Too bad this narrative is too serious for the sword of warning's shenanigans because that woman that got twisted in half definitely deserved an 'I warned you.'
"I kinda...well you know...gambled my soul in a game of poker...i know it sounds crazy,but i'm the janitor! I was gonna clean the table!,i tell you cousin,they must've cheated on me,anyways,now there is demonic loansharks i owe my soul to,give me a call if you see them arrive in a shity gray interdimensional portal"
I think he might have said: "... and my heart just cannot take it." If so, then the end of "heart" and the beginning of the word "just" must have run together, making it sound like he said "hearts."
@@andrewdiaz3529 typically when recording a voice, you give the talent (performer) at least a bottle of water. When I recorded people in studios, I would provide the largest bottles I could find and throat lozenges. Got to treat them with care 😁
20:05 - "The police officers had been killed by claw and bite marks of an animal of some kind" "It looks like we are dealing with yet another infestation of fierce Australian Drop Bears. Lock n' load boys and remember to bring fire - It's gonna' be a long, rough night." - Deputy Ole Barker
@Dark Star also we are kind of numb to that due to media and exposure. The average person back then would be considered sheltered unless they were soldiers.
@Dark Star I mean, you don't only have to roll sanity against Mythos horrors. The book suggests having you roll sanity when you do something like witness a murder - and a talking head is probably worse than that.
@Dark Star I wouldn't be so sure of that. The first time you witness something like that actually happen IRL, rather than just reading about it in a book (that being all they had at the time), it'd be enough to mess you up a bit. If your mind was already severely decayed, it might even be enough to push you over the brink.
Dad: "Where did you learn to speak the ancient chants of summoning?! Who taught you the blood rites?!?!" Kid: "IT WAS YOU, OKAY! I learned it by watching you, DAD!" Dad: "...oh...." Dad: "Yep, seems like I owe you an apology, oh Dark Lord. Sorry for jumping to conclusions." Cthulhu: "Ya ya, that's fine, but seriously man, spend more time with your kid. That little creep is BEGGING for some parent-child bonding, and I'm no substitute. Plus I might eat him, so...you know..." Dad: "I know, I know. Just so busy with work and the rituals and plotting the end of humanity..." Cthulhu: "Hey, you're not an immortal aberration summoned across time and space. You only have so much time on this little dust ball before its over, probably by my hand. You gotta MAKE the time for your kid. Parenting is all about sacrifice, and doing what's best for the little man. And because I'm a generous herald of the dark forces beyond the stars, I'm gonna push back the encroaching darkness for an hour. Go spend your last waking moments of sanity with your boy. Let him know his dad is THERE for him, at least until the Mi-Go tear your brain out for use in their experiments." Dad: "Thanks, oh Dark Lord! You truly are hrrrrrr Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtaghn!!" Cthulhu: "Ah, crap. Should have pushed darkness back a bit sooner. Welp, might as well eat that kid now."
Reminds me of a comic strip I once read about a boy summoning Cthulhu to ask them how to talk to a girl they like and Cthulhu pretending to be the girl they like so they can practice
@@matthewletexier The Turtle Molesters? Yeah, it was. But because the censor sounded like it had an f and and s at the end (Puffin was just making random noises to censor for the goof), they became known as the "Turtle Fuckers." At least Warriors of Really Shitty Timing was better.
Whoa! In my opinion this quote is just... just plain wrong. In Call of Cthulhu there are no 'heroes'. You can find bloodthirsty cultists, regular people not aware of impending doom, or the ones that will end as a snack for some crawling abomination or rotting feast for maggots, because they misspelled one letter in 6 hour ritual. If they are less lucky some insane asylum will be place of their demise, after long years of rambling about the things that lurk in darkness. Pulp Cthulhu on the other hand... let's load our Tommyguns and shotguns, jump into a tank and shoot those damned aliens back to their abbys!
@@Schovelink I think the quote can be correct. If any person willing or unwilling puts their life on the line to push back the darkness even if it is Futile in the grand scheme of things. I would call that person a hero
@@jsteckle4897 In that definition, you are right. But for me Call of Cthulhu universe is so full of decay and corruption, that the term 'hero', which implies hope and light, is just... out of place. One of the CoC handbooks even says something like 'player's characters are just humans so we call them Investigators, if you are looking for Heroes then Pulp Cthulhu is probably for you.'
Meanwhile in my campaign: A therapist tries to break up a fight between an officer and a private investigator while a pro boxer talks about Cheese Puffs after reading 8 pages of the Necronomicon.
Of COURSE a group of nerds would, when faced with invisible monsters and spider spewing corpse puppets, spend half their time arguing if something is or is not an anachronism.
@@Greshgore I agree but I do wish there was a little compromise between the amount of illustrations and how much Ben talks. But I do understand how much work that is on his end, so I’m always happy with either short and animated or long and sectionally illustrated.
Seriously though, it wasn't difficult to get alcohol during prohibition. It also wasn't illegal to possess. All the laws dealt with sale, transport and manufacture.
