Tuesday, September 09, 2008

I guess you had to be there

Tonight we had another round of Cthulhu esq pen and paper gaming - with me running it.

In the final climactic scene, two of the player characters (ie the personas played by players in the game, aka PCs), were frantically climbing up a ladder in a shaft sunk into the earth beneath a walk in closet while avoiding furniture being dropped on their heads. One of the PCs got to the top just as the matching other chest of drawers was about to be lobbed down. Gracefully the PC jumped up out of the shaft and swept his legs sideways to kick the evil non player character (NPC) mastermind (ie the main villain run by me the game master) in the chest, staggering him backward.

The NPC recovered, drew his knife, screamed and charged the PC. He fumbled his attack, and failed his Dex check. The PC successfully dodged the now falling prone NPC.

The NPC hit the chest of drawers, slid over the top, then dropped head first down the 60 foot shaft. ... where the other PC was still climbing.

This PC managed to successfully dodge the plummeting bod (a difficult task given the shaft was just three feet wide) and said villain dropped to the ground with a near life ending thud.


In character, as the body was sighted plunging down, the ladder locked PC screamed out ...

.... 'It's raining men!'

I guess you had to be there.

A new phrase was also coined this night. The lads in game encountered Chuds (aka Lovecraftian Ghouls), whose presence lingers in the form of a sickly sweet corpsey smell (so Perception checks will notice a Chud has been and gone).

In other words ... Chud Funk.

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