Mafia mama?

Only in our Cthulhu game. One of my characters, "widowed" with a small child (well, her husband switched souls with a woman, and then his body was killed, leaving him trapped in a woman's body...so he isn't really dead, but it's easiest to treat the marriage as if he had) has been courted by a very amiable, sensual man who seemed too good to be true, and who came back squeaky clean in a background check. Turns out, there is one small problem...he's the local mob boss, and everything he's presenting to Tessa is a lie...he's actually brutal and viscious, the type of man who orders hits on people but keeps his own hands clean. She went to break up with him in a way that would't turn the mob's enmity against us (the story was going to be that she'd had a difficult time with the child's birth that had left her barren...he's obviously looking for a nice Catholic girl to bear babies for him). But he was so charming, and there was so much electric chemistry, that she went to bed with him instead. Turns out he's wearing a charm bag that cast a love spell on her, snaring her quite well. It also turns out that the charm contains a virility component, and now she's pregnant. I messed up on my rolling to prevent pregnancy, having a moment of stupidity where I didn't do the game mechanics right, and so, there you go. Now she's pregnant by a mobster in the small town of Arkham, Massachusetts (a creation of HP Lovecraft), where it's going to be very difficult to hide 1) a pregnancy and 2) a second child who happens to be born about 9 months later. I can always say I'm away on assignment, but at some point he's going to see the child. And being Catholic, and having vows against taking human life, abortion isn't an option in this case. The good news is even though she's just begun her pregnancy, divination showed that the child will be a girl with a sweet disposition who has more than likely been a Guardian (what we are) in a past life and will be so again.

Well life is never boring in the game, at least. Mind you, her first child was exposed to a mad doctor's serum and as a result has multiple personalities, one of which is sociopathic and will want to kill her mother someday, not that my character knows that yet.

Sigh.

PS Virtually every time one of my characters has sex in the game, she gets pregnant. Usually it's a matter of really stupendous rolls, too, rather than my own stupidity. I already have one character that's given birth to the potential anti-Christ, another that's given birth to a child that will grow up to be a sort of lifeforce vampire, etc. So far I have one seemingly normal child, and even she was conceived under strange circumstances. :)