Play@YSDC

The Zero Room is a room in the TARDIS that is cut off from the rest of the universe, where you can come to relax and chat. All Out of Character discussion, whether game-related or not, can take place here.

Looking forward to this. I researched Dunwich, UK recently for a Yog-Sothothery magazine article, and it has a fascinating history. Want to go visit sometime! Should prove a very interesting location for our adventure.

What can you tell me about Dunwich and its history, since you've already done some research for an article? Thinking about some character background.

By the present day, or 1985, medieval Dunwich had largely fallen into the sea and was just a rump settlement with very few inhabitants. The quickest way to read up on its history is to look at two useful web pages:

http://www.dunwich.org.uk/history/

and

http://www.dunwichmuseum.org.uk/whathappened/index.php

It's probably best to create a character from elsewhere, perhaps someone - for example an archaeologist - with an interest in the place's history. Or someone else with a connection to UNIT, as Mr Handy asks. You could for instance be a scientist, maybe a geologist, or a marine specialist. Lots and lots of possible ideas. But probably best not a native of Dunwich

Very interesting stuff there. I wasn't planning on a native to the area, but I thought if it had some more recent historical relevance I might be able to work with that.

Thanks for the links, Yockenthwaite! They'll be useful to me as well as to the other players. I've done some background research myself on Dunwich to prepare for this game, but I haven't come across either of them before. I'll be sure to look through them in more detail when I have the time. The picture galleries will also have some useful images I can put in the game. I'd like to make this as authentic as possible, though the characters who live there in my game will of course be fictional.

Yes, it's probably best if you're not a native of Dunwich. If you really want to be, I can work something out, though you wouldn't start out in Dunwich. There would be obvious advantages if you have local knowledge, and it would make perfect sense that you'd be tapped by UNIT for this assigment. However, there would be disadvantages that aren't so obvious.

There is one bit of relatively recent Dunwich history that's relevant. During World War Two, 40-odd years before this adventure takes place, it was part of the "chain home system" and hosted an RDF site (radar to Americans like me).

Just signing in.

I'm looking forward to giving the ole TARDIS another spin.

Count Brook in as well

Welcome back!

Thorn, please don't forget Brook's Sanity increase and skill improvement rolls. The instructions are in the OOC thread in The Ninth Planet. Or I could roll for you if you prefer.

I'd like to sign up again if I may. I'll read up on UNIT for some character ideas. Are there any limitations to character creation/occupations due to it being 1985? Which is the best sheet to use? (Just thinking ahead).

Welcome back! You should just use the Modern character sheet for 1985; people were playing modern CoC that took place in 1985 when it was 1985, after all. Most of the traditional CoC occupations will work, and there are no limitations due to the era. Common occupations in UNIT are soldiers, military officers, pilots, drivers, scientists, technicians, and researchers, though those aren't the only ones. You could also be a "friendly" (journalist Sarah Jane Smith being the prime example) associated with UNIT but not a member, which widens the possibilities.

I'm sorry I didn't have time this weekend to get anything done, and I still need to get caught up in my other games, which I haven't updated in two weeks. Next weekend is a three-day weekend for me, so I should be able to post character creation instructions then.

Yes, I'd appreciate it if you roll for me, Mr. Handy

Brook gains 1 Sanity.

Listen does not increase.

I'm sorry. Given my luck, it's usually better to roll things yourself. I'll roll Sanity and skill increases for the other characters as I have time.

Hi everyone,

I wanted to say hi and introduce myself. I posted in the "players looking for game" forum and Mr. Hardy said I was welcome to join this campaign. I look forward to gaming with everyone! This is my first time playing CoC- excited to do some investigating!

Hoping to jump into another of your wonderful games. Will be thinking about characters...

Thank you! Welcome aboard, both of you! I should be posting character creation information and instructions this weekend, hopefully on Saturday.

I like this new Play colour scheme, it's more in keeping than the previous cheerful blue.

Hello aefpunk!

Hi Aine!

I look forward to creating my character, Mr. Handy!

I'm definitely interested in playing and am currently thinking of some character ideas. Right now I'm thinking possibly a mechanic/driver... someone has to maintain the vehicle fleets.

Welcome aboard! That can work. You'll want to check under Technician in the Your Career in U.N.I.T. thread for the occupational skills (you'd just take Drive Auto as the skill you're free to choose). I've just posted that thread recently, and it lists occupational skills for the most likely occupations. If you want something different than what's listed there, let me know what you have in mind and I'll give you a suitable list of occupational skills.

Next I'll post the character creation threads. They should appear before too long, and then you'll be able to get started building your characters.

I'm thinking a pilot. Original thought was a Medical Officer, but that's close to Caitlin Bell from the other campaign. A little variety. He's got a face like a bag of dogs. Ugly dogs. But dextrous. Here are the rolls. Will submit the full sheet once I figure the skills and such.

Great, looks good! You can post your sheet in the Character Creation thread when you have time.

If you're working on character creation, you should do so in the Character Creation thread (unless you're CrackheadC., in which case you have your own thread). Feel free to ask me any questions you have about it there as well. Take your time; we probably won't be starting for a couple of weeks.

I've moved the previous game, The Ninth Planet, to the Hall of Fame. You can still read it there, but you need to be logged in to do so.

Hey all... still here. Tagging the OOC thread so I can see it when I 'view my posts'.

Hi, are you still accepting new players?

Mark

Yes, there's still room for new players. Welcome, Mark!

I've posted the introduction, which will hopefully tide you over. The game probably won't be starting for at least a week and a half, as we have two new players who need to create characters and I have a lot more preparation to complete.

An awesome and thoroughly thrilling introduction. Just wondering if I should play tiddleywinks instead; might be a bit less heart pounding.

Excellent intro!

Yes very atmospheric. Looking forward to the game immensely

Stoked for the game. Can't wait till it starts.

They must have smelled really bad. Valerie could smell them with her head under water.

She could taste the stink.

Very nice. Definitely looking forward to this game!

Thanks, everyone! Glad you enjoyed the rollercoaster ride.

ImpInTraining wrote:They must have smelled really bad. Valerie could smell them with her head under water.

Yes, they did smell that bad.

CrackheadC. wrote:She could taste the stink.

Pretty much. The tube allowed air into her mouth, so the odors could still get into her nose through the back way.

Yeah... we'll go with that, although I've never been able to smell anything through my mouth before. Air has to pass through your nasal passage in order to carry the odor particles to your smell recepticles. Maybe she's deformed.

I want my character to last more than two pages so I'm not going to wind the GM up.

Hahaha, smart, aine.

I figure Lucius is on borrowed time. He's running out of Sanity... so he will either die, or go insane probably before this chapter is up. So I ain't a feared a' no Keeper.

I'm amazed Elizabeth is still alive after her gunshot between the eyes in the first game. So if she lives fine, otherwise I won't be surprised!

ImpInTraining wrote:Yeah... we'll go with that, although I've never been able to smell anything through my mouth before. Air has to pass through your nasal passage in order to carry the odor particles to your smell recepticles. Maybe she's deformed.

Really, I just hadn't thought of it when I wrote it and I was trying to find a plausible explanation after the fact, but it might be better if I just edit it.

ImpInTraining wrote:I figure Lucius is on borrowed time. He's running out of Sanity... so he will either die, or go insane probably before this chapter is up. So I ain't a feared a' no Keeper.

Lucius isn't that low on Sanity. Some characters start with less than 32. When you're below 20, then you can worry. Still, his attitude is very Roman.

yockenthwaite wrote:I'm amazed Elizabeth is still alive after her gunshot between the eyes in the first game. So if she lives fine, otherwise I won't be surprised!

I'm amazed there haven't been more character deaths, but I'm pleased as well that almost everyone has made it so far. Even Edward Barrett didn't stay dead when the Mi-Go killed him, but what happened to him was far, far worse. Of course, this adventure is likely to be dangerous.

Hi everyone, I've just joined Play@ysdc and mr handy has kindly invited me to this game - looks interesting. I'm new to PbP and haven't roleplayed in over 15 years, so be gentle!
I assume I start by generating a character. Where can I get a blank character sheet? Also, any UNIT occupations which would complement the current group - I'm up for playing pretty much anyone for my first time, even a soldier grunt/cannon fodder!
Jim

Welcome aboard, Jim! Yes, character creation is the next step. The Character Creation/Rules thread has full instructions, including a link to the Quick Start rules in PDF form. However, you should use the rules for character creation in the thread itself, not those in the Quick Start rules (those rules give you less skill points than they're supposed to in the actual rules, and they impose a maximum starting skill level that is also not in the main rules and that I'm not applying). Near the end of the Quick Start rules is a blank character sheet. You can also see examples of completed character sheets in the Cast of Characters thread.

The Your Career in U.N.I.T. thread details several occupational choices and the occupational skills associated with each one (in the spoiler buttons). You're free to select whichever one you want or come up with your own. We already have a few technician/engineer-types, a pilot, and a medical officer. We don't have any straight-up soldiers, and a little extra muscle on the team wouldn't hurt. If you want a leadership position, you could create a military officer, though they're less skilled at combat and you might not want the added responsibility on your first outing. A scientist or researcher could work, and a covert operative might be useful too. Really, it's up to you what sort of character you want to play. You can build your character in the Character Creation/Rules thread, and you can also ask me any questions in that thread. I'll help you through the process.

Hi Mr Handy,
When are you planning on starting the game? I'm conscious I've not yet posted my character, so don't want to hold things up. I've actually created two characters, just as an exercise to get used to the process. I'll probably go with the Covert Ops I've created - just need to assign his skills.

The earliest we'd be starting is Monday, and that's only if you and one other player finish character creation by then. There's also one other possible new player, though I haven't heard back from her yet. In addition, I'm not yet finished preparing for the game, but I should soon have enough done that I could start, finishing up the design while the game is running. However, there's a decent chance that the game won't start until late next week or possibly next weekend. Take as long as you need for character creation, as I could always use more time to prepare anyway.

I will be away from November 2-4 at a convention in New Jersey, and then I'm leaving for London on the evening of November 8 and returning late on November 18. However, I'll have more time off in the rest of the November and should be able to keep things moving then.

I should have my char finished for Sunday evening - I've been away from a pc with a keyboard for a few days.

That's alright, Handy. I'll be out of town for most of the second half of October on honeymoon, but should have many chances to check in. The forums are bookmarked on my smartphone, hahaha. (Yes, roleplaying on my own honeymoon... you think that's a commentary about me? )

Congratulations! I hope your new spouse understands - and better still, enjoys roleplaying too. If there's ever a Mrs. Handy, I'd hope she'd also be into gaming.

She understands, though doesn't roleplay. Too shy. Over the years, I'm hoping that'll change.

I'll be out of town the following weekends: (and I'll pretty much not have net time)

October 12 - 14
November 2 - 4
November 8 - 12

Thanks for letting me know. I'll be away for those last two weekends myself. I'm hoping to get started this coming weekend, when you'll be away, but your part will start out in the TARDIS before it arrives, and it'll be okay if you can't post until Monday.

Looking forward to it.

I managed to get the IC threads up and running early. Remember that you may only read the IC threads in which your character is present, so make sure you don't read the one that isn't meant for you. Right now there won't be much to do except introduce yourselves and interact, but I plan to start things moving over the weekend (or sooner if everyone in a particular thread has posted).

If new players decide to join, I can still arrange for them to be added in for now, but once the adventure really gets underway it would be more difficult.

Have fun!

Advance warning: I'm going to be away from early Friday until Sunday afternoon UK time. Going to a school reunion Really not sure what the mobile/3G network will be like back in my home town, so I may not have Internet. If Elizabeth needs to do something urgently please NPC her. Thanks.

Have fun, and no problem! I've been sick for most of the past week, so my update frequency hasn't been all that great anyway, but I'm starting to turn the corner. I'll just let Story take the lead in your thread if you're not able to post.

The news reports say we should be prepared for a few days without power after this hurricane ravages us. So if you don't hear from me after Sunday night / Monday morning, feel free to NPC me as necessary.

No problem. I'm in the hurricane's path too, so I may lose power as well.

I don't live that far from the Virginia coast so I'm sure the storm may knock my power out...only time will tell.

Good luck all.

Yes, good luck and be careful!

I am looking forward to the possibility of investigator deaths before we even manage to get out to Dunwich. Nice way to set the tone of terrible luck and bad juju.

Also everyone stateside who is in the Hurricane path - take care and stay dry.

Thanks! The rest of you take care as well.

It should certainly be interesting. Sometimes the dice throw a curve ball, and something completely unexpected happens that changes things up. I love it when that happens. I don't think any investigators will die just yet, but there is a small chance. I was most worried about Valerie, but with her critical success she'll be fine. I'm about to update the thread now. Even so, this does complicate matters and make things more difficult from the outset.

It's moments like these that make me love roleplaying games. I still can't believe it happened, but hopefully it'll help. Ummm, medic?

Good luck and best wishes to those with the hurricane looming!

Really curious about what's going on in the other threads now! Sounds like it might be similar to what happened to us in the last adventure, when one dice roll changed everything and things suddenly got a lot more dangerous.

Have you guys run into the Star Spawn yet? Or the Dimensional Shamblers? They're horrible. And watch out for the Hounds of Tidalos. You can't give them the slip at all!

Spoilers!

yockenthwaite wrote:Really curious about what's going on in the other threads now! Sounds like it might be similar to what happened to us in the last adventure, when one dice roll changed everything and things suddenly got a lot more dangerous.

It's something along those lines, though in the last game it was a series of die rolls that produced the exact end result that followed, and the combination of rolls had very low odds of happening. It's great when stuff like that happens, as it usually takes the story down a path that had never even occurred to me but is full of horrible - I mean, wonderful - possibilities.

I'll be away and unable to post November 2-4 and November 9-18, but I should be able to post more frequently between those times and after I return.

Here is one of the maps I've been using to get a feel for Dunwich and figure out where everything is. If you zoom in all the way, you can even talk a virtual walk around Dunwich in Google street view and see some of the sights.

I've been absent the last couple of days--sorry about that! Unexpected medical issue. Things should be back to normal now however.

I'm going out of town for the weekend...I'll be back either Monday or Tuesday. NPC me if needed.

I got back earlier this week, but it's taken me some time to catch up. I've now updated the IC threads and should be able to keep things moving.

Is there some reason that none of the UNIT people have posted? I updated their thread over a week ago. It's also been a long time since I've had a post for Lucius.

Weird... I haven't been seeing any posts in my thread. Did we change threads? I'll check it and post... sorry.

Mr. Handy wrote:Is there some reason that none of the UNIT people have posted? I updated their thread over a week ago. It's also been a long time since I've had a post for Lucius.

I've often wondered about the thread Stranger in a Strange Land. It's not locked and the last post was by you Mr. Handy on 9/19...did CrackheadC. drop out?

I was just kinda waiting for the convoy of vehicles to move along. Sorry

Me too, well I was hoping the others would cue in of what they needed when a few people lost their equipment in that helicopter crash

Sorry, when Handy went on his trip I was only checking here and there, then Thanksgiving, it's finals times for my students and I just got over being sick. But I'm back and a post is incoming.

jaysun81 wrote:

Mr. Handy wrote:Is there some reason that none of the UNIT people have posted? I updated their thread over a week ago. It's also been a long time since I've had a post for Lucius.

I've often wondered about the thread Stranger in a Strange Land. It's not locked and the last post was by you Mr. Handy on 9/19...did CrackheadC. drop out?

That is actually an OOC thread for character creation, which is why it hasn't been updated in months.

