So internet friend Thren recently got into Bendy and offered to run a BatIM-themed TTRPG for me and a couple friends and uHHHHHH YES PLEASE???? She’s altering an existing Call of Cthulu scenario and has been going all out with handouts and audio logs and iTS A GREAT TIME. I’m still not over how galaxy brain CoC is as a system for batim characters, like, normal people in over their heads investigating supernatural things they shouldn’t mess with that might corrupt their minds??? PERFECT

Anyway obviously I’m playing a version of Sammy Lawrence, this takes place in 1930 so he’d be slightly less of a mess normally, but we all started the game by waking up in Haiti with no memory of how we got there so things are going great so far!!!! (is it Joey’s fault? PROBABLY)

I used to jot down quotes when I played D&D in college so uhhhhh aPPARENTLY IM STILL DOING THAT, have some of those under the cut!!

[GM is Thren, Sammy is played by me, Joey is played by Boo and Henry is played by our friend Maf…. just marks everyone with the character they’re playing b/c I think attributing ooc comments to the characters is funny]

[adjusting the original pre-gen character sheet] I’m not sure Sammy’s [spiritual willpower] stat should be so high. Like….. I think Sammy is sensitive to that kind of thing, but in the sense that a canary is sensitive.

[Sammy] Well I guess I’ll take a gun then,
[Joey] WHY ARE YOU TAKING A GUN???
[Sammy] I DON’T KNOW!!
[GM] It was in the bag!
[Sammy] It was in a bag, of our stuff!
[Henry] I’m taking a gun.
[Joey] Wait – are we still in the hospital?
[Henry] okay I’ll wait until we’re out of the hospital to take a gun
[Sammy] I mean, they already gave this to us, as our stuff. They know that there are guns here.
[Joey] Maybe it’s a trap!
[Sammy] Okay, alright,
[GM] The guards do look kind of uneasy if you guys start getting too interested in the guns, but they are yours, so—
[Sammy] IM NOT INTERESTED IN THEM, I’m just looking at it going, okay there’s three guns, there’s three of us, probably these were ours,
[Joey] Why would we have guns???
[Sammy] That’s a great question wHY WOULD WE BE IN HAITI?!?
[Henry] okay, lets all calm down, and figure this out,

[Sammy] Who’s shotgun? Or are we all crammed in the back. Who’s middle sea— it’s probably me.
[Joey] It’s you.
[Sammy] It is me. Okay. That’s what I thought.

[Henry] I’m just looking around to see if there’s anything out of place!
[GM] Make a Spot(Hidden) Roll!
[Sammy] Sammy is, uh, yelling? Um, I don’t know what specifically, but a lot of THIS IS YOUR FAULT, I KNEW IT, IT’S YOUR FAULT WE’RE HERE, IT’S YOUR FAULT WE’RE IN THIS MESS–
[Henry] okay, my spot–
[Joey] Joey is yelling back, that it’s TOM’s fault, because Tom’s clearly the one who’s disappeared, and he was involved in this somehow, I just know it–!
[Henry, typing b/c we won’t shut up] (My Spot (Hidden) is 70 and I rolled a 30)
[GM] Okay, let me–
[Sammy] HE’S NOT MENTIONED IN HERE, WHY WAS HE EVEN WITH US??? WHY DID YOU BRING HIM?
[we finally hush as Henry finds an incriminating GENT invoice]
[Henry] Okay, well, yes, I’m going to show this to everyone, and now-
[Joey] Joey instantly takes it and uses it in his argument against Sammy.
[Henry] HENRY TAKES IT BACK; okay, you guys need to calm down, I found something weird.

[Sammy] Sammy is pretty freaked out and does not eat a lot of his food, but it’s alright.
[Henry] I don’t know why my brain immediately decided that that’s okay because Henry will finish it? I have no basis for this headcanon? But it is what has been presented to me.
[Sammy] Henry can have it.
[Henry] I mean if you don’t want it? We paid for it! Like, yes, there’s all sorts of creepy shit happening, but— …you know maybe he stress-eats.
[Sammy] That explains a lot about the bacon soup, to be honest with you…
[Henry] IT DOES. Okay. NEW HEADCANON: Henry stress-eats.

[Henry] Oh, my cthulu mythos skill is really low, hmmm…
[Sammy] MINE IS ZERO so I’m not going to make the roll!
[Henry] I’m going to say since it’s such a low chance, I’m going to have Henry just kinda shrug and say, yeah no I still don’t know what that is.
[Joey] Well I got a nine! Which actually is under my mythos!
[Sammy] Oh My Gosh
[Henry] Okay, full disclosure, I was kind of hoping you would go crazy.
[Sammy] I can’t believe Sammy’s the only one who’s going to come out of this sane, becAUSE HES NOT STICKING HIS FINGER IN THE WEIRD GOO!
[GM, encouragingly] Naw, there’s time!

#sammy lawrence #Bendy and the Ink Machine #when in doubt just keep drawing #more distractions #call of cthulu: haunted hijinx #(p.s. if youve played this scenario no spoilers pls!!) #IM LIVING

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