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« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2011, 04:14:41 AM » |
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LOL - sorry, I've never been married... I don't know how to break a man.  Watch out - if i don't find what i want >I'LL< end up playing it. And nobody wants that. lol |
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« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2011, 09:36:31 AM » |
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Julie, I know it's not my place, but consider a trans-Atlantic accent, something between Remington Steele and the guy who played Armi in Suspense. In other words a fake soap opera British or an Americanized but real British accent. (What you really want is educated fin-de-siecle Bostonian, imho.) I can do neither. Where's that Leman character?
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« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2011, 10:20:19 AM » |
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I don't know how to break a man.
Oh please, you have a pair of X chromosomes, don't you? In my experience (and oh how grim and squamous that experience is) that should be more than enough.  Bob |
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« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2011, 12:05:06 PM » |
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Old Book: Rice already sounds like that. And Morgan is more a generic man of the world. I want Armitage to be the real New England fellow he is. Bob: X chromosomes aside, I never read that chapter in the user manual.  All kidding aside, I want this one to be good, both since it's a favorite of most HPL fans, and because whatever I come up with will be help up in comparison to the HPLHS version, and I don't want to be found wanting. Mine will be very different from theirs, but I think that will be the appeal - a different take on the story. Once i fit in the can-can dancer, the ninja, and the 17 trained dogs. |
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« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2011, 12:55:12 PM » |
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Trained dogs have a place in any H.P. Lovecraft adaptation. They ought to be the mascot for any investigator group. If the Emma had had a couple of good-sized German shepherds on board, Cthulhu would be toast. If Robert Olmstead had had a Newfie with him, there would have been no need to torpedo Devil Reef at all.
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« Reply #20 on: September 13, 2011, 10:26:49 AM » |
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Ah, JulieH has touched upon something with her can-can dancers that I never thought of before. Is there any nightlife in Dunwich, besides the drum circles around ancient moss-dripping megaliths lit by bonfires on the stark granite peaks? There is a general store of some kind, but what about a saloon at least? How far must one travel from Dunwich to find a bar  |
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« Reply #21 on: September 13, 2011, 11:14:36 AM » |
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You don't. This is during prohibition. That would be breaking the law.
Bob, not an advocate of breaking man's laws
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« Reply #22 on: September 13, 2011, 11:17:13 AM » |
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Come on now. If Dunwich doesn't have a thriving bootleg liquor industry, I'll eat my hat on top of Sentinel Hill.
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« Reply #23 on: September 13, 2011, 11:57:26 AM » |
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Odd you mention that - I play around with several bootlegging references in my Dunwich adaptation. I love finding the throw-away one-liners in this story and really having fun with them. What is the sound of being pelted with a hail of dead whippoorwills? |
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« Reply #24 on: September 13, 2011, 01:09:28 PM » |
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What is the sound of being pelted with a hail of dead whippoorwills?
Similar to the night I spent courting a certain young lady in high school. Only it wasn't birds but crustaceans, and I wasn't so much pelted as deluged. We have strange courting rituals in south Louisiana.  Bob |
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« Reply #25 on: September 13, 2011, 05:36:27 PM » |
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Similar to the night I spent courting a certain young lady in high school. Only it wasn't birds but crustaceans, and I wasn't so much pelted as deluged. We have strange courting rituals in south Louisiana. Bob Was this a young fish-lady? |
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« Reply #26 on: September 14, 2011, 12:49:45 AM » |
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Or did she just have crabby parents?
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« Reply #27 on: September 14, 2011, 08:22:56 AM » |
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I will let you both use your fertile imaginations for the rest of the account. By the way JulieH, I must give you negative Insanity Points for the pun. Sorry, but even good puns are just not acceptable.
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« Reply #28 on: September 14, 2011, 11:18:55 AM » |
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How punitive.
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« Reply #29 on: September 14, 2011, 01:10:29 PM » |
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You don't. This is during prohibition. That would be breaking the law.
Bob, not an advocate of breaking man's laws
I figured it was during Prohibition, Bob, but didn't bother to write "speak-easy"... I wonder if they have a karaoke bar yet. Wilbur, if he were still alive, could sing in Sanskrit |
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