Arkham Horror: Turn 10. INVESTIGATOR VICTORY!

[Semaj]

I thought ya did, lol.

Anyways... I got 2 options: 1) Take my prone to insanity derrier and fight 2 monsters and have a very valid risk of insanity, or run to a random location and hope something exciting happens.

[Remus West]

I thought ya did, lol.

Anyways... I got 2 options: 1) Take my prone to insanity derrier and fight 2 monsters and have a very valid risk of insanity, or run to a random location and hope something exciting happens.

Seeing as you are the only one with both magic and physical weapons I would think it good for you to go after the monsters.

[Semaj]

Aye, but one of them thar creatures can prolly make me go insane in themembrane with 1 failed roll... but i guess I mine as well while I still have clue tokens.

[Semaj]

Oh wait, there is a gate there, lol.

friggin gates are killing me.

[Remus West]

For some reason I was thinking you were saying either of the other two monsters in the street not "2 monsters".

I think you should go after one of the other street walkers.

[Semaj]

For some reason I was thinking you were saying either of the other two monsters in the street not "2 monsters".

I think you should go after one of the other street walkers.

Two comments come to mind:
But I'd lose money and stamina!
or
Other street walkers? That explains how you pay the bills without a day job!

[Remus West]

I'd lose money and stamina!

Mention my name and Chaosraven will give you the "friends and family" discount.

[Gryndyl]

I'd lose money and stamina!

Mention my name and Chaosraven will give you the "friends and family" discount.

The shoggoth has made a note of this.

[docD]

I'll refocus to move 3 stealth 3 and move to curiousity shop. Hopefully, an encounter there will give me a good item.

[Gryndyl]

Ok, think I have moves for everyone but semaj and Lars.

[Isgrimnur]

I'd lose money and stamina!

Mention my name and Chaosraven will give you the "friends and family" discount.

The shoggoth has made a note of this.

Tekeli-li!

[Lars]

All right, let's see how many lucky rolls I can get.

Not changing any of my stats.
Moving to Southside streets to fight the Shoggoth. Using the Powder of Ibn-Ghazi to fight, assuming that I don't get arrested or go insane.

[Semaj]

Meh, send me to the newspaper I guess... One more shot at a retainer.

[stessier]

Meh, send me to the newspaper I guess... One more shot at a retainer.

Semaj - wouldn't it be better to stay in the streets and take a shot at one of the flying creatures? (Yes, I know there are three *if's* that would have to happen before you actually get your shot - but we have to get rid of as many monsters as possible, don't we?)

[Remus West]

Meh, send me to the newspaper I guess... One more shot at a retainer.

Semaj - wouldn't it be better to stay in the streets and take a shot at one of the flying creatures? (Yes, I know there are three *if's* that would have to happen before you actually get your shot - but we have to get rid of as many monsters as possible, don't we?)

We will already have folks in the streets so that shouldn't be an issue as they will attack any one of us.

[stessier]

Meh, send me to the newspaper I guess... One more shot at a retainer.

Semaj - wouldn't it be better to stay in the streets and take a shot at one of the flying creatures? (Yes, I know there are three *if's* that would have to happen before you actually get your shot - but we have to get rid of as many monsters as possible, don't we?)

We will already have folks in the streets so that shouldn't be an issue as they will attack any one of us.

Okay.

Have fun storming the castle! I'm just gonna sit here enjoying the pretty colors.

[Remus West]

Meh, send me to the newspaper I guess... One more shot at a retainer.

Semaj - wouldn't it be better to stay in the streets and take a shot at one of the flying creatures? (Yes, I know there are three *if's* that would have to happen before you actually get your shot - but we have to get rid of as many monsters as possible, don't we?)

We will already have folks in the streets so that shouldn't be an issue as they will attack any one of us.

Okay.

Have fun storming the castle! I'm just gonna sit here enjoying the pretty colors.

Well, once Chaosraven cleared up which end to poke the other guy with I was ready to roll with this here sword so I may as well get to it.

[stessier]

Well, once Chaosraven cleared up which end to poke the other guy in I was ready to roll with this here sword so I may as well get to it.

Ew. Ew. Ew.

Sickos.

[Remus West]

You are a very twisted individual. No wonder I like you.

[Gryndyl]

Ok, have everyone's moves. Decision PMs will start going out soonish.

[Gryndyl]

ALL PLAYERS

The "OMG We're All Going to Die!" sale!

As a result of Docd's visit to the Curiositie Shoppe there is a sale that any player may buy items from, regardless of their location. Only one of each item is available and if two or more players are determined to buy the same item then Docd has final say in who gets what.

The following items are available (3 common, 1 unique)

.18 Derringer (1 hand, physical weapon) +2 combat. Cannot be lost or stolen unless owner allows it. $3

Map of Arkham- On movement phase, exhaust for 1 extra movement point. $2

Rifle- (2 hands, physical weapon) +5 to combat $6

Obsidian Statue- Discard to cancel all stamina or sanity loss being dealt to you from one source. $4

This sale will exist throughout this turn so that everyone has a chance to actually notice this post

[stessier]

Stupid vow of poverty.

