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<blockquote data-quote="Nebulous" data-source="post: 3987833" data-attributes="member: 31465"><p><strong>Project P- Cthluhu adventure Part 3 of 3</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Part 3 of 3</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Red">AND SO IT ENDS...</span></p><p></p><p>The surviving Navy SEALS have fended off a swarm of ravenous fish men</p><p>and a multi-armed one-eyed horror, isolated and alone in a sunken city</p><p>named R'yleh somewhere in the uncharted depths of the Pacific Ocean.</p><p></p><p>Their mission, as imposed by the defecting Russian Admiral Ochmorov:</p><p>find and subdue (i.e. splatter) the American scientist Spencer who</p><p>caused all this mess in the first place. Alienated from the Third</p><p>Fleet, used like expendable guinea pigs by their own superiors, and</p><p>exposed to a lethal virus (especially Hicks (Jeff) who is quickly</p><p>dying from an infected bite), the SEALS and two Russian meat shields</p><p>forge on with single-minded determination.</p><p></p><p>The walkie talkie obtained from the sneak attack when they first</p><p>arrived suddenly warbles. A voice demands "Powers! I heard gunfire!</p><p>What's happening?" Reynolds tries to bluff the other man, but his</p><p>bluff is finally called, and the mysterious voice says they have no</p><p>chance of stopping him (whatever that means). It's assumed to be their</p><p>target Spencer.</p><p></p><p>They delve deeper into the complex, down echoing hallways and plopping</p><p>pools of frigid water. At one point they notice that the woman</p><p>DevNull has vanished from their ranks, and backtracking they find her</p><p>being strangled by something passing straight through solid stone! It</p><p>bears a single ominous glowing red eye, but releases her when the</p><p>others arrive.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/abomination.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>They pass branching tunnels, and begin a steep climb up spiraling</p><p>slimy slick steps, only to finally encounter massive black scaled fish</p><p>men bearing awful clubs! </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/lizard.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Machine guns tear through them, then a swarm</p><p>of smaller fishmen flank the soldiers from below. Potter dashes up the</p><p>steps, only to be frozen in his tracks by a baleful red eye glowing in</p><p>the dark. He's immobilized. An extremely well placed grenade by Hicks</p><p>(Jeff) destroys the fishmen in a blast of goo and bone, and Leo plants</p><p>a bullet in the red eye, sending the thing dissolving into smoke.</p><p></p><p>GM Note: (One player is ballsy enough at this point to say the adventure is too easy.</p><p>I just smile)</p><p></p><p>At the top of an exhaustingly high spiral of steps, they find a</p><p>smashed guitar, tape recorder and several labeled vials of chemicals.</p><p>The tape recorder has a recording of a partial stanza from someone not</p><p>quite in a healthy state of mind.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/map.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>They finally reach a steep chasm where howling wind blows a rickety</p><p>wooden rope bridge back and forth. The bridge reaches to a small</p><p>island, then a stone bridge crosses to another tunnel. Lt. Potter</p><p>(Dave) crosses first, and is perplexed to hear a human infant wailing</p><p>on the other side, which no one else can hear. Everyone crosses one at</p><p>a time, but the bridge is disintegrating, and DevNull drops her</p><p>valuable SHOTGUN into the ravine. At that point they consider her</p><p>pretty useless.</p><p></p><p>They search the island, Potter looking for the weird crying, and only</p><p>one Russian sees the stalagmite thrusting up from the central island suddenly</p><p>grow a glistening wet eye! He shrieks and runs, just as a ropy</p><p>tentacle shoots out and randomly snares the second Russian, pulling</p><p>him into a maw of stony teeth. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/roper.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Chaos ensues as the SEALS try to get a</p><p>bead on the monster without hitting the Russian, who is being messily</p><p>eaten alive. More tendrils shoot out and ensnare three of the</p><p>Seals, one nearly tossing DevNull to her death, the other weakening</p><p>Hicks so much he can barely resist. Potter alone escapes the attack,</p><p>and cycling up his Gatling gun, he mows into the thing, irregardless</p><p>of hitting anyone (and he does spatter Hicks with gunfire). The</p><p>barrage of bullets tears the monster up and everyone escapes, except</p><p>the Russian who was sucked down and eaten.