Play@YSDC

Posted: **Thu Nov 21, 2019 11:47 am**

The place to chat and ask questions,

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2019 2:28 pm**

Except for some minor details, the characters are all done. We have 4 players in the game; I sent a message to Dave, but he hasn't answered yet. I'm thinking to start the game at 9 or 10 of December, so another player can still join us.

By the way, I'm thinking that every player should have a "shadow companion": a companion that can be used if the the prime character die and we avoid the need to create a substitute from scratch. You don't need to flesh him out for now just, give him/her a name and 1 line of description.

Posted: **Sat Nov 30, 2019 12:37 am**

Should the shadow companion have the same occupation as the main character?

Posted: **Sat Nov 30, 2019 1:08 am**

I was going to go for a mysterious indigenous assistant/maid.

Posted: **Sat Nov 30, 2019 8:47 am**

Are you thinking of the shadow companion being like our assistants so they can step in for us if we die?

Posted: **Sat Nov 30, 2019 11:07 am**

Jeremiah Fells

African-Canadian professional boxer. Colleague of Crowley's since the Great War. Currently employed as a boxing and athletics coach at Miskatonic.

(Assuming Misk had boxing and athletics coaches, or at least one. If that's not the case he could be the night guard or something similar.)

Archetype: Two Fisted
Occupation: Boxer

Snapper

Posted: **Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:40 pm**

The concept doesn't need to be a clone of your main, but it must fill the same role to make easier the transition.

Posted: **Sat Nov 30, 2019 11:45 pm**

Thanks. This is actually a character I'm creating as an NPC in a (non-pulp) scenario I'm writing. I actually played a version of her before in a (modern) Cthulhu Dark game, but there aren't really stats and skills in that.

Katrina Tolliver

Graduate student in Archaeology at Miskatonic University. Harry's research assistant.

Archetype: Sidekick
Occupation: Student

Posted: **Sun Dec 01, 2019 5:30 am**

kabukiman wrote:The concept doesn't need to be a clone of your main, but it must fill the same role to make easier the transition.

No sweat. In that case, scrap Jeremiah.

Crowley's alternate shall be:
Mickey "Red" Devlin
Seeker archetype
Investigative Journo. Freelancer with a nose for trouble and a good story.

Posted: **Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:11 pm**

I'm not sure of everyone's roles in this game since we didn't discuss that in character creation. That being said, I focused on mechanical and electrical repair with demolitions on the side for my original character.

My companion will Eddie "Moose" Morrison (a Beefsteak archetype with a Mechanic occupation). A bit more blue collar than Butch but should still fill the "repair stuff" role.

Posted: **Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:20 pm**

For Fr Malone's companion I've said the following:

His closest companion is Maria Paraguaçu (archetype Outsider), a quiet and distant young woman who has been working with him since his time in Brazil. An indigenous Catholic convert he describes her as his housekeeper but she has been assisting him in his academic work as well as attending to his more material needs. Dr Malone has shared some of his speculations with Maria but her cold demeanour gives little indication of her thoughts or why she chooses to accompany Fr Malone rather than return home.

Not sure about career until I see the rolls and also until I get a sense of what features of Fr Malone are useful but I think an outsider archetype complements his mystic archetype.

Posted: **Tue Dec 03, 2019 8:48 am**

Assume that both my primary character and his (Paranoia-RPG-Clone) 2nd fill the role of allegedly skilled investigator / consulting detective / intrepid boy reporter, who may in fact be inept but does not lack for confidence.

As a wise, wise theologian once said, "I have confidence in confidence itself."

Posted: **Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:12 am**

Mephistophilis wrote:For Fr Malone's companion I've said the following:

His closest companion is Maria Paraguaçu (archetype Outsider), a quiet and distant young woman who has been working with him since his time in Brazil. An indigenous Catholic convert he describes her as his housekeeper but she has been assisting him in his academic work as well as attending to his more material needs. Dr Malone has shared some of his speculations with Maria but her cold demeanour gives little indication of her thoughts or why she chooses to accompany Fr Malone rather than return home.