(I bid on nothing)

[Remus West]

You did not post the cost of the rifle.

edit: also, only having $2 I'll buy the map if nobody else wants it.

[stessier]

If the Derringer is $3, I predict $5-6.

[Gryndyl]

You did not post the cost of the rifle.

Fixed.

[Isgrimnur]

I'll submit interest in the rifle if no one else has a pressing need and the cash. I'd also be willing to hand off the sword if I get the rifle.

semaj and Scoop are the only others that can afford it, and they seem to have better fighting stuff than I do at the moment.

[Scoop20906]

I'd like to buy the Obsidian Statue if thats ok with everyone else.

[Chaosraven]

Let me know if anything is left, I have cash.

[Semaj]

The map is a reusable resource right?

[Gryndyl]

The map is a reusable resource right?

Yes, the map is reusable. So right now we have the following interest expressed:

.18 Derringer

Map of Arkham: Remus

Rifle: Isgrimnur

Obsidian Statue: Scoop

No one gets anything until Docd gets a chance to weigh in on things as he's the one at the sale
That and I'm waiting on one combat decision from Remus and then we're good to go.

[Remus West]

The map is a reusable resource right?

You already have extra move ya greedy bastage.

If you need it for something specific I will bow out but I would like an extra move myself.

[Semaj]

o noes, remus can have it, making sure it was what I read it to be.

[docD]

Anyone want the derringer? I'm broke so I can't buy anything. If anyone wants to give me a weapon, I'll be happy to start hunting monsters.

[Remus West]

Anyone want the derringer? I'm broke so I can't buy anything. If anyone wants to give me a weapon, I'll be happy to start hunting monsters.

I only have $2.

[Isgrimnur]

Anyone want the derringer? I'm broke so I can't buy anything. If anyone wants to give me a weapon, I'll be happy to start hunting monsters.

I'd also be willing to hand off the sword if I get the rifle.

[Gryndyl]

Stupid vow of poverty.

(I bid on nothing)

You DO have $2 from your retainer that you gain at the beginning of the turn, prior to the sale.

[stessier]

Stupid vow of poverty.

(I bid on nothing)

You DO have $2 from your retainer that you gain at the beginning of the turn, prior to the sale.

Ah. I thought since I came after docD, I wouldn't have my money in time for the sale.

Well then -

Stupid expensive "sale".

[Gryndyl]

TURN 5 ENCOUNTERS

Upkeep rolls:
stessier: Blessing-2; success! Retainer-no roll needed on first upkeep. + $2

DocD:

The Curiositie Shoppe is having a sidewalk sale! Looks like they're trying to clear out some of their "non-curiouse" merchandise, though there is a glittery black statue that seems to have been slipped in with the mundane stuff. Hmmm. This might be a good chance to pick up a few things for the handful of others around town that seem to be trying to keep Arkham in one piece...

Current Sale status:
.18 Derringer (1 hand, physical weapon) +2 combat. Cannot be lost or stolen unless owner allows it. $3: No takers

Map of Arkham- On movement phase, exhaust for 1 extra movement point. $2: Remus West

Rifle- (2 hands, physical weapon) +5 to combat $6: Isgrimnur

Obsidian Statue- Discard to cancel all stamina or sanity loss being dealt to you from one source. $4: Scoop

If you change your mind or haven't placed a request and want to, now's the time. Next Upkeep all sales will become final.


Chaosraven:



From between the trees rises a massive shape. It has a pulpy gray-black, elongated sack of a body in the shape of a massive worm, its face a wreath of flowing tentacles surrounding a cluster of bulging eyes and an orifice of jagged teeth. The ground trembles as it moves. Almost without thinking you swing your brand new extra-dimensional Tommy gun to bear and empty a drum in its direction. Though each individual round seems to have little effect the overwhelming volley of lead ultimately shreds the horrid thing into quivering chunks.
You sink down against a nearby tree and make short work of your bottle of whiskey, each swallow wrapping the memory of that hideous thing with a little bit more gauzy oblivion.

(Portions of this description cheerfully stolen from: —Brian Lumley, The Burrowers Beneath)
Chthonian: -2 san, 2 san damage, -3 combat, 3 stam damage, 3 toughness
(San roll: 2. Fail)
combat: tommy gun +6 fight +1, chtonian -3=4 dice. 6,6,5,5; 4 successes out of 3 needed!
discard whiskey, san loss mitigated by whiskey -1, gain monster trophy; Chthonian 3 points)


Stessier:

You crawl beneath a great stone table that looks to run the entire length of the massive hall. It's a long way to crawl but having the massive slab of stone between you and the demonic things lurking high above provides a great deal of comfort. What's this? Looks like someone dropped a book down here. The layer of dust on it seems to indicate that it's been forgotten down here for a very long time. You tuck it into your robes and crawl on. Looks like the end of the Great Hall is just a few hundred yards ahead.
(pass a luck-2 roll; 6,3,2 success.)
Gain Cabala of Saboth

