Lake Titicaca | Time For Chaos S1 E5 | Call of Cthulhu Masks of Nyarlathotep

A nighttime attack may derail the entire expedition.
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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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[@cyranojohnson8771]

"I never said anything about being a hero." Beautiful delivery from Ross.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Great character. Dig this whole cast.

[@ScionOfFlame]

"Someone made rather grizzly work of one of our asses!" As Rob and I die at the same time.

[@simonfernandes6809]

The opening combat is why many people play Masks using the Pulp Cthulhu rules. And, yep, you can have 2 penalty dice (and up to 2 bonus dice).

[@AndrewAB]

You are all absolutely fantastic actors, but Jeez, Ross around the campfire talking about Heroes was something else

[@shela404]

Vaughn and Carter are such a dynamic duo. Amazing together

[@Ryotbh]

I love that they're the perfect foil to each other. Especially given that Vaughn is supposed to be the up-standing gentlemen but just seems to bottle it whenever things get hard. Meanwhile, Carter "I'm just in it for the money" Tillinghast becomes the most unlikely of heroes!

[@anthonyragan2696]

The only thing I have to say is "great cast." This episode was a joy to watch.

[@simmonslucas]

Whoever is doing the score for this show is killing it! The music is adding even more cosmic horror vibe.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

It’s usually stock music in most rpg streams, will have to check the credits to see if they’ve got a staff composer.

[@Generic_Man]

Whoever told you that the DEX bonus to initiative for having a readied firearm only lasts for the first round of combat is ABSOLUTELY incorrect. There is a gameplay example on page 115 of the rulebook that clearly shows you are able to make use of the bonus for every combat round that your gun is drawn and readied. If you use the optional Movement During Combat rule (pg 127) however, you will lose the bonus if you move before shooting.

[@DDCRExposed]

Nobody asked me but a food I refuse to eat is Liver. Traumatic childhood memories of horrible smells and forced to eat poorly cooked Liver. As for Kale, this is stupid, but massage it first so it turns bright green and then cook with it. It really works. Just rip it up and roll it like a meatball, first.

[@ianthrower8744]

NOURA!!!!! Spinach does that to my teeth too AND NOBODY KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. Right here sista! (Eventually asked my dentist: it's an acid crystalizing on your enamel.) Ross, how could you pass up "looks like someone tore us a new ass-hole, old boy."?

[@stephaniepalmatier3049]

Same here

[@rknowling]

Ross and Noura singing G&S had me rolling around laughing ❤ and may I reiterate, what a brilliant job Ross/ Vaughan did narrating the prelude to Season 2! I can't wait!

[@technoviking4131]

“…an entendre I didn’t quite intend…” I’m dying here this is so great hahaha

[@casualtuna2914]

Love Ross and his way with words

[@curtisrozzelle4125]

Double bonus or penalty is possible. For the rifle shot that put the child kharisiri down, a bonus die for point blank range could've been appropriate. That would've canceled 1 penalty die.

[@Avankiri]

"I wouldn't call that heroism. It's just murder." Vaughn is something else. A good something else. Get Ross on the show more!

[@TheGlassCannon]

Ross is the best!

[@noahjaybee]

Re: using 40 luck points, I believe Troy set the rule of only using up to 10 at a time... Not sure if that survived through later sessions, but I think it was put in place to prevent overruling the dice too hard.

[@chrisgatton621]

Don't think he did.... that's a Becca Scott houserule, but he talked about spending 60 in an early episode.

[@benlewis3745]

You guys are definitely the best live plays around!

[@Sabretooth7777]

Hey guys! Lovin' this run, amazing chemistry, but some friendly keeper advice. The +50 for a readied Firearm can always be applied *as long as they are firing their gun and nothing else*. I don't remember if they lose their movement or if they get it later at their normal DEX order. And don't forget to add your damage bonuses on melee attacks!

[@Nubbins86]

I appreciate Rob for dying at the comment, "Something made rather grizzly work of one of our asses." Everyone should have lost it. Sad!

[@PugsleyThePear]

I have been looking forward to this ep! CoC seems like such a fun system, I just got the starter set and hope to start playing it with my siblings soon.

[@samkeith647]

How much was the starter set? Love ttrpg starter sets and CoC seems like an incredibly accessible game and system

[@PugsleyThePear]

@@samkeith647 I don't know the conversion rate but roughly 25 usd I think. It felt like a solid introduction to the game, I actually got the swedish versions of the keeper's and player's handbook afterwards!