Not sure about career until I see the rolls and also until I get a sense of what features of Fr Malone are useful but I think an outsider archetype complements his mystic archetype.

In the 30's everyone will assumed that she is her servant and her lover, but nobody will say anything.

Posted: **Tue Dec 03, 2019 6:05 pm**

...attending to his more material needs

Posted: **Wed Dec 04, 2019 8:55 am**

Traditionally, every member of the fairer sex Crowley has become 'acquainted' with has subsequently been revealed to be a murderous devotee of Kali, a member of the modern day Hashishim, or her female flatmate turns out to be from the Andaman Islands etc.

Crowley has developed a rather jaundiced view of the female of the species...

Posted: **Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:07 am**

Mephistophilis wrote:
...attending to his more material needs

I'm glad there are no misunderstood

Posted: **Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:36 pm**

For a collection of pulp heroes, we are not exactly muscle bound. None of us has sufficient strength to even get a damage bonus!

The team will just have to never go down to the beach or else beach bullies will kick sand in our faces.

Posted: **Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:57 pm**

We can wait till one of us inevitably dies and then the replacement might roll up a bit stronger.

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2019 1:45 am**

Old timers among us might be reminded of those Charles Atlas adds you'd see in Marvel comics in the '80s, where the skinny guy at the beach gets sand kicked in his face by some big dude so resolves to buff up a bit.

Fear not, what our team lacks in manliness it will make up for with pluck!

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2019 9:29 am**

Who needs strength when you have a gun.
That is until we need to roll a boulder away from an ancient tomb...

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2019 10:19 am**

That's what luck's for. Lots and lots of luck.

Posted: **Mon Dec 09, 2019 10:08 am**

The game will start this Friday. I hope we will enjoy the game

Posted: **Mon Dec 09, 2019 10:36 am**

Sweet!

I have been listening to ancient episodes of the radio Fu Manchu series on Audible as prep.

Posted: **Tue Dec 10, 2019 5:06 am**

I bought a copy of Pulp Cthulhu at PAX Unplugged for $25 at Chaosium's booth, which includes a PDF copy of it. That was a bargain!

Posted: **Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:16 am**

Yes, specially because I paid more than the double (had to pay the shipping)

Posted: **Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:02 am**

I should have told you before, but by now it must be quite obvious: English isn't my first language, so sorry for any mistakes

Posted: **Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:08 am**

No worries, you'd hardly notice and this game is about storytelling, not grammar!

Posted: **Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:24 am**

I'm not fussed by perfect grammar, I just love a good adventure!

Posted: **Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:27 pm**

I won't be able to post for next dat few days (I'l be ocupied with my family). I wish you a merry christmas to those of you that are christians, and good holidays for those that aren't!

Posted: **Tue Dec 24, 2019 1:22 am**

And a Merry Xmas to you too!

Posted: **Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:57 pm**

I'm finding myself hearing this adventure playing out as an old time radio pulp mystery serial.

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2020 12:51 am**

I feel like we're a bunch of jolly good chaps getting stuck in to a real humdinger of an adventure. And we didn't do too badly bashing down that door and chasing that miscreant given our lack of physical prowess.

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:12 am**

It's only Strength that we lack. I've got Dexterity and Constitution in spades.

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2020 5:58 am**

Netflix / BBC / classic horror fans - I've done the first 2 episodes of the new Dracula TV 3-parter and it's a hoot! From Messrs Gatiss and Moffat of Dr Who and Sherlock fame.

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:32 am**

I'm hopping you are liking this game; I'm discovering that this scenario has more holes that a Swiss cheese; this game was not created to Cthulhu players who ask questions and try to investigate (even at the minimum level), The players are just suppose to act and no questions asked

. Well, I think this is much more interesting as we are playing.

Never heard of that tv show, is it good?

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2020 12:40 pm**

Yes and yes!

I suppose we are all used to the traditional CoC approach of investigating rather than immediately charging at everything. We can't help ourselves but keep asking questions. Please don't stop running it though!

