Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
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Monday, March 26, 2007

It's been a long day, and I'm tired

but it's also been a successful one, and I wanted to write just a little before I go to sleep.

The game was riveting, enjoyable, and full of action. First we fought a proto-matter conglomeration of the town aldermen. Then we found the Mi-Go (Fungi from Yuggoth) base, fought Greys (you know, the aliens with the grey skin and big black eyes) and zorched five Mi-Go, then sealed their gate. One of the Fungi managed to destroy their work, which had the added benefit of destroying all the proto-matter that had infested the town, making for easier cleanup. A young girl whose pregnancy had been altered by them lost her baby, but lived herself. But not everyone was so lucky. Those altered by the Mi-Go had their alien organs dissolve. This happened to one of the player characters whose GI tract had been replaced during a space of missing time. We were able to put the character into a suspended animation-style trance, but it will only stave off the inevitable if we can't find her help. The mages would normally be the first to contact, but they're unreachable. So Margaret, our newest player, has lost her first character, at least for now. I have to admit, the stories in Delta Green's version of Cthulhu are pretty brutal. From what our game master has said, they're not particularly campaign-oriented, and player characters are expected to die right and left. And this particular story didn't even include sanity rewards. :(

Oh well, it was interesting, and we got to impersonate the FBI (at the FBI's request, but with plausible deniability, so it was best not to get caught). But Men in Black (or some sort of agency) showed up at the end and ushered us off the site as soon as we finished the aliens off. So we have some questions as to who's running the show (and whether Greys are real aliens are just proto-matter goo used as fronts by the Mi-Go).

I love Chtulhu. I am sorry about Margaret's character, Sarai Ahn, though. Maybe it's just selfish, though, but I'm so glad it wasn't my character. He'd already been in a major plane crash on his way to his first mission. It was a completely random roll to see who was affected, at least. He did have the distinction of being hit with friendly fire (an arrow to the thigh), though. But I think he did well considering his main weapon, the mystical sword of doom, is still in Chicago in the hands of the airline and he'll have to go there to get it back. Ah, bureaucracy. Give me Mi-Go any day by comparison. You know they're evil bugs trying to put your brain in a jar. It's pretty simple; the lines are neatly drawn. Much easier than real life. It's the other things the GM throws at us that usually throw us for a loop, like cultists with guns, crazy homocidal secretaries, and legal hurdles. :)

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