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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #495 on: October 24, 2012, 09:56:29 AM »
more bizarre fortean stuff

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chaos magicians are getting younger and younger or "you DO know the Banish Hastur spell?"

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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #496 on: October 24, 2012, 04:00:36 PM »
"Gates of Hell" in Newburyport Massachusetts, my old home town
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« Reply #497 on: October 24, 2012, 08:47:55 PM »
Well, Newburyport was the inspiration for Innsmouth.
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« Reply #498 on: October 25, 2012, 06:35:47 AM »
Newburyport was nearby to innsmouth as mentioned in Shadow... but it was more inspired by more decrepit sea towns town the road a bit :-)

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« Reply #499 on: October 25, 2012, 07:36:42 AM »
Teenagers over several generations break into a tomb and party with the corpses in Newburyport's Old Hill cemetery. I recall the 1985 story well being a teen at the time myself.

http://www.boudillion.com/piercetomb/piercetomb.htm

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« Reply #500 on: October 25, 2012, 11:08:50 PM »
Newburyport was nearby to innsmouth as mentioned in Shadow... but it was more inspired by more decrepit sea towns town the road a bit :-)

I am taking this from Wikipedia but I did also hear this from the "Shadow Over Innsmouth" episode of the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast that Lovecraft called Innsmouth "a considerably twisted version of Newburyport".

Sounds like a cool place to check out if I am ever in New England.
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« Reply #501 on: October 26, 2012, 06:52:51 AM »
Newburyport has lost much of it's old charm, but there are still some interesting areas to visit. In the 50s and 60s it was likely much closer to what Innsmouth was, but that was after Lovecraft's time. In the 70s it was much improved to draw in the tourists. :-)

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« Reply #502 on: October 26, 2012, 09:49:41 AM »
Another story on Ken Cage, the repo man that targets the superrich. This guy has been getting a lot of press in the last few years: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/77942-the-luxury-repo-men
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« Reply #503 on: October 29, 2012, 08:29:36 AM »
Amazing story of traversing the Parsian underground: http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/places/going-souterrain?page=full
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« Reply #504 on: November 01, 2012, 07:52:40 PM »
This reads like a CoC diary on trying to deal with the Mythos...especially interesting is the 'monster'

http://johnkettler.com/ufo-war-ufo-bisected-bizarre-developments/
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« Reply #505 on: November 02, 2012, 05:54:57 AM »
This reads like a CoC diary on trying to deal with the Mythos...especially interesting is the 'monster'

http://johnkettler.com/ufo-war-ufo-bisected-bizarre-developments/

The level of crazy that these people exude amazes me.
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« Reply #506 on: November 02, 2012, 06:55:12 AM »
Vocabulum; or, The Rogue's Dictionary. Basically the Urban Dictionary of the mid-19C: http://archive.org/details/cu31924073798740
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« Reply #507 on: November 02, 2012, 08:14:27 AM »
This reads like a CoC diary on trying to deal with the Mythos...especially interesting is the 'monster'

http://johnkettler.com/ufo-war-ufo-bisected-bizarre-developments/

The level of crazy that these people exude amazes me.

one of them might be the POTUS soon...real world horror :3

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« Reply #508 on: November 02, 2012, 05:29:42 PM »
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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #509 on: November 05, 2012, 09:10:09 AM »
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/queens-residents-arm-looters-article-1.1196031

The tragedy that Sandy has caused could be easily used in a Dirty World scenario, as it brings about isolated communities, looters, vigilantes and anarchy in Queens.