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Anon3 are you ready for the next episode of space cops today?

No, unfortunately. I think we might have to go back to the every-other-week schedule I outlined initially. I'm a bit swamped at the moment.

Also I'm going to have to bow out of the CoC game for the moment. Just GM'ing EP is as much as I can do at the moment.

Cool, no worries my dude

Ceres Noir - Case 2: The Hair of the Dog

August 24th, 4pm EST.

This is going to be a bit more challenging than before, and I'm very excited to see how you guys will handle some of the issues this case brings up.
Once again, we're going places. There are some things in particular I'm really curious how you guys will react to or interact with.

Much more dense and fleshed out than our last case. I spent the last two and a half hours up passed when I would normally go to sleep just writing up NPC's.

>tfw nobody gets hype

>Implying

MY HYPE CAN NOT BE CONTAINED IN THIS MORTAL VESSEL

I have never been this excited for a tabletop roleplaying game session.

This is going to be fucking crazy.

For Call of Cthulhu:

"Traces of the supernatural reveal themselves more often than inteligent and reasonable men would prefer them to. Chimeras worshipped by our ancestors centuries ago crawl back into the light from ancient times. The directors of fate rain ash down on us from the grey heavens.

<...>

They conceal themselves beneath us, above us, and among us, staying hidden until we muster up the resolve to meet their malevolent gaze. Having been discovered, they appear in the flesh for a mere moment - and then they expire horribly, wreaking havoc on the world that they rightfully see as their toy. [Abv. XLII-b. 14]

For the record, I won't be participating in CoC. That's why I didn't create a character.

CoC Updoot: We'll be starting an hour late to meet people's schedule requirements- we will meet Tuesday at 6 PM EST.

You're playing Corruption of Champions together lmaoooooo

ShadowDimentio wrote:You're playing Corruption of Champions together lmaoooooo

Call of Cthulhu.

To be fair, it can very easily become that other CoC. We just need to enter the magickal realm

in a 4e game w/ friends. I'm a 6 inch pixie mage/warlock I have a tiny gelatinous cube familiar and a baby owlbear fey beast, I'm like wanderlust guy who wants to make a bunch of friends, I'm leaning towards summoning spells but right now I'm going for enchanter(charm) kinda guy. companions are human thief/assassin guy, dwarf warlord, human warrior/tank , warforged paladin.

>meet up in some town
>all in town square
>execution happening
>something about kidnapping people
>go meet the mayor at his office
>good looking office lady
>as thief goes to swoo her I cast prestidigitation to make it look like cherry blossoms are falling around him
>succeeds
>she lets us unsupervised into the back room
>warforged and dwarf stand in front of the door while thief looks for documents
>dm describes room as a "plain looking office room with an incredibly comfy looking chair"
>try to sense magic from the chair
>critfail
>"the chair is teeming with magical energy, there is no way there isn't some sort of magic coming from this chair"
>tell tank about the chair
>nobody cares
>thief finds nothing
>mayor arrives and is furious we're all in his room
>we tell office lady to go home and put up the closed sign
>all in mayors office
>thief begins bullshitting about knowing what the mayor is up to
>succeeds
>as thief is haggling a price from the mayor for our silence I keep saying we need the chair as payment
>instantly drops 1000 gold the thief worked for to 500 and get the chair
>thief extremely pissed tells me "I'll get you the chair, just shut up"
>intimidate the mayor into paying us off
>walk to him as a group to bank with dagger on his back
>mayor walks up to bank lady and says "I'll be withdrawing a 1000 gold at code yellow"
>warforged tightens his hold on mayor's shoulder
>thief goes up to swoon banker and I do the same thing with flowers
>succeeds again
>convinces her to forget about the code thing and just let us into the vault, unrelated but she also happened to be office lady's sister
>withdraw 1000 gold from the bank and escort him to the office again
>warforged grabs the chair and we bolt to the sewers to lay low
>thief kept 500 and gave 200 to dwarf cuz he haggled, gave everyone else 100
(mayor was in cahoots with the guard captain)
after a short rest

>see something scurry off to the east
>everyone but me grouped up on the same side of the sewers
>rat horde
>find more rats to the south while everyone is fighting
>2-3 chase me up to crew
>fastfoward 3-4 rounds
>thief surrounded
>warforged tries to jump but falls in sewage instead
>after he gets up I cast pixie dust on him (lets him fly 6 spaces)
>he thinks I'm the greatest thing ever and save thief
>beat rats and another short rest
>hear strange words around the bend
>suddenly some shambling horror with like 8 mouths appears and an aura that makes you insane or something
>whittle it down to death
>not really exciting
>beat up some scorpion things
>party rushes around the bend
>head on into an even bigger version of thing we fought
>visibly looks like its made up of different people
>I'm at 10/22 hp from last fight (lvl1)
>me and thief are on opposite side of the room near the exit ladder
>boss is trapped in the other corner
>everyone laying into it
>nobody died
>escape sewers at pitch dark night
>visit inn
>guard captain is there drinking
>thief buys him drinks and tries making friends
>I buy drinks for everyone in the room twice (only like 2 gold, cheap drinks)
>star of the inn
>session ends after everyone goes to their rooms

>...and people still try to claim 4e sucks

4th Ed best Ed.

XSI wrote:To be fair, it can very easily become that other CoC. We just need to enter the magickal realm

if you do that let me explain what will happen
1) you will go horribly insane in 15 to 30 seconds
2) you will suffer in an instant yet eternal destruction; your existence shall continue for no longer than that of a spark from flame yet your torment shall be unending. the comforting blanket you call "linear time" will be torn away from you, your bare, mewling flesh exposed to the cold hell that is the truth of existence as a thousand gibbering insanities tear apart your mind and lay before you the pathetic creature that is man. in this state you shall persist forevermore, intimately aware of all that you are and your impending cessation yet denied that final inevitability for a subjective eternity.
3) you will be told to roll up a new character

An0n3 wrote:>...and people still try to claim 4e sucks

4th Ed best Ed.

yeah I really like all the stuff in 4e

That is pretty much what happens when you go to a legit magickal realm in CoC, yes.

