{"id":918,"date":"2017-04-05T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T03:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/?p=918"},"modified":"2017-04-05T22:01:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T03:01:59","slug":"call-of-cthulhu-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/2017\/04\/05\/call-of-cthulhu-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Cthulhu, 4\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I know, but when two smokestacks becomes three smokestacks, and northwest becomes northeast, we have to ask&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Pete&#8217;s right &#8211; at least it&#8217;s not upside down.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;How do you know it&#8217;s not upside down?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s how northwest became northeast!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the impending heat death of the universe, I&#8217;m ok with being warm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know! I feel like that&#8217;s something Hawver would have said if he was here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a house.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;You have a house?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes.  I live here.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Ohhh.  That&#8217;s what that means.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are large and weak-willed. Let me point this box at you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And be careful with that. It didn&#8217;t used to have matches in it, but it does now. You&#8217;re not allowed to play with them. Or run with scissors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I probably shouldn&#8217;t be involved in this. Because if I&#8217;m involved in this, I would try to stop you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought he said &#8216;mangy sons of forks.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ugh. What do I do about this?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Move.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Likely, yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have accrued a mob.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Not sure what happened.  You learn Egyptian from one guy&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh my god. I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t know any of this a month ago!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I speak Egyptian at him regularly.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Offensively.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No, I&#8217;m being polite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Currently, he does not speak in incomprehensible fish.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, he&#8217;s drugged up today&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After what happened earlier, it can&#8217;t be any more dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arson is clearly listed on my list as plus $50.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did my requisite arson; it just went above and beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HA! Success! Through the magic of Yithian technology, I have learned enough Egyptian to gather a second angry mob!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what I was thinking.  The Star of Wal-Mart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be fair, our group has pathing like a drunk monkey.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s not fair to drunk monkeys!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like we&#8217;re completely the wrong group of characters to be asking these questions. We&#8217;re all replacement characters&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to leave a terrible one-star review on Yelp.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;You, sir, are doomed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are a son of a motherless fork.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turns out, it&#8217;s right in the middle of this circle.  Where your friends are.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What did you do, Ray?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can understand why that&#8217;s a sore spot.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;He&#8217;s had five years to get over it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Or you could burn his shop down. 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