Hey, that's the Call of Cthulhu scenario Edge of Darkness (with some customizations to fit PCs backstory). I knew it seemed familiar, because I ran it for my friends on Halloween. The hook in the video is good, but it's very different from the scenario. That's why it took me so long to recognize it. Great job fitting the scenario to your overall story!
Man I just want to say I was going to stop playing Dungeons and Dragons and rpgs in general but your vids have made me reconsider. Thanks for your amazing content.
Okay okay I’m immature I know but also I’m so surprised no one has commented on “For the right price I’ll take DI-(Richard)-CK anywhere.” Or how bad that sounds out of context
You know, there hasn't been a dull moment in ANY of these Call of Cthulhu stories you've told us so far, and I'm desperately twitching to do some Call of Cthulhu stuff again myself. This video is the final push for me to finally awaken and walk the earth once again, twisting reality around me as I unearth the ancient mysteries of this world. Mysteries best left forgotten, as my group of investigators delve deeper than they should as unstoppable events rush over them as if they were just pebbles at the bottom of the stream. Or they could possibly prove themselves to be rocks that divert the flow of these events, but never to stop it. History demands that these evils become unleashed - unbound by the stars to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting inhabitants of the earth. They cannot stop it, they may only delay the inevitable. For history abhors a paradox. Melodrama aside, my creative slump is now an escalator. Thank you for the video!
I was so happy to see this video pop up that I clicked immediately and did the Charleston. Note: they had wire which was like reel to reel but replace the tape with wire. Oh a recording via beeswax rolls and vinyl records.
This is an alternate reality where Nicola Tesla created everything from the year 2000 100 years early. Plot problems solved. :D Also, Thomas Edison gets thrown down a mine shaft because the Gamemaster does not like him.
2:48 What kind of gun? I'm wondering how silly it is for the police to see the woman's corpse (that was twisted and ripped in half) and say, yep this looks like the work of [insert gun type or bullet caliber here'. Even if Dick was carrying something like a 9mm they might have thought he had a shotgun and discarded it before he was captured.
The interior walls of most buildings will not stop bullets, so if you're in an apartment building and empty your gun at an insubstantial monster, there's a strong likelihood you just shot one or more of your neighbors.
Well no not a strong liklihood. There is no such thing as probable first off, second actually people still dont get hit all that much or every time a bullet wizzes, inside or outside, regardless of how much penetration there is, which is dependent on a lot of things, including the number of walls, studs, blocking objects like sinks and such, and just plain old dirtit hits outside. Though that is a notable risk to keep in mind in RPGs for sure. Will have to remember it on my list of other accuracy and missing and hitting things I have to worry about for my developing system. Thanks for the reminder of more work... Although I just need to know where the bullet went, the rest is trajectory and substances or persons in the way, so no more than the work we were already doing? Always be careful and avoid the false criticism of Story and Storytelling. I have seen people complain about bullets being stopped by cars in movies when in life and in this Primary World we live in they go right through. But in our world the bullet fails to pierce a padlock, and is deflected by something so small and fragile looking with parts assembled, where in the Story World, the Seconday World, they break the lock. Human intuition and flawed understanding of our own world is normal and bound to leave us ignorant and mistaken. It passes over into our creation of Secondary Art and a Secondary World of Story. The only real difference which is critical is that for Story it still doesnt matter...Belief in the Story is about the Story's World and the Story's Reality and Realism, its own Facts and Laws of Nature, Truth, Reality, and Intrinsic Existence, what is True there, that we enjoy of its Art, its Nature, its Beauty, and World and Reality itself, and not "mistakes" concerning the Reality that is not real at all in the Story World. J.R.R. Tolkien, and his essay, On Fairy Stories. I recommend it. We spent years proving this reminder again and again. The difference and total and complete seperation of Our World from the Story World, the Primary Truth and Reality from the Secondary Truth and Reality we Subcreate in the Image of the First. Also, locks can be shot off, and maybe an older lock it was easier to do so, as has been joked before, but it depends on the gun, or number of rounds, and the lock, regardless. There are incidents of a police vehicle being riddled and shot up inside and out by an attacker and neither occupant being harmed whatsoever. I used to say a blasterfight may be closer to muskets mixed with machine guns, but later on we realized the kind of crazy missing and hitting happens all the time in gun fights in Our World and Reality.
I’d like to see a sequel campaign to this taking place in the 1940 or 50’s about these PC’s kids rebelling against their parents and accidentally summoning some dark entity.
Cthulhu in 1920: Fools! You summoned me for your mundane desires and now I will eradicate the humans like ants! Cthulhu in 2020: Fools! You summonsed me for your mundane desire...What!? What the actual hell happened to this world? Seriously guys? I leave for 100 years and you little ants managed to fubar the world without help? I'm not supposed to say that but I am proud...ish? Yeah, proud and imma head out, peace ✌, oh good luck in dooming the solar system too 👍
When listening to Dead Uncle Tracy, I began to think that you ought to go into Audiobooks. I could listen to your gravitas-packed monologuing for ages.
