Let's Play DON'T MESS WITH CTHULHU

### Winners

Game 1 Cultists (Adam, Tom), Game 2 Good (Adam, Brooke, Dom, Laurie), Game 3 Cultists (Sullivan, Tom), Game 4 Cultists (Brooke, Laurie). Overall (Adam, Brooke, Laurie and Tom).

## ★ ADAM'S CHALKBOARD ★

**Let's Play DON'T MESS WITH CTHULHU** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*I might be a very bad boy.* "
―Adam
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "well it's ... it's don't mess with Cthulhu".
* Can our *intrepid investigators prevail before the great old one wakes from his slumbers*?
* This is a good team-bad team social deduction one, lovely lovely lovely.
* Tom's here, so the hellos are Tom-ified. This time we get a thumbs up.
* We're playing Don't Mess With... Dom?
* As our resident Lovecraft expert, Dom explains pronunciation. Won't work in text, obvs.
* Adam: "There will be two baddies - almost definitely these two [gestures at Laurie and Brooke]" Team Rocket!
* Choose *either* the token that speaks to you across the cosmic void *or* the one you can reach. Dom has tiny t-rex arms.
* All hail the Tower of Destiny! The idiots are having trouble using it today, though.
* Tom: "Brooke, what does it feel like to be a liar?" Brooke: "Well, if you mean the Greek instrument which was popular..." That is, of course, exactly what Tom meant.
* Laurie is playing for the camera. "Someone round the table is lying." Tom: "That person's you, isn't it Laurie?"
* Laurie: "I skew evil."
* Brooke: "Adam, who is notoriously difficult to read... because you're so blond!" The cast suggest Brooke should try looking slightly lower than his haIr and that may help.
* Tom and Sullivan are obsessively correcting the card orientation.
* Sullivan is a clean baby. Dom says he doesn't smell clean. Tom says no babies are ever really clean.
* Laurie and Dom are debating tactics. Dom's brilliant trap is now completely outlined, so it may be slightly less effective than it would have been.
* Dom is a genius detective who has managed to determine that Adam is bad, mere moments after Adam confirmed he was bad.
* Dom: "The only person I can't read is Sullivan, because he has no thoughts. Because he is really just a sort of giant turnip. His brain is mush. There's nothing there. He's an idiot. "
* SECRET JOKE OF THE DAY! Laurie hasn't got a clue-lou.
* Tom: "Are you implying I'm playing the most evil game of all - absolute honesty?"
* Evil Adam is always entertaining.
* SECRET JOKE OF THE DAY! Cthul as a cucumber...
* Tom to Sullivan: "You'll be wasting whatever little time is left in your finite life." He's suggesting Sullivan's time would be better spent on walking in the park or listening to music.
* Adam is doing the shiny distraction thing on Sullivan. Poor boy doesn't have a chance.
* Everyone has Cthulhus and rocks in the last round.
* Tom refuses to explain his actual strategy for playing evil. He obfuscates with some nonsense about hats and Uruguay.
* James does a genuinely disturbing mockup for Sullivan's *Clean Baby* movie
* Actual Cthulhu reveal!
* Adam and Sullivan are giggly about rocks, among other things.
* Singalonga NRB: 'Come on down to Sullivan town' 'Best relationship' 'Evil boyfriend'
* Sullivan commentary time - good round for the good team. Adam's actually crying with laughter. It seems to be one of those shoots.
* Laurie may freeze. He's calling for Cthulhu.
* Brooke has devolved into scatting. Adam: "Words are meaningless to you". Brooke: "I'm drybones rocky magoo, I'll keep on scatting if you want me to".
* James provides the album covers for all currently available NRB releases.
* Brooke: "When Adam is good, he gets this voice... very mentor, very zen...Whereas when he's evil, he gets a little more plan-oriented. He definitely plays with his heart when he's a good'un".
* Scary Tom is scary.
* Laurie accuses Tom of deliberating too long. Tom: "Famously hot-headed Tom took his time before speaking. Yeah, what a fucking suspicious bit of business that was". Laurie actually said 'Dom'. So that was a bit hot-headed of Tom.
* Adam's getting excited that he's actually winning.
* We're adding some complexities for the next round.
* Laurie has drawn the card that prevents him from speaking. Nobody is going to take advantage of that. Oh, hang on...
* Adam: "Laurie, don't say anything if you don't want my job and think I should be the head of No Rolls Barred for ever... Thank you, Laurie." And on it goes and goes. Laurie may actually implode - when this round ends, there may be retribution.
* Brooke's naming random numbers. And we've gone.
* Adam doesn't want to end the round for fear of Laurie being able to speak. Sullivan's trying to get one last non-verbal commitment from Laurie before they release him.
* There's actual teeth-grinding. Laurie: "YOU ABSOLUTE PIT OF FUCKING VIPERS! GIVE YOU A FUCKING INCH AND YOU TAKE A MILE!" Adam and Sullivan cower in the corner.
* Now Brooke has the silence card. Sullivan's the only one who can set the tone, but he knows there is life after this round. Laurie says he's a coward.
* Sullivan: "Brooke, say nothing if you want me to go travelling round the world, alone, exploring new countries... or fall in love with someone else and then die."
* Adam: "Brooke, say nothing if you, after *careful* consideration, think that Sully should be *my* boyfriend." Sullivan has never felt love like this before. Brooke is clearly plotting murder.
* Tom finally identifies the reason for the silence, though - that's not Brooke! It's Blair!
* Tom has the silent card - Sullivan gets a really good one in about trees. Savage burn.
* Now Brooke can speak, her wrath is vast.
* Sullivan can't convince Brooke to own up to being evil with him - he's completely unravelling.
* What did Sullivan do during the roast of Brooke that was so bad? He only attempted to marry Adam and said he'd love other people on his trip round the world.
* Tom: "Simmer down, Blair!" It's not helping.
* Brooke: "One of you is lying to me. And all of you are horrible."
* NOT THE JOKE OF THE DAY! switcher-ulhu.
* Team Rocket win the last game!

## Talking Heads

Talking heads are available this episode.

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Laurie.
* Chalkboard is updated with a win, in a quite frankly fevered display.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.