Thread #6266

IC thread >>6272 →

by the way, the name box has been moved to a toggle thingy under options up top.
Just in case anyone is having trouble finding it.

Toot toot where's tilds

I'm here.

Oh sorry, I was mistaken.
You click the persona button in the top left to turn on the name box.

We just found the book guy dead or something, right?

He's the person whose murder you're investigating for the FBI, yeah.
His name is Higgensworth.

Also >>6305
FBI have no idea about the book
and >>6306
You were off to the jail to question a homeless man who claims to have seen the murder

It's likely but not confirmed that the book was stolen off his person during the murder.

We're going to question a witness last I checked.

I was pretty loopy last week so my memory isn't perfect.

It was fairly noticeable.
What were you up to that made you so crazy.

Why are you doing drugs rika
sotp

You were really fun last time.

>>6309
Oh, you know!

No I really don't.

Rika got crunk at the club and then came home to play cthulu

I'm glad that old /moe/ meme is still kicking

>>>/soundcloud/neilcic/mouth-moods
some cthulhu music

Mouth mood?
Is that like mouth feel?

closer to mouth silence

tilde explaining all the shit i was too lazy to explain haha

I had it all noted down from last week.

tilde mvp

even if the FBI investigated would you really be surprised if Dan or Smith didn't do a great job

Smith seems responsible enough.
Dan on the other hand.

I suppose not.

dan is based on a real fbi agent too wwww

Oh I thought he was based off Dan Eagleman from Guilty Crown.

this agent is basically dan eagleman so it's kind of both
very scary to think people like this can become agents

Homeless people are holy grails for information.

Well she's going to be a bad cop of a certain manner.

That's for sure.

It's a good thing I don't have any points in Flattery to start.
In actuality I've been looking at my skills and I don't know what I have to help in this situation.

You have your brain!

Is that his legal name

his real name is terry

Terry Ooah Part?

And here I thought I'd have to go EXPLOSION and drag the homeless guy away somewhere.

You would probably kill everyone if you used a bomb in that small room.

Obviously it'd be another smoke cloud you goof

Come to think of it would small police stations even be equipped with mics at this time.

They weren't uncommon in the 30s
With a little money, a small one could get equipped with them.
especially if they had someone who benefited from them pay for them

butch rockhead is actually a pretty nice guy

Tony it's a fucking candybar.
They're like fifteen cents in the 30s.

IT WAS FOR THE HOMELESS GUY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

for reference, the Crooked Mouth is where Olbrich works.

Yeah I caught that.
How convenient.

as expected of tilde
I figured the others wouldn't remember though haha

Thank you based gm-sama

>ok we go to the place
>NO YOU HAVE TO ASK DIRECTIONS YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU

I just assumed directions were part of the stuff the Guard would have handled.
They gave us the bartender of The Crooked Mouth as a reference, for fuck's sake.

haha true

Kirara what was Streetwise good for again.

How to behave around criminals and street people
see dangerous locations, make friends with criminals, sell stolen goods, honor among thieves, shit like that

Felicity is probably better suited for this conversation but Thomas is trying his best.

Thomas was chosen for this conversation, he'll do fine!

walks into a clearly dangerous bar full of people with weapons and he's like "good aftermorning, ma'am!"

All the more reason to be as polite as possible.

fuckin nerds

felicity is maybe the only competent person in the world

Thomas has literally zero interpersonal capabilities aside from money, I don't know what you expected.

I expected failure and precisely got it.

How does credit rating work again.
Do you spend a point to get through a check.
Like a bribe of sorts.

Yeah, you can do that with credit rating spends.
Other times it might be a requirement to enter an establishment or something without needing a spend.

Could I use it in conjunction with Bargain to get this bitch to stop whining about these very private matters.

wow mean
You might be able to convince her with that
You can convince her without that too

<Unease intensifies>

I'm surprised VV isn't more visibly uncomfortable around so many dangerous people

This is still the same day as last week's session.
Rika might be sober now, but Vane would probably still be loopy.

She's standing near the door!
Besides, it's America so it's no surprise everyone is armed ruffians.

barkeep-chan doesn't like you too much it seems
oh no!

Now's not a good time to make a fuss though!

