Wait, do I have to roll a die for this? If that's the case, I'm pretty much screwed.

DUN DUN DUNNN! J Man is back! I might make an exception for you since it is your big return to RPing, but you are the last one.

Lazy, I will handle all the die rolls behind the scenes. I will report the rolls to you.

Thank God. I must be the only one here without a d-20 anyway.

Sweet! I'll make my character now before you change your mind.

Ok i edited in my items; I figured Id explain where most of our ammo comes from. I figured I have skills in crafting and high int so it seemed likely i would do this any way. My poorly paying job and the fact that this would be expensive means my char would turn to moonshine to make a buck with all his int and edu.

Also, i rearranged my skills because at when i posted my signup I assumed skills started at o and i had to add my weapon skill.

Hey, what is a Dilettante, and why is it female only? (I looked up the meaning in the dictionary, but it doesn't really make sense of why it's only for females.)

Name: Jim (eh, whatever)
Sex: Male
Age: 47 (I'm making him an older gentleman, I've never role played a guy like this before.)
Occupation: Doctor of Medicine
College Degrees: Doctor PhD in medicine, Psychology PhD?
Birthplace: America, I guess
Background: Was smart. Went to school. Went to college. Became a doctor. 'Nuff said. Is also a pretty nice guy.


Stats

Strength - 5

Constitution - 7

Size - 10

Intelligence - 14

Dexterity - 3

Power - 14

Appearance - 5

Education - 19

Sanity - 70


Important Non-Stats to keep in mind.

Idea Roll (INT x5) -70

Luck Roll (POW x5) - 70

Know Roll (EDU x5) - 45

Hit Points (CON + SIZ / 2) - 8

Magic Points (POW = MAX) - 14

Occupation points-380

Biology-30
Credit Rating-30
First Aid-40
Latin-30
Medacine-50
Pharmacy-20
Psychoanalysis-20
Psychology-40

Personal Skills-140
Listen-20
Occult-50
Rifle-10 (It's only really to keep him safe from robbers and stuff)

Items
.22 Bolt-Action rifle
(You really didn't have any other items in the items document besides weapons.)

JMan, you didn't use a lot of available points... Out of 80 for stats you only used 77, for 380 occupation you only used 260 and out of 140 personal you only used 80.

should the kung fu priest and the doctor know each other?

A dilittante is a lover of the arts it says in the dictionary, and I said female only because A. Being a dilittante is usuallly attributed to women, not men, and B. All the examples of a Dilettante seem to be female. However, I just consulted the rulebook, and it says a Dilettante can be male or female, so I'll change that around. Also, a female character in the 1920s will be restricted in jobs, since there weren't as many doctors or psychologists during the times...

J Man, other then the short bio, and the low number of points applied, good character. Your in.

And Jad, previous relations won't be important, since regardless, we will all meet up at the beginning with the meeting with everyone's NPC mutual friend.

I had gone over the occupation ones once, and it took a hell of a lot of editing to get it right, I didn't wanna take the chance again.

I narrowed down the ones that I think would be okay for women, do these all seem alright for choices?

Antiquarian, Artist, Author, Dilettante, Entertainer, Journalist, and a Musician.
(that really narrows it down... sucks to be me! ^^; )
Do these seem acceptable, or did I miss any?

I'll join...

I just have to work out the mind-boggling sign-up first.

Zero closed the sign up but if you can convince him to let you in then your in, i think it might be a good ideal because i think there is 13 people signed up, im not supersticous but its better not to poke the sleeping bear that is fate.

These words ripped straight form the book.

Antiquarian - "Occasionally female, but usually to obssesive and voyeuristic to be of that sex."

Artist - "This occupation is equally available to males and females."

Author - "May be male or female."

Dilettante - "Can be male or female"

Entertainer - "May be male or female."

Journalist - "Nearly always male in earlier eras, interchangably male or female by the 1990's"

Muscian - Um, isn't in the book, but I say it would be fine.

And actually, as I'm reading through, for most of them it says there could/would be a very small number of women in those fields like Doctor of Medacine and Proffesor, but know before hand if you chose another profession, others might treat you oddly since it is almost unheard of for women to be in those fields.

EDIT: I okayed SS to join in. 14 is way more then I expected, so that is it.

So, by chance (because i am lazy beyond all belief) do we have a lawyer in here yet?

Your walking a dangerous line squeezing into a full RP and asking questions you can look up... Luckily, I'm feeling generous and can say no, we don't have any lawyers yet.

