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 Humanity thinks itself masters of the Earth. We look upon our works and are overly pleased with how much science and technology have improved our lot over the years. We look to the future and dream about our place in the stars. We see ourselves as top dogs on the planet. How wrong we are. We live on a backwater world in a large and ancient galaxy. There are beings stalking the earth that are older and more powerful than we can imagine. Gods sleep beneath our seas and timeless races live within our mountains. The only thing that has prevented us from being annihilated by these old ones is the mere fact that we are below their notice - we are insects, or, at best cattle, wandering around. There are times when their universe intersects with our world. When that happens, those who are not killed or driven hopelessly mad take the only rational option - to worship them. Cults form and do unspeakable things in the hope of buying their continued survival. Thankfully, for most of humanity, these encounters become tales of monsters and haunted places. Over the millennia most of humanity has built up a fabric of reality that helps them to ignore the horrors of the world. We have a worldview that puts us at the pinnacle of existence, and ignores the darkness in the abyss. Unfortunately for one poor soul, that fabric is about to be torn asunder…. Welcome to yet another CYOA! I’m going to be using the Trail of Cthulhu ruleset created by Kenneth Hite to take us on a story exploring the Lovecraftian Mythos. This is going to end badly for our character, as they descend deeper into madness, then get eaten by a Shoggoth. Before I get onto the rules, a quick word of “warning”, if you’ve not heard of me, I’ve done a lot of LP’s over in the games forums, and I’m a notorious bad speller. This is my latest attempt to correct that! I’m told that I’ve gotten better by doing the LP’s, so, with the arrival of my Child reducing the amount of time I have to play computer games (its hard to do that one handed), I’ve decided to have a go at one of these things. Expect odd word choices and blatant mistakes. Feel free to call me on them (maybe not in every post however.) - I’m an experienced GM however, and I’m currently running two games in the LP forum - Rogue Trader and Star Wars, Age of Rebellion. So I’m confident I can tell a good story. And I’m going to be proof reading these a bit more than my normal LP posts. (I hope.) Why Trail and not Call? While I do love Call of Cthulhu, but I want to try out Gumshoe, and it gives me some nice options for this - and it also gets past the issue of having to make mountains of skill checks - if we have a skill in Accountancy, we’re going to notice that two tonnes of salt the guy ordered, and it also avoids the problem of our master accountant rolling a 100. Trail also has Sources of Stability, who will give our character NPC’s that (s)he cares about. Character Creation Let’s get to this. First things first, the most important choice is going to be our profession - or class. This will be our job and will reflect on how our character is going to start out in the world. To begin with, they will be healthy and sane with no idea what monsters lurk beyond the vale. We also need to decide on the tone of the story - Trail of Cthulhu has two main flavours. Purest. - How lovecraft would have wanted things - characters are much more fragile, sanity is harder to replace, and the world is a starker place. Pulp - While not Indiana Jones punching Cthulhu in the face, Pulp characters are more proactive and have a better chance of survival than their Purest brethren. quote:Alienist - (Now called a Psychologist.) The Vote. I want two things - the first, is Purist or Pulp, the second is an occupation. I’d like to leave names and backgrounds for the next step, but I won’t stop people from posting any ideas they have. This vote will set quite a bit of the tone for the forthcoming adventure. The Tale of Louis Dumont - Art critic by day, Communist art thief by night! quote:Investigator - Louis Dumont Rules basics Life at the Petit Moulin. Not Michelle form the Resistnace. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 06:33 on May 30, 2016 |
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Cthulhu games are far better as pulp. And what's more pulpy than a Hobo going out and chucking dynamite at monstrosities.
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May 23, 2016 08:23
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Let's go for a Pulp Forger . The CYOA is less fun if we go insane on meeting our first occult, and forgery should give us a nice skillset and underworld connections for us to run to in desperate need of heavy firepower.
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May 23, 2016 08:25
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Pulp Nurse How horribly wrong can the ability to treat our own wounds go?
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May 23, 2016 08:58
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LivesInGrey posted:Pulp Nurse How horribly wrong can the ability to treat our own wounds go? I was gonna vote bookseller but only because I didn't notice this. This can get hilariously and horrifyingly weird in a hurry. Let's do it.
