Call of Cthulhu RPG #3

This RPG picked up directly after the previous one. It's a little longer one and although we've had two RPG meetings playing this story we can't seem to find enough clues to move forward. Hopefully number 3 will be finished by next meeting.

We separate outside the police station. Father Edward notices that Fog follows him to his house and offers to let her sleep on his sofa. At his place Fog knocks over a bookcase and after a cup of tea they both go to bed (Fog spends the night reorganizing the priest's bookcase). They receive a call in the middle of the night from professor Eneri (the occult professor). She tells them that there's a green light and screams from her neighbour's house. We drive over and she invites them for tea. By then the police arrrives and we go outside to talk to them. Eneri makes quite the scene and we go back inside until they leave. When they have left we go out to investigate the house. All of us are armed; Fog with a crowbar, Eneri with her cane and Father Edward with his revolver (awesome priest). On the other side of the front door is a puddle of mud and muddy footprints leading into a room where we find a corpse. The corpse is mummified, but we suspect it could be the body of Eneri's neighbour. There are muddy footprints leading away from the body and to a door. The door is locked but the priest unlocks it and it turns out to be the backdoor. Eneri finds a newspaper article of a massacre in Red Hook district (same district Eneri lives in and we're in at the moment). Eneri recalls that the massacre was at a building called Parker Place and something about a church that abducted children. Father Edward discovers a breifcase full of work papers. The neighbour, Mr Baker, seems to have worked as a house inspector for a construction company called Hamilton and they were checking out houses in Red Hook district. Eneri sends Fog to an editorial office with the article and then calls Cover to ask if he knows anything about anything. But he turns out to be drunk. Cover's lawyer, Kruger, handles the conversation.

Father Edward drives Fog to the editorial office while the police shows up outside the neighbour's house again. Fog ends up making a fool of herself at the editorial office and runs deeper inside the building as the receptionist calls the police. When Father Edward sees her do that he leaves Fog and drives back to Eneri. They talk a little and then sleep for a few hours.

The next day Father Edward and Eneri drives to her office where she has a darkroom to process the photos taken at the neighbour's house. They find a picture of the corpse's right hand where he grips a bunch of earthworms. We also compare these photos to an older one of Mr Baker and establish that it's the same person. Eneri rushes out of the darkroom when she hears a crash from her office. Father Edward stays behind the continue process the photos the way Eneri showed him. He hears voices in the corridor outside the room and the Cover barges into the room with Eneri close behind. Eneri hits him. Cover shoves her out of the room and the priest and Cover talk about what they know about the night's happenings and decide what they will do. Cover and Carling go to the editorial office to find out what Fog couldn't. Father Edward wakes Fog up, who had fallen asleep on the floor in Eneri's office and turned a pile of books over (that was the crash Eneri heard), to find out what she knows. She didn't find anything out. We look at the pictures and Eneri, Father Edward and Fog decides to go to Parker Place.

When we get there it's just piles of bricks from the demolished house. We poke around in the bricks but find nothing of interest. We continue to the church that happens to be nearby. When we arrive to Stone Church we find that it's been plundered. There is nothing left, not even the windows. We look around but find nothing. We enter the drawing-room, which is empty except for a wardrobe that Father Edward opens. There's a dark hole in the floor of the wardrobe and in the hole there's a ladder. Eneri's house is in walking distance from the church and she leaves to fetch a torchlight. Father Edward and Fog wait around for her. She's back within 15 minutes and she enters the hole first with the torchlight, closely followed by the priest with a gun and Fog who accidentally falls down the hole instead of using the ladder. We see a light at the end of the tunnel and walk there. There is the body of a catholic priest on an altar, an inscription on the wall saying : "See the power of the true god" and a pile of odd papers written in different handwritings and languages in a complete mish-mash. Fog panics and runs back through the tunnel. After we have looked around everywhere in the crypt we take all the papers and leave the church to return to the library and investigate the papers. They are pages from occult books written in Latin, German and English (all on one page, complete mish-mash of words, languages and grammar). It would take weeks to translate them, but we put Fog to look for the words "true god" in the texts, since she is the only one who knows all three languages.

That's where the meeting ended the first time. We continued this story yesterday. The guy who played Cover was absent yesterday, though, so Cover won't be in the story this time.

While Fog looks through the papers the others arrive at the library. Fog looks through the papers and finds a lot about different gods, but nothing about a true god. Cover and Carling had investigated the names mentioned in the newspaper article and in the flat of the first guy (some guy with eastern European name) they found him dead, mummified, and a note with a list of houses on it. Houses that were going to be inspected by Hamilton. Eneri, Father Edward and Kruger go out to inspect those houses and Carling and Fog seeks out Mr Wells, who is the last person mentioned in the articles still presumed alive.

