15mm Silver Bayonet "The Deep Ones Came" (Update 9/1)

[Cacique Caribe]

WM

Did you ever read the Casca series, with the creepy Brotherhood of the Lamb cultists?

https://casca.net/?page_id=80

I also seem to recall a book by David Drake(?) with a second or third century AD “Christian” cannibal cult!

Dan

[War Monkey]

No, I had not read that series. However, I was working on a background for my teams of Marines and Sailors. I could easily change it over to a group of Monks or Priests.

Doug

[Cacique Caribe]

This is the first part of Casca’s timeline.  And it’s a loooong timeline:

https://casca.net/?page_id=83

Dan

[War Monkey]

Okay I am still working on my ship's crew however, when I received My Marine figures, I just had to get started on them and here is my team.





Colonel Nicholas Crow
Speed 6, Melee +2, Accuracy +1, Defense 14, Courage +3, Health 13, Recruiting points 100
Hand Weapon (Silver Weapon), Pistol
Supernatural Veteran, Steady Legs
Silver Shot, Oil and Torch


Junor Officer
1st Lieutenant Garrett Sands
Speed 6, Melee +2, Accuracy +1, Defense 13, Courage +2, Health 12, Recruiting points 22
Fencing Weapon, 2 Pistols
Hard to put Down
Salt Bag


Doctor
Captain Isaac Wilson
Speed 6, Melee +1, Accuracy +0, Defense 13, Courage +1, Health 10, Recruiting points 10
Hand Weapon, Pistol
Medic
Holy Symbol


Supernatural Investigator
Mr. Fredrick Ward
Speed 6, Melee +2, Accuracy +1, Defense 14, Courage +0, Health 12, Recruiting points 22
Fencing Weapon, 2 Pistol
Supernatural Veteran, Monster Expert
Oil and Torch


Marine Sergeant
Sergeant Lewis Holmes
(Marine Sergeant stats of from the Highlander using Marines Attributes)
Speed 6, Melee +2, Accuracy +1, Defense 13, Courage +1, Health 11, Recruiting points 18
Musket, Cartridge Box
Steady Legs
Silver Shot


Marine
Corporal Noah Cooper
Speed 6, Melee +1, Accuracy +1, Defense 13, Courage +1, Health 10, Recruiting points 12
Musket, Cartridge Box
Steady Legs
Cold Iron Shot


Marine
Private Vincent Dayton
Speed 6, Melee +1, Accuracy +1, Defense 13, Courage +3, Health 10, Recruiting points 12
Musket, Cartridge Box
Steady Legs
Oil and Torch


I am working on some terrain, The background on which these were all taken is something I am still working on as well for photo taking.

Thanks for looking.

Doug

[War Monkey]

Ghouls have haunted our Dreams and Nightmares for centuries. The main origin of Ghouls is believed to come from the Middle East, only because the first writings of Ghouls are mentioned in the Quran. It is thought that in Myths and Folklore that ghouls were once evil Humans or demons who rebelled against Allah. Traditionally in these regions they are evil spirits or Djinns or the lesser version a Jinn.

 However, Ghouls have been around for a much longer time than that of what was written, the idea of what was once a human who consumes the flesh of the dead or living, becomes a hideous creature, has been around for a very long time. The horror of one being eaten alive is one thing of a horror we all feel but, to have one's body eaten after death is another. It up turns the thought of our bodies resting in peace. The idea of placing large stones over the graves came about to keep the dead, dead. It was believed covering a grave with large stones or large slabs of stone was to keep ghostly spirit from haunting one. This method was also used to prevent the horrors of Zombies from rising up from the graves, as well as being used to trapping vampires within their graves as well. Other such ideas is that it would prevent grave robbing. So could it also be believed that graves were covered with these large stones or slabs of stones to keep ghouls from digging up loved ones and making off with their bodies for a feast.   

Ghouls are believed to have some intelligence about them, not like the Wendigo which craves fresh meat of humans and hunts with only hunger as it's guide and attacks without fear. They are also unlike Zombies that just wonders aimlessly without a real purpose seeking flesh with no awareness of its surroundings. Ghouls can and will wait to eat when it safe for them. They will hunt and trap the living as well. Ghouls with their ability to eat the dead, gives them an added advantage of not being caught so quickly, for not all graveyards are protected with cemetery care takers where many had their residence or homes in the graveyard. This gives the Ghouls the opportunity to go undetected for a very long time for in most cases it would have been believed that graves would have been disturbed by Grave Robbers.