Welcome back, everyone! We have three of our UNIT people back so far, at least, and I can NPC the others if needed. The vehicles won't move until the drivers (Leonek and Valerie) say they're leaving, as I need decisions about where everyone is going and if you're splitting up. I'll do it this weekend if their players don't act by then. A couple of our players may have disappeared and haven't logged in since early November, but I can recruit replacements for them if they don't return soon. Otherwise, they'll stay NPCs in the meantime. We're getting close to the point where it's difficult to add new playable characters, so this would be one way for a new player to enter the game.

Hi all,
Sorry for my severe lack of posting, life has been really hectic lately. I'll try to get back on track now!

Welcome back, Jimacol!

I've been writing a couple of pieces for a pair of upcoming Doctor Who books recounting the impact of Doctor Who stories on fans. Quite a lot of the stories have people who've already volunteered to write a piece on them, but many don't, and more volunteers are always needed.

To see the full list see here. It's updated as more people volunteer, and as more completed stories are sent in.

The editor is hoping to complete work on the next two books by March 2013 and so is looking for articles to be finished by January 2013 or soon after. If you finish an article for one of the books you may be invited to write an article for the other one. I've already sent a piece in about Enlightenment (1983) and am now finishing off a piece on The Girl Who Waited (2011).

Detailed instructions and guidelines for contributors are provided, along with a template Word file which you can use to quickly lay out your article as it would appear in the book. Articles of around 450 or 1000 words are preferred, fitting nicely into 1 or 2 pages.

yockenthwaite wrote:I've already sent a piece in about Enlightenment (1983) and am now finishing off a piece on The Girl Who Waited (2011).

That's great.

That is wonderful! I have a story I could tell about Planet of Fire's significance to me. I saw a screening of it at a Doctor Who convention (my first convention ever) I went to with my dad, before it actually aired on TV in America. It's still available, but I don't know if I'll have time to write an essay on it.

Mr. Handy wrote:That is wonderful! I have a story I could tell about Planet of Fire's significance to me. I saw a screening of it at a Doctor Who convention (my first convention ever) I went to with my dad, before it actually aired on TV in America. It's still available, but I don't know if I'll have time to write an essay on it.

It takes surprisingly little time I'm finding to rattle off 450 words. Even my latest 988 word piece on The Girl Who Waited didn't take that long If you did have time it would be great because it sounds like you have a really good story to tell.

Thanks. Once I get caught up on things and have a chance to get some sleep, I'll think about it. I see that I have until the end of January to write it, so it is possible.

I just saw The Hobbit today and was pleasantly surprised to see that Sylvester McCoy was in it! I recgonized him when he appeared and confirmed it was him when I saw the credits at the end. He was great!

Mr. Handy wrote:I just saw The Hobbit today and was pleasantly surprised to see that Sylvester McCoy was in it! I recgonized him when he appeared and confirmed it was him when I saw the credits at the end. He was great!

Yes. I haven't seen the film yet, but he's the best thing in the trailers for me If I remember correctly he was on the short list for playing old Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, so Peter Jackson clearly remembered him.

Indeed. It was nice to see McCoy show up in a major motion picture. I really liked his portrayal of the character.

I will be away starting tomorrow (12/23) until Saturday (12/29), I'll make another post tonight and I'll do my best to post during the week...if I can't know that I will post next Saturday night.

Hey gang,

Thought I'd pop in and say "hi".

I'll be taking over Leonek, since his last player went MIA.
I've never done pbp before, so stop me if I go too fast.

Cheers,

Hi, welcome aboard

Welcome, DrPeterson! You're doing well so far.

Welcome DrPeterson!

<-- waves to the new blood...

I'll be on a cruise in the Carribean from 6 to 13 January and completely away from all internet access. Please NPC me in that time frame. Thanks!

Enjoy the cruise.

Thanks. I'll try. The pleasantries normally associated with a cruise in the Carribean may be slightly dulled due to the fact that I'll have to play peacekeeper with my ever-growing-more-ornery father and the others.

Well, I hope you still manage to have a good time. I'll NPC you if needed.

Today I just discovered the Doctor Who Solitaire Story Game. I've only just started looking at it, but it looks pretty awesome - and it's free! The link above goes to the wiki, where you can play using the four core books. The First Doctor adventure book is also on the wiki, with many more to follow eventually. All of these and dozens more adventure books for all of the Doctors and various other stuff are available for free from BoardGameGeek and the Yahoo! Discussion Group for the DWSSG in PDF format, though both require you to register.

Big Finish who produce audio adventures with Doctors 4-8 have just announced their plans for a special release for the 50th anniversary. It's going to star all of Doctors 4-8, plus companions for each of them. And by the sounds of the blurb Doctors 1-3 will be involved in the story too somehow, raising the possibility of some of their companions guest starring too. I'll be buying it anyway To read more see here. The Big Finish audios include some really good ones - including possibly my favourite Doctor Who story of all, The Chimes of Midnight - and are well worth checking out.

Wow, that does sound great! I've got the first collection of Eighth Doctor audio adventures by Big Finish which includes Storm Warning, Sword of Orion, The Stones of Venice, and Minuet in Hill. I bought them when I happed across them at a Chapters when visiting Vancouver about two and a half years ago, and I listened to them after I finished watching the classic series and the 1996 TV movie. Minuet in Hell is my favorite out of those four, and it features Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier. Big Finish also made an animated version of Shada with Paul McGann, Lalla Ward, and John Leeson. You can watch it free here, where I saw it in 2010. It is also included on the newly released DVD of Shada along with what exists of the story and Tom Baker's connecting narration. I've preordered that, but it hasn't shipped yet.

I don't have any other Big Finish audios. I've seen them during visits to Forbidden Planet and the Doctor Who shop in London, but I spent a small fortune buying the five collectons of soundtracks from all of the missing TV episodes, and there was a limit to how much I could spend.

I'll be away this weekend, just a heads up

I'm looking forward to picking up this 50th anniversary special by Big Finish. I also plan to pick up Shada. I actually have the old VHS copy of Shada...I always enjoyed it. However, I've never seen the 8th Doctor remake.

Yeah, Shada's a great one! You can't go wrong with Tom Baker as the Doctor and Douglas Adams writing the story. It's a shame they were never able to finish making it, but at least most of it is intact.

No problem, Thorn!

I finally had a chance to play my first adventure in the Doctor Who Solitaire Story Game, and it's loads of fun! There are so many different things (and combinations of things) that can happen that you could never exhaust the possibilities, and that's just with the core books. The additional books must add so much more. The text is often general and abstract about what happens, leaving it to the reader's imagination to fill in the story. In my first adventure, my newly regenerated Ninth Doctor visited Earth in the year 12,005, during the Second Roman Empire. Taking my trusty sonic screwdriver, I went out to explore and promptly got hopelessly lost. However, I was soon able to find my way and ran into Marcus Falco, a centurion. He told me about his friend Quintus, a Senator, and we went to visit him. Quintus offered to show us the sights of Novus Roma, and I happily agreed. We went to the arena to take in a robot gladiatorial game from Quintus's luxurious box seats ("Don't worry, the robots are not sentient," Quintus assured me). The opportunity to relax gained me a bonus Luck point, but it was not long before danger reared its ugly head.

Continuing to explore the city, the three of us stumbled upon evidence that secret forces were at work. Putting our heads together, we deduced that the Krillitanes were behind it. But what were they doing here? We investigated further by entering a restricted area - and promptly bumped into two Krillitanes, one of which was an Elder. Fortunately, Krillitanes are easily confused by someone who's smart enough, and the Elders love to gloat about their plans. I talked to them and tricked the Elder into revealing the Krillitanes' purpose here. They were attempting to crack the God-code written into the DNA of all living things so that they could control all life. Thanking the Elder, I said that we had to leave, and it just let us walk off. On our way out, we encountered a patrol of six Roman soldiers, one of which was a centurion. I approached them with open arms. "Friends, Romans, Countrymen!" I said in greeting - only to met with six blasters pointed at my face. "That's odd. That line went over well when I told Mark Antony to use it. Of course, he didn't turn out so well in the end. Pity about the snake."

"This is a forbidden zone!" barked the centurion. "You are not allowed here!"

"Me, not allowed? I'm allowed everywhere!" I tried to warn them about the threat posed by the Krilliatanes, but in spite of my charm, Quintus's status and brilliant oratory, and Marcus Falco's position in the legions, these soldiers refused to listen, determined to enforce their silly laws even if it meant their doom.

"Surrender or die!" ordered the centurion, so we put our hands up and were marched off to prison. Quintus could have used his influence to get us out had he not been in trouble himself.

I was taken to be interrogated, where I was subjected to their mind probe. "No, not the mind probe," I said in a very insincere tone. I easily withstood it by thinking of nothing but nursery rhymes and was taken back to the cell I shared with Marcus and Quintus. It was an easy matter to escape, with a little help from my sonic screwdriver. However, just as we were leaving the prison, we ran into a group of six Krillitanes, their leader the same Elder I had met before. My glib tongue proved to be effective again, and I got the Elder to reveal more about their plans and to let us depart in peace.

Now I had the beginnings of a plan to defeat the Krilliatanes, but I needed to do some scientific research (I should have used engineering, but I forgot that the sonic screwdriver gives me an extra Engineering trait. Still, I rolled well enough that I didn't need it.). Quintus provided a lab for us to use, and I made excellent progress. Continuing my research, I soon made a major breakthrough. "Eureka!" I cried, as I'd figured out exactly how to stop the Krillitane and prevent any bloodshed. Now I just needed to find the right way to approach them, so I started studying what I knew of them to find their weaknesses.

Before I could finish, they approached me. The Elder and its escorts had tracked us to the lab, and they surged inside. "You have interfered for the last time, Doctor!" it said. It issued a chilling order to its minions. "Kill them all!" The Krillitanes advanced...

"Wait!" I cried, and to my surprise they did. Again I talked my way out of trouble, claiming that I had discovered that the designer of the God-code had also implanted a self-destruct mechanism to keep any living things from exploiting it. If they completed their studies and learned the code, they would immediately die! The Krillitanes were skeptical at first, but I showed them my research and used enough technobabble to fool the Elder (and spent a Luck point because I botched my initial roll). The Elder was convinced at last, and it vowed to stop trying to break the code. It even let us live out of gratitude.

Mission accomplished, I returned to the TARDIS to continue my travels. I said goodbye to Marcus Falco, but Quintus wanted to come with me and see the universe. I gladly welcomed him aboard as my first companion, and we headed for our next adventure in time and space.

Sounds interesting.

It looks like I got into the DWSSG at just the right time. Though earlier versions of the game have been around since 2009, it's been vastly improved and expanded. The wiki didn't go live until December 25, and the First Doctor supplement wasn't there until January 5, the day before I discovered the game. The other supplements will be added throughout the year, with each of the classic Doctors getting their supplements placed on the wiki on the first Saturday of each month in order. There is also additional content on the wiki that is not in the PDF versions of the game, including sound clips and many more pictures. The hyperlinks really help with navigating as well. I've had to keep track of everything on paper, but later this year there are plans to allow character sheets and moves to be recorded and saved on the wiki, which will make it an even more convenient way to play. A dice roller will be added to the wiki too.

I failed you, buddy...

We played trivia on the cruise ship. One of the questions was "What does T.A.R.D.I.S" stand for... and I blew it. Sorry.

I am currently in the States visiting family, so I won't be able to post (very tight schedule, I am only here for one week). I will be back in Korea on Tuesday and will be able to post again then.

No problem, and enjoy!

The DWSSG now has the dice roller up and working, and I've played a few more adventures in the last couple of weeks, including one where Quintus and I visited Pompeii in A.D. 79, shortly before Vesuvius blew its top. He was delighted to see the original Roman Empire. The Sycorax were planning to invade, and humanity would have been helpless in that era. Fortunately, I managed to defeat the Sycorax by finding the beacon that would guide their invasion fleet in to land and placing it on top of the volcano, thus destroying the fleet. We even managed to get safely into the TARDIS before the eruption.

I'm back from my vacation, but after a 20 hour ordeal of travel I am just going to bed. I'll catch up and post tomorrow.

Welcome back!

Welcome to Trace, who will be taking over the character of Elliot Webb!

*waving to Trace*

Hey everybody, sorry for the long response for my character, but school had just started for me last week and I've been busy

Welcome back! I don't think you've missed too much.

Welcome, Trace!

I'll be leaving for a convention on Thursday afternoon and won't be back until Sunday night, though I might not be able to catch up and post until the following night.

Those of you in the Regrouping thread may interact freely with each other. My input won't be needed unless you go somewhere or do something, but please try to come to a decision about what everyone is going to do next by the time I return.

Enjoy, and I apologize to everyone in the thread, for some reason I haven't been able to get onto the forums recently, I had been getting some general error.

Thanks. I've experienced that error too, and the rest of the time the board still loads very slow.

I will be out of town from this Thursday (21st) until Monday (25th).

No problem. I'll be away myself during most of that time anyway.

Welcome to Mskatonic, who will be taking over the character of Valerie Soames!

Mskatonic, the first two adventures may be found in the Hall of Fame, though you need to be logged in in order to see them. They are The Terror Out of Time and The Ninth Planet, and you're free to read them if you wish, though you certainly don't need to do so. Your character would have no knowledge of the events of those stories.

Hi there Looking forward to playing. I'm probably gonna need a few days to catch up with the story thus far before I jump in, hope that is ok! The play by post game is new for me. I am gonna hold off on reading the other stories right away if my character won't have knowledge of them, I think it will be better for role playing purposes..

Welcome aboard Mskatonic!

Thank you, detective socks!

Take your time. Valerie has been an NPC for so long, a few extra days won't hurt. Your thread has stalled for the last week or so anyway, as none of the other players have posted. I'm still getting caught up on things after the convention, so I can wait a bit longer to update. One nice thing about play by post is that things can move more slowly. It also makes it easier to limit player knowledge to match character knowledge.

Those of you in Regrouping do need to let me know who is going where before I can continue with that thread.

You should probably be made aware of Valerie and Lucius' sordid love affair... you know, they've been quite active in the back rooms of the TARDIS, we just never mentioned it in game play. (wink - wink, nudge - nudge)

Welcome to the game, Mskatonic.

Greetings Mskatonic! Welcome to the family.

Mr. Handy wrote:Take your time. Valerie has been an NPC for so long, a few extra days won't hurt. Your thread has stalled for the last week or so anyway, as none of the other players have posted. I'm still getting caught up on things after the convention, so I can wait a bit longer to update. One nice thing about play by post is that things can move more slowly. It also makes it easier to limit player knowledge to match

Thanks. I have caught up on most of the reading, so hope to post soon. I do like how it's set up with different players being limited to the different scenes/ threads that they are actually involved in. Keeps things a little mysterious as to what the other players and characters are up to when they are off doing something else.

ImpInTraining wrote:You should probably be made aware of Valerie and Lucius' sordid love affair... you know, they've been quite active in the back rooms of the TARDIS, we just never mentioned it in game play. (wink - wink, nudge - nudge).

Lol, thanks ImpInTraining. I must have missed those scenes between Valerie and Lucius! And I will refrain from making a TARDIS "bigger on the inside" joke regarding this because that would probably end up being in bad taste, ha!

jaysun81 wrote:Greetings Mskatonic! Welcome to the family.

Thanks for the welcome jay sun

You're welcome. Separate threads for when the group is divided also adds to the drama and suspense in a way that's difficult to achieve around a table, and it's still possible to run multiple subgroups simultaneously. There's an excellent example of this in The Terror Out of Time at the end of Episode 3 and the start of Episode 4.

New Doctor Who episodes comes out on March 30th!! Can't wait!!

I will be away starting tomorrow (3/7) until Saturday (3/9)...so NPC if needed Mr. Handy.

Mskatonic wrote:New Doctor Who episodes comes out on March 30th!! Can't wait!!

