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Bad Seed
Pulp Cthulhu in a wealthy Connecticut town, 1928. Kidnappers, baby snatching cultists, or alien abductors – what is happening to the local children? Find out – but do try not to get eaten… Investigation of things better left unknown and dire consequences. [d20 Call of Cthulhu RPG (horror)]

Henri Lamarre - played by Aman
Zoe Bodine - played by FeanorOnForge
'Lucky' Lucy McKinley - played by SilverAvian012
Earl Simpson - played by Killa_Robot
Arnold Penshaw - played by Aeon_Spiral
Freada Van Hoff - played by Drakilian

Maps & Other Info

BLIND HP (AKA MWUHAHAHA!)

So, anyway, during the game, we will be using Blind Hit Points.

You will know how many Hit Points you start with (see PC Sheets), but not how many you take – wounds will be described graphically and you’ll have to decide how bad off your character is by the severity of the description.

Further - to help give you a basic idea of your character's health status, we will be using the following descriptors posted after your Hit Points:

Posting Rate

As for Posting in this particular game - There will be a Minimum Posting Requirement of 1 per day (Monday - Friday) with weekends optional. If anyone misses a Post before an important Update, I will NPC him in whatever manner seems logical to me. Too much NPCing will lead to PC death (very easy to accommodate in this particular adventure BTW). If for whatever reason you might need to leave the game - permanently, or temporarily - let me know and we'll go from there

Good to go - thanks  ^v^

OK - fresh thread :)

In-Game update now in the works...  ^v^

Thank you for your hard work BZ! ^o^

No problem :D

(Though you might have to revoke that 'thank you' when you see the next update)...  ;)

GOD DAMMIT BERKA STOP TRYING TO KILL US!

What? But... But... It's my job...  :(

It's ok Berka, I like your attempts at delivering death to all of us.

Because you always run away before anything can kill you.

I killed an officer and I knocked out the other one, i'm doing just fine ^_^

You didn't kill him you only shot him.

Then you ran away.

I shot him and he would have bled to death, had the witch not killed him herself. I clearly could have killed him, it was just against character.

There was no running away, just re-grouping.

Me too..

Though they have been proven to unsuccessful every single time.

OK, getting ready to post now...

And there it is  :)

Freada only lost 5 sanity points, that doesn't go past her breaking point, why did she gain a temporary insanity?

My bad, I was looking at the 9 as the 20% - so I'll edit it if I can - otherwise she's stuck with it....

I'm the only other person online who plays bad seed, no chance of someone posting before you can edit ^_^

(Ooh, silver just came on...)

Managed to ninja edit a revision in there - now its almost hehehe...

Good, now I won't have to deal with that horrible embarasement...

Oh! Godamnit!

I'm losing sanity faster than Sonic the friggen' Hedgehog.

Lol! Freada pissed her pants XD

 Nope, that was a mistake, it was edited out.. ^_^

I saw it before it was edited Drak :)

Sorry BZ, I forgot to tell you that the shotgun needed to be added to Lucy's possesions as well.

^.^'

Really? I was sure you already told him.

I added it to attacks - it's now also in posessions.

Got to go for the night - see ya tomorrow  =)

So my attempt at translation here:

“Petition: negative emotion, human plural negative harm. Self travel chronos. Facilitate future human plural destroy Shoggoth.”

Petition - It's requesting something of us

Negative emotion, human plural negative harm - It's saying it's not here to harm us (in a negative tone I guess). Ohhh, it's saying don't fear him, he's not here to harm us.

Self Travel Chronos - It can travel through dimensions I guess.

Facilitate future human plural destroy Shoggoth - It wants to help us destroy Shoggoth.

You guys thinking along the same lines?

Yup.

Though the second one: Negative emotion, human plural negative harm

Could also be translated to him saying he had a negative emotion (Like rage), that he was directing towards us. Or perhaps he was saying that he sensed we were feeling negative emotions at the time.

But given that Earl thinks he means no harm, I think it's safe to say that he's on our side.

Naw, he's meaning negative as in not. So don't feel said emotion.

I thought yours at first too, but this makes far more sense.

Especially given the rest of his dialogue.

So yeah, woohoo, Berka pities us so much that he sent us a giant alien monster to help out! 

(now let's just hope it doesn't turn on us, or it won't be mind controlled by something...)

"Permanent Insanity: The Shakes"

Well fuck... I'm guessing that's going to make aiming more difficult.

No shit!

:O

Think it might be time for a new game thread? We're nearing 500 posts.

No, in this case I figure there's only 50 or less posts left before the curtains draw on the game. (Just one scene left).

The the ENTIRE game is finished?

Yes, the appearance of the Elder Thing opens the final scene of the adventure. It could take a week to play through, but it's largely combat rounds, so posting is drastically reduced in the In-Game Thread (just as it has been the majority of the game).

So yeah, 'Live or Die' time is upon us ...  ^v^ 

Could we have a quick group psychotherapy session beforehand?

Also, I don't see why most of us would go through the portal, right?

Group therapy takes weeks to yield Sanity Point gain unfortunately.

And there's no portal - the Elder Thing basically time-stepped into the basement from another dimension. The loud noise and pop was just his arrival. No open portal or anything like that.

Ok then, how many people could she individually work over before we go on our killing spree? (At the very least, I need to get Arnold)

She won't be able to restore anyone's points - takes long term care.

She can however dispel Temporary Insanities AND temporarily override Permanent Insanities. For example, she could coax Henri up the stairs, in spite of his Permanent Insanity: Fear of Stairs.

Damn. 

Is there any way to delay this venture for a month or two? I mean, I don;t think we IMMEDIATLY have to go through, and I don't see any reason why we can;t all go to our homes and prepare first, in the form of freada sending info to the SS, and the others better-arming themselves, re-filling any lost supplies, maybe getting some more friends to help out.

Well, it all sort of depends on what happens next (after Aman's post)...   ^v^

I'm going to wait over the weekend for Aman to post - due to this being a rather important update. He normally gets back on late Saturday night ... or Sunday ???  (if I recall correctly)  :)

Saturday night

well if that is the case BZ then I'll finish the game, don't worry about NPC'ing him. I didnt know we were that close... Glad He is getting some pain killers though.

No problem, I'll tie him back into the action at a certain point in the conversation with the Elder Thing in the basement...

I'll try to update tonight - got busy this weekend all of a sudden.

There - that should hold us till Monday  ^v^

@Aman Arnold knows all about Shoggoth if you'd answer his holler down the stairs lol

Must of somehow missed your post. Let me edit mine. 

I just noticed this. We've been playing a game that is occurring 5 months ago. Which means we fail. 

Huh?

The game is a flashback, to five month earlier, but the baby snatchers still exist. 

What makes you say that?

BZ states it in the beggining of the adventure, that the events we are experiencing are flashbacks. 

Huh, I just read through that.

I think we're the kidnappers.

we're trying to kill the shogoth lords, right? That baby was a shogoth lord, that acid depression was the remains of the baby. The kidnapping ing is us, the female who's footsteps were left behind was Lucy.

We're looking back to when this all started.

Impossible, simply for meta game reasons. BZ said most of us will die, and if Lucy dies, the whole thing is impossible. 

Then maybe it's a new member that joined the beacon society, that survived our deaths. It would only require one of us to survive and continue fighting for the cause.