OOC: Oh yeah, and due to fucked up events in my life, this is being moved to next Monday instead of this Friday, and all RPing I may do, in this RP or others, will most likely come to a stop on weekends just as a warning.

Speakeasys were quite common in the 'Roaring Twenties.' They were like nightclubs, I believe.

Maybe you could be a lounge singer, Celes. That could be interesting.

To bad this is set in the 1920's so I can't make any 'Entertainer' jokes...

Edit - We already have an author by the way.

Yeah, that's me. You weren't directing that at me were you?

A lounge singer... or a Journalist/ newspaper reporter type-person... Which one should I be?

I think we have a journalist already too, or maybe that was just the author.

Name: Neil
Sex: Male
Age: 27
Occupation: Lawyer
College Degrees: Law, Psychology, Med, and Anthropology first year
Birthplace: Chicago
Background: Insert the story of every law student to date here.

Strength - 5

Constitution - 11

Size - 8

Intelligence - 13

Dexterity – 12

Power - 8

Appearance - 9

Education - 14

Sanity- 40

Secondary Skills:
Idea – 65
Luck- 40
Know- 70
HP- 9.5 (Should I round up or down?)
Magic: 8

Occupation Skills-
Bargain: 40
Credit Rating: 35
Fast Talk: 40
Law: 45
Library Use: 20
Persuade: 45
Psychology: 50
Anthropology: 25

Personal Skills:
Handgun-45
Listen: 25
Grapple: 25
Garrote Skill: 15

Items:

H2H: Garrote

Handgun: .38 Revolver

Other Items: Thesaurus, various documents, his briefcase, some tea-bags, pen, paper, an extra suit jacket, an extra tie. Oh and a comb.





Now, did I horribly screw something up?

You have 20 more points to spend in personal skills, unless Libary Use was supposed to be 20 points.

My money is on the Lounge singer.

Her applications are ... well, interesting to say the least. And she could be fun to RP.

edit - I enjoy Sayain's attention to detail. His Lawyer can use a Garrotte. However, most Lawyers are also proficent with icepicks, too. I would suggest some points in that to round your character off.

Right, thanks IHMN.

Does anybody besides me thats kinda funny that I have a short doctor with a big gun?

Edit I think Celes should be a lounge singer...

I just realized im going to make a lot of friends with guns during gunplay. I think im the only one with the abiltiy to repair damaged or jammed guns. It would seem im not going to spend all my time in the library or the lab.

Edit:
Yup just took a look back im the only one with repair abilities so far and the only one with craft also.

Edit2:
Just had a thought, 14 people may work well. I'm assuming that you were thinking that 6 to 7 people would join up. This means we have the perfect number of people to split into two groups. One group hits the streets and asks some questions. Possibly splitting into 2 groups of 4 or 4 groups of 2. The other six would hit the library or possibly split, one heading to a library and the other heading to a lab or where ever the case might require.

Well, I changed my bit once around again, realizing that my character would have been to lazy to learn any hand to hand combat techniques.

Also, Celes, my character is already a journalist, but I don't really care myself if yours is one or not. In fact, it would be kinda fun if you were, each one trying to get a better story would create sort of a rivalry between the characters. Both would have something to prove, one quit highschool and the other is female.

Lounge singer is cool too.

Quick question - Is this during the depression era? I don't remember much about that time, mainly because I wasn't born yet nor have I researched that particular point in time. This is after WWI and before WWII, right?

After WWI, before WWII, and the depression hit in 1929, so, if we're in the 1920s, it's doubtful the depression would have hit yet.

Well anyways we'd probably feel the end of the boom, but again everybody thought that it would never end, and go for whatever you like Celes, my guy is still gonna hit on you

Actually... this is the first character I've had that was both free and WOULD hit on a girl... so I guess mine may as well. Albeit, probably rather subtly. Unless she has a low appearance score. In which case he will refer to her as a canine.

Don't mock my dog

If your dog wasn't such a bitch (pun intended), I wouldn't.

OK that one was funny.
Point for you

[Irreverent Newcomer]Incidentally - who the heck is J Man? [/Irreverent Newcomer]

It seems he is a friend of FZ

I was wondering the same thing, but I'm a reverent newcomer and, thus, kept my trap shut.

Ah.

Still... 14 people in an RP... I don't mind tagging along, but it's still going to be pretty hard...)

EDIT - krylo: It is exactly the quality of irreverence which allows my mouth to get the rest of me into trouble. Nevertheless I shall boldly expose myself to FZ's ire for all our sakes.

