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Ship's Captain Hired The below newsclipping was circulated amongst the crew at breakfast the next morning, September 3rd. Professor Moore mentions Douglas in his morning speech. "This is, of course, a wonderful opportunity for us," Moore says. "My colleagues who went on the Miskatonic...

We're about to see the re-appearance of a feisty character (and player) from the Prelude. :) Job.

I cheat. I use DM Genie on a laptop to track and report all of those modifiers. :cool: If a modifier effect is obvious (like a Bless spell or Slow spell or a Dex loss), then I inform my players something is afoot, but sometimes I keep the modifier secret. If a player asks to verify the...

I've also been on vacation (as you may have noticed with my lower rate of posting). I'll do my best to occasionally push the story, but you may see a continued lower posting rate due to travels and socializing. I have not lost interest; I'm merely taking advantage of the good weather while...

There has been much to do to get the expedition underway. Each day has started the same, breakfast in the Rose Room, followed by a meeting of the entire party at 8 a.m. Moore questions each person about their list--what is accomplished, what remains to do--and moves assignments around when...

"So true, Martin, so true!" exclaimed Dr. Moore. After a long pause while he seemed to be studying Martin's face and pondering some imponderable, Moore then pulled Martin aside. [Private Instructions for Martin] Moore then pulled Martin off to the side and said, "I've an important request to...

This is very difficult, but I narrowed my choices as best I could... #1 All-time Supplement: "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" for CoC This selection ultimately won because of all products that I've ever read and played, this one caught and held my imagination, fed my dreams and evil plans...

Willard Griffith directs you back to the Ship's Mess to find Dr. Moore. As you walked back the room, Professor Moore looked up from his papers and seemed to notice your tired gait, saying "Ah! The returning warriors!" He then stood up, smiled, and asked, "So what have you boys found?"...

"Mother of God!" exclaimed Dr. Moore as he listened to Vitus and the the Gunnar brothers describe the missing dynamite, blasting caps and fuse. "This must be pure coincidence. Let me ring up the vendor." Doctor Moore rifled through a filing cabinet and retrieved a manila folder, then...

Martin and Pierce successfully locate all remaining items on the manifest, but the (2) "sled, 900 board feet lumber for base" remain missing. "Welcome back, gentlemen! I was beginning to worry that we'd lost you!" exclaimed Professor Moore when the two of you walked into the Ship's Mess to...

Sorry for the lack of posting this past week, but I was traveling on business during the week and on Friday my daughter graduated from high school, followed by a swarm of celebrations and graduation parties over the weekend. This coming weekend I'll be travelling out of state for a wedding...

At that moment, a tall gentleman approximately in his mid-thirties with an ebony complexion and pencil-thin mustache walked around the side of the afterdeck and stopped as he came upon the two weary inventory-takers. He laughed and said in a deep voice "Now you two wouldn't happen to be Øyvind...

Thanks for the vote of confidence! As long as you are willing to keep playing, I'm willing to devote the time make it interesting (with an occasional re-recruitment drive). This will be a long game (measured in years, not months), and recently it's been a bit tedious with the lectures and with...

For anyone reading this thread and interested in playing in a modern horror adventure, my game entitled "Angst" has just finished the prologue and is just kicking into gear in chapter one. This would be an excellent time to join that game as I am recruiting 2 to 3 new players and the characters...

Vitus, Gunnar, and Nils spent a long, long day in the September heat searching all of the nooks and crannies of the ship and the dockside warehouse, but failed locate the forty bags of cement. Vitus was treated to numerous mutterings in a sour tone in the Norwegian language from Nils, usually...

George searched everywhere, including the ship's kitchen, but failed to find the 6 missing gallon jars of sour cream. "Perhaps they were never ordered?", he thought to himself. George's search roll = 7 + 11 ranks in the Search skill = 18 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Job (the tortured one).

Hours and hours of scouring all Tweendeck Holds and even the Lower Holds turned up nothing, but Øyvind was successful in finding one box in the dockside warehouse, buried near a dozen crates of "Chocolate" that someone had left piled haphazardly in a corner. Two boxes of cooksets were still...