We are going to inspect 5 buildings. The first is a very shabby ex department store. We enter. Empty. Dusty. There are footprints in the dust. The footprints run along the walls and along stairs. Eneri sneaks upstairs but it's waterdamaged and she falls through the floor and recieve some damage. There was nothing of value upstairs, though. We continue to the next house. The MacGuffin House is a two-story brick house. There are lights in the windows. The priest knocks on the door and an old man opens the door. The priest fails to come up with a reason for knocking on his door (stupid) and Eneri comes to his rescue claiming to do research for a book. He invites us in and offers us tea and hard cookies. After some questions we find out that some people on the street worships the devil and that a certain Father Washington is their leader. He's wearing a mask to cover his face that had become deformed after the horrible stuff that happened in Red Hook. Father Edward excuses himself for the toilet and checks around the house before flushing and returning to the others. He found nothing of interest.

We leave MacGuffin for the next house. Outside we meet Fog and Carling. They tell us that Wells was being abducted when they arrived at his office at Hamilton and that the people doing it were hooded. They had been attacked by the hooded people and Fog had managed to steal their weapon (a gun and a butcher's knife) and one of the hooded capes. We all walk to Tullio Warehouse. It's an old brick house. The bricks seem to be withered by age and the metal is rusty. It smells bad. We enter. There are a lot of boxes everywhere. Fog finds a hammer with the name David Clark on it (one of the guys from the article, but he was the first to die and was dead in the article). The priest tries to pry open a box. Carling starts to move towards the room furthest in the back. On his way he finds a burning oil drum. On the oil drum he finds symbols saying "I conjure the shining fire". There's a bag of cloth containing some kind of powder. He waves and Eneri and Fog come to him. Eneri puts a dash of the powder in the fire which starts to act weird and make a lot of noise. Carling runs off to the next room. Father Edward manages to open the box. The contents are rotted and smelly. He looks up and notices the others by the fire and walks over to them. The fire turns into a green pillar. Carling runs out of the building and Fog runs to stand by the door for close escape in case something happens. Father Edward crosses himself and clutches his Bible. Eneri puts a plank into the fire which instantly withers away. She tries again. Same result. She catches some cockroaches and put them into the fire. They wither. Father Edward sees the similarities between the fire and the mummified corpse and green light from Eneri's neighbour's house and the mummified body in the flat. Eneri goes to fetch the butcher's knife from Carling. She puts it halfway into the fire. The part in the fire rusts and withers. When she takes it out of the fire it's a clean cut. She also notices that the fire isn't as hot as it should be. She puts the rest of the butcher's knife into the fire and then the fire turns normal again. Suddenly.

We leave for the next house. Carling kept the cloth bag with powder. The windows are boarded. A one floor brickhouse. The front door is not boarded. Next to the house is a back alley. We check it out first but there's nothing of interest. We enter through the backdoor into a store room that has been plundered. The priest opens the door to the front room and is almost immediately attacked by two bums. They both miss and the priest moves to the back. Kruger moves forward to counter-attack. One of the bums hits himself in the head with his crowbar and falls down unconscious. Eneri hits the other one and hurts him. Fog shoots at the door opening and misses twice but hits one guy in the eye. Han falls down and the other bums run off through the front door. We look around the front room but find nothing, which makes us suspicious of the bums. They don't seem to live there.

We decide to move on to the next house but have to wait for Fog to have an anxiety attack. The next house turns out to be an occult shop called The Ving Store. Eneri and Carling enter. They talk a little and after a while Fog enters and asks for books. The owner says that all his books were recently bought up by a man wearing a mask. Fog runs out to the cars and brings back a hooded cape and asks if he was wearing one of them. The owner drives them all away with the warning to not put their noses where they don't belong. We drive back to the library and Father Edward calls around to communities from Eneri's office. No community wants to acknowledge that they know of any Father Washington. Then he calls around to different hospitals asking if they treated any priests with injuries in their faces three years ago. Nothing. Calls around to communities again to see if they are missing any priest (the corpse below the church). Nothing. Eneri takes some of the powder and brings it to the closes chemistry institution for evaluation. When she comes back Fog brings out a jar with mud in it coming from Wells' office. It's the same kind of mud that was in Eneri's neighbour's house.

And this is where we stopped. We had no more ideas on where to go. Couldn't think of anything so we decided to think about what to do until next time. Next time seems to be quite far away in time, though, since people suddenly have lives to attend to and Christmas vacation ends in about a week so people will have school and everything :/

Call of Cthulhu RPG #2

Sorry for the total lack of blogging lately. I'll try to change that  for now :P

A week ago Love lead his second Call of Cthulhu RPG. The first was on Halloween and it was a great success. But at the second he failed a little at the sensations. However, still being a horror RPG I was sitting at the edge of my seat in the end, and it was thrilling and cosy all at the same time - just the way a good horror story is supposed to be.

