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Call of Cthulhu Part Nine: October 18, 1925 (Morning)

October 18, 1925 (The Beginning of the Actual Longest Day Ever)

The players began the session split into three groups. Despite my best efforts, they ended the session still split into three (albeit slightly different) groups. Here's what
happened.

Ashby, MA

Judge Putnam, Dr. Black, Kane Eastman, and Johnny Doukas
awoke in Ashby to find that Max Reed had left some time early in the morning.

Call of Cthulhu Part Eight: October 15-17, 1925

October 15, 1925

The group took the 15th to plan on who was going to Ashby and how they were going to get there. They also took some time out to work on some other projects.

Vivian researched the jade sphinx, and learned that it was, "one of the nine treasures of Nephrum-Keh, a pharaoh so despised by his people that his name has, in all but the most remote places, been eradicated from stone

Call of Cthulhu Part Seven: October 13-14, 1925

October 13, 1925, Continued (This Officially the Longest Day
Ever Until the Next Longest Day Ever)

Everyone but Ron
arrives at the Judge’s house to discover that the group that went to the Silver
Twilight Lodge somehow found and rescued a catatonic James Clark. Dr. Black
takes the lead in his care and, after several hours, everyone worked together to feed, clean, and hydrate James. They are also

Call of Cthulhu Part Seven: October 13-17, 1925

October 13, 1925, Continued (This Officially the Longest Day
Ever Until the Next Longest Day Ever)

Everyone but Ron
arrives at the Judge’s house to discover that the group that went to the Silver
Twilight Lodge somehow found and rescued a catatonic James Clark. Dr. Black
takes the lead in his care and, after several hours, everyone worked together to feed, clean, and hydrate James. They are also

Call of Cthulhu Part Six: October 12-13, 1925

October 12, 1925After a week of various exploits, all paths once again
converge on Judge Putnam’s house. Johnny sighs and makes dinner.

It very swiftly becomes clear to everyone present that Ron,
despite advice given to him the previous week, has told Vincenzo what really
happened to Boss Bonano. Dr. Black relates a harrowing account of a very large
man coming to his office and insisting that he

Call of Cthulhu Part Five: October 5-October 10, 1925

October 5 , 1925

Note: Having talked to some of my players, I've come to the decision that I will not be posting any more BGAs or their responses. Hopefully, the write-ups will do enough explaining on their own.After an exciting couple of days of personal research and
self-arming, the group converged at Judge Putnam’s house for a party (hosted by the judge, but prepared and staffed by Johnny),

Call of Cthulhu Part Four: October 3-October 4, 1925

This game is notable for being the first one where I allowed
my players to write up between game actions (BGAs). This is a thing that I
stole from LARPing. It allows the players to conduct their own investigations
on their own time and to make the game world feel bigger and more lived in. It
also helped me to see what they were interested in and tailor the story
accordingly.



I will

Call of Cthulhu Intermission: The Italian Soap Opera Begins

It is at this point that Ron’s player, who has been
interested in beefing up their role-playing, tells me that they want to inject
a bit of family drama into the Call of Cthulhu game. This creates a nice
little B-plot that has nothing to do with the Mythos (for now), and provides reasonable
and necessary breaks in the tension from the A-plot. It also will prove to be very
engaging for the

Call of Cthulhu Part Three: October 3, 1925

Those of you who have played (or read) Shadows of Yog
Sothoth will notice that I have taken certain liberties with the text. Such
as setting it in New York instead of Boston. This required a lot of hasty
rewriting of the game’s text props on my part. This will also not be the last time that I take liberties with the game to suit my needs.



October 3, 1925

The game begins with a slight

Call of Cthulhu Part Two: Summer 1925

The gap between the first session of the game and the second was quite substantial, so I decided to write something up for the players in my group to help remind them of what had happened previously, describe what they had gotten up to in the meantime, and setting up for the next scenario.

The next scenario also introduces a new player to our group: Mikhail Demathis, brother in the Masonic Lodge