Tonight's quotes

Hey,

Finished the Esoterrorists one-shot tonight. The best (slightly paraphrased) quotes to my mind were:

"This is just like Scooby-Doo, except for getting shot and breaking up performance art."
"Actually, if you think about it, they were always breaking up performance art."


[Explaining to a distraught mother that her college-son joined a cult and became a magical lens]

"So you see, the cult has been moving in this occult direction for the past 120-130 years."

"They've spent 120 years building up to drugging my son?"

"Yep."

The game itself went pretty well. We actually got to turn the tables on the cult leaders and take one of them hostage. Then, we had nice long negotiation with the other cult leader and agreed that we should get back the kid we were looking for and we'd just walk away and forget about their little plan to create a magical lens to view the structure of the universe.

This seemed to work and then we fled Boston and drove to DC where the Freemasons saved us. The Sotherby's insurance adjuster has rationalized away all the crazy shit and most of us have decided to believe her.

Esoterrorist (and GUMSHOE in general) comes through as a real fun game and if you're in the mood for something investigative, this is probably a worthwhile book to look at.

later
Tom

p.s. Next up -- BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD---I mean--BOOKS FOR THE EMPEROR!

Tonight's quotes

Hey,

Finished the Esoterrorists one-shot tonight. The best (slightly paraphrased) quotes to my mind were:

"This is just like Scooby-Doo, except for getting shot and breaking up performance art."
"Actually, if you think about it, they were always breaking up performance art."


[Explaining to a distraught mother that her college-son joined a cult and became a magical lens]

"So you see, the cult has been moving in this occult direction for the past 120-130 years."

"They've spent 120 years building up to drugging my son?"

"Yep."

The game itself went pretty well. We actually got to turn the tables on the cult leaders and take one of them hostage. Then, we had nice long negotiation with the other cult leader and agreed that we should get back the kid we were looking for and we'd just walk away and forget about their little plan to create a magical lens to view the structure of the universe.

This seemed to work and then we fled Boston and drove to DC where the Freemasons saved us. The Sotherby's insurance adjuster has rationalized away all the crazy shit and most of us have decided to believe her.

Esoterrorist (and GUMSHOE in general) comes through as a real fun game and if you're in the mood for something investigative, this is probably a worthwhile book to look at.

later
Tom

p.s. Next up -- BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD---I mean--BOOKS FOR THE EMPEROR!