The story of this RPG picked up where the last one ended, although only the priest (I) and the occult professor were kept as characters. All the others had made new ones. The story starts with the priest and the professor examining the journals found in the last house.

Then the new story kicks off and we are in a hospital room with an old dying man called Rupert Merryweather. He asks everyone  (even his stupid son) to leave the room and then tells us his story. When he was a youth he was part of a Brotherhood that experimented with the occult. He tells us how the last experiment goes terribly wrong and they conjure something that only wants to kill. The creature is bound to the house, but will be let free when all the conjurers are dead and Merryweather is the last one still alive. We are given a box and then asked to leave. When we leave the room everyone is introduced. It's ofc the priest and the occult professor from before, two private detectives; Nunez and Cover, a librarian called Fog and a psychologist.

We all gather at the professor's office, which is really small and we can't really fit all of us in there. In the box we were given there's a small black nothebook and a small golden box shaped as a sarcophagus with hieroglyphs on it. The notebooks is a list of all members of the Brotherhood and journals from the meetings of the Brotherhood. Cover opens the sarcophagus, but it's empty. The psychologist tells us that the signs inside of the sarcophagus are said to originate from a vanished continent called Mu. The notebook tells us that the Brotherhood bought a house outside Ross's Corner to perform their experiments in peace. The leader carved protective runes all around the doors and windows of the house. It says that in 1882 (this is 1920) the leader bought the golden sarcophagus and inside it was a big amber with some kind of creature trapped inside. The perform the experiment to conjure the creature and it's described in the notebook as a great black hole with lots of claws and mouths. One member instantly got mad and one instantly got killed. The others fled the site and the mad one was placed at an institution. There are years written next to the members' names; which turns out to be the years they died. There's only one member left with no number and that's Merryweather who also seems to be the one who's been writing in the notebook. In that moment we get a phone call saying that Merryweather just passed away. A book is mentioned in the notebook but nothing more.

The priest, Fog and the occult professor heads out to the library and to the library's occult division. The professor remembers that she has heard of that book before and knows that she will need the key to a locked room to get it. The chief of the library has it and while the professor tries to persuade the chief to give her the key, Fog and the priest try to force their way into the room by picking the lock. They get the door open and the alarm sounds. Both of them manage to hide themselves, but no book and they return to the office. At the office the professor examines the sarcophagus and Fog tries to translate the hieroglyphs, which proves impossible. The three others, who have been out doing research on their own, shows up later and tells us that the powder used to make the pentagram needed to perform the ritual to conjure the creature vaporates when it leaves the house. The priest remembers that it has been mentioned in the journals from the other house and that it's called Powder of Ibn-ghazn. It's used to conjure or dispel creatures in rituals. They have found out the cause of death for all of the members except two and the priest calls all the communities in the city asking for the cause of death of those two members. One of them died of a falling piano and the other of natural causes.

We meet up again on the morning the day after av leave for the house. In Ross's Corner we stop to ask about the house. The children think it's an exciting haunted house and there have been children dared to go there. No one seems to remember anyone coming to visit the house. We find out that a middle-aged woman has disappeard during the night. The house is situated on a hill and it's only one floor, but seems to have an attic. The professor, the priest and Cover recognises the protective runes, and after examining the house on the outside and the grounds we enter through the back door, which happens to be open.

We see one staircase leading up and one leading down, a fireplace, open cans and a blanket. Someone has spent the night there. The professor and Cover hear something from the basement and Cover starts heading downstairs with the only torch available. The professor stays upstairs to guard the door and the rest of us follows Cover downstairs. When we have almost arrived down a bum tries to hit Cover with a table-leg. We all try to hit him but all of us miss and the bum manages to hit some of us. Finally Nunez hits the bum and he falls down unconscious. Cover puts first aid on him and he wakes up. His name is Jake and he keeps talking about some darkness that wants to kill him. We bind him and enters the next room where we find a cigar box full of Powder of Ibn-ghazn. We also find 10 papers turned slightly yellow. 6 of them are copies of a chant. 3 seems to come from the book we couldn't get a hold of and the 10th paper show the symbol. It's not the same handwriting as in the notebook.

Nunez hears something from the attic and while Cover, the priest, Fog and the professor stays in the room to prepare the ritual, Nunez and the psychologist leaves to examine the attic. We hear screams and rushes out into the hallway just in time to see Nunez's body getting dragged up to the attic. Then we hear sounds as of eating. The psychologist falls down the stairs and can't stop laughing. He stops when Cover hits him in the face. We all leave for the room with the ritual and lock the door. When the sounds of eating stop Cover opens the door a little and sticks out his head to take a look. Then he quickly pulls back and we see claws where his head would have been. We close and barricade the door with furniture and explosives and then we wait for midnight to perform the ritual.

