{"id":940,"date":"2017-06-07T22:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T03:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/?p=940"},"modified":"2017-06-07T22:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T03:04:06","slug":"call-of-cthulhu-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/2017\/06\/07\/call-of-cthulhu-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Cthulhu, 6\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;Don&#8217;t use any weapons on it, they don&#8217;t have any effect.'&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Never have I been so glad to be wrong.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;Don&#8217;t let him have a flare gun, he&#8217;ll set everything on fire&#8230;'&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was surprisingly unsurprised by Bryan&#8217;s book theft&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hate to bring this up&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;But he is, in fact, stealing things just now. I don&#8217;t know if this is an issue in YOUR expedition&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to do if I have a character with the skills on the page for what I want to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good lord. How many of Hawver&#8217;s character sheets do you have over here?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;All of them.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you need a writing utensil?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s a straw.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Except there&#8217;s not evidence that they left the spots where they were standing.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s no evidence that they stayed in the spots where they were standing, either.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Look, he can do this for hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a small ice box I&#8217;d like you to see&#8230; Stanley, remind me how long you were in there?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a human language.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s my people&#8217;s language!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nailed. Impaled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to this book, nobody would have looked in the box.  Because they assume that anybody that has read the story knows not to look in the fucking box.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he bows, only partially concealing that he hands you the piece of paper.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What does it say?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;She&#8217;s my aunt.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The book that I watched you steal and told you that I needed to teach you to be a better thief?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;How dare&#8230; [laughter] I can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have seen four year olds steal better.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It was for the mission!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Next time, leave the stealing to the person that knows how to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did you notice you had some uselses things?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I noticed I have a lot of useless things. 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