Room 410 | Time For Chaos S1 E9 | Call of Cthulhu Masks of Nyarlathotep
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- The campaign begins in earnest as the investigators meet up in New York City for a mysterious rendezvous with their good friend Jackson Elias.
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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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Von: "In my defense, if i died from jumping, i'd just come back. we all come back. Death is meaningless. I'll be back, Elias will be back. It's okay."
It's the amazing Vaughn Villiers! Half-man half-ouch I think I just broke my back, I think I'll be fine, go on without me
Hudson Super Six.?
I think Ross thinks they're playing Pulp Cthulhu lol.
I love that the players just go full goblin mode and immediately decide they can't have anything to do with the cops despite having nothing to incriminate them and every reason to have been at an appointment with the victim.
They fired a gun in the city. Not sure that it is looked fondly on by the cops.
@@OrgrimDarkwater it was the twenties, they loved rogue gunshots back then!
Ross is really nailing the “I took the wrong message from seeing the dead walk again” role. I completely believe his character had a psychotic break and is only slightly recovered. Some say pulp Cthulhu, I say “There’s no consequence! We’ll just come back! Can’t you see!? There’s no consequence…” if you catch my drift.
This. As somebody who has been through horrendous trauma i can say, it really can make you reckless/not care as much about the consequences
Seeing everyone so invested in the action, roleplaying rich characters and seeing how they riff off one another is such a treat. As usual, Troy kills it as keeper. Thank you all.
Thank you guys so much for this episode and the whole series, life is really hard for me at the moment and this is the perfect distraction. Just two hours a week of total distraction and immersion into a different world is really nice, thank you for being a little light in my week😊
What a great episode, once again!
You could check the Keeper rulebook on page 84, specifically on the consequences of failing a roll and then pushing it. In the CoC system, an initial failure is often not meant to result in harm, but rather a failure to act or other such hesitation. For example, Vaughn's initial failed jump roll could've left him teetering on the edge of the window still as he stumbles upon realising what he's about to do, leaving the player with the option of backing off and attempting something else or PUSHING the failed roll and going for it anyway, and in this example the second roll would definitely involve leaping out of a fourth storey window! In my opinion this system is great for conveying highly cinematic moments of tension, as well as foreshadowing the danger that could happen should you choose to push the roll and go for it.
On that note, luck can NEVER be spent on a pushed roll, and the Skills section starting from page 59 has a handy example of pushing a roll for each skill, as well as what could happen if an insane investigator fails a pushed roll, which are extra fun! For example, an insane investigator failing a pushed roll to navigate using a map could end up tossing away the map to rely purely on their superior intuition.
I thought in the case of chases, you can't push rolls to get through hazards or obstacles. I'll check just to be sure
Just in case Noura sees this; I love your appearance here and on the Calyx. Everyone is great.
Thank you!
Might I recommend the Black Dice Society as well? Very good show and I love watching every week. There’s Noura, Becca Scott, Mark Meer, others off the top of my head I can’t remember but everyone is so awesome!
@@PotterFreak22 Yes, if someone is watching this and hasn't watched BDS, go do that after you catch up on this series. Noura Ibrahim and Saige Ryan are the reason I'm watching RPGs now as they are amazing in that series which is very sadly wrapping up in a couple of episodes.
"I consider you guys good friends, and I hope that as I continue to slowly drive your investigators to insanity and death, you'll still consider me a friend." - Troy, probably
Kentucky Bourben at the bar of the Chelsea during the height of prohibition in 1925....lol....I think Rob was sort of implying that he was "hiding" his Pisco Sour in the flask due to prohibition. Drinking is so ingrained in our American Culture we can't even imagine not drinking at a time when drinking was actually illegal....lol. Of course accurate roll play is not as important as interesting characters telling a good story, so you've got that covered.....Besides if they time jump again, not sure I want the accuracy of the Great Depression, so maybe an alternate similar universe is where this is taking place, no prohibition and no stock market crash or ensuing economic disaster.
Superb. Loved their "reunion" moments. Good use of the chase rules, too. They take practice, but work well with experience.
36:12, first television was invented in 1924, first commercial televisions were introduced in 1929. I don't think a hotel in NY in 1925 would've had a television. :D Radio would've been more likely ;).
You're right. An everyday hotel would have had a radio; Television was just invented and just because it exists doesn't mean the every-man would have had it. You just pointed out a hole in my old, old Cthulhu campaign as well.
I want an animation of Fayrouz gun drawn and steely eyed in the alley when Vaugh falls face first into the snow drift next to her.
Certainly no drinking in the 'bar' at the Chelsea to settle nerves and to celebrate old times - 1925 is right in the middle of Prohibition. The group need to find a speakeasy (of which there were many in NYC).
So, if i have the timeline right:
Carlisle expidition is “massacred” in 1920, which is about 1 year before the party deals with the cari-cirri (sp?) in Peru in 1921. Then, 4 years later, in 1925, they meet in New York; so, 6 years has passed since the Carlisle expedition first set out?
That's correct.
