Burney needs to stop throwing things.

This session ended up being 95% combat and 5% finding a shotgun. I also learned how difficult it can be trying to run a combat on an ungridded map.

This session started off with Burney facing off against a tentacle thing, losing max SAN but failing his idea roll, so all his mind saw was a giant snake. Faced with another tentacle, Burney gave a yell to his companions and opted to throw his lighter onto a table containing piles of salt and gunpowder. Unfortunately he overthrew and was lucky he didn’t set the rug on fire.

Hearing Burney shriek like a girl, Chaz and Seamus rushed up to the master bedroom and were greeted by a pair of tentacles that oozed from the bricks within the fireplace. As I described them, it was as if someone took some dough and rolled it out into a tentacle like shape and was thrashing it about. Seamus took a shot at it and blew out a chunk, but it just seemed to coalesce and took minimum damage. Chaz ran in and flipped over the table containing the salt and was able to damage the tentacles and cause them to retreat.

Having found themselves a bit of a breather, Burney and Seamus went into the next room, the den, where they found a shotgun and gave it to Seamus. Chaz lingered in the upstairs hallway and decided to chance a look downstairs after hearing some odd gurgling sounds. He was greeted with a horror beyond all horrors, a monstrosity that should not have been. But he passed his SAN check and only lost 2 or 3 SAN points.

"Burney's mom wants to know if the boys want some Sunny D."

Of what Chaz could see, this thing had flowed over the entire first floor, blocking any chance of a downstairs escape. Several pseudopods reached up the stairs, trying to grab any thing that came within grasp. Chaz’s logic bade him to rejoin the group in the den and look out the window for a way out. Something was thrashing about outside, but it was difficult to tell what it was.

Remembering how the entrances of the master bedroom were lined with salt, Burney went into the room with the purpose of sealing off the fireplace. Two pseudopods had emerged and were waiting in the room. He jumped in and started throwing salt at the two creatures. Seamus and Chaz soon followed, with Seamus pulling out his pistol and shooting one of the tentacles. Chaz hung back, waiting for an opening to hit an ace. The two things thrashed about with no success.

Burney had a plan. Backing up a few steps, Burney lobbed the container of salt he was holding into the air so Chaz could bring THE THUNDER. Once again, Burney overthrew and hit the wall. Chaz’s THUNDER swished through the air. A tentacle attempted to hit Seamus with no success as the other one stretched itself to reach Chaz and Burney. Another tentacle squirmed out of the fireplace.

With his new-ish double barreled shotgun, Seamus unleashed a barrel onto a tentacle and hit. Burney brandished his axe and put a nice dent into the rug and floor. Chaz threw a handful of salt at the tentacle closest to him, throwing enough at it to make it dissolve into the ground, leaving a trail of slime from Chaz to the fireplace. The two tentacles attacked Burney and Seamus, and both were able to wrap themselves around the investigators.

As they struggled with the tentacles grappling them, they could do nothing but resist the unsavory thing the tentacles were trying to do to them. Seeing his partners in trouble, Chaz ran up to the fireplace and poured salt into the crevices and on to the tentacles, damaging them and effectively sealing the room.

But will his friends break free of the tentacles’ grasp before it kills them?