{"id":992,"date":"2018-01-24T21:36:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T03:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/?p=992"},"modified":"2018-01-24T21:36:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T03:36:52","slug":"call-of-cthulhu-1-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/2018\/01\/24\/call-of-cthulhu-1-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Cthulhu, 1\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To be fair, I never cared if I could read my notes.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doesn&#8217;t the book have instructions?!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Look, I&#8217;ve spent half this game with spells that I don&#8217;t know what they do&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hole is big enough.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;But not too big.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wait, wait &#8211; am I going to die in a hole again?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sam, Nails, two truckloads&#8230; is a truckload twelve?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the most complex casting of a spell in Call of Cthulhu.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No, we can make it more complex&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, there is a drunkard in charge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5 pts of power<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I smell like an inverted chipmunk.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;And an unwashed alcoholic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve not just seen things &#8211; they&#8217;ve been things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We only got 4 sanity for saving 53 children? 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