hydrogenxdetoxidex asked:

What is call of Cthulhu in general I don’t get it… :’/

inkdemonapologist answered:

It is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game! Similar to things like Dungeons & Dragons, which is the more famous one; it’s one of those games where you sit around a table with your friends and the GM (the person running the game, it stands for Game Master) says “when you walk into the room you see a monster” and you all decide how your characters will respond to this (Fight the monster? Avoid the monster? Befriend the monster? Seduce the monster?) and roll dice to see if it goes horribly wrong.

The Call of Cthulhu system specifically is based on the Cthulhu Mythos stories, which is cosmic horror stuff – basically the idea is that there are entities so much more vast and powerful than humanity that, if we tried to fully understand them, we’d lose our minds. So unlike Dungeons and Dragons, where you usually make characters who are powerful warriors and mages, in Call of Cthulhu you make characters who are just normal people – normal people who’ve had a run in with the supernatural and are trying to cling to sanity as they investigate things they barely understand.

So obviously, this was the perfect setting to adapt for Bendy and the Ink Machine!

Thren was the one who had the idea – she had a Call of Cthulhu scenario (basically, a story that you can play through) that she’d run before and thought it would be a good fit to tweak some things to make it Bendy-themed, and we were very excited to roleplay Bendy characters and guessed the character’s stats based on our own headcanons, and went for it. So the characters started out as their normal selves – Sammy started out as a normal musician and composer, Henry started out as a normal artist and animator, etc – but as we played through the game, the choices they made and the things that happened to them affected them, uh, a lot! So the timeline has diverged a whole bunch, making this basically a weird AU.

(If you wanna know the basic story of the game we’ve been playing, Season One has a short overview here with a link to a longer summary of the whole adventure; Season Two is a game we’re currently playing, but you can read the summaries of each session that Boo has organised over here!)

#i know you have questions you always do #call of cthulu: haunted hijinx

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