Dunno. But it also doesn't seem likely since it's a 'common' occurrence with the Baby Snatching. You'd think Shoggoth lords wouldn't be common (especially in baby form). 

I'm thinking we fail, and the cult countinues to make acid babies. After all, that can make the light footsteps, and acid babies make acid. 

But what makes you think it wouldn't be common? We have no idea how long this cult has been at work, they could have made dozens and dozens of shogoths, and spread them throughout human families, and we've just been tracking them down. (I already suspect that nearly all of the orphans in that orphanage are shogoth lords, that makes at least 40 that are in baby form) Those 3-4 babies that have been snatched are the "common" occurence.

And babies don't make footsteps that can be mistaken for a fully grown woman's footsteps.

Besides, the cult doesn't NEED to kidnap babies to turn them into shogoth lords, they do it when the babies are born, they're a maternity hospital. We would need to kidnap the babies though, if we were trying to kill them all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoggoth

Shoggoth with independent minds are very rare. 

Then fully grown Acid Babies. The maternity ward was raided by us, remember. No one will consider that place Safe. 

Huh, that artist's rendition resembles the monster Berka described...

Most likely because it's the one used in Call of Cthulu. (I think it is) 

Yeah, I just had no idea that the thing that attacked me and zoe was a shoggoth lord, thought it was just some random monster.

Actually, thinking about it, it can't be. (unless The Shogoth Lord became a bird). 

Anyways, I repeat, all of the orphans at the orphanage are likely already shogoths... that;s more than enough shogoths already out there to account for the 4 that were snatched in the news, and those are only the ones that we know of, not to mention that they're orphans, some of them will be adopted.

The maternity was attacked by a bunch of psychos (outsider perspective), security will just be increased and people will continue going there, it won't change anything. And even if it's shut down, they've already done the damage.

Shoggoth Lords can't be killed without the tech of a Shoggoth lord. So they couldn't have been the babies. 

It's a dying hospital (two doctors, two nurses) and (if we kill Dr. PHillip only one). I doubt anyone will go there anymore. They can't afford upping security. 

Then what are the babies?

(Anyways, I still think we're hunting the babies, maybe they're not shogoth lords, but still)

Monsters. Haven't read all of the Mythos, so I can't say for sure, but certantly not Shoggoth lords. 

Ask Sentinel?

I'd be surprised of he knew. I'm gonna hunt down Call of Cthulu RPG boards and find it out. (and get their stats. If they exist online) 

Ooh, maybe pod peole. 

State your findings.

Haven't found anything yet. Just makes sense. 

What are pod people?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod_People_(Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers)

Hmm, perhaps.

Damn BZ, must have been a bitch to write all of this out.

“Self Sose; scientist; environmentalist,” the thing pipes

I am a scientist.

, “Self facilitate preserve human plural;

I want to help you survive

contrary history Self Race – destroy past-tense through Shoggoth plural.

Unlike the rest of my race, I want to destroy the shoggoth (as for the past tense, I think he's talking either about time travel, or history.)

Self negative facilitate human extinct future

I will not kill you

– Self opinion: flora, fauna, planet, preserve future facilitate positive emotion generation plural.

I will help save you and the planet, in order to make you like me

Petition: Sose help human plural.”

May I help you?

“Doctor Phillips: Shoggoth. Human plural pursue.

Doctor Phillips is a shogoth, you must pursue him.

Human plural negative destroy single – Shoggoth plural, positive power – Exception: through Self technology, small probability. Receive…”

This one's fucked up.

Something about us not having destroyed any shogoth, something about them being powerful. The only way to kill them is to use his technology, and even then, only a small chance.

 “Affix x-ray. Mi-go x-ray harmonic amplify future radiation.

No idea.

Attune genetic harmonic plural Shoggoth. Lure Shoggoth enter field generate through Mi-go x-ray harmonic, destroy Shoggoth. Receive addition – probability facilitate…”

He's drawing them towards us. Beautiful. Somehow this will make things easier.

“During sight Shoggoth format crystal sphere, Shoggoth form confined. Probability: confine Shoggoth form Doctor Phillips, facilitate additional simple control.”

I'm thinking he' s actually saying we all get destroyed by the Shoggoth in the future.

, “Self facilitate preserve human plural;

He wants to preserve humanity.

contrary history Self Race – destroy past-tense through Shoggoth plural.

Unlike his own race, that was destroyed by Shoogoths

Self negative facilitate human extinct future

He won't allow human extinction in the future.

– Self opinion: flora, fauna, planet, preserve future facilitate positive emotion generation plural.

Harder to tell, but he wants to save everything, not just humanity, I think. Given he's an environmentalist he likes plants and animals and the planet itself.

Petition: Sose help human plural.”

I'm guessing his name is Sose, and he is offering to help.

Human plural negative destroy single – Shoggoth plural, positive power – Exception: through Self technology, small probability. Receive…”

We can't even kill one, and there are many, so they have the advantage. Unless we use his technology. So we need to take it.

Rest is explaining how/when to use the devices.

contrary history Self Race – destroy past-tense through Shoggoth plural.

Unlike his own race, that was destroyed by Shogoths

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Makes more sense

You guys think I should use up the anti-anxiety on us all? It seems to me that if I don't we'll lose enough sanity through fear that we'll be essentially crippled at the end.

If heroin makes us less effected by scary things I say we all take a hit before embarking haha.

It makes us completely immune actually (Or at least, the ones Freada has. The downside is that it damages dexterity and wisdom)

Cant hurt. 

---

Actually, scratch that. Henri would be useless of we did do that. 

@ Killa - Earl just made a roll - and thinks the 'Affix X-Ray' means to attach the Mi-go device to the hospital's X-ray machine to amplify the rays somehow...

BZ I thought I had 25 points of Sanity not 23?

@ Aeon - Not sure, but what's there is correct from the point I backed off the -3 penalty.

Also - Arnold suddenly realizes that this Elder Thing came to the Sanitarium (asylum) and cured his previous insanity - not Freada.

It has been using him this entire time for its own ends (though those ends just happen to benefit Arnold and all mankind)...

AHH!

Got to go offline for a while - - -

Need to let Silver reply to update before moving into it too deep  :)

You can go ahead and roll for the healing.

Thanks for the reminder - I'll go ahead and edit into all the PC sheets too  :)

Oops - No Hit Points back - that requires longer care - but I'll gladly apply the anti-anxiety effects once I know for sure who all wants the drug.

Awh. :( 

Really? Not even for any bandaging or ointments or burn cream that she could get from the medical supplies?

Also, Freada will be administering the anti anxiety to Arnold whether he likes it or not. (Or has he already taken some?)

The healing roll does have some decent effects, but for Hit Points it just takes a day of care.

Arnold is fine-ish  ;)

Kinda odd that so many magic spells aren't used. I mean, I can't use Create Holy Water (most likely). 

I'm really curious as to when we should go.

I mean, if all of our healing and such takes longer than a day, it stands to reason there should be a days time where we actually get the chance to use them.

And that'd probably be right now.

Well, the Elder Being says if we leave we wont have the chance again. 

When did it say that?

Meanwhile, the Elder Thing tries to answer Freada’s question – “This knowledge, it is through standing in place with time precisely. Three quarters eight human plural, you inclusive location now; temporal now; act now. You inclusive preserve human plural race. Self minor facilitator. Self negative desire human plural future extinction. This knowledge is right to Self that revenge it would be, through inferior plural to diverge machinations the of Outer Gods.”

