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A timing issue from Masks of Nyarlathotep (Might contain spoiler)


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It's in Chapter Seven: China, where the handout Carlyle Papers China #9  has it said that "At moonrise, the blood of an innocent must fill the pupil of the Eye once per drumbeat from then to moonset."

So how long is a drumbeat? 

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According to the spell description in the Appendices, the eye if filled with blood once per hour.

It's a very slow drum beat!

I seem to remember that when I ran MoN, I explained this by saying that the reference to a drumbeat was an idiom that referred to a type of watercock that dropped a single droplet onto a drumskin once per hour. Or something like that.

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