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by Laraqua
Sun Nov 21, 2021 10:39 pm
Forum: The Last Train Home (Trail of Cthulhu)
Topic: Chit-Chat
Replies: 115
Views: 12615

Re: Chit-Chat

So there you are ... finally finished. Sorry about all of the delays but at least this one had a ribbon tied to it.
by Laraqua
Wed Nov 17, 2021 7:42 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

And so Kate continues on ... to regain her old life, to explain lost time, and potentially to locate sufficient dynamite to blow that old train station up. an act that will be declared an act of sabotage, doubtless by German spies. Thankfully morale doesn't crash after the building's cessation but i...
by Laraqua
Wed Nov 17, 2021 4:27 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

January 6, 1942 (Tuesday) U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the State of the Union Address to Congress. "In fulfilling my duty to report upon the State of the Union, I am proud to say to you that the spirit of the American people was never higher than it is today—the Union was never mor...
by Laraqua
Tue Nov 16, 2021 8:39 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

He accepts the ticket and she steps onto a train whose lights are dimmed. The conductor keeps his flashlight on the floor as he takes her to her seat. The darkened train reminds her so much of that place. Has she really escaped? Is she really free? The train blows its whistle and then begins moving ...
by Laraqua
Mon Nov 15, 2021 6:36 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

The corridor is as long as before, the rooms still containing their horrors, though now the stink of it rolls into the corridor as decomposition continues. She makes her way up to the building above, only to see a night sky twinkling with stars. A train trundles up toward the platform. Checking her ...
by Laraqua
Sun Nov 14, 2021 1:07 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

He closes his eyes and listens to the song with a smile, letting it flow through him, and then as the last verse dies away.... The gunshot is loud in the silence. And he slumps to the floor immediately. The corpse on the desk chair slumps forward against the desk. And the cruel energies that suffuse...
by Laraqua
Sat Nov 13, 2021 6:36 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

He blushes slightly at the kiss. "Can you stay with me? Please? I've been alone for so long. I don't want to be alone for this." He puts the gun to his temple. "Do you ... know how to sing any songs? Last thing to hear...."
by Laraqua
Sat Nov 13, 2021 2:23 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

"I don't even know my own name," he says. "Everything has been peeled away by my time here, but if you somehow uncover it, then tell them this: I'm sorry I left. I thought I'd found a way to help the war effort. Tell them I did help. I think I was wrong to take part in this, but they ...
by Laraqua
Wed Nov 10, 2021 2:36 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

"But suicide is a sin.... As is murder." He looks around the room. "Though I don't believe I ever did believe in God. At least not a caring and humane God. There are things in this world that would terrify us both to see them. Things that slither in the dark, beyond the sight of Man, ...
by Laraqua
Thu Nov 04, 2021 3:10 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

He stares at her, dumbfounded. "Shoot ... myself? It I were so eager to kill myself I wouldn't have lived years in this hellhole."

OOC: It is possible to convince him to do so but rather than leave it to spends, see how Kate goes in convincing him.
by Laraqua
Tue Nov 02, 2021 2:25 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

"So what do we do? We must try something!" He gazes wistfully at the corpse. "Though if that is indeed myself and not some mere representation of my own fears, it appears that I am already dead."
by Laraqua
Mon Nov 01, 2021 6:34 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

"Could this place, my life's work, really be so meaningless? Have I ... failed?" He stares at the corpse. "If you end this place, you will end me.... Should I stop you from making that choice? But I typed the option for someone like you. I left the gun here for someone like you."
by Laraqua
Sun Oct 31, 2021 11:30 pm
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

"I think I have no need to," said the stranger, "for I wrote it myself, once upon a time. I made myself the lynchpin of a sorcerous effort to protect the minds and hearts of our people though at such a grave cost as the lives and terror of several people each few months. I had thought...
by Laraqua
Fri Oct 29, 2021 5:43 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

There is a handgun inside the draw with a small box of ammunition.
by Laraqua
Fri Oct 29, 2021 12:09 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

The Letter says: For those who may find their way down here, in the train station that was selected, at any of the times that was chosen, we are sorry, but we had to do it. Break morale, break one's armies. Break one's populace, break the war effort. We had to keep people from shattering beneath the...
by Laraqua
Thu Oct 28, 2021 6:08 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

The door opens to reveal a stone hewn room with a single gas lamp sitting upon a desk at which a dessicated corpse sits. A typewriter with a single page sits in the middle of the desk. Carved in the walls are slogans: Loose Lips Sink Ships, Keep Morale High, Ladies Do Your Duty By Looking Your Best,...
by Laraqua
Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:36 pm
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

"Unless the door leads to a bomb or some other fate...." he murmured, but he follows her toward the door. Once there, he pauses, looking down at his hands. "My palms are sweaty. Somehow I'm more nervous here than anywhere else."
by Laraqua
Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:30 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

The Stranger walks with her toward the door, then stops. "Are we sure we want to do this? I've survived a very long time by never coming down here. We could retreat to the nearest lit room or building. I ... I don't think I want to know what's in there." (I made another roll. You passed.)
by Laraqua
Wed Oct 20, 2021 1:00 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

The room smells of gunpowder and blood with walls riddled with bullet holes. But the main horrifying sight is that of the family, husband in uniform, woman and children in regular clothes, who are chained to posts, blood leaking from bullet holes. (OOC: Stability Test). "May Fear of Shots On Ou...
by Laraqua
Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:32 am
Forum: The Railway Station
Topic: The Cellar
Replies: 64
Views: 2633

Re: The Cellar

"A quick death and a less gruesome one," he says with a shudder. "Why do you think these fears are here? Trapped within these rooms or, gathered here? There has to be some kind of purpose to all this? Or is it just a personal hellscape formed out of random chance?"

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