Call of Cthulhu: Fish in a Barrel #3

[@Badartist888]

I would have loved to see this interaction. "It's my car!" "It's our car comrade."

[@PCRman]

In a way, PFlax's character had the best ending. A musician that wrote a hit song that defined his time then died the same night? Nobody is forgetting that.

[@secretscarlet8249]

Pyrion and Lewis were absolute mavericks here; the bar fight (the gasp sound effect was great!) was one of my favorite bits. Ben’s smarmy communist voice was hilarious and shows incredible range. This is my first time seeing and hearing Briony, and she’s a great addition! I love her voice and jokes! Please get her in more CoC games. Thanks again for the work Tom and backstage MQ crew!

[@serenityindeed]

Briony was great in Honey in the Rafters, you should check that one out :) one of my favourite mystery quests!

[@secretscarlet8249]

@@serenityindeed I haven’t seen much of the non-CoC plays so I’ll do that now

[@TomMotTom]

This has been one of my go to youtube channels ever since it first started. I've always been a massive fan of all the table top rpg yogscast adventures and having a place for only that is awesome. I've thoroughly enjoyed every series here but I have to say that call of cthulhu sessions are easily some of my favourite. I could watch these all day every day (I have rewatched more than half of the series here and I'm not afraid to admit that).

[@robjewell1223]

I love Ben's character so much.

[@svenrio8521]

Love Communist Ben, love Wildcard Lewis 😂

[@kaelananderson9237]

Love Wildcard Lewis's exasperation at Communist Ben's latest monologue at 32:30 lol

[@TheSilverOrn]

@@kaelananderson9237 I mean Lewis is famously a Tory so of course he would hate communists.

[@thepiousskull]

Communist Ben was fucking gold. I want to see him play more "political" characters now across the spectrum.

[@HorrorGirlNat]

I love Ben's character begging the others to kill him. 'We're a union'.

[@Odyanii]

Wow that finale really went true cthulu madness with characters trying to kill themselves and each other, quite appropriate!

[@secretscarlet8249]

I love the liberal use of jazz music for this series! Amazing how much it adds to the game. Also everyone is amazing in this game! Love their voice work and antics ❤

[@spectra20000]

Didn't think it would end so soon, but I absolutely loved it! I did not expect the sudden sacrifice play by Pyrion, but without it the team would've lost, I love it when someone is willing to sacrifice themselves for a shot at victory over the Mythos. I hope we get to see communist Ben again, he was hilarious.

[@laramayone]

Seems Ben decided to turn this into a Disco Elysium playthrough I consider this excellent news

[@TriangularPrism]

He's even named Raphael, it's peak

[@vineveer4358]

I love Lewis somehow always playing a Barbarian, despite the ttrpg being call of cthulhu.

[@DEthan-]

Had a long shift last night, fell asleep listening to this glorious nonsense! Had some strange dreams I can't fully remember... ...must be the juice! *This is a comment, for the Angorythm.*

[@somecallmetim4490]

"There's a half dozen cultists, maybe a few less than that, about eight cultists.."

[@zunalter]

I can't wait to see how insane Lewis plays this session 😂😂

[@RealHealingonTheBeat]

Fabulous ending! Absolutely clutch from Briony there, I'm surprised none of the players asked if they recognised the cultists because I wouldn't be shocked if they were also people at the very top of their respective fields, and who was this mysterious head woman?? Loved this series though, thank you mystery quest!

[@StartingOut_]

It's a good thing these character sheets aren't for sell. I could easily see myself buying pyrions character just to see what he was doidling

[@litapd311]

the audio work in this series has been so good! the effort is definitely noticed

[@bianchin20]

Didn't expect to hear a reference to Lockpicking Lawyer on this channel. 😀

[@thepiousskull]

A couple fun little references this series. Pyrion referenced a Kate Bush song in the first episode and no one there caught it.

[@NovvaWallka]

I am loving these, been following the Yogs for over a decade and used to love the old games night TTRPG vids, glad you're doing this Tom!!!!!

[@Corker333]

Once again, props to whoever pulled together the sound effects & music here - massively enhanced this experience!

[@Techstriker1]

I hope Ben's character returns in future versions of this. Just the weird combination all the things lol.

[@aclassicguardsman946]

Ben was the best character here.

[@Techstriker1]

Honestly more of them survived than I thought lol.

[@VanBourner]

Lewis no longer had an elephant gun so he had to resort to his own guns in this scenario lol

[@Hollow5999]

This series feels like it flew by already.. cant believe the famous creator of "The Juice" was lost to time 😅😢

[@c5on]

Second Tom & Ben show this week, that so nice.

[@TheHappyKiwi]

The great sacrifice! love it good plays by everyone especially Pyrion

[@BlareWolfgang]

The channel is getting better and better as time goes by. Amazing episode

[@Blairwolfvt]

The music and ambience for this series has been so good! Perfect mood setting

[@kumquat3212]

Shout out to the sounds/music in this series. Absolutely superb!

