{"id":979,"date":"2017-11-29T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/?p=979"},"modified":"2017-11-29T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T04:00:16","slug":"call-of-cthulhu-1129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/2017\/11\/29\/call-of-cthulhu-1129\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Cthulhu, 11\/29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Yeah, but if he was gonna be offended by me, he could smell me at the door.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dude was mentioned all the way back in New York City?  And we just noticed?  We are on top of our game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ugh, I&#8217;m going to have to look up my notes for a character that&#8217;s unconscious and in another city&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s looking at you like you performed a specific act on a very small chicken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And since he&#8217;s not bringing it up and we&#8217;re not bringing it up, and the conversation is going way off the rails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s how you get toasts: body count.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I rationalized taking the money as a cover story, not because it&#8217;s *money.*&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, god. 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I mean, we left the city to the NPCs, and it went to hell in 15 hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I gave the gun to the sane guy.  HE gave the gun to the crazy guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, at least they can&#8217;t commit murder-suicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Does this ledger smell like chloroform to &#8211; no, I&#8217;m mixing my metaphors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>only address in the ledger in Nairobi is Tandoor Singh<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have&#8230; like&#8230; 11% of a plan.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s more like 7% of a plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have mythomania and a very high fast talk, so it&#8217;s very unlikely that anything I say is true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s not ours, is it?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No.  Hence the word &#8216;commandeered.'&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s not like that&#8217;s stopped us before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh. I wasn&#8217;t saying we should take his blood because he&#8217;s innocent. 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