"You guys drink, smoke, and shrimp cocktail yourself to sleep." ha ha
I’m getting kind of emotional imagining all of them meeting again even though it’s only been a couple weeks for us 😭
New York had record snowfall in 1925. It was called the Polar Bear winter. 27.5 inches in January.
Just saw you, Ross, on Dropout's Make Some Noise too fucking funny!
Troy!!!! You're a titan but Noura didn't loose an action in the second round, just last one in the first. Literally paused watching after that, such emotions. Also- what an amazing cast I feel like for both Noura and Kate that's them at their best and I truly seen them playing some amazing games!
Troy crafts this all around swell guy, Jackson Elias. The type of friend that will go the extra mile and had faith in the party from the beginning... only to callously tear it all away!
This last time I ran Masks, my players still, three years later (and still in the campaign), complain about Jackson's death and "why did I have to kill him."
I think the cast has really come together. Everyone gets the vibe and is killing it!
Lest we forget the USA was founded by puritans (disturbingly relevant now?), alcohol was illegal in the USA from 1920 to 1933, so the Chelsea Hotel at that time wouldn’t have served… and the delightful Pisco Sour or other cocktails would have been illegal, so only available at speakeasys… but i always prefer to have fun with roleplay rather than be historically accurate! (For example, ignoring racism/sexism whenever it makes the game more fun, which is usually.) Prohibition is notable in CoC mainly because it tends to bring organized crime into the scenarios. Loving this series 🥇 As always, enjoying the performances here.
After the first episodes I expected Rob would be carried by the rest of the cast, but I’ve been mistaken! He’s great. Love his commentary OOC and I find his character funnier as Rob gets more a handle on him! Bravo. I am becoming a fan.
There's often that initial adjustment period with a new group where you're trying to see where you fit in. I think that's kind of where Rob was perhaps. Not that he didn't know what he was doing, but rather that he was adjusting to the tone and style of the rest of the group.
And I was like “You don’t know existential dread.” 😂
This campaign gets better and better with every episode..
I picture Vaughn looking like a more cleaned up Van Pelt from Jumanji and it fits so well.
I love this series, awesome GM and players
I did meet Noura at GenCon! It was AMAZING! I wanted to meet everyone else but only had a Thursday pass. Curse you budgeting! Maybe next year I can meet all the cool peeps again.
Amazing as always. One of my favourites so far! Can we maybe see the character artwork a little more often? Would be awesome :)) they are great.
the moment we all waited for. just as good as hoped, their faces! well done, Troy.
just a visualiser for a chase would be massively helpful, not just the audience.
I am not married to Troys wife, where can i find that whiteboard without her getting me one?
Man, this episode was intense! I'm really interested to see how far the group's characters have progressed. More importantly, based on what I can remember from The Caylx, I am very excited to see certain side characters show up in the next episode. It's gonna put the FUN in INFO DUMP.
Fayrouz be having scoliosis from how hard she carried that fight.
"holy crackers, this buds daffy"
Love this series and it keeps me hooked every episode. Keep up the phenomenal play and master GM skills.
The City that always screams...and explodes. I really gotta see New York someday 😮
Always such a treat when these episodes drop!
at the reunion..."Do we talk about the Cthulhu in the room?" (much more menacing and imposing than an elephant)
Troy, what I'm hearing here is that you only have work friends. I'll let you decide the specific value of that assessment.
I find it staggering that this has so few likes! 221K views at time of writing and less than 700 likes, so you're telling me that only 3% of viewers enjoyed it? I think I need a San roll...
i would love to game with you guys. Your RP is top notch
Troy singing tonight's gunna be a good night in a 20s voice killed me so much that was great
Kind of frustrating the way they reacted to Jacksons horrible death after 9 episodes of an prologue dedicated to making the players care about Jackson. Maybe this is on the scenario design.
I think the chase scene ruined that tragedy. I’m wondering if that part was ignored in the module it would be more emotionally weighty
So is there no prohibition in this world?
The hotel bar is a speakeasy! ;)
I always forget prohibition lasted over a decade!
Maybe they need the Timewatch agents to correct the timeline again. Damn Cockroaches.
All drinks served in teapots and the police paid to look the other way.
Don’t know if glass cannon will see this, but Noura cheated herself on her initial check during the chase. She only needed to spend one luck for the one/fifth success.
Lol whoops
@@nouraibrahim6452 Make Troy give you your luck back!!! You guys are great by the way, just finished “Inherit the Sand.” Thanks for the entertainment!!
Yes during prohibition there's a bar
And is everybody smoking floar Elise ? (Sp?)
If you folks have not yet listened to any of the HP Lovecraft historical societies Dark Adventure Radio Theater presentations of many Lovecraft stories and two chaos and campaigns, when you're missing a real treat and the performances in the writing. And two you're missing a real treat and the old-timey, right out of antiquity 19 20s 30s 40s 50s radio drama styled commercials. All of the products advertised from the cigarette brand I just mentioned, to Four Hands toothpaste for that shine that comes from inside, the main ingredient is radium... to Bubble pet the L is for lithium..