There are the lesser other planes where people can technically survive for a while without insanity, but none of it is good for your mind long term. And a lot of it is full of stuff that will make you dead

If anything, the Dreamlands is probably the safest one, since unless you go there in body you can die there and still survive, most Great Old Ones have no interest in it and Great Ones can be reasoned with. The greatest mythos danger there is probably walking into Nyarlathotep. Visiting most other dimensions and/or worlds is a *bad* idea. For one, you will most likely attract attention of Yog-Sothoth, and might end up in such lovely places as Carcosa.

Friendly reminder that August Derleth was a hack, do not believe his lies.
Also, there are no good editions of D&D

Unfortunately I think I have to cut the Eclipse Phase game short and shelve the current case for use/re-use at another time.

We at least made it through one complete case, which is more than I can say about every other game I or others have tried to start here so that's something.

Aw man that is really sad. It was amazing fun dude, thanks for running it

I'll let you know the next time something spools up. I may start a more standardized game of EP again using some of the premade adventures and things.

it was fun while it lasted

I'm glad you guys enjoyed it.

Crap crap crap, I have work this Tuesday and it's going to interfere with Cthulu's collect call. I'm free Monday, Wednesday and Friday though if any of you guys are cool with rescheduling.

I need all my rescheduling done well in advance

So this is just barely on time. I can do these days, technically

I can do all three of them for now, though friday would probably be for the best long-term.

ALSO, MANDATORY CoC OCCURENCE LIST:
University workers exposed to mythos: 2, not counting player characters (3, if the one holding the book worked at the university. Not counting janitors: this count takes those who know this is something very unusual. Just that chemist and Hebrew professor for now)
SAN rolls made: 2
SAN rolls failed: 1
Mythos tomes found: 1
Number of people who went insane due to actions of player characters: 1
Mythos monsters seen: 0
Mythos intelligent races seen: 0
Mythos gods referenced: 0
Mythos gods seen: 0 (AND LET IT STAY THAT WAY)
Mythos weird dreams: 1 (After the anthropology professor read the book?)
Humans killed/heavily maimed: 2 + all those who died in that explosion (for purposes of further lists, let's say 4 EDIT: Five.)
Humans killed/heavily maimed by actions of investigators: 1
Spells cast: 0
Cultists met: 0 (I think)
Fishmen met: 0

>Be DnD
>Finish first expedition into Temple
>Exit beaten up but in high spirits because we have a dragon guarding the exit
>The dragon and everyone else is fucking gone
[vibrates nervously]

Topics of interest include:

What the fuck happened to everyone
Is the dragon's treasure pile there under a pile of rubble
Is the red dragon that we've heard rumored real/going to kill us

Shadowrun just now

Group is out on a hunting trip with some important people they need to get intel out of.
Then one of them pulls out a rifle and goes full auto on a herd of animals
When asked why he just went full auto on some animals

"I didn't want to take the chance of landing a stray shot and letting it suffer"

Embrace inaccuracy and face to bloodshed.

Jazaen wrote:I
Cultists met: 0 (I think)

WROOOOOOONG

(Also, one or more of the other things is Wrong; but I'm not gonna say which. Though if you aren't a player and want to know; hey, PM me!)

Also if Tues is no bueno we'll reschedule for friday. LET IT BE KNOWN.

Eh, that's why I put that "I think" there. Also, it refers to open cultists, the one with dark robes doing profane rituals under the moonlight, since there is no way to know otherwise without using judicious amount of mind reading spells, which will make YOU a cultist quickly.
Also, question, how many were maimed/died in that explosion, besides the prof?

2 of the campus police were killed in the explosion, there's 3 more who are seriously injured but stabilized by Mercy-with-a-luger, and a variety of other minor injuries.

I read "explosion" and "police were killed" and thought "hopefully they didn't hit Germany".

Really? I was thinking of France.

Europe getting bombed again at this point wouldn't even make headlines

I want to post in the Ryuutama thread that I joined the game and made a minstrel but shitmins wont let me

What's the best monster in pathfinder? My money is on adherers. They're sticky ectoplasm mans. I like to imagine they walk around saying "adhere adhere adhere" all the time.

What's the best monster in pathfinder? My money is on adherers. They're sticky ectoplasm mans. I like to imagine they walk around saying "adhere adhere adhere" all the time.

Are flumphs in pathfinder? I love flumphs

Yes, they are!

Cthulhu Update: Probably gonna have to cancel Friday, unless you guys can make 1 or 2 PM EST. Scheduling conflict.

How much is that in real people time aka GMT?

like 8AM.

XSI wrote:How much is that in real people time aka GMT?

google what time is it EST and do the math

Just googled for a converted

Not sure if I can manage that time, but I'll try

I can.

Drynwyn wrote:Cthulhu Update: Probably gonna have to cancel Friday, unless you guys can make 1 or 2 PM EST. Scheduling conflict.

Miiiight not be able to make that time since my dog decided once again to come down with something and I got to take him to the vet in the morning. I swear this dog is killing me.


Welp I can't even get an appointment set up so maybe I can still join. Left a message so maybe I'll get a response sometime in 20XX.

Conceptually, I find the idea of playing a merfolk barbarian in pathfinder to be amusing. Use his fast movement to flop at people while yelling and swinging around a trident or something.

I have always wanted to play a barely civilized lizardfolk ranger. Like he lived in a tribe in a horrible deadly jungle all his life and normal society is completely foreign to him