Maniac Mansion | Time For Chaos S1 E18 | Call of Cthulhu Masks of Nyarlathotep

The team prepares to head to the Carlyle Mansion for a charity gala in the hopes of gaining an audience with Erica Carlyle.
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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 7E 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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[@zak3744]

I have never heard such an impressive piece of voice acting. Troy could have just done a lazy generic Australian accent, but he really added to the character by making it an Australian whose aristocratic English family fell on hard times after his infancy and had to send him to school in a working-class Cockney area, following which he spent a lot of time in the USA before moving to live in the deepest Australian outback in later life. You could really hear it all in the accent, it was exquisite and really brought the character to life!

[@ArticleNoun]

Hahajajaha

[@theyellowstripe1]

I didn't hear cockney, so much as a liberal splash of Ringo Starr!

[@jrlonergan6773]

Ross may be the best role player of all time

[@jamesthelimey1738]

40:53 Watch Ross react while Troy describes what he sees in the mask. Fantastic! 😀

[@IskarJarek]

if you haven't seen the twilight 2000 new show who dis short series, I HIGHLY suggest it.

[@ramzcoldlampin5460]

I love Troy’s Australian accent, but what I love more is watching Rob, his friend of 20+ years, smile bigger and bigger trying to contain laughter while listening to it. I love this group and show so much. Can’t wait for season 2!

[@TheGlassCannon]

Thanks!

[@louiek7697]

Come for the eldritch horror, stay for the cocktail shrimp lifehacks.

[@ReplicatorFifth]

When I see Ross’s madness RP I think of the throwaway line from Skyrim: “Things spiral quickly Towards their inevitable center”

[@iamded.]

As a kiwi, we take a distinct and personal pride any time our nation is even mentioned in any media, so that put a smile on my face. As did hearing Troy power through putting on an Aussie accent hahahaha. Top notch stuff, loving this series as always.

[@ReplicatorFifth]

It’s a pretty little country! :)

[@jamesthelimey1738]

I enjoyed watching Rob and Ross dying as Troy butchered that impression. There’s an Eddie Izzard bit where he plays a Bond villain with an accent imitator that’s “stuck in demonstration mode.” Troy’s accent reminded me of that quite a bit. 😂

[@cyranojohnson8771]

And goddamn. ROSS. "Such arrogance to think he would speak in a language we could understand... when he would speak in the language of the Angels." Vaughan never ceases to impress. I don't think I've ever seen a character's downward spiral in Call of Cthulhu so magnificently portrayed.

[@ReplicatorFifth]

Agree completely! It was a logical path of twisted logic. The irony that he turned to faith for reassurance but now it guides his spiral down!

[@Jandor1]

Agreed 1000%

[@sub-jec-tiv]

I’m not big on hyperbole but must agree. He’s kinda killing the whole role, from breezy dilettante to unraveling postwar trauma casualty.

[@JoshuaMNeff]

I had to make a SAN check after hearing Troy's Australian accent. Carter being the sanest member of the Mystery Squad is hilarious. I am loving this campaign so much!

[@BaronSpamedi]

This is a fantastic series. It's just getting better with every episode. Watching the players grow into it as they develop and sink into their characters, and start to bounce off each other has been very entertaining. Troy is an excellent storyteller and seems made for cosmic horror. He is the Dick van Dyke of Australian accents, though.😂

[@TheGlassCannon]

Thanks! Glad you are enjoying it!

[@bigeye6606]

I keep a huntsman spider named Biancha in my home to hunt cockroaches. She's super chill.

[@anthonyragan2696]

Two comments. First, when it comes to bugs in the domicile, I am Team Kill It With Fire. Second, I know Masks very well and I really appreciate the little elements Troy is adding. They do a lot to add to the atmosphere of the investigation.

[@neonfieldmouse]

Props for that dial tone chorus joke

[@spookydom]

Being a budding GM myself and very nervouse of attempting accents - This Tour de force Australian accent from Troy has inspired me to just go full commitment from now on :D Wonderful stuff.

[@paulheim9408]

I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!

[@lj5652]

Same!

[@candidgamera]

Props to Noura for keeping a straight face as Rob and Ross cracked up with Troy's Aussie accent.

[@Jandor1]

“if you’re ever in Australia” hmmm wonder if they are gonna go to Australia xD

[@hobertcooke2346]

All jokes aside I think the role play with the professor was of the highest quality

[@truth7921]

Ross interpreting everything happening as Divine and relating it to specific ideas and even biblical passages... so, so good.