Semaj:

Still stinging from having lost your pay for the article you wrote you make your way back to Editor Doyle's office.
"You know, if you liked that last article, there's a lot more where that came from. I already have some story ideas about the Silver Twilight Lodge here in town and even one about that damned rock you guys have in Independence Square. Whattya say?"
Doyle thinks for a minute and then gives a nod.
"Arkham readers do indeed seem to enjoy tales of the strange," he says.
(Gain retainer)

Isgrimnur:

You continue through this strange place and find yourself crossing a a huge stone bridge across a black void. Massive stone arches rear overhead. Halfway across you hear a great grumbling crack above your head and look up to see a half dozen chunks of stone the size of trolley cars dropping towards you. You sprint forward in terror, frantically dodging as they crash to the bridge around you filling the air with shards of shattered rock.
That was way, way too close.
speed-1 check (2,1) fail
clue 1: 4 fail
clue 2:6 success!
(-2 clues)

Scoop20906:

You round a corner of the labyrinth and there before you you see a shimmering gate just like the one the brought you to this awful place. You stand stunned for a moment, wondering if it's some sort of hallucination, too good to be true. It seems you've been wandering here for years and now, at last, the escape lies before you. You fling yourself through the gate and find yourself back in the dampness of the Black Cave. The gate flickers out behind you. There does, however, seem to be something between you and the mouth of the cave...
gate roll (fight): 6,1,1 success!
(gain gate trophy. Remove all monsters with square icon: none)

Remus West:



In the middle of the street you see a pool of a sort of viscous and semi-liquescent substance, quite opaque and of a sooty color. The center swells as if with the action of some powerful yeast and an uncouth amorphous head with dull and bulging eyes arises gradually on an ever-lengthening neck . Then two arms — if one could call them arms — likewise arise inch by inch, and you see that the thing is not a creature immersed in the liquid, but that the liquid itself has put forth this hideous neck and head, and it is now forming arms that grope toward you with tentacle-like appendages in lieu of claws or hands! Then the whole mass of the dark fluid begins to rise and pour forward like a torrent of black quicksilver, taking an undulant ophidian form which immediately develops more than a dozen short legs.
You thrust your sword into the thing and the liquid bubbles and boils around it. With a great Professorly war scream you began flailing the sword back and forth through the liquid mass until it disperses into pools of goo that shake and jitter like blobs of gelatin.

Portions of this description cheerfully stolen from: —Clark Ashton Smith, "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"
(Formless Spawn: Physical Immunity, San -1, 2points san damage, combat -2, 2 points stam damage, toughness 2)
san roll: 4,1 fail
-2 lowered to -1 san due to ability
6,4,3,2; 1 success
spent 1 clue: 6 success! Victory!
(Gain monster trophy: Formless spawn; 2 points)

Lars:



It is a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light . Your mind reels. The Tommy gun ain't going to cut it here. Time to see if that powder was worth the lettuce. You fling it at the thing at it pulls itself up into a writhing twisting column of eyeballs and screaming mouths. The powder is like salt on a slug. The thing shakes and foams and shrieks hideously before collapsing into an inert protoplasmic mass.
"That was just a little too much," you think, and then your mind mercifully shuts down into the sweet blackness of oblivion.

Portions of this description respectfully stolen from the master: — H. P. Lovecraft, At The Mountains of Madness

Shoggoth: Nightmarish 1, -1 san, 3 san damage, -1 combat, 3 stam damage, 3 toughness
san roll vs shoggoth. 5,5,3 success!
nightmarish: -1 san
6,6,5,5,5,5,3,2,2,1,11, success!
-1 san for use of powder. 0 sanity remaining

Your brain has asploded and you have been committed to Arkham Asylum. They have successfully restored you to 1 sanity point. You must choose half of your items to discard (rounded down so 1 item in your case). You also lose half of your clues (-1). You can move normally on turn 6 or choose to spend $2 and stay at the Asylum for a turn to regain all of your sanity.

Game Board After Turn 5 Encounters:


GM Commentary:
Nice round for you guys. 1 more gate closed and three of the nastier critters off of the board!
A note, particularly for newer players: Monster trophies and gate trophies can be "spent" at various locations on the board for some nifty stuff. Refer to the original game board linked in the first post or to the handy summary sheet located here for details. (downloadable .pdf)
A very important thing to consider, however, is that gate trophies also count towards one of the victory conditions. So every gate you spend gets you a nice bonus but knocks you that much further back from setting things right in Arkham...

[Remus West]

Scoop, how are you fixed for fighting? Should one of us come deal with the monster in your space or do you want it?

edit: looking at your character from the first post you have it as well as I could so I'm ruling me out for that task.

[stessier]

I'm gonna need some help getting off the Unvisited Isle. You still have a turn to get over there - just don't wander too far away.

Gryndyl, on the main board there is an arch with numbers on it. I think Number 1 used to be blacked out. Now it's now and from my reading of the rules, that counter never goes down. Am I (quite possibly) mistaken?