If it hasn't been mentioned already, I'd like to point out that the second half of this story is adapted from one of the scenarios in the Cthulhu 5th edition handbook, called "Edge of Darkness." In the original version, the Stranger monster can't go into the main room of the house, but will likely kill any characters leaving the premises. I'd highly recommend using it to get someone into Call of Cthulhu, and this was a adaptation!
I love these stories with occasional pics. The recap versions are easier and more streamlined, so my ADHD brain doesn't get distracted and feels like it has to pause the video every so often. Love this version/type of video more than the DnD superhero story or any of the critical role videos. Please keep them coming!
Me: *tries not to laugh at Jane's comment* Me: *TRIES NOT TO LAUGH AT JANE'S COMMENT* Also Me: *Spends 5 minutes snickering to himself and has to rewind several times to catch the narration he missed*
The more I hear about CoC the more I want it. I'm just afraid it'll be too girthy to get in to, you know ? But it just sounds so satisfying to really wrap my head around CoC and play around with, you know ?
While CoC is definitely hard at times, it's really rewarding with a good group. You might be stretched to your limits, but you'll come to love the challenge and be begging for more in no time. Fair warning though, when you first start out you'll be taking a serious pounding and just have to bear with it until you get into the right rhythm.
I’ve watched all of your videos several times now. After a period of time, I am able to forget a good amount of the details and enjoy the humor and suffering again. So thank you for that. I hope you’re still making content.
Yeah, having your campaign take place in the 1920's can be a pain to write for in regards to the technology at that time unless you do your research. There were so many technical innovations and inventions between the 1930's-1950's, it'd be like someone in the year 2120 making a tabletop seetting take place in the 1990's and putting in things like smartphones, major media websites like UA-cam/Twitter/ect., face-timing, drones, ect. The person of today might think confusing those things as being culturally relevant in the 90's as a dumb mistake, but I bet the people who were born in the 1920's/1930's would say the same about people who think things live TV's, microwaves, and tape recorders were common place in that time too. Edit: Fun little tidbit, I was originally going to put "Flashlights" on the list of things people might confuse as being common place in the 1920's, but then I looked it up and guess when Flashlights were invented? 1899. So, yeah, Flashlights would probably be an easily obtainable thing in the 1920's. Go figure.
Flashlights are in the core rulebook on the pricelist for 1920, for 5.95 :) But yeah, I'm currently running a oneshot set in otctober of 1985 and had to do my fair share of research for it as well (for example, I had to stretch the fact a bit, that the PCs were able to examine a PC with windows runnning on it, because the first iteration of windows where in stores in december of 1985...)
Flashlights or 'electric torches' were commonly issued to soldiers in WWI. So not only did they exist, they were considered robust enough for military use.
They had the beginnings of fingerprinting and collecting forensic data in the 1920s. It wasn’t even close to what we have now. At best, you could take fingerprints and send in to a local police precinct and hope that they had them on record, but that was mostly for criminals, as the mass fingerprinting of individuals didn’t happen until the late 1930s
Nice game! Tracy's family should get together sometime, i'd be a real *SCREAM* ... I am so glad i waited to post this until people stopped watching this video...
The term ‘confirmation bias’ was first used in a 1977 paper detailing an experimental study on the topic (Mynatt, Doherty, & Tweney, 1977). Although his uncle said it on a time traveling tape-recorded so... At least its in theme.
Confirmation bias as a psychological concept wasn't confirmed until the late 70s, but the idea of "you see what you wanna see" definitely existed long before that.
Fun Fact: Whence means 'from where', so saying 'from whence' is saying 'from from where'. So don't do it. Edit: Fun Fact: So the first point about it meaning ‘from from where’ is right, but apparently both forms were used throughout history, so while ‘from whence’ is repetitive in meaning, it can be viewed as historically accurate.
Fun fact, enough...From whence is historical regardless. Pedantry and language correctiveness gets you nowhere. Humans overcorrect falsely. Ergo especially language, which is why it is never the same, hahahaha!
you know, between James Peter Enis and DIck Tracy im starting to notice a pattern when it comes to Call of Cthulu Investigator names, than again considering the game's shortened name is CoC i...probably shouldn't be this surprised
"As the woman in the hall is twisted and broken, Tracy looks back long enough to shout "I waaarrrnnned you!"
So Tracy is the Flawed Sword of Warning now?
@@bast4rdlyreaper bro no spoilers pleaze
@@jesuschrist9677 ?
@@bast4rdlyreaper it’s a joke about how people don’t like movie plots getting spoiled.
@@bast4rdlyreaper Who thinks we should have puffin forest rene rate and entire call cthululu story
Hearing Puffin do every voice is just too good
Agreed he is super talented
Yeah, he must have practiced for years
Gm:"It's one of America's finest cities."
Savage Rage: "RIDDLED WITH CRIME!"
It’s ok, they’re with me.
Detective Rage, San Diego P.D.
@@islaydragons1563 *clenches buttcheeks furiously*
@@islaydragons1563 *Detective Detective Savage "Savage Rage" Rage.
Too bad this narrative is too serious for the sword of warning's shenanigans because that woman that got twisted in half definitely deserved an 'I warned you.'