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: RED">(GM Note: it was a Roper pulled right out of the MM 3.5)</span></p><p></p><p>The next room is large, ominously silent, flanked by impossibly high</p><p>pillars and bizarre architecture, and wide stone steps leading up and</p><p>others down. They climb up, feeling like ants on an ancient monument,</p><p>only to enter and even LARGER room, with three flights of steps, the</p><p>central isle the largest they've seen yet with steps nearly forty feet</p><p>across. The ceiling is lost in shrouded darkness, but Reynolds keeps his</p><p>wits about notices a something lurking behind them. </p><p></p><p>Thundering FOOTSTEPS soon reveals the hulking shadow he spotted, and a malicious</p><p>roar blasts from the depths as something lumbers forward, knocking</p><p>over pillars in its rage, easily twenty feet tall with an octopoid</p><p>head and writhing tentacles and vestigial wings. The Russian loses his</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> and runs, DevNull follows, while Potter (Dave) and Reynolds (Leo)</p><p>rattle off shots. But bullets are harmlessly absorbed, until Dave</p><p>engages the Gatling gun again and his swiftly dwindling ammo, gunning</p><p>the thing point blank as it surges forward and STEPS ON HIM. Jeff</p><p>runs down a side passage to escape, as everyone else runs to the top</p><p>of massive staircase and takes potshots at the Star Spawn.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/spawn.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>But Potter is alive, and the horrible thing refrains from killing him</p><p>outright, opting instead to play with his sanity. Eldritch magic</p><p>invades Potter's mind, and he suddenly forgets everyone since getting</p><p>off the sub. But he has a bigass gun in his hand and doesn't let off</p><p>the trigger, riddling 200 bullets per round into the thing's blubbery</p><p>hide. More dark magic overrides his neural pathways, and Potter</p><p>forgets his name, his career, where he was born and his mother. </p><p></p><p>He does remember, however, to keep shooting. </p><p></p><p>The Star Spawn retreats, chuckling, and a final blast of dark magic fills Potter's lungs with</p><p>SEA WATER, nearly killing him instantly, but he resists.</p><p></p><p>Jeff (Lt. Hicks) is separated and alone, exploring a shadowy tunnel of</p><p>phosphorescent moss similar to what they had seen before. He's in a</p><p>new tunnel system of passages and steep stairwells, although he finds</p><p>a crevice where he thinks he sees his comrades, but he continues to</p><p>explore a short ways...</p><p></p><p>Reynolds (Leo) tries to console the bewildered Potter and explain to</p><p>him that he is a soldier on a mission, and they stumble up the</p><p>stairwell to a massive, truly truly massive mushroom cavern dwarfing</p><p>anything they have encountered yet. They see artificial light hundreds</p><p>of feet away and move toward it cautiously, around huge columns</p><p>supporting the ceiling, past leering statues of multi-armed demons</p><p>arching over them. It's only DevNull, Reynolds, and a very confused</p><p>Potter (Dave) who can't recall who these people are. The last Russian</p><p>is a blubbering, useless mess as he contemplates putting the barrel of</p><p>his gun in his mouth. Things lurk in the stark shadows everywhere,</p><p>slithering and slurping and waving, but nothing comes within range of</p><p>their flashlights. Yet.</p><p></p><p>Hicks (Jeff) meanwhile finds a glowing room with a single, pulsing</p><p>crystal within surrounded by horrible pillars, beating as if it were</p><p>alive. So, he naturally shoots it. The crystal explodes into a million</p><p>fragments like a small ruptured star. Hicks if lucky enough to hear a</p><p>skittering sound, then sees a gargantuan single-eyed orange spider</p><p>crawling down from above. He runs back to the crevice where he saw his</p><p>friends and tries to shimmy through, just as something terrible</p><p>happens from the other side...</p><p></p><p>DevNull, Potter and Reynolds find the source of the light. A small</p><p>battery-powered halogen illuminates a massive stone portal, while a</p><p>man in an orange smock works fervently, back to them. DevNull spots</p><p>wired dynamite charges circumventing the entire stone portal. The mad</p><p>scientist Honor Clark Spencer hears their approach and spins around,</p><p>revealing a hand detonator with a shiny red button.</p><p></p><p>He tells them that it's too late! He has come here to take tissue</p><p>samples from the great Being behind the door, to clone it, and with</p><p>its power rule the world as a new god! He offers the soldiers a chance</p><p>to help him, he offers them antidotes to the virus they may have</p><p>contracted, and promises that they will live like kings among</p><p>men. To the amnesic Potter, that deal sounds pretty damn good.</p><p></p><p>Hicks doesn't buy it, bluffs, then unloads on the madman in a hail of</p><p>bullets, aiming specifically for the detonator hand. Spencer is</p><p>mauled, then DevNull opens fire, dropping the man to the ground. He</p><p>drops the detonator, blood ballooning around him and splattering on</p><p>the door. Potter (Dave) hesitates, then runs forward to help this</p><p>poor guy that just got shot to pieces after offering them quite a</p><p>lucrative deal! He gets to the man and the detonator, where with</p><p>feeble, bloodied fingers, Spencer drops his hand on the button.