Ah.

Well that makes all the medical supplies useless lol.

Yep. 

Henri is the only one who can heal, and he can only do it twice. :(

Don't worry - your full hit points WILL NOT make the slightest difference if you let the Shoggoth get a slimy pseudopod on you hehehe....

Fucking wonderful. 

I'll update again tonight sometime - hopefully Silver will have a chance to post by then  :)

What about the elixir?

What about it?

Henri still has it but doesn't know what it's for...

I asked the Elder Being about it. :p (it's slightly above Drak's most recent post)

Drink it already!

I'll have to pass on that. XD

Let me check - I must have missed it...

Posted at the bottom.

Well, we know how to kill Stephens now. ^_^ Throw that bottle at him. 

Cheeky human.

But don't count on it haha!

Since I'm guessing its his 'Transform into super evil' drink

All will be revealed to those that survive  ;)

@ All - Silver PM'd me that she has lost her computer and will be missing the rest of the adventure - as this is the end and all, I'm happy to NPC Lucy through the rest - but I will be honest - she now wears the dreaded Red Shirt of the group - as nothing conveys the true dread of some horrifying monster than to have it dramatically kill someone important the moment it takes the stage...

Ouch. Reminds me of Cov's character from NSDS

It's no guarantee I will - just pointing out that it's a real temptation as a dramatic tool is all  :)

Well, that sucks for him. (Incorrect pronoun use...)

Sure she is Drak, sure she is.

Lucy is totally a guy....

No, silver is...

"Silver PM'd me that she has lost"

Sure Drak, sure she is.

@ Drak - by 'basement' in your post, do you mean the lair?

Oh hey, look at that, we're already in the basement.

She'll just check out the basement lab.

The one we exploded?

...

Yeah, sure, what's left of it anyways.

OK, I'll post the update this morning or afternoon -

Got Earl going to hook up the device to the X-ray and everyone else searching around the lab a bit.

Update posted  =)

Berka? Berka you ignored me...

About?

Freada searching the lab.

Not sure I follow...

" Back down in the basement meanwhile, the group looks through the remains of the lab explosion and finds ... "

Freada is a party to the update, explaining what was found in the laboratory (not the lair BTW) - sorry if it wasn't clear or was confusing or something.

Oooh.

Well, what did she find, because the only thing you mentionned was the ring, and i'm sure that the lab had at least, you know, one other thing in it other than the nurse's corpse and her ring.

It was all blown to hell by two dynamites. All left from that is the nurse's ring, the soul sucking thing, and a bauble.

So th glass beakers were blown up, so the fish corpses were fried, so the equipment would be damaged, it should still be there.

Glass beakers blown up, (so no glass beakers, just droplets flown about everywhere), fish corpses were blown to bits, no equipment (just beakers and chemicals). 

The liquids would still be on the ground, and the fish wouldn't be blown to bits unless the dynamite was inside the fish, or extremely (Up to 10-20 feet) close to it, after that they should have just been horribly burn on the side that was facing the dynamite, with many broken bones, etc, but not blown to bits.

Like I said, the liquid would have been made into little droplets. Throw a cup of water, you'll note that you won't have a puddle (especially considering that burning gas would have been there, and as such, may have evaporated the liquids). Looking at the map, the explosion was at least that close. 

“Here catch!” Earl’s shouts back – throwing a couple of lit sticks of dynamite behind Nurse Vance’s cover. Henri and Earl both duck – as a tremendous blast blows the laboratory all to hell and shatters all of the strange fish tanks against the far wall.

.... Yeah, it also doesn't mention the beakers, so i suppose those didn't smash either? :P Just because BZ doesn't mention that the fish in the fish tanks were blown to bits, doesn't mean they weren't. XD

Neither does it mean they were.

(The water could have absorbed enough force from the explosion to keep the fish intact, i'm sticking with waiting.)

Sure, but it isn't a "Ha!" Moment. :P 

Uhm - yeah, the mutant fish are still splattered around and Freada (and anyone new to the scene) would see them - I overlooked posting that in my update - so if anyone want to react to it they are free  :)

Added to Freada's Post to include it...

Given Earl is alone and calibrating stuff I won't be making an in-game post. Just have him complete whatever he's trying to accomplish now haha.

OK  :)

What's gauss? I'm searching it up, and all I find is that its a unit of measurement. 

I'm pretty sure that he meant to say Gauze

Yeah, medical gauze not electromagnetic energy like I must have accidently wrote haha!

Alright, makes more sense now. :P

Who wants to be injected with dead fish tumor parasite goo? :D

Freada has a sample - - -

So, what's the character's plan?

Ha! Plans, what foolery is this? No, we must charge! Syringes and shotguns waving hafazardly, high on heroin, tis' a necessity!

Hmm, Henri, having the highest Gizmo Use, should probably hold the crystal.

Is a Shoggoth considered an outsider? 

Maybe... Or Maybe not...

Henri really wouldn't know...

Well, would Arnold know? 

Good chance...

Adding that to my post then. I have 9 chances (at most) if it is. 

@ Aeon - All Arnold can tell about the blue stone frog is that it (like the ring) is some form of magical fetish - though not specifically hyperborean like the ring. The frog thing here may just be coincidental - as the two-headed frog is the right symbology, not a single-headed frog, as is the stone...

Also - Arnold knows that a Shoggoth can be summoned and therefore dismissed - but a Shoggoth Lord on the other hand is an independant abboration and therefor not bound here by anything that could be undone to send it back to where it came from...

VOTE - even though theres probably only 100 posts left in the game, I'm thinking of starting a new In-Game thread due to the larger lag the current one takes to load...

Thoughts?

Why not?

yes

OK, I'll post the new In-Game Thread with the next Update - (as soon as you guys are ready to enter the lair - and do let me know here or in-character)...

Is anyone going to answer on whether they want the anti-anxiety drug or not?

Ok sorry guys Im back, I took a little one day trip by myself and only had my Kindle but Im home now and ready to go I will be updating Aman's cliffhangar convo with me and a few other things.

Arnold, (the only one who needs it) said no.

I didnt say no?

She offered it to EVERYONE, but only Arnold answered, and it would be prudent of you all to take a dose yourselves.

Would be bad if I answered, since I'd lose wis and dex, (and being the cleric, I need wis), since Henri doesn't know the weaknesses, so I'm playing that he didn't hear her, since he was chatting with either Earl, the alien shit, Zoe, or Arnold. 

You could always just say no. (And I doubt he'd miss it twice)

IC i don't know the weaknesses. 

She told you all that it would make you feel drowsy, cloudy.

Missed that. Sorry. I'll repluy to it

Also, i'm pretty sure that your wisdom is irrelevant to this (Have you seen it? Your wisdom is your lowest stat. I think it's your intelligence that affects this.)

EDIT: Nevermind, it COSTS you wisdom to cast your healing. Damn.

Wisdom allows me to cast the spell.

I'm not taking it because Im saving my stats for end game content.

This IS end game content. There's a decent chance that you'll go insane, which is why I want to give it to you (Either that or the uber-lobotomy)

I don't want Arnold going insane and summoning creatures and using death symbols on us, or turning into bears. That's all pretty bad stuff.

If this wasn't the end, I wouldn't risk using the drug simply because of it's addictive effects.

But it is, so we can go all out.

Well maybe I wanna be a bear?

PMed BZ, but I will be gone from tonight till sat night

How come?

