Today I learned +

Ryujin · 2026-04-17T17:17:16+0100

SkidAce said:
The eldest among us gets to be Azathoth.

Me?, perhaps Hastur....

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How a TPK in S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks ended, back in high school: As they were going down, one one of the players said that his character started shouting "Haster, haster, HASTER!" in a sing-song voice. Dice rolled. Hastur appears. There was much lamentation and gnashing of teeth.

SkidAce · 2026-04-17T17:19:19+0100

Ryujin said:
How a TPK in S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks ended, back in high school: As they were going down, one one of the players said that his character started shouting "Haster, haster, HASTER!" in a sing-song voice. Dice rolled. Hastur appears. There was much lamentation and gnashing of teeth.

My players did something similar in the early 90s, with "Hastur the Unspeakable" with its appearance from the monster manual.

trappedslider · 2026-04-17T17:36:33+0100

Reynard said:
I do appreciate you all making me feel young as I approach 51.

Thank you for making me feel younger as a 40 yr old

Reynard · 2026-04-17T17:42:16+0100

trappedslider said:
Thank you for making me feel younger as a 40 yr old

season 5 goo goo gas GIF by SpongeBob SquarePants

Dannyalcatraz · 2026-04-17T19:20:09+0100

Ryujin said:
How a TPK in S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks ended, back in high school: As they were going down, one one of the players said that his character started shouting "Haster, haster, HASTER!" in a sing-song voice. Dice rolled. Hastur appears. There was much lamentation and gnashing of teeth.

Re: S3

Somehow in the campaign, MY Assassin/Illusionist wound up with a Ring of Spell Storing containing ONLY a Delayed Blast Fireball…cast at 21st level.

We were in S3, and had encountered a few of the police bots, essentially by rounding corners on them or entering rooms with 1-2 in them. So we knew they were tough opponents. When we spotted a patrol group at the other end of a long hallway, we knew it was going to be a hellacious encounter.

So- feeling the moment- I said “I got this!” and unleashed the spell, targeting the chassis of the centermost ‘bot…with maximum delay so we could get farther away.

We had no way of knowing their speed was 96’.

They closed on us in 2 rounds, melded with us for a few rounds, and then the DBF went off.

The survivors of that encounter dragged the crispy remains of the others out to be resurrected, and we never went back.

Re: Calling for otherplanar help

I don’t remember the context, but the party had bitten off more than we could chew. As things went from bad to worse, some of the characters pleaded for help from beyond. Asmodeus was the first to answer (slow day in the netherworld, I guess), and helped us out for the low, low price of owing him 3 favors.

dbolack · 2026-04-17T19:30:14+0100

Autumnal said:
From my cardio rehab session today:

“Another One Bites The Dust” is a good song to perform CPR to, because it’s right at 120-122 beats per minute, which is the right rhythm.

The CPR instructors we've had over the years love to point out songs to use. It's also fun to see which suggestions the previous crew gave that cause eyerolls with the next one.

Such as Stayin' Alive.

Which reminds me, I think I'm due for a refresher.

dbolack · 2026-04-17T19:33:24+0100

Arnie_Wan_Kenobi said:
Somehow, despite never watching Big Bang Theory regularly, Sheldon Cooper telling Penny, "All you get is very expensive pee" if you over-take supplements in a random episode I caught has stuck with me as "good life advice."

Had a coworker once who ended up in the hospital due to missing that he was getting waayyy too much of something due to combined multi-vitamins. Been wary of self-medicating ever since

Staffan · 2026-04-17T21:08:40+0100

Ryujin said:
How a TPK in S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks ended, back in high school: As they were going down, one one of the players said that his character started shouting "Haster, haster, HASTER!" in a sing-song voice. Dice rolled. Hastur appears. There was much lamentation and gnashing of teeth.

Depending on how things go, the Arkham Horror LCG campaign "Path to Carcosa" may at one point set the rule that every time you (the player) say "Hastur", you (the character) lose 1 Sanity (out of about 5-9). This proved to be quite useful in one of the later scenarios of the campaign.