Cthulhu 45 Adventure table/scenario?

[Zafarelli]

Lovecraft describes R'lyeh as an strange and unimaginable place with alien architectur builded of many odd corners and shapes. Would like to know what H.P. did have in mind. Cubic? A wild mix of all sorts of geometrical forms? Or rather something like a gigantic living polyp always changing his shape?

I think they changed all the time, too.

Think Gaudí on bad acid going architectural on Barcelona's ass.

Ouch.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

if there had been such a thing, he would have described it. therewasn't so it was only blasphemous, heretical, polyphemous, cyclopean, unnamable, unspeakable, eldritch, etc. ::

i'm not sure about, lovecraft often didnt want to describe the things too exactly, that was his way to stimulate the imagination of the reader, the subtle horror that bases on the nightmares our minds/dreams producing, not  on the desciptions of the nasty things with all their details

[mahon]

I know. I was only joking.

The most terrifying things are the ones we don't know. Our own minds create the worst horrors of all  

[WitchfinderGeneral]

A wild mix of all sorts of geometrical forms?

More like un-geometrical forms... like curved straight lines and other things human architecture never could create (actually a human being couldn't even think of it and could't descibe it with human words if he had seen it).

[Grimm]

ok here is my Idea

First I think of a Innsmouth but it is to big to build it so I came with these.

A road somewere in the Scottish Highlands ,with hedges and little stone walls on the side of the road .Some sheep also .
Then the players have some truble with the car ( a real classic) and they must fight back some ``what ever ``.

they come in a small village with a smal dirty inn to stay for the night .
and they discover that cultist were the onwners .

they find a cave dungeon under the village .

and last some monolith on the coast near a cliff where the showdown is .
some ritual maby .

[Gundamentalist 5.56]

i'm not sure about, lovecraft often didnt want to describe the things too exactly, that was his way to stimulate the imagination of the reader, the subtle horror that bases on the nightmares our minds/dreams producing, not  on the desciptions of the nasty things with all their details

Absolutely.

There is also the point that the Cthulhu Mythos and the nature of the real Universe is incomprehensible to mankind, and attempting to comprehend drives you mad. Which also means you don't have to describe it, just allude to it.  

Lovecraft however did go into minute detail when required - for instance the description of the Elder Things in the Mountains of Madness.

[Rugland]

If you need some Inspiration about R'lyeh try to get our hands on this movie. http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/index.html  :love:

Its the only movie of a lovecraftian story that really captures the spirit. And yes, its really filmed in Black/White.   Great Stuff.

 

Another scenario idea is defending a house in the middle of nowhere against some intruders not of this world only with your rifle and some watchdogs like in "the whisperer in darkness".

[Wallyocerous]

I like the idea of the Murch sailors vs. Deep Ones!

I remember when I played the Call of Cthulhu game on my PC there was a part of the game where you were on a steamer and Deep Ones were climbing aboard the ship and you had to fight them off.  While you and the crew defended the ship, you also had to stop a cultist from performing a ritual on the mainland by firing the deck gun at him!   ::

Good stuff!  That was probably the most memorable part of the game for me as I hadn't seen it done before in a game.  Well, that and the escape from Innsmouth....

[WitchfinderGeneral]

If you want something with sailors and dock workers the game could take place in London where some cultists try to call nameless creatures from the sea through the river Thames... The players would either be dockworkers themselves or they need the help of the workers while they're investigating the theft of some boxes that should have been delivered to the British Museum. But who knows if you can always trust the dock workers?
This scenario would work best in the Victorian era I think but the Pulp era would also do. You'd only have to build a part of the docks (e.g. those geboom is making, plus a lot of barrels and boxes, and maybe a ship), a warehouse and of course a temple in the underground.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

yup, Gaslight Cthulhu scenario would be great, got the source CoC book of the victorian era, very enjoyable, a possibility to use all the vctorian figs standing around here

[W.B.Kurgan]

- an isle, sand, rocks, moss and caves, some Bob Murch tramp sailors vs. some deep ones - quite nice, i think

 :love: I'd love to see this one!


I'd also love to see some new Deep One models!  ::

[mahon]

I'd prefer some humans , but with the "innsmouth look"

[demi_morgana]

maybe sentry-based scenario?
like: 2-3 cultists have to penetrate graveyard, find the proper tomb... and retrieve (dig out :twisted: ) sth from it without being noticed?
making game-table shouldn't be too difficult: lots of tombstones and alleys

[fastolfrus]

I seem to remember an RPG scenario from the early days of White Dwarf (when they printed scenarios etc for lots of rules systems that they didn't own) called "Draw the blinds on yesterday" that had a modern setting (late 1970s/early 1980s) and actually started on a jumbo jet full of holidaymakers flying home from Greece to London.

[Grimm]

yes Guy´a new Range with Cthulhu figures would be nice