a few bits from our Bendy Cthulhu game that I doodled last session.....
- Dread Carcosa is taking over NYC so there's a yellow fog kind of filtering over the city, and sometimes areas of thick fog can hijack people to think they're in the King In Yellow play and start taking on the role of one of the characters. This happened to Susie and of course Sammy WAS properly concerned, but like, seriously, could she always twirl a knife all cool??? IT JUST WOULDNT SURPRISE ME, U KNOW?
- Prophet sometimes just has Intuition about supernatural things, so Sammy switched him in to see if Prophet could tell whether the Phantom was after Peter specifically, which Prophet accomplished by standing very close and smooshing his hands all over Peter's face. DW ABT IT. NORMAL SAMMY BEHAVIOUR.
- Avedon is back!!!! This guy is technically a minor NPC from our 2nd scenario, but he's a big fav b/c he spent that scenario losing his mind, locking Sammy & Jack in a closet at gunpoint, and attending a masquerade just to try to shoot the host. He's a little more sane this go round and showed up to warn us that the Yellow King is taking over NYC. THANKS DUDE, WE NOTICED!!!!
anyway here's some Out of Context quotes from our session under the cut
[Sammy] -recapping- Joey tried to do some bullshit, and it, uh, made things worse!
[GM] It got some attention, it seems!
[Joey] EHhhhhhhhh,
[Sammy] Yeah, he was doing his nonsense, and then the Phantom showed up because he was doing his nonsense --
[Joey] ehhhhhhhhhhh
[Sammy] And then we hit the Phantom with Jack's car! A rational and reasonable response to the unknowable.
[Jack] Joey MADE Jack hit the Phantom with his car.
[Joey] EHHHHHHHHH,
[Jack] Because Jack wouldn't do this on purpose. He likes his car!
[Sammy] I think that's entirely reasonable. No reasonable person would have done this course of events.
[Sammy] What happens if you drive a car in Carcosa
[Sammy] It's in the name, it should be a good place for cars...
[Jack] It actually cancels out because there's two of them, so you just get "Cosa."
[Joey] One of the times, the Mercedes is going to be missing and it's not because of Yellow Sign stuff, it's just that someone finally stole it.
[Sammy] Car gets its tires slashed, "THIS IS THE WORK OF THE YELLOW KING!!!"
[Jack] Even if it's safety glass, I feel like Jack doesn't want to sit in a bunch of glass!
[Henry] Exfoliation.
[Jack] ON HIS BUTT????
[Joey] Just venting about everything that has happening, but it's clearly all this other guy's fault?
[Sammy] I love Joey having no particular distinction between "annoying person who's getting in the way of me making cartoons" and "eldritch entity" - WHICH IS THE SAME THING, it's just an annoying person who's getting in the way of making cartoons!
[Joey] YEAH!!
[Sammy] Jack struck me as someone who'd be a cautious driver.
[GM] And he let Sammy drive his car?!
[Joey] It's taking Joey a little longer to finish his ritual, because he keeps getting angry and ranting more,
[Sammy] "[draws one line] AND ANOTHER THING--!"
[GM] Avedon says you need to watch out for each other, because something's already messing with Norman --
[Joey] what, wAIT-- WHAT?
[GM] --and he needs you guys to come find him, he's at this hotel, and he thinks he knows how to destroy the Phantom.
[Joey] Have you called Norman?
[GM] He says, "Where do you think I got this number?" And then he hangs up.
[Joey] ........................
[Sammy/Jack/Henry] -IMMEDIATELY LOSING IT-
[Jack] -still cracking up- H-how, how mad is Joey right now,
[Joey] ...........................I need to look something up.
[Joey] I know way too much about, the history of phone technologies now,
[Sammy] This game is educational. Nobody tells you that.
[Joey] What is up with your crazy friend?!
[Norman] You're going to have to be more specific.
[Joey] Wait, DID you get a call from Avedon?
[GM] Norman says that he got word from The Advisor earlier.
[Jack].... Hm.
[Sammy] Norman???????
[Joey] ...iS SUSIE STILL THERE,
[GM] Uh, yeah! He hands over the phone.
[Joey] IS SHE NORMAL?????????????????
[GM] She likes to think so!
[Joey] Nobody's going to let Peter choose his own methods of communication, he just gets to RECEIVE
[Sammy] Look! He was warned!!
[GM] Peter's glancing at Jack like, is this concerning?
[Jack] Well Jack looks CONCERNED, but he's not concerned about this, specifically. This is refreshingly normal.
[Sammy] And the Traitor mercifully absent!
[Jack] I know you said "traitor", but I heard "trader," like no that's a different AU,
[Joey] Oh good. No Wandering Traders.
