{"id":793,"date":"2016-02-03T22:09:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T04:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/?p=793"},"modified":"2016-02-03T22:09:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T04:09:35","slug":"call-of-cthulhu-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/2016\/02\/03\/call-of-cthulhu-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Cthulhu, 2\/3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know where that word went, but let&#8217;s pretend that didn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Left.  The word went left.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;And your mouth went right.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That guy&#8217;s a father.  He has kids.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;Dagon?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have 99 problems, but intelligence ain&#8217;t one?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I have 99 problems, but bwhibibibibibibibib?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hildebrand, I do believe we are in danger.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;How is that different than normal, sir?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can I ask where you were this last weekend, ma&#8217;am?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;If I can ask if you&#8217;re single.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, Lt. Poole has gone missing.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, why are you standing here babbling at me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to my readings, they were Deep Ones.  And their father is Dagon and their mother is Hydra.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Snakes.  And mutant frogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They know we&#8217;re on to them.  I&#8217;m not sure who &#8216;they&#8217; are&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking into Carlisle expedition. STOP. Need reliable investigative team. FAIL.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So he&#8217;s not paying us, is what I&#8217;m hearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me provide you with the clearest of objectives: you work for me.  You go where I go.  Period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we should do is steal all of his notes and leave.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes!  I suggest we break things until we find something useful!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No.  We&#8217;re not looking for rupees in pots here&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You told me to distract.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ll be more specific next time&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s not terribly good-looking either.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, how are they built?  Because when it&#8217;s dark, it doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;Are you looking for good breeder&#8217;s hips?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What would you like me to roll?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;A success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not really that I&#8217;m abandoning a member of the party as it is that I&#8217;m recognizing that there&#8217;s nothing I can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I&#8217;m just going to have to contact the mayor again.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I take it this has happened before&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, they just don&#8217;t want her to come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did you find, like, the handcuff site?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Handcuff dot org.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Who knew there was an entire site devoted to handcuffs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need someone with bad die rolls who we can leave behind&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You and me will break, she will enter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are we doing during all of this?  Amassing more bail?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a voluntary conspiracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About what time do you guys want to perpetrate this shenanigan?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Plan&#8217; is a ludicrous word for what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should have come along.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Apparently, but I thought it was a terrible plan.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a stupid plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All you&#8217;re going to hear is the flap-flap-flap of his shoes on the stone floor.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Nope, not even that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the corner by the coatrack, you find a sock.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;And now you&#8217;re free!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why in this game, I go into every encounter with an empty bladder.  I find it helps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Several citations for public urination, but so far, a successful investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Exactly where was he publicly urinating?&#8217; &#8216;That way, very quickly.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, Pete.  I&#8217;m taking those odds.  There&#8217;s a one in fifty chance I&#8217;ll shoot you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did you guys take a minute to get the IDs off those zombies to see if they&#8217;re any of the missing people?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can tell by the amount of urine on the floor that I definitely didn&#8217;t recognize them.  If I did, there would be more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tell my wife I love her!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Are you married?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No.  I just wanted my last words to be extremely confusing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, my perferred firearms stance is to flail wildly, shooting at random intervals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many warrants can we rack up before we leave New York City?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;This many.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, you&#8217;re very casually fleeing for your life from the walking dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cops aren&#8217;t dumb enough to be out in this weather.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Especially not in this neighborhood where they keep disappearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you been into my brandy?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes, but that has nothing to do with the zombies?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t rented under my name, was it?&#8221;<br \/>\n(from a player) &#8220;Make a luck roll!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Hildebrand, we may need a new accountant.  This one is defective.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know where that word went, but let&#8217;s pretend that didn&#8217;t happen.&#8221; &#8220;Left. 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