Too serious? Come on, with the constant "they didn't have that in the 20's" the sword of warning would have been a welcomed addition.
If it's to graphic for you, just turn back to HD (high definitiv)
Yes because “with enough money, I’ll take Dick anywhere!” Is too serious?
@@duckbuttah915 At least the adventure didn't end with a Dick in a box.
Sword very far away: "I waaaaaaaaaaarnnnnned you!"
"Hey cousin, let's go bowling! Also, I need your help with another demon I summoned."
"I kinda...well you know...gambled my soul in a game of poker...i know it sounds crazy,but i'm the janitor! I was gonna clean the table!,i tell you cousin,they must've cheated on me,anyways,now there is demonic loansharks i owe my soul to,give me a call if you see them arrive in a shity gray interdimensional portal"
Roman for fucksakes, I DON'T WANT TO GO FUCKING BOWLING!!! 🤣
@@michelveilleux1275 Okay, cuz. Maybe some other time.
Me: oh corny intro, cool.... Wait a second this narrator sounds familiar.... Laughing when i hear dick's name
He's the best investigator I know(cough cough)
"I can take Dick anywhere" that was the best I cracked up laughing
"for the right price"
"I'm too old and my hearts can't take it"
How many hearts does he have?
Time lord confirmed
I think he might have said:
"... and my heart just cannot take it."
If so, then the end of "heart" and the beginning of the word "just" must have run together, making it sound like he said "hearts."
Plushies of Whimsy the Aboleth when?
Who else wants audiobooks read by Trixie Starbright and Abserd?
You want him coughing blood!?!?!?
@@andrewdiaz3529 typically when recording a voice, you give the talent (performer) at least a bottle of water. When I recorded people in studios, I would provide the largest bottles I could find and throat lozenges. Got to treat them with care 😁
yes, just yes
@@Audiotrocious I was joking about how in the Trixie Starbright video he would periodically draw himself coughing blood.
:)
@@andrewdiaz3529 I am aware and was adding commentary on how it could be done with less of Ben’s blood 😜
I understand Dick Tracy is a reference to the old comic character, but did they run this game just to make Dick jokes?
Was there a lot of dick published ?
@@romainsavioz5466 At the time they really shoved Dick down people's throats.
...Too far?
@@thebolas000 After "for the right price, I can take Dick anywhere," I think you're in the clear.
I have one of those in my game. Dick is a dick.
sticking the Dicks pretty smoothly though
"Chicago's a lady that's in turmoil. Unruly and violent, riddled with crime."
*IT STILL IS!* Like, what the hell!?
Chiraq or Chicongo. Take your pick.
20:05 - "The police officers had been killed by claw and bite marks of an animal of some kind"
"It looks like we are dealing with yet another infestation of fierce Australian Drop Bears.
Lock n' load boys and remember to bring fire - It's gonna' be a long, rough night." - Deputy Ole Barker
You fool! Drop bears evolved to reproduce in fire just like our trees, you'll just make more of them!
This story is in the the scariest place ever ..... CALIFORNIAAAAA !!!!
The Horror of the Left Coast.
NOOOOOOO0! Not California!
Land of Fire! 🔥🔥🔥🌲
There are a thousand Harvey Weinstein like people still operating there, you're not far off.
I told you, not in front of the children!
5:46 this sound bite is gonna haunt you puffin, XD
I’m not surprised there aren’t any adds on this video
What? I say that all the time. It's never caused me any trouble.
.......though I am a regular at the clinic
I had to check the comment section immediately after hearing that line, glad I wasn't disappointed.
I could not stop laughing at this one.
"The severed head starts talking."
Yep, gonna have to roll sanity checks.
@Dark Star and if the lawyer was black? Oh boy. Successful non white people would terrify him.
@Dark Star but what if you actually saw a real head talking in real life. That’ll surely cost some sanity points. Definitely if it’s a relative
@Dark Star also we are kind of numb to that due to media and exposure. The average person back then would be considered sheltered unless they were soldiers.
@Dark Star I mean, you don't only have to roll sanity against Mythos horrors. The book suggests having you roll sanity when you do something like witness a murder - and a talking head is probably worse than that.
@Dark Star I wouldn't be so sure of that. The first time you witness something like that actually happen IRL, rather than just reading about it in a book (that being all they had at the time), it'd be enough to mess you up a bit. If your mind was already severely decayed, it might even be enough to push you over the brink.
"He looked back to the woman picked up by the invisible creature"
Oh oh, its a star vampire.
A what?
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231
It's a creature that only can be seen when it drinks the blood of its victims.
Alas, as far as I can tell, it was not a star vampire. But still, it bore a strong resemblance to one.
@@RadiantJo like... You can see the blood in it or something?
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 No,
You can see the blood being drained from its victim into it.
Dad: "Where did you learn to speak the ancient chants of summoning?! Who taught you the blood rites?!?!"
Kid: "IT WAS YOU, OKAY! I learned it by watching you, DAD!"
Dad: "...oh...."
Dad: "Yep, seems like I owe you an apology, oh Dark Lord. Sorry for jumping to conclusions."
