This memory popped up on my social media this month, dated from Timehop.
I've shared this memory almost every year, with commentary from myself and others. It recalls the shameful event in our Call of Cthulhu campaign, where the group recruited a bunch of hobos, transients, and drunks, loaded them on a bus, armed them with blunt objects and Molotov cocktails, and crashed through the gates of one Ambrose Mogens, a man of considerable wealth and power, both of this world and other dimensions.
It was completely horrific, and the their actions impacted the group until the end of the campaign.
Except, it never happened.
Oh, what was called Operation: Hobo Justice was heavily discussed at the table. A random Japanese hobo had joined the group and disappeared trying to infiltrate the Mogens' compound in Queens. The obvious next step for one player? If one hobo wasn't enough, how about a busload of them. The conversation lasted far longer than it comfortably should, and the group picked a different plan.
What did happen was the same player who suggested Hobo Justice fumbled a Throw/Grenade roll with a Molotov inside the mansion, and died by self-immolation.
And Mogens was still pissed.
Funny thing is that random Japanese hobo…. Who was easily captured, tortured, and heavily experimented on, would make Two appearances later on in the campaign, simply described by the group as an “8-foot tall orange skinned man with Asian features.” They completely wrecked, but did not kill two of the player characters in two separate instances.
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