RELIGION!!!

Well, have a... time I guess. 

(Shabbat does not seem like the most fun of holidays)

1 word. 

FOOD

Uber Shabbat?

Purty much

cool, well have a good uneventful time :) lol jk

Ha, it'll be far more eventful then you think, but I'll explain it at a later time

Oh I know it will be! lol I was kidding man. 

I'm not even playing this. But I'm lonely :P

OK then... Not sure if that is good or bad - but feel free to lurk to your heart's content if you will   ;)

I'm pretty sick today - so I'll be waiting till tomorrow sometime to update the opening scene of the next In-Game Thread.

It will feature everyone finally moving into the lair to see what is there.

Following that, there will be a bit of time to explore in-character before the shit really hits the fan, which should get us to the weekend - and from there the big finale  :)

Hope you feel better soon man.

feel better bud!

OK - setting up the Finale Game Thread - Please hold off posting until I signal - thanks  :)

Bad Seed Finale Thread
http://chooseyourstory.com/forums/forum-games/message/10137

Go ahead and post away now  :)

WTF happened to my post???

Tsk tsk tsk, too many insanity cookies are bad for you...

no seriously I posted about AArnold inspecting the metal plate... now its gone?

You posted it on the map, not on the end post.

mother Fuc....

So, I guess Earl and Arnold are going to press the switch at the same time then?

Synchronized pressing. 

It's a sign.

(Or maybe Arnold is pressing an imaginary switch...

Though Aeon DID post it first)

I did post long before anyone posted on the thread

Called it.

Called what?

Poor Earl...

"Lucy and Earl suddenly find themselves in the awkward position of Earl' left hand grabbing Lucy's breast and squeezing it out of nowhere!

"What the hell are you doing?!?" Lucy yells and shoves Earl back away from her."

I don't even.....

Way to go Earl!

Yeah - it's a new Temp Insanity haha!

"Temporary Insanity: Left hand uncontrollably gropes female body parts"

I'm okay with this.

^v^

Why'd he suddenly get it though? Realizing the thing with the fish tank?

Yeah, realizing that it's 571 human baby souls floating around in the tank blasted his sanity a bit (he lost the max unfortunately)  ;)

I just died laughing from this XD

Poor Earl, the strongest in the group where strength matters not haha.

Hey, wasn't Freada at 65 sanity?

What happened?

She was told a scary story involving harvesting the souls of children and shoggoths taking over the world...

Henri and the others didn't lose any sanity. (In fact, only Earl, Freada and Lucy from what I can tell)

Earl lost it from realizing the "fish" were souls of children.

Also Berka, what would happen if we drank some of Earl's moonshine?

Enough would work like the Anti-Anxiety drug...

With what kind of effects?

Negative Wisdom and Dexterity, but soaks 1 point of Sanity Loss per sanity shaking event...

It also makes a nice molotov cocktail.

That may be a better use then...

Those that made their sanity checks only lost 1 point each  =)

i will catch up soon im watching Football

No problem - we got all weekend  ;)

FUCK

Yep - you KILLED HIM.

Only Henri can save him now ...

HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW EARL IS ALERGIC TO DRUGS?!

Well, given the timeframe of the adventure - she wouldn't.

Mechanically speaking though - Earl lost the max Wisdom (8) which dropped his Wisdom from 8 to zero - thus Catatonia.

Henri can cast his Healing Touch Spell on Earl to bring his Wisdom back up to a whopping '1' - conscious but highly unstable.

Earl should have went with the moonshine.

http://www.prevention.com/sites/default/files/images/news/featured_images/TS-109012419-curse-symbols-628x363.jpg

There are times when High rolling dice are extremely bad things, I suppose....

Fuck!
Is there any way to raise his wisdom somehow? Maybe get rid of the drug's effects on him? 

Without Henri wasting his Cleric spells.

Hmm - Yeah, I'd allow Freada to mix Drugs and hit him with some Waking Drug (as the Catatonia is technically not caused by Ability Damage, but by a drug that mimics Ability Damage) - care to give it a go?

Yes.

(I hope she doesn't fail her chemistry/Heal roll....)

Go ahead and post it...

I got to go offline - I'll probably have Henri cast Healing Touch on Earl though when I can post again tomorrow  :)

Just waiting a few minutes to clear up the Earl situation...

HUZZAH Freada fixed Earl - now I got to go - see ya  ^v^

G'night Berka

If moonshine held the chance to not render Earl catatonic it would have been great to know -__-

I asked what the effects were and all you said was negative to both, which I assumed meant it was the same.

All things considered it seems like this played out the best though. No loss to wisdom or dexterity, and only a minor loss to int.

Even still, this campaign is really not for Earl. He's such a glass cannon, and his strengths are all largely useless (dex and str).

Wait, fuck.

Does negating the effects mean he's no longer immune to fear and this whole incident accomplished nothing?

Not only was it an unfortunate waste, but it made things worse. All Earl got out of it was a ding to his IQ and extra-jittery shakes...

Maybe some of that moonshine will calm his nerves... ?

Also randomly shoot someone in the team and claim it was the shoggoth lord controlling you.

@ Forge - not sure where Zoe got the idea that Dr. Phillips is trapped in the lift/elevator.

The elder thing mentioned that the Shoggoth Lord was not in its lair - but that it would come if you broke into it...

I saw him on the 3rd floor didnt I?

No.

If Arnold gives it some thought (coupled with the information the book provided), he would guess that what he saw in the third floor music room was an apparition of the late Doctor Phillips (ie. a ghost).

If Zoe ever shared her vision with him (the one she had when in the very same third floor music room), then it would all make sense - at least to Arnold and his Occult mind that is...

Arnold actually saw Nurse Vance heading into the woods when everyone first arrived at the Hospital though...

But fear not - with Freada blasting the Shoggoth's prized possession (the spirit prison) - he'll be arriving shortly...

Speaking of which, I'm starting to question if fighting him in his lair is the best place to do it lol.

It's a horrible idea, and the smart path would be to call the state police and have them kill everything for us. But this i the story, so shudap and follow it.

The smart idea would be to call the police and explain how the souls of children are being stolen, and that their bodies are being implanted with sinister beings who plan to destroy the world once they mature, and that everyone in this hospital, including the two cops who are dead/drugged, were a part of it?

Yeah, they'd totally believe that and rush to help us.

Of course not, you lie to them, and once the police arrive and they get attacked by magical beings, they fight anyways.

You know... Maybe Earl could start thinking about that in-character...

So, to clarify - no one said anything about fighting the Shoggoth Lord in his lair. The (albeit hard to follow) plan of the Elder Thing was/is to lure the Shoggoth into the X-Ray lab and zap him there.

The whole Lair thing is just the fastest way to draw the Shoggoth out - which I'll post about (now that Freada shattered the Soul-Prison) Tomorrow night after Aman has a chance to interact in the lab a bit first...

I'm waiting for you to do an update for the effect of the moonshine on him before that.

I'll try to remember to add it to the next flavor text haha!

But yeah, it will stop his shakes as long as he keeps a nice buzz going (minus 1d3+2 Wisdom, -2 Dexterity)  - self medicating is so much easier on the bod than Freada's fancy chemicals LOL!   ^v^

Curses! If only I had realized he had it sooner.

Getting drunk before facing the final boss is the best plan possible.

I Know! Right?  ^v^

“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.”

- H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror    

Woot....