</p><p></p><p>BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOOOOOM!</p><p></p><p>Charges around the door detonate and Potter is blown off his feet. The</p><p>scientist is killed by a shard of stone through the temple, and a</p><p>gaping hole is blown through the antediluvian portal of unknown stone,</p><p>smoke billowing out in thick waves.</p><p></p><p>Then they hear hear it. </p><p></p><p>Movement. </p><p></p><p>A throaty moan by something with lungs the size of houses, and a massive RED EYE and slippery tentacles thick as cable cars presses into the open portal. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/6_13_02_07_2_34_20.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>In that instant Potter, who isn't all that far away, loses all Sanity (60-some points</p><p>at once if you're interested) by the unbearable alien radiation of</p><p>something man was not meant to see. He falls to his knees,</p><p>shellshocked, while DevNull and Hicks flee for their lives, gathering</p><p>Hicks who was fortunate enough not to see it, as the entire cavern</p><p>quakes around them.</p><p></p><p>Something has been woken up. Something BAD. And Potter is</p><p>swiftly scooped up and annihilated.</p><p></p><p>The surviving three soldiers run hell bent back from the submarine,</p><p>jumping widening cracks as the complex crumbles around them.</p><p>Something huge moves in the vaults, and splintering corridors rain</p><p>stone and debris on their heads. Fishmen try to intervene, but are</p><p>either dodged or shot down, with most seeking refuge themselves.</p><p></p><p>They finally, fortunately make it back to the entrance chamber where</p><p>the stolen Russian submarine the Potemkim dutifully waits. Admiral</p><p>Ochmorov and his remaining crew have the engines primed and ready, and</p><p>once all are aboard, the sub sinks and departs the mountain as pillars</p><p>collapse around them.</p><p></p><p>But all is not well. A huge blip on the radar indicates pursuit.</p><p>Something dwarfing the sub. Something faster than the sub. Reynolds</p><p>saw it, DevNull saw it, and Hicks can guess how awful it was, and</p><p>Ochmorov has a sneaking suspicion and enough knowledge of the horrors</p><p>of the Mythos to guess what might have happened. Hicks demands that</p><p>they shoot it down, with the single primed tactical nuclear torpedo</p><p>the Potemkin had reserved to destroy the Roger Revelle and the Project</p><p>Pi virus.</p><p></p><p>The captain warns that they are too close, that the backlash could be</p><p>devastating, but the blip is gaining fast, so with dark hopes and</p><p>heavy hearts, Ochmorov orders the missile fired.</p><p></p><p>WHOOSH!</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/abomb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Given only a 50/50 chance of survival, the Potemkin fails to outrun</p><p>the nuclear blast that boils over them, and the crew, the ship, the</p><p>city and the inhabitants are destroyed in a thunderous mushroom of</p><p>destruction. Giving their own lives though, they sink the horror back</p><p>to the depths of haunted sleep, and save the world from doom</p><p>until such a time as the Stars are Right for darkness to return.</p><p></p><p>/END ADVENTURE</p><p><a href="http://www.khaosworks.org/filk/pipes.html" target="_blank">[play Pipes of Cthulhu end credits]</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nebulous, post: 3987833, member: 31465"] [b]Project P- Cthluhu adventure Part 3 of 3[/b] [SIZE=3]Part 3 of 3[/SIZE] [COLOR=Red]AND SO IT ENDS...[/COLOR] The surviving Navy SEALS have fended off a swarm of ravenous fish men and a multi-armed one-eyed horror, isolated and alone in a sunken city named R'yleh somewhere in the uncharted depths of the Pacific Ocean. Their mission, as imposed by the defecting Russian Admiral Ochmorov: find and subdue (i.e. splatter) the American scientist Spencer who caused all this mess in the first place. Alienated from the Third Fleet, used like expendable guinea pigs by their own superiors, and exposed to a lethal virus (especially Hicks (Jeff) who is quickly dying from an infected bite), the SEALS and two Russian meat shields forge on with single-minded determination. The walkie talkie obtained from the sneak attack when they first arrived suddenly warbles. A voice demands "Powers! I heard gunfire! What's happening?" Reynolds tries to bluff the other man, but his bluff is finally called, and the mysterious voice says they have no chance of stopping him (whatever that means). It's assumed to be their target Spencer. They delve deeper into the complex, down echoing hallways and plopping pools of frigid water. At one point they notice that the woman DevNull has vanished from their ranks, and backtracking they find her being strangled by something passing straight through solid stone! It bears a single ominous glowing red eye, but releases her when the others arrive. