So two players had just interviewed a rather suspicious priest called Robert Blake, who welcomed them into his house next to the old church. They asked him what he knew of a missing Seismologist, who had disappeared a few weeks ago. While they asked him various questions, they noticed all of the pictures of him and his lovely wife Angela. It was creeping them out.
Angela was in the kitchen, dressed in black. Her face was hidden behind a black veil. According to Blake, they had been trying to have a child for a long while, but their latest child had died and Angela was mourning their loss. He offered them coffee, which Robert would then ask Angela to prepare. But they never saw Angela actually making the coffee, and they didn't speak a word with her.
All of this was pretty fishy. The players had plenty of reason to suspect that Blake was involved in some evil cult plot. So at night, while he was away from home, they broke into his house. I played suspenseful music to set the mood.
They came in through the back, and explored the kitchen first. Here they found some latex gloves covered in blood in a trash bin. This was reason for a minor sanity check, with no sanity damage if they passed it. Because bloody gloves are nasty, but not terribly traumatic.
In the living room, they noticed there was a small door underneath the stairs to the basement. There was also still the unexplored second floor. One of the players decided to check out the basement first. Damn, the light wasn't working. But something about the cellar didn't smell right, and there were lots of flies buzzing around. The players knew that if they went down there, and found something awful, it would severely damage their sanity. But they were also just scared to go down there. So they hesitated, but eventually one of them descended into the cellar with a flash light. It is here that they discovered the mangled corpse of the missing seismologist. It looked like he had been partially eaten. And of course they took some serious sanity damage for this find.
As they rushed back up the stairs, half tripping over their own feet, they were ready to get the hell out of there. But then they heard a soft scuff sound of moving furniture upstairs. As if someone was pushing the leg of a table across the bare wooden boards. And they heard a soft female voice whimper "help me....". But they were terrified what else they might find upstairs. Besides, they were in the house of some crazy cultist in the middle of the night!
Slowly they made their way up the stairs. Suddenly I played the loud sound of a chiming grandfather clock, which genuinely startled all the players. And again they had to make a sanity check. -Perhaps the most legit sanity check of the evening, in my opinion. They arrived on the second floor. There was a baby room, with a little crib that looked like there was something in it. They did NOT want to check that out, they were mortified what they might find in there.
And then there was the bedroom. As they carefully pushed open the doors, they found poor Angela tied to the bed with metal wire, dressed in her bridal gown. Both her hands were tied, and she looked terrified, and like she had been crying a lot. Immediately they ran over to her, and freed one of her hands.... and then they looked up, and noticed that Angela had already freed her other hand.... Her claws grew long, her eyes looked as pale as death, and her mouth opened up much wider than any human mouth should be capable of. Angela immediately sank her huge razor sharp teeth into the shoulder of one of the players, as he cried out in horror and pain. Sanity checks for everyone, and a modest amount of minimum sanity damage regardless, for coming face to face with a ghoul.
They ran from the house as fast as they could. They tried blocking the door, but Angela's claws went straight through the flimsy wood. One of the players jumped through the second floor window, figuring the damage from the fall would be the least of his concern right now. He landed in the garden with minor injuries. The other player hurried down the stairs, as Angela shattered the door of the bed room, and instantly jumped down to the first floor, thus skipping the stairs entirely. He ran out the front door, and both players leaped on their motorcycle and burned some rubber. They could see Angela chasing them for a while, until the creature gave up.