Hidden Lines | Time For Chaos S2 E15 | Call of Cthulhu Masks of Nyarlathotep

An attempt to break into Henson Manufacturing goes quickly awry.
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Cast: Troy Lavallee (Keeper), Ross Bryant, Noura Ibrahim, Rob Kerkovich, Kate Stamas
Time For Chaos is a playthrough of Masks of Nyarlathotep for the 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu role-playing game system by Chaosium.
A mysterious lost expedition sets in motion an epic globe spanning adventure as investigators come face to face with ancient evils beyond the scope of human comprehension. Often considered the greatest role-playing game campaign ever written, Masks of Nyarlathotep stretches the boundaries of horror, driving both characters and players insane since its publication in 1984.
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[@palchristianandersen9086]

With bears I think you're supposed to throw rocks near them and yell "Get out of here! We don't love you anymore!" with tears streaming down your face.

[@therocketboost]

*Sad bigfoot noises*

[@stevengardiner5516]

This is the genius of CoC: a couple of rent-a-cops can be a major problem for an entire party of hardened investigators.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

5 episodes is not enough, "and you know that!" Need season 3! 👏

[@Duhad8]

They have only gotten through about 3 of the 7 locations/chapters in the campaign so I am sure we will be seeing a season 3 and 4 at least if they do the full campaign as they mentioned wanting to do. (Peru, New York and London mostly done, but Australia, Shanghai, Egypt and Kenya still left to visit.)

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Yep. Masks is massive

[@Galactic321]

@@Duhad8spoilers dude! Not cool!

[@Duhad8]

​@@Galactic321 Its not a spoiler, they literally already mentioned this in a previous episode. The campaign is made up of 7 chapters/locations that can be tackled in any order and they already where presented with the list when in New York.

[@FleshyInterloper]

I love it when a plan comes together 😂

[@Ren_Brands]

This was Complete Chaos with the Murder Mystery Squad!

[@jamesaydelotte8666]

I just hope season 3 is less of a wait- I watched the first season four times while waiting! There is an unexpected warmth in this CoC campaign known for its meat grinder surprises. Love it!

[@anthonyragan2696]

Fayrouz: "I choose violence!" Carter: "Let's burn this to the ground!" Margot: "I draw my shotgun." Ross' new Investigator: "Down with the bosses! Revolution now!" And thus the transformation to murder hobos is complete. 😃👍

[@bernard832]

Wrong show, but Ross deserves a bottle cap for "Roll of a lifetime."

[@mikemccoy5092]

Maybe troy will give out cuthulu caps in season 3 for awesome role-playing or clutch dice rolling

[@SpookyGroovyPolitoCatMum]

Better not be a two-year break you guys get the summer off that's it. I have spoken. This is the way

[@SurfRlyeh]

Every gaming group has chaos. GCN, in its wisdom, was smart enough to put Chaos in the name. And Boy Howdy, did the Mystery Squad step in a pile of it this week. These folks are a joy to watch and this week's hard left into, well, CHAOS was just lovely entertainment. Thanks for another banger. 🤘

[@neonfieldmouse]

The roll of a lifetime! 😂

[@CarlosRodriguez-dd4sb]

I’m crazy impressed at Troy’s planning.

[@mikemccoy5092]

While they were discussing plans as the next day begins troy should remind them to heal another hit point due to sleep

[@roboticd]

Rob is not lying, that wind was insane. Took down light poles in my complex. I tried DoorDashing for a sec before I said fuck that noise.

[@jrlonergan6773]

I hope Carter's lockpick is going up with his successes

[@SpookyGroovyPolitoCatMum]

The fumble push is always a fun thing the great failings, what the keeper does with it, how the players respond and play through it is always an entertaining exercise. Because there was so much time my group is now far far ahead of you and I've told them that it's okay to watch the glass can in time for chaos if they want to. And they're looking at things that you guys did that they didn't do and things that Troy came up with that I didn't come up with of course we did things differently from what you're doing as well but it's fun to see how this group handles it.

[@istoner]

Oh man! The squad are now literal murderer/arsonists, and law enforcement will have detailed descriptions of them! 😂 I hope Troy plays this straight. There would be a full blown manhunt!

