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Post by Squashua on Dec 22, 2011 16:20:52 GMT -5
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Post by Squashua on Dec 22, 2011 16:29:38 GMT -5
That is, if I can find it. The adventure is found in "The Curse of Cthulhu" and is called "The Haunted House" by the late Keith Herbert. It was also published in "The Trail of Tsathoggua". Here is a PDF about it, converted to "Gumshoe": www.pelgranepress.com/trail/files/conversions/HauntedHouse.pdfI renamed the family from "Van Laaden" (any google search on Van Laaden brings you IMMEDIATELY to info on the game) to "Dubois" and swapped out any other names I could find, otherwise we were playing it straight. SEARCHING VAN LAADEN: www.google.com/search?q="van+laaden" ---- here is what I had been writing ... "Christ." Charles felt like he'd been asleep for months. His mouth was dry and his body ached with each breath. Rolling to the right, he reached over to the nightstand and grabbed the wax paper wrapped pills Doctor Paxton prescribed the night prior; "Eukodal," the latest painkiller from overseas. On an afterthought, the term sounded German and damned if he was going to put anything in his mouth from the Huns, but they did the job last night when he was in too much pain to be biased. Charles washed the tart tablets down with a nearby cup of lukewarm water, then slowly pulled himself up and looked around the small hotel room, rubbing the sleep from his eyes as he waited impatiently for the magic to work. Magic. There was that word again. Ben used it to describe that awful tome they'd both read. Had he not taken the pills before bedding down, the imagery from that damned book might've kept Charles' mind running on empty through the night. A claimed derivative of a so-called "book of the dead," filled with enough graphic drawings of corpses to make a sadist swap undergarments. Claiming lineage from ancient Persia or Afghanistan, the necromantic volume described rituals, practices, incantations, and discussions of things both blasphemous and ethereal. But true magic? Poppycock. Certainly, the ceremonies were morbidly detailed, one such for "once bind ye spectral inquisition" was quite specific regarding the location, time of day, and required sacrifice for communicating with the dead, but these were indubitably the work of some deranged or satirical minds, liner notes regarding the success and failure of such atrocities by subsequent owners of the book notwithstanding. He'd left the book in the actor's care, and Charles was all the better for it this morning. The above refers to the "Strange Book" found locked in the desk.Not that he'd have been much use. The The above refers to "Beatrice's Diary"; the book with the scribbles in it.ROGER Beatrice Diary Aaron Post War Strange Book (Unfinished) CHARLES Beatrice Diary Strange Book HENRY Aaron Post War Beatrice Diary Bertrand Journal DAVID Bertrand Journal Beatrice Diary BENJAMIN Strange Book Beatrice Diary Aaron Post War DANIEL Allen Diary (Unfinished) |
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Post by Squashua on Dec 22, 2011 16:31:19 GMT -5
Also, if you are in contact with the others, you might want to point them in this direction.
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Post by B:L on Dec 23, 2011 0:14:26 GMT -5
It's a bittersweet end. At least we have closure. Thanks for hosting, Squash, it was fun  And there was a creature!? I was planning to unmask it Scooby style. Also I'm flattered about your comments about my efforts, but the big problem with a rolling literary record was actually fitting in the readings/clues. They're innately personal and not something that could be easily captured in any format.  |
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Post by Squashua on Dec 23, 2011 11:53:54 GMT -5
To summarize:
Centuries ago, a druid sealed himself in a tree to avoid death.
Then the Van Laaden (rather, Dubois) ancestors cut down the giant tree, completely fucking up the now-insane druid and used it to decorate the house; one of the fireplace mantles contains the druid's body.
He could use his abilities to manipulate anything with his wood or nearby other wood. That's why someone was killed when the tree was being cut down and at the saw mill, and he mentally spoke to the daughter and got her to kill herself. He also screwed with the other residents of the house.
He just wants to be left alone.
Of the two brothers, the one that was evil-ish was actually deranged, and there's a cthulhu cult book with at least one spell in it about ghosts that he has. You could have potentially used it on the graveyard outside and summoned the ghosts of the women to talk to them.
Eventually, you would have figured out it was the wood and maybe taken out /removed one of the mantles, which is a huge ordeal. Whereupon he'd escape in a wooden creature form (if you chopped it up), otherwise if you removed all the wood and put it in... I dunno, the woods, he'd probably have been ok-ish with that. I dunno.
Anyway, I think when I rallied all you guys to post enormous stuff right at that last turn, I actually got seriously overwhelmed trying to coordinate it all and dealing with a lot of stuff at work, and I gave up and couldn't bring myself to get back into the game. I'd have loved to continue it, but I just couldn't.
The next adventure would have been everyone going out to a movie set in the southwest, and when you get there, everyone is missing and shit has gone down, etc.