Probably hasn't occurred to these guys that the guy who asked us to summon the thing and kill it probably doesn't care about our individual lives. Being an environmentalist I'm sure he'd think 6 humans is a good deal to save the rest of the world...

Poor poor Earl. At least he'll die the way he lived. Drunk and screaming about aliens.

Man, I really really feel bad about what is going to happen next...  ;)

I gave up on our chances for survival when earl got the shakes. I'm good.

lol oh shit :)

OK - Just to clarify -

Freada is blasting the soul prison - and Zoe and Arnold are going out to throw a grenade in the elevator shaft. Right?

Please clarify and then stop further posting. We are are setting up stuff that needs resolved before anything more can happen.

Like I said though, I'm going to update tonight after Aman gets a chance to post.

Yes on the Grenade. and yes to the boomstick soul prison.

Well someone is going to have to hold the doors also would need to know how low the lift is, so the grenade will not be thrown right away. Zoe will probably wait until the lift doors open themselves after giving power back and calling it down with the DR inside and throw the grenade inside...

Unless the lift is very low thus insuring the grenade damages the occupant rather than just damaging the lift shaft.

Basically talking about throwing it, but NOT throwing it this turn.

There's no one in the lift...

from my understanding it is on it's way to the basement.... why would it be empty

Because it was called down by the nurse?

the dead nurse who died ages ago????

regardless it ensures that he cant use that to getr down here, he'll have to teleport or take the stairs which we can Funnnel him into and deal good damage

....Sure....

It's not like we could all just stand in front of the elevator and shoot him as soon as it opens if he was coming down in it...

stairs = more room+he cant shut the doors.....

......

......

More room = he can dodge....

We can easily stop the door from shutting....

Not that this matters, since he's not taking the elevator. Blowing it up also screws over Henri, who can't climb stairs (not that we know that yet).

Yes?

The elevator hasn't even been mentioned since she was alive.

True - The babies on the second floor called it originally; Earl disabled the power to it; The nurse tried to call it to come down into the basement; Earl restored power to it.

The elevator is currently stopped on the first floor.

On a slightly related note, Feanor really loves his grenade lol.

...... Help? Can someone give a brief explanation of what occured, and what we are planning to do?

You didn't miss much (except a boatload of OOC) - everything you need to know is in the new Finale Thread  ^v^

Alright, cool. ^_^

All right - I'm writing up the update now...

Enter the Shoggoth Lord and Sanity Checks all around...

FUCK

Any good pickles?   ;)

Nice and cool pickles. 

Wonderful. We recently moved into a new community, which fits our family better, had a couple of guests, and we ate ribs. ^_^

Oh man! Earl has just surpassed Arnold in CRAZY!!!

Ok, so we lost earl and Arnold...

This is going to be a challenge to write up...

Really? 

I don't think it's all that hard to write:

YOU're dead and YOU're dead and YOU're also dead!

EVERYONE IS DEAD!

I thought drinking the moonshine effectively made Earl immune to crazy?

Makes you immune to any effects from fear (Including sanity loss from fear, i'd imagine. Or at least, that's how freada's stuff works)

As for everything else, it reduces your loss of sanity by 1 in all sanity loss events.

By 1?

Wow, that's far less worthwhile than I thought.

Oh well, it was rather obvious Earl was never gonna survive anyway.

Here's the Sanity Loss List BTW -

Henri : -13 + Perm: stress induced tunnel-vision

Zoe : -6 + Perm: Laughing hysteria

Lucy : -20 + Perm: Hair turns white

Earl : -20 + Perm: Necrophilia

Arnold : -2

Freada : -17 + Perm: Must End Every Sentence with “because Shan says so…”

Even with drugs Earl still manages to tie for most sanity lost.

Sigh.

Oops - that should be -19...

And minus 16 for me, right, right?

Nope. twas -18 originally  ;)

Hey, why'd I lose so many Will-save points?

Wait a second, is the will save based on wisdom?
If so, then FUCK

Necrophilia? Ouch. (Good thing there's a morgue nearby)

And wow, Arnold is the only one who passed his sanity check.

There's a nearby morgue too.

EARL'S GONNA HAVE FUN TONIGHT!

Actually, Zoe also passed her Sanity Check....

Hey, Zoe's breaking point is 9, why did she get a permanent insanity? (Technically she hasn't even qualified for a temporary one...)

She lost more than her %20 (13) in one evening (totaled up).

In one EVENING?

Ooooooooooh...

Pretty sure he'd have fun with the nurse's dead body.

Yeah - part of the update hehe...

The thought - not the action BTW ...

-__-

About 10 minutes from posting - this one was a challenge - I hope at least that you find it entertaining (before folks start dying horrably...)

;)

Horribly*

:)

Note that We are in Combat Rounds again so only post 1 or two actions per post - thanks  :)

Sanity Points 44 6; Max 95; Break Point 4;

Alright so, with this in mind, it's time to discuss something about Earl.

Primarily, he's fucked. Secondly, not only is he fucked, but unless we mitigate the damage, everyone else is fucked to.

By this I mean the obvious - he has the lowest resistance to resisting commands, and he is closest to the breaking point. He also happens to be the strongest member physically, and he's currently holding a shotgun. Either the Shoggoth commanding him to hurt others, or him turning insane and hurting others, is a very real possibility at this point.

So, we have three options:

1) I can have him run away. While this can fail (he gets stopped by something or caught before he's gone), it's the fastest way of getting rid of him, short of just straight up killing him. For the sake of RPing, this is one of the best choices. With his mental state, running him screaming in terror is very believable.

2) Kill him off. Not suicide, but have him basically run at the Shoggoth with the intention that he'll be killed. This could work, and it's somewhat believable (curse you aliens!!!!!!), but it also stands the very real chance of failing and backfiring. Like him being taken over before he can do significant damage or piss it off enough to kill him.

3) Kill him, literally. I can make him stick the shotgun in his mouth, and pull the trigger. While we will be down one member, it:
A) Means he can't be used against us
B) Can still be believable RP wise, so it's viable

I've already come to terms with Earl not surviving, so at this point it's just a matter of how we want to deal with him. What do you guys think?

------------This was made before Berka posted the game post btw----------
 

Honestly, we are all going to die horribly anyways. :P 

True, but I predict Earl will be far more of a liability than an asset.

Actually, you have until you reach 0

Anyways, I say you run for it. Well, it depends on the game situation, but running seems like the best option.

-10

?

I think you go perma insane at -10

Reasonably speaking, if anything bad happens Earl will probably turn insane. He only has between 2 and 6 points left (depending on how you view it).

Though, since Freada is worthless in combat, if she spends her time keeping Earl sane, he can survive.

Doesn't work like that, I think.

Also, she's not worthless in combat.

Seriously, you have horrible notions of what makes someone worth or worthless in a fight. that shotgun could easily be the difference between life and death (maybe) and those syringes aren't exactly completely useless either.

Besides, if it comes to need, she can just stab Earl with the Uber-lobotomy and then earl can stay in combat, and make a ranged attack every once in a while. Everyone wins.

Earl>Freada (She's the most worthless in combat.) Against a shogoth, its rather worthless (the syringes).

Earl already has next to no willpower, do you really think it's a good idea to effectively turn him into a mindless puppet in front of the creature that takes over the minds of others?

