My Food Chain Gang

In the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to get involved in a role playing game - sort of like Dungeons and Dragons, I’m told.  This one was called “Call of Cthulu”, and we played it on two separate Saturdays for about 5 hours each.  We began by choosing a character, and then we used the dice to determine many different details of our characters; like their income, height, strength, looks, smarts, etc.  Along the journey, we made decisions about where to go and who to speak to - that sort of thing.  Sometimes the roll of the dice would help make decisions, and sometimes we were left to our own judgement.  Overall, it was a really fun experience, although not a hobby I could pick up right now because it’s not something you can do while kids are around.  I’m lucky I found the time to put the hours into this game that I did.  But it was fun, and the guy who ran it wrote up the entire thing novel-style.  So here it is, from the website:
http://www.yogsothoth.com/modules.phpname=Journal&file=search&bywhat=aid&exact=1&forwhat=Max_Writer
If you go to the site, the journal entries concerning our game are called “The Haunter in the Hills”, and there are 4 parts total.  Here is the journal in its entirety:

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