Blood in the Chocolate
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| Module published by Self published |
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| Rule System | Lamentations of the Flame Princess | |
| Authors | Kiel Chenier | |
| First Publication | 2017 | |
Blood in the Chocolate is a module for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. The adventure is based around the exploration of a factory akin to the Willy Wonka chocolate factory. It is mostly an excuse for the author to inject his terrible fetishes into the game.
As of July 2020, the author has disowned this module.
The adventure[edit]
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OK, but you've been warned.
The adventure starts with several pages of useless background covering a lot of details that won't matter at any point in the game, so let's sum it up: the owner of the factory (a woman named Lucia de Castillo) uses a cursed cacao tree to produce her chocolate. As a result, the chocolate has secondary effects, notably addiction. Also, the pygmy tribe that worshiped the tree now works in the factory.
The adventure starts as some merchants hire the PCs to investigate the factory and find the secret recipe of the chocolate. The factory is not linear, so let's just review the points of interest.
The most remarkable features of the factory are the chocolate room, straight out of Wonka's factory complete with chocolate waterfall, and the room containing the cursed old growth cacao tree and pygmy orgy room.
The chocolate[edit]
It is worth noting that the chocolate itself is dangerous, as it has a 1/10 chance to cause a negative effect, such as your teeth falling out. How the chocolate is still available on the market in spite of that is left as an exercise to the reader. (Note: The adventure actually states that it's only chocolate eaten in the factory, which is suggested to be unfinished products, that have the 1/10 of royally fucking up those who eat it. Though there is mention of rare cases of even chocolate sent out having strange effects, such as a noble woman blowing up like a balloon... so, take that as you will)
The side effects can also immediately make you gain weight, or bloat your body with gas, which is already a step taken into the author's magical realm. However, the main course is...
The poisons[edit]
I don't really want to write about that, but here you go. The toxins used by the pygmies or within the various trap inside the factory have different effects. This being LotFP, they range from "fuck you" to "might as well reroll a new character immediately". What is worth mentioning is that two of those toxins make your character inflate either by the accumulation of liquid or gas inside its body. Noticing a pattern here?
Lucia de Castillo[edit]
The villain of this adventure. Wears a talisman that preserves the aspect of its body. If removed, she will immediately age and gain 200lbs.
The "Pygmies"[edit]
The main antagonists of the module are devolved, formerly human Oompa-Loompa creatures, with heads that look like cocoa beans and save-or-get-inflation-fetished dart attacks. The author somehow manages to vilify Lucia for ignoring their actual culture and calling them "pygmies", while doing the exact same thing himself. There's roughly 150 of them in the world, all located in the factory/dungeon, so the party can put the poor bastards out of their misery if they're determined enough.
The Good[edit]
If you strip the usual LotFP obsession with sexual cannibalism and murdering PCs for daring to play the adventure you're running for them, Blood in the Chocolate has some potential. The module itself is quite open ended, both in how to get the party to Lucia's factory and what they can do with it when they actually arrive.
A good GM could run this as a combination black comedy / industrial horror adventure. There's also the option to play as renegade Oompa Loompas if the party befriends some and then get captured/killed, which is probably the most fun idea in the module.
