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From: don@umd5.UUCP
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Subject: Re: How to be sane
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Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 14:08:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 15 14:08:00 1985
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Reply-To: don@umd5.UUCP (Don Preuss)
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In article <5247@ukc.UUCP> ncg@ukc.UUCP (Nige Gale) writes:
>
>Some of you must have played Call of Cthulhu.
>
>[...]
>So, I role-played, and looked the Beast in the eye, and emptied
>a revolver-full of blessed bullets at it, and came within a
>hair's-breadth of indefinate insanity for my pains.
>And all these namby-pamby professors whose first action when it
>appeared was to stick their head in the sand, they all got away
>scott free, sanity intact.
>It just isn't fair. TANJ

I have played CoC and I have a few comments to make:
1. How are the other players able to avert their gaze in time?
   Do they have ESP or were they forewarned?
2. If the professors know it's there, then they must have SOME
   idea of what IT is. Plus, the sounds and smells coming from
   IT (and possibly the gooey slime on the ground) might just be
   enough to cause sanity loss.
3. If these dodos are averting their eyes, they can't see very well.
   Right? That means they are better targets. Right? So what will
   the monster do? [Heh..heh]


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