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Author Topic: Unprecious Moments - Your Personal Lovecraftian Adventures  (Read 3659 times)
T. Kelly Lee
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« Reply #60 on: July 23, 2012, 12:35:13 PM »

It's gonna take until something like 2020 to finish cleaning up the West Virginia Ordnance Works sites.  I've been there and it is creepy as hell.  Bud, dude, if you wanna see Mothman, they got barred owls apleanty in the park nearby there - and the forrest in that thing is a forrest fit for any Lovecraft story.  I have to admit, the first time I saw a big set of red eyes looking at me, it freaked me right the hell out!!  I can see why people have thought they're seeing something not-of-this-world.  Eyes on animals aren't supposed to look like that. 
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« Reply #61 on: August 21, 2012, 01:54:08 AM »

This hardly counts as an 'adventure', but over the weekend I encountered something amazingly Lovecraftian: this candelabrum, in a hotel foyer in Maastricht, Netherlands (the hotel is inside a mediaeval church building, believe it or not):



Ia! Shub-niggurath! The Black Goat with a Thousand Tea-lights!
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« Reply #62 on: August 21, 2012, 09:12:37 AM »

Oh, man, I want one! 
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« Reply #63 on: August 21, 2012, 09:54:06 AM »

Isn't it awesome? Bet it cost a fucking fortune. Sad
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« Reply #64 on: August 30, 2012, 04:44:42 PM »

When I first started doing my admittedly minimal research into the Mothman/Cornstalk Curse/Point Pleasant story, I was doing it with the intention of writing an adventure for Shadowrun 3rd Edition, and I needed real-world background to adapt to a game with both magic and high technology. So the idea of the cursed land (which I think is really tenuous, even if you assumed that curses were real and could be placed on entire areas) combined with man's voluntary corruption of the land, really captured my interest. At this point in my life, I would love to go tour the area, but since it is so polluted and toxic, I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen.

Of course, now that I have gotten into all things Lovecraftian, I can totally see Point Pleasant as an epicenter of cultist activities and pan-dimensional conflict.

Bob

For Bob (no one else, don't click): in case you did not have. Multiple formats, one should work for you, although the LIT file is actually completely proof-read, unfortunately (I hate LIT). Skip to the end, the last little bit in the last chapter is the really weird one.

Gray Barker=carnival barker, John Keel=how did it feel?

http://www.sendspace.com/file/rxugj5
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« Reply #65 on: September 01, 2012, 04:58:39 AM »

So I grew up in Cornwall, and the hill behind my house had a reputation for being a place where pagan rituals were conducted during the solstices and equinoxes. Cornwall is a place that old hippies moved to in the 70's so it's perfectly possible that there were Wiccans going up there and doing...something. Certainly if you went up onto the hill after one of these points of the year you would find small stone structures had been constructed or patterns of stones lain out in the dirt. The rumour went that if you went onto the Carn when these rituals were going on you would be beaten up and threatened.

One day I was walking around the area where a set of the stones had been lain out and saw, quite clearly, a humanoid figure, about 4 foot in height and wearing a black cloak, burst from the bushes on the cliff above me where the stone circles were, run along the edge of the cliff and disappear back into the bushes again. I ran up to the top of the cliff but nothing could be seen, if it had been a child or some such I would have been able to see them by the time I got there.

I never really thought about it as Lovecraftian until I thought about the nameless cults element of it. The dwarf thing was quite frightening.

Although to honest as well:

dwarf + miniature stone circle = Spinal Tap



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« Reply #66 on: September 01, 2012, 05:19:46 AM »

dwarf + miniature stone circle = Spinal Tap

Haha, that is so very true! Great story though.
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