The story fast-forwards to midnight. The priest, the professor and Fog are chanting. The other two keep a look-out. The first 20 minutes go by without trouble and then we hear something move upstairs. After 10 minutes it becomes more violent and the house starts to sway. The the creature starts screaming and the walls starts leaking some weird fluid. Then everything suddenly becomes very quiet. We hear someone pounding on the door and a voice says that it's Nunez and he wants to come in. We don't open the door. We see Nunez pounding the windows but it's not the real Nunez. He has a hole where his heart should be. We continue chanting. There's goo coming out of the walls. Everyone steps away from the goo. The Nunez-zombie can't get inside. The ritual continues and the psychologist falls down shaking. A female zombie shows up next to Nunez. Fog starts running towards the door and Cover beat her down. When there's only five minutes to go the creature appear in the middle of the symbol on the floor. It can't move outside the symbol. Finally it disappears but we continue chanting for 10 more minutes. There is no trace of the creature. We put the powder in the sarcophagus. Cover opens the door. We run to the cars. And there's a dead Jake in Nunez's car. We drive back to Boston in the other car and walk to the closest police station. On the way Cover leaves his explosives, the psychologist and Fog at his place. The police station is closed and no one is there. We go back to Cover's flat and the professor calls the police who won't listen. We all fall asleep and the psychologist calms down.

The next morning the professor discovers that the sarcophagus has vanished. Merryweather's son comes knocking with a lawyer and asks for the box his father gave us. Cover slams the door in his face. Half an hour later the police knocks on the door. The police take us all down to the station where the professor leaves with the son to give him the box (empty). The others convince the police of their story that they had nothing to do with the dead bodies at the house (because the police have already been there) and that we had left the place when Nunez was dragged up to the attic.

Gaming

I'm back after a ridiculously nerdy weekend. It all started on Friday when I asked to be taught to play Heroes of Might and Magic 5, because I had seen Will and Love play it and thought it seemed fun. So they taught me and now I can't stop. I wanna keep playing all the time because it's so funny xD

So when it turned out we neither had work nor RPG on Saturday we went back from my parents house to our flat and on the way we met up with Will and had lunch at the best hamburger restaurant in town (you all know which one). When we got back to the flat they called up Lars, another friend, and later he showed up. I suggested we could start playing Heroes together and they all agreed. So we started up a mission and while waiting for it to be their turn at the game the guys played Borderlands on the PS3 and I played Fruit Ninja on Love's iPhone (another game I can't get enough of). That way the whole Saturday and the whole Sunday continued.

When Will and Lars left on Sunday evening Love helped me install Windows 7 on my laptop (finally!) and while the computer installed it we watched some more episodes of Grey's Anatomy :P

Today, on the other hand, has been a busy study day. I just finished a rather big assignment in Spanish, due today and in a two hours I'll hand it in. Love is still not back from school and I'm getting rather bored... Maybe... Play some Heroes...?

Harry Potter and Disturbed

Two things have happened since last time. Two major things anyway. First was that I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1 at the premiere on November 17th and I must say it was incredible! I've disliked all of the other Harry Potter films but this one was special. They had managed to make it so much like the book and they managed to fit so much into those two hours. Probably because they split the book in half and made two films. Too bad they couldn't do that with all the other ones :P Ofc there were things that bothered me, details, but the good parts overwhelmed the bad parts. I'm really looking forward to the next part that premieres in May. For this film I had almost no expectations, but now for the second part I have very high expectations and I juts hope it will be as good as the first part :)

Second was that Love and I went to see Disturbed live in Copenhagen! Except for the train being late and thus we arriving a little late everything went fine getting there. The first band on stage was Halestorm, a, to me, unknown band that didn't manage to convince me they were worth continue to listen to. Next up was Papa Roach. I knew about them but I haven't listened to them before and they were awesome. They managed to get the crowd going and already before Disturbed got on stage we were sweaty and tired and thirsty :P We had got ourselves places really close to the stage and as to not lose them I snuck out of the crowd and bought us some water and then snuck back in again (I think I'm good at that). The crowd went crazy when Disturbed got on and then they started performing. In total three songs off of their latest album; Asylum, two from Believe, two from Indestructible + Stricken, Land of Confusion, Ten Thousand Fists and Down with the sickness. All in all it was an incredible time. Although it wasn't as good as a live usually is. I think it has something to do with them just having an hour to play so they played as many songs as possible and didn't interact much with the crowd. If they had had more time to interact with the people it would have been a better live I think. But they were still awesome and I don't regret spending all those money at all.