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/abomination.jpg[/img] They pass branching tunnels, and begin a steep climb up spiraling slimy slick steps, only to finally encounter massive black scaled fish men bearing awful clubs! [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/lizard.jpg[/img] Machine guns tear through them, then a swarm of smaller fishmen flank the soldiers from below. Potter dashes up the steps, only to be frozen in his tracks by a baleful red eye glowing in the dark. He's immobilized. An extremely well placed grenade by Hicks (Jeff) destroys the fishmen in a blast of goo and bone, and Leo plants a bullet in the red eye, sending the thing dissolving into smoke. GM Note: (One player is ballsy enough at this point to say the adventure is too easy. I just smile) At the top of an exhaustingly high spiral of steps, they find a smashed guitar, tape recorder and several labeled vials of chemicals. The tape recorder has a recording of a partial stanza from someone not quite in a healthy state of mind. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/map.jpg[/img] They finally reach a steep chasm where howling wind blows a rickety wooden rope bridge back and forth. The bridge reaches to a small island, then a stone bridge crosses to another tunnel. Lt. Potter (Dave) crosses first, and is perplexed to hear a human infant wailing on the other side, which no one else can hear. Everyone crosses one at a time, but the bridge is disintegrating, and DevNull drops her valuable SHOTGUN into the ravine. At that point they consider her pretty useless. They search the island, Potter looking for the weird crying, and only one Russian sees the stalagmite thrusting up from the central island suddenly grow a glistening wet eye! He shrieks and runs, just as a ropy tentacle shoots out and randomly snares the second Russian, pulling him into a maw of stony teeth. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/roper.jpg[/img] Chaos ensues as the SEALS try to get a bead on the monster without hitting the Russian, who is being messily eaten alive. More tendrils shoot out and ensnare three of the Seals, one nearly tossing DevNull to her death, the other weakening Hicks so much he can barely resist. Potter alone escapes the attack, and cycling up his Gatling gun, he mows into the thing, irregardless of hitting anyone (and he does spatter Hicks with gunfire). The barrage of bullets tears the monster up and everyone escapes, except the Russian who was sucked down and eaten. [COLOR=RED](GM Note: it was a Roper pulled right out of the MM 3.5)[/COLOR] The next room is large, ominously silent, flanked by impossibly high pillars and bizarre architecture, and wide stone steps leading up and others down. They climb up, feeling like ants on an ancient monument, only to enter and even LARGER room, with three flights of steps, the central isle the largest they've seen yet with steps nearly forty feet across. The ceiling is lost in shrouded darkness, but Reynolds keeps his wits about notices a something lurking behind them. Thundering FOOTSTEPS soon reveals the hulking shadow he spotted, and a malicious roar blasts from the depths as something lumbers forward, knocking over pillars in its rage, easily twenty feet tall with an octopoid head and writhing tentacles and vestigial wings. The Russian loses his :):):):) and runs, DevNull follows, while Potter (Dave) and Reynolds (Leo) rattle off shots. But bullets are harmlessly absorbed, until Dave engages the Gatling gun again and his swiftly dwindling ammo, gunning the thing point blank as it surges forward and STEPS ON HIM. Jeff runs down a side passage to escape, as everyone else runs to the top of massive staircase and takes potshots at the Star Spawn. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/spawn.jpg[/img] But Potter is alive, and the horrible thing refrains from killing him outright, opting instead to play with his sanity. Eldritch magic invades Potter's mind, and he suddenly forgets everyone since getting off the sub. But he has a bigass gun in his hand and doesn't let off the trigger, riddling 200 bullets per round into the thing's blubbery hide. More dark magic overrides his neural pathways, and Potter forgets his name, his career, where he was born and his mother. He does remember, however, to keep shooting. The Star Spawn retreats, chuckling, and a final blast of dark magic fills Potter's lungs with SEA WATER, nearly killing him instantly, but he resists. Jeff (Lt. Hicks) is separated and alone, exploring a shadowy tunnel of phosphorescent moss similar to what they had seen before. He's in a new tunnel system of passages and steep stairwells, although he finds a crevice where he thinks he sees his comrades, but he continues to explore a short ways... Reynolds (Leo) tries to console the bewildered Potter and explain to him that he is a soldier on a mission, and they stumble up the stairwell to a massive, truly truly massive mushroom cavern dwarfing anything they have encountered yet. They see artificial light hundreds of feet away and move toward it cautiously, around huge columns supporting the ceiling, past leering statues of multi-armed demons arching over them. It's only DevNull, Reynolds, and