English Colony sounding names

[SA]

...but I also think that if your entire group is comfortable with doing shit like that, you're probably doing it wrong.

Who said we were comfortable? If we were comfortable, it'd defeat the purpose.

I can barely imagine what the first must've been like...

Of those four, only 120 Days of Sodom comes remotely close. I mean, A Serbian Film is an extended metaphor literally no-one asked for; grotesque but utterly divorced from reality ("Newborn Porn"? Really?!?). To me, it's not a question of brute "horror", but of betrayed humanity. Anyone can describe atrocity. The films The Book of Revelation and Gallipoli are more disturbing to me than Hostel because they paint suffering as a dimension of humanity in stead of an exercise in monstrosity. Like, the basement scene in the Road, what disturbs me isn't what the Man discovers there, but what he does about it.

[Steerpike]

My links there were tongue-in-cheek - I'm sure whatever you ran was much better and weirder than any of those references.

You do make me curious.  The idea that what you post here is some small iceburg breaching the surface is tantalizing, though I basically suspected as much.

[SA]

Ah. Phew.

[Gamer Printshop]

Actually quite dark, there's a published Kaidan one-shot adventure called Up from Darkness that starts with a party of individuals who have no memory as to who they are (slowly getting tidbits with each successful encounter) after waking in a floor cut tomb in the bottom level of a dungeon, and each PC will probably be killed multiple times in a very deadly dungeon of haunts, traps and monsters (each time a PC dies he wakes up in a different floor cut tomb with no memories...). When they finally survive the dungeon, the memories are restored. They were volunteers to join the shogun's elite death squad and was required to commit seppuku as the start of a trial to prove their worth - the PCs original bodies are stacked and bloodied for the successful party to witness.

Stranger still, the author, Jonathan McAnulty, is an evangelical Christian minister by day! His 12 year old son ran this module at Origins last year, as his first GM for a convention game experience - both dark and cool.

[SA]

I dig that.