WayneLigon
Adventurer
Hiiissss! HIIIISSS!
A synonym for 'asking to be killed'. I was running a Call of Cthulhu game based on the events in At Your Door. The group at some point encountered some children of Yig, the serpent god. It was an utterly terrifying encounter with mutant serpents, people with serpents for hands, tongues, etc... so terrifying in fact that one young man by the name of Roberto went insane and had to be sequestered in an asylum for several months. The game goes on and the player plays his secondary character. Finally, Roberto is allowed to go home and the rest of the PC's hold a small party in his apartment to celebrate his return. Amidst the cake and beer, another PC (Conrad) thinks it'll be funny to go up to the still-twitchy Roberto and go 'Hiiissssss!!! HIISSSS!!!' right in his face, just like the being that drove the poor guy over the edge.
Roberto promptly draws his gun, rolls a natural '00' for a critical strike, and blows Conrad's brains all over the wall.
Tink F&%^$ing Tink?!
From another Call of Cthulhu game. A character had loaded up on guns, home-made grenades, the works; he had had enough. Then he went monster hunting. Unfortunately, he didn't know that most Cthulhian creatures take the absolute minimum damage possible from physical weapons. He unloads round after round of flaming megadeath at this creature, then asks how he did. The GM responds with 'tink.. tink'; the sound of something bouncing ineffectually off impervious armor. The above exclamation left the player's mouth as the thing leaped on him and began to debone him.
I Go Buy More Guns
Another favorite from the At Your Door campaign - Johnny the former stockbroker, when asked what he's doing that day: "I go to the gun store. Everytime these guys mention the word 'Cthulhu', I go buy more guns."
Remember to Save the Liver
This has it's roots in an old Saturday Night Live skit. The skit featured someone (Dan Acroyd?) dressed as Julia Child and doing her cooking show. 'Julia' cuts her finger, whereupon it begins to spout blood like a firehose. She tries to staunch the wound, even at one time trying to plug the hole with a chicken liver while uttering the above phrase. She fails, passes out, and dies from blood loss.
The At Your Door Call of Cthulhu campaign featured a minor character called Madelyne Findley; the Findleys were, among other things, cannibals. She had a vastly expanded part in my campaign, because she was the star of several underground snuff videos - one of which was a cooking show, where she'd calmly flay, debone, and otherwise eviserate conscious living humans and make meat dishes like 'Aztec Artichoke Surprise'. The first video the party came into contact with featured her doing this show; a ghoul helper becomes beligerant and she tosses him the liver of the most recent victem; it distracts him long enough for the stagehands to bring him down with shock rods. She turns to the camera, smiling, and says 'And that's why you should always remember to save the liver'.
A synonym for 'asking to be killed'. I was running a Call of Cthulhu game based on the events in At Your Door. The group at some point encountered some children of Yig, the serpent god. It was an utterly terrifying encounter with mutant serpents, people with serpents for hands, tongues, etc... so terrifying in fact that one young man by the name of Roberto went insane and had to be sequestered in an asylum for several months. The game goes on and the player plays his secondary character. Finally, Roberto is allowed to go home and the rest of the PC's hold a small party in his apartment to celebrate his return. Amidst the cake and beer, another PC (Conrad) thinks it'll be funny to go up to the still-twitchy Roberto and go 'Hiiissssss!!! HIISSSS!!!' right in his face, just like the being that drove the poor guy over the edge.
Roberto promptly draws his gun, rolls a natural '00' for a critical strike, and blows Conrad's brains all over the wall.
Tink F&%^$ing Tink?!
From another Call of Cthulhu game. A character had loaded up on guns, home-made grenades, the works; he had had enough. Then he went monster hunting. Unfortunately, he didn't know that most Cthulhian creatures take the absolute minimum damage possible from physical weapons. He unloads round after round of flaming megadeath at this creature, then asks how he did. The GM responds with 'tink.. tink'; the sound of something bouncing ineffectually off impervious armor. The above exclamation left the player's mouth as the thing leaped on him and began to debone him.
I Go Buy More Guns
Another favorite from the At Your Door campaign - Johnny the former stockbroker, when asked what he's doing that day: "I go to the gun store. Everytime these guys mention the word 'Cthulhu', I go buy more guns."
Remember to Save the Liver
This has it's roots in an old Saturday Night Live skit. The skit featured someone (Dan Acroyd?) dressed as Julia Child and doing her cooking show. 'Julia' cuts her finger, whereupon it begins to spout blood like a firehose. She tries to staunch the wound, even at one time trying to plug the hole with a chicken liver while uttering the above phrase. She fails, passes out, and dies from blood loss.
The At Your Door Call of Cthulhu campaign featured a minor character called Madelyne Findley; the Findleys were, among other things, cannibals. She had a vastly expanded part in my campaign, because she was the star of several underground snuff videos - one of which was a cooking show, where she'd calmly flay, debone, and otherwise eviserate conscious living humans and make meat dishes like 'Aztec Artichoke Surprise'. The first video the party came into contact with featured her doing this show; a ghoul helper becomes beligerant and she tosses him the liver of the most recent victem; it distracts him long enough for the stagehands to bring him down with shock rods. She turns to the camera, smiling, and says 'And that's why you should always remember to save the liver'.
, and every time the players do something that causes the DM to be amazed that the PC is actually doing it, someone will inevitably say "I put on the ring."
