Harvest of Youth

Harvest of Youth is a modern investigative horror scenario in which grief, bureaucracy, and occult power intersect. The players take the roles of parents and relatives drawn together by loss, following faint paper trails into the polished offices, medical facilities, and private clubs of an untouchable elite. This scenario was written for DARKER, but it can be easily adapted for other modern horror OSR games.

A discreet pharmaceutical empire, Adrenapharm Industries sells an elite anti-aging drug called Vitalux. Behind the corporate façade stands Jonathan Thorn, a wealthy heir who embodies the ancient demon Moloch’s will among men. His lead scientist, Dr. Lydia Benway, refines adrenochrome harvested from abducted children, with help from allied cults. The player characters should be parents or close relatives of missing children; they are approached by Martin Kaskey a quiet, technically skilled father whose son vanished three years ago. He cannot crack Adrenapharm’s security, but he has enough open-source breadcrumbs and rumors to suggest that the same organization took their children.