Call of Cthulhu!

[pyat]

A ran a Call of Cthulhu game this evening, my first in about six or seven years. It went well! mar2nee and Daniel had some friends visiting from out west, and they joined in, along with velvetpage and shadow_maze. I was running a sort of homebrew variant of one the starting adventures from the 5th edition, with a little subplot/scene involving an abandoned Baptist church and ghost town that was once an Underground Railway community.

An interesting game moment came near the end of the evening, as the heroes were sitting around chanting to destroy a monster. velvetpage's character went temporarily insane, and the chanting circle seemed about to be broken. However, rolling on the Temporary Insanity table produced the result of "echolocalia," meaning her character simply repeated what everyone else was saying for several rounds. And, of course, they were all chanting, so she joined in again.

Evil was defeated, with only one party death. However, that character had accidentally shot a vagrant, so in some way it was an act of cosmic justice.

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

If you're playing Call of Cthulhu and you only had one player death, doesn't that mean you had several player worse-than-deaths?

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

Why aren't you at work?

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

Nod. If you fragment a hobo, you get 7 years of bad luck!

::B::

P.S. Sorry I couldn't make it tonight!

[shadow-maze.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that I got to shoot the Hobo the second time, when he got back up dead.

[elvishefer.livejournal.com]

"rolling on the Temporary Insanity table produced the result of "echolocalia," meaning her character simply repeated what everyone else was saying for several rounds. And, of course, they were all chanting, so she joined in again"

Awesome.

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

I never really got into CoC until last year. Now it's becoming an annual con ritual. The GM that runs it at Origins is a local crime scene technician so he builds all sorts of forensic stuff into his events and he really knows his period history.