Hey most of the guys will probably leave before we have begunn and more of them will probably leave after teh ten first posts.
Remember our illfated Dn'D adventure, we had 19 in the beginning but later on almost all of us left and when the DM left it ended

You're a better man than I am, Gunga-Din (bonus points if you know what that saying originated from)

I am shure that I have heard it before, but I'm not shure from where. Any ways I need to get some food soon, not eating for several days is not good for your health.

Ten years too late, krylo.

And I'm Chinese, not Hindu.

Would someone explain to me whats happening now?

Dante was... CORRECT! Ten points!

Gunga-din is from a poem about, I believe, english soldiers and their indian water boys (although I may have mistaken the nationalities a bit). Anyway, the water boys were mis-treated, beaten, yadda yadda, but Gunga-din was one of them. The poem is told from the viewpoint of a soldier, and he was talking about this indian water boy who risked his life to bring him his drink, crawling through offal, blah blah, to deliver the water to this man when he was wounded, as well as bring him back to the medical camps and died on the way. Here's the poem, by Rudyard Kipling:

Gunga Din

YOU may talk o' gin an' beer
When you're quartered safe out 'ere,
An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it;
But if it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water,
An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
Now in Injia's sunny clime,
Where I used to spend my time
A-servin' of 'Er Majesty the Queen,
Of all them black-faced crew
The finest man I knew
Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din.

It was "Din! Din! Din!
You limping lump o' brick-dust, Gunga Din!
Hi! slippy hitherao!
Water, get it! Panee lao!
You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din!"

The uniform 'e wore
Was nothin' much before,
An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind,
For a twisty piece o' rag
An' a goatskin water-bag
Was all the field-equipment 'e could find.
When the sweatin' troop-train lay
In a sidin' through the day,
Where the 'eat would make your bloomin' eyebrows crawl,
We shouted "Harry By!"
Till our throats were bricky-dry,
Then we wopped 'im 'cause 'e couldn't serve us all.

It was "Din! Din! Din!
You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been?
You put some juldee in it,
Or I'll marrow you this minute,
If you don't fill up my helmet, Gunga Din!"

'E would dot an' carry one
Till the longest day was done,
An' 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear.
If we charged or broke or cut,
You could bet your bloomin' nut,
'E'd be waitin' fifty paces right flank rear.
With 'is mussick on 'is back,
'E would skip with our attack,
An' watch us till the bugles made "Retire."
An' for all 'is dirty 'ide,
'E was white, clear white, inside
When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire!

It was "Din! Din! Din!"
With the bullets kickin' dust-spots on the green.
When the cartridges ran out,
You could 'ear the front-files shout:
"Hi! ammunition-mules an' Gunga Din!"

I sha'n't forgit the night
When I dropped be'ind the fight
With a bullet where my belt-plate should 'a' been.
I was chokin' mad with thirst,
An' the man that spied me first
Was our good old grinnin', gruntin' Gunga Din.

'E lifted up my 'ead,
An' 'e plugged me where I bled,
An' 'e guv me 'arf-a-pint o' water—green;
It was crawlin' an' it stunk,
But of all the drinks I've drunk,
I'm gratefullest to one from Gunga Din.

It was "Din! Din! Din!
'Ere's a beggar with a bullet through 'is spleen;
'E's chawin' up the ground an' 'e's kickin' all around:
For Gawd's sake, git the water, Gunga Din!"

'E carried me away
To where a dooli lay,
An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean.
'E put me safe inside,
An' just before 'e died:
"I 'ope you liked your drink," sez Gunga Din.
So I'll meet 'im later on
In the place where 'e is gone—
Where it's always double drill and no canteen;
'E'll be squattin' on the coals
Givin' drink to pore damned souls,
An' I'll get a swig in Hell from Gunga Din!

Din! Din! Din!
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

They made a movie of it... and while I don't think Gunga-Din is particularly appropriate... it is close enough. I prefer "kamikaze pilot" myself.

Well "You're a better man than I am, Kamikaze Pilot" doesn't sound as good as Gunga Din, plus it's not a known saying, and doesn't go back to any literature I can think of.

If you survived a misson where you a failed kamikaze pilot then?

The crappiest kamikaze pilot ever... survived 27 missions.

And yes, it does sound better in that context, krylo.

Well then it's better to be a crappy kamikaze pilot than a good one

I changed my signup for the last time... Now he's an WWI veteran Mobster...

