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Cthulhu Keeper (GM): Myself
Investigators: Caroline, Nik, Chrissy, Raven and Aldwyn as players*
Campaign: Masks of Nyarlathotep
Before going much further, I need to impart some information about who the PCs are…or at least a few things of note about them. Nik was playing a New York Police Investigator, Raven was playing an upstanding British Field Researcher with a high credit rating and a penchant for being a bit of a male chauvinist – totally appalled by most of the actions of two of the female Investigators who had *ahem* shady backgrounds (a Smuggler and an Assassin to be precise). The Smuggler was played by Caroline and the Assassin was played by Chrissy, and neither one is the petite fair lady the Brit hopes they will start being. Aldwyn is playing another Brit who is an Antiquarian living in New York as well. We also have a new player (playing a Librarian) who had joined the group that week
*This was a post-game email that was sent to Caroline and I by Raven about her email conversation to Nik explaining what had happened the last gaming session. Nik, Chrissy and Aldwyn had missed that session, but the other players had already decided from the week before (with Nik’s blessing) that they would be using his house as their base of operations for the time being.
Here is the email:
From: Raven
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:06 AM
To: Caroline, WCB
Subject: Thought you would enjoy this
The conversation between Nik and I re his house.this was over e-mail
Raven: In Cthulhu . you had home owner's insurance, yes???
Nik: .yeah, nice of you guys to, y'know, find something else to do. ,.!.. Hope you &^%&ers had fun! lol j/k What did we miss?
Raven: Uh . well, the simplest way is just to say your detective's house burned to the ground. The more *complicated* explanation involves the gigantically growing tree-plant-monster with shooting eyes and claws that broke down walls and floorboards and traumatized all your neighbors BEFORE we burned down the house to kill it. I mean, Caroline's character set the tree-plant-monster on fire and, well, your house was an innocent bystander. I was being good! I was shooting cultists in your bedroom! So, um, you also have one charred body of a cultist to explain to your fellow men in blue. The other one got away, slightly wounded. On the bright side, I wasn't injured!
Nik: .and the books?
Raven: Rachel's character (a librarian who works in the rare books section and who knows both mine and Aldwyn's characters) grabbed three of them, and Caroline's character saved the fourth (with some slight binding breakage when she threw it). Hey, my Brit stuffed his under a chair cushion and called it good while he went off shooting in the back bedrooms. Good thing the girls were alert. *L*
Nik: Well, then, at least the smoldering pile of ash (with a splash of fire-ravaged corpse) that *used* to be the sum total of my worldly possessions, memories, and personal effects served a purpose.
Raven: It served a very useful purpose. Gave us a few days anyway to read the books (I got spells!). And I think it's time we leave the country. Forgot to tell you, as your detective would know. We're headed (with the books) the Waldorf-Astoria to take some rooms there. J That'll give the cultists some obstacles to attack us.
Nik: .such as? If we go ground floors, they summon weird plant monsters. Or worm monsters. Or who knows what the hell else. If we go with upper floors, they summon byakhees, night gaunts, or any other winged harbinger of impending legal action.and death. -_-
Raven: Well, it's a more luxurious setting than your ashen rubble of a house! Ooh, was that mean? LOL
Nik: Now, that was just plain uncalled for. *Goes back to weeping and rocking back and forth in his quant three bedroom cinder heap.*