It is by these Myths and Folklore that have Ghouls haunt the cemeteries, hiding in the shadow of darkness of the daytime waiting for the darkness of night to come out to dig up the freshly buried loved ones for their meals. There are some stories of Ghouls wondering the battlefield late at night looking for the dead to carry off and to consume later. This had been believed by some as to the reason why ss many soldiers had gone missing on the battlefield, to never to be heard from or found. There are a few stories of those seeking shelter in empty building from bad weather of running into Ghouls. These travelers explain in their strange tales of how they lost their traveling companions, by franticly escaping the deadly clutches of these Ghouls and not looking back even after hearing the screams of their companions for their help.

Some Myths have that a Ghoul was a wicked evil cruel person who was raised from the dead to walk the earth as a Ghoul for their punishment only allowed to eat the flesh of the dead. Others have it as a transformation of one who eats human flesh that is permanent disfigured and has to hide from the public for their lives. One myth has that a Ghoul cannot be recognized between it or a Human, only after long periods of time in which the ghoul has not eaten does it show, when the Ghoul's skin begins to wither and shrinks, becomes less human like, the only way to fix its situation is to eat. There is some thought that Ghouls may mate creating an offspring. One tale from "A Thousand and One Arbian Nights" of a beautiful woman who spend her days with her husband and hid her nights as a Ghoul from him. had her secret had not been found out could they have had a child. Could this create a Hybrid, half human and half Ghoul, no telling if they could or could not however the story does support the idea that Ghouls are very intelligent.

It is also said from areas of the Middle East that Ghouls are Shapeshifters! That a Ghoul could take on the form of a yet again involving a beautiful young woman to lure wondering lustful men from their travels into her camp, a trap for which other unseen Ghouls wait in hiding to pounce onto their prey, at which the beautiful young woman, the lure that is, changes back to it true form of a hideous Ghoul and joins in on the feast. 

It is said, that Ghouls have a longer life span than humans and can die over time by age however, their life span can be cut short however with human weapons. Some tales have it that only one mighty blow of a heavy sword can kill a Ghoul, failure of such a blow would make the Ghoul invincible to additional attacks. While others stories have it that Ghouls are rather tough and it takes many blows to dispatch one. There are no known stories or folklore of the effects it would have of shooting one. There are stories that sunlight can harm and weaken one, as well as harming or weaking a Ghoul by reading from the Quran in Arabic, much like that of a Catholic Preist reading from the Bible in Latin to perform an exorcist.

Here are the Ghouls from Splinter Light Miniatures in there three poses of a pack of twelve.









I hope the information above inspires gaming ideas with surprises around every corner
Thanks for looking and comments are always welcome.

Doug

[MaleGriffin]

Fantastic work! Thank you for sharing!

[Cacique Caribe]

WM

Very nice!!!  Now I might have to try my hand at painting my dozen SLM ghouls!  I had different destiny for them, as Morlocks (basically Ghouls still). 

Dan
PS.  Seen this?

[Seal]

That information definitely stirred up some ideas. Thanks for posting.

[Cacique Caribe]

WM

Check out this other dust up:



Dan

[Cacique Caribe]

WM

Perhaps this other topic has some ideas you could use:

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=121801.0

Dan

[War Monkey]

WM

Perhaps this other topic has some ideas you could use:

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=121801.0

Dan

I am slowly working towards Werewolves and Dog Men and Women too! I have many creatures that I am working on that will work great as cross overs to other games. I am still working on Deep One as to other folklore that may connect to them.

[Cacique Caribe]

WM

You should make Hockomock Swamp (Massachusetts) the location for some of your Silver Bayonet games:



If you Google Hockomock swamp you’ll find all sorts of stories about cryptids, floating “orbs” and supernatural beings in an area that was once a massive Indian burial area.

