Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #callofcthulhu
Most recents (2)
Finished a chapter in our online #CallOfCthulhu game last night. 2 investigators, an explorer and a forger, w/ @DDInTheUK1 as the Keeper.
[Thread] They scaled the exterior wall of a mental asylum in the dead of night. Obvs this simple task obviously took ~30 IRL mins to pull off
[Thread] They scaled the exterior wall of a mental asylum in the dead of night. Obvs this simple task obviously took ~30 IRL mins to pull off
Now in the cover of the treeline; they painted a large Elder Sign on the perimeter wall. Maybe it would help, maybe it'll go unnoticed for years.
They scurried from the treeline to the lake, then to the secure-wing of the asylum.
A quick stealthy glance revealed just one...
They scurried from the treeline to the lake, then to the secure-wing of the asylum.
A quick stealthy glance revealed just one...
...nurse at her station by the only door. A quick passers-by sob story was concocted and the forger headed in, ready to make an Oscar-winning performance 🎭🏆
The tension in the bizarrely-angry, red-faced nurse, quickly melted away as he drew near. Confusion & wooziness (?!) ...
The tension in the bizarrely-angry, red-faced nurse, quickly melted away as he drew near. Confusion & wooziness (?!) ...
I've been thinking a bit about #deltagreen and I've come to the conclusion that it's too optimistic. Specifically, I don't think it fully comes to grips with The Problem of Evil. And that's maybe a fault that goes back to Lovecraft, but I think the RPG format makes it worse 1/n
So let's think about the basic set up: #Cthulhu is real. Governments do what governments do. Life continues, until it doesn't.
But. Nuclear and biological weapons. Global warming. Genocide. The use of religion to justify vast destruction of human lives, violent and otherwise.
But. Nuclear and biological weapons. Global warming. Genocide. The use of religion to justify vast destruction of human lives, violent and otherwise.
What's fucked in the world is fucked in ways which are really hard to capture neatly in the #Cthulhu framework; he's a pre-nuclear character, for the most part, and the human race hadn't shown its true colors yet, in The Bad Places of the Mid 20th Century. We can do much worse.