Three days at a castle

This Friday my gran had invited me, my family and Love to a goose dinner at Svaneholm's Castle. It was a fancy dinner with all us girls in dresses and my dad and Love in suits :) The food was great, except for maybe the dessert that I (for once!) didn't enjoy very much. But I thought it was all very solemn. That evening I was the chauffeur for the first time and it felt nice knowing that I really could drive the car packed with people :P

Yesterday I worked with my dad at the first Christmas display of the season at Svaneholm's Castle. All those other times when I've worked during autumn or winter it's always been awfully cold so this time I came prepared dressed in three layers of clothes. I hit the jackpot with those three layers. Spent the whole day outdoors without wearing a coat :P Except for working I also visited the display of course. I really like walking around in castles or at historical sites, because to me it seems like I can feel history. If I had walked through that castle in my dress on the day of the dinner, in my head I would have been wearing a delicate 18th century dress and moved graciously through the halls. But this day I wore jeans, boots and a wool shirt so I felt more like a horse boy tip-toeing through the halls peeking at all the fine folks :P The most awesome thing of the day was this:

Today was the last day of the Christmas display and it's been a very interesting day. Around noon it started raining and it kept on raining all day. It's very ineresting selling sugary sweets, sweets wrapped in paper and non-waterproof helium balloons while it's raining. But that makes it fun and interesting. It's fun to be challenged by the elements. But nothing yet has been quite as crazy as the time when I was selling sweets at a farm auction in early December a few years back and it started snowing and was real windy at the same time. I was hanging on to the ceiling so it wouldn't fly off and Dad was packing away all the stuff in a hurry - that was a lot of fun xD
The evening turned even more interesting when it was time to pack up. We got all the stuff away, closed the trailer and put it on the car. Dad was going to use the tractor mode on his SUV to pull the trailer out of the swampy lawn. It worked for about three meters. Then there was a mud puddle and we got stuck. Dad decided to leave the trailer behind and pick it up tomorrow when they were moving the small cottages of the Christmas display away with the help of a truck. The staff at the people agreed to move his trailer with the help of the truck. Good. So we took the trailer off the car and then we were going to drive home. Nope. The car was stuck in the mud and despite the car's tractor mode and four-wheel drive Dad couldn't get it to move. So he went to fetch some planks and put them next to the wheels to help the car move. Didn't help. More planks. Didn't help. Try to push the planks further under the wheels. Didn't help. Fetched the rubber mats from the floor of the car and put them close to the wheels. Didn't help. Went to get a friend and his car to pull our car out of the mud. While waiting Dad tried to turn the wheels, give full gas and still have all the planks and rubber mats by the wheels. The car moved a little out of the mud. The friend showed and they put the towline between the cars and started up. That pulled our car out of the last of the mud and we could be on our way home. Half an hour later. What a thrilling evening :P

Some pictures from today. The castle, our counter and our stuff and the last one is just a cool picture :P

Current fandoms

A few months ago I did a post about my old fandoms. Well, some stuff has happened since July and now I feel it's time for an update :)

Pokémon: Love bought Pokémon SoulSilver version for my birthday. Just when I had stopped obessing over my Pearl version he gives me a new one. What's more to it is that it contains the new Pokéwalker, which is almost like a Tamagotchi but with a Pokémon that you transfer from the game and then take for a walk. I'm having a lot of fun with it! SoulSilver and its twin HeartGold are remakes of Pokémon Gold and Silver and that means loads of old Generation 1 and Generation 2 Pokémon. From back in the day when I actually collected the trading cards!!! ^_^ And look what I found!

Firefly: As much as I dislike Sci-Fi I love this series. I have the last episode left to see and most of the episodes have been great. Although all my friends seem to be completely in love with Kaylee, my favourite is River.

Vampires: Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about urban fantasy, sexy, pale, glittering (or whatever) vampires. I'm talking about the legend. The legend of vampires is one of the most enduring legends of history. When I found this book I got interested, then I got it and started reading it and now I'm even more interested than I used to be. I mean it's a guy from National Geographic that's written it and apparantly the book is based on some program that was broadcasted on that very channel some time ago. It's really interesting. Strongly recommend!

H.P. Lovecraft: Love bought Necronomicon for my birthday last year but I hadn't got around to actually reading it until after his Call of Cthulhu RPG. That was the spark I needed. The day after I made my research on Lovecraft himself and started reading his copy of Necronomicon. I really like his way of writing and his cosy stories. They're supposed to be horror, but I find them more cosy than actually goose-bumpening :P And I that made me read this web comic called Hello Cthulhu as well. It's very cute. Cthulhu is a demon god and he arrives to a world to destroy it. There he meets Hello Kitty and he falls in love with her. Then the evil thing walks around with ribbons in his tentacles all the time! xD

Avatar: Not the film with blue aliens. The anime with elementals. Love made me watch it during summer and then it escalated from there. I've seen all the episodes. I'm looking forward to the next series and I really really wanna watch the live action movie M. Night Shaymalan did this year to see how badly it sucks.

Harry Potter: Love wanted to re-read the series before we watched the first part of Deathly Hallows. All this re-reading and looking forward to the film has made me re-live some of my fandom :) It doesn't help that this video is a masterpiece!