But my favorite is the scene of a dad coming into a room and his kids are playing a new game and heal blisters this awesome games and they don't know Dad those are for old people. And they tell them tell him
" no dad! This is a role-playing game. You create made up people who go on adventures and solve Mysteries rolling the dice to see how it all turns out!" Later you hear the youngest daughter exclaiming and laughter Oh My Sanity! And then the announcer tells you to look for Call of Cthulhu by chaosium in your local stores today.
First! Is definitely not what I would be saying if Jackson asked me to go on an expedition after what went down in Peru.
Game is great, Roleplay is awesome but you should only remember more it was Prohibition era, and that alcohol was only avaialble at the chemist or through smugglers :)
Great stuff
It begins!
Love the Outcast remix at the end lol
Also old timey will.i.am at 1:58:25
Troy, if you ever read this, I feel your pain I'm the same kind of friend!
Forgetting about natural healing from rest.. :D
Around 35 minutes and.
DANGIT TROY!!!!!!
"...no televisuon on"?????????
ITS THE 1920 s!!!!!!!
NOBODY ANYWHERE HAD A TELEVISION ON!
Noura - Woo-hoo - Shes awesome 🥰 Love seeing her in RPG playthroughs 🥰 Ty ty soooo much 🥰
Noura is the best!
Sálvame, padre de gusanos!
I wonder when the GM and players will figure out that she hasn't failed a roll since the invention of cheating.
😂
Watch that first step its a doozy.
Min 39. When magic happens! 😱
What a great thumbnail!
Me also at 39:29 😱😫😣😮
Good stuff
Hey, nobody has died getting to the story proper. This is going great so far! Ross's character's first move is jumping out of a 4th story window. Come on, I want this party to stick together a little longer, Ross. ;) And yeah, doing old stuff means you make mistakes like TV and alcohol during prohibition, but we really don't care. We do care about how many bullets Noura's character has in her gun though, so thanks for getting it right, Troy.
"Puke pit"
Gross
Lol
So gross.
They're Chase scenes wear me out. Action wise and incessity I do see the point and I understand the rules for keeping up the speeds and for the night you can and can someone on foot catch someone in a car? In New York oh yeah LOL because a lot of times even in the twenties New York had a lot of standing traffic that's why they were underground walkways and that's why they were eventually underground and overhead trains because you can jump out of the taxi and run 13 blocks before the taxi can get there. Still the way Chase seems are set up in the rules makes me think we're leaving the role-playing environment and transporting onto a board game environment. And the beginning of the word board game begins with the word bored. I was telling a friend recently the other people playing have to be some mighty fine company for me to entertain the idea of sitting down for a board game evening. Because most board games are just that boring. So when I have a chase scene situation and they do come up, I consider the rules consider the storyline and try to keep the momentum of the excitement and the story going and keep the scenario going and the players invested and engaged, not in moving pieces across a board or even across a map, but rather engaged in the evil snarls and grimaces of their opponents as they log dangerous items out of the car window at them. As the investigators in Pursuit what are on foot or by other vehicles have to deal with injuries excitement and frustration, thinking clearly trying to outsmart the bad guys. And if you're not cutting corns with the bad guys then there's a lot of Storytelling to consider and a lot of danger.
The short of it is that I prefer to maintain excitement and danger of the situation as part of the overall story of the scenario and campaign rather than devolving into a board game situation where the bad guys moved in the good guys move in the bad guys moved in the good guys moved from the bad guys move and people need to go outside for a minute to walk the dog go to the bathroom get another Coke is it too late to order pizza and then we'll lose momentum.
The chase rules get WAY more cinematic once everyone has the process down pat, so give it some time...
CHALLENGE
Literature, entertaining extemporania, news articles throughout any paper, reputa le and yellow rags, recorded interviews or convesations, and find the kind of language used in game, being used by anyone,of any one,of your. Characters' station, high society, lowly paupers. Common shop workers, reporters, etc.
So much of game,play dialogue is great and near authentic..... It breaks the illusion when,everyone,reaponds,to,terror. Y breaking,into "f****ery".
yes, great cast. on the other hand, slowest-moving rpg in human history. #1- learn the rules. #2- never consult books during play- make a call and check later. #3- 70 percent of the talking is fluff- lots of the roleplaying is great, yet characters take forever to choose an action. i think this campaign has about 8 chapters and ive seen it completed in about 8 sessions. took you 8 sessions just to finish chapter 1! is this gong to be a multi-season tv show? lots of potential, but i dont see much improvement. too painful to continue watching. last thing, is it me- or is miss ibrahim insanely lucky?
Being that drawn out and involved to me is a feature rather than a bug. I’m not in it for the speed run.
@@rdmrdm2659 thanks kindly for the response. in that case, do enjoy your game!
I ran Masks in thirty five sessions, each one lasting between three and four hours, and I cut some part of it (mostly sidetrack investigations) . Some people ran Masks in sixty sessions. I know no man in his right mind and more importantly with some skills as a keeper run that massive thing it in eight sessions.
@@samu-l4608 I was just about to say. No way anyone can run this in 8 sessions without missing key info or it actually being fun