I stand by my assessments thus far, then. High power would be better anyway... just because of the higher sanity stat.

I would like to be a chanter, but it looks like everyone is going to want to be a chanter.... probably safer....

But I'll be a guard person if I need to be.

But if Clara is protecting you guys... heh. That might be bad... since she can't even weild much of a weapon, really.

Clara would make a better spellcaster then some. And she wouldn't be a good watcher since she has no weapons skills, so she should be a Chanter. I'm reviewing all the others to pick the ohter three (The first three being Celes, krylo, and Ecurt)

Well, if David was still alive, he could do either due to his high Power and his high Handgun.

Or, if Dave was there, he could do either as well.

But alas, David is dead, and Dave is out stealing stuff.

McGruder doesn't have the stats. His POW 7means he would pass out before it ends. We need two more people (Added Spirit to the group.)

Who is McGruder?

Oh, and just something I noticed. GreenDarkness has been reading the RP thread for a while, so I think we might be getting a newb soon...

He can't join, were maxed out. You know what to do if he tries...

EDIT: And McGruder is JAD's guy, the Priest.

But McGruder knows latin... which would be useful in making sure everyone is doing it right at the beginning. Plus... he might get a power bonus from the spell, and I don't think he's going to box the lurker, and thus woudn't make a very good guard person. Clara should DEFINATELY be a chanter... like she said, she can't do anything so far as weapons goes, and thus would be a horrible guard person.

Oh, there will be dangers you don't expect during the chanting......

While chanting spells, can a person still dodge things?

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!

Strength 8 and Size 8.

Not too too sure if that's good, or not (haven't read the book in soooo long), but I'm pretty sure it's average.

Edit - Oh and my comments were about King, not Lovecraft. Lovecraft wrote, mostly about his nightmares. Apparently he had a lot of them ...

He also has that famous description of a nightgaunt going for him, about the black void where a face should be and yada yada. Maybe someone has the exact quote?

Along that line... you should put nightgaunts in some of our missions. They're cool, although I'm not sure if they're connected to the Cthulu mythos or something else that he wrote.

Personally, if we're going to be in an RP based of someone's written works, we should be roleplaying in the literary world of Oscar Wilde.

Or Jane Austin! That would give IHMN the chance to flirt poorly in a time period where everyone was so uptight, all the did was flirt poorly.

Uptight ... flirts poorly ... Great Scott! IHMN is a literary work of Jane Austin!

Maybe it means, that while other people can see people's personality, and feelings through their eyes, all he sees are dark, unloving, unfeeling holes.


*shrugs*

And you wonder why IHMN wants your character killed.

Celes: That's probably it. About what I got out of it too... but it's still a really really really shitty analogy.

I though of that ...

I personally think he means he views eyes as holes. Windows into people.

But that's just as silly. Actually the best villian catchphrase he had was from Storm of The Century, but it wasn't even his character or phrase.

"We are Legion. For we are many."

*shiver*

Edit- Yeah, you're probably right, Krylo. About the death thing ... I'll lay off him, I guess. *shrugs*

"Shocking and uncouth black things with smooth, oily, whale-like surfaces, unpleasent horns that curved inward toward each other, bat wings who's beating made no sound, ugly prehensile claws, and barbed tails that lashed needlessly and disquietingly. And worst of all, they never spoke or laughed, and never smiled because they had no faces at all to smile with, but only a suggestive blankness where a face ought to be."
- H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"

I honestly didn't know who you were talking about Demon, I thought you still meant Lovecraft. I've never read a Stephen King novel either. I generally stick to Sci-Fi, although this RP has gotten me interested in picking up a Lovecraft book now...

I'm still trying to figure out why I got mentioned to be killed to... other than that I volunteered and was too weak to open the attic door... so his guy got killed because my guy sucks.

Edit: That's the quote, FZ. Can I make my next character a nightgaunt? They're like... intelligent and stuff...

If you want to read decent works out of the 1920s, with Mystery and Intrique, then I suggest:

(By Raymond Chandler)
The Big Sleep
The High Window
Lady in the Lake

But not 'The Little Sister' or 'Farewell my Lovely.' Both are convoluted, and their solutions/endings leave you wanting a better ending/resoultion.

Edit- I dunno. I think he just lashes out whenever he can. At friends (I assume you) and enemies (Me! Glee!) alike. Or he was just teasing you. Maybe. My money is on the violent lashing out due to an unsatisfying childhood wasted flirting into an electronic box.