Grey's Anatomy: Yup! We've been watching a lot of series recently and I made Love interested in this one. We have now watched the whole first season (third time for me) and that first season just keeps getting better and better :P

Hello Kitty: If the Lovecraft part didn't reveal it... I bought a Hello Kitty scheduler when I was in Tokyo. The year is coming to an end and I need a knew one. So I bought one from eBay :P I also love the evil Hello Kitty that shows up in Hello Cthulhu :)

That's about it for now :P

Writing

So since I have so much free time nowadays I have taken up writing again. It's pretty fun and it's going well. In two days I've written two chapters :) I feel proud. If I keep writing in this pace I might have a book finished pretty soon. I don't think it's great but it's better than some other stuff I've written and it's obviously a book for youths. I didn't want it that way, but it's hard to write like an adult when I'm a youth myself :P That's where it is. I'm trying to sound more adult-like, but I guess I usually don't?

Anyway I write in Swedish and if anyone wanna read the finished product and give me some feedback, just give me a nudge at facebook or msn or IRL ;)

Children of the Night

I hid them under the floor

for them being here made me sore

And on that day I felt kind of hazy

Now they still gotta be there

cause they are not going anywhere

with severed limbs - or call me crazy

But there are voices in the darkness

in my house, everytime I close my eyes

In the dead of night I hear 'em sigh

The children of the night are calling

Hear 'em cry, they still defy

endlessly

I feel like falling

Now they're all

my children of the night

These skulls are so small

There are seven of them in all

I swear to God, now they're deadly silent

But still there's voices in the darkness

Getting louder all the time

In the dead of night I hear 'em sigh

The children of the night are calling

Hear 'em cry, they still defy

endlessly

I feel like falling

Now they're all

my children of the

Now little feet tap at the end of my bed

Remorse I seize

I feel there's someone leaning over my head

Seven breaths, they freeze

In the dead of night I hear 'em sigh

The children of the night are calling

Hear 'em cry, they still defy

endlessly

I feel like falling

In the dead of night I hear 'em sigh

The children of the night are calling

Hear 'em cry, they still defy

endlessly

I feel like falling

Now they're all

my children of the night

It's that day

Since it's that day as well...

Remember, remember

the 5th of November

The gunpowder treason and plot

I know of no reason

why the gunpowder treason

should ever be forgot

Too bad I don't have the film V for Vendetta or I would definately have watched it tonight.

Role-playing Call of Cthulhu - a horror story

So I thought since I do role-playing almost every week I could blog about it :P Gives me something to blog about and it's pretty fun :)

As you all know yesterday was Halloween. So Love thought he'd do a one-shot horror role-play Call of Cthulhu with us. That was his first time leading a role-playing game but it went really well :) Since it was a Sunday and people had work/school the day after we started out early and met up at 4.30 pm. After being given one character sheet each from Love we started making our characters and setting our skills etc after his command and with the help of our dices. When the characters were done our group consisted of two scholars; one professor researching the occult and one university gymnastics teacher (so he was our Mr. Muscle), one doctor; he was also a scholar (strictly speaking) but more of a pharmacist and one priest.

In Call of Cthulhu everyone gets a specific sanity level depending on what the dices show, and as supernatural, occult or simply weird things show in front of our characters the dices will decide if that level gets lower. The lower it gets the closer to a complete mental breakdown is the character. Ofc the characters also have hit points and the more times a character gets hit in a battle the lower health it gets and the closer to death it becomes.

After our characters were finished it was time for dinner and then the game itself kicked off. By then it wwas dark outside and to create the appropriate atmosphere we used no electricity and simply had big lit candles on the table. And then: the story.

We were all assembled by a landlord who had bought himself a house really really cheap, because no one wanted to live in it. Reason for that was what had happened to the family who had lived there. The father had gone insane and now lived at an asylum 4 miles off town, the mother weren't very stable either and she stayed with her mother. The two sons were doing pretty okay and all lived with relatives. This was all the landlord knew and we set out to find out some background information to our case. Our job was to "fix" the house so the landlord could rent it to someone. The priest (that's me) and the doctor went off to the asylum, since the priest was the only one who could drive (the game takes place in 1920's Boston). Mr. Muscle went to The Globe's news paper archives and the professor went to the city archives.

What the priest and the doctor found out was that the family had all had dreams of a man with burning eyes and both the mother and the father had felt an evil presence from the bedroom furthest from the staircase on the second floor of the house. The evil presence seemed to dislike the father the most and had used cuttlery and religious symbols to throw at him. The family was strongly Catholic, the mother even more so after her experiences in the house, the father on the other hand had abandoned his faith as a consequence to his experiences. He was considered gravely schizofrenic. Both parents talked about the man with burning eyes. The mother had only seen him in her dreams but the father had had hallucinations of him after he had awokened and in mirrors. They had both seen bleeding walls and had objects thrown at them.

