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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7756750" data-attributes="member: 45197"><p>Hiya!</p><p></p><p>In one Cthulhu game my friend was running a long time ago (like, in the late 80's or early/mid 90's), we played an 'adventure' where the ultimate failure would result in Cthulhu waking and rising up...and then proceeding to destroy and devour the earth. We failed. Anyhoo, I was playing a character called "Sven the Iron-Head" (or something, it was definitely Sven though). He was a huge, 7' tall swedish "wrestler" who had a gimmick of having an iron forehead "cap" held by a couple leather straps around his head. He was in the US for some promotional wrestling and whatnot, and he got caught up in the whole "Cthulhu mythos horror thing". </p><p></p><p>During the game sessions, I never, not even ONCE, rolled to loose more than 5 SAN. This is hard to do in this adventure, because as it advances the PC's start to have their consciousness ("visions") get drawn towards R'leya (is that the spelling?); in Cthulhu if you loose 6 or more SAN in one "go", you go temporarily insane, as everyone knows. Fast forward to the end. The army is there, battle ships are being sunk by Cthulhu, mass hysteria! Cthulhu starts to stride up out of the ocean onto land...everyone, 1d100 SAN loss. I loose 1. Up until that point I had only lost at most 3 points when "seeing Cthulhu". Needless to say, it was the end of the world, so what do I have Sven do?</p><p></p><p>"Huh. Yup. Still kinda ugly, even up close. *shrug* I guess I'll wait until he gets close, then I'll head-butt his big toe". I succeeded. Cthulhu noticed because there's this ONE guy who isn't fleeing, or paralyzed with fear, who just head-butted his toe. Cthulhu stops. Looks down, one 'eyebrow' raises a bit...and then he ate me.</p><p></p><p>But dad-gum it all if'n I didn't leave an image in Cthulhu's immortal mind of some crazy Swedish wrestler head-butting his toe. Sven became immortal...at least in name/memory. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>^_^</p><p></p><p>Paul L. Ming</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pming, post: 7756750, member: 45197"] Hiya! In one Cthulhu game my friend was running a long time ago (like, in the late 80's or early/mid 90's), we played an 'adventure' where the ultimate failure would result in Cthulhu waking and rising up...and then proceeding to destroy and devour the earth. We failed. Anyhoo, I was playing a character called "Sven the Iron-Head" (or something, it was definitely Sven though). He was a huge, 7' tall swedish "wrestler" who had a gimmick of having an iron forehead "cap" held by a couple leather straps around his head. He was in the US for some promotional wrestling and whatnot, and he got caught up in the whole "Cthulhu mythos horror thing". During the game sessions, I never, not even ONCE, rolled to loose more than 5 SAN. This is hard to do in this adventure, because as it advances the PC's start to have their consciousness ("visions") get drawn towards R'leya (is that the spelling?); in Cthulhu if you loose 6 or more SAN in one "go", you go temporarily insane, as everyone knows. Fast forward to the end. The army is there, battle ships are being sunk by Cthulhu, mass hysteria! Cthulhu starts to stride up out of the ocean onto land...everyone, 1d100 SAN loss. I loose 1. Up until that point I had only lost at most 3 points when "seeing Cthulhu". Needless to say, it was the end of the world, so what do I have Sven do? "Huh. Yup. Still kinda ugly, even up close. *shrug* I guess I'll wait until he gets close, then I'll head-butt his big toe". I succeeded. Cthulhu noticed because there's this ONE guy who isn't fleeing, or paralyzed with fear, who just head-butted his toe. Cthulhu stops. Looks down, one 'eyebrow' raises a bit...and then he ate me. But dad-gum it all if'n I didn't leave an image in Cthulhu's immortal mind of some crazy Swedish wrestler head-butting his toe. Sven became immortal...at least in name/memory. :) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]
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