novel "Invasive" from Oni Press
A simple premise! A surgeon who is either intrinsically evil or driven by a morbid obsession spun from some tragedy or horrific experience in his or her own life. The surgeon has formed a vile cult focused on the morbid obsession with either performing surgery or being surgically modified. They may or may not have a religious theme; none is needed, though a Mythos cult that is surgically altering itself in the hopes of becoming physically closer to the cosmic horrors they worship is entirely feasible.
Victims have been cropping up, and the heroes are a medley of private detectives hired to help where cops have failed, or maybe family members horrified at the inability of authorities to solve the cases of their loved ones' assaults, leading to terrible deformities caused by the illegal surgical procedures. In the graphic novel which inspired this one protagonist was the surgeon mother of a daughter who was obsessed with being altered through surgery and fell in to the wrong crowd; she pairs up with an ex-detective who was so affected by the cases and his inability to solve them that he lost his job, but continues to pursue the matter,.
The cult of the surgeon operates out of an abandoned hospital. They maintain close watch on their victims, as they are not done with them. The cult has big goals, which could include (1D6): 1-discovering immortality; 2-mind-body brain transfers; 3-appeasing a cosmic horror; 4-working for aliens who are harvesting organs and using humans to do their dirty work; 5-the surgeon actually is a cosmic horror and this is part of his maddening, unknowable scheme (ex: in Call of Cthulhu he could be a pawn of or actually an agent of the Mi Go); 6-it's the worst case scenario, and the entire operation is sanctioned by the secret society manipulating the world behind the scenes!
The investigators might find info out on the cult through researching victims, though most victims are incapable of communicating or don't remember anything except maybe in dreams. They may discover help groups for people suffering from a desire to subject themselves to surgery. They could look in to noted surgeons convicted of wrongdoing who may now practice unlicensed.
Ultimately this could lead to a showdown at the abandoned hospital where a horde of surgically modified mutants with unwavering loyalty to the evil surgeon await.....
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