"The point isn't to die for your country - it's to make the other guy die for his!"

Hey your the guy who forced me to learn how to shoot with a gun... Grrr lucky bastard

The oldies know me. I'm the guy who made the first ending RP. THE first.

Jman is your god now.

Just changed my stats a little. Put Size down by one and Appearance up by one.

Alright, first off, I'll go back in a bit and grab those updated Sign-Ups.

Second, Sithdarth, you may be the only one who can repair weapons, but most weapons have no or a very low malfunction ratio, so it won't be needed too much.

Who is J Man? Well, you would probably be better off asking BM, IHMN, Celes, SS, or Jad for the full story since they all knew him (Or I assume so) before I ever heard of him, but the short of it is, we all used to RP as a group back on TWC, and when TWC went belly up, we all came here. J Man tried to join a Star Wars RP BM started up right before TWC died (This was the first time I had heard of him), and he seemed to be a really good RPer, since even though the RP never started, he started a battle in the sign up by force lightnining everyone into oblivion, causing a big RP fight to start. I won both when my lightsaber skills owned his (Booyah!) and when I pointed out his stat sheet had too many points and was incompatible, he exploded in a puff of logic... Similar to the one in the attachment...

Anyway, haven't seen or heard from him since, and now he finally drifted through the cosmos here it seems to wreck RP havoc once again...

And what was the RP you started that actually survived to the end?

JMan was a vet RPer. That's about it.

And I would not be proud of that RP ending JMan... Here is the ending.

Evil Guy: HAHAHAHAHA. I stab girl!
*Girl (Celes) gets stabbed*
Raiden's guy: NOOO! BLARG! I AM UNDONE!
*Raiden's guy dies instead of Celes' girl because of some random golden magic item heart thing*
Celes' girl: NOOOOOOOOO!
Evil guy: HAHAHAHAHAHA!
JMan's guy: Stab!
*JMan's guy stabs evil guy*
Evil guy: GASP!
*Evil guy (Who was in possesion of a god item which he was using) dies. Cave starts to collaspes on self*
Other people: We must leave!
Celes' girl: I can't leave because stalker boy's kid said "Are you mommy?" once and that means I love him!
Others: Ok, bye.
*Everyone leaves, cave collapses and Celes' girl dies*
*In heaven*
Raiden's guy: (Insert big corny speak about mushy crap and love here)
Celes' girl: Yay!
Raiden's guy's dead wife: Finnaly you died! Now we- Who is she?
Raiden's guy: Crap...
*Raiden's guy gets bitch slapped by both girls*
Both girls: LESBIAN TIME!



Ok, that last part was more or less decided by me (And SS/BM I think) because SS pointed out that plot hole (Raiden and Celes in heaven in love for ever, but completely forgetting about his old dead wife which looks exactly like Celes and is the basis of the whole 'love' thing). But before that (Meaning before dead wife comes) that is almost exactly how it ended.

Edit - Oh, and during it there was some romance between a wood elf ditz and a dwarf... Plus Celes was high elf, Raiden was dark elf.

*Snicker* You have a way with words IHMN...

Indeed, that would have been a very funny way to end an RP.

Hmm I hope that this Rp is going to end when either everyone is dead or when we finish it, and it doesn't just end because all teh players leave

Well, I don't plan on leaving unless something cataclysmic happens and I can't GM anymore, but chances are high a few will drop out soon after the RP starts. That just makes it easeier in the long run.

Of course, if they leave/die I call dibs on their stuff.

Anyway, is it possible to beat Call of Cthulhu? I'm pretty sure this will end by either our characters retiring or they die a horrible, horrible death. For me, I'm hoping it'll be the former.

About as possible as it is to beat DnD.

Seriously though... maybe if we like summoned every elder god, and then one of the other gods at a time... let the elder gods gang rape each great old one, while adding support fire... got an army behind it. Hmm...

Probably not.

Edit: Fixed because I accidently typed elder god where great old one should have been.

I believe the best possible ending is to retire. Other options are Permenant Insanity (Which happens if you run out of Sanity Points), or being killed in a horrible, horrible way (Happens if you run out of Hit Points, and/or are messily devoured by an angry Great Old One...).

Was I forgotten or something? If I was, don't feel bad, it happens all the time in real life.

Nope, still waiting on your investigator...

And actually, the gods are pretty much unkillable. They have HP, but:

A. They have insanely hard to pierce defenses. I think nothing short of a tank can kill some of the mightiest ones, and most are immune to mundane weapons like guns.