... ... ... dammit. I'm doing it again.

That would be a no to playing a nightgaunt.

Ironically, nightgaunts are the servents of one of the two "Good" Gods, so we may be seeing them on our side one day...

I will look into those Demon, I haven't been to the bookstore in far too long, and I am just about out of books again...

Seriously, they are the best murder mysteries/mysteries ever written. They're in the 1st person which is easily forgivable because the main character, Phillip Marlowe is such an interesting character.

Big Sleep - Best ending to a book ever.
The High Window - Most convoluted plot with most satisfying ending to a convoluted plot ever!

Two thumbs way up for Raymond Chandler. (Just don't watch any of the movies ... bleh ...)

I don't really read much anymore... but I now have two titles to toss into Frankie's bag of books.

How about if I give you head? Or not give you head... depending on which is more preferable to you.

Look I almost can't keep up with this. So I might just end the good doctors life it gets to out of control. All I know is my gut knows latin he has the highest occult score and a good sanity score for know. I think he should chant.

Three books, ... Frankie(???), three books.

edit- You're not missing much, Spirit. Just intellectual babbling, and such.

That's cool with me. We have 11 people right now, going to be 13 by next mission (assuming Dante is done with his shit that keeps him from getting on regularily by then)... would be 12 but IHMN got eaten.

Kill off those that can't keep up! Kill them off and feed their bodies to the nightgaunts!

It's also equally cool with me if you don't quit.

Edit: Demon, Frankie is my character... and he has a backpack full of fiction novels.

Krylo - Ahhh. I see. I thought you were refering to yourself in the first person. "Yes, indeed. Frankie cares not if Spirt goes away, for Frankie is happy either was so forth and so on etc etc."

That sort of thing. And Spirit, if you do not wish to continue being a part of the RP it would be very polite of you to PM Zero with your request for dismissal.

No. My name isn't Frankie... and certainly not Frankie McCulloch... although his place of birth is a city I used to live in. And by city I mean itty bitty speck on the map that had a bar on every corner.

As to the question of you giving head, how about when the sun is a cold, black cindar in space, and a Black Hole AND a meteor are hurtling towards earth, AND the four riders of the apocalypse have just leapt FROM MY ASS, will I even consider, with the help of a severe concussion and a brain anurism, the idea of you giving head to get some sort of advantage in the RP...

See, and I thought the RP was moving sort of slow at times...

But if you want to get out, it's as easy as saying "I want out", but don't expect to be let back into da' family when your turns your back on us, capiche?

Just kidding, just say you don't want to be part of the RP anymore, we will all point and laugh at you, then I will work something out with your character. I would most likely retire him and he would leave after the mission.

Yeah. My name's not Gabriel either ... (I was sure your name was Mike ... that was what was up with the ??? thing ...), but he does hail from my current base of operations, just north of Seattle.

Right... well... I'm off to kidnap Jesus, the current Buddha, the pope, as many muslim church heads as possible, and any other holy men I can hunt down, and blackmail God into meeting those demands.

I have no idea what you're talking about, and my name isn't Mike... although my name has been used in an RP at some point. I however won't tell you who used it, or even whether the character was PC or NPC.

Alright, I can honestly say, that was not the answer I suspected...

And I am a paranoid nut, so my name has never shown up online. The black helicopters won't fine me here, and those pesky aliens won't take my brain this time! Yahehehe... *Sounds of a failed Sanity Roll in the background*

Seriously, I just like keeping my name private, and it doesn't work well as an RP name, so I've never used it.

*shrugs noncomplacently* Meh. Read that somewhere. Perhaps the Introduction Thread, or one of the Post your Picture threads ...

Can't be bothered to do the research. All I know is you do a rather decent woodchuck impression.

Edit- And I'm pretty sure that Zero's name is actually Aaragorn WyldeWyrm DoomHart. Which is, indeed, a very poor RP name.

You might not want to say that... you DO know what happened in Bruce Almighty when somebody said something like that... you never know if Krylo would ever be given the powers of God for a day.... in which case... we would all be in so much trouble, I don't want to think about it.


ANYHOO... We're not really going THAT fast (in my opinion)... There are some RPs I've been in where you can't even make ONE small post without 5-8 other posts appearing while you write the few sentances. ^^

But if you want out, we won't... stone you or anything.

