[CoC] Man found after two months at sea

[Zaruthustran]

For me, the best part of the Call of Cthulhu rulebooks is the listing of weird historical events in the back of the book. Here's a recent one to add to your "flavor" file:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/10/04/sea.rescue.ap/index.html

Take a look at that guy's eyes. He's lost quite a bit of sanity. Wonder what he saw while adrift in the Atlantic?

If you run a CoC game, might be fun to print that image and use him for an NPC.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/10/04/sea.rescue.ap/index.html

Take a look at that guy's eyes. He's lost quite a bit of sanity. Wonder what he saw while adrift in the Atlantic?

For some reason, I find this statement from the man rather unsettling:

"The Coast Guard is very nice," Watson said. "I just need some food. I'll be all right. I wouldn't mind having some chocolate pudding."

Two months adrift, possibly stranded on R'lyeh for several hours....and he just wants some pudding.

Cthulhu fhtagn!

 

[hong]

Re: Re: [CoC] Man found after two months at sea

For some reason, I find this statement from the man rather unsettling:Two months adrift, possibly stranded on R'lyeh for several hours....and he just wants some pudding.

Feh, he was a wimp.

Man survives 4 months at sea

 

[sunbeam60]

Hong, does that mean I can put you on a boat for two months and call you a wimp too?

I'm sure your comment wasn't said out of spite, but it sort of struck me the wrong way. I mean, here's a man who's been alone on a boat for 60 days, surviving probably on what he could find, retching seawater and with a bad case of diarrhea because of the dehydration and salty enviroment, and maybe some of it threw a switch in his mind as isolation often does, and we dare to call him a wimp.

I dunno ... No matter how many other people have stayed out there involuntarily, no matter for how long I still find it admirable that this guy survived more or less intact.

Regards
Toft

 

[hong]

Hong, does that mean I can put you on a boat for two months and call you a wimp too?

Without any beer?

That's... that's inhuman, man!



Hong "It's lonesome away from your kindred and all/On the deep ocean wide where the great right whales call/but there's nothing so lonesome, so morbid or drear/than to drift in the waves in a boat with no beer" Ooi

 

[Drakmar]

yup.. inhuman.. no beer.. you said it hong..

but I suppose.. I have to forgive sunbeam60.. he wouldn't understand.. not being Australian and all.



mind you.. I can understand about wanting chocolate pudding. good stuff that.. I would want a steak too though.. and a beer.. um.. and a blonde... probably a tv too.

 

[jester47]

I would use the pudding comment as an indicator of what he saw.

Aaron.