{"id":925,"date":"2017-04-26T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/?p=925"},"modified":"2017-04-27T13:50:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T18:50:48","slug":"call-of-cthulhu-426","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/2017\/04\/26\/call-of-cthulhu-426\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Cthulhu, 4\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What are you?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Me.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I say pics or it didn&#8217;t happen, I meant the conception.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good, because if we had a map, it would have to be written in French or &#8211; &#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I have Egyptian!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Drink orders, or&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, the Citadel of Saladin is about five&#8230; thousand miles northwest of Sydney.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He utterly failed his French roll. So what came out was&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Cajun?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, there&#8217;s a lot of lattitude in the range of &#8216;naughtiness.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ask him why they didn&#8217;t shoot him in the head with a shotgun.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe shotguns had been invented yet in the Fourth Dynasty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The teacher will keep babbling on about ancient history until you&#8217;re all as old as him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is there anything you know that might connect this mosque to Nyarlathotep?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;She said be blunt. I was blunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next time, don&#8217;t be that blunt! Be a blunter blunt. Or a sharper blunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, good. You taught him something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My friends are looking for the black pharaoh, but unknown to them, I AM the black pharaoh! 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