Cthulhu: "Ya ya, that's fine, but seriously man, spend more time with your kid. That little creep is BEGGING for some parent-child bonding, and I'm no substitute. Plus I might eat him, so...you know..."
Dad: "I know, I know. Just so busy with work and the rituals and plotting the end of humanity..."
Cthulhu: "Hey, you're not an immortal aberration summoned across time and space. You only have so much time on this little dust ball before its over, probably by my hand. You gotta MAKE the time for your kid. Parenting is all about sacrifice, and doing what's best for the little man. And because I'm a generous herald of the dark forces beyond the stars, I'm gonna push back the encroaching darkness for an hour. Go spend your last waking moments of sanity with your boy. Let him know his dad is THERE for him, at least until the Mi-Go tear your brain out for use in their experiments."
Dad: "Thanks, oh Dark Lord! You truly are hrrrrrr Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtaghn!!"
Cthulhu: "Ah, crap. Should have pushed darkness back a bit sooner. Welp, might as well eat that kid now."
[Cthulhu cares springs from the background]
This was an awesome psa....
Oddly wholesome...in an Eldritch kind of way.
That's our Cthulhu.
Reminds me of a comic strip I once read about a boy summoning Cthulhu to ask them how to talk to a girl they like and Cthulhu pretending to be the girl they like so they can practice
Knowing what a Mi-Go is now...That ain't funny...I mean, I lol, but it ain't right...
"For the right price, I can take Dick anywhere"
That got me man. I haven't laughed that hard at a video in some time.
Remember when Puffin censored his swears? Lol
Yeah, I remember. It’s why people thought the Turtle Friends were called the Turtle Fuckers instead of Turtle Molesters.
@@jesternario was that their actual title of them? LOL.
@@matthewletexier The Turtle Molesters? Yeah, it was. But because the censor sounded like it had an f and and s at the end (Puffin was just making random noises to censor for the goof), they became known as the "Turtle Fuckers." At least Warriors of Really Shitty Timing was better.
@@jesternario oh great another name I have to censor
@@jesternario Turtle Fuckers is better
Call of Cthulhu: Where you either die a hero, or live long enough to become a fluid-draining abomination.
--Seth Skorkowsky
Whoa! In my opinion this quote is just... just plain wrong. In Call of Cthulhu there are no 'heroes'. You can find bloodthirsty cultists, regular people not aware of impending doom, or the ones that will end as a snack for some crawling abomination or rotting feast for maggots, because they misspelled one letter in 6 hour ritual. If they are less lucky some insane asylum will be place of their demise, after long years of rambling about the things that lurk in darkness. Pulp Cthulhu on the other hand... let's load our Tommyguns and shotguns, jump into a tank and shoot those damned aliens back to their abbys!
@@Schovelink I think the quote can be correct. If any person willing or unwilling puts their life on the line to push back the darkness even if it is Futile in the grand scheme of things. I would call that person a hero
@@jsteckle4897 In that definition, you are right. But for me Call of Cthulhu universe is so full of decay and corruption, that the term 'hero', which implies hope and light, is just... out of place. One of the CoC handbooks even says something like 'player's characters are just humans so we call them Investigators, if you are looking for Heroes then Pulp Cthulhu is probably for you.'
We have come
Did a take in the air as I read as "Call of Duty" for some reason.
Ah, Call Of Cthulhu, “God isn’t dead, but you wish it was.”
A foolish notion. That is not dead which can eternal lie.
@Dark Star I assumed he meant the old gods.
Best HP lovecraft joke I have ever heard my man
@Dark Star Well.. elder gods are there...
@@ancapftw9113 and with strange eons even death may die
This is an adaptation of the Edge of Darkness pre made module, I love the way it was altered and way more spooky, great job.
Man I just started rewatching your videos, perfect timing.
I have never been so plagued with a feeling of "oh, I never thought I'd see one of these again."
Meanwhile in my campaign:
A therapist tries to break up a fight between an officer and a private investigator while a pro boxer talks about Cheese Puffs after reading 8 pages of the Necronomicon.
Dang, you should be hired to record audio books. Your voice fits it perfectly.
In Trixie Starbright’s voice
In Abserd’s voice
@@taylorgoldman130 both
@Nicholas Squires Abserd’s voice for the male characters, Trixie Starbright’s voice for the female characters.
Of COURSE a group of nerds would, when faced with invisible monsters and spider spewing corpse puppets, spend half their time arguing if something is or is not an anachronism.
I’m already loving this more than the other Call of Cthulhu story. Good comedy mixed with drama and suspense!
And longer, more Ben is best Ben
@@Greshgore I agree but I do wish there was a little compromise between the amount of illustrations and how much Ben talks. But I do understand how much work that is on his end, so I’m always happy with either short and animated or long and sectionally illustrated.
“Riddled with crime.”
Me immediately thinking about San Francisco because of Savage Rage: “RiDdLeD wItH cRiMe!”
Ben, where have you been for so long? Of all the RPG content I'm watching I missed yours the most
It's only been a month or so.... By the Gods I hate quarantine time so much
It hasn't been that long, and it takes a while to make animations.
