The death cap would be a good idea, I think.

And I would like the record to state that I didn't 'suicide' Gabriel because I wanted a new character.

I suicided him because a part of me believed he would survive.

I think the death limit should be 2, and only added into if the death was obviously on purpose. Like Demon's thing seemed very "I want him dead" (Though he denies it), so that would add into his death limit (But not this one for him). But if the death was because of a bad roll or just bad luck, then the death isn't counted.

That is alright. I dunno, I'm still thinking about it, but I don't want people going, "Well, I should of put points here instead of here, so if I kill myself, I can make an ultimate character!!11!!1! one!"

EDIT: And garrote is 15%

Craaaaap.... is the "special insanity" the one that makes them go to the beast that is going to eat my heart?

Yes. I will do some more rolls in a sec, and if you fail them, it's Character Over. This is the Lurker's Final Attack.

Name: Sam. Just Sam.
Sex: Male
Age: 25
Occupation:Criminal
College Degrees: None
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Background: Sam always had a slight problem with his moral compass. He counted human life as worth far more than your average person. In fact, he was able to equate it directly to a dollar amount, however, this was only for people whom he believed 'deserved' it. Due to this, he was able to fall in quite easily with the various crime families shortly after his elementary education had completed, and he became a cunning and calculating professional assassin. The best part being that he could be certain in nintey-percent of his jobs that the person he was killing deserved it. Heads of opposing mobs, lackeys, murderers guilty of drive bys, etc. Of course, the downside was that he had to work for people who also deserved it... but then, there was no guarantee that someone wouldn't hire him to kill those people either.


Stats:

Strength - 11

Constitution - 9

Size - 8

Intelligence - 18

Dexterity - 10

Power - 17

Appearance - 8

Education - 9

Sanity - 85


Important Non-Stats to keep in mind.

Idea Roll - 90

Luck Roll - 85

Know Roll - 45

Hit Points - 9

Magic Points - 17



Occupation Skills-180+30=210
Bargain-5
Disguise-20
Fast Talk-16
Handgun-69
Locksmith-5
Sneak-25
Spot Hidden-5
Rifle-65

Personal Skills-180, only used 150 transferred 30 into occupational
Shotgun-35
Sword Cane-36
Dodge-79

Items-
.45 Automatic in a chest holster.
.45 Automatic in a second chest holster.
.22 Short Automatic in a belt holster.
Sword Cane.
.22 Bolt-Action Rifle, outfitted for sniping (very accurate and carefully attuned scope)
12-gauge double barrel Sawed off Shotgun
Warehouse (not actually his, but used to dispose of bodies using industrial chemicals and a little help from whomever hired him.)
Small apartment room in Boston. He never keeps an apartment for long, however.
Pocket Knife
A long trenchcoat (for hiding his shotgun in, when he brings it about)
A black suitcase which houses his rifle, which is usually dismantled when not being used, and a two extra clips for all of his pistols, two boxes of shotgun shells, and two boxes of bullets for his rifle (I'll let FZ decide on how many shells/bullets each box holds).
Black leather gloves.
A completely unremarkable buisness suit.
Model T Ford.


There's my meat shield for whenever Frankie manages to fail a luck roll (again) and get eaten by something.

If the Lurker killing some of the Special Insane people freaks out the none Special Insane chanters, making them stumble and so no one is chanting, is it free?

*sniffle* I don't wanna die....... >_<

Oh well... It would have to happen sometime. ^^

Yes. If all the chanters stopped chanting at this point, the ceremony would fail, and they would all be about 1 foot away from the angry Lurker...

The process is you need to pass both a Luck and Know Roll to be able to snap yourself out of it and live.

If they fuck up, I get the impression Frankie will be the only survivor.

krylo's criminal is pure fighter, mine is thief...

(Edited out)

Edit 2 - Should our 2 criminals know each other? It would be easier to get us both in that way, and they would make a good pair... (Edit 4) - Assuming Frank dies.

Edit 3 - FZ will probably lie about Celes' roll so she lives...

Don't say that. Now he'll be forced to make me die, even if I lived fair and square, so it wouldn't look like he lied about the roll.

