for crashing (?) the Contest Of The Arts in the last cthulhu session we didn’t actually have to dress up too much, but, y’know, it IS a snazzy event and Sammy was planning to sign up as a contestant in order to get backstage, so he was a littlefancier than usual. also suspenders jack is important to me….
Out of context quotes from our Slightly Eventful Contest Experience under the cut!
As the group prepares for the contest that evening where they hope to find Susie and the other muses, Joey, Sammy, and Bendy decide to see if Prophet has any insight to share on what’s to come.
…Or on the mysterious episode Jack had the other day that left stars in his eyes…
Sammy stared at the paper for a long time, pen hovering over the surface.
“DID SOMETHING HAPPEN TO JACK?”
He slowly set the pen down, uncertain, reading over the questions he’d left one more time before looking back up at the other two. His expression still seemed… distracted. “Don’t give him more Ink this time. He has to ask me.”
Warning:This campaign is an edited version of Call of Cthulhu: Song and Dancescenario from the Tales of the Crescent City book. While a lot has been changed, there IS spoilersfor it throughout these posts. ALSO we are currently playing this, so please don’t spoil us either!!Thanks!
SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO @bertrumstrousers WHO APPARENTLY HELPED THREN BY BRAINSTORMING AND PROVIDING SOME OF THE POSSIBLE CONTENT SHE COULD USE FOR BETRUM SHOWING UP IN THE GAME?!?! including some signature words he yells at one point, which still delights me to this day.
ART CHANGES THIS SEASON!!@inkdemonapologist and I are collabing on all the art for these summery posts!! Shazz does lines, and I compose and colour the pieces.
Little doodle of Leon! He’d been kind of around the fringes of the scenario for a while (shooting guns at the sky outside of hospitals, being a mysteriously awkward voice on the telephone) but he hadn’t actually run into the party until they tried to visit the muses’ apartment. He’s a medical student whose exposure to the occult has been fairly innocent up to this point. He’s a little(a lot) out of his depth but he’s here to help and doing his best!
Some, uh, very disparate doodles from recent Cthulhu shenanigans… Leon is an NPC we met recently! He’s a doctor and the boyfriend of one of the “muse”-possessed ladies we’re trying to find and seems VERY ANXIOUS; I don’t think he was prepared to be blindsided by two different batim boys with VERY STRONG PERSONALITIES coming out of the woodwork. we didnt mean to bully him i promise,
also recently Sammy had kind of an intense experience with encountering a Literal Muse and Prophet uh, just?????? showed up????????? he didn’t have any ink so his eyes didn’t fully Do The Thing….. tbh he was as confused about this as the rest of the boys
anyway just a small smattering of quotes this round under the jump!
Going to summarize what follows below here: I have a new editor I’m working with on a trial run, I completed at least one story and am nearing completion on another, and my momentum got whacked by injuries.
Editors!
So I finally managed to get a new editor to work on stories. So far, we’ve worked on A Fun Little Swim, Part 2. A second draft is in the works, should be ready in a couple weeks.
I may also endeavor to use StoriesOnline’s editors. Depending on the situation, I may have another story worked as well. But hey, at the very least, I’m making progress in dealing with my backlog. And just in time, too, because…
Stories!
I got more stories in the pipeline! The next part of A Long Trip to Nowhere Important has made a lot of progress. I may split it to multiple parts, though, given it’s much larger than I anticipated (already at 12k total and it’s probably going to be another 3-4k). It also inspired an alternate ending that I may do in the future. I really enjoy writing this story, it’s so much fun
I also completed the second chapter and got well into the third chapter of The Great Lake. After the third is complete, I’ll seek out edits for the set of three.
Underneath Her Skin I’m putting on ice. I like the idea, but I’m not sure how I feel about how things are set up with it. I might go back to the topic at some point.
I was actually hoping to get both A Long Trip Part 2 and The Great Lake 1-3 done this month, as a sort of personal goal. But then…
Injuries!
I sliced my finger making soup
I’m fine, though I had to go to the ER to get stitches. Consequently, though, the creative momentum I had going into February kind of collapsed. I haven’t really written much since then. Unfortunate, really, but it happens.
My hope is that next month, with editing, I’ll start regaining momentum and writing things again.
Anyway, that’s all for now. I should possibly have an update in March, depending on how fast I get A Fun Little Swim done. Take care, and remember to practice good knife etiquette. That way you don’t get injured!