I still think the height of hilarity was FWD figuring it out within seconds of reading the book prior to joining the game. I've pinged Obbi and FWD on Facebook to drop by.
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Post by B:L on Dec 23, 2011 14:47:46 GMT -5
Shit yes movie set cowboy Christian Slater Out of curiosity, have you ever played the CZHO Quadralogy? www.fullyramblomatic.com/games.htm5 Days a Stranger 7 Days a Skeptic Trilby's Notes 6 Days a Sacrifice Of particular interest is Trilby's Notes which explains the mythology behind the series. KILLER WOOD |
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Post by Wildcat on Dec 23, 2011 16:41:55 GMT -5
Would that film studio quest have been from the Shadows of Yog-Sothoth campaign?
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Post by Oats on Dec 27, 2011 14:37:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the closure Squish.
This experience has actually pushed me to go full nerd, and play DnD with a group of people in meatspace. I'm trying to convert them over to Delta Green.
God I was the worst book-wonk.
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Post by Squashua on Dec 27, 2011 15:06:01 GMT -5
You guys were all great to work with; sorry I got overwhelmed. It's much easier to game RPGs without all the writing work. Meanwhile, yes Wildcat, it would have been an adaptation of that one, which tends to murder multiple entire groups, as opposed to this one which just frustrates them. I think GMs do not perform proper bookkeeping for this adventure, which is why many players get frustrated with it. Additionally, it requires a lot of additional patchwork, which I've done, but refuse to release because Yog-sothoth.com banned me too.  What is it with British-based forum managers that they don't want me around? |
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Post by B:L on Dec 27, 2011 15:26:44 GMT -5
What is it with British-based forum managers that they don't want me around? Maybe they didn't like your Revolutionary works and ideas. |
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Post by Wildcat on Dec 27, 2011 19:22:21 GMT -5
The ENEMY OF BRITON tag may not have helped.
If I ever make a forum for tea and/or crumpets you can totally stay on it though.
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Post by Oats on Dec 27, 2011 22:05:09 GMT -5
The ENEMY OF BRITON tag may not have helped. If I ever make a forum for tea and/or crumpets you can totally stay on it though. EARL GREY FOR LIFE! |
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Post by Wildcat on Dec 28, 2011 7:20:51 GMT -5
OMG BAND
Everyone knows that Darjeeling is best pony
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Post by B:L on Dec 28, 2011 13:56:05 GMT -5
I don't always English Breakfast, but when I do
I prefer Dos Ponies
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Post by Oats on Dec 29, 2011 8:20:49 GMT -5
Sooooooooooooo When does the next one start?  |
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Post by Wildcat on Dec 29, 2011 9:33:52 GMT -5
+1
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Post by Obbi on Dec 29, 2011 18:31:24 GMT -5
Oh man, oh man, all the mans! I lost the URL to this place when Google decided it shouldn't keep bookmarks anymore.
Kind of a bummer, but definitely understandable. Thanks for the setup, Squash, and thanks for pointin' me back here.
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Post by B:L on Dec 29, 2011 23:53:53 GMT -5
Oh man, oh man, all the mans! I lost the URL to this place when Google decided it shouldn't keep bookmarks anymore. Kind of a bummer, but definitely understandable. Thanks for the setup, Squash, and thanks for pointin' me back here. I knew something was fishy. |
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Post by Squashua on Dec 30, 2011 0:29:36 GMT -5
You only have to google "PhalLounge".
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Post by Oats on Dec 30, 2011 11:26:38 GMT -5
Yeah that's how I found my way back.
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Post by FunkyWaltDogg on Jan 2, 2012 10:20:59 GMT -5
Thanks for the FB tip off, Squash, and thanks for the revelation. And of course, thanks for your GM work as well! For what it's worth, I had completely forgotten the conversation where I "figured it out" by the time I joined the game. |
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Post by Squashua on Jan 3, 2012 18:11:30 GMT -5
What with having editable forum posts (a glorified wiki) to track data, it was easy to consolidate and monitor all necessary information. It was always my intent to perform an admin thread reveal at the end so you could check that all numbers rolled were proper and any Keeper comments regarding any information (as noted).
If I do this again, I'm going to pre-roll the first 50 rolls of all characters and track each as they progress. Granted, I'll know the results of any roll beforehand, but I wouldn't know how that roll would be used till it was used.
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Post by Oats on Jan 3, 2012 22:52:25 GMT -5
Sooooooooooooo When does the next one start? |
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Post by Squashua on Jan 4, 2012 13:05:31 GMT -5
I'd love to but I don't have the time to devote.
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Post by Oats on Jan 13, 2012 6:20:41 GMT -5
Man I forgot about DAC RAGE.
Googling Phallounge it is always one of the top hits.
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