Well, it would interrupt their chanting to be running around and chanting at the same time, but as long as 1 person is keeping the chant going at ALL times, the spell will still work. It just means one person would have to hold still and pass thier cahnce to dodge, while another runs around and avoids whatever danger.

EDIT: And I'm adding Lazy to the list, just because we haven't heard from him in a while, and his skills are adequate. We have a good number of rifle shooters and warriors, so I think the last pick will be... J Man. His rifle isn't as high as others, so maybe he can be spared.

Damn... I'm wishing David's character wasn't dead now so he could dual-pistol wield. Well if there's going to be cultists, McGruder might be good as a guardian thingie... and Frankie might be a switch hitter, chanting most of the time, but taking time out of the chant to plant some bullets in some cultists or whatever if things get too heated.

And I assume cultists, because various cthulu-esque monsters popping up seems... wrong and weird, plus the wards would probably defend against them as well. AND, they wouldn't just go away after they were done chanting, probably... so having a bunch of monsters pop up would be bad in that they'd be hard to impossible to kill... plus having the chanters make sanity checks the whole time would be bad.

I suppose the spell could cause something like that though... or the lurker could be off summoning zombies... or maybe the things it killed could come back as zombies when it wants.

Alright, I am about to go to bed, but I want to do this all in one shot for maximum effect, so the Ceremony begins tomarrow. Here is the Final Char Update before the big event.

EDIT: Damn, forgot I won't be here tomarrow, or this weekend when it would be perfect to do it. To keep you all in suspense, the Ceremony starts Monday...

uh, hello there. I have been kinda following your RP because I was interested in what Call of Cthulhu was exactly, and since I am normally wandering around these forums why not see it in context. Anyway, sorry to disturb you I just had a quick question. How do you pronounce Cthulhu?

It has multiple pronounciations.

"Coo-Thoo-Loo" is how I pronounce it.

Edit- And the special nonaformentioned item is a book on how to translate Latin. Probably won't do any good rigt now, before the ceremony though ...

Cah-tuh-luh... tuh is where the emphasis lies, and it should all be said quickly, like a guttural cough. Really though, according to what's-his-name, the guy who wrote the whole call of cthulu thing, it can't be pronounced by human tongues, and that's the whole point of it... that's just as close as you can come.

Howard P. Lovecraft would be the author.

Like a modern day Edgar Allen Poe. Writes worth shit, but his ideas are somewhat identifyable with.

Unlike Stephen King who writes worth shit, and his ideas are equally worth shit. (Except for Desperation ... kinda. TAK!)

edit - And with 10 power I could easily chant, but am reluctant to, despite my inability to fight. Correct me if I'm wrong, but CoC character's have 'base' attack (punch/kick/headbutt) stats don't they? I mean, any idiot can swing a flaming baseball bat wrapped in barbwire and do a little damage, right?

Lovecraft... couldn't remember his name worth shit... kinda like his writing is worth shit. But yah, my pronounciation was his ruling... even the humans can't pronounce it bs.

Also, Edgar Allen Poe wrote pretty decent poetry, for a Goth, but his stories did, indeed, suck, and I agree on King. I can't really stand him... except when his stuff is in movie form. Then it's kinda cool... but only because they butcher it, generally.

His villians are cliched, too.

Picture this: An omnipotent evil that goes around doing evil things only because it is in his nature to do so. And yet the evil itself is intellegent and should have a reason for doing what it does, but only does so because it is, by vague definition, evil.

Which is a descriptive word, itself, and not to be used to back character motivation.

Also, they all have stupid catchphrases which don't ever mean anything. The only sound marginally creepy. "I see eyes like holes." "TAK!"

I see eyes like holes. What the fuck does that mean?!

Never read a Lovecraft book. Just thought his books might be an interesting idea for an RPG, and thus here we are. But "Eyes like holes"... There is so much better that could have been used there, and I don't even know the context of that line...

As for the base damage, technically yes, but if you are weak enough, as in your STR + SIZ is low enough, then you will literally do negative damage with some attacks you are so weak. Thus, unless you have high STR + SIZ, don't go melee!