a very confused Potter (Dave) who can't recall who these people are. The last Russian is a blubbering, useless mess as he contemplates putting the barrel of his gun in his mouth. Things lurk in the stark shadows everywhere, slithering and slurping and waving, but nothing comes within range of their flashlights. Yet. Hicks (Jeff) meanwhile finds a glowing room with a single, pulsing crystal within surrounded by horrible pillars, beating as if it were alive. So, he naturally shoots it. The crystal explodes into a million fragments like a small ruptured star. Hicks if lucky enough to hear a skittering sound, then sees a gargantuan single-eyed orange spider crawling down from above. He runs back to the crevice where he saw his friends and tries to shimmy through, just as something terrible happens from the other side... DevNull, Potter and Reynolds find the source of the light. A small battery-powered halogen illuminates a massive stone portal, while a man in an orange smock works fervently, back to them. DevNull spots wired dynamite charges circumventing the entire stone portal. The mad scientist Honor Clark Spencer hears their approach and spins around, revealing a hand detonator with a shiny red button. He tells them that it's too late! He has come here to take tissue samples from the great Being behind the door, to clone it, and with its power rule the world as a new god! He offers the soldiers a chance to help him, he offers them antidotes to the virus they may have contracted, and promises that they will live like kings among men. To the amnesic Potter, that deal sounds pretty damn good. Hicks doesn't buy it, bluffs, then unloads on the madman in a hail of bullets, aiming specifically for the detonator hand. Spencer is mauled, then DevNull opens fire, dropping the man to the ground. He drops the detonator, blood ballooning around him and splattering on the door. Potter (Dave) hesitates, then runs forward to help this poor guy that just got shot to pieces after offering them quite a lucrative deal! He gets to the man and the detonator, where with feeble, bloodied fingers, Spencer drops his hand on the button. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOOOOOM! Charges around the door detonate and Potter is blown off his feet. The scientist is killed by a shard of stone through the temple, and a gaping hole is blown through the antediluvian portal of unknown stone, smoke billowing out in thick waves. Then they hear hear it. Movement. A throaty moan by something with lungs the size of houses, and a massive RED EYE and slippery tentacles thick as cable cars presses into the open portal. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/6_13_02_07_2_34_20.JPG[/img] In that instant Potter, who isn't all that far away, loses all Sanity (60-some points at once if you're interested) by the unbearable alien radiation of something man was not meant to see. He falls to his knees, shellshocked, while DevNull and Hicks flee for their lives, gathering Hicks who was fortunate enough not to see it, as the entire cavern quakes around them. Something has been woken up. Something BAD. And Potter is swiftly scooped up and annihilated. The surviving three soldiers run hell bent back from the submarine, jumping widening cracks as the complex crumbles around them. Something huge moves in the vaults, and splintering corridors rain stone and debris on their heads. Fishmen try to intervene, but are either dodged or shot down, with most seeking refuge themselves. They finally, fortunately make it back to the entrance chamber where the stolen Russian submarine the Potemkim dutifully waits. Admiral Ochmorov and his remaining crew have the engines primed and ready, and once all are aboard, the sub sinks and departs the mountain as pillars collapse around them. But all is not well. A huge blip on the radar indicates pursuit. Something dwarfing the sub. Something faster than the sub. Reynolds saw it, DevNull saw it, and Hicks can guess how awful it was, and Ochmorov has a sneaking suspicion and enough knowledge of the horrors of the Mythos to guess what might have happened. Hicks demands that they shoot it down, with the single primed tactical nuclear torpedo the Potemkin had reserved to destroy the Roger Revelle and the Project Pi virus. The captain warns that they are too close, that the backlash could be devastating, but the blip is gaining fast, so with dark hopes and heavy hearts, Ochmorov orders the missile fired. WHOOSH! [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/abomb.jpg[/img] Given only a 50/50 chance of survival, the Potemkin fails to outrun the nuclear blast that boils over them, and the crew, the ship, the city and the inhabitants are destroyed in a thunderous mushroom of destruction. Giving their own lives though, they sink the horror back to the depths of haunted sleep, and save the world from doom until such a time as the Stars are Right for darkness to return. /END ADVENTURE [url=http://www.khaosworks.org/filk/pipes.html][play Pipes of Cthulhu end credits][/url] [/QUOTE]
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