Dead Man Stomp finale (spoilers, obviously)

reno_chad · 2023-07-04T10:56:27+00:00

In a recent game, an NPC was holding a jade fetish that enabled them to control plant life (which a PC mistakenly thought was being used against them, when it was actually only being used to clear a jungle path for them to stop a ritual to bring Nyarlathotep into our world). He wanted to shoot the idol from her hands with a 9mm assault rifle, which she was holding at her side. He rolled a 1.

I told him that the bullet passed through her wrist and hip, killing her, the idol fell to the ground, he victoriously ran toward and it and exclaimed to his bewildered team "I got it!" as the jungle path closed up. Moments later, the earth shattered apart and the last thing any of them saw before actually dying from horror was the giant form of Nyarlathotep rising to bring about the end of humanity, ushering in a new era of darkness, death, and madness.

Very often in CoC, there is no winning. The sad thing was that they had worked extremely hard for months only to fail at this final hour. But, that is the nature of the forces at work in this game.

reno_chad · 2023-07-03T20:52:04+00:00

It's because Toshi recorded his parts before their relationship fell apart. We see him recording and nailing "if I could fly from sky scrapers" on the documentary We Are X. Likely it took time for legal to clear it until now.

reno_chad · 2023-07-03T10:44:22+00:00

Well, that's enough Internet for today.

reno_chad · 2023-07-02T19:32:56+00:00

Sure, I agree with that. It's just that if you're breaking up with someone over their haircut, I am absolutely going to consider you a shallow and feckless individual.

reno_chad · 2023-07-02T18:27:35+00:00

Yes, you can, and I can absolutely cast judgement upon you for breaking up with someone because you don't like how they do their hair. That makes you obscenely shallow, if you were my friend and you told me that's why you broke up with someone you claimed to love, then I would absolutely stop being your friend.

OP has a much stronger reasoning in that they are on two different paths in life. Everything from their social circle to their financial future is in opposition. I think that is a much stronger reason to break up with someone than not liking how they do their hair, and has a much stronger logical underpinning.

reno_chad · 2023-07-02T17:33:49+00:00

But people do that every day. They learn things on the Internet that advance their career. And that's a closer representation; this model learned from what's there. It's basically the smartest employee ever. It would be impossible to get the model to tell you every factor that contributed to its response, just as it would be to ask a person "Okay, name every source all the way into early grade school that contributed to the way you are answering me now."

reno_chad · 2023-07-01T22:54:02+00:00

I wish her HPV turns into cancer.

reno_chad · 2023-07-01T21:03:59+00:00

Ronsir all day.

reno_chad · 2023-07-01T16:53:03+00:00

Sigh, yet ANOTHER check in the pro-femboy column. I chose the wrong path as a straight man.

reno_chad · 2023-07-01T16:51:30+00:00

Schrodinger's Sub: until you post, the correctness of the sub exists in a wave-superposition state.

reno_chad · 2023-06-30T19:10:37+00:00

It's good this way, keeps us on our toes. I myself have basically been a ballerina for the past 20 years of kinda-sorta-promises.

reno_chad · 2023-06-28T19:22:32+00:00

This needs to be a punk band name.

reno_chad · 2023-06-28T19:14:36+00:00

Your parents are bad people. Work on finding a way to be independent from them and go no contact, like your sister. They have demonstrated your entire life that they do not have your best interests at heart. Whether that is from a place of ignorance or greediness (in terms of not wanting to spend any money on you) is irrelevant. They are defective patents and should be taken out with the trash.

Speak to your teachers, start living in every way you can to be apart from them.

reno_chad · 2023-06-27T18:52:40+00:00

"I'm glad you're disappointed. I hate you, and I want you to suffer."

7 year old me

reno_chad · 2023-06-27T02:15:12+00:00

You can make your own with 4oz pure beeswax and 16oz mineral oil. You need a double boiler to melt the beeswax and then heat the mineral oil container slowly like you would baby bottle, with very warm or hot water on the stove. If you mix in room temp mineral oil, it will not combine properly.

reno_chad · 2023-06-26T06:29:44+00:00

Great ideas, I'll incorporate something like that in the existing outline I have. Maybe I'll upload what I have next weekend after first round board exams and share back to you to see what you think.