Seriously though, it wasn't difficult to get alcohol during prohibition. It also wasn't illegal to possess. All the laws dealt with sale, transport and manufacture.
Those last three things make it difficult to get though unless someone needed money and had some alcohol saved somewhere (ya know “Supply & Demand”)
So it was Difficult to get it
Because people weren't allowed to make it
You listed the three reasons *why* it was difficult to get.
Hey, that's the Call of Cthulhu scenario Edge of Darkness (with some customizations to fit PCs backstory). I knew it seemed familiar, because I ran it for my friends on Halloween.
The hook in the video is good, but it's very different from the scenario. That's why it took me so long to recognize it.
Great job fitting the scenario to your overall story!
'What we call - the stranger'
Well we all fall in love, but we disregard the danger
Man I just want to say I was going to stop playing Dungeons and Dragons and rpgs in general but your vids have made me reconsider. Thanks for your amazing content.
Why would you do that?!? Sounds like you just need some new people to play with.
@@D_Boone true
@@D_Boone Tasha's Cauldron
@@youcantbeatk7006 Tasha's Hideous Slaughter
When he said „riddled with crime“ I thought Savage Rage was going to solve this mystery xD
He would punch the mystery
"but he died from a heart-attack last week" Yeah nothing suss about that
Okay okay I’m immature I know but also
I’m so surprised no one has commented on “For the right price I’ll take DI-(Richard)-CK anywhere.”
Or how bad that sounds out of context
You're not the only one
I was just making this comment. Puffin knew what he did here.
The power of innuendo was inside of you all along... you sick bastard!
I hope Lazy’s name isn’t an innuendo😨
The intro was worse
This would have been an interesting Dick Tracey series. Imagine people hearing this over the radio.
The moment I heard the entity was called The Stranger:
Magnus Archives theme plays in my head
You know, there hasn't been a dull moment in ANY of these Call of Cthulhu stories you've told us so far, and I'm desperately twitching to do some Call of Cthulhu stuff again myself. This video is the final push for me to finally awaken and walk the earth once again, twisting reality around me as I unearth the ancient mysteries of this world. Mysteries best left forgotten, as my group of investigators delve deeper than they should as unstoppable events rush over them as if they were just pebbles at the bottom of the stream.
Or they could possibly prove themselves to be rocks that divert the flow of these events, but never to stop it. History demands that these evils become unleashed - unbound by the stars to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting inhabitants of the earth. They cannot stop it, they may only delay the inevitable. For history abhors a paradox.
Melodrama aside, my creative slump is now an escalator. Thank you for the video!
I was so happy to see this video pop up that I clicked immediately and did the Charleston.
Note: they had wire which was like reel to reel but replace the tape with wire.
Oh a recording via beeswax rolls and vinyl records.
This man's storytelling is just, amazing.
This is an alternate reality where Nicola Tesla created everything from the year 2000 100 years early. Plot problems solved. :D Also, Thomas Edison gets thrown down a mine shaft because the Gamemaster does not like him.
I don’t think 1920’s culture could handle Twitter.
@@bigredwolf6 People from the 1920's were tough. I believe current Twitter Trolls would not be able to handle them.
Tracy’s uncle is a true Lovecraftian, speaking only in long bouts of exposition
The moment you said riddled with crime, the only thing I could think of is: Detective Detective Savage "Savage Rage" Rage
2:48 What kind of gun? I'm wondering how silly it is for the police to see the woman's corpse (that was twisted and ripped in half) and say, yep this looks like the work of [insert gun type or bullet caliber here'. Even if Dick was carrying something like a 9mm they might have thought he had a shotgun and discarded it before he was captured.
"The city needs Dick, Dick Tracy."
"For the right price I can take Dick anywhere!"
I love this story already.
I love the struggles to make the campagin as historycally accurate as possible.
Ben going "You can't tell me what to do! Nuh-uh!" has to be one of the best things about this channel.
We need more Call of Cthulhu, Ben. Please keep them coming!
The interior walls of most buildings will not stop bullets, so if you're in an apartment building and empty your gun at an insubstantial monster, there's a strong likelihood you just shot one or more of your neighbors.
I was thinking the same. Maybe if you hit an exterior brick wall there wouldn't be unintended causalities.
Well no not a strong liklihood. There is no such thing as probable first off, second actually people still dont get hit all that much or every time a bullet wizzes, inside or outside, regardless of how much penetration there is, which is dependent on a lot of things, including the number of walls, studs, blocking objects like sinks and such, and just plain old dirtit hits outside.
Though that is a notable risk to keep in mind in RPGs for sure. Will have to remember it on my list of other accuracy and missing and hitting things I have to worry about for my developing system. Thanks for the reminder of more work...
Although I just need to know where the bullet went, the rest is trajectory and substances or persons in the way, so no more than the work we were already doing?