EDIT: I'm actually kinda chuckling at the imagery of the people rushing forward to give cthulu/the monster a big hug.

Lets sing the cthulu song! (I bet you can guess the tune it's sung to)

"I eat you... you die here,
I will strike you all with fear,
I will eat this heart, or my name's not Cth'lu
Won't you let me eat yours too."

Of course you know the dangerous trap you set is, if I say she lived now it looks like I'm fudging rolls. If I say she dies, it looks like I did it just to prove that I'm not fudging rolls. The only flaw in that plan is, I don't really care if you think that I'm fudging rolls or not, so I'm going to call it like I roll it.

Success
Celes
Ecurt
SS

Failure
JADGuy
Lazy

Final Updates

Is it to late to change some stats for my character? I just want to take out 2 points from SIZE and put it in CON. HP will stay the same...

And will all of the missions be like this/worse? Cause people will just stop RPing when every other mission they die...

Edit - Barney theme song.

Edit 2 - Lazy and Jad are dead, I don't think they need HP/MP...

Edit 3 - Was I right when I thought that the figure that SS wanted to shoot was the reanimated corpse of the hobo?

Woo! We win!

Investigators: 2
Evil Creatures: 4

Hmm... ok... well... we SORTA won...

No, this first mission was a touhg one. The next one is easier. However, there will never be a Call game where there is no chance to die, and sometimes it is as simple as, my sanity was too low, so the monster convinced me it was my friend. You will die, and if you want, resuibmit the same character and I will accept it. Dying is only a problem in a mission. After the missions, everyone is back to normal for the most part.

And I will factor those in.

EDIT: Yes, it was. Good call.

I was kinda hoping Frankie would die... Krylo's criminal is much better then the drifter.

I liiiiiiive! Woohoo!

I was sure I was gonna die there. But tend to get lucky dice rolls when it matters.


And good job IHMN, you got the tune right. I have no idea what possessed me to write that song. I think I had failed a sanity check.

Well, that's the way it works. If krylo really wants to change, there will be opportunities next mission...

And are we just going to turn into a group of only criminals at this rate?

I was never in danger after I wrote it. I was in the basement... if I had died it would mean everyone else had died, and then the lurker had gone into the basement and cleaned up.

Edit: Yes FZ. We'll be the most immoral cthulu slayers ever.

Well, he only has 1 HP left and a couple of bites... He could die from blood lose/some disease from the rotten corpse of David before he gets to a hospital...

That's true, but in that case, it's krylo's call if Frankie dies or not, not my call. You could also retire Frankie, and just have him go his seperate ways from the group. It both allows him to cahnge characters, and makes it so perhaps Frankie could return as an NPC as some point...

Speaking of such... how are we going to explain the corpses of the deceased... and the bite marks on Frankie's neck...

Edit: And I don't want Frankie to die... or even to retire him quite yet. I like him, it's just that I know he's going to die eventually, and I felt like twinking out a fighter.

He is a drifter after all... And I think running away after an event like this would be pretty common...

Edit - Yeah... How will you explain the holes in Gab, David, and Lazy's guy, then several gun shots in David, and the snapped neck of the priest, as well as a dead hobo?

Edit 2 - Phooey. I wanted a partner in crime...

Now for the next chapter

"Dealing with the authorities."

It should be full of twists and turns where we try and make up why we have four people with their hearts eaten out (or murdered in some horrible way).... A living person with bite marks from a zombie, and several mentally unbalanced people, at this point.

EDIT: jeez, it looks like we were all thinking the same thing while I was typing this.

And the person with the best chance to convince the authorities to leave us be is unconcious with zombie bites.

Some very good persuade rolls to convince the police?

Burn the evidence?

It's all up to you guys. If it's convincing and I think it would work in the 1920's, I'll allow it. If it is unconvincing, the police might show up later for some questions...

I think Krylo wanted to make some human-burgers out of them, and disposing the evidence THAT way....

Or we could just tell the truth... they'd believe THAT....

Or they might let us off if we plead insanity.

Say they tripped and fell on really sharp rocks, each falling directly on their hearts. Then say that the priest tripped and bite Frankie, but slipped after biting and broke his neck... And say you were all drunk.

