Blades in the Dark is officially haunted
Feb. 27th, 2021 07:59 pm- [Party tries to choose ideals for the cult that won't conflict with a game themed around a crew of scoundrels.]
"Like, as long as you're just overtly deceptive, I don't know."
"The sky is purple!" - "You know you're a rat-bastard in that context, but it's all right, because it's for your purpose."
"If we make ourselves so we have to be 100% honest all the time I don't think we can do anything." - "It was, like, the stampede of people and the building catching on fire that was the more loud part."
- "Carrot and stick versus fish hook."
"If the carrot is poisoned." - [Player realizes real-world mortgage expertise is relevant to extracting a treasure from an indebted ship captain.]
"I'm thinking, like, we're subordinating a loan right now."
"Look, we did data mining and modeling in our last campaign." - "Here's the real question, does she have a farm?"
- "So you see a person with a sun for a head and they pull it down, it's a sign, that turns out to be a pizza sign."
- "I was reminded the other day of Fire Orks."
- "You put me in armour and I just look like a guy who doesn't operate well in armour."
"A cosplayer." - "I lurk in the back and hold a lit bomb. In the character of a 1920s anarchist."
"You're just there to make sure the meeting stays on task." - "You and I both come from noble families, right?"
"Yeah, but mine is sort of, like, all dead." - "He falls on his face, crushing two tea tables and about thirteen doilies."
"At least the doilies cushion my fall." - "We've gone from being a dark and gritty cult trying to get our god going to, like, a Marx brothers movie."
- "Were there alligators anywhere near the biome that you were kayaking in?"
"God, no! It was Lake Erie!"