Out of Character Chatter

You can use OOC tags in the game thread for asking questions but for off topic chat, this is your spot

OK we're off. Gameplay thread can now be found at the top of the forum. Post as your character

How do you want us to format speaking vs whispering and stuff like that?

My preference is for Bold for speech (but happy with the blue some have used) and Italics for whispering. You can also use private notes for something only for me (and I tend to use these if characters get seperated) or I might use spoilers if it's not game breaking.

Alright... I think my sheet is updated with everything I'm taking. Nothing should be terribly heavy.

Decided to bring this to OOC since it may prompt player discussion:

I would suggest using the rope, and perhaps the first person can drive in pitons (roughly every three feet?) to double as handholds, so that the last person (whoever has the best stats for it) can untie the rope and climb down with the aid of the holds?

That way we don't lose or leave the rope, and if pitons are roughly every three feet that will use 6 of my 12. (I'd say leave those, so if we have to backtrack it should be a little easier for someone to climb back up with the rope.)

Thoughts?

Sounds good.

Max as good strength but not much dexterity

nope climb 20% for me

I'm in Paris, France.

@YullyBear Does Max need his cane, or is it just a style thing for him?

It is just a style, and may help to soften people if he convince them he is lame.

I am assuming that to grapple with Leland, I would need to roll fighting (brawl). My intention was to either hold him down until he got better or until someone could examine him. Though with that roll it doesn't matter.

A grapple would normally be a contested roll, so you’d both brawl and the highest success wins.

To make sure I'm doing this right, the sanity thread has me at -6. Do I subtract 6 from my original sanity total of 30, making my current sanity 24?

Correct.
The indefinite insanity threshold - how much you can lose in a day without 'losing it' is 1/5 of your starting sanity for the day, so in your case 6

Apologies for being away. 63 hours of work in five days (and no days off) was unexpected. Dragging, but tomorrow is back to normal.

Wow, sorry to hear that, I hope you had compensation for it !

Ahh reminds me of my youth . 65-70 hours every week were the norm.

Well I can say I'm glad to live where I live. It happened from time to time, but it is quite rare.

There was a time in the restaurant industry in the UK when this was perfectly acceptable. Then they made it so hourly paid employees had to opt in to be able to work more than 60 hours. Of course anyone on a salaried contract, like management, could be made to work any amount of hours without right to complain.

@YullyBear Plenty of overtime, so it'll be a pretty great check. Small favors, eh?

@Knifesedgegames I've been a single dad for almost 17 years, so my weeks tended to top out between 40-45 hours. Fortunately, my son can cook and is responsible enough to do so (as well as be home alone). Although I feel like I would do better at this "60 hour weeks" thing about 17 years ago. Lol

I've got some friends who work crazy 60-80 work weeks. Pay is great but the burnout is real. Take care of yourself MaJunior.

Thanks!
Fortunately, this was highly atypical. It's usually a Monday to Friday, 7-9 hour day type job. Maybe the occasional Saturday to make a deadline.

Gonna make for a nice check right before the Holiday though. Lol

That's me. A 70 hour work week and have to travel to boot. It wears on you, that's for sure.

Just checking, so it's Pablo acts next, then Gregory?

Can I take any actions during my turn, or only act hysterically?

Pablo is essentially out of action for 8 rounds, so Gregory is up next. Normally the player loses control of their character to the Keeper during a bout, but I like to let my player roleplay what they're going through, but with your particular brand of madness, you are helpless.

Happy New Year, everyone. May your games be plentiful and your dice rolls be high!

Happy New Year ! May all dice be in your favor ! (wishing for high is quite dangerous, I know a number of RPG where you have to roll the lowest possible)

Ya gotta point!

I am a little lost, and I did not want to clutter the game play area.

Do you have a quick map or even just a short hand drawing of where we went since the tunnel collapsed ?

To me it seemed we took a left turn to enter the mushroom cave and that there was another tunnel going straight.

Thie is the first area you covered

4 is the room with the organ and 8 is the mushroom farm

From 8 you've entered the bone and filth strewn warrens (5) and found the testimonial etched into the wall (6)

Thanks it is clearer, so we can go back near 3 and go south, or go south near 8, explore the tunnels near 6 going down or go east by 6.

And if I'm not mistaken we did not explore all the organ cavern. Correct ?

to clarify, the cave in happened around where the 2 is.

You've explored the tunnels in all directions around 3. 3 is the pitch, where you had to use rope to climb down.

So your options are pretty much back to 8 and explore south, or continue to hunt through the warrens. (5/6)

There is the smooth carved tunnel that headed south after the pitch (3) (you headed west into 4 instead) but you passed the tunnel before you hit the warrens and it seemed to link up.

On Friday 24th I'll be going in for the first of two cataract surgeries (second one in two weeks) This will probably put me out of action for a few days as I'll be avoiding screens, so please bear with me

No problem. Hope recovery is smooth!

No worries, hope all goes well!

Get well soon !

No worries.

Thanks all. This should give you folks a chance to come up with a plan to get out of here!

So after waiting most of the day in hospital, my operation was Postponed so normal service resumes

Yeesh, sorry to hear that!

That's a bummer ! Sorry to hear you wasted your time.

Damn man....sorry about the wasted day. That sucks.

If it had been just losing a day I wouldn't have minded, but the amount of preparation that went into it to make sure everything was set up so my family could manage without me for a week, my work schedule was arranged and my gamers were aware. Just annoying.

Thanks everyone! That took a little longer than I expected but it was an interesting ending. Please give a few words of comment if you enjoyed the scenario or system so that I can feedback to Chaosium.

To start, thank you for running a fantastic game and thank you for being willing to walk those of us who were completely new through everything we needed to know. I had a lot of fun learning the system and telling our story.

And thank you , MaJunior. I would be happy to see Percival in one of my future campaigns

Thank you very much for the game, I really enjoyed it, I heard a lot about Call of Cthulhu , but I never had any opportunity to try one before.

My only regret is that it is not a campaign.

This was very fun. It was a nice refresher as well as a interesting story. The story flowed pretty well, and it did a good job of maintaining the tension.

Thank you Keeper and to all the players! Thanks for being patient with a newb, and keeping the game going. Really enjoyed my first experience with CoC and hope to try it again.

The scenario was fun, tense, and an intriguing ending for sure.

Good times. Appreciate you letting me be a part of it and for teaching this Call of Cthulhu newb the ropes. Can't believe poor Leland made it. Thought he was a goner for sure! Enjoyed it fellas!

Thanks everyone for the feedback ! Shame we lost Mr Beastley impressed that you all made it out alive.