The Darkness Beneath the Hill

Library Use = 70%

I imagine Percival would have a membership at Atheneum already, as I envision him being a regular at both libraries (hell, depending on his financials he may be planning to contribute to the John Hay library for expansion due to the increasing collection).

The plan is to look into the history of other houses (and possibly businesses) in the area, looking for linking factors. A tunnel has to lead somewhere, and having an idea of where those other "somewheres" might be could prove useful. It may also uncover more about the history of Winscott's house.

Sounds totally reasonable. Information Percival finds will follow.

two questions on failed skills and luck:

1. Do we keep track of failed skill rolls, in regards to XP/increasing skills? Not sure how "leveling up" works in CoC.

2. There's a variant rule about possibly regenerating luck the beginning of every game session. Is that in play here, or what we have is it? I'm fine either way, just wondering.

Good questions!

If we were playing over the table, you would put a tick next to every skill you succeed in, without the aid of a bonus die, luck or pushing. As the end of the scenario, you make an improvement check against each (as we did with EDU) and if you fail, you gain 1d10. What I tend to do in PBP is have a thread where I keep track of these skills. (which is ready, and I will add these to.)

Luck improvement checks happen over the table at the beginning of a new session. As this scenario is a one shot, meant to take 2-3 hours in real time, so as this is PBP, this rule won't come into play. In my campaign games, I generally give luck rolls after a chapter or if they're particularly long or harrowing, sometimes in between.

Assuming such a letter would not be available to check out like a common library book, Percival would take the time to copy the letter verbatim, going so far as to have Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Wolf both read the letter and the copy to verify no alterations or liberties were taken.

Good call, that's exactly what I was expecting :)

OK, you have the whole day tomorrow to do your shopping, add any items you intend to buy to your character sheet. if it's something especially expensive, let me know and we'll see if you can get it. Let me know when you're ready to return to the house.