{"id":813,"date":"2016-04-13T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/?p=813"},"modified":"2016-04-13T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T03:04:00","slug":"call-of-cthulhu-413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/2016\/04\/13\/call-of-cthulhu-413\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Cthulhu, 4\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Again, &#8216;poorly thought out&#8217; seems to describe a great many things&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See, that would be one of those ill-advised plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, if I had thought of that, it would have been really clever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He better not croak.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;In either case.  He better not ribbit&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pray?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t hate that skill.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Is that something you can learn&#8230;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m still mishandling my jib.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What did we run into?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I believe I&#8217;m running into one of you, because I&#8217;m not bracing&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, to be honest, I did not think this plan would fail this way.  I thought of a lot of other ways this plan would fail&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he&#8217;s doing a really, really good job of treading water.  Unfortunately, the boat is now moving backwards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, let&#8217;s see.  We&#8217;ve shot off a flash, we&#8217;ve run into the boat, someone fell overboard and yelped&#8230; I think stealth is well out of the realm of possibility at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ornamental man?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can I puke?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes.  You can do that for free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s 62 luck among friends?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is it capsizing?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I helped!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well&#8230; you took everyone&#8217;s retinas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought, I have the low luck, and surely it will go better without me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What were you up to?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Holding on for dear life?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thunder cracks like cannons&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Now who&#8217;s shooting?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The gods, technically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes.  Thank you for getting there in coherent fashion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that you have some time and whatnot, now that the ship isn&#8217;t acting like an ass&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you throw the little Asian man into the sea.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I do no such thing!  I&#8217;ll find something to wrap him in first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They must have really large fish&#8230; in chains&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;This is growing more plausible by the minute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t suppose any of you speak English?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I do, in fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They look at you with incomprehension.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I repeat the whole thing in French.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just impaled French!  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