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Friday, 2 pm: Whose Cthulhu Is It Anyway?

This was actually supposed to be Age of Leningrad, but the GM missed the convention, I think due to health reasons. So, Mike, one of the players, took over and said we should each write an element we wanted in the scenario, and then, while he took 15 minutes to create a scenario on the fly, we should make up characters.

The result was a 90 minute pulpy romp of an adventure that worked astonishingly well. The scenario was set aboard a zeppelin at Dulinea Aerodrome in Rio, in May of 1927 (which, I think, is late fall there).

* Mike: Emergency Fill-in GM
* Audrey: Spy. Miss Whittier
* David Uspal: Major Armsky, Brit
* Matthew Hughes: Dr. Warren Bedford, Professor of Natural History
* Me: Buster Johnson, Boxer, working with Dr. Bedford
* ??? -- PI, Abel Vargas. I'm sorry I forget his name, because he was very good.

Buster and the professor were supposed to meet Dr. Lovett Henderson and bring him and his finds back to the USA. Inspector Vargas was trying to stop this until he could investigate a matter involving stolen cultural artifacts, ancient tribes, and massacres. I don't recall what the other two were trying to do.

Alas, the artifact that Dr. Henderson had was a larval Color Out of Space, and it managed to exert its influence on some of the PCs, shifting their priorities to: Protect the Major at all costs. Get to New York. I'm hungry.

The detective had some of his vitality sapped, poor fellow. Even the university people treated him gently after that, uncertain what had happened, but aware he wasn't well. They were able to get permission to take the ailing Dr. Henderson home -- possibly he'd become ailing due to an attack by cultists at the zeppelin, I forget -- and to keep the statue with them. The Color went into the sewers of New York City, and we all agreed that Vargas's player deserved best roleplayer for his dignified, put upon investigator trying to do his job against us annoying foreigners who were determined to abscond with any and all artifacts, regardless of how Dr. Henderson acquired them.