[@TNTcommando]

Man this one shot really reinforced some character traits that go beyond the session. Ben's parasite infection paranoia (even if justified), -Ameb- I mean -John Ste- Chase/Jay getting their face bashed in, amazing fun as always. Briony and Pyrion are also absolutely lovely and I do hope to see more of the both of them! And the ever masterful Tom, hats off to you for another great one!

[@anthonycampbell1726]

Though I've never had a set of tools to be able to practice real locking. The slow process of fiddling to achieve your freedom is quite an interesting concept that I've always enjoyed. 😂

[@Flynetheus]

i genuinely almost started crying at the end aaaa this was amazing!!

[@stuartrockin]

This is great. The 2 videos beforehand made me organise a CoC session and were running fish in a barrel too! Be fun too see how my friends end up. After reading the material, its great to see how Tom still guides the game so well even when the players go completely unexpectedly wild.

[@JDBD13]

Gotta love a good CoC session with friends.

[@kgapaneseschoolgirlb]

To think, the only one whose career was ‘successful’ was the only one who didn’t survive at the end! The song stayed popular, yet nothing the others did continued to be popular so that’s kinda fitting!

[@gluedtothemouse]

I liked this cast especially, I feel like they all had great ideas and all really acted well according to their characters. Love seeing Briony and Flax show up on the channel! This has been one of my fav CoC adventures from you guys, keep it up!

[@JesusMcgeeBAMF]

Absolutely loved this playthrough, especially how committed pyrion was. Top tier stuff

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Good GMing here. The scenario text is pretty compact, just a few pages iirc, in classic old-skool CoC scenario style. Really nicely done here!

[@ZhangWei02]

Wow! Wasn't expecting a short series. Bravo! Top tier as always.

[@eloquentlyemma]

Smokey tendrils all over your body as you walk towards the light… Can I still smoke my cigarette? 😂😂

[@evildrganymede]

That was great - All the characters were fantastic, and Briony saves the world! :) Being a CoC fan, as soon as I heard "the key and the gate" I was thinking "uh-oh, I know who THAT's about" so I knew this would be a fun one :) Looks like there's a whole bunch of these little adventures from the same publishers, I hope Tom runs some more of these here!

[@blancrou]

Bravo! Lots of fun to watch/listen with such a great cast. Please more of Cthulhu! lol lots of love.

[@gavin4513]

The audio editing here was totally top notch. Best series so far, and I've now become a member to hear the postgame!

[@mzjalic324]

Man that was so exciting!! I really hope to see these characters again in the future sometime, and it's always great to see everyone who played this one! Mystery Quest is really my favourite RPG channel on all of KZbin

[@RadicalLynx]

Relatively calm infiltration Nobody: Pyrion: i drive a truck into the building Stakes immediately raised with no gain 😩

[@OptifiedPixels]

loved this, I do have to admit I listen to the podcast version to sleep usually so I have to come back to the videos to finish them because I usually fall before the ends. but that is always a pleasure because that means I have tom to sooth me to sleep and to scare me more awake when I'm fully invested away from doing work hahaha. also I hope when I move to the members vid I can see flaxes scetch he was doodling away at

[@morontiamind]

Loved this adventure, great job by everyone involved

[@eathian]

This has 100% been my favorite playthrough to watch :D

[@meilir5719]

Another super exciting CoC adventure! Big bugs big fun

[@RoosterFloyd]

I think these guys are over reacting. The Juice has never been associated with anything bad. I say "Don't have a fit, the juice is a hit!" and has a rhyme ever been wrong? I didn't think so.

[@PantsPooper-o6x]

I mean, it has a catchy song, so how can it be bad?

[@DivergentAndDragons]

Only a goose, don't trust the juice

[@KevanTess]

"How bad- can it be, I'm just drinking what sound best to me. How bad could it possibly be"

[@TheZedman5000]

This is my favorite channel, and one of my favorite Mystery Quests yet!

[@endreverland811]

Great episode, love your Cthulhu sessions. Do miss the intro though. Was always looking forward to the weird, whimsical or scary "or are you on a mystery quest?" intro.

[@wrath1840]

I love the new background sounds

[@eDWICHt]

This was awesome - having an action packed scenario like this is a cool change of pace! Cheers to all of you guys and on with myself to a bit behind the scenes info in the post game chat! (;

[@Blitzkrieger17]

briony for the win!!!!!! ? this was another great series, glad pyrion made it over for another round of mystery! as always, i love how everyone gets absorbed into their characters... cant wait for the next series!!!

[@MashedPotatos39]

Call of Cthulhu is always a great time! Nicely done

[@TheVeryLastHippy]

I would love to see an Edge of Empire scenario!

[@AberrantChibi]

Fantastic game, everybody did great, love how all things got crazy.

[@dwarvenhammer1636]

THIS SERIES IS AWESOME MORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@anotherblond]

Love this channel so much. Have been really enjoying every campaign poster so far, thanks a ton!!!