I'm looking forward to them too! There are also the BBC America specials (presumably they're airing on the regular BBC as well) every month, each one featuring one of the eleven Doctors, including a full story from each of them, leading up to the 50th anniversary in November. They ran The Aztecs for William Hartnell in January and Tomb of the Cybermen for Patrick Troughton in February. Jon Pertwee's will be later this month. I don't know which story they'll pick, but I think Spearhead from Space would be a good choice. I like Inferno even better, but they don't have enough time in the slot to run a seven-parter; they've been using four-parters so far.

jaysun81 wrote:I will be away starting tomorrow (3/7) until Saturday (3/9)...so NPC if needed Mr. Handy.

Will do, no problem.

Mr. Handy wrote:There are also the BBC America specials (presumably they're airing on the regular BBC as well)

They're not airing here in the UK. Fans here are very disappointed so far by what's happening anniversary-wise. There seem to be more celebrations in other countries. For example New Zealand is also airing past doctor episodes throughout the year.

That stinks that the BBC isn't giving it the attention it deserves. I wasn't expecting that. I'm used to the UK getting Doctor Who stuff first most of the time. It's great to see BBC America finally airing classic episodes, which they've never done before. PBS used to have them, but they stopped shortly before the new series started. I have all of the released episodes so far on DVD (the rest should be coming later this year), but it's still nice to see. The Special Edition of The Aztecs (which includes recently recovered Episode 3 of Galaxy 4, along with a reconstruction of the other episodes) and of The Ark in Space are due to be released soon here and are already on their way to me. It's also great to see some of the missing episodes animated and merged with the soundtracks in order to complete the stories that are only missing one or two. I saw The Reign of Terror not too long ago, with animation filling in the missing fourth and fifth episodes, done by Big Finish. They're also doing The Tenth Planet's missing final episode, and I was delighted to hear recently that The Ice Warriors will have its two missing episodes animated after all.

I'm still somewhere in the midst of season 7.

My new DVDs arrived yesterday, a few days before the official release date of Tuesday. I've already almost finished rewatching The Aztecs. Then there's a lot of bonus material, much of it new to this edition, and the reconstruction of Galaxy 4. In addition to the recovered episode, about six minutes of video from Episode 1 still exist.

Cool I'm going to have to check out those specials. I haven't really watched much of the early doctors so this will be a good start. And I can't believe they are not doing much for the doctor who anniversary in the uk yockenthwaite, that just doesn't seem right !!

Well we may yet have masses of celebrations here in the UK. So I may be being unfair But so far nothing, zilch, nada. Very disappointing.

Though I did really enjoy watching the reports on the Internet of the filming of the docudrama about the early years of Doctor Who, including the recreation of that classic scene on the bridge with the Daleks.

That doesn't seem fair...Maybe they have a big surprise planned?

http://m.teefury.com/ hmm maybe we are onto something with this Dr. Who/ Lovecraft crossover. There is a Cthulhu/Dalek tee on tee fury today!

Awesome!

Sorry about the lack of a post, I've been getting 404s again. I think you can bypass that error by going through google though - something to test later.

I was getting 404s as well. I had the direct link bookmarked and it seems that the forum changed some of the info in the address. I've re-adjusted my bookmark since then.

Maybe it has something to do with the changes that were made to the board this week. I haven't had a problem with that, and I have the site's home page bookmarked.

Yeah I think it is bookmark related too, i'll update mine.

Yeah same here I couldn't get to the site with my bookmark...I was worried there for a minute that something happened to the game...

Yes, I think that's it. The homepage was unaffected, but existing links to threads and posts from before the change are now broken. I tried following one of the links at the end of a locked thread, and the page was not found. It looks like every thread now has /pbp after the home page but before the page itself.

I've reported the issue to carnage_lee, who implemented the changes on Tuesday. If he fixes them and changes the addresses back to the way they were before, any new bookmarks you've made could be invalidated, so you should check the site's homepage if that happens.

I'm going to go ahead and transition to Episode 2 now. I'll be including links at the end of each thread to the new threads, and those will work the way things are now, but if the changes are rolled back they will break. In that case, I'll just have to edit them.

Aye, I was getting the 404, as well. Just now figured to try the home page. Updated my bookmark and will be back to posting.

Hey guys, sorry about the lack of posts from me. I've been knocked out with a nasty combo of a cold, acute tonsillitis and some severe eye infection. I've been on forced leave from work (I'm a teacher and obviously can't be around kids at the moment), I'll have something up tomorrow.

Wow, that sounds pretty unpleasant, hope you feel better soon!

Yes, feel better soon, and don't feel in a rush to post.

Thanks, I'm almost better now. I've been more bored than anything else. Honestly it is my own fault, I should have gone to the doctor sooner - I mean I pay into the country's healthcare system so I might as well take advantage of it. But I don't like doctors, and I wasn't looking forward to dealing with one in another language so I put it off until it was too late.

Welcome to Winterwillow, who will be taking over the part of Elliot Webb!

Just curious, what country do you live in crackheadc?

And welcome winterwillow! That's exciting! I'm playing Valerie Soames, our characters are working closely together right now. I just started recently too.

I've been living in South Korea for about a year now, which is why I tend to have random posting times.

Welcome to the game Winterwillow.

Welcome all new people

Welcome aboard folks!

Mr Handy - A family emergency has came up so I will not be able to post tomorrow (3/30) or Sunday (3/31).

Okay, take care.

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome. Its been a while sine I role-play on as forum so please be patient . I am posting from my phone and my grammar is off, off and in the next town over. I'm still trying to under stand the dice rules and stuff. I do have both Quick-start and 5.x edition of CoC. Give me some time to get familiar.

I wanted to say I loved reading Chapter One and the opening of Chapter Two. The tension, suspense and the dread is there and its will only get better.

Thank You for having me as a dinner guest.

One more thing , how do I create a OCC button to ask if I need to make a roll on skills if needed?

Thank you, and I'm glad you're enjoying it! You are allowed to read the first two adventures in the Hall of Fame if you wish, though it's certainly not required. They are The Terror Out of Time and The Ninth Planet.

This post has full instructions for using spoiler buttons.

Sorry I've disappeared like I did. My father was in critical condition and passed yesterday. I've been a bit busy with family details. I expect to be back to normal by Tuesday or Wednesday.

Oh deepest sympathies

I'm sorry for your loss. Make sure you take care of yourself.

My condolences as well. Take all the time you need.

Sorry to read of your loss.

Thanks folks. I'm back now...

Im sorry for your lost, Imp. Ill put you and your family in my prayers tonight.


Im back. Sorry for delay posting I had some phone troubles.

Mr. Handy...my apologies but a family emergency has arising and so I'll be away until this weekend. I apologize for the last minute notice.

Apologies: I seem to have missed the new thread, despite subscribing to the old thread - obviously didn't get the last update. So back on track now!

No problem, and welcome back! I don't subscribe to threads, but I check them manually. The automatic updates don't always work. From what people who do subscribe to threads have said, it sounds like if you happen to be logged in when a thread is updated, you might not get notified.

jaysun81 wrote:Mr. Handy...my apologies but a family emergency has arising and so I'll be away until this weekend. I apologize for the last minute notice.

That's okay, and take your time. I hope everything works out well.

Mr. Handy, I'm sorry to do this in mid-scenario but life has thrown me a curve ball...a massive life crisis. As you can imagine things have all the sudden become crazy insane and intense. I don't know if it's permanent or temporary. That said I will have to quit the game and allow someone else to have the TARDIS keys.

Oh dear Sympathies. All the best for you and your family for the coming times.

Very sorry to hear that, Jaysun. I hope everything works out.

I hope everything works itself out for the best for you, my condolences

I'm sorry to hear that too, and I hope everything gets resolved well.

I'll NPC Story for now until he has a player again, but he won't be doing much for a while. I can put him on hold while he's off fishing without any other PCs around.

Thanks Mr. Handy, I would love to keep playing but life is intense...I appreciate you holding the character for now.

You're welcome. I did make a post in Existing Games Looking for Players to see if anyone's interested in taking over him, though that may end up being on a temporary basis. It might not be easy to find another player for him anyway, but I do have an alternative plan that would allow me to keep the campaign going even if you can't return and I can't find a replacement.

Sorry about your spot of bad times, Jaysun. I hope you work everything out soon enough.

I wouldn't be too adverse to taking Story's part - if even temporarily. Lucius is about to go ape-shit crazy anyway what with his plummeting sanity score.

I'm hoping my departure isn't permanent but things are very delicate right now and I just don't have the time. I will know more in a week or two. As far as ImpInTraining taking over Story, especially if my absence is only temporarily, I would be in favor. I'll check-in in a week or so.

I don't want you playing two characters at once, but if something happens to Lucius, you'd be welcome to take over Story. Don't get too reckless with him, though. I have plans for Lucius...horrible plans. His Sanity really isn't that low, anyway. Some characters start with less than that. When it drops below 20, then you can worry.

Story is off on his own and doesn't need to do anything for some time, so there's no rush.

Fair enough. But you can repeat that to me about Lucius' sanity when the fish-men start walking out of the ocean and Lucius is in the fetal position rocking back and forth.

Everyone, please continue posting in your threads, conversing and planning with each other. When you decide where you want to go and what you want to do, I'll move you along (creating new threads if any groups split up).

I will be away from 8th to the end of May as I'm cycling a long version of John O'Groats to Lands End and living in a tent. Please NPC or incarcerate Tobias until I'm back; if necessary he could have a relapse from the accident and spend the time in his room, once it is ready. I'll be posting until the 7th.

That's awesome!

Good luck, mate!

Have fun, and no problem! It'll probably quite a while in real time before the room is ready, depending on how quickly things move, but I can run Tobias until you get back.

Welcome to MikeTheMoose, who will be taking over the character of Story, at least for now!

Welcome, Mike!

Enjoy the fishing!

Yes welcome aboard Mike.

Also best of luck aine with your cycle ride. Hope your derriere doesn't get too sore

Welcome Mike... I hope you can pull rabbits out of your hat.

Welcome aboard, Mike! Literally

Just read really interesting article in The Guardian newspaper about new mapping of medieval Dunwich:
Archaeologists map lost medieval Suffolk town of Dunwich under the sea.

In another couple years, that could be a similar problem with the whole coastline.

yockenthwaite wrote:Just read really interesting article in The Guardian newspaper about new mapping of medieval Dunwich:
Archaeologists map lost medieval Suffolk town of Dunwich under the sea.

Thanks! Awesome article, and the map may be useful too!

How's everyone doing? Not much has changed on my front...things are still uncertain but I have hope that things will turn around. Though the truth is only time will tell.

MikeTheMoose take care of Story.

MrHandy, I'll keep checking in to see where things go concerning Story and the gang. I could probably return to active duty but I have no desire to unseat MikeTheMoose.

I'm doing all right, and I hope things improve for you. Glad you're checking in and following along.

Pretty tight with time as school finals are coming pretty soon, but I'm actually pretty confident about it. I hope things work itself out for you Jaysun

Jay sun, hope things work out for the best. Take care!

Thank you. Only time will tell I'm afraid.

I will be sailing on the ocean for the next few days. Please NPC me as necessary.

No problem, and have fun!

Welcome to Andrew, who will be taking over the character of Elliot Webb!

Hooray and welcome!

Hey everybody, I know I haven't posted for quite awhile, but it's near the end of the school semester and the past few weeks has been the most stressful days ever. I'll try to make a post sometime this weekend.

Welcome back! There's no rush right now, so post when you have time.

Hey everybody, sorry for keeping the story back but I've just been busy with school still. This week and next week are my school finals, and it's been pretty hectic with me lately. I should be able to make a response hopefully by this Friday, but if anything, I'll definitely make a post this weekend.

Just bare with me for a little longer guys, thanks!

That's okay. I have more time on the weekend anyway. After you post, I should be able to get your thread moving again.

Sorry I haven't posted in a bit. I've been following along, but I have had much to add at the moment. My students finish their speaking tests this week and their Midterms last week, so I'll be back in in no time.

Great to hear that. Right now there are only two players who haven't posted in a long time, so I've declared them missing and put their characters up for grabs. Andrew won't be able to join us after all, so both Chad Engraham and Elliot Webb are both up for grabs for new players.

I see things are moving along nicely.

Jaysun: If you want to return please don't be shy. I'm having a lot of fun playing Story. But Story is your character, your idea, your vision. If your dire need for time away has passed and you have the desire, please feel free to step back into the saddle. I've tried to be very verbose in my posts so that you would have all the "why's" of what I have tried to accomplish. You owe me no greater explanation than you would like to return.

If Jaysun does accept your generous offer, you can still play by taking over either Chad or Elliot, both of whom are currently without a player. Andrew may be able to join us eventually after all, but there will still be an opening for him since there are two characters available.

I'll be away on vacation through the 29th, and again from the afternoon of July 3rd through the 7th, so I probably won't be able to post during those times.

MikeTheMoose wrote:Jaysun: If you want to return please don't be shy. I'm having a lot of fun playing Story. But Story is your character, your idea, your vision. If your dire need for time away has passed and you have the desire, please feel free to step back into the saddle. I've tried to be very verbose in my posts so that you would have all the "why's" of what I have tried to accomplish. You owe me no greater explanation than you would like to return.

Wow MikeTheMoose...thank you. I truly appreciate that. Thanks for taking care of the character. I would indeed like to return. While my situation hasn't passed entirely the dust has begun to settle. That said I hope you take Mr. Handy's offer and remain in the game. Also, I will not resume posting as Story until I hear from you and Mr. Handy acknowledges the hand off.

Glad to hear things a calming down Jaysun. I will assume the next post for Story is yours. Mr Handy; I would like to remain in the campaign. Let me read the character sheets of those two characters, and I'll get back to you with a preference. Unless you have a preference on which character you would like to see under player control.

Sorry for the very late reply! I'm really surprised with everybody's patience! Life has been very crazy, with school finals finally finished and than my city being flooded last week. For a landlocked province in Canada I'd never expect a flooding where I live. Luckily my home didn't get flooded and all my friends and loved ones are safe, though, some of those friends had to evacuate their homes. Thanks for the patients everybody! I really appreciate it!

Wow, that's impressive. Good to hear you're safe and sound!

Is that the same Canada province where the RCMP came through and confiscated all of the firearms while the city was evacuated?

Yeah, the same province. It wasn't really big news in my city Calgary (where I live) but happened in another town called High River. Apparently, the RCMP confiscated firearms from people's homes because they were evacuated. Not sure if they confiscated them as they evicted people from their homes or deliberately went into people's homes after they've left.

In my opinion, I think those firearms are in a more secure place than left unattended in a home.

Eek, glad you are safe Detectivesocks!

Anyone going to dexcon this weekend?

As long as the government intends on giving them back when its all said and done. If it happened here in the USA, there might have been a riot on our hands. If I ever have to evacuate, I'm taking my guns.

jaysun81 wrote:

MikeTheMoose wrote:Jaysun: If you want to return please don't be shy. I'm having a lot of fun playing Story. But Story is your character, your idea, your vision. If your dire need for time away has passed and you have the desire, please feel free to step back into the saddle. I've tried to be very verbose in my posts so that you would have all the "why's" of what I have tried to accomplish. You owe me no greater explanation than you would like to return.

Wow MikeTheMoose...thank you. I truly appreciate that. Thanks for taking care of the character. I would indeed like to return. While my situation hasn't passed entirely the dust has begun to settle. That said I hope you take Mr. Handy's offer and remain in the game. Also, I will not resume posting as Story until I hear from you and Mr. Handy acknowledges the hand off.

Welcome back, Jaysun! Story is yours once again.