Always be careful and avoid the false criticism of Story and Storytelling. I have seen people complain about bullets being stopped by cars in movies when in life and in this Primary World we live in they go right through. But in our world the bullet fails to pierce a padlock, and is deflected by something so small and fragile looking with parts assembled, where in the Story World, the Seconday World, they break the lock. Human intuition and flawed understanding of our own world is normal and bound to leave us ignorant and mistaken. It passes over into our creation of Secondary Art and a Secondary World of Story. The only real difference which is critical is that for Story it still doesnt matter...Belief in the Story is about the Story's World and the Story's Reality and Realism, its own Facts and Laws of Nature, Truth, Reality, and Intrinsic Existence, what is True there, that we enjoy of its Art, its Nature, its Beauty, and World and Reality itself, and not "mistakes" concerning the Reality that is not real at all in the Story World.
J.R.R. Tolkien, and his essay, On Fairy Stories. I recommend it. We spent years proving this reminder again and again. The difference and total and complete seperation of Our World from the Story World, the Primary Truth and Reality from the Secondary Truth and Reality we Subcreate in the Image of the First.
Also, locks can be shot off, and maybe an older lock it was easier to do so, as has been joked before, but it depends on the gun, or number of rounds, and the lock, regardless. There are incidents of a police vehicle being riddled and shot up inside and out by an attacker and neither occupant being harmed whatsoever. I used to say a blasterfight may be closer to muskets mixed with machine guns, but later on we realized the kind of crazy missing and hitting happens all the time in gun fights in Our World and Reality.
I’d like to see a sequel campaign to this taking place in the 1940 or 50’s about these PC’s kids rebelling against their parents and accidentally summoning some dark entity.
Cthulhu in 1920: Fools! You summoned me for your mundane desires and now I will eradicate the humans like ants!
Cthulhu in 2020: Fools! You summonsed me for your mundane desire...What!? What the actual hell happened to this world? Seriously guys? I leave for 100 years and you little ants managed to fubar the world without help? I'm not supposed to say that but I am proud...ish? Yeah, proud and imma head out, peace ✌, oh good luck in dooming the solar system too 👍
Cut to Nyarlathotep drinking a slushie leaning against a wall, a satisfied look on whatever face it's using this week.
When listening to Dead Uncle Tracy, I began to think that you ought to go into Audiobooks. I could listen to your gravitas-packed monologuing for ages.
I have been waiting for the author to return to these kind of content for a time, I love it.
So, this guy who summoned the Stranger... he sounds like the Narrator from Darkest Dungeon, but slightly less awful a person.
That monologue blew my mind. Didn't know you had it in you, Puffin.
Fantastic radio play! Always fun 🤩 to hear Puffin to tell stories about Dick
Seems the adventure was heavily inspired by the Call of Cthulhu scenario Edge of Darkness. I like the changes !
Perfect timing, I'm about to play my first CoC campaign in a couple hours! (Online)
Once your comfortable with system make sure to try to play cthulhu pulp also it's a more fun system imo worth a try to see if you feel the same.
Mom voice: Billy are you summoning eldritch horrors again ?
Billy: nooo momm I m just doing drugs with my friends I swear
If it hasn't been mentioned already, I'd like to point out that the second half of this story is adapted from one of the scenarios in the Cthulhu 5th edition handbook, called "Edge of Darkness." In the original version, the Stranger monster can't go into the main room of the house, but will likely kill any characters leaving the premises. I'd highly recommend using it to get someone into Call of Cthulhu, and this was a adaptation!
I love these stories with occasional pics. The recap versions are easier and more streamlined, so my ADHD brain doesn't get distracted and feels like it has to pause the video every so often. Love this version/type of video more than the DnD superhero story or any of the critical role videos. Please keep them coming!
I really hope there is more things like these Replays are good to listen to when in school because I don't have to watch the animation
Yes I've been waiting on new CoC content from you for a while now. Since they arent as common I always feel they are a little more special.
Puffin you're really good at commentating a horror story
Me: *tries not to laugh at Jane's comment*
Me: *TRIES NOT TO LAUGH AT JANE'S COMMENT*
Also Me: *Spends 5 minutes snickering to himself and has to rewind several times to catch the narration he missed*
2:14 Probably the smartest thing you could do when something Lovecraftian pops into your life. Aside from burn it, of course.
The more I hear about CoC the more I want it. I'm just afraid it'll be too girthy to get in to, you know ? But it just sounds so satisfying to really wrap my head around CoC and play around with, you know ?
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It can be pretty rough the first time, but after that you just slide right into it
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While CoC is definitely hard at times, it's really rewarding with a good group. You might be stretched to your limits, but you'll come to love the challenge and be begging for more in no time. Fair warning though, when you first start out you'll be taking a serious pounding and just have to bear with it until you get into the right rhythm.
I’ve watched all of your videos several times now. After a period of time, I am able to forget a good amount of the details and enjoy the humor and suffering again. So thank you for that. I hope you’re still making content.
"For the right price, I can take Dick anywhere!" I'm dying! XD
Puffin is so good at voices and animation. He could make his own cartoon and I'd watch it
Previously: Alaska, 1923
Now: Chicago, 1923, 2 years has passed
Truly Old Ones screwed the timeline.
