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Anyone played this weekend?
@AncientSwordRage Anything or something specific? D&D this weekend had to be cancelled because I didn't have Ethernet until tonight, so my DMing stuff was stuck on an internetless machine
Now that I've got it, a good chunk of us are doing CAH instead.
I'm running a Cthulhu Dark one-shot tomorrow morning. Using my old "based on The Horror of Fang Rock" scenario, but changing it so the investigators are the lighthouse operators.
02:12
@Axoren cartoon action hour?
@BESW oooh sounds exciting
@AncientSwordRage Cards Against Humanity, an Apples to Apples variant where offensive adult humor dominates.
@Axoren oh yup I've played it a few times
The acronym didn't ring any bells for me unfortunately
@BESW I think I remember you saying that was based on an old Who episode...?
@AncientSwordRage Yup! 1977 Third Doctor story about Strange Things happening at a lighthouse during an unnatural fog.
Inspired by real-life lighthouse stories, especially as memorialized in Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's poem "Flannan Isle."
@AncientSwordRage We're playing the equivalent of a 3pp version of it and one of the Black Cards we just got was "What are two white cards you want to get rid of right now?"
(Fun fact: aside from the isolation and stress of lightkeeping, lighthouse keepers developed a reputation for "going mad" because of a mercury-based rotation system used from the 1890s to the 1960s. Time spent with the light was time spent inhaling mercury vapors from the bath of mercury that the light itself floated on so it could spin frictionlessly.)
A lot of my horror scenarios are "what if Doctor Who episode, but no friendly alien shows up to explain things?"
 
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posted on May 21, 2023 by Thomas Manuel

And adventure, thy name is prep I guess

 
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Q: In Exalted, can a sorcerer choose to cast a distorted spell?

TimothyAWisemanIn Exalted, one sorcerer can under some circumstances distort another sorcerer's spell. In most cases, this is massively problematic for the sorcerer casting the spell. But the distortion for the Cantata of Empty Voices (full description on pages 476 and 477 of Exalted Third Edition) has the foll...

 
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18:26
Bad idea: casting dominate person on a blue jelly
19:24
@Joshua yeah because it has no effect and you wasted your action and slot.
 
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@BESW I'd love to know how it goes/how it went
@Axoren how did that play out?
@BESW it's like "Garfield without Garfield" but more horror than melancholy
22:47
@AncientSwordRage I wish I kept a link to the match choices. We had some doozies.
@Axoren always the way 😅
We did the match to 20, and I lost by one point.
At some point, we had "During his midlife crisis, Dad got really into 'Dad's chili'." It was the most (only) wholesome thing to come out of that match.
@Axoren oooh that was close then

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