Special: Strength Drain and Recovery With Frank Delventhal

In our recent episode on injury and disease in Call of Cthulhu, we mentioned the strength drain ability of Dark Young. Good friend of the Good Friends Frank Delventhal, AKA Strongman Frank, got it touch with some ideas about how strength drains might actually work and what streps an investigator could take to recover from them. Paul arranged a conversation to explore these ideas, which we recorded for this special. As his moniker suggests, Frank has performed as a strongman for many years. He has supplemented his practical experience of building up strength with reading about the science behind it. The discussion covers everything from different types of cellular damage to the psychology of strength training, offering ideas about how this could be used in gaming. We hope you find it as interesting as we did! Frank demonstrates why the Dark Young fear him Links Things we mention in this episode include: * Injury and Disease in Call of Cthulhu * Dark Young * Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) * Dopamine * Mitochondria * Shub-Niggurath * Muscle fibres * Robert Nejedly * Anabolic steroids * Great NPCs of History: Serge Voronoff * Pulp Cthulhu * “The Call of Cthulhu” by HP Lovecraft * Hamburg Kettlebell Club * Strongman Frank on TikTok Frank shows us how he’d make short work of the Necronomicon