Richard Tracy really enjoys using interesting phrasing with this name
Yeah, having your campaign take place in the 1920's can be a pain to write for in regards to the technology at that time unless you do your research. There were so many technical innovations and inventions between the 1930's-1950's, it'd be like someone in the year 2120 making a tabletop seetting take place in the 1990's and putting in things like smartphones, major media websites like UA-cam/Twitter/ect., face-timing, drones, ect.
The person of today might think confusing those things as being culturally relevant in the 90's as a dumb mistake, but I bet the people who were born in the 1920's/1930's would say the same about people who think things live TV's, microwaves, and tape recorders were common place in that time too.
Edit: Fun little tidbit, I was originally going to put "Flashlights" on the list of things people might confuse as being common place in the 1920's, but then I looked it up and guess when Flashlights were invented? 1899. So, yeah, Flashlights would probably be an easily obtainable thing in the 1920's. Go figure.
Flashlights are in the core rulebook on the pricelist for 1920, for 5.95 :)
But yeah, I'm currently running a oneshot set in otctober of 1985 and had to do my fair share of research for it as well (for example, I had to stretch the fact a bit, that the PCs were able to examine a PC with windows runnning on it, because the first iteration of windows where in stores in december of 1985...)
5.95?! Hellll no! I'll stick to my lantern and oil thank you!
Fun fact: Flashlights were called torches in some places back then.
Flashlights or 'electric torches' were commonly issued to soldiers in WWI. So not only did they exist, they were considered robust enough for military use.
The amount of sick jokes in this hilarious.
Not every day you see such good comedy about a detective.
This adventure is very close to the classic "Edge of darkness". Would recommend, very good for starting a brand new campaign
Running edge of darkness for my family tonight
I ran Edge of Darkness for my group. Killed an investigator.
Good times, good times...
I would LOVE to play any game with these guys. Ben you are so funny.
One of their kids summons Cthulu.
Kid: "Well, at least I passed my final exam."
Cthulhu will absolutely be summoned by some 'rebellious' teens haha
They had the beginnings of fingerprinting and collecting forensic data in the 1920s. It wasn’t even close to what we have now. At best, you could take fingerprints and send in to a local police precinct and hope that they had them on record, but that was mostly for criminals, as the mass fingerprinting of individuals didn’t happen until the late 1930s
Nice game! Tracy's family should get together sometime, i'd be a real *SCREAM*
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I am so glad i waited to post this until people stopped watching this video...
‘Your not the boss of me. I can summon Cthulhu if I want to!’ LOL
I honestly wasn't sure if I would enjoy this kind of content because I love your animated stories so much. but I really enjoyed this. Thanks Puffin.
Confirmation Bias was an idea developed by psychology in the 1960s so his uncle would not have the idea.
The term ‘confirmation bias’ was first used in a 1977 paper detailing an experimental study on the topic (Mynatt, Doherty, & Tweney, 1977). Although his uncle said it on a time traveling tape-recorded so... At least its in theme.
Confirmation bias as a psychological concept wasn't confirmed until the late 70s, but the idea of "you see what you wanna see" definitely existed long before that.
Man, this really makes me want to run Call of Cthulhu again!
Oh, I know that adventure. A little bit reskinned, but I ran it for my players too. SPOILER
It's called "At the Edge of Darkness".
Fun Fact: Whence means 'from where', so saying 'from whence' is saying 'from from where'. So don't do it.
Edit: Fun Fact: So the first point about it meaning ‘from from where’ is right, but apparently both forms were used throughout history, so while ‘from whence’ is repetitive in meaning, it can be viewed as historically accurate.
What do you mean this is even more reason to say it
Fun Fact: Merriam-Webster disagrees. www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-from-whence-wrong
Fun fact, enough...From whence is historical regardless. Pedantry and language correctiveness gets you nowhere. Humans overcorrect falsely. Ergo especially language, which is why it is never the same, hahahaha!
From from whence from did you learn this?
Dick Tracy 3: the return of the king
....... in Yellow?
You have seen the sign?
you know, between James Peter Enis and DIck Tracy im starting to notice a pattern when it comes to Call of Cthulu Investigator names, than again considering the game's shortened name is CoC i...probably shouldn't be this surprised
I have a thought about adapting xenomorphs into call of cthulhu. I think they would fit well.
Best piece of content since the Curse of Strahd series.
5:46 That's the spirit!
Was rewatching your curse of rpg replay and suddenly see this . Makes my day!!!!!!!!
When he said “ the stranger was still bound to the house” I just said to myself “ Nuke it”
That might let it out, no one knows if the nuke will kill the monster inside it.
Double dose of lovecraftian horror, just finished playing dusk and then puffin uploads some call of cthulhu, nice.
This sounds an AWFUL lot like a take on the classic CoC adventure “Edge of Darkness.”
Well, it’s also remade for 7th edition in the starter set, and I noticed that too. Awful lot of fun to run though
This was brilliant. I'd love to see more CoC stuff!
Im confused why this story is being narrated by batman
It is CLEARLY narrated by Detective Savage Rage
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The Jazz intro is actual perfection
Just when you hear the start of it you know it's gonna be good