I can imagine a gaming table with a couple of log cabins on one side and, on the opposite end, the edge of a swamp, with a few ancient burial scaffolds:





Also:

https://www2.illinois.gov/dnrhistoric/Preserve/Documents/Shastid%20House%20model.pdf

https://www2.illinois.gov/dnrhistoric/Preserve/Documents/ThomasCabin_plans.pdf

https://www2.illinois.gov/dnrhistoric/Preserve/Documents/LincolnBerry_plans.pdf

Enjoy!

Dan

[Deflatermouse]

a bit late to the thread but Cults. It is possible to have competing cults, but I thought it could be very possible to have Splintered Cults.
 Ones that have broken away from each other, know each other very well, and a venomously opposed to each other as heretics or misguided and themselves as the only one true  way.
They could possibly achieve some degree  of  "rapprochement" for a task or mission but a very fragile, suspicious one. And always The prisoner's dilemma raises it's head, where it's only a matter of time before one or the other rats out or betrays the others.

[War Monkey]

The Silver Bayonet "The Deep Ones"
 The Deep Ones, from Khurasan Miniatures are a great set to have, they can be used in many different games.

The "Deep Ones" are for the most part in H. P. Lovecraft's stories however, there are tales of Aquatic Humanoids, from around the world.

The Green Clawed Beast of the Ohio River of 1955, where a woman was grabbed by an unseen creature, for which her friend helped her to get away. So, if they didn't see it then why do they call it the Green Clawed Beast? After her attack left a green clawed hand stain on her lower leg that took a few weeks to fade away. The kicker to this story is that exactly one week to the day 50 miles south an event unfolded that is known today as the Hopkinsville Goblins Case or as the Kelly Green Men Case.

The Thetis Lake Monster, Lake Thetis became a conservation area in Canada in 1958. In 1972 there was a report of a large humanoid lizard like creature to have been seen swimming in the area just a few days after that report, came another report of this creature having been seen. It is not known to have had aggressive interactions with humans. However, if it did? Would we ever know?

Lizard man of Scape Ore Swamp, In Lee County in South Carolina are reports of a Lizard Man or many others that maybe roaming the streams and swamps in this area with. It has been described as a large lizard like man with three webbed fingers for each hand, with scaly skin with either red or orange eyes. some reports state it has a short stumpy tail while other claim no tail at all. It is reported that it has caused a lot of damage to property to include that of vehicles as well.

The Kappa of Japan, a strange aquatic reptilian creature habiting the streams and rivers of Japan, that have a taste for Cucumbers and Human entrails. They are described as in small child like stature with turtle features as faces go and a turtle like shell body with long arms and legs with webbed hands and feet. It is said that it can retract one arm back into its shell allowing it to extend it other arm long increasing its reach. It has a weakness, it is said that they have a small bowl like feature on their heads that hold water, the weakness is if this water is spelled or dries up the become immobile.

In the far northern regions living in the ocean under the ice are the Qallupilluit, A humanoid creature with an ugly fish like face and bumpy skin with the smell of that like sulfur. These creatures are known as child snatchers. They lay and wait under the water of an ice-free beach by a village for a child a playing alone to come along and gets too close to the water's edge. It is said that they will follow a child under the ice stocking and knocking on the ice for a thin part of the ice that they can break through. They claim that that when you see the ice rolling as wave push to shore that the Qallupilluit is there also where the water of streams starts backing up due to the oceans water rising that they lurk under the water there.

You can find many tales of humanoid amphibians or even reptile one around the world. If you are traveling around the world check with the locals before taking a dip in the water, you might find the pool at the hotel to be a better idea.

Well, I think this the point where I show my paint work, I had done with Khurasan's "Deep Ones" These are great figures just a little weak in the ankle area.







I have more figures of Deep Ones to paint however I am going to paint them in a differently style. These will be great for terrorizing seaports and fishing villages or anyplace along a coast, they can be great for hiding out in a swampy area with a lake in the middle of the area.

Thanks for looking, I hope you learn a little something and inspired you to do something as well

Doug

[Cacique Caribe]

Doug, stunning work.

Also, do you know if the Khurasan ones fit in well with the ones produced by Rebel Minis?  Do you happen to have both?

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=263359

Dan