MikeTheMoose wrote:Glad to hear things a calming down Jaysun. I will assume the next post for Story is yours. Mr Handy; I would like to remain in the campaign. Let me read the character sheets of those two characters, and I'll get back to you with a preference. Unless you have a preference on which character you would like to see under player control.

You're free to choose whichever character you prefer. Once you've caught up on that character's IC threads, you may post when ready. You may want to read the Your Careet In U.N.I.T. thread as well. You'll have to pretend you don't know everything you learned when playing as Story, of course.

DetectiveSocks wrote:Sorry for the very late reply! I'm really surprised with everybody's patience! Life has been very crazy, with school finals finally finished and than my city being flooded last week. For a landlocked province in Canada I'd never expect a flooding where I live. Luckily my home didn't get flooded and all my friends and loved ones are safe, though, some of those friends had to evacuate their homes. Thanks for the patients everybody! I really appreciate it!

I'm glad you're back safe too. I had heard about the flooding.

ImpInTraining wrote:As long as the government intends on giving them back when its all said and done. If it happened here in the USA, there might have been a riot on our hands. If I ever have to evacuate, I'm taking my guns.

I had heard about the gun confiscation as well. I don't think the RCMP had the legal right to do what they did. If anyone tried that here, there would indeed be hell to pay. One article I read said that the RCMP would return the guns if the owners provided proof of ownership, but that might be hard to do if those homes were flooded out and the paperwork was destroyed.

Mskatonic wrote:Anyone going to dexcon this weekend?

I'm going to DEXCON, and I'm leaving in about an hour. I haven't even eaten lunch yet, so I might not have time to update until next week, as it took me longer than expected to catch up on everything. I'm signed up for all three Cthulhu Live LARPs (as well as a Firefly LARP) and all three of Sean Foster's tabletop CoC games.

Mr. Handy wrote:Welcome back, Jaysun! Story is yours once again.

Thank you my good sir. I'll be out of town starting in about thirty minutes and I'll be gone until Sunday night so I'll post at the beginning of the week. I look forward to jumping back into the adventure.

Our excavation starts this week and since my assistant isn't arriving until the second week, I might be hard-pressed to post on here with anything remotely resembling frequency.

If my delayed responses are slowing down the story, please feel free to NPC my character after their particular..uhm...idiom, sir?...yes, idiom!

Hope ya'll have fun at that convention. I should go, it's only a couple or three hours away, but it's dangerously close to NYC .. and I avoid NYC like the plague.

All caught up...waiting on Mr. Handy to make his post in the Fishing for Clues thread and then I'll be back in the saddle.

Mr. Handy
After reviewing the Character Sheets, I think I'd like to take over Chad if that's OK?

Edit****

You wrecked your helicopter dude? Really? You were the pilot, you had 1 job......

Historicity,oof disposable cameras weren't available until 1986, people bought cheap reusable box cameras until then, I had an old Kodak Instamatic

ImpInTraining wrote:Hope ya'll have fun at that convention. I should go, it's only a couple or three hours away, but it's dangerously close to NYC .. and I avoid NYC like the plague.

It was great! It's close to NYC but not close enough to be a bother.

Yes, it was a lot of fun, and Morristown is nothing like New York. There were people there from New York, but they're good folks and probably just as happy to be away from it as you are, Imp.

DrPeterson wrote:Our excavation starts this week and since my assistant isn't arriving until the second week, I might be hard-pressed to post on here with anything remotely resembling frequency.

If my delayed responses are slowing down the story, please feel free to NPC my character after their particular..uhm...idiom, sir?...yes, idiom!

No problem. I'll NPC you if needed.

jaysun81 wrote:All caught up...waiting on Mr. Handy to make his post in the Fishing for Clues thread and then I'll be back in the saddle.

I'm mostly caught up now, so I should be able to post in your thread (and the others) tonight.

MikeTheMoose wrote:Mr. Handy
After reviewing the Character Sheets, I think I'd like to take over Chad if that's OK?

Edit****

You wrecked your helicopter dude? Really? You were the pilot, you had 1 job......

Historicity,oof disposable cameras weren't available until 1986, people bought cheap reusable box cameras until then, I had an old Kodak Instamatic

Yep, you've got Chad now. That critical failure sure made things interesting... Since disposable cameras weren't available quite yet, it'll be one of those box cameras instead.

Sorry for the delay Mr. Handy it has been a very busy week. That said, I'll post tonight.

That's okay. Your thread can proceed at your own pace. You're not holding anyone else back.

The casting of the 12th Doctor is to be announced this coming Sunday. Simulcast on BBC1 (7pm UK time, BST) in the UK and BBC America. See here.

yockenthwaite wrote:The casting of the 12th Doctor is to be announced this coming Sunday.

Yay!

Sweet!

Welcome to BenTheRat, who will be taking over the character of Elliot Webb!

I am here, and all caught up. Wow, great story so far. Elliot will be a LOT more active than he has been to here.

Quick thought on the helo crash. Got to play with Sandy Peterson, I was a pilot of a space craft. I sent my co-pilot to a planet surface with a landing vehicle and he wrecked it bad. So I took down the big ship and also wrecked it bad. Both of us rolling over 90+. So I know the feeling.

Anyway, couple things.
1. I'd like to think Elliot caught on that he would have never heard of Harry Potter, when it was mentioned in the car.
2. I'll keep a look out for anything that can be used as a replacement for some of my more professional tools.

Looks like fun guys, I'll be posting in the main thread soon.

I'm back too! I'll catch up and get back into things tomorrow!

Welcome back!

For those that were around when I had to indefinitely step away from the role of Story I just wanted to say that the dust has settled, the crisis is over, and the best possible outcome has happened! Needless to say I'm thrilled and my kids are ecstatic There is still a road before my family but me, my wife, and our kids are capable and willing to walk it.

I'm so happy to hear that, Jaysun I wish you all the best.

I'm glad to hear it too, and i hope things continue to go well.

Glad to hear everything is good, I hope everything turns out for the better after this

I'm going to be away at the Edinburgh Book Festival over the next few days, so please NPC me if need be through to Monday night. I'll be posting again from Tuesday onwards.

Okay, have fun!

Back home so posting again. Had great time. Was expensive, cos we had to stay in a hotel for 2 nights, due to taking my wheelchair + MS-like illness. But had great evening at book festival last night. Saw Neil Gaiman talk about his Sandman series of comics/graphic novels, and then a multi-author celebration of the late great Scottish writer (sci-fi and mainstream fiction) Iain Banks who died recently.

Welcome back! Sounds like it was awesome! I haven't read Sandman or Neil Gaiman's graphic novels, but I have read and enjoyed Good Omens, which he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett, and he wrote a couple of episodes of the new Doctor Who.

Good Omens is fun. His other books are worth a read too.

I blogged about my book festival visit this time, if anyone wants to have a peek. Was much fun anyway. Glad went.

Could someone please advise me about Raymond MacIntyre demeanor? I need some input regarding those subtle nuances I would not understand just having taken over that role. I am endeavoring to read as much as possible to become more familiar but I do seek to start posting sooner rather than later. Any assistance would be most appreciated.

Welcome aboard! I'm not all that familiar with that sort of thing, as I haven't read the portions where his player was present since July, so you'd probably get a better idea from reading his threads than I have now. Maybe the other players will have some insights.

The last thread I saw that was posted for Raymond was by yourself actually. He had offered to get some drinks for Brook. I assume they are on good terms as far as interacting in a group. The thread left off at most leaving to go to the Ship Inn for drinks, one is at the Inn already, and two of that group are going to hold a private conversation outside the museum.

In any case I think I can get posting without many issues. Please correct my posts if I somehow do not portray Raymond appropriately as it relates to past writings.

Thanks for the input thus far.

You're welcome. I just posted a new thread and moved Raymond into it (Return to the Inn), so you'll need to post there when you're ready. You really should read his threads from beginning to end if you haven't already to get the best feel for him, but I'm sure you'll do fine. When I posted for Raymond as an NPC, I was trying not to do too much with him.

I be working on that Handy. Reading reading reading away!

Welcome, Shroudeye

Thank you for the nice welcome Thorn

I think some nocturnal surveillance needs to be had on Dr. Strong. Anyway to get an equipment drop so some nightvision and sound equipment can be delivered asap?

You could call UNIT (there's a public phone booth in the middle of St. James's Street, not far from Dr. Strong's cottage) and request that they add that to the shipment they're putting together to send to you, though that won't arrive until tomorrow.

Great! I will ask the others once we all go get a drink.

Afraid I'm going to be travelling again, away from Wednesday through to Sunday. Going to an academic conference, where I'll be giving a talk. Then on way back hoping to see a bit of the tourist things in the area, which includes potentially Nessie So please NPC my character if need be through that time.

No problem. Have a great time!

Thanks. Back home and just about recovered. Academic conference went well, including my talk. And we had a lovely trip back, via Culloden (so sad), and down the west side of Loch Ness via Urquhart Castle etc. Now to check the game thread to see what's been happening

Wonderful news, and just in time for Doctor Who's 50th anniversary! The BBC has confirmed that "a number" of missing episodes have been recovered, and there will be a press conference about them later this week. We don't know how many or which ones, but presumably they'll tell us then. There have been rumors about this for months, and some of them say the episodes were recovered in Ethiopia and/or Sierra Leone. One rumor said all 106 were recovered, but I seriously doubt that. Another high end rumor put the total at about 90, but I'm trying not to raise my hopes too much. I think double digits are possible, however.

I should be wrapping up Episode 2 and starting Episode 3 of this adventure tonight.

EDIT: I've moved everyone to Episode 3 except for Leonek. I'll have to wait on his thread to keep him in sync with the others until he catches up. Wouldn't want a nasty temporal paradox.

I was really sceptical about the 106 reports, but still hopeful something might have been found. I've heard the number 9 bandied about quite a bit. To be honest I'll be happy with anything, but I'm expecting smaller rather than larger. But yay

I was just about to ask where I was supposed to go.

I think we missed each other's post somehow, Mr H.

You may have seen my post above before I edited the additional information in. You're still in your current thread for now, but you're a couple of rounds ahead, so you'll need to wait for a bit until another thread gets caught up to yours.

Alright!

Hurry up, guys!

9 episodes was the right number. The BBC announced they've recovered all the missing episodes of Enemy of the World and all but one from The Web of Fear (and probably duplicates of the one episode from each that had been recovered previously), both of them six-parters. They've also left the door open to the possibility that there may have been more episodes recovered. Enemy of the World is being prepared for a November DVD release in the UK, but Web of Fear won't be ready until next year (my guess is because they want the time to get the still missing episode 3 animated) - though I've heard that it is already on iTunes. This helps fill in a large gap in Season 5. I remember being overjoyed when Tomb of the Cybermen was recovered in its entirety in 1992 - this is an even bigger find!

Enemy of the World was one of the inspirations behind The Ninth Planet, the previous scenario in this campaign - only in The Ninth Planet, the bad guys had already succeeded in taking over the world before the adventure even started, decades after the events in Enemy of the World. The Web of Fear is the story immediately following Enemy of the World, and it is the first one to star Nicholas Courtney as Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, a role he would play many times (though he played a different role a couple years earlier in The Daleks' Masterplan). This one was basically a forerunner to the UNIT stories, though UNIT didn't exist yet and he was only a colonel, not yet promoted to Brigadier.

I rushed over here to break exactly that news, but it would seem time zones helped Mr. Handy beat me to the punch, which, all things considered, is very in theme.

Welcome to Plagues, who is taking over the character of Valerie Soames!

Welcome aboard, Plagues! I'm glad to see the old girl given life again.

The BBC aired a new trailer last night, which shows all the Doctors 1-11, to varying degrees, as well as a large number of adversaries, and some companions.

For a frame by frame breakdown, with 222 photos, see this Facebook album. You do not have to be logged into Facebook to be able to view this. Clicking on each image allows you to view it in more detail.

The trailer is in part a teaser for the upcoming anniversary special, but it seems more like a celebration of the past, than anything else.

Oh and I'm pleased to say I'm getting to watch the past Doctor special documentaries that aired on BBC America earlier this year. I'm lucky to be able to do this, because I have access to the satellite channel Watch which bought the UK rights. In the weeks running up to the anniversary Watch are showing the docu + a story for a doctor on each Saturday and Sunday. So far I have watched and enjoyed the docus for docs 1-3, with doc 4's coming tomorrow. I'm generally skipping the stories though, cos I've seen them all before. I'm doing my own special watch, choosing a story for each doctor each weekend. We're now up to doc 8, and opted for a listen (so much better than the TV movie), and are halfway through Big Finish's "Seasons of Fear" now.

That's pretty cool, yock!
I'm still trying to get my wife from Dr. House to Dr. Who, but so far I've yet to be successful.

Awesome trailer! I'm really looking forward to the 50th anniversary special. It's a shame they couldn't get Christopher Eccleston (or any of the earlier doctors) to be in it too, but it should still be great. Tom Baker wouldn't appear in The Five Doctors, but they were able to work around that.

I did a Doctor Who marathon in 2010-2012, watching the entire classic series (except what was missing), the 1996 TV-movie, and listening to the first four Big Finish Eighth Doctor audio adventures. I haven't rewatched the new series yet, though I do have all of them on video.

I'll be away at conventions October 31-November 3 and November 8-10, so I probably won't be able to post then. I'm not sure if I'll even be able to post between them, as I work during the week and will have little time to catch up, though I am off November 11.

Indeed the trailer was pretty sweet. As far as upcoming notices I too will be unavailable November 8-10.

The BBC has just released a prequel to the Anniversary Special. And this prequel is rather special. See it here. Wow.

Hey Handy,

did you write Lucius out of the story? If so, I understand. Didn't want to presume and just bound back in without checking with you.

yockenthwaite wrote:The BBC has just released a prequel to the Anniversary Special. And this prequel is rather special. See it here. Wow.

Indeed it is.

Welcome to The Hunter, who is taking over the character of Raymond MacIntyre!

ImpInTraining wrote:Hey Handy,

did you write Lucius out of the story? If so, I understand. Didn't want to presume and just bound back in without checking with you.

Lucius is still in it, I just let him drift into the background while you were away - plus I've been away myself. I'll try to catch up and post tonight. You can go ahead and post whenever you're ready.

yockenthwaite wrote:The BBC has just released a prequel to the Anniversary Special. And this prequel is rather special. See it here. Wow.

Yes, that was awesome! It was good to see him on the screen again, and I liked the reference to The Brain of Morbius. It looks like some serious secrets are going to be revealed.

Welcome, The Hunter Glad to have you!

Thanks! I'm looking forward to playing ! This'll be my first venture into Call of Cthulhu, and while I've read the rules, there's always something that gets missed so feel free to correct me on things . More than a little excited as well due to this being my first venture into an RPG centered around investigation and horror rather than the typical play of Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder.

Welcome to the family Hunter! Glad you're filling in shoes that are needed!

Welcome aboard, Hunter, you've joined us at the right time! Now is the time for blood-curdling screams and gnashing of teeth!

Happy 50th everybody! I'm going to the cinema tonight to watch The Day of the Doctor in 3D, yay! Superexited!

Thorn wrote:Happy 50th everybody! I'm going to the cinema tonight to watch The Day of the Doctor in 3D, yay! Superexited!

Indeed! Have a great time.

I'll be going Monday night. Until then I'm going to do my best to avoid any spoilers.

Yes happy 50th anniversary everyone. What a wonderful day I blogged about my lifetime Who fandom here.

I enjoyed the anniversary special a lot - won't give any spoilers here. But I preferred the docudrama, which was quite magical for me, and a real treat. Though I had rather anticipated that, and was looking forward to the docudrama more, for many many months.

Hope everyone has fun when they finally see the special

And I finally convinced my wife to start watching!
Hooray!