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May 23, 2016 08:59
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When I think Pulp I think Private Investigator. Lets see how long it takes to drive our PI straight into madness.
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May 23, 2016 09:00
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Pulp, Parapsychologist with a radio show
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May 23, 2016 09:10
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Ikasuhito posted:When I think Pulp I think Private Investigator. Lets see how long it takes to drive our PI straight into madness. Sure.
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May 23, 2016 09:12
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Pulp and Police Detective. I was tempted by the Private Eye angle but I kind of want the main character to be called a loose cannon once.
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May 23, 2016 09:19
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Pulp Dilettante. Let's defeat the cosmic horrors with the power of impeccable style and monocle-twirling.
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May 23, 2016 10:19
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Pulp for sure. My vote is for Forger.
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May 23, 2016 10:36
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Pulp for style, and author for the character's occupation. Preferably an author of pulp fiction.
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May 23, 2016 10:49
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Pulp Parapsychologist named Dr Peter Vekman.
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May 23, 2016 10:57
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Pulp Nurse
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May 23, 2016 11:15
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Pulp Scientist
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May 23, 2016 14:44
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Pulp Archeologist Given the option, how could we not play Indiana Jones?
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May 23, 2016 15:02
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Pulp Private Investigator lets go as noir as we can.
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May 23, 2016 15:29
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I support a Pulp Criminal, because "Dope War of the Black Tong" is the best mythos story title.
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May 23, 2016 15:37
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Pulp Artist, either a book cover illustrator or a court artist I'd also support an author vote if that's a close second to anything and artist isn't
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May 23, 2016 15:44
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Halloween Jack posted:I support a Pulp Criminal, because "Dope War of the Black Tong" is the best mythos story title. I'm down for this. But specifically a peddler and not a thug.
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May 23, 2016 15:58
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Zybourne Clock posted:Pulp for style, and author for the character's occupation. Preferably an author of pulp fiction. I second this! Let's see how the character's imagination holds up to the truth.
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May 23, 2016 16:09
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Pulp If we're going to touch the poop, I prefer that we get paid for doing so.
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May 23, 2016 16:53
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Pulp and private investigator is the doomed noir train I'm on board.
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May 23, 2016 16:58
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Let's be a Pulp Criminal and steal from Cthulhu!
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May 23, 2016 17:24
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I was going to suggest Purist Hobo, but only because I really wanted to type Purist Hobo.
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May 23, 2016 17:27
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Current totals for my sanity. (Okay your information, as I have a spreadsheet.) Private Detective.- 4 Nurse - 3 Criminal - 3 Forger - 2 Parapsychologist - 2 Author - 2 Hobo -1 Police Detective -1 Scientist -1 Archeologist -1 Artist -1 Bookseller -1
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May 23, 2016 17:44
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Pulp criminal
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May 23, 2016 17:53
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Pulp Author. We keep writing hard-hitting exposes, and they keep publishing it as fiction. drat them! Can't they see the truth! Although the checks are nice.
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May 23, 2016 18:16
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Pulp Criminal sounds like a lot of fun for cthulhu.
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May 23, 2016 18:21
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Pulp Hobo because deciphering ancient texts and bearing witness to horrifying dregs of humanity will come naturally.
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May 23, 2016 18:25
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Pulp Criminal Let's get some "Terrible Old Man" action on.
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May 23, 2016 18:25
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Switching to pulp hobo
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May 23, 2016 18:40
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ok - 1 artist vote and +1 author vote please
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May 23, 2016 19:04
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Switching from forger to criminal
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May 23, 2016 19:58
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Think I'm going to jump on that author bandwagon. -1 Forger, +1 Author, if you please.
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May 23, 2016 20:10
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Criminal - 7 Author - 5 Private Detective.- 4 Nurse - 3 Hobo - 3 Parapsychologist - 1 Police Detective -1 Scientist -1 Archeologist -1 Bookseller -1 A Leader emerges, but all is not said and done yet!
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May 23, 2016 20:11
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Grey Hunter posted:Criminal - 7 I steal all the votes. Criminal wins!
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May 23, 2016 20:29
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Archaeologist 
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May 23, 2016 20:47
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Pulp criminal.
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May 23, 2016 21:55
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drat, too late. No point voting for Dirk Ledger, Two-Fisted Accountant. Pulp Criminal sounds like it could be interesting.
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