[@simmonslucas]

Rob, I have starting watching NCIS: New Orleans because of you, funny as hell.

[@saraann8140]

GCN sets the bar high in the first episode and simply raises higher each episode 🥰 Consistent fun, RP, and quality 🥰

[@alohamadde1737]

god, I love this show.

[@nicoleblackburn547]

Carter: "Mr. Peanut me! Let's go!" ha ha ha

[@russbarrett2291]

Loving this series ! Ross is amazing and Rob as comedy relief...awesome!

[@andytaylor6267]

Fucking Ross omg 😳😳😳 that was incredible to watch and listen to. I love this series so much!

[@TheGlassCannon]

Thanks! Ross is amazing!

[@AdeSant]

what the heck is that playlist, it's fabulous.

[@konst80hum]

Awesome performances all around! "Language of angels " indeed.

[@sietsewijker1530]

These are getting better and better!

[@hemmelig1908]

As always, an amazing episode

[@trueblueedits4673]

"I'm in shrimpain" Put that on a shirt, thank you very much.

[@TheGlassCannon]

Where do we send the royalty checks?

[@trueblueedits4673]

@@TheGlassCannon Oh, send them to Ms. Ibrahim of course. She coined it XD. Hilarious stuff. I'd buy the shirt instantly.

[@SpookyGroovyPolitoCatMum]

Ask a pt store about Wolf Spiders. THEY HUNT AND KILL BLACK WIDOWS AND BROWN RECLUSES

[@therocketboost]

Troy's Australian accent slowly morphed into a Brummie (from Birmingham, Uk)

[@GryphonDes]

Finally got to finish watching this one -- what an awesome episode!

[@gracesDad1]

this whole group is amazing. now i wanna find a group to play cthulu.

[@TheGlassCannon]

Go for it!

[@ZCaliber11]

My god, that look of pure shock from everyone, especially Rob at 2:02:41 is just amazing. I legitimately can't wait to see how post-Peru Carter deals with it. On an unrelated note, has Troy ever called for a Education roll? I feel like there hasn't been one since they got out of Peru, if at all.

[@KarlRosner]

Edit: Wanted to say I love this show, best role playing cast I've seen in years and that include the big guys. Realized that I may have come off overly critical below, so I wanted to say that for context. Two pieces of advice first for Tory: Buy a better trash can or put rocks on top of it. Second for Game Masters watching: Be very careful when you override a charter's actions like that photograph showing up when it shouldn't. It was a great moment and in this particular scenario and game it was very effective, with the implication being that a character's madness is being expressed with them taking unknown actions. It even ties into how they drew awful things without knowing, but it can become a problem if done too often as it will begin to erode a player's feeling of control over their character. If a player beings to feel like they are losing control of their charter and have to 'work' to maintain it they can start to become fatigued from playing. It can lead to paranoid actions that if left unchecked can side track a session away from the planed story and towards actions to prevent undesirable outcomes. For example, imagine a whole session where players just tying everything down so none of it will move around on it's own. Also player paranoia can manifest in less obvious ways, like a player burning every note/photo right after looking at it to make sure it doesn't appear again. That sounds like great role playing until you realize they will want to make sure it's done EVERY time so they cant be caught out. Now think about a character having to solve a problem, like burning something in a car and having to work though that scenario, it starts eating into game time for little practical gain. A solution to that is to just tell people when a note is 'important' and should be handled with care and then make sure not to go back on that. Players will only interact with objects of importance and not introduce them selves to every statute they come across because that one time they met one that could talk or something equally exhausting. And look I've written another mostly pointless youtube essay, great. Well it's done and mostly proof read so I'll leave it here -Karl PS: I think my time would be better spent attending a creative writing class at the collage down the road, I could use the assignments to start seriously working on the lore for the Anomaly Noir Cyberpunk TRPG I've been making.

[@PotterFreak22]

My idea for the ending of this season is Vaughn winds up in an asylum, Feiruz isn’t too far behind him, Margot and Carter are gonna need LOTS AND LOTS of therapy. Vaughn is just taking hit after hit to that sanity! He had a low sanity to begin with so this shouldn’t be too surprising but I still feel bad for him. I wonder what new characters are going to appear next season. These four are getting VERY close to the edge of being unusable just from sanity losses. I wonder what the finale is going to have in store. 4 1/2 hours is a very long time for one episode. But I do like long form videos over short videos to keep my brain occupied for a while.

[@TheGlassCannon]

You are in for quite a ride!

