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Call of Cthulhu: The Edge of Darkness
Orikaeshigitae
Registered User, ClubPA regular
Registered User, ClubPA regular
The Cast
In which we discover the names of our protagonists, and simultaneously understand that no one else is allowed to post in this thread
bsjezz - Dick Ravage, pool cleaner
Kuribo's Shoe - Ben Buffet, professional hobo
Pharezon - William Orwell, foot soldier
ZeroZero - John Blackstone, Archaeologist
mrpaku - Sam Watkins, career criminal
The Hook
In which a missive is recieved from an old friend
Having recieved a summons from Agnes Merriweather regarding the failing health of her husband, Rupert, the motley five meet at St. Mary's Hospital in Arkham at his request.
You enter the dingy room and glance briefly around. Mr. Merriweather, looking much sicklier than you remember, gestures weakly for you to come forward. In a raspy whisper, he introduces you to his wife, Agnes, a frumpy woman of later years, and his son, Bertrand, a sneering, weasel-like unpleasant middle-aged man.
After pleasantries are exchanged, he asks for a moment alone with you. His wife and son leave the room reluctantly, and after the door is shut he explains why he has called you here.
"In the days of my youth," he says, "I and some fellow students involved ourselves in what we believed to be an innocent exploration of the occult. Led by a slightly older man named Marion Alien, we purchased an old farmhouse a few miles west of Arkham, near the village of Ross's Corners. There, we could conduct our fool seances and 'psychic research' in privacy."
He pauses to drink some water from the nightstand.
"The unexpected result of our last experiment was the summoning of some evil force into this world. Instead of attempting to expel the thing, we abandoned the old house, confident that the magic which brought it to this world would keep it confined to the vacant house.
"However, the spell only binds the being to the house as long as the casters live. I'm the last of the group, and I fear that upon my death, the awful thing will go free and wreak havoc on the countryside."
He gestures weakly to an innocuous metal box on the night stand beside the bed.
"Take the box," he croaks. "All the aid I can offer you lies within. You must find a way to send the thing back where it came from. You must see that this is done. Do this for me."
((PM me to decide who picks up the box.))
In which we discover the names of our protagonists, and simultaneously understand that no one else is allowed to post in this thread
bsjezz - Dick Ravage, pool cleaner
Kuribo's Shoe - Ben Buffet, professional hobo
Pharezon - William Orwell, foot soldier
ZeroZero - John Blackstone, Archaeologist
mrpaku - Sam Watkins, career criminal
The Hook
In which a missive is recieved from an old friend
Having recieved a summons from Agnes Merriweather regarding the failing health of her husband, Rupert, the motley five meet at St. Mary's Hospital in Arkham at his request.
You enter the dingy room and glance briefly around. Mr. Merriweather, looking much sicklier than you remember, gestures weakly for you to come forward. In a raspy whisper, he introduces you to his wife, Agnes, a frumpy woman of later years, and his son, Bertrand, a sneering, weasel-like unpleasant middle-aged man.
After pleasantries are exchanged, he asks for a moment alone with you. His wife and son leave the room reluctantly, and after the door is shut he explains why he has called you here.
"In the days of my youth," he says, "I and some fellow students involved ourselves in what we believed to be an innocent exploration of the occult. Led by a slightly older man named Marion Alien, we purchased an old farmhouse a few miles west of Arkham, near the village of Ross's Corners. There, we could conduct our fool seances and 'psychic research' in privacy."
He pauses to drink some water from the nightstand.
"The unexpected result of our last experiment was the summoning of some evil force into this world. Instead of attempting to expel the thing, we abandoned the old house, confident that the magic which brought it to this world would keep it confined to the vacant house.
"However, the spell only binds the being to the house as long as the casters live. I'm the last of the group, and I fear that upon my death, the awful thing will go free and wreak havoc on the countryside."
He gestures weakly to an innocuous metal box on the night stand beside the bed.
"Take the box," he croaks. "All the aid I can offer you lies within. You must find a way to send the thing back where it came from. You must see that this is done. Do this for me."
((PM me to decide who picks up the box.))
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He doubles up, groans, then coughs forth a huge gout of blood and tissue - spattering Blackstone and Buffet, who happened to be standing near the nightstand, with effluvience - then falls insensible to the bed.
((Roll SAN checks.))
SAN check=33
result: Passed
"Good god! What happed! Is he alright!? Some one get a doctor, quick!"
Roll was _93_
:O
Rupert's concerned wife and son enter the room quickly, followed by a tidal wave of doctors and nurses, who politely ask all of you to leave, since you're in the way.
((roleplaying introductions?))
SAN check = 14
Result: Passed
"Jeezum! He's gone a gusher!"
ed: Dick instantly represses the violent image of the old man's death, but it seeps into the dark corners of his sleeping subconscious.
SAN check= 36
Result=Passed
"What the hell..."
San roll is 58
Pass
*eyes the metal box as he is pushed out of the room by the medical personnel*
"it's nice to meat you chaps. My name is Jon Blackstone, Archaeologist and Explorer. How did you know Rupert?"
"Doesn't look like there is a lock on here. Shall we open it and see what's inside?"
Jon gives the box to Lugnut
"I hope you find some thing."
"Is that your way of telling us you like shiny things?"
Jon starts to the door
"Can't make hide n'r hair of them funny symbols."
"Let him have it. You can take a look at it on our walk. And uh, walk in front of me, if you wouldn't mind."
Skill: 50%
roll: 43
result: Passed
"Here ya go. Thing was giv'n me th' creeps."
(Astronomy check failed)
Opening the box, you find another, smaller gold box engraved in heiroglyphs. You quickly identify the glyphs on the box of being Egyptian, of the Middle Kingdom era. However, you don't know how to read them.
The box also contains a small journal, a key, and the deed to a house.
Skill: 60%
roll: 58
result: passed?