my cthulhu game

Chapter 8 has no superpowers, but...

Chen Qiang has always remembered his "real" character card in the system.

[Name: Chen Qiang Age: 47 Race: Human; Occupation: Secret Keeper]

【生命值：11/11 魔法值：14/14 幸运：50/99 理智值：30/44】

Although not as exaggerated as Xiaoxue, Chen Qiang's own rational situation is also not optimistic.

Chen Qiang estimated that the shock he received when he discovered that this world was the world of Cthulhu, and the influence of the knowledge of Cthulhu mythology all reduced his sanity.

Understanding the Cthulhu Mythos will even weaken the upper limit of sanity.

【力量65；体质50；体型65；敏捷70；外貌65
Intelligence 75; Will 80; Education 70]

[Skills (except for a few special skills, only contain more than 35%):
Credit rating 98%; Cthulhu myth 55%
Accounting 65%; Charisma 36%; Computer use 35%;

Driving 35%; speaking skills 71%; English 56%; mother tongue 70%;

Library use 51%; listening 70%; persuasion 35%;

Psychology 56%; Investigation 66%]

[Module experience: King in yellow in the board game club (Module growth: speech +5%, psychology +6%)]

[Touchstone: A Man of Extraordinary Meaning

Chen Yangde (father)

Li Hua (mother)
Qin Lingxue (girlfriend)]

Compared with the original version displayed by the system, in the version for Xiaoxue, Chen Qiang omitted the "Touchstone" column related to the character background, changed the inexplicable occupation "Secret Keeper" to a student, and then removed the credit rating and Kesu The Lu myth skills are also not included in the skill growth of the first module.

In the traditional Cthulhu running game, as long as a skill is successfully used once in the module, the skill will have a certain probability of increasing at the end of the module.

It's just that the system didn't clearly tell Chen Qiang how his skills increased, but directly gave him the results. Chen Qiang always suspected that the system's standards for calculating growth were slightly different from the rules in previous group running games.

Compared with the miscellaneous skills that do not exceed 80%, Chen Qiang's only 98% skill is particularly eye-catching...

[Credit rating: 98%]

Credit rating skills determine the money investigators can control.

Relying on the advantage of foresight, Chen Qiang has already used various means to accumulate huge assets that outsiders can hardly imagine.

It's just that Chen Qiangqiong was used to it in his previous life, and he didn't want to show off at all. On the surface, he continued to live the life of a poor student.

Few people know that Chen Qiang's strongest skill...is actually his money-making ability.

……

Xiaoxue's eyeballs rolled around.

"You are yourself," she said, "then, I want to use myself as my role!"

"Reality card? Where's the white-haired female swordsman?"

"Do you want me to use the white-haired female swordsman more?"

"No, no...I mean, Xiaoxue, please..."

"I wrote the attributes and skills based on my feelings."

"Okay, everything my dear Xiaoxue said is right."

"Did you say that from the heart?"

"Just let me take a look after you finish writing."

Anyway, Xiaoxue has always been impatient with things like throwing dice to determine random numbers, so it would be better to teach her the normal card creation process next time.

"Fool. In real life, except for one or two things, everyone's skills are distributed more evenly. Such characters are usually useless in games." Xiaoxue took out a pair of glasses from her bag and put them on, showing a A kind of intellectual beauty, "Pursue strength. Of course, it is better to specialize in a certain type of skill when building a character in the game. But I still choose to be myself. In this way, as the host, it will be easier for you to control the progress of the running group, right? "

...So you know.As expected, Xiaoxue was the most considerate of me.

"How is the formula for the skill test calculated?" Xiaoxue asked, "For example, I put my ear on a secret door and eavesdrop on the monster inside?"

Why are there some examples from "Dungeons and Dragons"... Could it be that Xiaoxue is actually a fighter who loves to solve problems violently?
"Throwing a D100... Well, it is to generate a random number from 1-100," Chen Qiang said, "throwing two ten-sided dice, representing tens and ones respectively. If the result of the dice is lower than your skill value, it is a success. So the higher the skill, the better, and the lower the dice, the better. 1 means big success, 100 means doomed failure." Chen Qiang finished the core of the rules concisely.