Welcome to Dr. West, who will be taking over the character of Valerie Soames!

Yes, happy 50th for Doctor Who! I enjoyed both Adventures in Time and Space and Day of the Doctor too. I watched the latter a couple of times, and I'm glad I did. There are some things that I missed the first time, and some that you'd only catch if you knew what was going to happen. I hope it's not too much of a spoiler to say that it was awesome!

Is it just me, or has invisiblecastle died?

It's definitely down. Judging from what happens when I try to bring up the homepage, it looks like the domain name expired. The site hadn't been updated since 2011, so whoever created it may have abandoned it. You can use a different dice roller (Dark and Moody has a decent one). This site also now has a built in dice-roller using the dice tags, so I've activated it for my games, including this one.

Awesome, I love the onboard roller, it's highly practical.

Mr. Handy wrote:This site also now has a built in dice-roller using the dice tags, so I've activated it for my games, including this one.

How do you utilize the built in dice-roller? I seem to not be able to get it to work.

Press the dice button, then type in what kind of dice you want to use inside the parentheses, like 1d100 or 1d8 or something. If you wanna roll twice, type 2d100 or 2d6.

Once it's done, just submit and your roll will be made for you.

Hope that helps

Oh...well, that's easy enough.

[dice]0[/dice] Trying this out

Oh... crap. Forgot about that dice roller...

Alright, sorry I'm still finding my way around this place! I'll catch up on the reading and post as soon as I can.

PS - Have been looking forward to meeting DrPeterson, just for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lge2_H_8IQ

That's okay, take your time. You can post whenever you're ready.

Invisible Castle is back up again.

Ah Dr. West, i presume?

Charming!

Do you prefer we use Invisible Castle for rolls? Seems making them here is much more convenient.

Yes, I prefer Invisible Castle, as it keeps an easily searchable record. Now that it's back up, there should be no problem using it, but the built-in dice roller is still available as an alternative for those who prefer it or when Invisible Castle goes down.

I will be unable to play from Friday, Dec 20 - Friday, Dec 27. I'll be away from home for the holidays.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll NPC you if necessary.

Welcome to Cearlan, who will be taking over the character of Valerie Soames!

Yay!
Welcome aboard, Cearlan!

Welcome Cerlain, I need someone to play Val, Elliot isn't the brain of that duo and Handy isn't helping me out.

On a side note, I got my own working sonic screw driver for Christmas.

BenTheRat wrote:On a side note, I got my own working sonic screw driver for Christmas.

Cool!

Which one is it and does it actually work like a sonic or is it fitted with a LED instead of a acoustic chamber?

I'm going to be away from the night of Saturday, February 15 until Monday, February 24 and will probably not be able to post.

Enjoy your trip!

Stay out of trouble! :p

Can you keeper Elizabeth for a week Mr Handy? So through to Tuesday 4th February? I'm currently heavily sedated / not very with it, cos inflammation in my brain is going out of control again Probably won't be fixed until I'm likely to raise steroids again on Friday after seeing consultant, and then it takes 3 or 4 days to be effective. Not the best timing, as she's going loopy Thanks.

Oh my god yockenthwaite, that sounds very major! I really hope you're getting well soon. Hopefully everything doesn't escalate to anything more serious!

Get well soon!

I concur with our pipe-smoking corgi friend.

Get well, yock!

Aye - get thee well as soon as ye can girlie.

Seriously though, Hope it gets sorted out sooner rather than later Yokenthwaite. Take care till then xxx

Get well soon yockenthwaite.

Thanks all for all the kind words It's a long-term problem I've been battling for 20 years, and I'm still alive, which is really good with this! But it can be hard at times to get the cocktail right to control the brain inflammation, and it's not right at mo. Hopefully will be sorted in a week.

Get well soon, Yockenthwaite!

I hope you get back on your feet sooner than later Yockenthwaite.

I hope you feel better soon! I'll gladly NPC Elizabeth until you return. Actually, now that she's going crazy and is not herself is probably the best time for me to be playing her.

Suddenly, my problems don't seem so significant.

Get better soon, Yokenthwaite. See you when you're right in the head. Unfortunately, you'll never see me right in the head.

Imp! Glad to see you're still stomping these corridors. I've being wondering what happened to the man behind the Roman.

Welcome back, Imp! You haven't posted for Lucius in quite a while, but you can pick him back up again any time you're ready. You'll be happy to know that he's succeeded at every Sanity roll I've made for him.

Shoot man, I've been checking threads now and again. I must have missed your notice that a new thread started. My apologies.

Thanks all for kind wishes. Saw consultant on Friday and steroids shot up a lot immediately that morning. They've taken about 3/4 days to kick in, but I'm starting to see benefits now, and the neurological problems are easing.

I've just posted an update for Elizabeth in the IC thread, so am taking her over again Mr Handy

sorry I've been unresponsive. Travelling this week. I'll try and post tonight.

All,

I have just received word that my Father in Law has died so I may not be posting as regular over the next few days as I have funerals to sort out and all the associated trappings. I will post as and when I can. I feel bad because I have just started this and well, we cannot put a time on our passing I suppose.

Back as soon as I can

Norman

Take your time, and take care. My prayers are with you and your family.

My condolences for your loss.

Mr Handy,

Could you please NPC Valerie Soames until after the funeral for me. I am going to try and post as often as I can in as many games as possible, but if I can get a few games off the load, then it would be a great help.

Thanking you in advance

Norman

All,

Thanks to everyone for your kind thoughts, condolences and good wishes for the situation in hand.

Norman & DeeJ

Deepest sympathies to you and your family at this time

Cearlan wrote:Mr Handy,

Could you please NPC Valerie Soames until after the funeral for me. I am going to try and post as often as I can in as many games as possible, but if I can get a few games off the load, then it would be a great help.

Thanking you in advance

Norman

No problem. I'll be going away myself in less than a week, so it probably won't be moving for a while after that.

I will be away from February 28th until March 3rd.

Something messed up happened to me lately, which has kind of taken most of my attention over the past week. A second cousin of mine allegedly committed suicide, gun to the head. So weird,because she didn't seem at all suicidal to me. Sure, she had some problems with making up stories, and a drug abuse issue ... but the weirdest thing is that I am just as sure she committed suicide as I am that my cousin's wife (her mother) probably killed her and made it look like a suicide.

What a messed up circumstance. Anyway, as messed up as she was, if her death was at someone else's hands then they need to be held accountable. So I've taken liberty of contacting the Arizona police and filling them in on all the details I know - things her parents wouldn't have shared. I wish there was something I could have done to have avoided the whole thing, but I feel it was pretty much destined to happen.

The thing that really pisses me off about the whole circumstance is that her mother keeps going on about how it is all the deceased's husband's fault when he was in Kentucky the entire time.

Wow, that is messed up.


Strength!


And I'm sure you did well to tell the police what you knew.

Firstly - very sorry to hear of your family's loss. Nothing can prepare you for such an event, especially when it happens out of the blue like this.

All power to you for passing your concerns onto the police - they are the ones best suited to find out what happened here. Could not have been an easy call to make.

The mother may be looking for someone to blame ... a standard reflex action when something goes wrong. She may well be in shock still or perhaps it is part of her grieving process.

I'm sorry I've been away from the board longer than expected, but I've been very sick for the last week and am only just starting to recover.

jaysun81 wrote:I will be away from February 28th until March 3rd.

I'll wait until you return so that you can make the final decision and, if you decide to go through with it, make the roll yourself.

ImpInTraining wrote:Something messed up happened to me lately, which has kind of taken most of my attention over the past week. A second cousin of mine allegedly committed suicide, gun to the head. So weird,because she didn't seem at all suicidal to me. Sure, she had some problems with making up stories, and a drug abuse issue ... but the weirdest thing is that I am just as sure she committed suicide as I am that my cousin's wife (her mother) probably killed her and made it look like a suicide.

What a messed up circumstance. Anyway, as messed up as she was, if her death was at someone else's hands then they need to be held accountable. So I've taken liberty of contacting the Arizona police and filling them in on all the details I know - things her parents wouldn't have shared. I wish there was something I could have done to have avoided the whole thing, but I feel it was pretty much destined to happen.

The thing that really pisses me off about the whole circumstance is that her mother keeps going on about how it is all the deceased's husband's fault when he was in Kentucky the entire time.

I'm sorry to hear that too, and I agree that you did the right thing by passing on everything you know to the police.

I'll be gone till Thursday, feel free to NPC Leonek.

Thanks all. We deal with loss in our own way - and it's something I've been accustomed to doing from a distance, being as how I have been away from my family since 1986 except for the brief vacations I take back there. Loss, especially unexpected loss, is never an easy thing, but I don't envy anyone who has to be there at a funeral where a mother and father is burying their kid.

I'm going to go on just believing (unless I hear otherwise) that my cousin's mind just was out of commission and led her to this tragic event. She was a habitual liar, and perhaps she started believing her own lies to the point that she felt safer taking her own life. Maybe she did it in a moment of clarity where she realized she was a danger to others, or maybe she simply had no idea what she was doing. I'll probably never know the truth.

I had incredible success in my skill checks.
Skill raise checks: Insight (63%) Listern (50%) Sneak (65%) Spot Hidden (57%) Swim (25%) Knife (59%) (1d100=98, 1d100=26, 1d100=85, 1d100=76, 1d100=67, 1d100=59)
So in order, Insight, Sneak, Spot Hidden, & Swim all raised. Knife was right at the skill level, which I believe that is a fail... must roll over. Four out of 6, not too shabby.
Skill raises: Insight (63% + ?) Sneak (65% + ?) Spot Hidden (57% + ?) Swim (25% + ?) (1d10=4, 1d10=7, 1d10=4, 1d10=1)

Lucius' new skill stats:
Insight (67%)
Sneak (72%)
Spot Hidden (61%)
Swim (26%)

Ok here are my skill rolls to see if increase anything:

Rolling for skill increases in used skills - trying to beat First Aid (36%), History (70%), Listen (34%), Psychology (41%), Spot Hidden (38%). (1d100=55, 1d100=56, 1d100=49, 1d100=57, 1d100=75)

So that's increases on First Aid, Listen, Psychology, and Spot Hidden - woot!

And here are the numbers for those rises:

Rolling for % increases in skills First Aid, Listen, Psychology, and Spot Hidden (1d10=9, 1d10=4, 1d10=6, 1d10=10)

So the new numbers for Elizabeth's increased skills are

First Aid 45%
Listen 38%
Psychology 47%
Spot Hidden 48%

Skill Increase Roll
History 48, Listen 34, Mechanical Repair 20, Persuade 85, Psychology 90, Spot Hidden 28, Swim 25 (1d100=51, 1d100=32, 1d100=6, 1d100=58, 1d100=36, 1d100=16, 1d100=35)

History and Swim will increase!

Increase Amount
History, Swim (1d10=7, 1d10=5)

New Skill Number
History: 55%
Swim: 30%

Ooh I forgot about Swim! Here's my trying to raise it:

Seeing if raise Swim skill (stat 25%), and any raise (1d10) if I do (1d100=90, 1d10=2)

So that's a +2 for Elizabeth's Swim, which is now 27%.

Well rolled, everyone! Your character sheets have been adjusted.

Skill increase rolls: Listen 45 % [dice]0[/dice] Occult 25 % [dice]1[/dice] Psychology 35 % [dice]2[/dice] Spot hidden 45 % [dice]3[/dice]


First aid roll Brook 30 % [dice]4[/dice]

Increase Occult [dice]0[/dice]
Increase Psychology [dice]1[/dice]

Nice! I've updated your character sheet.

Welcome to Russacky, who will be taking over the character of Raymond MacIntyre!

Russacky, please also read the thread Stranger in a Strange Land. It contains secrets about your character's background that you'll need to know.

Welcome Russacky, we'll need every man, woman and eldritch spawn we can get!

Thanks for filling some deeply needed empty shoes Russacky! I have feeling you might jump in just in time for some action!

Russacky will be playing a new character instead, but it'll be a while before I can introduce new characters.

I'll be away at a convention from April 4-6 and probably won't be able to post.

I'll be likewise engaged.

Mr. Handy, you aren't going to Finland by any chance, are you?

Nope, just New Jersey. Why, is that where you're going?

Jaysun81, Yockenthwaite, ImpInTraining, and Thorn, if you want to play a temporary UNIT character in Episode 4, you can get started creating that character in the Character Creation/Rules thread any time you like. The "Your Career in U.N.I.T. thread" has guidelines to help with character creation. Given how I think the endgame will unfold, you probably want to create a character who is either combat-oriented or has a role that can support combat-oriented characters, such as a medic.

Russacky, you can also create your new character whenever you wish.

I'm not sure how long it will be before I can introduce the new characters, but I'm hoping it will be within a few weeks.

Thanks, but I'm happy to take a little break at the moment, for medical reasons. So will pick up Elizabeth once her action resumes.

You're welcome, and I hope you feel better. Those of you who have decided not to play a temporary character in Episode 4 are free to read all of the threads and spoiler buttons in the adventure if you like.

Yes,
I'm going there for a conference on climate change.
In a gigantic bout of irony, everyone's flying there.
...
sigh

Thanks Mr. Handy but I think I'll hold off for now.

Over Christmas I ran a Doctor Who / Cthulhu game for my brother and a cousin. I even crafted a few micro audio dramas to build the excitement for the game. Anyways, I share that because I finally got around to written a little blurb about it on my blog and wanted to share it with you guys. I even mention the games we got here. Anyways...

CthulaWho = Doctor Who + Call of Cthulhu
http://www.ecksermonator.com/?p=4061

That was awesome! Is there an account of the game itself anywhere?

Thanks Mr. Handy.

Currently there's not an account of the game but I'll write something up. I'll keep you posted.

You're welcome, and take your time.

I went ahead and rolled for Chad's second shot, since his player hasn't posted in several days.

Sorry about that, got called out of town on short notice.

The guy went down for the count before Leonek had a chance to attack him, and we're now out of combat.

I was wondering what would have to happen to end that streak.

Hi, just wanted to say I'm still around

Thorn wrote:Hi, just wanted to say I'm still around

Ditto

jaysun81 wrote:

Thorn wrote:Hi, just wanted to say I'm still around

Ditto

And me too!

I'm glad you're still with us. If you do want to create a temporary UNIT character for Episode 4, there's still time. I know that Jaysun and Yockenthwaite already said they don't want to, but I haven't heard from Thorn about that yet.

Perhaps I should do that....When does it need to be ready?

You've still got a few weeks, I think. I can introduce your new character as soon as it's ready, but it can probably wait until the end of May. You can find the rules and post your character in the Character Creation/Rules thread, and Your Career in U.N.I.T. has various templates for types of characters. Given what the endgame will likely involve, your character should either be combat-oriented or should have a role that can support combat operations. Officer, Soldier, Medical Officer, and Covert Operative are all likely choices, though other professions are possible as well. If you want to play something other than what's listed, I can provide a skill list.

Apologies everyone, I will be off to Thailand until Wednesday of next week to visit my brother. Handy, I will PM you a list of action scenarios for you to keep things moving while I am gone.

Have a safe and pleasant trip CrackheadC.!

CrackheadC. wrote:Apologies everyone, I will be off to Thailand until Wednesday of next week to visit my brother. Handy, I will PM you a list of action scenarios for you to keep things moving while I am gone.

Enjoy! Don't worry, I've got you covered.

There's a new trailer released today for the upcoming new series of Doctor Who with Peter Capaldi. And a broadcast date has been confirmed, at least for the UK. 23rd August. I think this link should work worldwide, cos it's on YouTube.

Thanks, it worked for me in America. Really looking forward to seeing the new Doctor in action!