Yes, in fact.  It's way better than having a completely insane earl out there shooting everyone and making melee attacks with the damn battle axe he carries. In lobotomy mode, he has one ranged attack and that's it. Then we can all kill him in a turn at the most.

If I'm not mistaken all she can do is remove temporary insanities. And try to talk Earl out of doing things.

And since they final battle is basically just luring the Shoggoth to the X-Ray room, Earl's strengths won't even be useful.

She can temporarily remove permanent ones as well.

@ Drakilian - be sure to add Freada's new line at the end of every sentence she speaks - thanks  ^v^

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Hey Berka, what does the "electrical" on that map of the basement stand for?

Fuse box.

Earl used it to disable the elevator before.

Yep.

Hmm... Right now I wouldn't worry about Earl - everyone needs to NOT BE the closest one to the Shoggoth Lord when I do the next update...

Also, Earl has the best chance to know that when you eventually lure the Shoggoth upstairs to the X-ray lab - someone is going to have to throw the switch!

Judging by the map, Lucy will clearly be the one closest.

Almost as though you planned it that way....

TOO LATE BERKA, I SAW THE THING WITH THE CRYSTAL!

*whistles innocently...

Aman...

Tsk Tsk. I even replied to your post and everything.

^_^ I got lucky. I got to view what you said, and get to run away! TAKE THAT EVIL GM

Yeah - here's what it was:

Henri gets a sudden sinking feeling - the monster is already in monster form! The crystal would have been useful holding it in its human form - but it just poured into the lair!

So yeah, we're quadruple fucked then.

Purty much

Yeah, the crystal is only viable with a little better planning - for example - someone goes into the lair (which alerts the Shoggoth Lord) then comes out and everyone hides.

The Shoggoth pours into the lair and then changes into doctor phillips to come out of the lair to look around.

Unfortunately, it has no reason to change now as everyone was in the lair at its arrival.

FUCK

Hey, Berka, could you update Freada's character sheet so that I know what soul bind does?

Sorry - but learning a spell in this setting takes time (up to weeks) - plus Freada will need to learn Latin or have a translator - and there is a sanity loss to pay when reading Mythos Tombs...

Wha? But you said that we had the option of learning the...

:(

Yes, that is true - you do have spells in the book that you have the option of learning...

Just not with a cursory glance is all - and besides, those particular spells are related to the creation and use of the soul prison fish tank thing anyway...

Well, what would the soonest time for spell learning have been? (Because I did specifically say that Freada looked through the book and read the soul-spell thing, since Lucy told us we could do that. You could have, you know, told me that it wasn't a valid option.)

'plus Freada will need to learn Latin or have a translator'

Yes. And then Lucy said "If any one wants to, there's "so and so" info here for you"

So I replied with "Freada reads up about "so and so" "

It would have been nice of him to tell me that the action I posted wasn't a valid one. You know.

Why would you think that a book full of latin would be accessible for your character? I mean, you couldn't read it originally, why would you be able to read it now?

Oh, sorry - must have missed it in all the posts.

But yeah, since Freada doesn't read Latin and you didn't realize that a spell took time to actually learn , Freada isn't going to be able to have the spell just yet (though technically, you can read a spell right off the page with a small chance of not causing all sorts of horrifying results) - - - want to try? *evil DM smile... - - -

Yes.

Specfically the soul-binding page. And she will aim the shell thing at the shogoth lord.

(Better than nothing)

' you can read a spell right off the page with a small chance of not causing all sorts of horrifying results)'

(Also, BZ said they were useless for right now;

and besides, those particular spells are related to the creation and use of the soul prison fish tank thing anyway...)

We're all going to die anyways, I might as well have a little fun while we're at it.

And hey, the shoggoth might just have a soul. Souls can be bound (and this isn't relating to the soul-tank, this is relating to the soul binding, which can be done using the shell I took form the nurse's body.

........ See. While I love to have random and utter chaos, you're basically saying 'screw it, I'm gonna make everything worse'. 

Nope.

'We're all going to die anyways, I might as well have a little fun while we're at it.'

Unless this is some clever ruse to trick me into thinking that you are doing it, but you really aren't (like the shogi thing) (which isn't likely since its part of your post), I don't see how you don't realize that what you are doing will basically make life even worth for this event

Because it won't. 

Obveiously. Since getting a small chance of it not screwing everything up will allow us to survive, right? :P Come on Drak, firstly you openly state that its just for fun, and now you're back pedaling to say it'll work? 

Also, Shoggoth have a huge fort save

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/oozes/shoggoth

30% is a fairly small chance.

And I AM doing it for fun. My point is that even if Freada screws up the spell, nothing bad will happen. She'll lose a little sanity, fine, but she has the highest sanity available.

Now, I'm fairly sure that when berks said the above, he was joking. If he wasn't he probably was just referring to a sanity loss and a possible panick or loss of stats over nothing on my part.

' you can read a spell right off the page with a small chance of not causing all sorts of horrifying results)'

His is a +19, Henri's is a +8 (to compare)

Because he wrote *Evil Gm smile* right next to it, something you're apparently forgetting. I do it all the time, and most of the time i'm joking.

(The jerk was autocorrect)

The book burning does nothing to anyone. The spell misfiring does absolutely nothing to anyone.

And you need a high will save to resist the spell, not fort.

He's been doing that the whole game (and wasn't joking for most of them). 

(I assumed. Still amusing. :p)

Bookburning would burn your hands, and cause a fire in the small passageway, making us less likely to survive. But I gave examples, let's say you cast the spell, but it targets Earl? You just killed him. 

Hus will save is also really high +15

Really? Pretty sure he's been joking throughout pretty much the entire game. 

Bookburning would make the book burn. Once anyone feels the burning book, they drop it. The burns would barely be noticeable. And the fire in the passageway wouldn't do ANYTHING.

It would be a single burning book. People can run through fires MUCH more powerful than the fire of a single burning book and escape unscathed.

Now, if it targets Earl, that's unfortunate for earl, but to be honest, he'll be going insane soon anyways, might as well take him out from now and give us more time.

Ad what if it targets Henri? (second lowest will save). Hes perhaps the second most important since he can banish anything the Shoggoth summons. 

Hes been amused the whole game, but he's been serious*(as in, seriously joking around)  whenever you're going to get screwed.

And yes, i've considered that something like what happened to copycat would happen to Freada, but frankly, I doubt Freada can seal her own soul away in a shell, and even if she does, well, you guys all get a bit of extra time while the shoggoth lord eats her then.

But there is no gain. 

A) You will most likely screw up the spell

B) it'll likely be ignored since he has high will save (as in, nearly double everyone's). 

Its castig a spell, so it's a action (two actions per turn), and the Shoggoth can grab as many peoples it wants to engulf. Being close to it=death. You waste an action, your causing your life to be likely killed. 

I'm already behind Arnold and Zoe. Lucy will be the first to die. There is absolutely no chance that Freada gets killed by the shoggoth lord this turn.

I doubt I will screw up the spell (that badly), and if it doesn't work, then too bad. Aman, you;re not changing my mind or my decision with this pointless argument. Now I have to leave, so can you please stop nagging me for fuck's sake? 

Well, I suppose logic leaves when its your turn to play? :P Shrug, if you want to be the kind of person who constantly attacks others ideas, and gets upset when others disagree with his, sure. But I doubt you want to be that way. 

Also, Arnold getting killed by the Shoggoth isn't a good alternative. (since you block up the passage)

>>>Freada picks up the book, and gleans the soul-binding spell and info from there.

