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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 2986297" data-attributes="member: 14041">"In the Belgian Congo" - a term that means the PCs have misinterpreted clues left by the DM and have suddenly charged off in an unexpected and unplanned for direction.  We also use it when the Players take some minor story element and assume it is germaine to the quest, leaving the GM with the task of either giving them a chance to get back on track or letting them run with it.It came up from a CoC game inwhich the PCs had found the HQ of the evil cult.  It had a a portal to an alien artic city in the basement, but it also had papers related to some experiments going on in the Belgian Congo.  We grabbed the papers as clues and set off.  This left the GM scrambling to make something up (rather than just telling us we couldn't get transportation for several days and thus encouraging us to investigate the portal more closely).  As the group and GMs (myself included) have learned their craft better this has happened less and less.</blockquote>