What Mr. Muscle and the professor found out and the different archives were that the house and been built by a man who had soon after fallen sick and sold the house to a Walter Corbitt. That's why the house was also called the Corbitt House earlier, but now no one knew of that name. Walter Corbitt had been sued by his neighbours for being weird and involved in the occult. In his will he wrote that he wanted to be buried in the basement of the house. In 1880 he had disappeared after a raid on the church he was involved in and a priest had been sentenced to prison. The priest had escaped said prison in 1917 and no one had seen him since. The church that Corbitt was involved with had meetings in a chapel not far from the house. In his will Corbitt had also written that he wanted the house to be empty for as long as possible, preferably forever. But despite this people had lived there and they had all gone crazy, become invalid or died.

After the characters had met up and told each other what they had found out we decided to go to the ruin of the chapel and see what we could find out. The priest drove them all there and on the waywe bought lamps and spades (shovels). When we entered the area the first thing we see are two walls on each side of the pathway. They are both washed clean and there's a symbol carved into them. When we walk past them we all get the feeling that were being watched. We let Mr. Muscle stand guard outside the ruin and the three of us enters, when we do that we all get a headache (except Mr. Muscle who is still outside). The doctor is very sure to try the floor with his umbrella before we walk on it and thanks to that we didn't fall through the floor into the basement. In the construction papers of the chapel there was no mentioning of a basement so ofc we all go down there. Down there we find a room with to victims from the fire caused by the raid and also some old journals from meetings and one old mouldy book in Latin with description of the churches believes etc. This book the professor brings with her. Then we leave the chapel.

After that we have a discussion whether we should go investigate the house as well although it's already dusk or wait until tomorrow. We decided to go to the house. When we get there we take a walk around the house to see it there are any alternate entrances. The coal cellar as well as all the windows are covered with boards and the back door can't be opened from the outside. So we enter through the front door using the key we've been given by the landlord. When we enter we see a lot of closed doors and a staircase leading down. We decide to first investigate the first floor and enter the first room. It's a storage room with old bicycles and a cupboard. The cupboard is covered with boards as well and we all find this strange so the doctor goes out to the car to fetch a crowbar. We open the cupboard and in there we find three journals belonging to Walter Corbitt. The priest, the professor and the doctor all start looking through one each (and as a consequence lose some sanity points). The professor keeps the journals and we keep on going to the next room, by now we all start to hear a loud thumping coming from above. The thumping continues as we investigate the rooms on the first floor. When we get to the living room we find the staircase going up and we all see how one wall starts to bleed (and we lose some sanity points) and then the loud thumping stops. We go upstairs and start looking through the bedrooms. Nothing interesting until we get to the furthermost bedroom. We open it and the doctor walks in to open the only openable window in the house, but he never makes it cause the bed rushes from the wall and into him. The professor and the priest start to investigate the wall the bed came from and at that time Mr. Muscle sees how the doctor tries to hit the priest in the head with his umbrella. Mr. Muscle stops him but the doctor has no recollection of what he was trying to do. We finish the last bedroom and decides to go down the basement to find Corbitt's grave. Down there Mr. Muscle finds a beautiful, but dirty, dagger and picks it up. When he does that the dagger flies out of his hand and hits the professor's leg. The doctor takes care of them both and then we walk into the last room of the house. This room is completely empty save for a bench in the middle. On this bench is a dead body and above it hangs the same symbol we saw carved into the walls at the chapel. The whole room stinks and the doctor moves forward to take a closer look on the body. When he does that the body wakes up and looks at him. The doctor throws his umbrella at the corpse and the final battle erupts. We manage to defeat the corpse with not too many casualties, except for the priest accidentally shooting his gun at the professor and making her faint and Mr. Muscle being controlled to attack the doctor once.

In the end all the characters survived, which isn't the standard of Call of Cthulhu RPGs :P The upside is that we can keep these characters and reuse them in another game. Maybe a fullscale campaign of Call of Cthulhu if it comes to that :)

During this game we were all affected in different ways by the scary story, but the atmosphere was definately perfect and I love the catharsis horror gives when the tensity is released at the end of the story.

The most positive upside about this game is that it made me genuinely interested in reading H.P Lovecraft's work. Something I've been planning to do for a year now but never had the motivation to. When Love and I got home I borrowed his copy of Necronomicon and read the short story that he ahd recommended; The Rats in the Walls. And it was... cosy :P It defeinately caught my attention and I wouldn't want to put it down but the story didn't really scare me. It was cosy and interesting. I think I like his way and I will start reading Necronomicon from the beginning this evening :)

Skulduggery Pleasant

Started and finished the second book in the series today. Still incredibly funny to read and extremely well done for being a children's book...