She then pockets or puts away the book. The SS would find this information very important indeed...<<<

The first line is invalid - but the second line works.

The first line also works if you just take it to mean that Freada looks at the soul-binding spell and takes a mental note of it - for later reference...

But anyway...

So where do we actually activate the x-ray? The activation can't be in the room can it?

Yes, there is a control panel, behind the radiation-shielded booth in the X-ray room itself.

It will be behind a lead glass partition in the booth with the radiation symbol in yellow right beside a button- Usually in the bottom centre or the right hand side of a large panel covered with smaller buttons and readouts. In rare instances there will e a small plastic shield over the button that needs flipped up to get to the button :)

More info than is necessary but hey ;)

Well - I got to go for the night - hope someone is brave enough to post by tomorrow haha!  ;)

Alright, im reading up on Shoggoths, and it says that they get hurt from fire. 

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme/kengage/cthulhu/critt13.html

grenade then?

-_-

Not yet. I'm thinking we burn that book, and then toss it at the Shoggoth 

burn arnold and make him hug it?

w00t

the fuck?

Aeon, if you're willing, summon a formless spawn and send it at the shoggoth lord please.

Would cause fear work? or draw red sign? or all of three (including summon form)

Shoggoth are immune to morale affecting spells. 

so either red sign or formless spawn

Draw red sign- probably, but not worth it.

Cause fear - I doubt shoggoth lords can FEEL fear

SUmmon formless spawn - maybe. I'm hoping that whatever monstrosity you could summon, it would attack and keep the shoggoth lord occupied for a few rounds. 

it affects strength so Im more inclined to use that than anything else. maybe I'll use both...

If you use both you'll go insane.

And the shoggoth lord doesn't need strength (I would imagine)

If it does, then it will likely have far more than your red sign can eliminate (made far more likely by his high fort)

Now, the formless spawn on the other hand. The shoggoth lord will have to spend at least one round attacking that thing. You could save lucy, and it might even damage the lord a bit.

Engulf (Ex)

To use this ability, the shoggoth must begin its turn grappling a creature or must trample. A shoggoth may attempt to engulf as many creatures as it grapples or tramples in a round. This ability otherwise functions as swallow whole, save that a creature that cuts is way out of a shoggoth leaves no hole in the protoplasmic creature's body.

The spawn could cut it's way out then, or it could move quickly enough to evade the grapple. We know nothing about the formless spawn other than the fact that it's extremely powerful. That's enough for me.

Yeah, but Lucy still dies. (as in, it's not worth wasting a round right now, once we run up teh stairs, okay, we can hold It back, but right now Lucky is our sacrifice

I edited, you made a good point. I didnt see it had to be 5ft from me at all times.

Yeah, red sign isn't a good idea. You need to be 5 feet close to the target. 

AEON DONT STAY 5 FEET NEAR THE SHOGGOTH.

Ok, so Arnold and lucy die this turn...

I'm thinking Zoe might panic and throw the grenade if it grabs anyone, since they would be dead anyway.

Oooh, how about this plan:

Arnold casts "call tsathoggua"

Everyone else runs.

That would deal with the puny little shoggoth

Okay. Plan making time. 

We don't cast any spells. Instead, we fake thinking that we think that Dr. Phillips isn't a monster. Rather. We are a bunch of helpless fools who just stumbled upon this stuff. He shifts back into Phillips form, after we run away, and we meet him later on. I use the crystal thingy, and we win. (hope)

Also, Shoggoth have no mind control spells (unless BZ home brewed his own Shoggoth). So Earl is safe, (it also doesnt remove amity points)

Look through the crystal that stops him transforming?

He needs to be in human form for the crystal to work

ask him nicely?

Sounds like a plan. 

Update time...

And shame shame looking up Shoggoths (next time try looking up 'Shoggoth Lord') hehehe...

There it is -

Arnold is gone and Lucy is as good as gone.

Everyone needs to be very specific about which way they go - up stairs in broom closet or kitchen (if they even know about them that is).

Also - you only get 60 ft each round if all you do is run. If you have a straight line you can go further (but it will not likely apply in the hospital). If you take an action & run, you go 30 ft.

Freada may want to rethink going outside while gravity is reversed on her - it could be problematic...

(This is why you never listen to Drak's plans Aeon)

Good to know Earl is safe from mind control spells. Maybe he has a chance of living long enough to kill the thing after all.

So, I guess we just run from here.

Purity much. 

Almost just run... explosives and run. although with reversed gravity it might blow a door open into the ground floor where we are heading. Although it may jsut absorb it... No idea...

I thought it would have stopped at Lucy. I was clearly wrong about that.

But hey, it's working isn't it?

Hey Berka, what's the status of the elevator right now?

All things considered it may actually be faster to take it.

Oh please lord - let someone take the elevator - please oh please oh please!

But yeah, the elevator is a dog slow death trap! With it on the 1st floor, you push the call button - wait 2 rounds - door opens and stays open 1 round, then 2 rounds up between each level...

Plus the Shoggoth can get itself in there with you...

Any takers?

Lucy wants to in a comatose kind of way

^v^

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0444.html

The X's in the eyes are a dead give-away LOL!

Sigh, looks like yet again my meaning was missed. XD 

Haley said that she should have searched up Lichs in the monster manual. I ended up doing just that with Shoggoths. :P 

Curse your obscure jokes!  ;)

But like the strip - Arnold did actually buy everyone some time...

Huzzah! Zoe finally parts with the grenade!  ^v^

It was time...

So yeah, that's a great idea.

Let's make the hole in the wall bigger so it can reach us sooner.

Awesome.

Guys, I left the pantry door open. If we run that way, we can get upstairs the fastest. 

As if you can run up stairs....

If Freada is nearby, she can have me run up the stairs. 

But still, it works best if we go through the kitchen/pantry, since 

a) we can close the door on the shoggoth and maybe low it down twice

b) we can get upstairs faster

or you kow you idiots could just ru out the storm doors ad ito the woods....

or ignore my obviously superior plan

^_^

But I don't think your plan is good, since we need to kill the Shoggoth. Note that if the police come, it'll be our testimony versus Dr. Phillips (one is supposed to be here, the other is not). 

if you get outside into the rain.... you think it may have an effect on the ooze moster? plus give you room to move...plus you know you wont have to deal with the police....

Hmm, it may hurt our chances since black ooze isn't visible in darkness. And again, we can only kill Shoggoth Lord using the X-ray thingamajig 

i was just bringing up points plus my form is still fighting it. Find a light source and get outside lol.

Probably best for all that there are no living witnesses to your ever having been at the hospital...

Except The Policeman in Freada's car. (He's gonna be fucking murdered)

Who knows, maybe he'd join you if you somehow manage to bitch-slap his master haha!

Nah, he dead. He so dead. (Perhaps Earl gains a Homosexuality insanity+Necrophilia....) (Yes. I realize that is offensive. No I do not believe that homosexuality is an insanity. It is a joke. Nothing more. :p)

Back in 1928 it would be accepted as an insanity though...

And atheism. 

i didnt know there was...

Just the Cop, the Doctor of course, and possibly Lucy's Brother In Law - who knows that Lucy was looking for Laura that evening...

He's gonna die so hard. 

Just waiting on an in-character post from Aman and Drakilian.  :)

Well, I need to run wherever Freada is running. But I'm still thinking we should go over through the pantry path. 

