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- "You have twenty mopeds?!"
"I get enthusiastic about my hobbies."
"What do you do with twenty mopeds??" - [Party riffs on the question of agriculture in a setting where the sun was destroyed by uncanny powers hundreds of years ago.]
"Ghost power--you have haunted grow lights."
"Asparagus will just grow without light. That's how you get white asparagus."
"Just put an eel in your CSA box, and imagine." - "I'm not the eel guy!"
"Awww, eel pizza? No!"
"Sounds delicious. Eel pizza with ghost mushrooms." - [Party asks whether their cult can continue operating the coffee shop.]
"That could be arranged, but you would have to cancel all the poetry nights."
"Only sun theme. Only one kind of poetry." - "I don't have to talk to any, like, people?"
"Don't you talk to dead people?"
"Oh, dead people are fine. Dead people, babies, animals... Acquaintances are the worst."
"I don't have to worry about talking to acquaintances, 'cause I can always smoke-bomb my way out." - "Eel infestation!"
"Yes, spirit eels." - "We could Scooby-Doo this shit."
"We don't even have to use real spirits." - "You can commune with spirits and I can literally punch them away from places!"
- "We do, after we're done with this, actually have to get rid of those ghosts."
- "My plan was not to waltz in and put a summoning circle on top of the counter."
"Can we just do the summoning as, like, a poem?"
"Summoning at open mic night!" - "I like that we're rolling for success with basically a supernatural force and we roll triple 6's."
- "Who is Nyryx possessing?"
"Is there anyone with a bongo drum?"
"Who works here?"
"The baristas don't make enough money for this!" - "One star! There is no pizza! I was promised a pizza guy."
- "Is there an influencer there? Eel-fluencer?"
- "Haunt the coffee machine."
"Every time you pull a shot of espresso just, like, screams come out."
"So the ghosts are, like, inside the pressure vessel." - [We confirm that the bongo player is possessed.]
"This is what happens when you play with bongos."
"Did you not read the bongo end-user license agreement?"
"It's boilerplate, you should have known." - "I gain my morning alertness from the glory of the sun god."
"I wake up at about 2 pm."
"Yeah, 'cause the sun-god isn't around yet." - "It used to get five out of five eels and now it barely rates an eel and a half."
- "If we go, though, do you think they'll ask questions like, 'Who let the ghosts out? Who?'"
"I have no right to be annoyed at that, but." - "It's hard to do the twenty-sided sign of the cross."
"I-cross-a-hedron." - [players feel some remorse at their successful haunting]
"But you know, I've played other games where we were quote-on-quote evil, and this is much more fun."
"Look, it's called Blades in the Dark, not Hugs in the Dark."
"I'm glad we didn't take that cult value of honesty." - "I'm thinking the espresso machine blows up in a cloud of fire & brimstone. What do people think?"
"Is that a tall or a venti explosion?" - "Our god banishes ghosts and respects well-brewed coffee."
- "We successfully took over the art deco Starbucks!"
- "I've been smiled at by a moray in an aquarium tank before. That was enough for me."
- "Did you know dolphins will do that on purpose to get high on puffer fish venom?"
- "They're eels, right? We're smarter than eels."
"Are eels afraid of ghosts?" - "I might have just talked to my brother about cleaning out his pond."
"What did he clean out of it?"
"Was it eels?"
"Cows that went missing?" - "Before we run into a giant sentient fire-breathing eel man, let's find out what's really going on."
- "Eelsquatch."
- "Fish are usually more active in the morning and at night. The water heats up with the sun, and they don't like it."
"Is that true in a world without a sun?"
"Oh! Right! That's important in a game called Blades in the Dark." - "I don't see a checkbox for eel soporific."
- "Is there any evidence of eel-to-plasm?"
- "Out of the frying pan, into the fire, we can't even eat the food."
- [Player throws a smoke bomb.]
"You know, what's really good, is eel that has been smoked."
"It was about to be culinarily interesting."
"I mean, smoked eel is really good." - "Are we going to call that tag-team combo a smote bomb?"
"You smote, I bombed." - "DARE: Drug Abuse Resistance (for) Eels."
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!"