As I said in the absence thread, I'll be leaving for a convention on the afternoon of July 2 and returning the night of July 6. While I have a laptop and should have Internet access, I doubt I'll have time to post, much less keep up with reading. I may not have time to catch up when I return on the night of the 6th, so I might not be able to post again until the night of the 7th.

I am leaving tomorrow for summer camp with my scout troop tomorrow morning early. So I will be very limited internet connection and will not be able to post between now and next Saturday.

You guys have fun and I'll check back in then.

Welcome to AirborneXO, who will be joining us soon as Sergeant Valentine Hale! I plan to introduce him tomorrow.

There's a new trailer out, over a minute long.

Nice!

I didn't have time to start Airbornexo's new thread this weekend, so it will probably have to wait until next weekend.

Welcome AirborneXO! Can't wait to see your character!

Hi, sorry I haven't finished my character yet. My home life got rather hectic. My husband got a transplant a few weeks ago, and is in the hospital (doing better and now cured of diabetes), so I've travelling a lot. I'll get to it, though

I'm glad he's doing better! Take your time. The next phase of the game won't start for a while yet, as I'm still finishing up with some of the characters.

Hi all,

First off I must apologise for leaving the site so abruptly, but as we all know real life and health issues get in the way of this fantastic hobby of ours.

It is with a heavy heart and much soul searching that I have to announce that I have to shelve all the participation in the games I am in, unfortunately the games I am running as well, (however poorly of late). The duration of this 'shelving' is indeterminate at present.

I apologise for all and any inconvenience this has caused fellow gamers. The people on here are a first rate bunch and I am proud to have been associated with them, and hope that I will be allowed back into the fold again in the future.

As Dave Allen used to say;

May your Gods go with you (However elder they may be)

Take care of yourself, and you'll always be welcome back. I'll wait a few days before moving your games to the Graveyard, and I can always bring them back once you return and are ready to pick them up again. Valerie Soames doesn't have to do much at the moment, so I can NPC her for now. Is it all right if I allow another player to take her over?

Hi all,

I taking on a new character (pic above), a UNIT soldier without any knowledge of bizarre and strange occurrences: Valentine 'Val' Hale

Cheers, Hal

Mr Handy - feel free to move the games over at your leisure. I don't foresee myself returning to the site to game for a some time so NPC-ing Valerie Soames is not an issue for me.

I'll still drop in and keep an eye on the place though if that's alright.

Of course! If you're ready to return at that time, you'd be welcome to join the next scenario in this campaign, which will be a Cthulhu Invictus one set in the late Roman Republic. I'll open Valerie up to be taken over by a new player.

Thorn - I'm glad to read that your husband is doing better.

Mr. Handy wrote:...next scenario in this campaign, which will be a Cthulhu Invictus one set in the late Roman Republic.

Ah....that should be interesting.

Hal, your new IC thread (Team Building) is now up and running! I'm sorry for the delay. You may post when ready.

Welcome to Draco, who will be taking over the character of Valerie Soames!

Sorry team, I'm away camping with my kids until tuesday

Cheers, Hal

Have fun!

Welcome to Bandages, who will be playing Dr. Gordon Baxter!

Welcome to Vladd, who will be playing Peter Rock! Vladd, your thread is here, and you may post when ready. Have fun!

Please note that you may only read In Character threads if your character is in them, and you may not read any of the others until the adventure is over (with the exception of Introduction in Episode 1, which is optional for everyone to read).

I see you have givoen Rock his old military rank, as he has left the army and joined Five isn't he now a civilian civil servant?
Just a quick hello to everyone and to say I look forward to Peter Rock's adventure with you all.

Once he's with UNIT, they'd probably give him his old rank back to fit him into the command structure, but I'll leave it up to you whether they've done that or he's a civilian consultant.

Dr Gordon Baxter is still outside the Laboratory waiting to be let in, should/can I just obey my curiosity and enter the room?

I was waiting for a PC in one of the other threads to answer the door, but the player hasn't posted in some time. I'll go ahead and NPC the character soon, but I don't have time to do that tonight (it will require creating a new thread and closing off the two existing ones).

No rush!
To be honest I was more concerned that I’d done something wrong and/or not understood the protocol with changing gaming ‘rooms’
Thanks Mr Handy.

Hi! Just wanted to say I haven't forgotten about you guys

Hi, Thorn! There's still time for you to finish creating your UNIT character for the final part of this adventure. I can introduce her as soon as she's ready. If you have any questions or need any help, just ask. Getting to the endgame is taking longer than I had thought, and it looks like this one will go to five episodes. One player who had been posting infrequently recently made a spate of posts that allowed me to progress his thread pretty far but hasn't posted in a little while.

OK. Does that mean no TARDIS-crew in episode 5 either?

Yes, that's right. The TARDIS crew has left this era and will return in the next adventure, which will be called The Brotherhood of Death and will be set in ancient Rome. Once that starts, you'll be playing Brook again.

Oh, the Tardis crew bugged out?? WTF?? I didn't get to interact with them hardly at all. Oh well. Hope I'm not the one holding things up.

BenTheRat wrote:Oh, the Tardis crew bugged out?? WTF?? I didn't get to interact with them hardly at all. Oh well. Hope I'm not the one holding things up.

We didn't leave by choice, but a very bad dice roll We were very sad in character and out that it turned out like that.

Its been so weird, I'm just roleplaying along, and haven't been reading any of the other threads, so I have no idea whats going on. I see other threads so I know people aren't dead. I'm just running around blind. Great fun.

Thanks, and don't worry, you're not holding things up at all. You've been posting very frequently, and you're well ahead of the others.

Well, it was Story's choice that the TARDIS crew risked leaving. I explained to his player when he was considering attempting a short hop to get the TARDIS out of the caves that it would require a Pilot TARDIS roll, and that failure would send the TARDIS out of this era and on to the next adventure. He decided to risk it anyway, but his Pilot skill is rather low, and he failed the roll. It might have been possible to carry the TARDIS out the back way and go with Chad, Leonek, and Tobias without much difficulty. Of course, then the TARDIS crew would have seen the same thing they had. That makes two adventures in a row where the TARDIS crew have missed the finale, which I find sad too. The locals in the last adventure weren't able to finish the job on their own. Hopefully this lot will have better luck. At least this time there's a way that the players of the TARDIS crew can participate if they wish, even if their main characters cannot.

In classic Doctor Who's earlier stories, there is often a contrived reason why the Doctor and his companions don't simply leave (the TARDIS is inaccessible, the Doctor or a companion is captured, etc.). There are only so many times I can do something like that before it gets old, though it does happen on occasion in this campaign. The TARDIS was stolen early on in this adventure, but the investigators were able to track it down and find it before I had planned for them to do so. I had originally expected the TARDIS crew to help the UNIT team with their original mission and either flee with them or possibly get caught, forcing them to team up with UNIT in the endgame (and retrieve the TARDIS at that time). There is an upcoming adventure in which there's no way it will be possible to hop in the TARDIS and escape, unless you do so at the outset, but I don't want to say more about that to avoid spoilers.

As to why the Doctor doesn't just get in the TARDIS and leave, in The Pyramids of Mars Sarah Jane Smith said basically that the aliens couldn't win as they had just come from the future and all was well. The Doctor and Sarah got back into the TARDIS and the Doctor took them back to where they had just come from, only now the earth was a wind swept desert. The Doctor explained they were now part of the timeline where the aliens were trying to take earth and if they just left then history would change, and so they went back and defeated the alien plot. So the reason the Doctor doesn't just leave is that he has to stop what ever is happening as he is now part of it. Of course you could argue that the Doctor wouldn't just leave people in trouble but in truth he is just responding to one of the most powerful forces in nature the power of the narrative.

That wasn't always the case. The first Doctor, played by William Hartnell, was very different in some ways. Many of his stories were pure historicals, where there was no alien threat. In Marco Polo, the only reason they couldn't just get back into the TARDIS and leave when things got dangerous was that Marco Polo had taken possession of the TARDIS, intending to offer it as a gift to Kublai Khan. In The Aztecs, the TARDIS was in the inner chamber of an Aztec tomb, and the stone door which closed behind them when they left the room could not be opened from the outside. The Doctor and his companions spent much of the story trying to find a way back inside, and the Doctor was trying to convince Barbara not to interfere for fear of changing history. In The Reign of Terror, the Doctor and his companions got separated early on and did not reunite until much later. Of course, in The Daleks, the Doctor himself prevented everyone from leaving by deliberately sabotaging the TARDIS because his insatiable curiosity drove him to explore. Later on, the Doctor became more selfless and didn't need any external motivation for not leaving people in danger, though you do see hints of his old ways. In Spearhead from Space, the third Doctor's premiere story, he got into the TARDIS and tried to leave Earth even though he knew of the Nestene threat, but he was foiled because the Time Lords had stranded him.

Welcome to Mozy, who will be playing Evert Jacobs!

Mozy, I've created an In Character thread for you: A Yank in UNIT. You may post there as your character when ready. Have fun! Also, I've posted your character sheet in the Character Sheets thread, but I still need to know which Martial Art you've studied in order to complete it.

Mr. Handy wrote:The Brotherhood of Death and will be set in ancient Rome.

Nice.

yockenthwaite wrote:We didn't leave by choice, but a very bad dice roll We were very sad in character and out that it turned out like that.

Indeed.

Mr. Handy wrote:Well, it was Story's choice that the TARDIS crew risked leaving. I explained to his player when he was considering attempting a short hop to get the TARDIS out of the caves that it would require a Pilot TARDIS roll, and that failure would send the TARDIS out of this era and on to the next adventure. He decided to risk it anyway, but his Pilot skill is rather low, and he failed the roll.

Quite right. My apologies. With the beast lurking about outside I really saw no viable exit without someone in my crew potentially perishing. One final thought...while we are in a version of the "Whoniverse" Story is not the Doctor.

Mr. Handy wrote:There is an upcoming adventure in which there's no way it will be possible to hop in the TARDIS and escape, unless you do so at the outset, but I don't want to say more about that to avoid spoilers.

That sounds very mysterious and interesting.

I don't want to give it away, but you'll understand once it happens. It's actually much more mundane than it seems, but no less effective.

Even the Doctor's companions could die on rare occasions. When they do, it is usually a pointless death that resulted from not listening to the Doctor. The Daleks' Master Plan, a twelve-part epic in the third season, saw both the first and the second death of a companion. Granted, there is some debate over whether or not one of them qualifies as a companion, but personally I think so. The other companion had only joined the TARDIS crew at the end of the previous story, The Myth Makers. However, a companion who had been around for some time was killed off in Earthshock. I remember that one stunning me when I saw it for the first time at the age of eight, especially as it was a companion I liked and with whom I identified. The end credits were completely silent and had a special image displayed.

There have been close calls in this campaign, particularly when Elizabeth nearly died late in the first adventure. I'm glad she survived! It was a perfectly reasonable option to take off in the TARDIS and hope for the best.

The campaign has had a fairly low death toll up until now. It's been rare for a PC to die, and when that happens it tends to be towards the end, which is a good thing. Yet there are still plenty of dangerous, thrilling moments. This adventure is also approaching the end, so expect it to get potentially deadly...

Welcome to TheVaultTech, who will be playing Sergeant Carla Ecarg!

As I said in the Absence Thread in the Lounge, I'll be away at a convention from tomorrow until Sunday night. I'll have my laptop and Internet access, but I probably won't have time to post.

Going camping till Sunday. So see you guys then. Hoping to see you in game soon.

Welcome to Xamthos, who will be taking over the character of Leonek Novak!

Welcome to dustakr, who will be playing Newton Noyes!

Welcome to the game, mate!

I can't wait for the mission so Srgt Ecarg can wreck them all!
She has a firm disbelief in moderation

welcome. Come kick some fish tail.

I have been busy, I will post more soon. I just need to get creative.

Welcome back, and take as much time as you need. I plan to move things forward in the next few days, so you may be seeing some action before too long.

I've updated everyone's equipment lists. Whatever equipment Sergeant Carla Ecarg requested that isn't on her sheet is carried by the other members of her squad. Double slugs were not available, so normal slugs were substituted.

No double slugs? I've been cheated!
Oh well, I really had to be told "no" to something in that list I gave anyway- that's probably the one I can do without the most.
Plenty of other terrible things were packed to kill monsters, anyway. Sergeant Ecarg does not believe in overkill- a new enemy should be obliterated.
Sorry I went so ape on the list of stuff I wanted, but preparation is key.

It's perfectly reasonable to ask for whatever you thought might be useful, just as long as you understand that not all of it can be acquired at short notice. You're well equipped. Those who did not take advantage of the opportunity to gear up may regret it...

I understand wholeheartedly. Though I feel the LAW's were a bit lenient to give me... I've went Henderson with a couple of those before. I'll try to refrain, of course.

The Brigadier would have brought LAW rockets anyway after hearing about Rover, even if you hadn't asked for them. You might very well need them. They might very well not be enough...

Is Donald not with the group in the IC-Ep 4-Move Out!(Everyone else) thread? The Keeper has not requested any rolls from him.

Yes, you're in that thread (as part of "Everyone else"). I did ask for a Spot Hidden roll from everyone early on the first page, but few people have actually rolled.

That roll was requested 2-3 days before Sgt. Donald entered the game.

I was waiting for a chance to have my PC say something but I am having trouble visualizing where he is.

You could have still rolled, but that's okay. Donald is by the Brigadier's side, and his squad is with him. Your group was standing in the middle of the road, outside the vehicles.

You've moved along now, however. You're in a new thread, and there's a roll for you to make. I'm transitioning to Episode 5 over the next few days, and that one should bring this adventure to a conclusion - one way or another.

If Carla somehow manages to survive this, what kind of check would she have to pass to create double slug shots?

That would be a Craft(Gunsmith) roll. The base level for Craft skills is 5%, but Tinker has it much higher than that.

I am biting at the bit for how this concludes. Can't wait.

As am I. Also biting at a Sea Devil.
This is awesome,I only wish I could have joined earlier.

Thank you! I hope this adventure has an ending as awesome as the first two.

Even though you've missed participating in earlier parts of this campaign, I have much more in store, and you'll be able to get into all future adventures from the beginning. Plus you can always read the first two adventures, and the entirety of this one once it's done.

The Invisible Castle site is down.

I would suggest using this forum's dice system, then.
[dice][/dice]
Put the die you'd like to roll in between.

Hello mr handy thank you for letting me join in! So im new to litterally all of this and im not sure what I should read or not read and what I should do lol. Where do I start?

You're welcome, and welcome aboard! The first thing you should do is look at the Cast of Characters thread. The initial post tells you which characters are in the game and which of their players are MIA. Their character sheets are listed below, and you should look through them. You may choose any of the ones marked MIA except for Valerie Soames, whose old player may return. The ones in the bottom portion of the cast list require the least catching up to play. The ones in the section above that have been in the game since the beginning, so you'd need to do a lot more back reading to play them. Alternatively, you can create your own character, but it would have to be a UNIT soldier. The Your Career in U.N.I.T. thread has background information on UNIT and occupational skill lists for the various careers. You'll probably use the Soldier template, though Military Officer or some other specialty is possible (however, your rank in that case would be no higher than lieutenant). The Character Creation/Rules thread has full instructions for creating your own character. You can build your character or ask questions about character creation in that thread, or you can post your choice in that thread if you decide to take over an abandoned character.