EDIT: meh. like this post... so many other posts posted while I was writing this one... ^^;;

If that was my real name, I would have the uncontrollable urge to kick my own ass every day... That is one of those names you saddle a child with only if you hate your own children...

We will bludgeon you to death with big fucking rocks, though.

Edit- I dunno, Zero. Frank Zappa called his children Dweezle, Moonunit, and something else ... and he probably loved his kids. He was just warped.

Hell ya! Who doesn't love bludgeonings involving big rocks?

EDIT: Yeah, but if your warped, or drugged/drunk out of your mind are the only times its forgivable. If you are totally sober and say, "Hey, lets name our child Morrowind!", you have to know you are subjecting your child to a lifetime of ass kickings...

Same here. Someone else used it though... I thought it was really freaking weird.

You'd all be screwed. Literally. A few times... per day. Omnipresent sexual fantasies!

Maybe YOU won't...

What?

I'm not as paranoid about people knowing my first name (man, people I don't know have named their kids after me, because they like my name), but I would never give out my last name on the internet. The closest you can get is a signature on hand-drawn pictures, but that's so messy, you can't read it anyway.

EDIT:
Off topic: Dweezle Zappa is a decent singer sometimes though (if I'm thinking of the right guy.)

Seriously. Why did you make me look this up, Krylo?

Scroll down to find woodchuck/zombie

Edit - I've heard of people naming their kids Raistlin. Worse yet are all the young, single mothers naming their kids Sierra, Asia, Heaven Lee, etc.

Double Edit - Dweezle Zappa is also the voice of Duckman's Eldest son. "I will call you 'A Squirrel.' Come here, A Squirrel!"

What is wrong with them? Unless he made up for it by being really cool when the kid grows up, I think my response to a kid with the name, "Raistlin" would be, "WTF?", followed by laughter. Why do all these parents feel the need to make crap up for thier kids names? There are hundred of thousands of perfeclty good names floating around, just pick one of those, but don't make some random shit up and expect people to say, "Ohh, Alasaka/Asia/Heaven, I like that, it has a ring to it!" expect them to say, "What illegal substance were you on when you named your child?" And on a side note, you don't name a child "Heaven" unless you want them to grow up to be a stripper...

And to think, that's what they used to say about names like 'Bambi,' 'Tiffany,' "Lequisha,' and 'Steve.'

You don't name your kids any of those names nowadays unless you want them to become pornstars.

Edit- My apologies to Zero if his name is any of the above.

My friend's sister named her first girl "Justice"

I just don't think you should name people after real words... unless it's something like "Harmony" (I've always liked that name)

My mom made up my name, but I recently found out that my name is actually Hebrew. (weird)

Jessa? That is a good name. Justice? You don't name a person that, superheros name their canine companions "Justice"... Reminds me of the old Indiana Jones joke, "We named him after the dog..."

EDIT: It is none of those, so no apology needed.

Raven is the second weirdest name I have ever heard a girl named, besides Thryxanna.

Heh. No actually, Medea is the strangest. In the greek play 'Medea' I played Jason, and the part of Medea was filled by a young woman whose name was Medea.

Strange ...

Your name isn't actually Jessa, is it ... erm ... Celes?

Seriously? That is really strange, who names their child after the woman that killed her own children and fled to avoid justice...

Anyway, it is 2:37 here, so I am really off to bed now. Later all.

EDIT: I thought her name was Jessa, and she just liked Celes from FFVI...

Ciao, Zero/Aaragorn WyldeWyrm DoomHart/Lequisha!

You are so going to pay for that tomarrow somehow... Too sleepy to think up vengence right this second however.

...I totally forgot I had posted those crazy stupid faces. Even while making horrible faces I'm hotter than most of the people that posted their pictures, though.

Actually. "Jessa" is just a nickname. (but I like that nickname ^^ ) But it's not Celes either. I do have Celes in my screenname because Celes from FFVI is my alter ego. ^^;; heh. (and pretty much the place where I got the nickname "Jessa" )

Any reason why they named that dog Indiana? (wasn't somebody who worked on the movie from Indiana? Just curious.)

EDIT: My cousin's name is Sunshine... that is the worst name...

Yeah, but not nearly as cute as I am.

There's evidence of that buried here at NuklearPower, but if you want to know the truth you'll have to find it yourself.

Edit- Sunshine, eh? Poor kid. Not a boy is it?

