Ah, Sona-Nyl? Or Cathuria? Or perhaps I am miconstruing your point, and it's just building off of the idea. That's probably it. I'll be quiet now.

"And as he went out on the balcony of his room and gazed down at the sea of red tiled roofs and cobbled ways and the pleasant fields beyond, all mellow and magical in the slanted light, he swore that Ulthar would be a very likely place to dwell in always, were not the memory of a greater sunset city ever goading one onward toward unknown perils. "

Dreamquest of Uknown Kadath

My favorite silly encounter is this one:

"Hey, buddy, you forgot your bag!" You didn't, but before you can object, the man is gone. You open the bag and find a Common Item inside.

... and then you can get a Sedanette or a Motorcycle from the Common Items deck.

Just the idea of imagining the guy dragging a bag the size of car while calling "Your forgot your bag" makes me laugh.

Daniel

Daniel said:

::laughter::

yeah... but you can explain this! Inside the bag you find the key of a vehicle parked just outside the train station

My fav's the one where the man jumps in front of the train...

The one that annoys me more than "BATS!" is the OW where you have to "...avoid the gaze of a gigantic eye." I seem to encounter that one twice per game...

Makes sense; if the thing watching the altar has two eyes, you have to avoid each of them once. Be happy it's not Eihort or Yibb-Tstll, or you'll be there all game.

Julia said:

Julia, you just broke all the charm of that encounter

Hugues said:

Sorry... ::laughter::

In my last game, I got the encounter at the Train Station where a friend you've known for a long time is leaving town forever. You have to make a Will check to convince him to stay. I drew Duke.

Another time, in an other world encounter, someone ran into a frantic, dying explorer and had to fight him off, managing to take something from him. The player drew Fine Clothing.

One time I drew Fine Clothing from defeating a Tcho-Tcho...

The image that immediately came to me was the investigator stripping the slain Tcho-Tcho of his tux. ;D Heh, that was hilarious.

We kind of have to gloss over Tcho-Tchos with Tommy Guns, Shotguns, Dynamite etc.

Otherwise, it should be a lot harder to beat that particular Tcho-Tcho in combat. Or they're idiots.

Tcho-Tcho with a Bible, Tasks and Food are my favourites (Would you eat anything a Tcho-Tcho had in its pockets? Or do Genealogy Research on one?)

Not an encounter exactly, but one of us had our investigator sucked into a gate 4 times in a row at independence square. The mythos card would pop a gate on her, she'd take the turns going though, then close it, and then the next mythos card would open another gate. She got sucked into R'lyeh, The abyss, Celano, and finally the Dreamlands before escaping the cycle. I blame the gypsies

Bastinado said:

::laughter:: this should suggest it's better sealing Independance Square (as all high frequency locations).. or just leave the gate open if you don't have enough clues

Another ridiculous situation that's not really an encounter.

I just played a game with my girlfriend using two investigators each.
I got "Ashcan" Pete (the drifter) and Michael McGlenn (the gangster) and the relation they got between them were "members of the book club".
Idon't know what you think but I just can't picture them as the typical book club members who meet up after work to discuss the latest romantic novel or cookbook.

Tbla said:

I'm guessing "adult" book club.

"First rule a' Book Club: ya don't talk about Book Club!"

jgt7771 said:

Cheers Jgt! Happy birthday!

Julia said:

Wha-huh? That's not right. My birthday's in July……and why is it my birthday only in this thread?

EDIT: ……and only on THAT POST?!?

jgt7771 said:

That's a good question… Happy non-birthday, Jgt!

Unless you're really not jgt (duhn duhn duhhhhhn)…you're a Cylon! wait, sorry, wrong forum…excuse me…let's try that again…

I played a game with Wendy Adams and everyone in Arkham (at 3 or 4 encounters) kept giving her alcohol.
Apparently, even though alcohol was illegal in the US during the 20s, nobody considered it immoral to hand it over to 10y old girls they just met in the street.

At least I didn't have any problems with my sanity.

Investigators have strange diets:

The monster's corpse lies before you, and to your horror, you find your mouth watering. If you consum it, make a Fight (-2) check. If you fail, lose Stamina equal to the number of dice rolled. If you pass, gain Stamina equal to the number of dice rolled.

VinceT said:

Two Tchos-tchos move on one investigator, she beats the first one, gets handcuffs and slaps them on the second, getting a photo camera. True story. It kind of makes you wonder what those Tchos-tchos were doing with a pair of handcuffs and a camera…

Tox said:

That's the kind of question you don't ever want to hear the answer to.

Two_Hands said:

Did you guys check out the film?