You should not read any In Character threads that do not include your character. The only exception is the Introduction thread in Episode 1, which everyone is free to read. Once the adventure concludes, which I expect will be in May, everyone will be free to read the entire adventure. If you choose an abandoned character, you should read that character's IC threads. I'll let you know which ones they are once you've made your selection, or I'll tell you which threads to read if you create a new character. Once I see your sheet, I'll know to which group your character should be assigned. Also, do not read Stranger in a Strange Land unless you've already decided to take over Raymond MacIntyre (which would be a challenge).

awesome, i think im going to take over the roll of Doctor Gordon Baxter! so what do i do next lol

Great, he's all yours! In order to catch up, you'll need to read the following threads in the order below:

Episode 4: The Late Shift->Revenge of the Creature->The Three Doctors->Briefing->One If By Land->Move Out!
Episode 5: Storming the Castle

Storming the Castle is your current thread. Once you've caught up on the reading, you may post in character in that thread whenever you are ready. Have fun!

Sweet is there a resource for the commands to do the rolls and the spoilers and what not?

Yes, this thread has instructions for using the built-in dice roller and the spoiler button tags. You can also use Invisible Castle for dice rolling, but it's currently down. I've posted instructions for using it here, but they're out of date. Invisible Castle now has a Campaign Name field, so there's no need to put a prefix before the Character Name. Also, for the last few years new users have been unable to register at Invisible Castle, but you can still use most of the features without registering (when it's working, anyway).

Wow...I really screwed the TARDIS crew on this one, lol. This game keeps going, and going.

Lesson learned.

Sorry guys.

Don't feel too bad. I did provide the option of playing a temporary UNIT character, though nobody has taken up the offer. You and Yockenthwaite declined, Thorn started creating a character but never finished, and ImpInTraining hasn't posted on this board in a long time. The offer still stands. You could also take over an abandoned character if you like. I'm hopeful that this will be completed by the end of May, though there will be a delay while I get the next scenario ready.

Hey i know this is out of topic mr handy but your a big boss so maybe you can help me out. on my user control panel im trying to do things like put in my birthday or location or add a picture, but whenever i click submit it takes me to a white page and doesnt ever save what i did. the page is completely blank, ill post the url it takes me to maybe that can help figure out whats going on. not a huge deal but i would like to at least have an avatar pic. ps ive tried to do it on different browsers but it still does it no matter what :/
ucp.php?i=profile&mode=profile_info <--- this is where it takes me when i hit submit or save or whatever, its just a white screen and it doesnt save my changes to my account


Also, do you have any other games i can play with you? or when this one is over, do you plan on running another game i can join? and how am i doing so far?

Damn that Rover. Knew I should've used the LAW....

Even if you'd hit, the LAW might not have been enough. All that C4 probably would have done it, but things didn't go as planned.

johnson41996 wrote:Hey i know this is out of topic mr handy but your a big boss so maybe you can help me out. on my user control panel im trying to do things like put in my birthday or location or add a picture, but whenever i click submit it takes me to a white page and doesnt ever save what i did. the page is completely blank, ill post the url it takes me to maybe that can help figure out whats going on. not a huge deal but i would like to at least have an avatar pic. ps ive tried to do it on different browsers but it still does it no matter what :/
ucp.php?i=profile&mode=profile_info <--- this is where it takes me when i hit submit or save or whatever, its just a white screen and it doesnt save my changes to my account


Also, do you have any other games i can play with you? or when this one is over, do you plan on running another game i can join? and how am i doing so far?

I'm getting an error too when I try to submit mine. I don't know what's causing it. It's similar to the error I get when I try to log off. You might want to let carnage_lee know. He knows more about this board (and how to fix it when things go wrong) than I do.

You're doing well so far. I am planning to start a new game in this campaign after this one concludes. It's called The Brotherhood of Death, and it's a Cthulhu Invictus scenario set in Rome in 44 B.C. I hope to start running it in late June. For that one, you'd need to create a new character local to that setting.

There are also two other games I've been running, and you'd be welcome to play in either or both. Zombie Apocalypse is a modern non-Mythos game, though it has its own similar mythology. It started in June 2006 on another board. I began as a player, but I took it over when the original Keeper no longer had time to run it. I've been running it ever since, though it has slowed down in recent years due to several longtime players leaving after Chapter 6 ended. It has stalled completely now, with no new IC posts since January. A new player could breathe some new life into it. I also ran Space Oddity for about five years. It's set in 1969 Philadelphia and is heavily inspired by Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes. I had to put it in the Graveyard last year after its two remaining players vanished, and you can still find it there. I'd need someone to take over the character of Bill Johns, as he's central to the plot. There is a lot of back reading required in order to do so. Links to both of these games (as well as the first two Doctor Who/Call of Cthulhu adventures) are in my signature.

Mr. Handy wrote:Don't feel too bad. I did provide the option of playing a temporary UNIT character, though nobody has taken up the offer. You and Yockenthwaite declined, Thorn started creating a character but never finished, and ImpInTraining hasn't posted on this board in a long time. The offer still stands. You could also take over an abandoned character if you like. I'm hopeful that this will be completed by the end of May, though there will be a delay while I get the next scenario ready.

I declined because I'm way too seriously ill long-term and confused as a result to take on a new character. Keeping track of my existing one and playing her is enough of a challenge!

I'm looking forward to returning to the game when the new scenario starts. Meanwhile best wishes to all those still playing in the game.

Awesome ill check those campaigns out right now the zombie one sounds pretty fun and ill start reading up on the other one

Great! Just remember that if you intend to play, you shouldn't read any IC threads that don't involve a character you intend to take over (though the first two chapters of Zombie Apocalypse, which are on another site, may freely be read by all). Zombie Apocalypse allows you to play multiple characters as well if you wish. In fact, it's recommended that you do so, as this game is highly lethal. If you only want to play one, or to start with one, however, that's fine. You can take over abandoned characters or NPCs there, though you'll probably only want ones that were added in Chapter 7 to avoid having to do too much catching up to play them. You may also create one or two characters of your own in the Omaha or Gold settings, as there are ample survivors in both locations. To play a character in the Sword section, you must choose a pregenerated character.

yockenthwaite wrote:

Mr. Handy wrote:Don't feel too bad. I did provide the option of playing a temporary UNIT character, though nobody has taken up the offer. You and Yockenthwaite declined, Thorn started creating a character but never finished, and ImpInTraining hasn't posted on this board in a long time. The offer still stands. You could also take over an abandoned character if you like. I'm hopeful that this will be completed by the end of May, though there will be a delay while I get the next scenario ready.

I declined because I'm way too seriously ill long-term and confused as a result to take on a new character. Keeping track of my existing one and playing her is enough of a challenge!

I'm looking forward to returning to the game when the new scenario starts. Meanwhile best wishes to all those still playing in the game.

Thank you! I'll try not to keep you waiting too much longer.

do you have a link for the 2 chapters of the zombie apocalypse i can read? i dont want to screw up and read the wrong thing. ill just make a char from scratch, it will be my first time ever doing that, so im pretty excited lol. im not sure what setting to do though...

also i tried to pm carnage about the user control panel issue but it keeps giving me this when i try to send him a pm

The requested users to be added do not exist.

I'm looking forward to the Invictus game too. I can hardly wait.

yeah that sounds pretty fun

johnson41996 wrote:Hey i know this is out of topic mr handy but your a big boss so maybe you can help me out. on my user control panel im trying to do things like put in my birthday or location or add a picture, but whenever i click submit it takes me to a white page and doesnt ever save what i did. the page is completely blank, ill post the url it takes me to maybe that can help figure out whats going on. not a huge deal but i would like to at least have an avatar pic. ps ive tried to do it on different browsers but it still does it no matter what :/
ucp.php?i=profile&mode=profile_info <--- this is where it takes me when i hit submit or save or whatever, its just a white screen and it doesnt save my changes to my account


Also, do you have any other games i can play with you? or when this one is over, do you plan on running another game i can join? and how am i doing so far?

I saw this and had a quick look.... there was a version update to install, which I did this morning but that didn't fix and ucp issues :/ After some digging it appeared that 'deleting all the data' in the 'banlist' table might alleviate the problem - of course this didn't work either (and now spammers blocked can re-register.... ). Then after some more head-scratching I removed the 'link' between PHPBB and Wordpress; that seems to have done the trick (actually I disabled account integration (as the wordpress plans never took off for this site)).

This also fixed the 'logout' bug.

Sorry that my tinkering caused this problems in the first place.

Thank you for fixing it!

I won't have time to update tonight, but I have updates for all threads coming, including merging three of them. I should be able to get it done tomorrow night after returning from London.

johnson41996 wrote:do you have a link for the 2 chapters of the zombie apocalypse i can read? i dont want to screw up and read the wrong thing. ill just make a char from scratch, it will be my first time ever doing that, so im pretty excited lol. im not sure what setting to do though...

also i tried to pm carnage about the user control panel issue but it keeps giving me this when i try to send him a pm

The requested users to be added do not exist.

The links to the first two chapters are in "The Story So Far..." in Zombie Apocalypse. Be warned, it's a lot of reading!

What happened, the game didn't get canceled did it?

Mr Handy is in London and has shitty internet. On top of that, he's been sick for a few days.

There's a thread in the general section with absence announcements where you can post stuff like that.

Oh damn, get well soon mr handy

Thank you. I was actually only sick for hours, but I had a lack of time and couldn't use the Internet from my room, only from certain places that were closed some of the time. Unfortunately, I won't be able to update tonight either, as I got bumped off of my scheduled flight and was stuck at the airport for hours waiting for the next one. There was wifi there, but it was very slow, even worse than what they had at the hotel, so I didn't get much done then. I got back home late, and I desperately need sleep, so it'll have to wait another day.

Sounds like you had a good time...

I hope you had a good night's rest, mate.

Thanks, I did!

The updates have been posted, so feel free to post when you're ready.

the suspense is killing me, what did i get?!?

Damn what am i reloading with, my butt cheeks?

No, but it takes a while to load a revolver. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but there's a fight going on involving the other characters in your thread and I need to keep it in sync. Once that's resolved, I can move things forward at a faster pace.

thought i would throw a little lovecraftian flavor in while im sitting on my hands

Gordon lets out a quiet fart in the darkness of the attic, while patiently waiting for an update.
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The fart smells bad, but Gordon manages to avoid the worst of it.

I'm sorry it's taken me a while to update, but I haven't had that much time the last couple of nights. I should be able to get it done tomorrow night, which gives Donald one last chance to act.

Hello Looks like I'm a little late to make a new character, so I'll just wait untill the next episode Brook's in.

Welcome back! If you'd like to finish creating your UNIT character and be in on the ending, it's not really too late. She could just have been along the whole time and not been involved up until now. Things are about to get very interesting.

I'm sorry it's taken so long to wrap this up, but I hope we'll be finished within a month or so. Then there will be a short break before the next adventure starts and Brook and the other regular characters return. I plan to get that started at the end of June.

yes, things do seem to be getting very interesting...

Tomorrow I'm off to Auschwitz, I don't think I'll have a lot of internet time there.

I should be back next week, feel free to NPC Leo or to suckerpunch him

All right, take care!

I wanted to update y'all before it was too late, some stuff happened.
I don't know if I'll be joining in ever again, but I probably will in a few weeks or so

I hope everything's all right with you. I'll NPC Carla until you return, or until the end of the game, whichever comes first. This scenario could be over within a few weeks, depending on how things go down. You'll be welcome to join in the next game as well, if you're able to return.

A couple of weeks? are we that close to the end? were only posting every 4 days or so

We're not far from the end, but the combat has been slowing things down, especially when players take a while to post (and some haven't posted at all). It may not be over that quickly. As I said, it also depends on how things go down. This game could easily go into June, but I don't see it going into July.

You might say we're a bit "tied up" at our end too

I MUST KNOW!
Ive been wondering wtf happened to the other teams since the last few radio transmissions. Sounds like things have gone tits up in classic cthulhu fashion I might have something that may come in handy tho...

After the adventure ends, you'll all be allowed to look at all of the threads and see exactly what happened. Being able to keep everyone in separate threads during the adventure really does add to the suspense.

realistically, am i going to be able to use my thing i found in this game?

Only if you find the batteries that go in it

Realistically, no. There's simply not enough time before the scenario ends, but you will have plenty of time afterwards if you survive. If someone had found it during the first trip to Dunwich, there would have been enough time to get started on it, but the focus then was on finding Dr. Kirby and getting her out of there. If I ever run a scenario in this campaign that takes place not too long after 1985, your character could return, but I have no immediate plans for one. I have the next several scenarios mapped out, and that era isn't one of the settings. I do have ideas for a future adventure that fits into the timeframe, but it will be years before I can get to it (if I ever do).

Thats depressing is your next campaign set ahead in time of this one? Maybe my character can will it to his nephew or something like that so it will be in play

I'm not planning on running another campaign while I'm also running this one. The next scenario is set in Ancient Rome, in 44 BC to be precise. What you found probably would just end up driving you insane anyway.

Wome?!

I have a fwiend in Wome!

Mr. Handy wrote:I'm not planning on running another campaign while I'm also running this one. The next scenario is set in Ancient Rome, in 44 BC to be precise. What you found probably would just end up driving you insane anyway.

Well OF COURSE its gonna drive me insane, thats half the fun!
Rome setting sounds awesome, how soon after this campaign will that one be up?

I'm hoping to get things set up at the end of June. I'll be away at a convention from July 1-5, and I won't have time to post then, but I plan to start the new scenario shortly after I return.

sounds good, an ancient rome setting sounds like it has the potential for a very dark story. question, i want to start a campaign, how do i go about doing that? i have an interest thread up already (Walker and co. - Now hiring!) but i cant figure out how to start the actual thread itself for the story.

You're doing it right so far. Once you've gathered enough players and you're ready to start, let me know by posting in the interest thread (where I've already posted). You'll also need to provide a short text blurb about the game, like you'll see on the home page for the other games. Then I'll set up a forum for you and make you the Keeper. Any administrator (red username) or global moderator (green username) can create a forum, so someone else may do it first, but I'm more likely to see your post before the others.

Anyone else is free to join if you want, I know this isnt a recruitment thread but I thought I would put that our there

YOU BASTARDS

Looks like you're having a good time

lol that made me laugh

Mr. Handy wrote:I'm hoping to get things set up at the end of June. I'll be away at a convention from July 1-5, and I won't have time to post then, but I plan to start the new scenario shortly after I return.

Fantastic! I'll be sure to stay the course this time.

Glad to hear it! This scenario should wrap up within a couple of weeks or so. I'll have some time off in late June to get things rolling, and I may even be able to at least get the TARDIS crew started in a thread then.

i hope no ones waiting for me to post, cuz my guy is doing what hes doing until the rounds are over. im not sure what else to write about until then

Don't worry, I'm not waiting for you. I was waiting for the other PCs in your thread to make a decision. Since it's been a while, and since one of the players of those PCs actually logged in and did not post, I'll go ahead and have the NPCs decide without them.

I plan to wrap things up this weekend. If there's anything you want to do or say in your IC thread, please do so over the next couple of days.

I am going camping and will not be back till next Saturday. Feel free to NPC Elliot to finish things out.

All he really wants is to reduce casualties and end up with Victoria.

I had a great time, hope I didn't screw up the game for everyone else.

No, you made it a lot more interesting, I think. Elliot will probably get what he wants, as it happens.

Congratulations everyone on finishing The Shadow Over Dunwich! I hope all of you enjoyed playing it as much as I enjoyed running it. I'm sorry it took so long to complete, but we've finally made it. Though this adventure is over, the campaign will continue. The fourth adventure, The Brotherhood of Death, is set in Rome in 44 B.C. It should start in early July, though I may be able to get the TARDIS crew going in late June. Look for a thread in I'm Thinking of Running a Game... that should appear tonight. All of you are welcome to join, though except for the TARDIS crew you'll need to make new characters. You're all now free to read all of the threads in this game.

