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Summary

A "whammy" is the term used by Call of Cthulhu (d20) to describe a cinematic technique portraying a psychic impression, vision, hallucination, nightmare, etc. experienced by an investigator under the influence of the unnatural.

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	[[File:Whammy poltergeist.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|right\|A classic "whammy" from ''Poltergeist (1982 franchise)'': an investigator hallucinates eating crawling, maggoty meat, and then peeling his face off in the bathroom mirror; of course, there's bound to be a sanity roll in there ~~somewher~~...]]		[[File:Whammy poltergeist.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|right\|A classic "whammy" from ''Poltergeist (1982 franchise)'': an investigator hallucinates eating crawling, maggoty meat, and then peeling his face off in the bathroom mirror; of course, there's bound to be a sanity roll in there somewhere...]]

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