[@Gooboy25]

I would really love too see the art of the heroes around the border of players

[@dmeep]

or atleast player name as character name if you have troubble keeping them apart based on name only

[@teronaumanen7944]

I like this channel, specially when they play Call of Cthulhu rpg. This is better entertainment than TV.

[@eichler721]

Great episode and love the dialog between characters and also the NPC's. Amazing cast

[@Raven.flight]

at around 40 - Carter fought back and got a hard success. That means he should have done brawl damage to the child.

[@henkslaaf3738]

Yeah, same thought here. But the cast doesn't seem to mind and all's well that ends well, etc.

[@GaryArkham]

I'm loving this series! I wish I could look at a virtual board (roll20 and so on), and see the rolls. You could use the macros for the rolls, too, that can totally help with the rules.

[@Generic_Man]

Luck can definitely be spent on combat rolls, but not on damage rolls. Also, criticals, fumbles and malfunctions cannot be bought off with Luck (core rulebook, pg. 99).

[@GaryArkham]

@@Generic_Man you are right, man. Thank you for refering me to the page, too.

[@baphxyz]

i also get the spinach teeth thing! people think i'm crazy when i try to describe it. my food i cannot tolerate is olives.

[@bobbyboucher148]

man this is awesome. probably my new favorite from you guys

[@Ryotbh]

38:55 - That's hilarious; Carter, the one we perceive to be a bit of a wimp and out for himself, gallantly runs and attempts to save his "newish friend." Vaughn, the hardened soldier, is the first to run and almost loses his mind. Fairuz, the bad-ass persian lady, offloads her pistol into the nearest monster and then runs away. Margo, the German with the frown lines, initially fights but, after Carter engages the monster, runs away and joins the others! Goes to show that the most unlikeliest of people can become heroes when the times get hard!

[@nightcatarts]

I can never remember whether cilantro is parsley or coriander.. I don't think I like either, but parsley is extra ick. Also kale is petrified carpet underlay. Eating upside down does make sense for pizza though, since it puts the good stuff in contact with your tongue. I believe the dex order rules state that anyone with a firearm drawn and leveled at a target gets +50 to their usual dex for initiative purposes at the start of every combat round, not only the first. They have to fire immediately on their turn though, or they lose that bonus. It's a way to make it worthwhile to spend an entire turn drawing a gun, where you could otherwise throw something to do actual damage, & to ensure that you can't charge someone with a drawn gun without risking being shot before you can swing. However, it's much simpler to pare things down to allowing anyone with a gun drawn & wanting to fire to act first in each round & then anyone without a drawn gun or not wanting to fire act second, in their respective dex order; basically split each round into two for fast stuff & then slow stuff. The CoC rules have a lot of details that I think are mostly best ignored or simplified for the majority of games (smoothing the less-needed stuff for pace & house-rulesing things that fit circumstantially). The nice thing is that all that detail does allow you to pick & choose to customise a game for the kind of experience you want players to have & how grim it should be for their characters, it just requires everyone to know what's going on & for those house rules to be consistent (or applied when it'd make sense, such as with spending luck). Aww, Carter. Some day it'll be you doing the abandoning. You can apply 2 penalty or bonus dice to a single roll, believe it or not. You probably shouldn't though. Poor victim didn't find that at all amulesing *twirls moustache*

[@dmeep]

cilantro is coriander as that is the taste like dishsoap genetic disposition one. If there is such a thing for parsley i have never heard of it as it must be a lot more uncommon

[@nightcatarts]

@@dmeep Okay, they both begin with C. Should be able to remember that.. perhaps. I'm not sure what it is about parsley for me; somehow the flavour seems to corrupt anything it touches & make the entire meal taste like parsley.

[@sietsewijker1530]

Best session thusfar! Keep it up guys.

[@jklockers]

Noura talking about spinach and the feeling on your teeth after eating it, is the most seen I've felt in years.

[@GryphonDes]

Such a great episode!

[@BCSully83]

This episode is Rob Kerkovich's coming-out party! This show is now firing on all cylinders, and it's just the right time for this campaign! Buckle up nerds! 'Bout to get real.

[@lexyp155]

what a great show! I love it.