[@billlocke3294]

I am not sure if I am shipping "Car-Go" or "Mar-Ter". While the other couple is a train wreck waiting to happen.

[@Tecmaster96]

Marter as a nice sound to it 😂

[@vivifresh]

I was so worried Troy was going to ask Ross to roll a D6

[@Generic_Man]

54:11 You can spend Luck on opposed rolls; you can't push an opposed roll though.

[@technoviking4131]

Cricket spiders are nothing compared to our Parktown Prawns…those things will fight you to the death

[@gregoryzornes5894]

Ross and Rob are just fucking amazing!!!

[@gregoryzornes5894]

Sorry, so are Kate and Noura too!! Just really loving the whole cast right now!

[@ianbrooks7586]

Sprockets!! We had them in DC by the megaton

[@theprecipiceofreason]

The Hands Resist Him The sad doll is holding an old TV tube. The boy is in daylight but we see the moon reflected in the upper window of the painting. I've always thought this was about the way television changed society. The little toy girl is a representation of both a missed childhood and the infantilization (and obviously, objectification) of the feminine that has been heavily reinforced by tv since the nuclear family was established, post WW2. The little children in the window are the ones already lost. The boy will be missing out on the culture, society - what all the other kids are doing. The thing about that moon though - it looks like the diode warm up light on old tvs. You used to have to wait til the light came on, while the tv 'warmed up'. There was a little hole cut into those old tvs that looks somewhat similar. It would be orangish (sometimes green or blue) when ready. This creates some suspense. The tv is trying to warm up, chasing the boy indoors, away from his life of gaiety outside, to be with the other children. Is he in daylight or does he squint before the glow of an old television screen? The hands don't resist the unseen, television horror. They resist the boy. They are the idle hands of yore, made so by sedentary distraction, in the darkness of the indoors, up at night, watching, dolls (toys) and other childish tasks eschewed. The suffering femininity has tried to sabotage the device but, it's too late for her. She is second place in society at the time of the painting. It's a powerful piece. A 50 year old depiction of the 'go touch some grass' meme.

[@austinx8320]

Racoon offerings. Dirty diapers and raw eggs. Sounds like a different bin to me...

[@woobackwednesday2299]

Mr. Darcy? more like Mr. Jibran

[@chrishansen8030]

Never knew Hubert Hedge did a stint at Mystatonic

[@ronchapin7348]

what to say how much i love watching your alls games. it is so fun. "trash can or bag problems" safe easy none violent way to handle said problem. take a bleach water mixture and spray it over bags and cans. the smell well send the critters to your neighbors trash cans. midevil i know but atleast it saves you from having to clean your own up. lol

[@stewartthorpe2533]

Comment for the algorithm gods!

[@SpookyGroovyPolitoCatMum]

cricket spiders...... put those things in the game They may be camel crickets. whick means they are crickets not spiders lol but still way creepy lookin

[@theg0z0n]

Did anybody else play the game Maniac mansion?

[@aaronmoore6275]

Among the best music on the NES.

[@SteelyPat]

Don't be a tunahead, The Gozon

[@dmeep]

Has Myrtle passed or divorced Carter? where they expressing their condolences over his wife his marriage or his horseriding accident?

[@alohamadde1737]

My guess: divorced, since the NPC mentioned another man's name.

[@dmeep]

@@alohamadde1737 yes another grifter was moving in while he was in peru but he chased him of and found he actually missed Myrtle and had feelings for her. Divorce was very uncommon in the 20s I assume as it was a bit of a scandal

[@scottsmartky]

Watch in horror at Troy's Aussie accent (Very Land Down Under...The Mass Turnpike). Revel in Noura's unbreakable control as she powers through it for about 15 minutes (felt like 2 hours). Be wholly creeped out by the pre-show banter as they'll try to give you arachnophobia. Expect the gut-punch cliffhanger and still have it get you anyway. Be utterly amazed at just how good the cast is. Keep trying to forget that this is going on winter break soon, and we'll miss it a ton.

[@jamesthelimey1738]

Ross and Noura acting their slow (perhaps not so slow in Ross’ case) descent into madness is so well done. Fantastic show. I can’t decide whether this or Get in the Trunk is the most creepy. GCN is putting out so much great content right now, it’s really impressive.

[@ReplicatorFifth]

It started back in Peru for Ross’s character so it was a perfect slow burn! Noura’s character slipped after reading that book xD both are great and fit the characters though

[@colindowling5498]

With Kate trailing Margot right behind them. I’m halfway through the episode and found Carter to be the rock holding these guys together. Nothing I would’ve expected first ep!

