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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Strange Aeons => Topic started by: Uncle Mike on 16 May 2010, 03:39:36 PM
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Will be including various historical personalities in Strange Aeons (...in a while...) but thought I should start a thread for more ideas from you fellows.
So far my list of 'must haves' is:
H.P.Lovecraft (obviously!)
Charles Fort
Edward Drinker Cope (yes, he would be dead...or very old...but I have a plan...)
Edgar Cayce...
any more you would like to see?
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For the early years of the agency, Harry Houdini would be a good fit. Through the 20's (up to his death in 1926) his primary focus was exposing fraudulent psychics, which is pretty easy to twist into seeking out potential agents or rooting out cultists. It was also widely thought at many stages during his career that he was involved in some form of espionage or clandestine activity.
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August Derleth should surely be involved somehow - after all, he was almost as significant to the Mythos as H.P. himself.
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Albert Einstein
Hitler in armored suit with miniguns :P
Nikolas Tezla
Matahari
Charles Lindbergh
Al Capone
Jack Dempsey
Babe Ruth
Charlie Chaplin
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Theda Bara.
And Micky Spillane.
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Aleister Crowley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
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Here is a link to Winston & Adolf.
http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=317
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I'll 2nd a few nominations from ....
H.P.Lovecraft - of course....prophet of the real dangers.
Aleister Crowley (premier real world infamous cultist, inspiration of the literary & cinema figure Julian Karswell)
Harry Houdini - magician, debunker, escape artist....
Theda Bara - great famous figure for a fem fatal or a damsel in deistress
Edgar Cayce - psychic
Jack Dempsey- toughguy /boxer
August Derleth-kinda agree with the idea of making him a significant figure his public personona sounded white-lace (In the mid-1930s, Derleth organized a Ranger's Club for young people, served as clerk and president of the local school board, served as a parole officer, organized a local men's club and a parent-teacher association. He also lectured in American regional literature at the University of Wisconsin and was a contributing editor of Outdoors Magazine.) of course this could all have been his cover..... ::)
Mike are are you considering some literary figures as well... for example:
Henry Armitage
Charles Curwen
Dr. Marinus Willett
John Raymond Legrasse
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Based on the opinion Mike and I share of August Derleth, his most likely form of appearance would be as a Godling snack :)
I think major "occult" figures like Cayce and Crowley are a no brainer - we'd need an excuse not to have them around! Charles Fort is another we're quite fond of, and a prime source of quality ideas.
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i second the derleth snack idea, could we have a model of him between 2 enormous pieces of white bread? :)
regards
jim
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How about William Lyon Mackenzie King? Prime Minister of Canada for two periods between 1921 and 1948.
Privately, he was highly eccentric with his preference for communing with spirits, including those of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, and several of his Irish Terrier dogs, all named Pat except one named Bob. He also claimed to commune with the spirit of the late President Roosevelt. He sought personal reassurance from the spirit world, rather than seeking political advice. Indeed, after his death, one of his mediums said that she had not realized that he was a politician. King asked whether his party would win the 1935 election, one of the few times politics came up during his seances. His occult interests were kept secret during his years in office, and only became publicized later, and have seen in his occult activities a penchant for forging unities from antitheses, thus having latent political import. In 1953 Time Magazine stated that he owned — and used — both a Ouija board and a crystal ball.
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Nice one Chairface! Some really great ideas everyone! Will have to get serious on this now.
...Derleth...Derleth...Derleth...what to do with you... >:D
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Based on the description of his activities at the time, perhaps a scenario where agents must save a troop of scouts from unspeakable horror, buying time by throwing their hapless leader to the pursuing beasts... >:D
Now what to do with a politician that stuffed his dog and took advice from his dead mother? This presents a greater challenge.
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FDR in his wheelchair and the battle configuration where it converts into an AFW (Armored Fighting Wheelchair) of Doom!
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New lurker: Uncle Mike, or is that just too scary to even think...
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I see enough Laurier on a $5 ::)
Sir Robert Borden or Arthur Meighen would make good Canadian PM-type historical characters too ;)
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned old Herbert George at all. Mr.Wells was definitely active during this period and a couple of his stories have a Lovecraftian touch. See In the Avu Observatory or The Moth.
Arthur Machen (author of supernatural horror stories)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Byrd and Peary?
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Since there is a dearth of women being suggested; Mary Shelley, technically she died in 1851 but... if there is one historical character with a good reason to survive after death the writer of Frankenstein surely qualifies.
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Thanx Archangel1, never read either of those before. Pretty good...especially "In The Avu Observatory'...now to get a giant bat... :)
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Chairman Mao for the Long March with Chang Kei Shek to chase him and maybe Tojo to chase both of them.
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Carter,Howard (1874-1939)
Carnarvon, George, Earlof(1866-1923)
Price, Harry (1881-1948) Well known member of a Uk Secret sociry SPR..
I posted buckets of rubbish here for people in the UK..
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=17564.0
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New lurker: Uncle Mike, or is that just too scary to even think...
Ooh. And he could look like Jurgen Prochnow from "In the Mouth of Madness"!
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I'm not quite as handsome as Jurgen... ;)
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how about a new pack of threshold agents,
miss marple, hercule poirot and charlie chan?
regards
jim
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E. Hoffman Price would be one I would recommend. A pulp writer who found success in many different genres of pulp, his greatest bit of interest would be that he is the ONLY contemporary of Lovecraft, Smith and Howard to have met all three in person.
Nobody has mentioned Robert E. Howard? Lovecraft had this to say about him "for stark, living fear what other writer is even in the same league". "Pigeons From Hell" is one of the best bits of short horror fiction of that century. For that matter, all three of Howard's piney woods tales, "Black Canaan" and "The Shadow of the Beast", being the other two are excellent examples of regional horror NOT set in New England from the Weird Tales era. "The Black Stone" is one the best horror stories related to the Cthulhu Mythos(if you believe in that sort of thing and do not dismiss it as mere Yog Sothothery on the part of contemporaries attempts to have a bit of fun with their friend's work. I don't subscribe to the whole business of the Cthulhu Mythos) not written by Lovecraft. "The Worms of the Earth" is about as close to Shakespeare as you will find from the period. Enough of my Howard grandstanding.
A neat idea would be to put out a blister containing an author and one of his characters. Lovecraft and Armitage or Randolph Carter, for example. Howard and Kathulos, maybe.
Ryan
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Hitler in armored suit with miniguns :P
I second this, though for different reasons. lol