As I said before, this is all playing out in my head as a pulp radio series from the days before TV, and those radio heroes talked a lot.

Posted: **Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:30 am**

I certainly intend to ask questions of this guy after we subdue him.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:07 am**

Sorry guys, comedy of confusion by me today.

I'm a newbie to this online forum system but I have been working on the assumption that if another player posts something using the Spoiler-Button, I shouldn't read it unless it's addressed to me. Same with GM Spoiler-Button posts.

Also, if something happens to one character out of observation of the other characters, I have been assuming that information hasn't been passed on until the PC "in the know" expressly passes it on or it's clear from events that everyone finds out.

If I've got that won't, let me know.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:07 am**

I depends: if it is OOC anyone can read (but that doesn't mean that the characters have access to that information. Or I write something as "only those that pass the X test can read the spoilers". Or I write the name of the person in the spoilers.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:06 pm**

OK, that's cool.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:25 pm**

Yeah, my impression was more like kabukiman's.

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:18 am**

Lovecraft fans! BBC Radio has done full cast radio dramatisations of modern interpretations of Charles Dexter Ward and The Whisperer in Darkness with audio sfx etc. They're really good. I tend to listen on the daily commute. Listen to CDW first. 10 episodes each and can be downloaded as podcasts:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb ... yer?page=1

Posted: **Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:50 pm**

This changed to a bad horror movie quick! All was needed was everyone having bad rolls.

Posted: **Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:35 am**

Just imagine they're giant mosquitoes instead...

(Courtesy the Pulp Librarian Twitter account.)

Posted: **Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:37 am**

Amazon attack...

Posted: **Mon Feb 24, 2020 2:30 pm**

But you still have your shirts for now...

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:49 am**

Laugh! The William Shatner school of shirtless monster fighting...

Got a better one. Closer to current events for the characters...

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:51 am**

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 7:00 am**

Now that's a good one.

Posted: **Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:09 pm**

Now I'm finally feeling we are playing a pulp game!

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:34 am**

Hells yeah!

Stay healthy one and all.

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:09 pm**

I'm still whooping it up over two extreme successes when the chips are down! That's some high pulp action!

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:31 am**

Ok guys, I had a problem: the hard disk of my computer died. I'm using my laptop, but I lost all my notes (I just have the physical manual now), and the corrector I had in the computer. It shouldn't affect much the game, but I will have to track again all the sucesses you had. And hat's boring...

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:48 pm**

Sorry to hear that. Hope you recover soon.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:54 pm**

Oh no, that's a real bummer.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:31 am**

I'm sorry too. I hope the data can be recovered.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:56 am**

Let me quote the official motto of the Commonwealth of Australia:

"No worries, Mate."

We're happy and having fun. Take whatever time you need. We just want the game to keep going.

(And the great thing about Nazis is they're much like hitmen. And let me quote Marv from Sin City on hitmen:
I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad.)

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:21 pm**

Thanks! I'l try to keep the game as best as possible.

Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:26 pm**

Crap. I haven't been able to access the forum since Friday.

Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:44 pm**

I didn't have access too.

Posted: **Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:27 am**

The site was undergoing maintenance, but it took a lot longer than I thought it would. About a week and a half ago I was notified that it would happen starting on Friday the 26th at 10:00 PM Eastern time, and it should have come back up by Saturday at 8:00 AM, but I had then forgotten about it until Friday night, when the site went down while I was in the middle of posting shortly before 11:00 PM. It's been down until today, and I saw that all the posts I made Friday night were gone, as they must have backed the site up some time before they took it down. A spammer I had eliminated was also back, so I had to get rid of it again.

My post in this game disappeared, and with it my dice rolls. I remember that I had fired three shots, two of which hit and did 3 and 6 damage respectively.

Posted: **Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:09 am**

Post the results in the main thread please in ooc,

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2020 9:20 am**

Well, now we are almost finishing the scenario, I hope you have enjoy it.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:33 pm**

Absolutely. It's been a lot of fun.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:43 pm**

I thought the Nazis were going to have us for sure!