[@bigeye6606]

as long as they do not shift this whole thing to the pulp universe the mystery squad is done for

[@donjohnson4906]

Also, after this episode I'd reckon the Mystery Squad went from being a minor nuisance in to an active threat in the eyes of the Brotherhood. Things are no doubt about to get very interesting.

[@Tboysupreme]

You know with all the unsolved mysterious murders in CoC that the investigators tend to solve the track record of the police is not that great…however another group of investigators looking over the event 🤔

[@MrBudNess]

“You have to kill them. They’ve seen you.” Lol Troy the shit-stirrer is the best.

[@DaSkwire]

The near-terminal encounter today with the mundane threats of CoC reminds me of this from How We Roll Podcast: "I've survived fucking Dagon and I get taken out by a hobo!"

[@maxmordor188]

That episode was SO Funny

[@clintonburch-bs3bb]

Oh man missed the start here we go squad!

[@SpookyGroovyPolitoCatMum]

The Eagle's Grange was entirely Troy's creation. That was entirely for the benefit of the retirement, or perhaps recuperation, of and insane character. And picking up a new guy. And I thought that was great game mastering.

[@ssia6938]

Wow, I was expecting a group wipeout at midpoint. Amazing how things can flip so fast.

[@zaclarocque-walker9103]

I was in Jasper w a friend and we headed down a path and a bit further down was a black bear. We backed up till out of sight, but was still coming. We ended up running down the shale face of the mountain once we were out of sight. Bears!

[@donjohnson4906]

I was so glad when I fell out of the loop for like 5 episodes and had a lot of catching up to do. Now I've binged them all and my well once again runneth dry.

[@Tecmaster96]

This is a minor quibble but I want to say that Rob should not have has to spend all that luck. He’d opened this safe earlier that day. I think its legitimately a decent question if it should take a roll at all. Remember that the lock has to be set a certain way to open and engage the mechanism and Carter found that pattern already. Its like if you made someone roll a dice to remember the answer a math problem they’d done that morning. They don’t need to do the whole problem again, they can just remember the answer. If nothing else, I’d at least offer up two bonus dice if you think that the surreptitious nature of Carter’s first crack meant he did it in a bit of a rush. Thankfully the luck system means the scene moves forward, but anyway, everyone has their 2 cents on the internet and here is mine. Great episode btw.

[@hollyweaver7292]

Anyone who says you would never resort to violence in CoC has never tried to GM life long DnD players. I never realized what murder hobos my friends were until they were burning a farming community to the ground because they didn’t like the answer they got from one npc. 😂😂

[@DFloyd84]

Well, that escalated quickly.

[@SpookyGroovyPolitoCatMum]

So at the Safe Company last week's episode. I was really surprised they were allowed to be as far into the building as they were. And now you have extra security guards. But I'll drop a little bit of a hint and it's a Hollywood move not an actual move because it doesn't work as fast and actuality that's Hollywood does and honestly either is better but as so many in my group routinely say when negotiating security guards that are roadblocks to their goals," this is rag smell like chloroform to you? "

[@Captain.Hammer]

Desmond being 23... Margo adding "no one likes you" I see what you did there Kate

[@TheyDarthElmo]

Finally caught up. Great episode as always guys.

[@nathan8812]

Only bear I've ever seen, was a when I was 12 driving in Colorado. He/she was sitting on the side of the road, using a sign post as a scratching post.

[@Waguchi]

You know how people say if you’re getting robbed you should remain calm and just give them what they want because it’s when you resist that things can get out of control and people can get killed? Those guards learned that lesson the hard way.

[@joecurran910]

Noura is always awesome. But Kate was right - her energy today was fantastic. Choosing Violence Noura may be the best Noura

[@saraann8140]

Woo-hoo - Another amazing episode🥰 Super fun craziness😅 You all, and GCN, are simply the best - Ty ty so much🥰

[@hfbdbsijenbd]

KNOW rolls are great for when there isn't an applicable skill on the sheet.

[@fudgyvmp3961]

Book: 666 pages, Google notes for one chapter of the book: 200 more pages. Oooof

[@Tecmaster96]

Also poor Noura, I think she rolls on roll20 because i saw a bunch of comments questioning her incredible luck. (Fairly common at tabletops too ftr, people like open rolls). But hey, she still nailed the science roll. Some people are just beloved by fate. 😂

[@deathpunchdingo2981]

Oh me lads, and oh me lasses: There. Will. Be. Consequences. heart emoji. dice emoji. pirate emoji. coffin emoji.

