my cthulhu game

Chapter 2 The King in Yellow in the Board Game Club

"..."

Looking at the text that appeared on the phone, Chen Qiang was petrified.

What about letting me choose YES or NO?
I didn't even bring cash and a power bank for my phone, let alone——

Instant glue, medical kit, power cord, laminated suitcase, windproof lighter, military flashlight, swiss army knife, tactical vest, walkie-talkie, sprayer, metal ball bat, micro jigsaw, crowbar, mohawk...

I haven’t prepared any of these necessities for investigators to kill monsters and buy goods while traveling at home!

Just open it?
And this difficulty...

Dare to feel that this is a big prize drawn as soon as it comes up!
Don't even give me a description of the mod?
"At least let me see my own character card." Chen Qiang hurriedly clicked the button "Use Investigator Function" on the main interface.The display of "the number of currently activated investigators" behind the button has changed to "1".

[Name: Chen Qiang Age: 47 Race: Human]

How could he directly show his true age combined in his previous life and present life? !Chen Qiang broke out in a cold sweat again.

【Physical status: healthy】

[Mental state: awake]

Fortunately, no anxiety, phobia, paranoia or anything like that.

[The current health value, mana value, sanity value, attributes, and skill values ​​are temporarily unavailable due to the keeper's permission not being enabled]

"Hey! Don't you even let me see the whole situation of my own character!"

Wait, there seems to be...?
[Investigator talent:

Investigator’s Eye: When skill checks are used in the module, you will automatically know the number and success of your own skill check dice (except for some skills) (can be turned off)]

[Note that the judgment rules of this system may be different from the rules of various Cthulhu running groups that you know. 】

"It's too much! Running a group game, the results of the dice should be displayed to the players as a matter of course!"

In the running game, the number of dice will determine the success or failure of key actions.

"Calm down," Chen Qiang put the phone back in his pocket, "It looks like there is no information, but in fact it has given me a lot of reminders."

……

2 minute later.

"Are you OK?"

Back in the activity room of the board game club, looking at Chen Qiang with a face as calm as water, Qin Lingxue looked very worried.

It was the evening of mid-spring, and the tall and tall Qin Lingxue was wearing a light-colored floral tunic sleeve shirt, a goose-yellow knee-length skirt and beige leather boots, showing a simple yet capable temperament.

"I'm fine," Chen Qiang asked calmly, "Xiaoxue, it's only right that our board game club has no activities tonight. Besides the two of us, is there any club member planning to use the activity room tonight?"

Qin Lingxue is the nominal president of D Big Board Game Club, and most of the daily affairs of the club are handled by the vice president, Chen Qiang.But since Qin Lingxue became Chen Qiang's girlfriend a month ago, she has become more and more enthusiastic about the club's affairs.

"Yes..." Qin Lingxue nodded obediently. She was very happy that Chen Qiang didn't continue to obsess over the topic of Arkham, "Xiao Wei just sent me a text message, saying that he has arrived downstairs and will be up soon."

"I guess, did he bring a few new games?"

"It was... bought with club funds," Xiaoxue blushed, and fiddled with her smooth black long hair, Qin Lingxue's voice dropped, "I just asked Xiaowei to pick up the courier, and I wanted to give you a surprise, but you I already knew it.”

Nominally, it was club funds, but mainly Xiaoxue paid for it herself. Of course, the purpose was to make Chen Qiang happy.

"I heard the sound of him going up the stairs," Chen Qiang said with a smile. "Hearing this sound, he must be carrying a very heavy box."

While talking with Qin Lingxue, Chen Qiang heard someone going up the stairs, and also judged that the person was carrying heavy objects.

[Listening skill check: 6/? ?success】

At the same time as he made the inference, the talent of the "Investigator's Eye" also made the result of the dice test come to Chen Qiang's mind.

From the software's perspective, Chen Qiang had just rolled his skill test dice and achieved a success.

In the "Call of Cthulhu" rule, the player's skill check roll is a random number between one and one hundred, and the result is generally as small as possible, lower than the player's skill value (usually between 1-99) It is success (Chen Qiang's character details are still hidden, he can only roughly estimate his own skill values).

For that mysterious software, maybe everything is just a game.

But for Chen Qiang in the real world... if he treats this as a pure game, he will die!

The result of the dice is just a "feedback", and the success or failure of the action still depends on Chen Qiang's own efforts.

"Thank you." Chen Qiang stretched out his hand and touched Xiaoxue's head.

My girlfriend is so cute, I still have to praise her.Sanity can be lost, but the girlfriend's favorability cannot be ignored.

"Damn it, your hair is messed up..." Xiaoxue shook her head with a reddish complexion.

……

It all started very suddenly.

But for Chen Qiang, who is a human being and proficient in Cthulhu's settings, the hints from the Keeper system are sufficient.

The name of the module "The King in Yellow in the Board Game Club" hints at the mastermind behind the scenes, and also limits the stage of the story to the board game club.

When the prompt "within a radius of 500 meters, mythical existences appear" appeared, I stayed in the toilet cubicle and did not take half a step.

It is more than 70.00% possible that the so-called "mythical existence" was brought by someone related to the board game club.

If there is no such system, or if he is ignorant of the Cthulhu mythology, maybe Chen Qiang can only wait for the incident to happen.

As the secret keeper of the Cthulhu running game, Chen Qiang was very disgusted with the investigator's practice of killing the danger in the cradle before the incident happened with the "knowledge of the real Cthulhu myth".

But now?How could Chen Qiang sit still and wait for death?

Relying on his true "Cthulhu Mythos skills", Chen Qiang would rather eliminate the crisis before it comes, while trying not to attract attention.

……

"Hello, President."

"Brother Chen."

Under the double gaze of the goddess of the academy and Chen Qiang, who was one year older than him, the boy carrying the box into the house looked very cramped.

"Why," Chen Qiang waved his hand with a smile, "Let me see, Xiao Wei, what good things did you bring?"

"Yes. These are for the president..."

He suddenly noticed that Qin Lingxue behind Chen Qiang was smiling and staring at him with warning eyes, so he quickly changed his words.

"...The board games I bought with club funds, and some I collected myself..." Wei Yuanshan, a boy wearing glasses, said, feeling Qin Lingxue's arrogance in his heart by the way.

I just deliver a courier, can I be fed a mouthful of dog food?
Chen Qiang nodded, as if subconsciously stretched out his hand, preventing Wei Yuanshan from directly opening the box.

"Wait," he said nonchalantly, "I'll turn on the computer first. I have a plan recently to count all the board games in the club. Xiaowei, you and I will record these new products first. Xiaoxue, please take With this notebook, re-note all the board games on the shelf over there, and I will check with the ones in the file later to see if there is anything missing."

Chen Qiang still has the right to speak in the club.There was no need for special persuasion, and there was no pop-up prompt to activate the persuasion skill. Qin Lingxue and Wei Yuanshan followed suit naturally.

Qin Lingxue went to the side, while Chen Qiang sat in front of the computer, with his back to the box containing the board game.

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