Quote from: RPGPundit;977049Does the comb literally glow? It doesn't glow in the dark, does it?

Because if it does, and is of a certain age, it might be radioactive.

No. It just has a faint effect. Probably like how a light brite works. Still weird.

My grandfathers watch though has elements that glow. But far as I can tell its just luminous paint as the glow fades after a while. Least I think they fade... :eek:

Let me start by saying I am sorry for your loss.

Quote from: Omega;977069No. It just has a faint effect. Probably like how a light brite works. Still weird.

My grandfathers watch though has elements that glow. But far as I can tell its just luminous paint as the glow fades after a while. Least I think they fade... :eek:

Don't worry to much about the watch even if it's ration painted there shouldn't be enough  radiation to penetrate the glass.
But I would get the comb checked out just in case. As to the message on it it may not be A cult there where A large number of fraternal organizations like the mansions in the late 1800s and early 1900s most of them died of A few are still with us.

Thanks to everyone who expressed their condolences so far or in the future.

The sad part is that my aunt outlived my mom by only 6 months. My mom though lived through years of a living death due to her nigh Lovecraftian recouperative powers. Moving, walking, talking when the prognosis was imminent death and even if she revived shed never walk again. She did both then they disconnected her from lifesupport. But she took a second fall and that rendered her little more than a vegetable wherein she lingered alive yet horribly not, for years.

For added effect. all the lights cast this eerie orange light so the whole time inside was in these sepia tones. EVERY light... :eek:

Quote from: RPGPundit;977049Does the comb literally glow? It doesn't glow in the dark, does it?

Because if it does, and is of a certain age, it might be radioactive.

er... update...

You know that watch I mentioned?

the one that glows?

well...

I had it in the dark about a day now and...

um...

its still GLOWING!!!!!!! <== !!!:eek:

Know a friend with a Geiger counter?

Are the numbers exposed to air, or is there a glass cover?

Radium emits alpha particles, so that's safe as long as you don't lick it. Daughter products do tend to be gamma emitters, but I believe it's still safe to wear. UV light will make it glow brighter.

Pocket watch. Not a wrist watch. Classic style.

One of these except with a oval bow instead of a rectangular bow.



Odd thing is it has plastic instead of a glass dome.

Quote from: Omega;978179er... update...

You know that watch I mentioned?

the one that glows?

well...

I had it in the dark about a day now and...

um...

its still GLOWING!!!!!!! <== !!!:eek:

Quote from: Omega;978237Pocket watch. Not a wrist watch. Classic style.

One of these except with a oval bow instead of a rectangular bow.



Odd thing is it has plastic instead of a glass dome.

If it has A glass cover then it should be safe the radioactive paints they used in years past are pretty weak so it should be okay.
Unless you plan on licking it.

And an update nearly a year later and many months late as I am still not sure how to feel about this. But this next chapter in this freakish story fits right in with a Lovecraftian tale.

About a month after getting home I get a call from my dad. My sister had passed away.

What sister? The one I had never known about and only found out about a few days before heading out to my aunts place. I had been telling my other sister about the irony that she technically had another sister. Though not directly blood related. Me and my brother had allways thought that she was our stepmothers kid and not a relation. And had only seen her in passing once or twice around when she was born maybee.

Sadly, like Kishma who passed away about a year prior, my sister had been battling a degenerative disease all her life. She was only 35.

And here is the damnably maddening part that makes it so hard even now.

I do not know what she looked like and no one ever took any photos of her? I will literally NEVER know what she looked like.

In today's day and age, the "no pictures" part borders on the impossible!

Quote from: AsenRG;1051188In today's day and age, the "no pictures" part borders on the impossible!

I know. I suspect what my dad meant was that there were no pictures of her as an adult. I can guess she probably looked alot like her mom and my two stepbrothers who are albinos or damn close. Which I didnt know till later. I just thought they all had really interesting white hair, and eyebrows.
Come to think of it. I havent had a photo taken of myself since 99...
But my roommate who passed away just recently hadnt had any pictures taken of her in like 18 years due to her skin condition which left her looking not very photogenic. White scaley patches on her arms legs and face. Which is sadly ironic as she used to be an avid photographer and developed her own photos.

And to bring this back around to gaming.

Its these freakish things that leave me with zero patience for morons who snidely proclaim something like Call of Cthulhu isnt "realistic".

The real world isnt realistic! And I havent even gotten to the ghoul, the kobold, the insane stepmother, or the grave of the stone baby!

@ omega
I just want to say sorry for your loss again and thank you for shearing it is Avery much A real life Cthulhu story.

Thanks.

I think the strange tale of the Mystery Marble is probably the most fantastically weird of them all for its sheer improbability. Though for a long time I thought the Stone Baby was just a story. It seemed too freakish to be real.

Crazy stuff.

Omega....this is all incredible stuff.

Life is weirder than fiction...even Lovecraft's fiction!

With some thoughtfully expressed artistic license, this would fit right in as a short story in Alfred Hitchcock's "Stories for Late at Night" or similar.