Actually then you would all most likely be institutionalized. It was very common in those days, and a bunch of people ranting about heart eating monsters sound like candidates for the loony bin to me...

IHMN, the Police would need to be drunk to believe that, not the investigators...

I know! We could summon ANOTHER lurker, bind it, show it to the police, let it eat them if they still don't believe us... and then banish it again.

Or we could eat them... but that doesn't cover Frankie...

You could eat part of Frankie...

Umm, eww...

Tell the police "Well, I told him to 'bite me' and he took it too literally! ha ha ha... what are you doing? Don't take tooth mold/shape/whatever samples... I didn't do it! I'm innocent! Get that straight jacket away from me! Heeeey... I look pretty good in white. Jacket's a little tight though... and my nose itches...."

...or just wear a turtleneck until it heals.

Ok, right... I've got the story, but I can't give it IC... being unconcious and all.

Anyway: We say Father McGrudder went insane, lured us all to the house, and we'll lie and say we all arrived seperately. First he killed Demon, carving his heart out, and then he shot david and cut his heart out, etc. etc. till we get to him Decapitating that one guy and biting Frankie before J-man's guy (whatever his name is) snapped his neck.

If they can't think of any way to pass this off, will they get arrested/put into a nut house?

Alright, I think it has been a very good RP so far, and I hope everyone has enjoyed it. But it's 2:55 here, so it's time for me to hit the sack. See you all on Monday.

Ok new priest for me.

Name: Father Theodore "Ted" O'Hanrahan
Sex: Male
Age: 47
Occupation: Priest
College Degrees: Doctor of religion and Archaeology.
Birthplace: Ireland
Background: A close friend of Father McGruder's After McGruder's death he took an interest in what McGruder was studying. He is a kind, and sarcastic alcoholic, unlike Mcgruder he's not nearly as muscular, but he does have a keen mind. His hobby is Archaeology and Antropology. He teaches a class in Archaeology at Miskatonic University.


Stats

Strength - 5
Constitution - 10
Size - 9
Intelligence - 13
Dexterity - 5
Power - 11
Appearance - 7
Education - 20

Sanity - 55
Idea Roll (INT x5) - 65
Luck Roll (POW x5) - 55
Know Roll (EDU x5) - 100
Hit Points (CON + SIZ / 2) - 10
Magic Points (POW = MAX) - 11



Occupation Skills: 400
Accounting: 10, History 60, Library Use 60, Listen 50, Latin 60, Persuade 50, Psychology 50, Archaeology 80.


Personal Skills :130
Art 30, First Aid 20, Psychoanalysis 20, Anthropology 40


Items
Clerical robes, some casual black priests clothing, some irish sweeters, various excevated items, A journal, a crucifix, a regular latin catholic bible, a Gutenburg bible in his office, and a reproduction of the book of kells.

Dammit, why does this kind of thing happen to me while I'm sleeping. I hate you people and your insomnia. Grrrrr....alright, I guess I'l put up something later.

FZ is going to be gone until monday, I think. He mentioned being gone this weekend before, and, what's more, he said "See you all on Monday."

That also means that the plot won't move along too much until then. I.E. we have all weekend to decide what we're doing during the inbetween missions.

Frankie is going to be laying in the hospital until his wound heals, and then he's going to practice dodging Zombies. Fucking Zombies.

I believe this is weekly, right? I guess Henry would be either learning how to dodge (Who knows what else we're going to deal with?) or studying about the mythos/whatever, wether it's the actual spells or simply the history of it.

Maybe I should try to improve his library skills...

Hey.

I'm alive.

IN YOUR FACE LEGACY OF BAD LUCK!

*boink*

What was that? Oh, that was my jinxing myself.

Don't worry, SS... we'll get rid of you somehow next mission.

Aw, thanks Krylo...

It makes me feel so loved, I'm gonna' give Demon his pants back.

Sorry to disapoint but there has been a change of plans... anyway I am back...and better than ever! Nah just joking about the last part. So I think we should burn the bodies and the evidence and blame it on a dead person what do you guys think?

I don't think a decapitated army seargent would be a good killer.