[@SpookyGroovyPolitoCatMum]

Chloroform for real takes a few minutes in the meantime you got to struggle and fight with a person and when they wake up it's the worst hangover ever. Ether is faster and kinder. And Physicians usually carry it. Physicians also normally carry things like alcohol whiskey, morphine, and cocaine. And one member of my group spent a couple of years in the Appalachians with a granny and her daughter and learned all kinds of mountain medicine. Re. The Book of lost Herbal Remedies....

[@jamesculverhouse4657]

20:56 Rob is like the anti-Joe

[@davidlaw5195]

While listening to this fiasco unfold I looked up and realized I was driving towards Carter Street. 😂

[@Generic_Man]

25:34 Knock-out Blows are an optional combat maneuver (Core Rulebook, pg. 125). Fairuz's hit there would have successfully KO'd the guard if that rule were in place.

[@candidgamera]

Guard drops a knife, and it teleports back to his hand to slice Mr. Mahoney!

[@candidgamera]

And the same dropped knife nearly kills Carter! :D

[@TheEpicSpire]

great episode as always. can really visualize the fight and each scene.

[@ArticleNoun]

This season is so great!!!!

[@nightcatarts]

Too risky leaving witnesses I think. Arrange them around a table, pack of cards, glasses, & a smashed bottle of highly flammable booze.

[@Panicagq2]

Lol I don't know you, but I feel like I've gamed with you 😂

[@corypaine9858]

Ah, the ol' swipe club bash head; classic!

[@vanessaeve925]

Michael coming in clutch!

[@TheGlassCannon]

He always does!

[@falcon989]

Great episode, as always. Btw, Fayrouz’s point-blank shot in the dark would have been a normal roll (bonus die for point blank cancels the penalty for the dark).

[@gavinwest7417]

I have an idea for carter. It would be cool if any time he’s trying to fast talk someone he comes up with a different story about how his face got injured that he thinks they’ll be sympathetic too. Like when he was talking to the manufacturing workers he could say it was hurt in a machine meltdown. Use the half face as a roleplaying advantage.

[@theyellowstripe1]

Alternate episode title suggestion: In and out, clean and quiet,..

[@Gargs454]

Hear me out: in 5 weeks we have Season 2 finale. In 10 weeks we have Season 3 premiere!

[@dmeep]

Dont cross any hidden lines

[@SpookyGroovyPolitoCatMum]

Raccoons. Other called trash pandas for a reason. And the very clever. The best thing you can do is have a a receptacle that they can't get into at a place they can't reach. Inside a garage or a mud room if you have one. So you don't have to tolerate big diaper smell inside your house but just making sure that it goes out on a regular basis is is a plus also with the rest of your trash, people don't do this and they should but when they don't they wonder why they have raccoons or bugs in the house. But a very simple thing if you open a can you empty the can you rinse the can and if you have soapy dish water candy submerged in the Soapy dish water and then put it in the trash without rinsing it. Anything that had me in it you make trades rinses off Suds them up and throw them away soaping any trash that has any food particle or was that or wrapped anything wet if you'll just Suds it and then throw it away soapy you'll have a lot less problems with anything that gets into your trash.

[@therocketboost]

Telephone wire knowledge would definitely be electrical repair.

[@vindictaRPGs]

There is an optional knock-out rule on p.125 I also don't use it, it's a bit too pulpy.

[@otakuofmine]

okay someone tagged me at the end of the live chat, but the stream was done before i could read it :(

[@PugsleyThePear]

Well good thing the trails are leading towards Australia because *they're gonna have to flee the country* after this little stunt. Edit: also not to be a dirty shipper but Margo and Carter can be unbearably cute together sometimes.

[@irregularjud]

Never thought I'd find myself rooting for a marxist... Damn you Ross Bryant, damn you !

[@rperezatx007]

Australia! If you're not going to GO there, please at least call every couple of episodes. Its CRITICAL l that Troy be forced to do the accent as often as possible.

[@aridien9501]

wrong Cougar Rob..

[@MimeSlayer1337]

Eveb though you fight demons you gotta remember, youre just folks Enjoy heaven with your wife carter. Hopefully you get a full face ans shes at most 75 years old