[everyone makes villager "Hrrrm" noises]
[Sammy] Prophet's ALSO murdering llamas for leads,
[Jack] I mean, we could do with a lead about now! I don't know if we have any other than Avedon.
[Joey] -uncontrollably giggling at this joke for the next 15 seconds-
[Sammy] Oh boy,
[Joey] -still giggling- iT WAS A REALLY gOOD ONE,,,
[Joey] Does Jack's car look any different to Henry?
[Jack] Well there's a weird splat mark in the shape of a guy,
[Sammy] Be vigilant! His will can overtake your own.
[Henry] Hm,,, you too,
[GM] Does anyone want to do a summary of where we were at?
[Jack] I have an extremely short summary:
[Jack] Shit's Fucked.
[Sammy] Avedon told us to meet him because THE WORLD IS IN PERIL
[Sammy] which, I think it's really important to remember that Avedon is French, when you imagine him saying the word "peril." That's all.
[Sammy] It's not TOO late to visit people, but it is maybe an awkward time to--
[Jack] When has awkward timing EVER stopped this--
[Sammy] NEVER. It's never stopped us.
[Henry] I think it would be weirder if we arrived at an opportune time, at this point!
[Joey] It IS a great time for a snake to show up, I feel like.
[Sammy] That's true. It's never a wrong time for a snake to show up, honestly.
[Joey] Enough time has passed that Joey will come out to the parking lot.
[Sammy] I really thought you were gonna say "come out to the party"
[Jack] Joey's coming out?
[GM] -laughing- I think they already know!
[Joey] Also, Norman has started acting very weird.
[Henry] How?
[Joey] You know how, sometimes people start saying things, in situations like this, where they think...
[Joey]...yOU KNOW HOW PROPHET DESCRIBES PEOPLE?
[Jack] I can't believe you're splitting up the boyfriends!
[Jack] ...as compared to the other boyfriends,
[Sammy] I feel like it's really hard to split this party without splitting up some boyfriends somewhere.
[GM] Jack doesn't want to drive and Sammy doesn't know where he's going - ✨TEAMWORK!✨ :D
[Jack] You go through all of Henry's coats and none of them are familiar, and they're all extremely stylish
[Henry] That's not Carcosa, that's Joey.
[Jack] Oh no, his accent's Italian now!
[Sammy] That's just what happens when you come to New York.
[GM] Make a sanity check.
[Henry] For looking at a clarinet???
[Henry] Henry is... maybe taking a closer look out the window.
[Sammy] I support him. I'm not there, but I support him--
[Henry] Then, yeah, I'm gonna say he's doing that!
[Sammy] --from afar, where I suffer no consequences.
[Henry] Henry has his hand on his gun.
[Henry] ...he knows that he can't, like, SHOOT CARCOSA, but,
[Jack] Carcosa's haunted.
[Joey] I actually succeeded the luck check!
[Sammy] Congratulations, that's a feat for Joey!
[Jack] It's his natural talent.
[Henry] I wish I had the words to describe the face Henry is making.
[Henry] If Scared and Defeated had a baby.
[GM] Avedon turns around, looking wild-eyed behind his glasses, and says, because he is the master of smart things, "We need to get out of here!"
[Joey] NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!
[GM] In fact, you think you hear conspiratorial whispering in the distance!
[Henry] But our conspiratorial whisperer is accounted for...
[Joey] Joey's just going to march up behind them and ask what's going on.
[GM] They are both going to jump to their feet, and bow, actually,
[Sammy] Um.
[Jack] Hmmmm.
[Sammy] UM.
[GM] and say, "we were just dealing with matters of State, Your Highness."
[Joey]
[Joey] -quiet giggling-
[Jack] Oh no.
[Sammy] Joey doesn't need this. Joey doesn't need this.
[Jack] His ego's already so big!!
[Sammy] You're going to open the door and the Phantom's gonna be standing there.
[Henry] "Want some weed?"
[Joey] Avedon can stay with Norman. They're friends.
[Sammy] I don't-- we'll see how Norman is.
[Joey] I mean, I don't think, no matter what, that Norman can be weirder than Avedon?
[GM] You can make a psychology roll, if you want!
[Sammy] OKAY, we'll see, I'm not holding out a lot of hope on Sammy getting this--
[Sammy] -rolls- ....WELL. That is... an extreme success. I rolled a TWO.
[Jack] Are we sure SAMMY hasn't been replaced?
[Joey] Has Shazz been replaced?
[Jack] Have Shazz's dice been replaced????
[Sammy] I'm gonna take her hand, if she lets me?
[Jack and Joey simultaneously] The one with the knife in it, or--
[Jack] Jack is probably trying to get... any.... information out of Norman,
[Sammy] Sorry, I left you the hard mode one.
[Joey] Kiss him!!