WHo knows - maybe now is a good time to actually split the party   :)

That goes against every Roleplaying game I've ever participated in. Perhaps it's a good idea... 

What? Now you are going to point out that splitting the party is bad?!? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!  XD

^_^ Not my fault I didn't realize the first location in this game was also endgame. -_- XD

yeah same...

Well, technically it's not.

There's an entire section you all missed, where you go investigate the Hospital the next day during normal hours.

Most people also spend the day following the orphanage scene searching through more public records, like police records, asylum records, library and newspaper records. Then they go to the hospital at night after all that (and after Laura has her baby).

But Silver pretty much flipped out about her sister Laura right off the bat and here we are....  ^v^

Ah, and there's where I could have gotten my holy water. 

Damn we fucked up this campaign. 

you expected more from us?

Still fun though...  ^v^

im sad that i died so easily. at least my form is there...

Yeah - Old Arnold took 21 Points of Damage and then failed his Massive Damage Fortitude Save... :(

I didnt know my hp was ANYWHERE near that low though...

Yeah, part of what makes the Blind HP System so nerve-wracking.

Arnold - was Bruised, which put him between 25 & 50 % of his original hp - then a huge hit all at once knocked him into 25% or less...

gotcha

This game makes me look forward to running The Call of PikaChulu LOL!

Or a possibly a Jap-Anime Fantasy Game --- or vampire game...

im a huge fa of that one you sent me a link to. That looked GREAT!

http://www.bountyheadbebop.com/forum/index.php?topic=296.0

That would be the one hehe  ;)
I do believe you have to be logged onto the site to see it though…

ya im all over that...

EF7 2?

A Jap-Anime Fantasy Game?

I didn't know you were into that kind of thing.

I'm totally game for it.

http://chooseyourstory.com/forums/forum-games/message/9403

Many people don't consider pokemon to be anime since it's so popular, like dragonball Z.

I wonder what the odds of Earl being able to drag Henri up the stairs before they get eaten is...

Wait nvm, Freada can temporarily make Henri not afraid of stairs when we get there.

Yep. 

Speaking of Lucy sister's baby, we saved her by coming early didn't we?

Well, if we're all killed, I would hardly say that we'd have saved her.

We just have to make sure we ignore all your future plans. All we have to do is run to the x-ray room, get behind the booth thing, wait till it gets inside the room, and hit the switch.

My plans are perfect.

[citation needed]Perfect for killing us perhaps. :P

Hey, we came out of this beter (sort of) than we went in. Arnold may be dead, but he was near insanity anyways, and the shoggoth lord clearly isn't winning the fight, it's a tie until the beast runs away.

Without that, we'd have probably lost another character anyways, and we wouldn't have the head start we have now.

While I'm too tired to argue this since it'll be worthless to argue this, I'm going to point that you said 

'My plans are perfect' which means all of them. Proof that is wrong is the fact that you were convinced soul bind was a good idea (thank god you changed it)

Or the fact that everyone has a bad plan

For fuck's sakes man, do you not understand sarcasm? I know not all my plans are perfect, but you have you not realized that every time i've been insulted i;ve responded with a "Pfft, no, i'm perfect"

Do you not understand that i'm doing this to lighten the damn mood?

Then why did you take my citation needed joke seriously as well? (That's why I responded with your joke with a joke, and you responded seriously, so I assumed you were serious)

I still don't think my plan was a bad one. I responded by saying so.

Yeah, you responded to a joke by being serious. Thusly, I inferred you were being serious. It's not a 'for fuck's sake, do you not understand sarcasm?' moment, its a moment where you seemed (to me) to be defending the statement I assumed was a joke. 

Would it have been clearer had I said

"Before you read the folowing post, you should understand that I am not defending my comment that all my plans are perfect, I am simply defending my plan from accusations of badness"

No, of course not. :P (*sarcasm)

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We need to have a set color for sarcasm though, other sites have such things, and it'll help for the less adept at finding them. Maybe blue or purple

Your logic is god awful lol.

The fight doesn't exist, because the Shoggoth lord and the summon can't even hit each other, so it's just going to ignore it.

Along with that, not only did Arnold's decision NOT help Lucy, since she's as good as dead now, but it also resulted in him dying.

For nothing.

Well, it slowed down the shoggoth. (not that we really needed it slowed down yet)

They can hit each other. It's just that all the hits don't do anything. But the shoggoth clearly can't just ignore it, or it would have done so already.

Lucy was too close, I suppose, I was expecting her to run but clearly the lord had a higher initiative. As for arnold's death, do ou believe he could have done anything OTHER than summon the formless spawn that would have been useful? His death is delaying the shoggoth lord, and giving us time to escape it. His death was better than what he could have done alive. 

Your logic is absolutely terrible. 

Arnold has a shit ton of spells. Obviously he could have been useful. He didn't stall anything.

(Deflect harm comes to mind)

(As well as using the summon spell when it wouldn't cause his death)

(I never told aeon to stay where he was when he cast the spell. Admitedly, I didn't tell him to move, but I can't be blamed for him NOT doing it)

Casting Summon blob (no, not blob from CYS :P) is a full round action. Can't move.

(Assuming shoggoth used one attack per round per target (how the shoggoth works in the d20 system), casting deflect harm would have stalled the shoggoth for longer then summoning the spwn) 

It takes a full round to cast deflect harm, he'd have been taken down regardless.

... I think. How many actions does one have per round?

Yeah, nevermind...

1 full round action 2 actions. 

So why didn't you suggest this last round?

Why? Because I don't claim to make plans. 

Let me phrase that better. 

I don't claim to make good plans. :P

BUT I'll point out that I didn't consider the summon spell worthwhile atm.

'Yeah, but Lucy still dies. (as in, it's not worth wasting a round right now, once we run up teh stairs, okay, we can hold It back, but right now Lucky is our sacrifice'

How could he have been useful? He has a few spells, but the only one that would have done shit to the shoggoth lord was the "summon formless spawn"

It's clearly stopped the shoggoth lord from moving forward. Every single one of his other spells would have resulted in him dying before he could do anything, or being completely useless. 

Oh, Divination...

Literally anything he could have done could have been useful.

Animal form - turn into an animal that can carry us/run faster

Augury - To determine if something we want to do will work

Contact tsathoggau - Because YOLO

Deflect harm - Obvious

Divination - See Augury

Message - Try and talk with the monster to distract it

Speak with the dead - Could have been used on the nurse or any of the deceased to figure out whats going on

Speak dead and message would have been useless. Animal form would have gotten him killed before he could have made himself useful.

Divination I admit, would have been useful... 

Deflect harm would have been good for stalling, as Aman pointed out (but you all did not bother to suggest beforehand..)

Contact Tsathoggua I already suggested, albeit as a joke.

But Summon Formless Spawn was still hardly the worst course of action.

Sigh.

It really is pointless to ever bother talking with you.

The feeling is mutual.

I'm going to post a final OOC thread for after-game discussion and to answer questions and such.

Then I'll put up the End - Game Final Update.

D: 

So the game is over?

All things considered there isn't much in variety we can do. We know we need to get to the X-ray lab and hit the switch once it gets there (at least Earl knows that).

The rest is a matter of getting to it.

So either we made it and won, or didn't make it and lost horribly with our souls eaten by the shoggoth.

Only time will tell...

Final OOC
http://chooseyourstory.com/forums/forum-games/message/10151