[@otakuofmine]

as I read both Campaigns, Impossible Landscapes will get realllly fked up. :D but given, Troy does a good job making Masks dark enough likewise. they are both so good. though i think this here might be the "superior" group in talent and chemistry.

[@enericm]

Noura: "If it calls to me, yes" Rob: "That's not the response that I was hoping for in terms of books." -- Love it!!

[@rdp16rulez]

Man this series just keeps getting better each week! Fairuz heard about Cthulhu over a phone call. What a stunning way to work the title into the game! Margo and Vaughn slowly going mad has been a highlight of the series. Fairuz isn't too far behind them. And poor Carter, he's just trying to hold his friend group together and eat shrimp cocktails. Also, it may be months away in real life, but I cannot help but smile when the day of my birth (January 23) is mentioned. I mean I was born in 1990, but I can be excited about a day that's nearly 100 years ago, right?

[@BF-up5xw]

The party: so much wealth, so much intrigue; only one belle.

[@AlansNewMutant]

ROSS' KNOWLEDGE OF THE OUR-WORLD-BIBLE IS MAKING THIS SHIT LIKE EXORCIST-LEVEL SCARY AND I AM NOT OKAY (but i'm okay and dayyyyymn.)

[@AlansNewMutant]

I. Fucking. ERUPTED AT 52:10!!!!!!!!

[@TheGlassCannon]

Hahaha! Exactly. Shit is creepy!

[@manwithbrisk3418]

Rob's not gonna like this but the best solution to black widows are wolf spiders. Stop killing the wolf spiders (catch and release) and they will fight off the black widows. They are equally deadly to each other but pretty harmless to humans and pets. PS: I know this is an older video.

[@teronaumanen7944]

Cant wate season 2, this is so good stuff, old boy.....

[@gracesDad1]

ross bryant is the personification of #rpgoals. just wow.

[@FleshyInterloper]

Party tonight, die tomorrow, a fine philosophy

[@Joeys-Channel]

So good

[@gracesDad1]

i so wish i had seen this live. this is unbelievably good rp.

[@rperezatx007]

Without a doubt, the worst Australian accent I've ever heard. Way to hang in there Troy 😊❤ I think you guys need to get that diary immediately 🙂

[@austinx8320]

You should try to befriend the racoon. Make him terrorize the neighbors!

[@aureliomanalo]

Great assemblage of players, top work. If you have Black Widows, sell them. They're worth $$$.

[@TheGlassCannon]

Really? You can sell them?

[@eichler721]

Great episode and the role play was phenomenal as always

[@stevengardiner5516]

Carter: "I'm just sick and tired of fucking cults!"

[@cyranojohnson8771]

The opening banter got me this time. I got a hamster infestation in my condo once. Presumably escaped pets from somewhere else in my complex. A very specific trio, a sandy-furred Mom and a red-furred Pop and their wee little naive Laddy, who was white and red and sandy-brown. I was really aware that yes, they were vermin, and they were peeing and pooing in the corners of my condo and raiding the compost and other food stores: I found the wee Laddy *literally in the bottom shelf of my fridge* once, I still have no idea how he managed it even given the flexibility of the rodent skeleton. But Christ: I just could not bring myself to kill them. They were so adorable, so sweet, so *embarrassed* when they got sighted: Mom and Pop each had their own special sprints they did when they knew I was going to spot them and had figured out I was hostile to them. I was so conflicted. Eventually, I set up traps and caught Laddy. And killed him. I still feel bad about it, he was such a sweet Boi, he was just doing his thing. Neither of his parents ever fell for the traps: I think they just died of despair when he died, somewhere in the walls. There was an awful stench for some months that I'm certain was them (b/c I never again saw them after I trapped their offspring), but I didn't have the heart to go digging for them wherever they were. I just invested in massive amounts of electrical air fresheners until the stench stopped. Their skeletal remains are surely somewhere in the interstices of my condo and I will, eventually, find them. Not looking forward to it.

[@AlansNewMutant]

Okay this was horrifying to read and I couldn't stop

[@edgarovsepian5988]

This made me sad :(

[@HandOvDoom2112]

Damn, Ross is the best!

[@TheGlassCannon]

He sure is!

[@jimbowardoable]

The fuck is this accent lol

[@stephenpodeschi6052]

That was GooooooooooD !!! ...Well done all.....

[@clintono]

I had a pet Brown Widow, raised from just after hatching with hundreds of others. Hand fed it insects for many months. Beautiful creature.