"Um……"

"Taking the example just now, for example, if your listening skill is 60%, and you rolled 50 points in the skill check, then your skill check result is 50/60, and the listening is successful," Chen Qiang said, "This is That's why skills above 90% are so powerful. 99% that's almost impossible to fail."

“In addition to providing initial funds, what else does this credit rating do?”

"You can use this skill to borrow money, obtain a line of credit, or even ask the media to help you fight against unscrupulous trolls," Chen Qiang explained, "Anyway, you are willing to be my investigator...hey..."

Xiaoxue was already immersed in "evaluating" her own data, and didn't even hear what Chen Qiang said next.

Forget it.

The "Cthulhu's Secret Keeper" system invites people to be investigators. There are two methods. The first is to pay the same value as the invitee's current sanity from the sanity pool (the sanity value that all investigators have lost), The second is that the other party agrees to be an investigator orally or in writing (text messages, emails, and messaging software are all acceptable).

Chen Qiang's current sanity pool is 50 points.

Not to mention that Xiaoxue's sanity value is only 5, she would definitely agree to the invitation to become an investigator.So, no rush.

Looking at his girlfriend's concentrated face, Chen Qiang couldn't help but smile.

"Huh?" The sudden ringtone of the mobile phone interrupted Chen Qiang's imagination.

……

"It's me... That's right," Chen Qiang, who walked to the corner of the shop to answer the phone, listened to the voice on the other end of the phone, "...Yes, don't send it to the University City, tomorrow morning, the address on the commercial street..."

"call."

Putting down the phone, Chen Qiang heaved a sigh of relief.

"Uncle Xu."

Halfway through Chen Qiang's phone call, Uncle Xu, the owner of the ice cream shop, walked over to him, crossed his arms, and waited for him to finish the call.

"You haven't come to work these days." Uncle Xu said.

"There's something wrong," Chen Qiang said calmly, "Actually, I'm here today to ask you to resign besides dating Xiaoxue. I will... never come again."

"Feel sorry."

He bowed his head.

For Chen Qiang, part-time work is just a kind of pastime.

"Why are you apologizing?" Uncle Xu laughed dumbly, "You don't owe me anything."

Uncle Xu looked Chen Qiang up and down with a worried expression.

"To be honest, I feel that you have changed a bit," he said. "You didn't wear so many famous brands when you came here last time."

Chen Qiang listened silently.

"I have known for a long time that you are not really poor," Uncle Xu said, "but Xiao Chen, please listen to what I am saying..."

"Okay, Uncle Xu," Chen Qiang knew that once Uncle Xu started saying this "sentence", he might not be able to stop for half an hour, "I know the truth. I don't buy these famous brands to show off, but to show off. It’s the need to start a business.”

"Start a business?" Uncle Xu was taken aback.

"Uncle Xu, why do you think I quit my job?" Chen Qiang said, "I'm starting a business. The phone call just now means that the office supplies I ordered before are about to be delivered."

Chen Qiang has decided to register a new company to provide cover for the system to open the game lobby function in the future.

"Where did you get the money?" Uncle Xu was even more surprised, "Could it be that you won the lottery?"

"Where are you thinking?" Chen Qiang shook his head, "I got an angel investment."

"What project?"

"It's about IT," Chen Qiang said with a smile, and he had already thought of his words, "Uncle Xu, you know I like board games. It's a project that combines board games and the Internet."

"Don't be fooled," Uncle Xu frowned, "You don't know how difficult it is for college students to start a business now."

"Don't worry." Chen Qiang said.

Anyway, I am not starting a business at all.

　This chapter popularizes the basic content of the rules for friends who are not very clear about the COC rules.Here's a little bit to add to the full big success and big failure rules: "A roll of 01 means not only that the goal was achieved, but something good happened" "A big failure simply means that something very bad happened— —Worse than simple failure." The concept of touchstone (psychological pillar) comes from other TRPGs, and here it is understood as personal house rules (personal rules added/modified by the host when starting a group).

　　
　
(End of this chapter)