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.
"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.
MimicFaux wrote:I remember my first time, full of wonderment and excitement playing this game I had heard so many stories about.
on the arrival shuttle, I saw the iconic toolbox on the ground. I clubbed myself in the head with it trying to figure out the controls.
Setting the tool box, now bloodied, back on the table; I went to heal myself with a medkit. I clubbed myself in the head with that too.
I've come a long ways from asking how to switch hands.
Spoiler:
#coderbus wrote:<MrPerson> How many coders does it take to make a lightbulb? Three, one to make it, one to pull the pull request, and one to fix the bugs
Kor wrote:The lifeweb playerbase is primarily old server 2 players so technically its our cancer that invaded them
peoplearestrange wrote:Scared of shadows whispers in their final breath, "/tg/station... goes on the tabl..."
DemonFiren wrote:Please, an Engineer's first response to a problem is "throw it into the singulo".
tedward1337 wrote:Donald Trump is literally what /pol/ would look like as a person
CrunchyCHEEZIT wrote:why does everything on this server have to be a federal fucking issue.
Saegrimr wrote:One guy was running around popping hand tele portals down in the halls before OPs even showed up and got several stranded out on lavaland.
The HoP just toolboxes someone to death out of nowhere, then gets speared by a chemist who saw him murder a guy, then the chemist gets beaten to death because someone else saw him kill the HoP.
Tele-man somehow dies and gets its looted by an atmos tech who managed to use it to send two nuke ops to lavaland, who were then surrounded by several very angry people from earlier and some extra golems on top of it.
Captain dies, gets cloned/revived, lasers the guy holding the disk into crit to take it back.
Some idiot tries to welderbomb the AI hiding out at mining for no discernible reason.
Two permabans and a dayban, i'm expecting a snarky appeal from one of them soon. What the fuck.
You're playing Corruption of Champions together lmaoooooo
Spoiler:
"Clowns are different you can't trust those shifty fucks you never know what they're doing or if they're willing to eat a dayban for some cheap yuks."
-Not-Dorsidarf
"The amount of people is the amount of times the sound is played... on top of itself. And with sybil populations on the shuttle..."
-Remie Richards
"I just spent all fucking day playing fallen london and sunless sea and obsessing over how creepy the fucking dawn machine is and only just clocked now that your avatar is the fucking dawn machine. Nobody vote for this disgusting new sequence blasphemer he wants to kill the gods"
-Stickymayhem
"Drank a cocktail of orange Gatorade and mint mouthwash on accident. Pretty sure I'm going to die, I am on the verge of vomit. It was nice knowing you guys"
-PKPenguin321
"You're too late, you will have to fetch them from the top of my tower, built by zombies, slaves, zombie slaves and garitho's will to live!"
-Armhulen
"This is like being cooked alive in a microwave oven which utilises the autistic end of the light spectrum to cook you."
-DarkFNC
"Penguins are the second race to realise 2D>3D"
-Anonmare
"Paul Blart mall cops if they all had ambitions of joining the Waffen-SS"
-Anonmare
"These logs could kill a dragon much less a man"
-Armhulenn
">7 8 6
WHAT MADNESS IS THIS? POETIC ANARCHY!"
-Wyzack
"We didn't kick one goofball out only to have another one come in like a fucking revolving door"
-Kraseo
"There's a difference between fucking faggots and being a fucking faggot."
-Anonmare
"You guys splitting the 20 bucks cost to hire your ex again?"
-lntigracy
"Wew. Congrats. It's been actual years since anyone tried to make fun of me for being divorced. You caught me, I'm tilted. Here is your trophy."
-Timbrewolf
"I prefer my coffees to run dry too *snorts a line of maxwell house*"
-Super Aggro Crag
"You don't have an evil bone in your body, unless togopal comes for a sleepover"
-Bluespace
">Paying over a $1000 for a lump of silicon and plastic
Lol"
-Anonmare
"Then why did you get that boob job?"
-DrPillzRedux
"You take that back you colonial mongrel"
-Docprofsmith
"I don't care whether or not someone with an IQ 3 standard deviations below my own thinks they enjoy Wizard rounds."
-Malkraz
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
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
In game, I play the A.I Firmware, the French cyborg C.U.R.I.E, Aubrie Allen, and the lizard scum Skulks-Through-Maintenance.
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.
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.
MimicFaux wrote:I remember my first time, full of wonderment and excitement playing this game I had heard so many stories about.
on the arrival shuttle, I saw the iconic toolbox on the ground. I clubbed myself in the head with it trying to figure out the controls.
Setting the tool box, now bloodied, back on the table; I went to heal myself with a medkit. I clubbed myself in the head with that too.
I've come a long ways from asking how to switch hands.
Spoiler:
#coderbus wrote:<MrPerson> How many coders does it take to make a lightbulb? Three, one to make it, one to pull the pull request, and one to fix the bugs
Kor wrote:The lifeweb playerbase is primarily old server 2 players so technically its our cancer that invaded them
peoplearestrange wrote:Scared of shadows whispers in their final breath, "/tg/station... goes on the tabl..."
DemonFiren wrote:Please, an Engineer's first response to a problem is "throw it into the singulo".
tedward1337 wrote:Donald Trump is literally what /pol/ would look like as a person
CrunchyCHEEZIT wrote:why does everything on this server have to be a federal fucking issue.
Saegrimr wrote:One guy was running around popping hand tele portals down in the halls before OPs even showed up and got several stranded out on lavaland.
The HoP just toolboxes someone to death out of nowhere, then gets speared by a chemist who saw him murder a guy, then the chemist gets beaten to death because someone else saw him kill the HoP.