B. Even if they are 'Killed', they are actually only temporarily banished. So if we say, by some miracle, killed Cthulhu (Strongest of the Great Old Ones, but not even the strongest of the Mythos gods...), we would just banish him again until some new cult formed to make him rise again...

Wait, I have to send the basics to you? Dammit, I hate it when I'm clueless.

No, you need to post your sign-up in this thread... Do you have any questions? I thought it was easy...

But... you said the Elder gods were nice to humans, basically... so if, say, Cthulhu was released... couldn't humans summon all the Elder Gods to fight Cthulu, while providing back up fire... which would only really serve to distract him, and thus allow his 'death' (read banishment) again. Or maybe we could make magical tank bullets! Ooohh... magic tanks... but I don't think there were really tanks in the 1920s... or were the first tanks in WWI... I think they were in WWII though. Well, whatever, too lazy to look it up right now.

Not saying it would happen, because I'm pretty sure we'd go insane in the process of summoning one god, much less a bunch. Really, I guess I'm just bored and feel like discussing things that will never happen in purely theoretical terms.

I'm just confused about the stats. I've pretty much got the rest planned out.

krylo: Well, first off, even though the Elder Gods ARE friendly, and actually summoning them doesn't even cost us Sanity (Casting the spell yes, seeing them no since they are very humanoid and fairly kind), they are also totally wusses in comparison to the evil gods. And while there is a list of some 20+ evil gods composing the Outer Gods and the Great Old Ones, there are 3 Elder Gods... In fact, the Elder Gods are such wusses, we could probably 'kill' them if we were evil and wanted too...And there was artillery during WWI...

Lazy Man: Any specific stats, or just all of them? I thought I had simplified the basic stats pretty well...

EDIT: Also on a wierd side note, I found a CoC add-on pack that allows for Resident Evil games using CoC rules... I think I have an idea for my next RP...

Just strength and things like that. I can do the rest.

And if I'm getting annoying, I'm real sorry.

YOU ANNOY ME, AND THUS I SMITE THEE!

Sorry, had to get it out of my system, this has not been a good week so far, and it's only going to get worse. Anyway...

STR - Physical stuff like lifting and using melee weapons. Also effects HP.

CON - Endurance, effects HP, and how well you resist certain types of damage.

SIZ - How big or small you are. Bigger is better for fighting and gives more HP, smaller is better for hiding and escaping.

INT - How well you are able to reason and think, but not knowledge. Effects Personal Skills.

DEX - How nimble you are. Useful for picking locks, grabbing ledges while falling, dodging, or doing anything requireing fine manipulation with your hands.

POW - You willpower and mental strength. Effects your resistance to magic, how well you use magic, your resistance to Sanity Checks, your total number of Sanity points.

APP - How you look, nothing more. Effects first reactions of people when they see you.

EDU - How well educated you are. Years of schooling, and random knowledge. Also effects your Occupation Points.

Does that do it?

I'M REALLY SORRY!!

Well I guess it does. Meh, I'll just roll some random die and see what happens.

And once again for being alittle too annoying with my undeniable stupidity:

I'M REALLY SORRY!

ACK!

Before you start die rolling, you do know you have 80 points to spread among these skill, right?

And no need to apoligize, I was kidding around...

Damn combination of gullability and stupidity.....

Anyway, I didn't know that and it was helpful.....stupid brain capacity

*Cough* No prob... Any more questions just ask...

Actually it wsa a long time ago (3 years to be exact) when our Call group was able to Banish old Cthuey My guy was the only one that lived. My blind smartass monk... Of course he was one sainity point away from Michal Jackson but then again the only reason I lived was because of my lucky dice... Which I wontbe able to use here dammnit...

Muahaha, I control your fate peon, bow down to the mighty GM!

Don't worry, the dice generator I have now seems to be reasonaly fair, although I wonder at it's rolls sometimes since my D100 rolls (Essential for Coc...) almost always come out in the 40-60 range...

And how did your group beat the Big C? He's neigh invulnerable and has 160 HP (Yes, chew on that piece of info, most of you have from 6-8, and Cthulhu has 160....). I assume magic, since I haven't gone through the whole grimore yet and have been focusing on parts relevant to starting the RP.

EDIT - I found the example characters... And you guys are weak even by their standard, most of the example investigators have at least 10 HP... I may have to make you all redo everything and add about 5-10 stat points... Any opinions?

...Our side sucks. I think I'm switching over and joining the cultists.