"I'm not weird like that.
I'm good weird.
I'm cool weird."
- Stephanie

"My parents have gone to work, you know.
You could have used the door."
- Stephanie
"Doors are for people with no imagination."
- Skulduggery 

I Will Be

There's nothing I could say to you

Nothing I could ever do to make you see

What you mean to me

All the pain, the tears I cried

Still you never said goodbye and now I know

How far you'd go

I know I let you down

But it's not like that now

This time I'll never let you go

I will be all that you want

and get myself together

cos you keep me from falling apart

All my life I'll be with you forever

To get you through the day

and make everything OK

I thought that I had everything

I didn't know what life could bring

But now I see, honestly

You're the one thing I got right

The only one I let inside

Now I can breathe, cos you're here with me

And if I let you down

I'll turn it all around

Cos I will never let you go

I will be all that you want

and get myself together

cos you keep me from falling apart

All my life I'll be with you forever

To get you through the day

and make everything OK

Cos without you I can't sleep

I'm not gonna ever ever let you leave

You're all I've got, you're all I want

And without you I don't know what I'd do

I could never ever live a day without you

Here with me, do you see

You're all I need

And I will be all that you want

and get myself together

cos you keep me from falling apart

All my life I'll be with you forever

to get you through the day

and make everything OK

Old fandoms

I feel like I need something new to go crazy about. Everything I've ever been nerdy about is coming to an end or is set on hold. What to do?

Harry Potter: Practically over. I mean two more films and then what? Guess I gotta go to Orlando sometime...

Heroes: The season finale of season 4 turned out to be the show finale. So it's over. Suddenly. Without warning. Only a rumour of a made for TV-movie to keep us hoping.

Code Lyoko: Was over almost as soon as my nerdiness caught me. Four seasons of great story. Properly finished, though.

Jonas Brothers: Ended about a year ago. Nowadays I only listen to Love Bug sometimes. And for some reason Nick's wailing has started to bug me.

Avril Lavigne: Ended with The Best Damn Thing. Although, if her new album puts up to the old standards I might go crazy about her again.

Hello! Project: The current line-up fails to catch my attention in the same way the Elder Club did. Without them H!P is nothing much, although fairly unique.

Pirates of the Caribbean: So long as there's love there's hope. But although there'll be a fourth film and presumably a fifth, they wont be the same. Sure Jack Sparrow makes the story but without the other two in the line-up it will feel strangely empty I think.... So that one's probably over.

Mythology: Had it's peek in 8th grade when I tried to make a family tree of the Greek gods. Proved exceedingly difficult. Since then I've had my fair share of Greek, Egyptian, Celtic, Japanese and Scandinavian mythology.

Eddings: I started reading The Belgariad when I was 13 and that's when it escalated. I wanted everything he'd written. I even have that one book that's not fantasy... I try to delay the fact that after I've finished his latest series there will be no more. That will be the definite end of it. The end of an era for me.

So to sum it up. I need a new book series, a new TV-series, a new anime, a new musical artist, a new film series, a new author and a new historical thingy to be crazy and nerdy about. Any suggestions?

Settling back

So I've been back in Sweden for about two weeks now and some stuff has happened. Normal stuff that feels weird :P The flight back home went great. It was a cloud-free sky that Saturday and everything was on time. The 12-hour flight to London I spent watching too much TV and films and watching all of Russia and Norway/Sweden from above :) and ofc sleeping about 5 hours. When I got to Heathrow things started getting a little worse though. The plane was delayed by half an hour and it had gotten cloudy. When I arrived in Copenhagen my parents were late because the bridge had been partly closed off and the speed was extra restricted. When we got home I handed out my souvenirs to everyone and after having pancakes (Yummy!) I feel asleep about 9.30pm.

The day after my grandparents came and it was as nice as usual. And on Monday Love got home from Korea :) Everything back to normal. Me and my boyfriend spending too much time at his place being geeky, playing games, discussing games and "Niichan" and I tormenting the boyfriend with Japanese pop culture \o/ On Saturday I got to meet my best friend Kajsa for the first time in 5 months and it was great :)

On Friday and Sunday I started working again and now the summer really has gotten started :) Although it's still pretty cold here... This Tuesday I started driving again. Hopefully I'll pass the test this time!

Something that hasn't been great is being back with my parents. I've felt so independent for three months and it's been so nice. Now I'm back with them telling me stuff. Especially when it comes to flats. I will hopefully move out and live with Kajsa this autumn and I honestly can't wait. But my dad keeps telling me off and wait until I have a real job etc etc. But after I talked to both "Niichan" and Kajsa I decided with their help to just ignore him. If I'm gonna do it like he says I'll be living with my parents 'til I'm 30... And there's no way I'd do that :) And I just wanna get out of this 18000 inhabitants shithole.