[@TheGlassCannon]

Thanks, Alex!

[@Warloser360]

New ep, let's go.

[@konst80hum]

It keeps getting better!

[@TheGlassCannon]

Thanks!

[@grendelzero8375]

This story reminds me of The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro.

[@AlansNewMutant]

NOURA!! That spinach thing with my teeth! EXACTLY that!

[@QuantemFear]

So good

[@politicaltroll8920]

Any character who doesn’t desperately try to get back to Lima and GTFO of Peru at this point has lost a *lot* of sanity

[@skyblazeeterno]

in horror stories people rarely do the sensible thing

[@soulxwave09]

A real man poet ross is

[@morrischan932]

Ross should try durian it's a cultural thing

[@chrisgatton621]

Bonus / Penalty: "Roll the 10s die twice." There.

[@orinmayer1276]

I suspect Ross will need a new character before the end of Peru due to that sanity

[@role4success]

Troy has great taste. Les Stroud is the man.

[@RebelChum]

I get that teeth thing with raw spinach too

[@Citizenlyng]

Cilantro tastes like soap to me, but I like it?

[@stewartthorpe2533]

Woot!

[@nicoleblackburn547]

Who's on the rewatch train with me?

[@andrewpanter1819]

I hope Vaughn packed a bayonet for that Lee Enfield. A flashback to the Somme and going over the top would not be complete without a bayonet charge.

[@DangerDad29]

When did kale go from the garnish on the buffet table no one ever touched to being a super food

[@thomassmart4088]

why does nobody ever bring a flame-thrower??

[@gabrielima17]

Cilantro is amazing and no other opinion matters

[@GoblinWeenog]

I wont eat Foi Gras and other weird organs/parts like kidneys, tongue and stuff like that. It's mostly the idea that makes me queasy

[@cookiedestroyer19]

Loving this show this cast and this adventure!!!!! Small game mechanics note: iirc Tillinghast used some luck to make a successful attack at one point in combat, however luck can’t be spent on combat rolls.

[@0078101]

Dead Space vibes

[@falcon989]

I’m pretty sure pistols have more than 3 rounds in them...

[@andresdiaz-kirk6316]

You seem to be playing Jackson as a lot more scholarly than I thought of him, but tbh it does work, especially as a foil to what seems to be a more martial/adventurous sort of cast, especially for Classic Cthulhu (two characters with guns, one with a rifle, plenty of combat skills). In my experience, Masks really does shine with the Pulp rules, since it was sort of a Pulp campaign before Pulp Cthulhu was a thing, but I've run it as Classic and we still had a blast. One pedantic thing about mechanics though. You don't seem to be doing Luck quite right - you can't use it for Sanity rolls, and you also don't regenerate it every session, but every chapter, at least in Classic Cthulhu. If this is just a Pulp addition, I'd recommend allowing some more uses for Luck taken from Pulp Cthulhu, such as avoiding certain death, especially with Masks being a bit of a meat grinder. I also understand what you meant, but referring to the indigenous regions of Peru as "uncivilized" came off a bit, uh, bad. Puno is one of the cultural centers of Peru, for one thing. As for Luis de Mendoza's name, "de Mendoza" would not be a very common name, and in fact would stick out a lot as being antiquated. Just "Mendoza" would be more common - it'd be like a modern-day Englishman having the last name "de Poitou." It marks him out as being from a pretty ancient lineage. Specifically, "de" in Spanish names means "of," and is almost always seen in aristocratic names in the modern day. Since Peru does not have formal orders of aristocracy, the surname "de Mendoza" would mark LdM as being a Spanish aristocrat, though perhaps a very minor one given his line of work - sort of like the "hidalgo" class made famous by Don Quixote. An aristocrat with nothing left but his surname. (ofc, we all know LdM is something much darker by this point, but I think that'd be the vibe someone well-versed with Spanish-speaking cultures, such as Jackson, would get. For Luis himself, he probably comes from an era before most people had surnames beyond something indicating who their father was. So someone named Hernando whose father was named Fernando would be called "Hernando Fernandez," while his son, Enrique, would be called "Enrique Hernandez." Mendoza means "cold mountain" in Basque, but there was also a noble family prominent at the time called the House of Mendoza, so either Luis was a commoner from a place called Mendoza, or he was a scion of the de Mendoza noble family)

[@bobbysbits2575]

Ohoh! Dead Space rules apply... 😊

[@tlc1145]

Lucky they are not using the 86 rule.

