Out of Character discussion

[ken-do-nim]

Having a blast in Italy! Not much time for gaming, but we'll start up again next week. Right now I'm in Venice, on the last leg of the trip.

[ken-do-nim]

Hi all I'm back and looking forward to resuming our game. Next post will be tonight!

[geomys]

Do I get a successful skill check for using the whip? Or does that not apply to combat skills?

[ken-do-nim]

Sorry about the delay, a week just wooshed by like that!

Do I get a successful skill check for using the whip? Or does that not apply to combat skills?

Yes you do.

[Scott308]

I'm at Gamehole Con this weekend, so I don't know if I'll be able to check in here.

[ken-do-nim]

I'm at Gamehole Con this weekend, so I don't know if I'll be able to check in here.

I was at Carnage up in Vermont myself.

With the election now behind us, I wearily turn back to my gaming life.

[ken-do-nim]

Hi all, on a real life note, my mother-in-law is being told she needs a heart transplant. Do any of you know anyone who has undergone such a procedure? How has it gone for them since?

Update: my mother-in-law has been in the hospital for 2 weeks now waiting for her heart. They've got her hooked up to a machine so she's in no immediate danger, but the waiting is dreadful (and ghoulish). One of my wife or I (usually my wife) visit her nearly every day; we live the closest. We try to joke about it though, since the highest match to her blood type is asian, we've been telling her she'll have cravings for sushi after the operation.

[Scott308]

I'm glad to hear she is stable. Hopefully she'll get her heart soon.

[MI70]

I hope everything turns out well. Will be thinking of you and the family.

[ken-do-nim]

In Call of Cthulhu v1-4, the adventure "Haunted House" was the recommended starter adventure. Though Haunted House is still in the 5th edition rulebook and we'll play it next, fifth is the first rulebook to introduce Edge of Darkness as the starter adventure, and I can see why now. It is a great teaching tool for the sanity system, as well as conducting research and some light combat.

[MI70]

Jed may never want set foot in another haunted house (at least not without some therapy!)
Btw, nice use of photo. Scary Maggie actually startled me as I casually scrolled along.

[ken-do-nim]

Hi all, on a real life note, my mother-in-law is being told she needs a heart transplant. Do any of you know anyone who has undergone such a procedure? How has it gone for them since?

Update: my mother-in-law has been in the hospital for 2 weeks now waiting for her heart. They've got her hooked up to a machine so she's in no immediate danger, but the waiting is dreadful (and ghoulish). One of my wife or I (usually my wife) visit her nearly every day; we live the closest. We try to joke about it though, since the highest match to her blood type is asian, we've been telling her she'll have cravings for sushi after the operation.

Early this morning my mother-in-law received a new heart. It's over!!!

[MI70]

Glad to hear it! I hope she has a speedy recovery.

[Scott308]

Good to hear! Unfortunately, now you won't be able to make any "heartless mother-in-law" jokes.

[geomys]

Glad to hear the surgery went ok.

Completely unrelated...why is it "insanity" to be attuned to the (albeit horrible) actual way the Universe is in Cthulu mythos? It seems like the problem is a bad case of stark sanity.

[MI70]

It is kind of funny that you get penalized for seeing the real reality. I hope Jed didn't doom everyone, but I think in his rage he'd just fire away.

[ken-do-nim]

Sorry all, we had an unexpected Chanukkah/Christmas week break, as my daughter kept me too busy to get on the internet very much. I look forward to resuming the game this week.

[ken-do-nim]

Hi all, so sorry that I haven't been able to move the game forward for a while. It's not for lack of desire!

[ken-do-nim]

Just to give a bit more explanation: I'm going through a weird fatigue/sleep-cycle change. I'm falling asleep at 8:30 PM, not too long after I get home from work, and tossing and turning until 5 am when I have to start my day. But I'm starting to more reliably wake up at 3 AM and just say, "It's too early to get out of bed!" and go back to sleep. If I embrace the shift, I'll just start catching up on my pbp games in the wee hours. But it's *so* dark outside then ...

[MI70]

Hope you are doing ok. I don't think I have ever had my sleep cycle just switch that way except for jet lag. 3am is either a really good time or a really bad time to think about Lovecraftian creatures in the dark.
One question: does Jed's homicidal mania extend to the attic creature as well as the zombie? If not, he may not rush to the attic.