I say McGrudder because he's the only one injured in a way that it's believable a non-insane person could do in self defense. The army sergeant's head was RIPPED off, by the way... so it's not a clean decapitation. Someone would have had to have actually held him down and pulled his head from his shoulders. Not something you would do in self defense... it'd be damn hard to do for a killer too... but it's more believable than: "Well the army guy was killing everybody so Billy tore his head off."

Also... burning all the evidence would incriminate us.

Hmm That is if they find it... So anyother Ideas because the cops could lock us up OR worse and by worse I mean they could be cultist...

I say blame a cult or something, and that the rest of us managed to get there in time to save some of the people while the others were already killed.

Technically, a cult was the cause of this in the first place. Remember, wasn't it those guys who summoned up that thing years ago?

Well, they weren't really a cult... just a bunch of college students messing with the occult. That works too, though. I say we make Father McGruder out to be a cultist. I don't know why... just because.

The cult thing works especially well if they don't clean up the pentagram or anything... makes it look real culty. They could even put David's body in the center of the pentagram... as that it's had it's heart 'ritually' cut out (really eaten out, but a ritual cut out would work too), and no head. Looks like a cult killing to me.

Will the hobo's body be burned, or will he be a victim of the insane priest?

Insane priest/Cultist. A body besides our groups would add credence to the cultist thing. Why would they just kill members of the group that was seen talking together in the library in ritualistic ways?

Maybe the group should go kill some other people and add them as well.

And the priest's hands would need to be covered in blood, and you would have to get some sort of instrument which can take out some ones heart that cleanly and bring it to the barn. A person can't do that with bare hands you know.

True IHMN... I wasn't thinking of the weapon having to be there. Cultists it is... they could simply have taken their instruments with them when they left the scene.

But isn't the father the cultist (Making up more would lead to investigations), and if you killed him why wouldn't the weapon be there?

Well, it's the 1920s... they can't investigate very well. We can simply say that he was one of them, or even that he was a victim. Their investigations wouldn't be able to turn up a whole lot, and all they could really do was stake the place out. The pentagram and what have you would lead them to believe the cultist story checks out... and if no cultists showed up it could simply be because they figured that they were found out. Cops would keep their eyes open for awhile, and then put the case on the back burners after a few months, not bothering to really look into it at all... but murder cases never actually close.

Possible Explainations

David/Gabriel - Ritual Killing.
William - Neck was snapped and was about to be ripped off. Cultists didn't finish the job, that was when the others had arrived.
Sgt. Mike - Neck snapped and then ripped off.
Frankie - Was getting his ass ritually beaten/biten/etc. until left to bleed to death.
Sithdarth - Had acid burns, I believe.
Hobo - Well...he got killed when attacking the rescuers or just happened to be there.
Various Animals - Cultists had apparently been there a while.

1) The Father couldn't be a cultist, because there's evidence that they had been there for a while and he (like most of the others) had just arrived a day before.

2) The cultists took the members and various animal corpses for their ritual. The victims were chosen by how people were snooping around the house, and the Hobo..was just there. If he was the zombie, he was an accomplice in this.

3) The victims had arrived much earlier than everyone else. The cult took them by surprise, and started their ritual. Later, the others arrived, and suspicious of something, were prepared to catch the unprepared cultists. However, the cultists manage to get away. Except for the Hobo, if he was the Zombie, because it's obvious that someone shot him on purpose, and the bullets were from one of our guns.

The hobo never got shot, but he was a zombie.

I thought the Zombie got shot...who did then? Or did noone at all?

A zombie got shot. David and the hobo both became zombies, but the hobo zombie never got to the house or any of us... the David zombie bit Frankie and got shot up.

David got shot in the chest once, leg once, face four times, then his face was caved in and disinagrated... How is that explained?

Cultists. David had a gun and was trying to stop them. It just so happened that two of the cultists happened to have guns themselves, and managed to shoot him before they could be shot themselves. As he was already dead, his body was the first one to be used as part of the sacrifices.

Of course, it can be said that Frankie would really be the only one to say this, and up until he healed sufficiently he couldn't speak with the police about this.

Well, back from 19 days in the singular definition of hell, and I'm raring to get thigns goign! But before anything else...

