From: wolf@cheshire.oxy.edu (Clinton Richard Wolf)
Subject: Re: Game: Call of Cthulhu
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:54:58 GMT

In article <Bxn0Bz.60w@unccsun.uncc.edu> mdblacka@uncc.edu writes:
>
>   This may be a stupid question, but does anyone else out there play
>a RPG called "Call of Cthulhu"?  If you don't, and you like RPGs, you 
>ought to check it out.  Here is a small description of what happened
>on my last adventure, for those of you who play it.  There were about 5
>of us that entered the caverns that ran under Main Street in Arkham,
>only 3 of us left alive.  As we walked into the main cavern, a hungry
>shoggoth surfaces in the underground lake, those who made their sanity
>roll lost 4 sanity.  The person who didn't make it turned into a blubbering
>idiot.  In other words shoggoth-chow.  As we hastily departed, throwing
>TNT over our shoulders as we left, one member tripped and fell, another
>appetizer for the shoggoth.  Only this corpse had a weapon, a lit stick
>of dynomite.  I'll bet that shoggoth had a pretty bad case of heartburn.
><G>

 *sigh* Ah, yes, the shoggoth. A wondrous beast, to be sure, and surely one
of the more exciting to be encountered in Call of Cthulhu. I remember a game
session in which our party of six had descended a mine shaft in Upper Michigan
and found (ready for this?) an underground lake! :)

 The lake had a strange drak red color to it, almost as though it were... but
nah, it couldn't be... probably just dissolved iron ore or something... we mos-
eyed around a small strip of beach, until we reached the end of that spit. Be-
yond, there was only lake. So, gotta test the water... the ex-Soldier of For-
tune in the lead takes out a pole and begins prodding the water to test its
depth... and screams as a ropy black tentacle whips up around the pole and
removes his arm at the shoulder! <spurt... spurt...>. Then IT surfaces...
everyone makes their SAN rolls except my character, who fortunately rolls up
pantophobia and wigs out for the exit. The others toss gasoline cans and dyna-
mite. The Shoggoth burns! The water of the cavern is set aflame by the oil
slicks... The explosions begins to collapse the cavern!

 The Shoggoth is somewhat annoyed... the party decides a retreat is in order...
As they run for the exit, the Shoggoth rends the NPC miner limb from limb...
then it moves to engulf the Chaffeur, currently helping the bleeding SoF along.
The Chaffeur fires a shotgun into the mass at point blank range. The Shoggoth
engulfs them both, kicking and screaming. The dilletante, cut off by the Shog-
goth and seeing her chauffeur of 15 years messily devoured, opts to splash 
through the watery inferno of the lake rather than face the Shoggoth. It is
a good choice. She makes it. The journalist, who was in front of the Shoggoth,
stops to take a picture as the Dilletante dives through the whole. He dives
through after her, but only just as the rest of the discarded gasoline cans
in the cavern go up in a fireball of massive proportions... he is blown through
the whole, and lands unconscious and smoking as the cavern collapses on the
Shoggoth, and the entire mine begins to collapse as well. The dilletante grabs
him and frantically drags him towards the surface. Just before the smoke and
dust obscures her view, she sees a small bit of bubbling black mass just be-
ginning to push through the collapsed hole...

 6 went in, 3 came out. 50% casualties, and yet, in CoC that's a goddamned
VICTORY! especially dealing with a Shoggoth :)

-- Clint, Shoggoths are like Timexes... or the Energizer Bunny...
 

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