Tele-man somehow dies and gets its looted by an atmos tech who managed to use it to send two nuke ops to lavaland, who were then surrounded by several very angry people from earlier and some extra golems on top of it.
Captain dies, gets cloned/revived, lasers the guy holding the disk into crit to take it back.
Some idiot tries to welderbomb the AI hiding out at mining for no discernible reason.
Two permabans and a dayban, i'm expecting a snarky appeal from one of them soon. What the fuck.
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 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
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>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
Spoiler:
"Clowns are different you can't trust those shifty fucks you never know what they're doing or if they're willing to eat a dayban for some cheap yuks."
-Not-Dorsidarf
"The amount of people is the amount of times the sound is played... on top of itself. And with sybil populations on the shuttle..."
-Remie Richards
"I just spent all fucking day playing fallen london and sunless sea and obsessing over how creepy the fucking dawn machine is and only just clocked now that your avatar is the fucking dawn machine. Nobody vote for this disgusting new sequence blasphemer he wants to kill the gods"
-Stickymayhem
"Drank a cocktail of orange Gatorade and mint mouthwash on accident. Pretty sure I'm going to die, I am on the verge of vomit. It was nice knowing you guys"
-PKPenguin321
"You're too late, you will have to fetch them from the top of my tower, built by zombies, slaves, zombie slaves and garitho's will to live!"
-Armhulen
"This is like being cooked alive in a microwave oven which utilises the autistic end of the light spectrum to cook you."
-DarkFNC
"Penguins are the second race to realise 2D>3D"
-Anonmare
"Paul Blart mall cops if they all had ambitions of joining the Waffen-SS"
-Anonmare
"These logs could kill a dragon much less a man"
-Armhulenn
">7 8 6
WHAT MADNESS IS THIS? POETIC ANARCHY!"
-Wyzack
"We didn't kick one goofball out only to have another one come in like a fucking revolving door"
-Kraseo
"There's a difference between fucking faggots and being a fucking faggot."
-Anonmare
"You guys splitting the 20 bucks cost to hire your ex again?"
-lntigracy
"Wew. Congrats. It's been actual years since anyone tried to make fun of me for being divorced. You caught me, I'm tilted. Here is your trophy."
-Timbrewolf
"I prefer my coffees to run dry too *snorts a line of maxwell house*"
-Super Aggro Crag
"You don't have an evil bone in your body, unless togopal comes for a sleepover"
-Bluespace
">Paying over a $1000 for a lump of silicon and plastic
Lol"
-Anonmare
"Then why did you get that boob job?"
-DrPillzRedux
"You take that back you colonial mongrel"
-Docprofsmith
"I don't care whether or not someone with an IQ 3 standard deviations below my own thinks they enjoy Wizard rounds."
-Malkraz
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"
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.
In game, I play the A.I Firmware, the French cyborg C.U.R.I.E, Aubrie Allen, and the lizard scum Skulks-Through-Maintenance.
Europe getting bombed again at this point wouldn't even make headlines
Spoiler:
"Clowns are different you can't trust those shifty fucks you never know what they're doing or if they're willing to eat a dayban for some cheap yuks."
-Not-Dorsidarf
"The amount of people is the amount of times the sound is played... on top of itself. And with sybil populations on the shuttle..."
-Remie Richards
"I just spent all fucking day playing fallen london and sunless sea and obsessing over how creepy the fucking dawn machine is and only just clocked now that your avatar is the fucking dawn machine. Nobody vote for this disgusting new sequence blasphemer he wants to kill the gods"
-Stickymayhem
"Drank a cocktail of orange Gatorade and mint mouthwash on accident. Pretty sure I'm going to die, I am on the verge of vomit. It was nice knowing you guys"
-PKPenguin321
"You're too late, you will have to fetch them from the top of my tower, built by zombies, slaves, zombie slaves and garitho's will to live!"
-Armhulen
"This is like being cooked alive in a microwave oven which utilises the autistic end of the light spectrum to cook you."
-DarkFNC
"Penguins are the second race to realise 2D>3D"
-Anonmare
"Paul Blart mall cops if they all had ambitions of joining the Waffen-SS"
-Anonmare
"These logs could kill a dragon much less a man"
-Armhulenn
">7 8 6
WHAT MADNESS IS THIS? POETIC ANARCHY!"
-Wyzack
"We didn't kick one goofball out only to have another one come in like a fucking revolving door"
-Kraseo
"There's a difference between fucking faggots and being a fucking faggot."
-Anonmare
"You guys splitting the 20 bucks cost to hire your ex again?"
-lntigracy
"Wew. Congrats. It's been actual years since anyone tried to make fun of me for being divorced. You caught me, I'm tilted. Here is your trophy."
-Timbrewolf
"I prefer my coffees to run dry too *snorts a line of maxwell house*"
-Super Aggro Crag
"You don't have an evil bone in your body, unless togopal comes for a sleepover"
-Bluespace
">Paying over a $1000 for a lump of silicon and plastic
Lol"
-Anonmare
"Then why did you get that boob job?"
-DrPillzRedux
"You take that back you colonial mongrel"
-Docprofsmith
"I don't care whether or not someone with an IQ 3 standard deviations below my own thinks they enjoy Wizard rounds."
-Malkraz
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.
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
Arthur Thomson says, "Since there are no admins I would loging with another account and kill you"
Caleb Robinson laughs.
Arthur Thomson catches fire!
tusterman11 wrote:Can you stop lying? I just asked you and you are was a piece of shiit on me!!!
Kor wrote:I wish Wyzack was still an admin.
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