Rationalize This: The Tomes-reading Motorcycle

By Advosan, in Arkham Horror Second Edition

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jgt7771 said:

Or how someone can drive the Patrol Wagon BACK from Y'ha-nthlei or Devil Reef? "Jackie-Channing" the Patrol Wagon down from the Kingsport Head is ludicrous enough, but at least there's a slim possibility of it: "Durable" is far more credible than "Buoyant" or "Submersible".

Psht. That one's easy. The patrol wagon has Mach Five submersible abilities, but to utilize them, you need a special type of fuel that only lasts for a short duration and is only available at Devil's Reef and Y'ha Nethlei. The car is brought there initially by raft. And it travels from Devil's Reef to Y'ha Nethlei underwater with its newly found fuel. Once there it obtains more. Any further questions?

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jgt7771 said:

Walk said:

Why is it that seeing a zombie can drive the weak-minded insane, but seeing Cthulhu has no effect at all?

Good one. Perhaps it's a time-dilation thing? The Final Battle isn't so much Bruckheimer as it is a mental construct the human mind uses to protect itself. It happens in the infinity between seconds. If you're devoured, then the moment you glimpse the Ancient One, you're shattered, but if you survive, you're probably broken just as bad anyway. Maybe you never fought it at all; maybe it just came, zonked you, and left...and your brain turned the whole event into a board game...

Or maybe it's a matter of scope. Everyone fears a twenty-foot fall, but no one can really quite imagine the length of the universe. One year vs the lifespan of a star. One walking corpse vs one huge cosmic thing. The brain finds comfort in abstracts, and in that, people can find different ways to cope with the grand horror of it all. Some joke, some rage, some philosophize. In this case, they fight.

"Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon...what've you got left?"
"Sorry, Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought."

Actually... That'd make an interesting house rule for thematic games... Forcing all investigators to roll a die at the beginning of final combat and having an instant devouring on a one, representing the mind shattering effect of first contact with the ancient one. Beyond that they'd lose 4 sanity for rolling a 6, 3 for 5, 2 for 4, 1 for 3, and zero for 2. Just to spice things up in Hell :'D

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Avi_dreader said:

Obviously it's not a normal shotgun. Six is the number on the blessing,

Isn't Six the number on Curses? My blessings have a four...

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subochre said:

I guess there's still an unresolved issue with the motorcycle, namely, why you get things done even faster in the rare event that you get both motorcycles. My theory: huge motorcycles . Having a second motorcycle enables you to drive more quickly from one end of the first motorcycle to the other.

Having a second motorcycle means you don' t get another motorcycle, but more fuel for the first. So, by refueling you no more have to worry about fuel-efficient driving and you are going full speed. Vrooooom!

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Julia said:

Avi_dreader said:

Obviously it's not a normal shotgun. Six is the number on the blessing,

Isn't Six the number on Curses? My blessings have a four...

Uh... Yes? But can't you pretend I made sense anyway?! ;')

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Advosan said:

subochre said:

I guess there's still an unresolved issue with the motorcycle, namely, why you get things done even faster in the rare event that you get both motorcycles. My theory: huge motorcycles . Having a second motorcycle enables you to drive more quickly from one end of the first motorcycle to the other.

Having a second motorcycle means you don' t get another motorcycle, but more fuel for the first. So, by refueling you no more have to worry about fuel-efficient driving and you are going full speed. Vrooooom!

.. That is until you decide to lend your bike to a compadre and another one "pops" into existence.

And concerning the patrol wagon, it's obvious- it's made of cork. Explains why it breaks all the **** time.

Something that always made our group laugh were the allies that increased speed, "No, there's no time! Here, hop on my back!"

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Avi_dreader said:

Isn't Six the number on Curses? My blessings have a four...

Uh... Yes? But can't you pretend I made sense anyway?! ;')

Sure, darling, no probs :-)

Only don't be upset if everytime some of your creations grants my investigators a "Cursed" status, I pick up the wrong card ::devil::

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Julia said:

Avi_dreader said:

Isn't Six the number on Curses? My blessings have a four...

Uh... Yes? But can't you pretend I made sense anyway?! ;')

Sure, darling, no probs :-)

Only don't be upset if everytime some of your creations grants my investigators a "Cursed" status, I pick up the wrong card ::devil::

You should have seen the crazy rage face I made, it was classic ;')

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Avi_dreader said:

Julia said:

Sure, darling, no probs :-)

Only don't be upset if everytime some of your creations grants my investigators a "Cursed" status, I pick up the wrong card ::devil::

You should have seen the crazy rage face I made, it was classic ;')

::laughter::

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::slaughter::

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Rationalize this:

We're in another world and encounter a crazed, half-dead former explorer who attacks. We beat him up, and take an item from him... ... ... his Fine Clothing. Either we:

a) They have dry cleaning service in Another Dimension (or wherever it was, can't remember), and we took that from him, or

b) We stripped the man naked, who had somehow not ruined his fine clothing despite being half-dead and crazed

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Sounds to me like you took the guy's luggage. He was wearing his grubby clothes and keeping his interdimensional job interview clothes all safe and ichor free in a garment bag, and you stole them.

In your defense, his interview probably wasn't going to go very well anyways.

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He was exploring the office!

Fine Clothing was probably the funniest card possible from the stack.

The most depressing item probably would have been Food.

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I thoroughly enjoyed it when a Tcho-Tcho dropped the King James Bible.

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i like finding the journal of Duke..