BUSINESS REDUX (to the tune of Eminem's "Business")

Tommy: Dante...sounds like an S.O.S

Dante: Holy wack, unlyrical lyrics Tommy, you're fuckin' right!

Tommy: To the RPmobile...Let's go!

DANTE!

Bitches and gentlemen, It's showtime! Hurry hurry, step right up! You wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world right now! So without further ado, I bring to you

DANTE!

You 'bout to witness role play in its most purest, more rawest form, flow almost flawless, most hardest, most badass known artist, been gone for so long, but mean old D is BACK! Looks like the Lurker got him some Golan, oh God Zero's killing them all off with his pet zombies eating their brains up, set to blow the minds of players off their hinges, oranges, peach, pears, plums syringes, thud thud, yeah here they come, they're inches away from you, dear fear none, CoC is in a state of nine-one-one so...

Let's get down to business
Ain't got no time to play around what is this?
Must be some monsters in town,
lets shut the shit down on these clowns
Can I get a witness?

HELL YEAH!

Come on, let's get down to business
Tommy's Mona-gun was made for situations like this
Smack those undead mothers down
Run their asses out of town, and now
Can I get some Guinness?

HELL YEAH!


Quick gotta move fast, gotta perform miracles. Gee willikers, Z, holy bat syllables, look at all the bullshit that goes on in this board when I'm gone, time to get rid of these punk criminals. So say toodle-loo while I do what I do best. You ain't even impressed no more, you're used to it, flows too wet, nobody close to it, nobody says it, but still everybody knows the shit. We gonna lay the righteous smack down on them today, make those mothers know that they gotta pay, and ham it all the way up, yeah play it all up, there's no such thing, like a female with good looks, who cooks and cleans, it just means so much more to so much more people when you're playin' and you know what for, 'cos the show must go on. So I'd like to welcome y'all to the show, to FZ's carnival, c'mon! Now...

Let's get down to business
Ain't got no time to play around what is this?
Must be some monsters in town,
Let's shut the shit down on these clowns
Can I get a Guinness?

HELL YEAH!

Come on, let's get down to business
Tommy's Mona-gun was made for situations like this
Smack those undead mothers down
Run their asses out of town, and now
Can I get some Guinness?

HELL YEAH!

Its just like old times, the god-modding you know, a Thompson in his hands, why panic, you already know who's fully capable, a drinking hero, dial straight down the center eight-zero-zero you can even call collect, the most feared duet, since Clyde and Bonnie played career Russian Roulette and never even see me blink or get to bustin' a sweat, people steppin' over people just to rush to the set just to get to see an PC who flames so freely, ease over this shit and be so breezy, Jesus how can shit be so easy, how can one RP become so cheesy? Turn on god mode, zombies can' touch me. Believe me, ACP is damn deadly, nobody grieve when I leave, dog, fo' sheezy. Can't leave this alone, the game needs me. Till we grow beards, get weird, or disappear into the mountains. Nothin' but clowns down here, but we, we ain't fuckin around round here, yo Z. . .

(What up?)

Can I get a Hell?

(HELL YEAH!)

Now...

Let's get down to business
Ain't got no time to play around what is this?
Must be some monsters in town,
Let's shut the shit down on these clowns
Can I get a Guinness?

HELL YEAH!

Come on, let's get down to business
Tommy's Mona-gun was made for situations like this
Smack those undead mothers down
Run their asses out of town, and now
Can I get some Guinness?

HELL YEAH!

So there you have it folks, Tommy has come to save the day, backed by his man Dante, and to remind you that bullshit does not pay because

DANTE!

Is gonna be here to stay and never go away, until his dying day until you're all old and grey

DANTE!

So until next time friends, same playing time, same RP thread... good night everyone... thank you for coming... your host for the evening. . .

DANTE!

Oh...

Sorry mate, no Guiness. Prohibition et al. I got some tub gin, and sacramental wine though

Ah, fudgecakes.

*Accepts the padre's alkie and downs it*

Ahhh... sweet nectar of God... Thankya Lord for the fruit of the *hic*

First off, in a note unrelated to this specific RP, who called for the invasion of the friggin n00bs? There's like three noob threads all of a sudden...

