Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn! — Let's All Play Cthulhu Wars!

It's in the dropbox, how do you guys get it into a post? GIMP can't seem to save as GIF or anything.

You can save it as a .gif or whatever you like -- go to File, and "Export as," and select what you want (the selections might be minimized by default).

And instead of selecting, you could just manually change the extension. (Trying to do this under Save As will have the program tell you GIFs require the Export menu, and will helpfully direct you there.)

Round 1
Black Goat Turn 2

Power: 4
Doom: 0
Elder Signs: 0

Action - Move a Mi-Go and a Cultist to North Atlantic

Power: 2
Doom: 0
Elder Signs: 0

Power: 3

Action: Build a gate in North Pacific.

I control 3 ocean gates, so I get a spellbook. I choose Devolve.



Power: 0

Gerad is up.

I discovered my home computer has Photoshop, which made things much easier (I still can't get paint.net to install here).

Round 1
Yellow Sign Turn 3

Power: 3



Action: Use The Screaming Dead to move the King in Yellow to Europe. (1 power)
The Screaming Dead gives me another immediate action.
Action: Desecrate Europe. (2 power) I have 6 units in Europe, so it's a success. I add a desecration token to Europe and take an undead as my free unit. I take the Zin Gaya spellbook for desecrating Europe.

Power: 0

Windwalker, Turn 3

Power: 5

Action: Move Cultist from North Atlantic to Arctic Ocean.



Power: 4

I'm still downloading the latest iteration of the map, but I might as well get my turn in now.

Round 1
Crawling Chaos Turn 3

Power: 3

Action - Build a gate in Australia (3 Power)

For controlling 3 gates, I take the Seek and Destroy spellbook.

Power: 0

When I've finished updating the map, I'll try using GIMP to update it. Periodical's turn is next.

EDIT: I was able to add a gate to the map without stealing it from anyone else! Progress! I'm still not exactly clear on how to move layers between the spellbook file and the map file, though.

I just went through it step by step in GIMP, and it's really straightforward there. Open both the map and the spellbooks file, select the spellbooks file, go to the layer you want (the spellbook name), select it in the Layer window, and drag it from there onto the map. From there, you can move it wherever you like.

GIMP also allows you to just click on the items you want in the map file itself instead of having to select them in the Layer window first, so you can just click on and move your units directly there (if you do this to copy a spell over from the spellbook, though, it drops behind the other layers instead of in front, so drag it from the Layers window for best results). Works great, easier than PS even for this purpose. I should have started with this instead of Paint.net.

Periodical? You there?

I'm here, at school so no edits til tonight.

Black Goat Turn 2

Power:2

Move Mi-Go and Cultist to East Africa.

Power:0

I'll do it. Gimme a second.

EDIT: If everyone's using GIMP, then I'll start saving images in XCF for the folder.

Hey, Sarcasmorator, since I'm the only one with Power left, can we just skip to my turn?

Speaking only for myself, I'd have no problem with that; my understanding of the rules is that if you don't have any power, you can't take any actions, even if they cost 0 power. I suppose that in theory Sarcasmorator could use Devolve after Periodical's turn, or after any of your actions, but that would seem to be kind of pointless at the moment. I'm not sure if anyone else can take any actions during your turns, but I don't think they can right now.

I'd suggest that in the interests of keeping things moving along, you can go ahead and post your next move(s). If anyone has the ability and inclination to interrupt your turn, they can post before we start the next round; if no one interrupts, at least you'll have finished up your turn and Sarcasmorator can get everything prepped for the next round whenever he has the opportunity.

Alrighty then.

Windwalker, Turn 4

Power: 4

Action: Build Gate at Arctic Ocean. Take Cannibalism spellbook.



Power: 1

Windwalker, Turn 5

Power: 1

Action: Hibernate. Gain one Power (one GOO on field). End turn, keeping remaining Power.

Power: 0 (2)

Yes, if you're the only one with power, go ahead and take your turn. If I *really* wanted to devolve or something, I'd interject after the fact. If your strategy might hinge on the possibility of another player reacting to you, then hold off.

We are on to Round 2, in the Gather Power phase.

I have 6 cultists and control 3 gates, so Cthulhu gains 12 power.

I have six cultists, two gates, and two leftover power, so Windwalker also has 12 power.

Six cultists, one gate, and one desecration yields 9 power for Yellow Sign.

I have six cultists and three gates, so Crawling Chaos has 12 power.

In future rounds, maybe it would work better for me (or anyone who gets to it first, really) to just list the power all at once, and people can check their totals in case I make a mistake?

Black Goat hasn't sounded off (but is at 8 power, I think), but by my count I think we're going to have a 3-way tie here, which means I get to choose first player. And I choooose ... myself! But turn order's going to go to the left this time.

D:

you already get a free spellbook since it's the doom round

come on, have a heart

Well I don't even have any monsters, so it's not like I can eat you all or anything.

And anyway, Cthulhu here.

I have work tomorrow, so I'll just post my Doom Phase business now so things can move along tomorrow.

Round 2 DOOM PHASE

I gain 3 Doom Points
I do NOT perform the Ritual of Annihilation
And it's our first Doom Phase, so I take the Dreams spellbook

Power Points: 12
Doom Points: 3
Elder Signs: 0

EDIT: I added a line to the "Capture Cultist" entry in the rules summary; I'd left something out.

Black Goat will be up next in the Doom Phase, and since I'm going to be at work all day today, here's my first move in advance:

Action: Summon Star Spawn to South Pacific
Devolve 2 Cultists in South Pacific

Power: 9

If things move along without me, here's the map. Someone can just quote this post and remove the space in [IMG] to display it.

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No Ritual for me, so

Power Points: 8
Doom Points: 1
Elder Signs: 0

No ritual here, either.

Power: 12
Doom: 3
Elder Signs: 0

Also passing.

Power: 12
Doom: 2

No ritual.

Power: 9
Doom: 1
Signs: 0

We're ready for Sarcasmorator's move, aren't we?

Yeah, I think so.