[@_scott_chegg]

I'm gutted that I have to wait another Friday for more... Keep it that way. Something to look forward to! Cheers Tom.

[@3hourgames]

Really enjoying all your cthulhu content! Would love some more

[@thewolfinator3454]

Absolutely loved this series, favorite one yet!

[@JoshuaSelig-tz6hc]

Excellent, been liking this mini-series! If possible, can we have the intros back, I quite like those?! 😁😁

[@cboneperlstone9661]

Don’t worry. On a community post they said it was because Tom is out of town or something. (I don’t see why that would change anything…) but the main thing is it’s not meant to be a permanent change! 😊

[@darkpixel1128]

@@cboneperlstone9661 I presume the actual episode is prerecorded a while ago and then the intros are made when the videos are edited.

[@thefinal9923]

@@darkpixel1128 Well sure, but it is a little odd. It's not like if Tom goes to Japan he loses all ability to communicate with anybody back home. That said I'm sure it's just quality/comfort issues. The man's entitled to a vacation without worrying about all of that stuff.

[@TheMightyPipe]

What a brilliant series.

[@darknessarives]

thank you Mystery Quest for inspiring me to run my first call of cthuhlu game!

[@dakotasir9849]

Instant classic as always it appears, loved it

[@mikeylunn5027]

I loved it Tom!, hope you had a nice holiday 😎

[@fiofofionomoto]

What a wild ending! Loved it!

[@DavidArtman]

15:30 There was a lot of ttrpg/larp theory emerging in the late 90s; and a major concept was 'bleed'. When a player becomes so invested that IRL emotions 'bled' into the game space (or vice versa, but that's usually no good). Brionny seems like she caught a bit of bleed. We used to say that was why we played: the game takes on Import; the trivial became impactful. You stop 'playing' a character and began to 'live' it because of the situation and because of your companions. You began to embody it. There be dragons... But there also be incredible personal revelations. Y'all all laugh it off eventually. Most do. But the art of rpg is when a bit of bleed happens. You can benefit from a far greater catharsis than any mere viewer of theater performance.

[@bringmemyflail1321]

Cant wait for Pyrion to turn into a juice-hulk

[@bugpybear]

At 51:40 Lewis' character can see a shape on the roof, whilst the music sounds suspiciously like the Marvel music... sounds like Iron Man is coming to help them!!

[@bakinbit]

Great session! I think that was my favorite so far!

[@DucksInARose]

I did not expect this ending, that's for sure!

[@xselinisx]

The Lock Wizard

[@hoodieinfestation]

I am a keeper of arcane lore! There are some who call me…Tom.

[@lexington2968]

excellent as always!

[@Mammothbronco]

Great tunes in this series

[@dazdreiden]

22:20 the communist turning on a dime when his property is threatened was A+ comedy

[@TheSilverOrn]

How most communists in America are, Ben played that brilliantly.

[@BattleBro77]

@@TheSilverOrn How communists are*, fixed that for ya bud

[@TheSilverOrn]

@@BattleBro77 One day in like 500 years we will be able to have true communism like Star Trek, but that will be because robots deal with everything bad and humans just spend time learning how to cook, do science, or other fun things for the betterment of human life.

[@BimpytheWimpyShrimpy]

​@@BattleBro77 Go out and actually meet some, rather than just regurgitating propaganda.

[@leoslack6104]

@@BattleBro77all of the yogs would hate you

[@Potato8884]

Dang this was such a crazy ending... what a wild little series

[@Eru_the_Kitsune]

... wait, it's over??? That was a short one, I want more CoC!

[@blackguardunlimeted]

another awesome adventure !

[@PrescottGuillaume]

Great episode!

[@ClaytonGrimwald]

You should play Monster Hearts, so Ravs and Harry can get extra raunchy

[@Hollow5999]

The after work smoke sesh about to hit extra good along side this banger of a series 👌 🙌 😎

[@Derpingmuffin]

it may be 3 in the morning.. but I can't resist!

[@Shaniq307]

So bleak and dark, it was amazing.

[@Jokervision744]

That was amazing.

[@aleksandrivanchenko6323]

Wow, this one was really good 🎩

[@ivyartemis2431]

Ben's character was definitely a de leonist

[@caitlinb2841]

Prepping to run my first CoC one shot, been enjoying listening to these!

[@Benevolent_sociopath]

Man how are these videos so long yet so short

[@Gallaelwyd]

Jeez, these guys were like fish in Tom's respective barrel

[@TheBugB]

This has been crazy 🎉🎉🎉

[@LegateRioksia]

Lets gooo I just got cold drink out of the fridge!

[@Z0mgXenu1]

🎉 a good start to the afternoon 🎉

[@squary3d]

Bens killing it

[@EveOnlineRanger002]

Another banger, but I need Simon and or Lydia to make a cameo

[@dane.2294]

Never noticed how much Ben looks like Daniel Jackson from SG1 😂

[@permafrostyx]

Juice juice juice