Second, I'm back, yo.

Third, blaming it on cultists is plausible.

1. Investigation in the 1920's was bad. They weren't nearly as sophisticated as they are today, and short of witnesses and obvious leads, there wasn't much that could be done.

2. They can get some people out of there, and while technically you could all just flee the scene, it would be suspicious if they track you down later and would take many persuade rolls to get them off your back.

3. You could always knock over a candle or something and say as the cultists fled, they accidently caught the house on fire, and there was nothing you could do... It would eliminate the evidence of weirdness, and still allow the crazed cult story.

I guess it was sort of rough for a first mission. Personally, I don't see a problem if I made an RP char and he dies, since it isn't too hard to make another, but to avoid driving everyone off, I will be more lenient on rolls in the future I guess, although I don't really want to...

Demon and Lazy, if you want to stay in this, you need to resubmit characters.

I am back, and will introduce the Post-Mission story type thing, but I will wait a day or two for everyone to respond before I get the story going full power again.

EDIT: One last thing, Dante, you have WAAY too much free time on your hands...

No, don't be lenient on the rolls.

Pah... Less lenience, I say! LESS!

Also, welcome back... guess I'll pop back out of invis again.

Is my character acceptable?

Yay! FZs Back! Hmm well thats what I was tihknig earlier that the 20s didn't have fingerprinting or DNA or other stuff...

Guess I'll keep going on the rolls like I am now. Considering the number that died, I don't think I could be any less lenient without turning the RP into a bloodbath... (And no IHMN and krylo, people may die, but no bloodbaths...)

JADGuy, you new priest looks fine to me. When I post, there will be a three week period for everyone to train their characters/due miscellaneous. Frankie will be in the hospital for 1-2 weeks, and Sith may be in the hospital longer if I don't drop him outright (He hasn't posted in a while.) Everyone else will be able to heal up without medical attention.

And I know you have been itching to have your characters get a hold of some Mythos books, so after the next mission, the opportunity will arise... I also have an actual campaign type story idea after 2-3 more missions, although the RP will continue after that if you wish.

EDIT: Does anyone else think the forum has been going really slowly tonight?

So... what shall I do? PM me, oh great FZ.

Hmm, Well, since I am going to post it eventually anyway, the investigators are about to get a small mansion from the dearly departed Mr. Merriweather as part of his last will and testament. This will be the new base of operations, even though it will start out empty. Basically part of the free time will be spent with everyone moving in to the new base. After that, they may (Or may not) start up an invetigation service to make money since many will have had to leave jobs behind. This will be a chance to get rid of stragglers (They can leave, not wanting to join the Mythos hunt) and allow new characters a chance to join (Think they are joining an average, everyday investigation service, until one day when someone gets the rumor, and the new guy is sucked into the Mythos.) You will join in specifically either in week 2, or week 3 depending on how fast the others are to set up their new buisness and move in.

So I could say my new guy was hired? That makes it alot easier.

My guy will be investigating the disappearance of Father McGruder

Joining the investigators is only one option that makes it easeir to rejoin when you die. Other investigators looking into the disappearance of old friends will work too.

Hmmm...I'm thinking of picking either a criminal or a drifter. Which one does the almighty GM think would be better?

Criminal! Then when Frankie dies we'll have 3 criminals in the group. Let's shoot for a lawless troop of ass whuppers.

Be a difter. Then we atleast only have 2 of one occupation.

Or be neither and find another job...

He could be a knee-breaker... we don't really have anyone super-proficient in the unarmed/melee arts, or even anyone on dock like that.

Stats something like:

Str: 14
Con: 18
Size: 17
Int: 8
Dex: 8
Pow: 9
App: 3
Edu: 3

And skills like this (with 20 unused personal moved to occupational):
Occupational:
Bargain-3
Disguise-3
Fast Talk-3
Handgun-12
Locksmith-3
Sneak-3
Spot Hidden-3
Punch-50

Personal:
Dodge: 30
Martial Arts: 30

Items:
Brass Knuckles
Pinstripe Suit
Brooklyn Accent


Edit: I don't suggest actually using this guy, because he'd be useless for anything other than breaking knees.