Well, I assume Jessa is short for Jessica?

And as for Indiana, I could usually tell you because the Indiana Jones movies are some of my favorites, but as of right this second I'm drawing a blank.

No thank you... I have no desire to see a nasty old writer on the forums.

Besides... those were my horrible faces... my normal face is truly alluring... and I highly doubt you're cuter than atronflame anyway.

Nope. (that's what people call me though, when they can't read my name right...)
It's actually Jenessa. (a mix of both Jessica and Vanessa)
"JENESSA is a blend of two names - JENNIFER, from the Welsh meaning FRIEND OF PEACE; and VANESSA from the Greek meaning A BUTTERFLY."

And Sunshine is a girl... but I have no pity for her... My little cousin's name is Kennedy though... I have pity for him.

Nope. Not as cute as him. But I am, indeed, a cute little hottie.

Bleh. Too tired. No self control ... can delete later if needs be ...

http://www.angelfire.com/droid/gemma...isThinking.jpg

Hottie!

... yeah this is probably going really fast ... stupid no inhibitions ...

Edit- Kennedy, eh? "Gale, I would -er ah- like to -er ah- avoid that question with -er ah- yet another witty remark." *clapping, laughing, a woman sighs*

You'd be cuter with slightly longer hair... and glasses... but you probably don't need glasses.

No. My vision is extraordinary as it is.

And when my hair is long, it curls, and gets all tangled and messy, even when I take good care of it. Bleh. Stupid 'Sicilian Hair' Genes!

Well, I don't like the super short hair look... so... I guess you aren't that cute so far as I'm concerned. You do have a very symmetrical face, and nice lips, though. I.E. you're a hottie, but not my type. Too bad.

Also: I knew Celes's real name before I even started actually talking to her. My web of informants is deep and far reaching. Muahahaha.

Edit: Yes I know I used I.E. incorrectly... but I don't care. Hah.

Jeez. It's all aabout the symmetry to you people! Just get's your motor running.

Pfft. And the girls just won't leave me alone about my insanely large eyelashes. "Wow! I wish I had eyelashes that big!"

Try getting one in your eye, sister!!!!

I know! I have the same eyelashes. Stupid bitches... I wanna stab them in the eye everytime they bring that up and be like "Yah, because having your eye feel like THAT every time one gets bent is just fucking wonderful!"

And when they fall into your eye when you're sleeping and you don't notice until four weeks later! And then they have this thick film all over them, and you finally get them out and you're all like, "Curse these eye lashes!"

And a group of girls hears you screaming, and they come over and they're all like, "Wow! You have the greatest eyelashes ever! I am sooooooo jealous!"

And then you stab them with an icepick. And of course, you're the one that goes to jail ...

Meaning: He's a stalker. *grabs the baseball bat and glances out the window*

(There, I fixed it, since I didn't use AKA right)

And I would like to have thicker eyelashes, but I don't go up to people and say "Wow! You have such thick eyelashes! I wish I did too."

But it's not like I put mascara on more than absolutely necissary (there is NO WAY make up is getting that close to my eyes (I'm very protective of my eyes)), so I guess thick eyelashes aren't that important for me. ^^;;

Exactly... but replace the icepick with slipping them roofies at the next party, then doing the same to the ugliest, nastiest guy you can find... and then mixing up fake semen (mayo and corn syrup... and some other ingredients) and squirting it on her leg... sticking them in a bed together naked, and then leave them to wake up the next day. Muahahaha!

Or when your eyes feel sticky on the corners because they interlock and get a little eye-gunk on them, and it's a bitch to make it feel normal again. I'm having that problem right now.

Edit: AKA is "Also Known As"... so, no.

I hear that, man. I hear that.

And speaking of slipping into a coma ... Zoinks!

(G'night all!)

http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpo...7&postcount=25

I found my normal picture! Yay! Now people can compare it to the ones where I'm making horrible faces!

I'l stay as a watcher

Oh sorry ro double post, but I'll be away this weekend so someone needs to take over for me

Having worked in an elementary school I took the liberty of compiling a list of the oddest names I've seen.

Genesis -girl
Female (pronounced Fem * a * lee) -girl
Shithead (pronounced Shith *ead) - boy

That is all.

Zen Imperial Law.

Beat that.

You can do better than that.

I could also use non-English names... but that would just make everything lame.

I did see someone called Pidass Stu once.