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Author: Arivne

Dec 18th 2012 at 5:03:39 AM

[[AC:TabletopRPG]]
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' had an Accounting skill, so the writers of official supplements sometimes threw in a clue that required that skill to find.
** Campaign ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth'', adventure "Devil's Canyon". While examining the papers in von Varnstein's office, if one of the {{PC}}s makes an Accounting roll he can discover an order for special camera lenses, a clue that tells the {{PC}}s that the camera lenses they discover later are important.
** Campaign ''The Fungi from Yuggoth''
*** Adventure "The Dreamer". While searching Herbert Whitefield's office the {{PC}}s can find bills and receipts. If one of them makes an Accounting roll he can determine that Whitefield is deeply in debt and late on all his payments - a clue that gives him a motive in the disappearance of his client Paul [=LeMond=].
*** Adventure "Mountains of the Moon". If the {{PC}}s break into the NWI mining office's administration building and Johnathan Harris' office they can find the site's business records. A successful Accounting roll will discover that even though the operation is performing at peak efficiency, it's still losing a phenomenal amount of money. This is an important clue that the purpose of the site is not to make money and that there's something unusual going on.
** Campaign ''Cthulhu Now'', adventure "The Killer Out Of Space". If a PC makes an Accounting roll while examining the books (accounting records) at Buddy's Best Wrex he realizes that they aren't correct. The books are actually false: Buddy keeps the actual books at home.
** Campaign ''Dreamlands'', adventure "Pickman's Student". While going through Blakely's papers a {{PC}} can make an Accounting Roll. If he succeeds he finds receipts for four of Blakely's paintings, with the addresses of the people who bought them. Since the {{PC}}s must find the paintings in order to succeed this is a vitally important clue.
** ''Horror on the Orient Express''. Successful Accounting rolls are useful twice: while examining Makryat's account books they reveal that he bought and later sold a special train set, and while studying the Gremanchi Doll Work's records they show how the Conte ordered the purchase of the Left Leg and later used it.