If VV went full ojou-sama fuss-mode Thomas might have a heart attack.

That hooligan gal barkeep would have had some fun if she did

VAAAAAAAANNNNEEEEEEEE

It looks like your efforts, Felicity

Were all in Vane

What is this Telltale bullshit.

>>6646
Damn.

>>6647
haha i'm glad you got the reference

She started it.

Yeah but Vane fucked it all up.

Don't worry, barkeep-chan is a reasonable person!

>>6651
VV behaved in the bar, though.

ALMOST.

>>6652
Yeah and this time I didn't lie out Felicity's ass.

For the most part.

she has 6 weapons so better be careful!

She sextuple-wields knives?

I think he means six weapons skill.

yeah wwww

The art gallery is the next lead, of course we're going!

I read it as local autists

>one local autist in particular is there right now. he's arguing with the owner over prices

haha

thought you were going to say between an artist and an autist

It's a shame we're coming to a close soon since Thomas wants to have a chat with Eddie.

We could go a little long if everyone wants to but I'm sure everyone has had enough.

I kind of want to sleep.

Thomas is the best candidate to pretend or not pretend to appreciate his art.
It'll be great.

This person is also fucking crazy.
Which means Thomas is the first candidate for talking to him.

And for getting in trouble

Frustrated bartenders are out of his league, but crazy guys?
Got it.

oh shit it's VV

>>6687
Frustrated, but sane and grounded in their normal life bartenders, definitely.
But crazy people are pretty much all scientists in some shape or philosophical definition.

I don't know how but VV has managed to be the highlight of not one but two sessions.

also the storm clouds weren't supposed to be ominous

want to stop here and start next week in the studio?

Fine with me
>>6701
It was well timed to be ominous were we going to meet a more-sane more-evil type character.

We've hit 06:00 anyway.
That's usually when we wrap up.

>>6705
haha
i was going to make a joke about how it looks stormy in florida all the time but never rains but then i realized nobody would really get it

Sometimes it just rains!

And we didn't know much about Eddie besides "deadbeat"

But you know when it rains, you never know if Chicago will pop up or not!

This is also a reason I am hesitant to dive into talking to people too.

I'm sure Chicago is a very nice gentleman.

You have to bully the NPCs a bit when they get out of line.

That's exactly right!
Some of them push back, though!

Art looked scary but he only had a weapon skill of 2 wwwwwwwww
and no firearms or scuffling

Yeah, too bad I wasn't able to save him.

Yeah, it's too bad!
I'm sure you'll get along with Eddie and Chansky about as well as you did with Art, though.

Definitely not with Eddie.

I'm sure you can find something in common with Eddie.
Even though he's an old druggie with tons of debt.
I mean you have stealth, he has stealth
You have HP, he has HP
so much in common

oh looks like felicity has the most in common with him though

I'm sure he and I will have something in common eventually too.

thomas is gonna become a tweaky motherfucker oh no

Art and/or Art History were initial candidates for skills for the character that would become Felicity.
I had to start dropping a bunch of character ideas when skills started to be cut down and condensed.

Eddie has TEN (10) art points

books can fuck you up man

Wow.
Almost makes me feel bad for having to crush his dreams and deliver his goddaughter's message.

>>6730
Hopefully that part won't happen.

pretty soon there will be RIVETING MORAL CHOICES THAT MATTER

like in your favorite video game

Life really is strange

>>6736
Is this going to be like Tales of Xillia 2 where you make choices the whole game but in the end only about two of them matter aside from raising friendship without playing poker for 10 hours to buy a lot of love drugs?

Maybe but there are actually two or three possible routes here

Oh fuck I remembered something completely unrelated to Cthulu but I'm going to mention it anyway.

There's a part in Xillia 2 where you literally kill your alternate dimension future self and MC is pretty upset about it
And his good friend from the bill collection company calls you up and is like "so uh how's everything going" and your two options are like
[ ] "Well"
[ ] "I JUST KILLED MYSELF LEAVE ME ALONE"

There's a similar decision earlier because that game's full of bad times and I picked the mean one and when bill-lady calls you up she's really sad instead of chipper and I thought it was because I picked the mean choice
But no she's sad anyway
That's dumb