[@henkslaaf3738]

Maybe easier to just say: "roll the attack twice, take the worst". The whole tens or hundreds is a distraction.

[@scottsmartky]

4 actual episodes and 0 deaths. Hmmm...is this actually CoC? I feel like we're heading towards a TPK soon. This group is just so great. It truly is a joy to watch the story unfold. But damn it to hell with these cliffhanger endings! Now I'm wondering if I ever truly want to catch up and watch an episode live because at least playing catch up means there's another episode to immediately cue up. I'm kidding. I'm truly going to catch up. The series is too awesome not to do so.

[@chrisgatton621]

14 mins in Ross is down to 27 SAN? Oh, that character is fuuuuuuuucked.

[@garrettgrosser313]

#FKALE lol

[@RaymondRich]

Watching someone explain rules poorly is like kale stuck in your teeth.

[@anaximander66]

Why one should not rush to judgment: recently, in the first episode, someone accused Noura of cheating during character creation. Had they continued to watch they would see that she has made some honest mistakes. Additionally they claimed she cheated because she's female implying that all females cheat. This is so incredibly unfair to Noura who has proven to be a thrilling player to watch over and over again!

[@angst_]

I hate how percentile dice are. Like is the 00 a 0, or a 100? a 100 doesn't make sense, because then you could roll a 109; so it must mean 0. But what about the d10s 0? is that a 0 or a 10? It it's a 0 then your range is only 0-99. So it that 0 must be a 10? If it's a 10, then it just gets messy. Like rolling a 20 and 10 means 30. (it's not hard to do the math but you have to add them together.) maybe you just make 00 0 into the 100? It's just messy.

[@icarian553]

There's nothing messy about it. If you roll 0s on both dices it's 100. You don't need tens dice with 10, 20, 30 etc. I never really use those, two normal D10s are just fine and how I've always rolled. One is tens and one is singles. You roll 6 and 5 and its 65. You roll 0 and 2 and it's 2. It's quite simple.

[@michaelseanderry]

@@icarian553 The 10s die keeps people honest. Even with different colors, it’s really easy for people to make genuine mistakes that benefit them about which is which. In your example, those rolls could be easily interpreted as 56 and 20.

[@kenzied1831]

It takes a little getting used to for sure. The shortcut is, add the 10s and the 1s die together, EXCEPT if you roll 00 and 0, then it's 100. Ex: 00 + 5 is 5 00 + 8 is 8 00 + 0 is 100 10 + 5 is 15 10 + 8 is 18 10 + 0 is 10 60 + 1 is 61 etc etc

[@icarian553]

There's some old really funny dice rules from 80s and 90s. Like if you played D100 system, but needed to roll D20 like in RQ or something. But what if you didn't have a D20? No problem, you could roll it with 2D10. If you rolled anything but 1 on your first die, you would just add the numbers. But if you rolled 1, it would then be tens and 0 would be 0 except if you rolled 0 on both, and then it would be 10. Example you roll: 1 and 5 = 15 4 and 6 = 4 + 6 = 10 0 and 0 = 10 +10 = 20 0 and 9 = 0 + 9 = 9 This is from the rulebook of one old RPG from the day.

[@dmeep]

Lets see if i can explain this properly as i have found it hard to explain to people in the past. First we look at the dice with the tens 20 30 etc this now sets the range and you add the second die to it 0-9 so what is normally a 10 is now a zero so 20 on one die and the 0 normally indicating a 10 is just a zero when you roll a d100 making the result 20 and not 30. if the die with the incirments of tens have the 00 you now add 1-9 as normal and it reads as 1 2 3 -9 but if you get 00 and 0 then that outcome is 100 as you cannot roll a 0 on a d100 the range is 1-100 not 0-99. the first die sets the range of the second die is important to remember. did this make thing clearer for you or just confused in a different way?

[@Avankiri]

Rob was great right up til he said he hated cilantro. Now he's dead to me. /sarcasm

[@wilknoble6072]

Foods - Cauliflower... if a fart could burp and then blow it in your face - that's what cauliflower tastes like.

[@skyblazeeterno]

boiled cauliflower dipped into some spicy sauce and then fried is actually rather nice

[@mcursemaker992]

Players trying to be funny seem desperate to me.