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:00 am**

I had a feeling we'd win.

Thank you, I enjoyed it a lot!

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:46 am**

Very cool fun!

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:11 am**

This is the rolls that you can make to see if you have increased any skills. I may have miss, so please confirm.

Alexander

First aid
Spot hidden
Credit rating
Spanish
Occult
Dodge
Listen
Psychology
Handgun
First aid

Crowley

Spot hidden
Spanish
History
Latin
Listen
Climb
handgun

Butch

Own language
Listen
Dodge
Navigate
Mechanical repair
Pilot boat
Rifle
Spot hidden
brawl

Harry-handy

Credit rating
Dodge
Archaeology
Handgun
Latin
Anthropology
Spot hidden
First aid

You will all increase 1d3 of luck.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:05 pm**

That sounds about right for Alex. We don't roll to increase Credit Rating AFAIK so the below rolls are:
Improvement for the relevant skills:

Posted: **Tue Jul 28, 2020 3:36 am**

I believe you don't get skill checks when you use Luck to succeed at a skill, which I did at least for Latin. I don't have time tonight to go through all my posts and see which skills I used successfully without spending Luck, but I may be able to do it tomorrow night.

Posted: **Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:06 am**

Mephis:
You will all roll credit rating because you are supposed to get a bit more famous after this expedition.

Mr Handy:
I decide that since it was a very important moment and it was your sucess that allowed the comunication with the natives, you should be allowed anyway to roll.

Posted: **Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:36 pm**

Ah, cool, makes sense.

Posted: **Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:52 pm**

Increases:

Posted: **Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:38 am**

Thanks! In that case, I'll just roll for increases for all of the listed skills. I don't have time to check if any are missing from the list.

Credit Rating (15% skill) XP check:
[dice]0[/dice]
Increase:
[dice]9[/dice]
Dodge (65% skill) XP check:
[dice]1[/dice]
Archaeology (66% skill) XP check:
[dice]2[/dice]
Firearms(Handgun) (60% skill) XP check:
[dice]3[/dice]
Increase:
[dice]10[/dice]
Language(Latin) (1% base skill) XP check:
[dice]4[/dice]
Increase:
[dice]11[/dice]
Anthropology (36% skill) XP check:
[dice]5[/dice]
Spot Hidden (55% skill) XP check:
[dice]6[/dice]
First Aid (55% skill) XP check:
[dice]7[/dice]
Increase:
[dice]12[/dice]
Luck increase:
[dice]8[/dice]

Posted: **Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:47 am**

Crowley

Spot hidden
Spanish
History
Latin
Listen
Climb
handgun

Spot Hidden 60%
[dice]0[/dice]

Spanish 31%
[dice]1[/dice]
[dice]7[/dice]

History 70%
[dice]2[/dice]

Latin 31%
[dice]3[/dice]
[dice]8[/dice]

Listen 40%
[dice]4[/dice]
[dice]9[/dice]

Climb 30%
[dice]5[/dice]
[dice]10[/dice]

Handgun 75%
[dice]6[/dice]

Posted: **Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:56 am**

[dice]0[/dice] luck

Posted: **Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:30 am**

Character updated.

So, Mr Kabukiman, are you tempted to run another Pulp Cthulhu adventure?

Posted: **Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:58 am**

Sure. I'm thinking to start probably next week.

Posted: **Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:48 am**

That would be magic! (And a fun diversion in the midst of the current RW unpleasantness.)

Posted: **Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:57 am**

Great, looking forward to it!

Posted: **Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:21 am**

Very well, you can all make the changes of your characters sheets. As soon as you have all done that, we can move on.

Posted: **Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:16 pm**

Brilliant, thanks.

Posted: **Sat Aug 01, 2020 3:40 am**

Done!

Posted: **Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:47 am**

Done!

Posted: **Wed Aug 05, 2020 9:14 am**

We have now a new forum.
Please post your characters there.

https://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/pbp/vi ... .php?f=470

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