First, I'll give out rewards. The original UNIT team members other than Elliot (Chad, Leonek, Tinker, Tobias, Salem, and Valerie Soames) gain 1d4 Sanity for rescuing Dr. Kirby. Everyone except Elliot gains 1d4 Sanity for defeating Deep One Hybrids, 1d6 Sanity for defeating Deep Ones, 1d20 Sanity for defeating Rover, and 1d20 Sanity for defeating the Star-spawn. While the latter two were killed by NPC UNIT soldiers, all of you were part of the team. Elliot was on the other side at the time, but he does gain 1d10 (instead of 1d4) for rescuing Dr. Kirby because he personally went up and freed her by himself. The Deep Ones maintained their beachhead in Dunwich, so you do not get the Sanity award you would have for dislodging them. These rewards may take your Sanity above its starting level, but under no circumstances will it go above 99 - Cthulhu Mythos.

Also, look at your character sheets. Wherever you see a * next to a skill, that means that you've successfully used it during the adventure and have a chance to improve it. Roll 1d100 for each of these skills and post your results here. If you get higher than your current level in the skill, then roll 1d10 to see how much it increases. If you raise one or more of your skills to 90% or higher this way, you gain an additional 2d6 Sanity for each such skill. Again, this may raise your Sanity above its starting level. If you roll less than or equal to your current level in the skill, it does not increase. The TARDIS crew already rolled for skill increases.

Except for the TARDIS crew, these characters will not be proceeding to the next adventure, but time and space are vast, and anything might happen eventually. If a future adventure takes place not more than a few decades after this one, you may be able to bring your character from this adventure into it, older and (hopefully) wiser.

Chad managed to get through this with 1 Sanity remaining, barely avoiding permanent insanity. Those Sanity rewards will help him claw his way back, but he'll still be indefinitely insane and require months of institutionalization before he can function again.

Leonek, Salem, Valentine, Carla, and Newton are released as part of the prisoner exchange.

Tinker will eventually recover from post-regeneration trauma and convince UNIT that she's Raymond MacIntyre, and she will once again be UNIT's Technical Advisor.

Tobias will one day be able to reverse engineer the alien weapon he obtained and manufacture a version of it that's reliably usable by humans.

Victoria's spell is temporary and will wear off. Leonek got the shortest duration and will be over her by mid-morning on Saturday. Valentine and the other UNIT marine will recover in the afternoon. Elliot, however, got a double dose with longer durations each time, so it will last until Sunday morning. He'll be happily married to Victoria on Saturday, but the honeymoon will be over quickly, leaving him trapped by circumstances. She could cast the spell again, but doing so requires her to take a big Sanity hit. Once she turns into a full Deep One, she'll be at 0 Sanity, so then she can cast it freely (and she'll probably need to do it).

Valerie Soames is shaken, but she should recover quickly, having gotten herself and Dr. Kirby out alive and seen a terrifying creature destroyed.

Gordon will have plenty of time to look through his findings. The Japanese papers, which he can get translated, were written by the commander of the Imperial Japanese forces garrisoning Ponape in the South Pacific during World War Two. They had killed all of the hybrids they'd found living on the island when they first occupied it, burying them in a mass grave along with anything they thought worthless, such as the bag of stones and some parchments that detailed a spell in an unknown language. As Captain Josiah Lake's diary will reveal, he led the Royal Marines in defeating the Japanese on Ponape and seized the papers. He found the mass grave, the stones, and the parchment. Eventually, he deciphered and learned the spell (Contact Deep One). He returned to Ponape after the Japanese surrender on his way back home, where he cast the spell, met Y'Hali, and made a deal with her. The tome is a spellbook, written by Lake, with English versions of that spell and others taught to him by the Deep Ones. Gordon has the tools to become a powerful (if insane) sorcerer.

Peter came through this all right, having missed encountering the Star-spawn while he went to fetch the APC and thus not losing a single point of Sanity. He may even manage to max it out at 99 with the rewards he gets. Evert probably won't get that high, but he should be okay. The two of them will no doubt be needed for further intelligence work for UNIT.

Donald will be decorated and promoted for his leadership and preserving his squad (which managed to kill the Star-spawn) completely intact in an otherwise disastrous operation.

The recruitment thread for the next adventure is here.

Well done UNIT team! I haven't read the adventure since leaving, but will enjoy doing so now. Sounds like you all did a marvellous job. Sorry again the TARDIS whisked us away prematurely!

MrHandy I'm assuming that the sanity rewards for "everyone" don't apply to the TARDIS team cos we were whisked away early.

Looking forward to the next adventure!

Well that was great fun.
Cheers and props for the wrap-up, Mr. H!

Thank you! Yes, the TARDIS team doesn't get Sanity rewards. I thought I had posted that, but I guess I forgot to mention it.

As to how successful the UNIT forces were, they did manage to kill the big monsters. I was expecting Rover (who was an albino shoggoth) to go down eventually, but I didn't think the Star-spawn would be slain before it even had a chance to fight. This particular Star-spawn was a lot tougher than most, as I rolled extremely well on its stats. It had 115 HP, 10 points of armor, and a 16d6 damage bonus. It had SIZ 170 (that's a 6th edition stat, not 7th ), which meant anyone firing at it had +70 to the base chance to hit. The assault rifles carried by the UNIT soldiers wouldn't normally be very effective, but two soldiers rolled natural 1s, and critical hits bypass armor. One critical hit probably wouldn't have killed it by itself, but it could have brought it down enough to make it killable with enough regular damage. It would most likely have fled and healed up (it regenerates 3 HP per round), which would have preserved it alive but allowed the mansion team time to escape.

On the other hand, UNIT failed in its objective to get the Deep Ones and their hybrids out of Dunwich. UNIT should have won handily, with only Rover posing a huge threat. However, Elliot's capture changed all of that. He had made multiple escape attempts and almost gotten away a couple of times, but even a trained escapologist can't escape all the time. Victoria Lake's spell made him fall in love with her, and he warned her and her family that the military was going to attack soon in order to convince them to abandon Dunwich so that Victoria would stay safe. However, Y'Hali had other plans, and now she knew that the enemy was coming, which made all of the difference. Ordinarily, the Deep Ones would not have figured that the rescue of Dr. Kirby would be quickly followed by a large-scale military invasion. Their security would have been heightened, but they would still most likely have been caught flat-footed and overwhelmed. Any Deep Ones that didn't flee to the sea would have been exterminated, and the Brigadier would have imprisoned the hybrids in a concentration camp (with genetic testing performed by Dr. Kirby to determine who was tainted). In short, it would have gone down much like the 1928 raid on Innsmouth.

Instead we got something more like the 1942 raid on Dieppe. It still could have gone either way, and UNIT came very close to winning outright in spite of all the screwups. The two-pronged assault on the caves was doomed to failure. The Deep Ones and hybrids teamed up to cast Wave of Oblivion to sink the destroyer, and the Deep Ones breached the submarine's hull to wreck it. The marines did reach the sea entrance to the caves, but that's when the summoned shark and the Deep One/shark hybrid slaughtered some of them. Had UNIT not been in such a rush, they could have waited for low tide and waded into the cave, thus avoiding that initial onslaught. The surviving marines ran into Deep Ones and Emilia Lake (who is a Beloved of Cthulhu hybrid) once they entered the caves. They killed some Deep Ones and wounded Emilia, but in the end they were butchered. One of the marines had gone insane from seeing Emilia and was captured unharmed, and Sergeant Valentine Hale took a nasty wound from an impaling spear that knocked him unconscious, so they both awoke as prisoners. The squad that entered through the secret stairs under the ruins fared a little better at first, at least until they ran into Rover. The UNIT soldiers actually took off more than half of its HP in the first round, but after that they couldn't manage much and got eaten. Unfortunately, Sergeant Ecarg had left two of the soldiers and most of the rockets guarding the entrance, or they might have made a difference in the battle. Instead, they later ended up as shoggoth chow when Rover attacked them from behind. Leonek tried to arm explosives which would have blown up Rover (not to mention collapsing the throne room), but he critically failed, ruining the detonators and making the explosives useless. He and Carla managed to flee, but the Deep Ones chased them and trapped them with one of their fishing nets, so they were imprisoned with the other survivors.

The Brigadier was wise to heavily defend the Ship Inn, which he had turned into a command post, but the defenses weren't quite enough. After the caves were secured, Rover and all of the uninjured Deep Ones came at the inn from the rear while Y'Hali and one of the hybrids waited in front for their chance, with a couple of Royal Navy hostages that Elliot had conveniently asked them to rescue from the sinking destroyer. Rover led the way, providing cover for the Deep Ones. The squad guarding the back door was broken. One went insane and fled into the inn, five were engulfed, and Rover missed the other, who also made it into the inn. Two of the soldiers who were swallowed managed to get free, as Rover bit off more than he could chew. Salem, left in command of the inn's defenses, sent four of the soldiers guarding the front around to the back to help. They took an APC, but when Rover rolled into view, three of them went mad. The fourth fought back using the APC's machine gun, along with the two soldiers on foot who had escaped from Rover. The machine gun scored a critical hit with 18 bullets, shredding Rover to bits. If that had been a regular hit, it would have only caused 18 damage (1 per bullet), but that would have been enough to finish off Rover after all of the times it had been shot. Then the UNIT survivors headed for the back of the inn and saw the Deep One horde. This drove the APC driver insane, and he fled in terror by driving the APC away down the road (taking his equally crazy comrades in arms with him). As a result, the Deep One horde was able to breach the rear of the inn and storm the command post while a few remained outside to take care of the two foot soldiers who remained. The fight inside the inn was going UNIT's way. Salem and the rest of the guards out front rushed through the inn to the rear, leaving the lobby unguarded. This was the opening Y'Hali needed. There were only a few Deep Ones left standing by the time her group showed up with their hostages. Y'Hali bluffed and acted like the inn was surrounded, but they had shot their load. The remaining UNIT forces could have mopped up the Deep Ones as long as they didn't care what happened to the hostages, but they surrendered.

The mansion team fared the best. They managed to sneak inside the mansion without alerting the Star-spawn (which was hiding behind the mansion, the only thing big enough to conceal it). The Star-spawn would not have been present had the Deep Ones not had advance warning, because Father John Stewart needed time to contact it. The team could have gone on to confront Bertie Lake and Father Stewart had news of the inn's capture not changed their plans. They decided to withdraw, but the Star-spawn (which had been alerted by a gunshot) was waiting outside for them. Virgil Soames covered their retreat with a helpful spell that produced an obscuring mist, but it had a short duration. Only a few of them had a chance to get over the wall by the time it dissipated. One of the soldiers went insane with homicidal mania, so he fired at the Star-spawn, thus attracting its attention. Otherwise, it might not have noticed them. All but a few of them got over the wall by the time it arrived, and that's when the lucky UNIT soldiers cut it down before it had a chance to attack. But at least it drove them nuts first!

Damn i knew i should of pushed and tried to confront the target after the others left lol. i had alot of fun, it was pretty much what i expected from my first CoC game. Pretty stoked for the invictus game as well. my only regret was being unable to fully explore the madness of the cthulhu magic

Confronting the two of them alone probably would not have been the best idea. They both know spells and had full Magic Points, so it's best you got out of there with the goodies. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

So far nobody has rolled for Sanity rewards or skill increases. If you don't do so in the next few days, I'll roll for you.

We're all in Rome already, Mr. H.

Leo's rolls:

Sanity rewards:+43 Sanity! :,[dice]0[/dice] [dice]1[/dice] [dice]2[/dice]

After this whopping increase of sanity and conviction, Leonek will ask Dr. Kirby out on a date.

Skill checks:,Hide 10% [dice]3[/dice] Listen 45% [dice]4[/dice] Mechanical Repair 65% [dice]5[/dice] Sneak 10% [dice]6[/dice] Spot Hidden 25% [dice]7[/dice] Swim 25% [dice]8[/dice] Throw 25% [dice]9[/dice] Knife 25% [dice]10[/dice] Handgun 35% [dice]11[/dice]

Skill increases:,Hide 10% [dice]12[/dice] Listen 45% [dice]13[/dice] Sneak 10% [dice]14[/dice] Spot Hidden 25% [dice]15[/dice] Swim 25% [dice]16[/dice] Throw 25% [dice]17[/dice] Knife 25% [dice]18[/dice] Handgun 35% [dice]19[/dice]

Just got back from camping. Not sure its worth bothering to roll for Elliot, doubt he will be a playable character in the future.

I did have a blast being forced onto the "other" side. But I didn't mean to make things so difficult for the rest of you.

I really had no idea if they would attack or not, I just figured that is what I would do if I was the general, so I went down that path. No idea it would let them summon a star spawn. Really surprised they managed to kill it.

I really enjoyed it. Sorry guys, but I think Elliot got the worst end of this deal in the end. Being a stud breeder for a deep one. Hahahahaha.

I liked my IC experience Mr. Handy created with every post reply. I am not sure of How to go about leveling of RP character or reusing my char.
If there is not any task that can be assigned to Newton, he would be working somewhere in Unit hq behind desk with his trusty coffee bin machin nabbed from Inn.

On other thought, is it possible for me to investigate Newtons' pre-U.N.I.T story somewhere, using rolls. I just wake him up from that place to be part of U.N.I.T team.

You did great, Ben, you really nailed our arses. But I bet that'll be Elliot's future now too.

Let's hope next game neither of us will turn out to be dubious

I think Tobias Maddox will be returning to his own company R.I.O.T., a fledgling company of his father's, Tobias Vaughn of International Electromatics. After successfully infiltrating U.N.I.T. and acquiring alien technology to further R.I.O.T.'s weapon technology, he is sure to be amply rewarded; hopefully with a lucrative but safe consultancy job. Thanks for another great episode, Mr. Handy!

sanity check,[url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4825687/]2d4=6, 1d6,2d20=[6], [10, 11][/url] = 33 in total. Tobias feels pretty good about himself!

skill increases,[url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4827682/]12d100=579[/url] [url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4827685/]7d10=35[/url]: electrical skill 4, physics 7, psychology 9, spot hidden 7, swim 3 electric gun 3 handgun 2

I'm glad all of you enjoyed the adventure!

Leonek, Dr. Kirby will gladly go out on a date with you!

Elliot could possibly be playable in the event of a followup to this adventure, but it would be quite some time before that happens. You can go ahead and make the rolls anyway.

It will probably be years before there's another adventure in which Newton can participate, but feel free to roll for his increases. I posted full instructions above in this post. The mystery of who he is will have to remain a mystery for now. Finding that out could be an adventure in its own right.

Tobias, please don't forget to roll for your skill increases too.

I'll probably roll for the rest of the characters' Sanity and skill increases this weekend, and I should be able to set up the forum for the new game then as well.

Previous post edited with skill increases added.

*coughs*
Hey, sorry about the unannounced extended leave...
According to every service provider, there just wasn't enough internet for me to get in on it.
I couldn't make this up if I tried.
And my laptop broke, so I couldn't leach off Starbucks nearby. I am finally back, though I'd understand if you were hesitant to let me back in. Flaky is flaky, regardless of reason.
Also, hi again!

Welcome back! Of course you can return, though The Shadow Over Dunwich has concluded in your absence. Feel free to read the rest of the story and roll for your Sanity and skill increases. Also, if you're interested, you can create a new character and join the next adventure from the beginning. The Brotherhood of Death is a Cthulhu Invictus scenario set in Rome in 44 BC.

> Roman CoC
I'm down, that sounds awesome and probably like it'll kill me in a fantastic fashion.

*Edit:
I'm on mobile, so character creation will be a bit of a pain. Might require a bit more time.

Cool, welcome aboard! Take your time, it'll be a little while before I can get the new characters started.

hey guy sorry i dropped out my laptop is broken so im on mobile right now... is the game board up?

Welcome back! Yes, the new game board is here (the link is also in the first post on this page).