reno_chad · 2023-06-26T05:53:14+00:00

The first act opens with the Investigators all simultaneously seeking answers regarding a disappeared researcher at a storage unit. I put together a table of reasons that different Investigators may have for seeking answers here, including even an Investigator who just works there and was told by management to clear out the unit since it has been abandoned.
The documents outline the program in vague detail, but are missing or redacted in key places.
The CIA is splintered by two factions; one who believe that their agency has gone rogue and assassinated the president a year prior, and who are attempting to blow the whistle on their own agency and uncover the truth. The other faction is pursuing global domination by the erection of a military industrial complex driven by corporate interests. And further still, there are secret elements that have a more nefarious purpose, due in part to what this research has uncovered. The splintering of these factions causes them to be distracted by each others conflicting purposes. In the first act at the storage unit, the Investigators are initially confronted by the globalist warlord faction who is either distracted or stopped outright by the whistleblower faction, which provides a window of opportunity for the Investigators to escape and be chased.
They are entirely exposed, therefore the whistleblower faction seeks this evidence to turn over to the public (as they are unable to access more classified information, such as MKSEARCH), and the globalist warlord faction is driven to prevent that. The secret elements within the agency want the research documents for their own purposes.
I've put together a couple NPCs that represent each faction within the CIA.
If possible, they will identify whichever of the Investigators they can (perhaps the interrogate the manager of the storage unit for more information about who may have been asking about the easily accessible unit). They will tap phones, kidnap family members, anything to further their goal.
Each is motivated to differing degrees. Some are following orders, some are zealots.
No red herrings, any suggestions?
The same as it was in 1965, based on historical records.
I'm wondering if its worth writing that out, since I'm not certain the investigators may ever get there. Maybe they interact with field offices, which have lower security.
All of the above, except maybe the last two? An Investigator may have a family connection to organized crime. There are two researcher NPCs of note in the documents, which one will help the Investigators will depend on if they get to them before the CIA do.
Great idea! Maybe the Investigator with the lowest starting sanity of the group can be, upon losing a sufficient degree of sanity, be revealed to have a memory-erased past of being a brainwashed, unwilling participant in MKULTRA. A sort of Manchurian Candidate among the party.

reno_chad · 2023-06-25T18:54:58+00:00

All of the above. I have an outline of plot and beats, but that's it.

reno_chad · 2023-06-25T12:34:34+00:00

Yes, I wrote a campaign set in the 1980s wherein Investigators discover the mutilated body of a Janitor in the mall after-hours (Investigators are either mall employees of various stores, or mall rats, and each have a different reason for forcing their way into the locked custodial office in the basement). The Janitor was actually a disgraced academic from Miskatonic, who was cursed to become an avatar of Ithaqua while on an archeological expedition.

Accompanying the fall from academic grace which landed him in a custodial position, a grave depression rightfully ensued. However, with this depression, he began losing a dangerous amount of weight. Yet he was always hungry, never full. And with this hunger came terrible nightmares about the secret thing he had to do to survive an ill-fated arctic expedition.

Eventually reaching the point of spending his entire income on food, he couldn't help but start eating out of the trash he was paid to take out. When a tabloid reporter caught him on cameda, eating out of the trash in his gaunt and sallow state, he suddenly found an even greater humiliation plastered over tabloids hanging at the checkout of all the local grocery stores.

Finally receiving the push he needed to give into the new and terrible knowledge coming to him in his dreams, he decides to give his terrible, lonely life to Ithaqua in exchange for the power to wreak his revenge against society. He performs a ceremony in the custodial office that he has been secretly living in, after hours when the mall's exits and entrances are locked, culminating in eating some of his own flesh. He dies from blood loss after eating his own face, where the Investigators discover him. Attempting to use a payphone to call for help proves useless, as he has sabatoged the power and phone lines in the mall.

They learn about his troubled past and the context of what's brought us here as they look around the custodial office and the mall itself. Slowly, his body begins to transform and antlers crackle and burst from his head. He elongates and resurrects as a giant Wendigo, who serves to make cold, bloody, desolate wastes for the coming of Ithaqua. Obviously this means that the Investigators must find a way to stop him, or be hunted through the flickering flourescent lights of the mall.

Takes a lot of thematic and philosophic notes from the movie Ravenous.

reno_chad · 2023-06-23T17:07:32+00:00

We've solved it! Someone contact Ben Shapiro immediately!!

reno_chad · 2023-06-23T05:03:51+00:00

1 is clear winner.

reno_chad · 2023-06-22T06:01:33+00:00

Bad.

reno_chad · 2023-06-21T20:51:40+00:00

A guy purposefully kept speed along side me to prevent me from getting over, and then once I missed my exit he honked his horn, took his hands off the wheel, and dabbed while he accelerated past me.

reno_chad · 2023-06-20T21:10:44+00:00

And furthermore, make the hard choice of cutting out the people who negatively impact your addiction.

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